The Corn Has Been Reborn - Episode 10

Join Deuce and Dylan as they make game-by-game predictions for the upcoming Nebraska football season!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
And Jen Jenny. Why man, it's been great, big since that.
I but your gown that seventh Year of seven travel

(00:25):
and that's not what Saints and.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am bad Air.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Am I Ron and I so loved.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Normally, I'm not a big nineties rock guy. I like
a little bit of Nirvana, but I haven't dabbled too
much in it because my dad says that anything after
the seventies is terrible, and I've heard most of the
old music that I know from him.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, Daniel, I'd have to agree with you on that.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Unfortunately, not a big nineties early two thousands rock guy.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's just not me.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
That's not It's not how it was. Pop's listened to
a lot of that. Uh, you know ninety three point
three The Wolf.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Ninety three point three The Wolf.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's that old country that like classic country type type
radio station.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Sure, that's what was always playing in the pickup.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We've all got a wolf inside of us, And I
guess Omaha, Nebraska's got a radio station, Yes, sir wolf.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
But that song.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Welcome to Paradise is a song by the American rock
band Green Day. It first appeared as the third track
on the band's second studio album KerPlunk, released in ninety one,
but it was re recorded and re released as the
fifth track on the band's third studio album, Dookie, released
in ninety four.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Great name for now?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
What an album title? Honestly, and he.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And it's one of it's probably their highest or their
most highly rega added album released.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
And I think it's their best name by far. So
I think it's whatever gets it done.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think it's one that like definitely probably attracted the
younger generation.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Dude, let's go Picky, Let's go pick up the Dukie
from the store.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Man, That's what I'm saying. Dude, this song's banging.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
It's from Dukie.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I couldn't get down with it. But I'm sure there
are a lot of kids back then who thought that
was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh yeah, And I'll admit I get a bit of
a kick out of it.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
There's just light giggle.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's there's a little chuckle going on here inside of
Studio three one three. We're back kicking off twenty twenty four.
Well did we make it?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't know if we've made any episodes in twenty
twenty four?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
We made one, didn't we And we do one? Guys,
it's been so long. We're so sorry. I'm pretty sure
we popped one off before we left.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I think we did. I think we got one in
so I think this is our second episode of twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
But back, guys.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
You just know, life gets busy. Things happened students first
podcast or second, athletes third.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
But football seasons here which round.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
We're back on the studio three to one three podcast,
coming at you from Room three to one to three
here inside Anderson Hall, Nebraska's home to the College of
Journalism and Mass Communications affectionately known as the co j
m C, right here on the University of Nervasca Lincoln's
city campus. I'm joined by my fantastically talented co host,

(03:09):
Dylan Sash.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
As always like to kick it off with a little,
just a little recap of what we've been up to,
Like we can keep this one brief. Our last summer recap,
we'll keep it got pretty lengthy, but we got some
hard hitting, controversial topics to get to on this episode,
so we'll keep it relatively brief. With the summers, mine
wasn't particularly eventful at all. I worked an internship, so

(03:33):
there's that I had my taste of a real job,
you know, working more than my old.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Man, the big adult Daniel Cohlen, my pops gets.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
He rolls into the office around noon, leaves at the men.
I was eight to five and you were.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Working long, which we can we'll get into in just
a moment. We'll get into that in just a moment.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
But I was eight to five at the office in
downtown Minneapolis for most of it working at Dakota Bank. Now,
I started in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where the bank is headquartered,
where Aberdeen Southeast Hall Hall. Yeah, no, it's it's totally fair.
I had no idea what Aberdeen was until I started.
I heard South Dakota, and I was thinking, oh, maybe

(04:11):
I could get in like the cool area of South Dakota,
you know.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Like the Black and Mount Rushmore and all that.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Stuff having fun out there.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, Like it's like the southwestern part of the state.
And naturally Aberdeen is in the northeast corner of the state,
so I was completely in the opposite direction of anything
remotely interesting. But I spent five weeks in Aberdeen kind
of just shadowing the thirty something departments that the bank
had a lot more goes, yeah, thirty something departments, because
I mean you got like, you got the personal bankers

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and tellers that.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
You see when you, you know, walk in, but you got
behind the scenes.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
You got customer service reps, you got the fraud department.
There's like a separate you know, insurance team. And then
there's bankers. You know, there's business bankers and agricultural bankers.
People look into guys. Yeah, people helping you know, farmers
get their combines. Someone's got to do it and one's
got to do it, and a special shout out to
like Gordon and Jordan. They won't listen to this.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
They don't even know.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I got no idea who they got, no idea who
we are. But hearing from the agricultural bankers in particular.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
That was kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
But I spent five weeks there just learning about the bank,
and then I spent the next six or so weeks
in Minneapolis. They're newly opened corporate banking division works out
of there downtown. I was on Sixth and Nicolette. For
all you Twin Cities and metropolitan area residents. I was
in the old RBC building, sixty South sixth Street. Worked there,

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and you know, I had some trips up north to
the lovely grand View Lodge in Niswa, Minnesota. But it
really wasn't that eventful of a summer. No crazy Oxford trip,
you know, trotting the globe, going around Europe. It was
just kind of a you know, work at the bank,
you know, help the team, you know, look through these
documents and add companies financial statements to our software to

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help us, you know, determine whether or not we're going
to make the deals, created some reports to you know,
talk potential transactions out we're going to make with different companies.
It wasn't a particularly eventful summer, but it was a
productive one, and I'm glad I had the experience at
Dakota Bank. Dylan, Sir, you were out of state as well,
but you were out of state, you mister mister world Web,

(06:19):
mister three ye old fave.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Mister United States technically.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But they're naming a stadium a football stadium. Yeah, yeah,
like one of Florida a.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
F They're naming a smaller Atlantic university.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, fantastic, they got a named stadium, stadium, naming a
stadium after him.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Anyway, I digress you.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
I was there.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I was pretty close to Minnesota and Nebraska. I was
just in South Dakota, but you left you were much
out there.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
So tell the people about where you're at and what
you were doing.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
This summer.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I worked for the Schooler Company, but I worked instead
of in Nebraska, like pretty much everybody else, I sent
my talent all the way out to Oregon, pretty far
away Oregon. To be honest, it's twenty four hours away
from here, a new big ten day. It was twenty
four hours and one minute from my hotel or from
my apartment when I.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Left, twenty four hours one minute.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Twenty four hours, one minute dot.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
It was a low key cool, But I was out
there working at a fish meal plant.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
If any of you know anything that thing smelled, I bet.
But at the same time, I made great money, and
that's what really mattered.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
If you get bank when you're twenty one, I need
money long as that's what.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I did, long as the money doesn't smell.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
As sure money was clean. These hands were dirty, though, yeah,
But I was out there. I was working six to six,
a nice twelve hour shift, six days a.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Week, twelve seventy two hour weeks, seventy two hours for
my math is correct?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Correct, I believe it is.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
They do teach multiplication in the business school. I'll have
you it's good for something. Yeah, it ain't much about
the times.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
But you know, life was good out there. A lot
of work, lots of play, though still our days. I
spent a lot of time seeing the beautiful sights there was.
I was, you know, fifteen minutes from Washington, so I
went up there a lot. I was also, you know,
ten minutes from the coast, so I had to go
check out, you know, the ocean, whichever ocean it is, Pacific, Pacific.

(08:15):
I'm not a geography major, but I had a great time.
I saw beautiful sits, saw beautiful things, did beautiful things,
lots of hiking, which was a lot of fun. But
I ended my internship back here in the great Omaha,
Nebraska born and raised. But now we're back better than ever.
Time to school, We're back on the mics.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Time to hit the books, time to take the notes.
What was the most beautiful thing you saw in the
Pacific Northwest?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Because it's an area that I've wanted to travel to
for a long time and I've just never quite made
it up there.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I would have to say Mount Saint Helens.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I went to Mount hell.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I went to Mount Saint Helens twice. I went. The
first time I went, I took like the road path.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I spent all day.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I went.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I drove up the road to like a scenic lookout point.
But I stopped along the way, like stopped at all
the museums and things like that, which you know, most
of them were free. I think I paid six bucks
total for it was like on and you know, three
or the other or whatever something.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Like that, but like it was beautiful. Oh yeah. And
then you know, I went up there twice.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
The one I did that one, and then I also
went on like a hiking trail which was just beautiful
hike to this like lake and it was just in
the middle of you know, one of the valleys and
just clearest water I think I've ever seen. And then
of course there was like almost like a perfect like
little foggy overcast, so like I took a picture. It's
too bad you guys can't see it. I'll show you later,

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but it's like just stunning. The water is crystal clear
still lake.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Could probably drink that one.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I probably would have if I got thirsty enough.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It like just looks beautiful, right, But I would say
Maunt Saint Helens. I mean, honestly, probably any one of
the mountains, but there, I mean, it was so hard to.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Choose and what city? What city were you in in
Oregon because I'm trying to I think Mount Saint Helens
is in Washington.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Mount St. Helens is in Washington, So I'm trying to.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Figure out where that was relative to where you were.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
So I was in a story as like the big
towns were the film Goodies. Yeah, yeah, And so that
was like a three hour drive from me, so I drove.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I would make a day trip out of it.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah, I'd wait, I'd wake up.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Well, when you're working six to six, your body at
like six oh one freaks out and is.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Like, bro, you're looking to work.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, And so I six oh one, pop out of
bed at the door by seven, right quick drive.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
It wasn't too bad. Most of the time.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
I was beating a lot of the tourists out there,
which is kind of nice. They wouldn't show up till
around noon. Snooperly bird gets the worm, am I right?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:33):
But you know, a quick three hours from me, nothing
I couldn't handle. And I did that trip twice and
then you know, I went to Portland. Don't need to
ever go back that much.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Not a Portland guy, not a Portland guys. With Portland
in this, I think I'd be all.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Right messing with Portland again. But I mean overall insanely beautiful.
Once again, I said it going. I was going out
there that like, Oh, I've always wanted to come out here.
Even after being out there, I want to go back.
I want to make I want to make a return.
I think I think a boys trip all the way
out there, although far, would be.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Rewarding, stunning.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
All of the hiking we could do, just all of
the outdoor scenic stuff that we could do would just
be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
We both made our treks. Out of state is much further.
But we're back home and we're ready to go for
Nebraska football. We're back the old corn Huskers. We are
ready for what will hopefully be the redemption season. I
have seen three seasons, we have seen three seasons of
mediocre football.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
As students.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
It's been tough our combined record. So I think in
twenty twenty, well, let's just go.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Through this season.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Yeah, we can go see by season.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Because in twenty twenty one first freshman year, freshman year,
that was probably I was the.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Worst season I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
That was awful because we were getting so close in
every game.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was so it was so hard to be a
student fan.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
We lost every every game by single digits. And we
were the first team in NCAA his to lose every
single game or not every single lose nine games nine
or more by single digits.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
It had best three and nineteen you've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
We were the best.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
So it ain't much, but hey, we got something. There's
got You gotta find a silver line.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Silver runnings. We broke a record.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'm alive.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Set a record. I don't know if you call it that.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Broke or set regardless of how you want to look
at it.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I look at it as set in a record because
if you can't be historically good, why not.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Be biblically bad. It's it's how I am as a
Detroit Lions. For you, yeah, it makes sense. It makes
perfect sense for me.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
You gotta if you can't find joy in the humor
of being horrific, then you got nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
It was just so hard being a student fan because
you'd go to the game and like at halftime, when
mean we're neck and neck, we're tied, we're ahead, and
then third quarter nothing would happen, and then.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Fourth quarter we just collapsed. We would just collapse.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
And it was always like, oh my god, we we
just lost on the final drive, or like we would
have plenty of time life, we have four minutes left
in the fourth quarter, and second play of the drive,
we would just throw just the worst ball I've ever seen,
or the running back gets popped and we fumble it,
and it's just like what you can't win.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
That was when we had Adrian Martinez probably the most
inconsistent quarterback. I've one of the most inconsistent quarterback, but.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Perhaps perhaps to Adrian Martinez in the he's balling in
the US Yeah, the USFL, he balled out. I don't
remember the team. But now he's at the Jets. He's
a backup at the Jets.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Is he a back? He's back?

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Maybe? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Actually I take that back. I'm pretty sure he is
Daniels hitting the old Google. But I'm pretty sure I'm
pretty sure they signed him as the backup to a
h He's either a backup or a third string. But
I'm fairly certain they signed him because I know they
had him out for tryouts. But I mean he did good.
I mean he demonstrated that he was, you know, a
I don't say, maybe a good quarterback.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
So I think he was with the Jets, But I
don't think he made the cut.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Didn't think.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
I think he missed the cup for the team.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
But that's tough.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Hopefully he'll get picked up by some some random team
who's just kind of looking.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
To somewhere somewhere something.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Some serviceable quarterback just waiting in the in the in
the locker room, getting ready to go for the inevitable
injuries that are going to strike every team. But that
season was miserable.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Michigan was probably the worst game that I had to
watch that whole year. That was probably my least favorite
because we were.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Tied and Michigan was like a top five team in
the shit at the time.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Weren't they four?

Speaker 4 (14:26):
They were? I think they were four something like that.
They were a top five team. Twenty nine to twenty nine,
three minutes left in the game, Adrian Martinez and the
Nebraska Cornhowskers get the ball.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
It's time to be heroic. We start going down the
fem tour. But then Martinez think I think he fumbled.
I don't think he threw a pick. I think he fumbled.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
I do. I do believe he was scrambling in the
open field, gets.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Rocked in the ball pops. Yeah, which is just tough.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
And it's just like it's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
No disrespect, obviously. I know I don't play football, right,
but I feel like common sense says man, this is
an important drive. Better slide, Yeah, I better get down right.
We don't gotta you know, we don't got to act
like you know, mister heroic diving into the end zone.
You know, helicopter hit like nothing crazy, like we just
needed to get in field goal range. Football range you know,

(15:15):
sets us ahead. You know they gotta go do something now.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Ball security turnovers have been a big problem for us
all three.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Of the student years.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yes they have, but let's get onto twenty twenty two.
We can't stay caught up in twenty twenty one, that
was three years ago. Maybe things got better. Well, we
we got one technically, the technically that we went four
and eight. In twenty twenty two, we went from three
to nine to four and eight. This was the year
where Scott Frost got fired and our defensive coordinator was
let go. That was after the Georgia Southern game where

(15:45):
we were playing Georgia Southern at home, a sun Belt
team and we got beat forty five to forty two,
gave up six hundred fifty yards of total offense, and
that that's a lot. That was a lot of That's
a lot regardless of who you're playing. That's a lot
of yards.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
But to a sun Belt team, and no disrespect, but
it's not a Power five team sun Belt.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, that's just tough. You can't be doing that.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That was probably the worst game I watched that year.
And I think it was after that that the defensive
coordinator and Scott Frost were promptly let.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Go, of which it was.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
It wasn't surprising, but I don't think people expected it
to happen that early.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
I think where people fell was in the fact that
they didn't expect Nebraska to pay out his contract. Yeah,
it's really where it came down to, because that was
the whole big discussion, is Scott Frost will stay through
this and he'll get fired, so we don't have to
pay him out of his contract right.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Nebraska didn't care.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
It was his performance was so poor in those first
three or four games of the season that we said,
you know what, we'll take this hit on the money.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
However much money it was. It was like five million,
or maybe it was even closer to like ten million.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
It was somewhere in that five to ten.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Million range, I believe if my memory serves me correctly,
and we said, nope, we're.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Wasn't isn't it like seventeen million?

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Maybe it was.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
It was significant, It was enough to question it.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Could it could have been a lot higher.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
It could have been around that seventeen million, where it
was a significant amount of money that we said, you
know what we can do without this, Scott Frost, You're gone.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
The rest of the year was okay.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
We reunited under Mickey Joseph and got a couple wins,
but ended up four and eight. The defense was the
main problem that year. I think was that that was
Casey Thompson year. Yeah, that was it was Casey Thompson
who was playing the most Casey Thompson. So we got
a solid quarterback, It's an okay offense, but couldn't get
it done. Defensively just not good enough to win many

(17:37):
ball games. And then we move on to twenty twenty three,
our most recent season, where we really had a flip
flop from what we saw in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
It was dramatic.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
It was crazy because twenty go as just saying we
went from you know, defense, defense is bad. I mean
playing in simple defense is bad. Couldn't get stops. We
talked about six hundred yards against the Sun Belt team,
like that's that's bad. Oh, it's terrible to them having
one of the greatest defenses. No, the greatest defense we've
seen in our in our you know.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Three years close, not even close.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
And our offense starts struggling. Yeah, we can't.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Our quarterbacks can't get it done. No, it seemed like
the running backs, you know, we were having good, you know,
decent success. Shout out Am Johnson.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
We appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
We're going to get you back on the podcast, sir,
thank you will be back on the pod. We need
to hear his talks.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
Most of them.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
But you know, running back room is doing their thing,
but it's like, man, what are we going to do?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
It was it was there. The quarterbacking was the issue.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Last year we went five and seven, which it's actually
pretty surprising that we even managed a five and seven
record given our quarterbacking carousel got started.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
That was so tough.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
Started out with Jeff Simms, the turnover machine. He had.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
He had Remember that meal at Amigos he had named after. Yeah,
there was at Amigos, a local Mexican chain here in
Lincoln and probably a couple of locations in Omaha. There
was a meal named after Jeff Simms at Amiga and
the Jeff Simms meal. They named the meal after the guy.
People were getting excited. He was like a Michael Vick
esque player in this that he could run real well, but.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
He you same deal, couldn't hold onto.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
The wood, not hold onto the ball.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Security was not in his vertic.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Not even fumbles. He would drop snaps. Watching him play,
you would think the ball was like coated in grease
or something, because he just just kept slipping in it
any time he got the ball. I was nervous and
fumbled a lot, threw a lot of picks. He was
a turnover machine. He only had like two or three starts,
and he he threw like only one touchdown compared to
six interceptions. Had a bunch of lost fumbles, just really

(19:41):
poor play.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
And then we went to Heinrich.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
It was Heinrich after that, and he was good, he
was fine, But.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
It was also inconsistency.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, there was some days that you saw him and
you're like, that's that's next year's starter, no doubt, right,
But then there was also times where you'd go, Heinrich,
did you not see that defender the project?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Once again, I don't know. We're not football players.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I don't play.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
You're doing a hell of a job, a hell of
a job better than I would ever out there. But
at the same time, it's like.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
He could not throw down. His biggest problem was that
he could not throw deep ball.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Anytime he dropped back to throw a deep ball, I
would look away, I would get I would start. My
timbers were shivered anytime, any anytime he dropped back to
throw a long ball, and look. I think I think
Trevor would have been just as good as Heinrich Harberg
are our lovely flag football quarterback. Trevor Compston, he throws,
he throws a nasty deep ball. I think he could

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have been in for Heinrich and he could have thrown
deep balls just as well, if not better.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I think he could have scrambled just as good as well,
watching TC run out of the pocket and flag football.
Speaking of that, dum Cruse coming back this year, we're
going for another championship.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
We'll be updating y'all.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
But yeah, and then we went to Chubba and we
had a couple of Chubbu and that was I remember
the one where I was like, oh wow, Chubb was
moving the ball and then he promptly right as we
went oh wow, good word, Hubba, he just pick. Wasn't
even it wasn't even like a contested ball. No, it
was underthrown right to the defender.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, our our quarterbacks were turnover machines. The offense was
just atrocious.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Maybe we blame the fact that there was no as
we don't, as we termed it, if it there's Trey
Palmer somewhere. Yeah, there was no Trey Palmer. There was
no Tree Palmer, which definitely makes it tough.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
We had no great, big, huge weapons on offense.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
We had.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
We had solid players, but when you don't give a
quarterback needs at least one Trey Palmer or one Samori
Toure to throw towards and we just didn't have anyone
because the team is was young and still is there
is very young.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
We have a lot of underclassmen playing.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
We do so I want.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
To talk about development growth. Are we are we? I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I think a lot of those kids are going to
see a lot of growth in the in this year.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think the future is bright. Just how immediate is
the brightness? How long is this tunnel that we're gonna
have to go through before we see the light? Because
going into this season, we've discussed three and nine, four
and eight, five and seven. If we keep pace with that,
then we're going six and six. But I think we're
an above five hundred team this year.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I agree, I think we are as well.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
My prediction for the season, my final prediction, I will
lock it in here.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
I think before we start, are we going game by game?
We'll say, I say we'll run this game by game.
I think that's the best way to do. Because I
got the schedule pulled up.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
We got twelve games, and I do declare, I do believe.
I do declare that we're going seven and five. I
think we're a seven and five team.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
I think we're.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Just above just below a little above. I think. I
think our absolutely, I think our ceiling is nine and three.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's kind of where I was.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
I think our ceilings nine and three.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
A nine and three seems, you know, reasonable, right, I
do guarant I would put money on the fact that
we go to a ball game, though.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I think it. I think we'll make it to a
bowl game.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I don't know how prestigious that bowl game will be
that we make it too, but.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
I think we're going to make a ball game. Now,
let's go by the schedule. Game. We got UTEP happening
on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Saturday, this Saturday, this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
In less than forty eight hours, no, in about in
about forty eight hours, we'll have the result of this
UTEB game, which I think is going to be a win.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
I think that.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
I think that is a that is a win. I
will say this though, I think it is a rocky start. Yeah,
I think no offense to doing Royola starting quarterback.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
He's never played a snap of college moll never. I mean,
you know, he had a spring game.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Spring game. Doesn't county, No, I don't count.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I think it will be a rocky first and second quarter.
But I think after at you know, halftime, he probably
locks it in, makes the adjustments that he needs to make,
and then comes out firing, and I would say we
probably put them a majority of our points in the
second half. I think that's where I think on that game.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I think Rayola is gonna go in there and he'll
he'll get his feet wet initially, and I think he's
gonna he'll make some good throws, but he's gonna have
his mistakes. I think it could look very Heinrich Harber
like you know where he's he's he's making some great
passes at first, but then you know he'll he'll make
some errors because.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
He's he's a freshman.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
He's a freshman, and you can't expect these guys to
come in and.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Be as It's not like he's like a red shirt freshman.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
He's a true he's a true freshman. He's had he
hasn't had any time to develop. He's he's come here
and we've seen him in training, we've seen him in
the spring game, and he's apparently been doing very well
because we're saying, you know what, get in.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
There like win some games for us.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
It's it's not going to be automatic when he starts out.
I think that we'll go in well, I think UTEP.
I think the score of that game, I'm gonna go
a forty five to thirty one because I think that
we'll start to put well, I think we're going to
start to.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Put up some points. But I think that UTEP, you know, well,
I think we're gonna get like a three four touchdown lead,
and then UTEP is gonna come in and score some
garbage time points, you know, to make it seem closer
than it really was. I think we're gonna put up
a lot of points this first.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
I think we will put up points, but I think
our defense looks really good.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Our defense does that is.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
The truth of the matters.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I think our defense looks really good, and I'm I
have a feeling like at half it may look like
a seven or ten to zero halftime game where it
doesn't look like it's close. And then I think, like
I said, that back half of that game, we start
putting up points. I think you could see, you know,
a thirty eight ten final score. Yeah, obviously in favorite Nebraska.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
One would hope one.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Would certainly hope so one and oh versus YouTube that
one seems pretty cut and dry. This next game is
one of the most interesting on the entire schedule.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
We got Colorado at on the highly anticipated.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Taken on coach Prime and shaduor Sanders and all those boys,
And it feels I've been watching Nebraska ball for so
long that it seems weird to pick them in a
and that's going to be closely contested with a lot
of people watching a big game, prime time game featuring
dion primetime standards. But I like I like Nebraska. I

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like Nebraska, and I think we're gonna win this game.
I think this one's gonna be close, It's gonna be pretty.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think that it is going to be a lot
of untraditional football. Colorado has a not great offensive line.
No we have Oh god, is it Nate Hutt Hutchman
or is it hutch God?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why am I? Why am I fumbling?

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Our old line and d line are both really deep.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
It's our you know, he's wearing number zero, our big dog.
He Giffer No Gifferds or different?

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Is he gone?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
No giff It's still here. But it's not.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
It's the Polar Bear, the guy that wrestled and went crazy.
Nash Hut Hutchmert, Yes, yes, but he is going to
dominate their line. I think they have nobody to nobody
to hold him right, and so we can. I think
he's going to do whatever he wants with their line,
and he's going to get out there and he is

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going to make.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Should hear Sanders.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Panic, scramble, I know, I know he can scramble.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
But again, we still.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Have a lot of our linebackers. We've we've got some
you know, we've got some quality there. We you know,
we're out of Luke, but we have Gifford, We've got
our we've got our corners. We've got a couple of them,
and I think that, you know, I think that will
have great success.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Still, the linebacker is going to be it's going to
be a put up or shut up position because we
lost we lost Luke and who was we lost.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Luke and Nick Heinrich, I think was Nick Heinrich. We
lost those two. Those guys were multiple year starters from us.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
So really our weakest position on that defense is our linebackers.
But I think that the defensive line is going to
get to Shudur and not let him get super comfortable.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
And I think he bottom line regardless.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Of what you want to say about Dion Sanders or
his son should do or any of that Colorado team.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
I'm they got playmate, they do. I think that overall
we're gonna put up a good fight.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
If this was in Boulder, I would maybe give it
a I'd maybe swing it the other way. But I
just really like us at home. The atmosphere for that
game is probably gonna be crazy.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Anything it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
It's gonna be a night game, tonight game, but that
it'll play a factor.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
I think the fans are going to show up and
show out, and I think.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, considering the cost of a single ticket right now, oh,
fans are showing a better show up.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Everybody wants to be there for that game.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
It's going to be a crazy game.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Just to put it in a reference, a guest ticket
is usually about a third of the price of a
normal ticket if you're to buy it like a student
guest ticket, yes, which obviously that means you're in the
student section. You know, whatever, It's tough, right. A guest
ticket for the Colorado game is currently selling for one
hundred dollars, yes, a lot for a student. So that
means that a normal ticket is three hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
I've seen some tickets crazy.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
I've seen some people selling tickets for upwards of three
hundred could be around four or five hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's going to be an insane I think our fans
are going to show up, show out, and cheer us
onto victory. I think we'll win by I don't have
an exact score for a lot of these games, but
I think this is gonna be This is gonna be
a single legit gamer with agree score.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
I agree we'll win by a very narrow margin.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Before we head to our next night game, which is
again in Linking against Northern Iowa, I think this one's
a win. I don't know anything about Northern Iowa. Admittedly,
maybe we're sleeping on them, but I don't really think
that this is going to be too difficult. I think
that will win this one pretty easily.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I think that Colorado Colorado could give up. They could
beat us.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
If we're going If we're one and one, then we're
going to be especially fired up and we're not gonna
let Northern Iowa beat us on our turf to give
us a losing record three weeks into the season. I
think we'll take care of business against Northern Iowa. Could
be a few touchdown game, could be a one score game.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I think I think would be a couple of touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
It could be a couple of touchdown game. But now
we get to the interesting stuff where we have our
our big We got four straight Big Ten game against
teams that are pretty middle of the pack. We got Illinois,
then we're at Purdue, and we're home against the Rutgers
the Rutgas, then we're at Indiana at the Hoosiers. Now Illinois,

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Illinois is either like bringing up the rear and the
Big Ten like they're either a like two to ten
or a three to nine kind of team, or they're
one of the biggest threats.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
To Ohio State or Michigan. They're just they're wishy wash
They're so wishy washy. I don't know what to think
about it.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Are unbelievably mid, but yet throw out one of the
craziest upsets you ever see at home, right, but they
can't compete on the road. No, I think that's the
biggest deal. At home, they're good, on the road not
so good.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
I think we can take care of Illinois.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I think we take care of business.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
I think Illinois is a win. I think I think
the boys. I think here's the deal. I think carrying
three wins straight into Illinois, the boys are fired up. Yeah,
they don't want to lose their first Big Ten game.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I think Illinois is going to be a narrow touchdown game.
I think that one's gonna be close. I think all
these Big Ten games are gonna be pretty gritty. I
think we're gonna have to dig down deep and do everything.
We kind of win that ballgame Illinois, I think we
gotta win the next we got at Purdue. Now this one,
I have trouble when we go on the road. I
never know what to think. Purdue is one of those

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teams that's probably they're going to be a middle of the.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Pack team in the Big Ten, maybe like closer to
below average.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Would they go Big Ten last year?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I don't know where they ranked in the Big Ten
last year. But we got all these we got preseason
rankings that I pulled from a website online. Nebraska's ranked
forty four, Colorado is forty seven, just a little bit
worse than us. Illinois ranked fifty five, so they're eleven
below US. Purdue is ranked ranked sixty.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Three and six in the conference, just like us last year.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
So they're they're pretty even with and I.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Think that we will pretty much.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
I think we're gonna win.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, But once again, they're one and four away. Yeah,
so I think that puts us a significant advantage, not
a significant advantage, but.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
You know, we're on the road.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
We also are one in four on the road last
season when it came to conference game.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
And it's not like last year is going to determine everything.
It's a brand new season.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
That's why, brand new season. That's why we got some
new playmakers.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
That's why we got the fresh twelves, got like the
fresh twelve games to play. And I think that our
recruiting has just been so good in this offseason.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Here.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
I think that I think I think we'll beat pretty
I think we're I think it's sounds crazy to say
because I think that not only do we win this
Perdue game. Next week, we got the Rutgers at home,
and I think we beat the Rutgers because the Rutgers
have just traditionally been such a poor team in the
Big Ten. It's like we've we've even managed I think
we've played them twice in my years here may or
maybe not twice, maybe just once, but we beat them.

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And if we were able to beat such a poor
Big ten team, with the really wishy washy teams that
we've had so far, I don't think we're going to
have any trouble taking care of business this time. And
I don't I haven't heard of any crazy recruits that
the Rutgers have pulled out. It's it's not It's not
a school you're really looking to go to. If you're
a big playmaker, you're not really looking to go play

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for the Rutgers. So I think, I think we start
out six and oh.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I think we're six and oh.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
I think we take them. We start out the season
six and oh, and the boys are fired.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Up, are ceiling through the first six games, six and oh,
I think is I think six and O is achievable.
It's gonna be difficult, but it's gonna it's gonna be achievable.
I think the games that were most vulnerable in are
Colorado and Purdue, just because Colorado is the best team
within that within those first six games, and.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Perdue wishy washy.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
They're wishy washy, but they if they're at their best
there on the road night game, they're the if they're
the if they're out their best, they're the strongest team.
But on the road night game, like you said, you
never know the lights. But I don't know if there's
lights that are too bright for primetime standers and the boys.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
But it is gonna be loud, the Sea of Red.
It's gonna be banging in there. It's gonna be loud.
And I think Purdue on the road, on the road,
I just don't like us on the road. We struggle.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
I think the boys though at that point in time
four and oh, they're fired up. We just took a
big ten win, right, we carry that trend going, which
puts us great success for Rutgers. We show them, hey,
we're still here to be not to be messed with.
That puts a six and oh three and oh in
the conference, which carries us two at Indiana. This is
where me and you different differ eight differentiate differentiate.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, I have that as a win.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
I think a six and oh Nebraska fired up corn
Huskers on the road still plays with a lot of intensity.
And I but I see where you are. I can
see where you are on that with you taking the loss.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
I just and this.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I highlighted the Purdue in Indiana games because I think
I don't necessarily think that we're for sure going to
lose to Indiana or beat Purdue. I just think that
one of these games we're gonna get beat.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
We're gonna get be on O mistakes.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, it's gonna be a stupid interception, stupid penalties.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
It's gonna be our bulls.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's gonna be it's gonna look a lot like a
last season game.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
It's gonna be our young team that's gonna be making
mistakes because they're they're young guys. I read that two
thirds of the roster is in their sophomore year or younger.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Two thirds, and that's young. That's a young team.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
So I think that one of these games we're gonna
be on the road and it's it's a lot of
young guys who just haven't had experience playing at such
a loud you know, Big ten environment, and Purdue in
Indiana aren't really the most devious environments. But still, I
think I think it's gonna be something to contend with.
Either Purdue or Indiana will get beat. And I think
by the time we get those six wins, I think

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some of those are gonna be some emotional wins. I
could easily see us being worn out dropping that game
to Indiana. I think we're six and one by this point.
Whether we lose to Purdue or Indiana is debatable. I
think we will lose one of those games on the road.
I think we're six and one by the time we
play the Ohio State University, and oh boy, it's gonna

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be that.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
It's the Ohio State University, Ohio State. I think we'll
get beat by the Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
University, Ohio State, especially since we're away for that game.
Oh yeah, it's I think that's gonna be a very
tough game for.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Us, especially for, like we've been saying, these young guys
who just don't have a lot of college experience.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
In general. Some of them, including our starting.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Quarterback who is expected to be the savior and lead
us back to the promised Land, never played a snap
of college football. So I think we're gonna go in
and I think we're gonna get beat. I don't know
how bad we will get beat, but I think we
will lose. I think it's it's gonna be a very
intense environment against some of the best college players in
the country. And I think we lose against Ohio State.

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I don't think that is a very high.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
I think I think we lose, but I don't think
it discredits us. Yeah, I think it is a good
way to put it right.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
They're just good, they're talented, they're just there, straight up
a good.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
It's hard to beat that team. We've struggled in the past.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
And I don't I don't think it's going to stop now.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think we'll get beat by Ohio State, possibly pretty bad.
My pesky little brother's school. I'm tired of him and
going to Ohio State, one of the best schools in
the country, and we've got football this.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
And yeah, ya YadA, YadA.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
We'll take the loss against Ohio State, but then I
think we'll bring it back with a win against the
u c l A.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
U c l A just you can't play.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
You can't play.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
If you go to u c l A, you can't play.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
I think that's kind of been their motto the last
I don't think their football has been pretty abysmal from
what I've heard. Yeah, their football typically isn't good it's
a home game. How well do you think a California
school is going to fare in November in Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Oh, it's going to be tough.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
The weather factor is going to be if.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I remember anything, is going to be tough.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I don't think these and a lot of these, you know,
these really talented football players. A lot of them are
coming out of high schools from the South Texas, Florida,
you know, Georgia, California guys too. A lot of them
have come up from They don't know cold like that,
they're gonna come to know. They're gonna come to Nebraska
in the middle of November, step out the plane, get
hit by a gust to like twenty five to thirty

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mile an hour win when.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
It's already thirty degrees outside. They're gonna be freezing.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
You're gonna know what ten degrees? Oh, they're all you
be you mention shivering.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
They're gonna be shivering, not only because of the weather,
but I think they're gonna be looking at the black
shirts in the backfield and just get absolutely punked. I
think Nebraska takes care of business against UCLA, And I'm
right there.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
With you my opinion.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
I start to think a little more negatively when we
travel to the University of Southern California to take on
to take on the Trojans in the Coliseum, I think
we lose that game USC.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
They're ranked preseason. Now, I know preseason rankings don't mean
anything because the season hasn't been played.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
There's a lot to be decided. But they're ranked in
the top twenty five. They're expected to be a solid team. Yeah,
they don't have good they don't have.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Caleb Williams anymore. He's in the Windy City for the
Chicago BEARSS. But I think that USC. I mean it's
gonna be on their turf and they're going to be
a very competent team. I just find it hard for
us on the.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Way a California road trip, get out of that cold,
cold weather, get in some warmth, right, But I still
think that we're going to struggle. I don't think we
can the coliseum. I just think it'll be tough. A
road trip like that, I think will be tough. But
that swings us back home again. Me and you have
different we.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Have different opinions.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
As much as it pains me to say I hate
the University of Wisconsin more than I hate any school.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
I can agree with you.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
I hate Wisconsin. I hate them more than I.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Hate Iowa, just because they're very Everyone in Wisconsin who
goes to that school is they're all so into themselves.
And I have so badly wanted to see US beat
Wisconsin in my years here. But we're zero and three
in football against Wisconsin. We can't beat Wisconsin. I think
I saw they've won like I think they've won probably
eight or nine straight games against US.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
We can't beat Wisconsin, and I don't think that's going
to change.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I think Wisconsin is they're always a gritty team, regardless
of what mediocre players they have on their rock.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
They play big ten foot. I also think that the
Boys will be struggling. I think that because what that game's.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
It's second to last, it's like end of November.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Like it's like it's not it wouldn't be end of November.
It'd be like just be middle of November. I think
that is a cold home game. I think that the
Boys will be struggling. And that's no disrespect to our team, no,
I just think that is the way that it is.
They've always been a good team. If our defense, if
our offense can't perform. If we're having any sort of struggles,

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it's just gonna be a tough game.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Some of these Big ten games when we get later
on down the road, I think we will struggle with
It's an inexperienced team, and I know that guys on
all teams, you know they're taking a beating from the season,
but I think, especially young guys gonna be a little
more fatigued.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
I think we get beat by Wisconsin at home.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
As much as it pains me to see it, I
hope that I'm wrong. That's one of the games that
I highlighted where I could see that going either way,
because at this point in the season, we could be
fighting for eligibility for a good Bowl.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
We could be we could be battling really hard.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
We could get to the point where we only need
a couple more wins to work our way up into
like a good Bowl game, or potentially it sounds completely
delusional to say it, but be a fringe contender for
that twelve man.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Play We could be a contender for a twelve man playoff.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I hope I'm right.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
If we're I know I sound illusional, but Sid's got
to give I've been watching this for three years.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Please guys, I think that if we put some SmackDown
on some of the true conference games, Yeah, I think
that we could be better off.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I think I think, I think.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
That some some higher standing in our conference could definitely
help sway us towards a higher seating, a higher you know,
I say higher seating, and the effect you know, call
it ranking, not seating, but ranking and that ranking.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
You know, if we can.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Establish a win against Colorado, we've got our Big ten teams.
Maybe maybe we sneak out a win at Ohio State unlikely,
but if we sneak out a win that that that's a.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Game changer, could and it all same same.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
With a win against Wisconsin, a win against you know, USC.
I think a win against any one of those teams
is a really huge switch. It is a huge you know,
pushes us in favor of us a lot more than
another team, especially considering that our final game of the season,
the Soldier Bowl Nebraska versus Iowa at Iowa this.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Year, that's gonna be a big one.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
I think that rivalry game could be huge and determining,
you know, if we are fringe contenders, which the delusion
in this first episode, the delusion is crazy just because.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
The boys have fed into you know, we're drinking that
rule aid. We're all a bit.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
We're drinking the rule because we have nothing to go
off about our hopes and dreams.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
The delusion is going to be out.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
On all the time.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
What does it matter?

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Honestly at this point in time, Like we've had a
terrible football team.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Three years in a row.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
You gotta hope for the best.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
You gotta hope for the best. You got to say,
of course, our team's great. Look at all the work
we've done.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Of course we're great.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
And then if you're wrong, that's tough.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
It's tough.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
What did you expect. It's a bad football team three
years prior.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
It's a bitter pill to swallow. But you gotta be
you gotta be hopeful until we get there.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
But this last game, as you said, the Soldier Bowl
against Iowa, this one's in Kinnick Stadium, It's in Iowa City,
and I.

Speaker 4 (43:16):
I have us lose. I just realized I have us
losing out.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, you have us losing three straight.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
I have us losing out in the last I have.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Us taking this win. I think that the boys will
be fired up because I once again with me, at
that point in time, we are eight and three.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
A nine and three.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Team has a good Bowl chance, but they also have
a playoff chance. A ten and two team has an
even greater playoff chance.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
If let's say we sneak out.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
One of those big ten wins, a ten and two team,
and let's you know, a loss. Let's let's say we
take you know, the Wisconsin wh a loss to USC
who's supposed to be really good, and Ohio State, who
is perpetually good.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah, they're they if.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
They're close games. Hey, we lost, but we didn't give battle.
We battled, fought. There's just one key mistake that happened
one drive where we threw an interception or we fumbled,
or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
And hopefully if we're knocking on the door, the committee
can see that.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Committee can see that.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
I think, you know, we go win nine and two
against Iowa, we say we want our trophy back. We're
here to prove we don't like how last year ended.
We want then on this win, we go ten and two,
and a ten and two team versus a nine and
three team looks marginally different. Especially when one of the
wins comes from you know, Ohio State, USC Wisconsin, teams.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
That are always good.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Yeah, I think it.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I think it shows that we deserve something.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
I agree, I think that, and I I just.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
All the assumptions that we're making with us doing very well.
This is if everything goes perfectly, which just doesn't happen.
This is like, I'm not even thinking about down the
line injuries, like how how badly is the team gonna
get beat up? How much are we going to be
swinging to backups? And I just think that by the
end of the year. Now, other teams, I'm Nebraska's not

(45:13):
the only team that falls victim to injuries.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Other teams, it's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
But I think that we've had We've had some injuries
in the past. I think that could come back. But
I'm you know, we're gonna hope not.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
We're gonna We're certainly gonna hope not.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
But I think this year it's gonna be an emotional
roller coaster regardless of what happens in at Iowa, it's
an it's an intense rivalry game. They this is gonna
be a one score game. I don't even care what
the records are of both teams going into it. It's
always a close game when you're playing Iowa, it's gonna
be a street fight. And if it's a street fight,
you better start getting ready now. True, throw throw the

(45:44):
records out the window for this game. But I just
think that we have and I know the past doesn't
determine the future always, but we've had a rough time
against them.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
We're one and two with our in our last three meetings.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
They've probably won seven or eight of the last ten
games that we've played against. They've they they've had to,
They've had their way with us in the past. It's
in Iowa and i these big rivalry games, especially that
home field advantage.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
People come to play.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
It's a big swing for me and I know the
Sea of Red travels well. But those Iowa that game,
oh yeah, I could maybe go to that game. Well,
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I'm going to that game for sure.

Speaker 4 (46:16):
We'll see how it works out.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Matter of fact, I've already bought a ticket. I will
be there. I will be the turning factor of that game.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Dylan's screaming when it's third down, third and long for Iowa.
That's going to be the determining factor.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Getting into street fights at Iowa fans. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
He'll give Nebraska that win against Iowa. Your prediction, if
I'm reading this, googled ac correctly. You got him going nine.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
And three, nine and three my record, and I got them.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Going seven and five. But I think that later on
down the line, I think that next year, after we're
gone tragically, I think next year could be our nine
and three ten and two kind of year, depending on
strength of schedule, and you know, you never know what
guys are going to hit the transfer portal.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
I mean, Dylan Rayola was just committed to two. He
was committed to Georgia and Ohio State before US was,
so he flip flopped. You know, who knows how.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
This year goes and who's gonna stay put, who's gonna leave.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I sure hope he sticks around. But those are predictions
I got. We both have winning seasons, which is something
we have not seen. If I can just see a
winning season, all an above.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Five hundred, like above five hundred season for me, I
consider that a win. That's a successful year, that shows
that Matt rule is doing Matt Rule things.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Obviously, he turned a program.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
So a couple other programs around a little bit faster,
But I don't care about that, right, I'm focused on
our program.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
If it takes a little bit longer, it takes a
little bit longer. But I think that people are starting
to buy into Matt rule. I think a seven and
five team like you have shows a winning team, shows
great success. I think the kids stay, the kids want
to keep playing.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Especially they're all young.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
They're all young, especially if they can, if they can
establish a good relationship for you that we're building something,
See that we're building something, that progress is being made,
especially since we're doing our whole locker room stuff.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Oh, a whole lot of renovations, whole lot of renovation,
that whole area around the stadium. It's crazy how different
it looks compared to three years ago. Yeah, a lot
of renovation.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
It's a lot different.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
They're doing a whole lot with the program. Hopefully it
shows this year. Hopefully we pull off a winning season.
Those are our season predictions.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Now before we sign off. Before we sign off, Justice
seven fourteen on the.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Twenty ninth, seven to fourteen on the twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Colorado is losing currently as we speak, ooh, five minutes.
Five minutes into the game, Colorado is losing.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
It is against North Dakota.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
North Dakota State.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Granted they probably didn't start with the ball, but still
three nothing to North Dakota State Bisons, roll biss.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
That's all I gotta say.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
I think, I think if the I think, if Colorado
comes in here, oh to one, you don't stand a chick.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Got a chance against the fired up one and o
Nebraska fired up one.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
In on Nebraska. We're carrying it.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
We're getting you. Tell we're getting to a one to
know start.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Bring on Colorado, Tell them to bring out the cameras,
the prime timeline.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Tell them, bring me my money is there?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
We got Nebraska football starting this week. I got a
seven and five seasons. Dylan's got a nine to three season.
But this will not be the last episode that you
hear this season.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
We are gonna be on.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
A consistent basis. I promise, and this time I pinky promise.
I'm doing a pinky air promise.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Me and Daniel.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Right now, you just got to take my word that
we did a pinky air promise and that we will
be back, not only with football. You know it's gonna
be football heavy. It's it's what this town cares about
right now. We got volleyball starting up and they won
their first game three sets to one against Kentucky, So
big shout out to the volleyball.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Team tomorrow play Saturday, so there will be there will
be other stuff to talk about besides Nebraska football. But
obviously we'll hop back on after our you know, who's
to say two and oh start against.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Who's who's to say a two and oh start.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Hopefully we get it done against both UTEP and Colorado.
But really that's all I wanted to hit on, just
introduce this football season that we got coming up, and
I think it's gonna it's gonna be the best one yet,
best one yet.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
Playing us out. We got more nine Rock. I love
Kurt Cobaine and Nirvana.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
This one's Come as You Are off of their smash
hit never Mind you heard this album.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
I've heard this album. Love this song.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
It's a great song for the gym finale.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Nirvana is a great Jim choice, that teen angst, that anger.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
That fo hiped up. Yes, sir, thank you guys for listening.
It's been Studio three one three here from the.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
College of Journalism and Mass Communications, my love the co
host Still and Sash, as well as myself Daniel aka Deuce.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
Thank you for joining us and we'll see you next time.
Go big red, Peace, Jump fu