July 11, 2025 • 16 mins
Nebraska ought to be headed into a magic year with Matt Rhule who has never failed to win 10 games in Year 3 at any of his previous FBS stops, including Temple and Baylor. With Dylan Raiola at QB, there's reason to believe the Huskers can win 10 games in 2025.
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(00:00):
The Mat Rule era and Nebraska fans know what that means.
Let's talk about it. What's up kid?
Folks, it's RJ Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching adapt and respond.
(00:22):
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
round. If that is something you're
into, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.
Like this video and answer the question in the comments below.
Do you believe Nebraska will win10 games or more this year?
Going to pack for you why I think it's in the offing and
we're following some trends herethat are pretty remarkable as
(00:44):
they pertain to Matt Rule. Talk a little bit of personnel,
talk a little bit about the schedule.
Also want to remind you that we do have an audio podcast on
Apple and Spotify. Really appreciate you guys
downloading that and listening to that in its entirety as you
can go. If you go there and you do leave
us a five star review on Spotifyand Apple, I am willing to send
you one of these stickers in themail with a thank you note
(01:07):
because it means that much to me.
If you don't want a sticker, that's OK, that's fine.
You can still do the five star review.
We're going to start doing some live shows here pretty quickly
as we got Big 12 media days beginning Tuesday and Wednesday,
which for me is we're in it, baby.
We're in preseason, right? We got this for the next six
weeks, and then we're playing games.
(01:29):
And I'm so excited to be playinggames because I keep telling
people, don't cry to me if you cover the NBA, Don't cry to me
if you cover the NFL, Certainly don't cry to me if you cover
Major League Baseball or professional soccer.
I have the longest offseason on the American sports calendar.
(01:51):
I also have the shortest regularseason on the American sports
calendar. So I have no sympathy for those
that are going, oh, my God, I have to make some offseason
content now. Yeah, Dog talk to me from
January to July 8th, in which case we're still doing offseason
content. It's just preseason content cuz
we people start to care about our sport and you can almost see
(02:12):
people like turning over and going, man, college football is
around the corner. Damn right it's around the
corner and cannot get here fast enough.
We got some outstanding matchupscoming up with Florida State and
Alabama cuz Thomas Castellano said they ain't seen my fastball
yet and he's about to learn whatthat means when Crash says, hey,
(02:34):
here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak
of me, well, hit it off the bull.
We're going to be talking about Miami and Oh my God, like this,
this Notre Dame Miami thing could be actually gold, right?
LSU, Clemson, awesome. Monday night we're going to have
a North Carolina, Texas Christian, and of course, the
big one, Ohio State, Texas. Fortunately for Nebraska, they
(02:58):
dodged the defending national champion this year, but they do
play the defending Big 10 champions, but they get them at
home, which is kind of part of this.
But I'm going to do this again because I feel like I got to
keep doing it because the kiddosjust don't understand.
Realize that for 40 frigging years, basically from the JFK
(03:19):
administration to the end of thefirst term of Obama, you didn't
want no truck with Nebraska lestyou get your ass beat.
That's not that's not how you doit for 40 years.
You count on three things. They were going to win at least
nine games, probably one over your dead body.
They were going to win a national championship an average
(03:41):
of every eight years, and they're going to run that damn
triple option. That was heaven for Oscar fans
in hell for literally everybody else.
We're talking about a program that has sold out every game,
even when they had to buy out the seats since about 1962, OK?
They take their football as seriously as anybody on the
(04:01):
planet. And I am going to include
Liverpool, Manchester United, Borisha, Dortmund, anybody else
you want to throw in there? OK, it is the national team in
Lincoln. So what we got going in on year
three? Well a my how things changed
(04:24):
because since Nebraska willinglyshot itself in the foot and took
a step back by leaving the Big 12 to go to the Big 10, we don't
recognize this program. Those of us of a certain age.
Y'all be like, hey RJ, Nebraska been trash all my life.
I'm telling y'all dawg, up until2009 those words would have
(04:45):
never left your lips. Period.
And Dominican Sue damn near beatTexas by himself.
Same Texas that played for the national championship against
Alabama. Same Texas that if Colt McCoy
didn't go down probably makes that into a much better football
again against the Bama instead of us seeing, oh, this is what
Nick Saban's really going to be like for the next 15 years.
My God. You also got to take into
(05:06):
account here Matt ruling year three, who's going to have a
veteran quarterback it as a truesophomore, which is wild, right
with Dylan Riola, because if we're talking about Riola in a
different way, had Jeremiah Smith not been Jeremiah Smith,
we might be talking about that dude being the Big 10 freshman
of the year. He was that good 2800 yards last
(05:26):
year. He is capable of passing for
3500 yards and 30 T DS, especially with an offensive
coordinator that is as inventiveas he is entertaining in Dana
Hulgerson, who doesn't really want to make the offense that
complicated. And we'll say things like with
Will Grier when they're going togo play Texas the horns down.
(05:48):
Hey, you guys want to go win thedamn game.
Let's go win the damn game, right?
We're we're going to win now. Or my favorite story to tell
about him is when he was off andto coordinate Oklahoma State and
he had Brandon Wheaton, he had Justin Blackman.
And they would call these plays where Brandon Wheaton would come
back to the sideline and Dana belike, what the Hell's going on?
Cuz you're just not getting rid of the football.
What's going on? It's like, I can't see it.
(06:08):
I just, I, I don't, I don't trust it.
And he says, if I was you, I'd just throw out the black men.
And it's like, but he's covered.And so next series that's what
he did. And he did that for the next 7
plays and every one of them worked.
Because if I got a guy that's better than your guys, I'm going
to throw in the ball. I don't give a damn what
(06:29):
coverage you're in. OK?
That is who Dana Holgerson is going to be with this team.
Now all you need is a danky Jacory Barnes and Isaiah Wright.
Excuse me? See.
All right, nice here. What's your last name again,
dog? I forgot already, man.
I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget either.
Doggone it, Hunter. Isaiah Hunter.
(06:53):
My goodness, Get one of them dudes to step up, right?
Maybe see the 3rd 1000 yard receiver ever in Nebraska
history. That fact is wild.
Only if you don't know Nebraska's history.
Like throwing the football is a felony in Nebraska until about
about 2003, right? Until you get into the space
(07:16):
where you've got a quarterback that can sling it.
You know we're not we're not really going there.
You thought of football. You must want to go to prison
like they they got laws and getsthrown the football up until the
men odds right, because that's what's not what they do.
They're going to run this damn ball, run this damn ball, run
this damn ball play great defense.
I also think that this is a spotwhere you can look at the
(07:39):
defense and feel like they're going to be fine.
They're going to be OK John Butler knows what he's doing.
For those that are unfamiliar with Butler, he's promoted
basically defense coordinator. But before that, he had been the
secondary's coach for the Buffalo Bills, means to Davis
White, Micah Hyde. Those are his guys for that.
He'd been at Penn State, he'd even coached a little bit at
Harvard. He's been around, he knows how
to call some defense and he's got a couple of dudes that I
(08:00):
really like. I mean, you've got Desa
McCullough who was at Oklahoma, who could be an All Big 10
performer for you. You've also got CR right coming
back who can blossom, right? We saw that dude pick one off
running back to the house and you've got a really interesting
G5 call up in Marquez Watson. What's your last name, dog?
Trent. That's twice today.
(08:21):
RJ Damn, I'm I'm struggling, notstruggling to remember the man
average 122 tackles a season forthe last three years, though.
The numbers stick. Y'all know me in names, man.
I'd be working at it. It took me all of six months to
get UI Angela Lay, but I got it just in time for everybody to
forget it because last year he was trash.
I hate that for me. I hate that for you, but I
(08:44):
usually get there. It just take me a little.
I got to get my reps in right. I I need my at bats, if you will
now. Why does all this have to do
with Matt rule in year 3? Glad you asked that question at
temple, which is apparently justgone back into a place that we
just don't trust or care about. He managed to turn A2 win team
(09:08):
into A10 win team almost overnight, right, That's that's
ridiculous. By year three, they had won ten
games again, year three at Baylor, which is a step up
right. You're playing against Oklahoma.
You're playing against Texas. This is this is that era, last
great era of the Big 12. He won 11 games at Baylor, who
(09:29):
was coming all the way back fromArt Riles in them.
And now he's at year three of the Nebraska experience where
they were not good year one. They won seven games in year 2,
and now it feels like they're onthe verge because this is also
Nebraska team. And again, the kiddos, you still
understand us not seeing Nebraska play for a bowl game
for seven friggin years in a rowis Twilight Zone stuff.
(09:54):
We just don't how right and we know how like I could walk you
through Scott Frost and I could I could walk, I could walk you
through all of it. I really could.
But we're not going to do that. We are going to say they went
bowling last year and they won their ball game, pinstripe ball.
Don't mind if you really care about that.
But 7 to 6, seven to six, right,which same record that Georgia
(10:15):
Tech had and Georgia Tech knocked off 2 top 10 opponents
and damn near beat Georgia in eight overtimes.
We're also looking at this from the administration all the way
down, like from Troy Dannon all the way.
They have a plan for how to succeed in the modern era.
That is transfer portal, immediate eligibility, name,
image and likeness, revenue sharing.
They got a plan for that. And you can do that in places
(10:37):
like Nebraska a little bit easier than you can in others
because everybody's pulling for the Huskers.
So everybody lines up to help you in a way that say in the
state of Oklahoma, you got really two schools, right?
You got Oklahoma State, you got OU on the east side of the state
where I live is bathed in orange.
On the West side of the state where everybody else lives, it's
bathed in Crimson and cream. You don't have that problem.
(11:00):
Nebraska for that matter, you ain't supposed to have that
problem in Arkansas, which you know, I also found wild or
Wisconsin. So we are banking on Mat Rule
having put together the pieces with a really great roster,
right? That includes 3 starters
returning on the offensive line.You're going to find a tailback
(11:21):
that can run the ball if you canthrow the ball just a little
bit. You got a schedule that lines
up, Dog. It's not just that you got 7
home games, it's that you only go on the road really four times
and only one of those games is against a ranked opponent.
You get Michigan coming to you, you got to go to Happy Valley.
We don't expect you'll win that game, but outside of that,
(11:43):
everybody else is coming to you.You dodge Ohio State, you dodge
Oregon. You know you, there's no USC on
the menu, You're at UCLA. Maybe the time zone messes with
you just a little bit, but I expect you would win that game.
You're not playing anybody that we expect to make the playoff
outside of the two teams that I named Michigan and Penn State.
(12:03):
And Michigan could be they're the defending Big 10 champions
though, which, excuse me, defending big.
They are not the dependent big champ.
Oregon is defending Big 10 champions.
That's on me. My fault.
So no, we're not even talking about that.
We're talking about just one team on the entire schedule that
made the playoffs last year and that be Penn State.
(12:23):
If you don't win 10 games with this schedule, I just don't see
a win in 10 games next year. But again, all of the signs we
have point to you do like, I know we say it, but it's kind of
like we were talking about with Texas for years.
Like when is Texas going to get back?
And everybody makes the same joke.
I'll believe it when I see it. Nebraska fans feel the same way.
(12:45):
You know, I believe when I see it.
No, no hopes, no expectations. Matter of fact, I go to a gym
here locally where it is quite, I'm not kidding, the owners of
Wisconsin fan. And I mean, a big ass portrait
of Barry Alvarez is on the wall in his office, Wisconsin fan.
And I was telling him a wild stat that basically speaks to
(13:07):
the DNA of of football programs like I mentioned on the show a
couple times, that George's onlyhad 1000 yard receiver in its,
in its history. Terrence Edwards, 2004, 2002,
1004. Excuse me, in 2002 he had
100,000 yards, 4004 yards receiving.
Nobody else, not George Pickens,not Brock Bowers, not Heinz
Ward, not AJ Green, right? And we got all kinds of excuses
(13:29):
as to why, but the fact of the matter is George went
back-to-back without 1000 yard receiver dog what 21 and
1/20/22. And I was thinking about this as
it relates to other places whereyour DNA is your DNA.
Wisconsin, their DNA is running the football.
So you will probably be shocked to hear or not, depending on who
you are, that since 2022 againstOklahoma State, Nebraska,
(13:54):
Nebraska, Wisconsin is 12 and O when they rush for 150 yards or
more in a game, 12 and oh, they are 13 and one when they just
hand the ball off 35 times. So Luke Fickle, Paul, Chris,
doesn't matter. Jim Leonard, run the damn ball
at Wisconsin. Good things happen.
I think the same thing is true at Nebraska.
Sometimes it's about your DNA and that's why I was mentioning
(14:18):
when you didn't want it with Nebraska.
They didn't ever fix what was what what broken.
You knew what they were going todo.
You knew it to that Dana Hoger said point about just throw it
to black men. You knew what they were going to
do and you could not stop it. Perhaps as we are getting toward
the modern era and we've seen more innovative offenses and
(14:39):
you've also seen guys just kind of go back to you.
You know what's really difficultto stop a man trying to run
through your face. I'm on Green could do it even as
that quote belongs to me. Beast mode.
What all my green told me as I was walking through campus with
him doing a little bit is I wanted to smash through him up
(15:05):
face. That's what I was looking to do,
He said. I used to get coached up by the
defensive tags going we don't run the ball like that fresh.
When you run the ball at Nebraska, you run it with power,
strength and authority from the defensive tackles.
If you get in that kind of truck, you get that kind of
(15:25):
talking to that kind of trade from the DTS dog.
You know what, we know what timeit is.
No wonder they was able to run all up and down.
Everybody they played. Everybody knew what the game
was. Couldn't nobody do nothing about
it. That's football.
That's football. We're going to line up.
We're going to get into our power eye and we are coming
(15:47):
straight at you. We dare you to stop us.
Goodness man, if if Big Red can get back to that.
Cancel Christmas.
The Mat Rule era and Nebraska fans know what that means.
Let's talk about it. What's up kid?
Folks, it's RJ Young. I am not on a step mill.
If this is your first time watching adapt and respond.
(00:22):
Thank you for joining us here. We talk college football year
round. If that is something you're
into, go ahead and hit that subscribe button.
Like this video and answer the question in the comments below.
Do you believe Nebraska will win10 games or more this year?
Going to pack for you why I think it's in the offing and
we're following some trends herethat are pretty remarkable as
(00:44):
they pertain to Matt Rule. Talk a little bit of personnel,
talk a little bit about the schedule.
Also want to remind you that we do have an audio podcast on
Apple and Spotify. Really appreciate you guys
downloading that and listening to that in its entirety as you
can go. If you go there and you do leave
us a five star review on Spotifyand Apple, I am willing to send
you one of these stickers in themail with a thank you note
(01:07):
because it means that much to me.
If you don't want a sticker, that's OK, that's fine.
You can still do the five star review.
We're going to start doing some live shows here pretty quickly
as we got Big 12 media days beginning Tuesday and Wednesday,
which for me is we're in it, baby.
We're in preseason, right? We got this for the next six
weeks, and then we're playing games.
(01:29):
And I'm so excited to be playinggames because I keep telling
people, don't cry to me if you cover the NBA, Don't cry to me
if you cover the NFL, Certainly don't cry to me if you cover
Major League Baseball or professional soccer.
I have the longest offseason on the American sports calendar.
(01:51):
I also have the shortest regularseason on the American sports
calendar. So I have no sympathy for those
that are going, oh, my God, I have to make some offseason
content now. Yeah, Dog talk to me from
January to July 8th, in which case we're still doing offseason
content. It's just preseason content cuz
we people start to care about our sport and you can almost see
(02:12):
people like turning over and going, man, college football is
around the corner. Damn right it's around the
corner and cannot get here fast enough.
We got some outstanding matchupscoming up with Florida State and
Alabama cuz Thomas Castellano said they ain't seen my fastball
yet and he's about to learn whatthat means when Crash says, hey,
(02:34):
here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak
of me, well, hit it off the bull.
We're going to be talking about Miami and Oh my God, like this,
this Notre Dame Miami thing could be actually gold, right?
LSU, Clemson, awesome. Monday night we're going to have
a North Carolina, Texas Christian, and of course, the
big one, Ohio State, Texas. Fortunately for Nebraska, they
(02:58):
dodged the defending national champion this year, but they do
play the defending Big 10 champions, but they get them at
home, which is kind of part of this.
But I'm going to do this again because I feel like I got to
keep doing it because the kiddosjust don't understand.
Realize that for 40 frigging years, basically from the JFK
(03:19):
administration to the end of thefirst term of Obama, you didn't
want no truck with Nebraska lestyou get your ass beat.
That's not that's not how you doit for 40 years.
You count on three things. They were going to win at least
nine games, probably one over your dead body.
They were going to win a national championship an average
(03:41):
of every eight years, and they're going to run that damn
triple option. That was heaven for Oscar fans
in hell for literally everybody else.
We're talking about a program that has sold out every game,
even when they had to buy out the seats since about 1962, OK?
They take their football as seriously as anybody on the
(04:01):
planet. And I am going to include
Liverpool, Manchester United, Borisha, Dortmund, anybody else
you want to throw in there? OK, it is the national team in
Lincoln. So what we got going in on year
three? Well a my how things changed
(04:24):
because since Nebraska willinglyshot itself in the foot and took
a step back by leaving the Big 12 to go to the Big 10, we don't
recognize this program. Those of us of a certain age.
Y'all be like, hey RJ, Nebraska been trash all my life.
I'm telling y'all dawg, up until2009 those words would have
(04:45):
never left your lips. Period.
And Dominican Sue damn near beatTexas by himself.
Same Texas that played for the national championship against
Alabama. Same Texas that if Colt McCoy
didn't go down probably makes that into a much better football
again against the Bama instead of us seeing, oh, this is what
Nick Saban's really going to be like for the next 15 years.
My God. You also got to take into
(05:06):
account here Matt ruling year three, who's going to have a
veteran quarterback it as a truesophomore, which is wild, right
with Dylan Riola, because if we're talking about Riola in a
different way, had Jeremiah Smith not been Jeremiah Smith,
we might be talking about that dude being the Big 10 freshman
of the year. He was that good 2800 yards last
(05:26):
year. He is capable of passing for
3500 yards and 30 T DS, especially with an offensive
coordinator that is as inventiveas he is entertaining in Dana
Hulgerson, who doesn't really want to make the offense that
complicated. And we'll say things like with
Will Grier when they're going togo play Texas the horns down.
(05:48):
Hey, you guys want to go win thedamn game.
Let's go win the damn game, right?
We're we're going to win now. Or my favorite story to tell
about him is when he was off andto coordinate Oklahoma State and
he had Brandon Wheaton, he had Justin Blackman.
And they would call these plays where Brandon Wheaton would come
back to the sideline and Dana belike, what the Hell's going on?
Cuz you're just not getting rid of the football.
What's going on? It's like, I can't see it.
(06:08):
I just, I, I don't, I don't trust it.
And he says, if I was you, I'd just throw out the black men.
And it's like, but he's covered.And so next series that's what
he did. And he did that for the next 7
plays and every one of them worked.
Because if I got a guy that's better than your guys, I'm going
to throw in the ball. I don't give a damn what
(06:29):
coverage you're in. OK?
That is who Dana Holgerson is going to be with this team.
Now all you need is a danky Jacory Barnes and Isaiah Wright.
Excuse me? See.
All right, nice here. What's your last name again,
dog? I forgot already, man.
I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget either.
Doggone it, Hunter. Isaiah Hunter.
(06:53):
My goodness, Get one of them dudes to step up, right?
Maybe see the 3rd 1000 yard receiver ever in Nebraska
history. That fact is wild.
Only if you don't know Nebraska's history.
Like throwing the football is a felony in Nebraska until about
about 2003, right? Until you get into the space
(07:16):
where you've got a quarterback that can sling it.
You know we're not we're not really going there.
You thought of football. You must want to go to prison
like they they got laws and getsthrown the football up until the
men odds right, because that's what's not what they do.
They're going to run this damn ball, run this damn ball, run
this damn ball play great defense.
I also think that this is a spotwhere you can look at the
(07:39):
defense and feel like they're going to be fine.
They're going to be OK John Butler knows what he's doing.
For those that are unfamiliar with Butler, he's promoted
basically defense coordinator. But before that, he had been the
secondary's coach for the Buffalo Bills, means to Davis
White, Micah Hyde. Those are his guys for that.
He'd been at Penn State, he'd even coached a little bit at
Harvard. He's been around, he knows how
to call some defense and he's got a couple of dudes that I
(08:00):
really like. I mean, you've got Desa
McCullough who was at Oklahoma, who could be an All Big 10
performer for you. You've also got CR right coming
back who can blossom, right? We saw that dude pick one off
running back to the house and you've got a really interesting
G5 call up in Marquez Watson. What's your last name, dog?
Trent. That's twice today.
(08:21):
RJ Damn, I'm I'm struggling, notstruggling to remember the man
average 122 tackles a season forthe last three years, though.
The numbers stick. Y'all know me in names, man.
I'd be working at it. It took me all of six months to
get UI Angela Lay, but I got it just in time for everybody to
forget it because last year he was trash.
I hate that for me. I hate that for you, but I
(08:44):
usually get there. It just take me a little.
I got to get my reps in right. I I need my at bats, if you will
now. Why does all this have to do
with Matt rule in year 3? Glad you asked that question at
temple, which is apparently justgone back into a place that we
just don't trust or care about. He managed to turn A2 win team
(09:08):
into A10 win team almost overnight, right, That's that's
ridiculous. By year three, they had won ten
games again, year three at Baylor, which is a step up
right. You're playing against Oklahoma.
You're playing against Texas. This is this is that era, last
great era of the Big 12. He won 11 games at Baylor, who
(09:29):
was coming all the way back fromArt Riles in them.
And now he's at year three of the Nebraska experience where
they were not good year one. They won seven games in year 2,
and now it feels like they're onthe verge because this is also
Nebraska team. And again, the kiddos, you still
understand us not seeing Nebraska play for a bowl game
for seven friggin years in a rowis Twilight Zone stuff.
(09:54):
We just don't how right and we know how like I could walk you
through Scott Frost and I could I could walk, I could walk you
through all of it. I really could.
But we're not going to do that. We are going to say they went
bowling last year and they won their ball game, pinstripe ball.
Don't mind if you really care about that.
But 7 to 6, seven to six, right,which same record that Georgia
(10:15):
Tech had and Georgia Tech knocked off 2 top 10 opponents
and damn near beat Georgia in eight overtimes.
We're also looking at this from the administration all the way
down, like from Troy Dannon all the way.
They have a plan for how to succeed in the modern era.
That is transfer portal, immediate eligibility, name,
image and likeness, revenue sharing.
They got a plan for that. And you can do that in places
(10:37):
like Nebraska a little bit easier than you can in others
because everybody's pulling for the Huskers.
So everybody lines up to help you in a way that say in the
state of Oklahoma, you got really two schools, right?
You got Oklahoma State, you got OU on the east side of the state
where I live is bathed in orange.
On the West side of the state where everybody else lives, it's
bathed in Crimson and cream. You don't have that problem.
(11:00):
Nebraska for that matter, you ain't supposed to have that
problem in Arkansas, which you know, I also found wild or
Wisconsin. So we are banking on Mat Rule
having put together the pieces with a really great roster,
right? That includes 3 starters
returning on the offensive line.You're going to find a tailback
(11:21):
that can run the ball if you canthrow the ball just a little
bit. You got a schedule that lines
up, Dog. It's not just that you got 7
home games, it's that you only go on the road really four times
and only one of those games is against a ranked opponent.
You get Michigan coming to you, you got to go to Happy Valley.
We don't expect you'll win that game, but outside of that,
(11:43):
everybody else is coming to you.You dodge Ohio State, you dodge
Oregon. You know you, there's no USC on
the menu, You're at UCLA. Maybe the time zone messes with
you just a little bit, but I expect you would win that game.
You're not playing anybody that we expect to make the playoff
outside of the two teams that I named Michigan and Penn State.
(12:03):
And Michigan could be they're the defending Big 10 champions
though, which, excuse me, defending big.
They are not the dependent big champ.
Oregon is defending Big 10 champions.
That's on me. My fault.
So no, we're not even talking about that.
We're talking about just one team on the entire schedule that
made the playoffs last year and that be Penn State.
(12:23):
If you don't win 10 games with this schedule, I just don't see
a win in 10 games next year. But again, all of the signs we
have point to you do like, I know we say it, but it's kind of
like we were talking about with Texas for years.
Like when is Texas going to get back?
And everybody makes the same joke.
I'll believe it when I see it. Nebraska fans feel the same way.
(12:45):
You know, I believe when I see it.
No, no hopes, no expectations. Matter of fact, I go to a gym
here locally where it is quite, I'm not kidding, the owners of
Wisconsin fan. And I mean, a big ass portrait
of Barry Alvarez is on the wall in his office, Wisconsin fan.
And I was telling him a wild stat that basically speaks to
(13:07):
the DNA of of football programs like I mentioned on the show a
couple times, that George's onlyhad 1000 yard receiver in its,
in its history. Terrence Edwards, 2004, 2002,
1004. Excuse me, in 2002 he had
100,000 yards, 4004 yards receiving.
Nobody else, not George Pickens,not Brock Bowers, not Heinz
Ward, not AJ Green, right? And we got all kinds of excuses
(13:29):
as to why, but the fact of the matter is George went
back-to-back without 1000 yard receiver dog what 21 and
1/20/22. And I was thinking about this as
it relates to other places whereyour DNA is your DNA.
Wisconsin, their DNA is running the football.
So you will probably be shocked to hear or not, depending on who
you are, that since 2022 againstOklahoma State, Nebraska,
(13:54):
Nebraska, Wisconsin is 12 and O when they rush for 150 yards or
more in a game, 12 and oh, they are 13 and one when they just
hand the ball off 35 times. So Luke Fickle, Paul, Chris,
doesn't matter. Jim Leonard, run the damn ball
at Wisconsin. Good things happen.
I think the same thing is true at Nebraska.
Sometimes it's about your DNA and that's why I was mentioning
(14:18):
when you didn't want it with Nebraska.
They didn't ever fix what was what what broken.
You knew what they were going todo.
You knew it to that Dana Hoger said point about just throw it
to black men. You knew what they were going to
do and you could not stop it. Perhaps as we are getting toward
the modern era and we've seen more innovative offenses and
(14:39):
you've also seen guys just kind of go back to you.
You know what's really difficultto stop a man trying to run
through your face. I'm on Green could do it even as
that quote belongs to me. Beast mode.
What all my green told me as I was walking through campus with
him doing a little bit is I wanted to smash through him up
(15:05):
face. That's what I was looking to do,
He said. I used to get coached up by the
defensive tags going we don't run the ball like that fresh.
When you run the ball at Nebraska, you run it with power,
strength and authority from the defensive tackles.
If you get in that kind of truck, you get that kind of
(15:25):
talking to that kind of trade from the DTS dog.
You know what, we know what timeit is.
No wonder they was able to run all up and down.
Everybody they played. Everybody knew what the game
was. Couldn't nobody do nothing about
it. That's football.
That's football. We're going to line up.
We're going to get into our power eye and we are coming
(15:47):
straight at you. We dare you to stop us.
Goodness man, if if Big Red can get back to that.
Cancel Christmas.
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