Nebraska Football vs. Colorado in PRIME TIME? I New Huskers facility, key staff members & more I GBR

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Happy Thursday and welcome here to another edition of HUSCAR Online Headlines ORG, Sean Callahan, joined by the always very orange Steve Sipple PERSON as, um,

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rocking a new polo shirt there.

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Yeah, $12 at Target ORG.

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I had, I told you yesterday, I was going to get a belt. Um, so I whipped into Target ORG. Um, I knew right where the belts were because I bought one a couple years ago. Oh, I went to get a belt 32 to 36 waist right there. And right by the belts was a rack of, what do you call these polos for 12 apiece? Couldn't resist.Saw the peach one and said,

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that's mine. It's real good color on you. I think you're going to get a lot of

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comments or compliments in the comments on that polo shirt, Steve PERSON. That's not bad. I could

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have told you it's a $50 polo and you wouldn't have batted an eye. I thought you bought a

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Tommy Bahama one there at first. No, I don't even know what it is. Let's talk ball if we like to say.

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Yeah, let's not talk about as we get down the headlines, I got a pretty good headline number one here.

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Okay.

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Colorado, Nebraska ORG kickoff. Are we looking at a primetime NBC kickoff and Lincoln GPE? The early clues I'm getting are say yes. Okay. So the networks got together Wednesday to begin the selection draft. And over the coming weeks, we'll know Nebraska ORG's kickoff times.Well, we know Colorado, Nebraska, like last year, will not be a big noon kickoff because the Texas-Michigan game has already been selected for week two for big noon kickoff.

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And logically, Dionne Sanders has a lot of values still for ratings, especially in September.

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So does Nebraska ORG.

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And Nebraska ORG.

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But September Dion Sanders PERSON brings ratings. We saw that last year.

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It's a no brain.

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And so, anyway, it's a no brain.

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The early pieces have been starting to move for this game to be prime time.

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And I got a couple of things throwing my way here before the show started, that NBC ORG's already kind of, you know, making some calls, getting some things figured out, uh, to possibly have that game as the prime time game. So if that does hold true, wow, we're talking about a magical stage in night similar to 2014 Nebraska, Miami ORG. Yeah, we always say that one. That was, that one's for

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sure. Is there any other that come to mind magical well the first big 10

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game in lincoln was ohio state nebraska 2011 rex burkehead PERSON in the rain um the comeback the levante

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david a lot of people left that game remember yeah yeah so it was different than yeah it's hard to top

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miami nebraska in 2014 when ameer went for a big game and they had Randy Gregory and

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Collins made big plays. I think it was at the end of the third quarter. Miami ORG was threatening.

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Listen, don't hold me to all of this, but Miami ORG was threatening. Key moment in the game.

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And if you remember, Collins and Randy Gregory came up big on like three straight plays or two straight plays and it turned the tide of the game and it was wild.

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And that left tackle for Miami was a first rounder, if I'm not mistaken.

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And Gregory PERSON and him were squaring off. Okay. Okay.

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And they started going at it. I mean, it was wild. And hey, Colorado, Nebraska ORG fans want blood. I mean, they've gone to Boulder GPE. They do. And they've been treated like trash. They want blood. I mean, they've gone to Boulder GPE. They do. And they've been treated like trash.

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They want blood.

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Like the way that Colorado GPE students, particularly. Yeah.

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And young, have treated Nebraska fans in Boulder GPE.

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This is not going to be a cheer the opponent kind of stage.

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No. And look, if Colorado GPE fans want to come at us on this, go ahead, come at us.

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I mean, they've embarrassed themselves.

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Yeah, you embarrass yourselves. I mean, you got to, you got to just at us. I mean, they've embarrassed themselves. Yeah, you embarrass yourselves.

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I mean, you got to, you got to just eat this. I mean, I've watched it.

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I watched an assault happen.

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I've never seen people,

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street people like the way Colorado GPE students and. No, come at us. Come at us.

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Have been towards Nebraska the last couple of years.

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It's bizarre. It's bizarre to me. Yeah, we don't talk about fans like this, only in extreme circumstances. And Colorado GPE has made this an extreme circumstance. Now, Colorado fans are going to come back and say, oh, yeah, what happened on the field last year,big boy? Um, Colorado got them. No, they did. They've got them three times in a row. Wonderful.

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Um, so, but no, you're right, Sean, it'll be bloodlust. It'll feel like Miami in 2014 and probably with more bloodlust than that because of, because of Dion PERSON, because the, the rivalry is heated still.

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It's really intense.

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So I just hope that all this holds true that these things that are happening with NBC ORG, you know, making, you know, calls and connections here in Lincoln GPE to get things ready to go means it's happening.

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Because, you know, I'm just, I love moments like this. This will be one we'll never forget.

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Now you hope, though, that Colorado beats North Dakota State in week one. That, and that's not a given. No, it's in Boulder GPE. That's a really tough game. Now,

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North Dakota GPE State has a new head coach. I know. And North Dakota States, I don't think North

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Dakota State, it's not what it was. I mean, their head coach left to be the linebackers coach

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of USC. Yeah, right. Interesting. North Dakota State ORG's not what it was when it was at the height, like Craig Bulle years, Craig Bulleers PERSON. So, so, but still, yeah, I'm, I'm with you on that. You want, you do want

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Colorado to win that game. North Dakota State's going to come in, though, to Boulder GPE, like a more organized army. Like, they may not have as nice a tanks and guns, but they're going to know how to

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fight better. And they're, and they're going to be ready to go. And in Colorado GPE, it's going to be flashy

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with their Louis Vuitton luggagees and their Rolex ORG watches.

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And they're going to be doing weird stuff on the field probably that is probably sort of trumped up. I mean, just weird stuff like they did against Nebraska where they sort of invented this, what, this square off at midfield, which was just,it wasn't real. That's what they do. But you know what they do. But you know what? They also got two first rounders. They got Schaudeau Sanders and Travis Hunter PERSON.

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Maybe the two best players in the Big 12 ORG right now in terms of draft stacks.

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Yeah.

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So they got that.

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And they'll have some skill players. You know that. But I don't know. The way Dion PERSON's doing it, how can you even tell what kind of team that's going to be? There's so much turnover.

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Yeah, it's going to be fascinating. And we'll know these kickoff times.

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When last year they came out on June 1.

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So sometime here in late May, maybe June 1, these dates will get announced. And what we'll find out are usually the first three weeks. Yeah.

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Then your homecoming game

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and any like Friday games so so we'll find out well yeah we'll we'll we'll know like the homecoming

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kickoff and I don't know what I don't know what I don't know what game homecoming is this year for

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Nebraska ORG oh who knows that I don't know that well usually you kind of put a homecoming game like a

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strategically like not a higher profile game because then you can select your kickoff time.

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Okay.

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And so a lot of times a game that would be slammed as an 11 a.m. kick, you make that your

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homecoming game and then you put it at 2.30.

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Final word on this Colorado, Nebraska ORG and prime time, which we think is going to happen based on the information you've gotten today. It's a no-brainer. Because this is great, great drama. It is a grand stage at Memorial Stadium FAC. It is, it is everything you want. It could be a little dicey, you know, it's great TV is what I'm getting at.

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It's wonderful TV. If you're NBC ORG, you want.

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I mean, you jump on it and why and why if this game's at 2.30, you're,

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it's on CBS at 2.30.

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Yeah, in college football people are saying, why is Colorado, Nebraska ORG? Why is that not a night game? There's people saying that. Like, why is that not a night game? This is a night game, Sean PERSON.

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Oh, I can already feel the juice if it's a night game. I can't.

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I can already see 3,000 viewers watching our post game live show if they win that game.

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Yeah, more if they lose.

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Or if they lose.

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Yeah.

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We've seen it both ways.

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But I'm expecting a night of margaritas and super chats galore for Steve Simple PERSON.

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But all right.

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did you guys tailgate well we it's embarrassing but I years ago I I won or bought like a silent auction, like a little miniature Weber ORG grill, but you can tailgate with like a traveling grill.

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Uh-huh.

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Never used it.

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Oh, boy, you got to do it.

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Get kitten Carly PERSON.

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It was so long ago, it was at Java Chamberlains ORG.

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He had his dream 62 auction when he played for the Yankees ORG.

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Okay.

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And it was at his dream 62 auction event.

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Okay.

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And I've had it in my garage and I need to use this puppy.

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Yeah, you need to use it.

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Just use it. Take your wife and take your wife and the girls.

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Yeah, we're going to go to the game and some friends and obviously the ALS fundraiser. And you had Ashley Johnston and Chuck Johnson PERSON on your show at the ticket. Yeah, but they're throwing out the first pitch on Friday.

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Ashley's throwing out the first pitch. It's a hard. It's a, it's a real, I mean, it's a hard story, actually. Her husband got a.

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I used to work for Nebraska ORG football.

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Yeah. A and M.

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And they'll be.

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For Bo and Bill PERSON, I think.

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Calhant. Yeah. So I urge you, if you want to support good people and a good cause,

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go to the baseball game Friday to support ALS and the Johnson family will be throwing out the first pitch. So, all right, let's take it to headline number two.

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We got to know some key staff members on Matt Ruhl staff here today.

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Dr. Susan Elza, the chief of staff and Sean Patton, the general manager, kind of the two leaders of the staff behind the scenes. We learned a lot of interesting things. First and foremost, I do want to say this, they are now almost fully in this new facility as far as coaches offices, the walk-through room we've heard so much about where it literally has one of the largest

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screens you're ever going to see where they can do simulated, you know, lineups and play looks. And there's nothing like it in the country. It's 315,000 square feet, I believe is what she said. Thanks, that's what she said. The new facility and the old space is about 200,000 square feet.

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So yes. Yes.

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That's the walkthrough right there.

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They couldn't, all the players couldn't lift at once in the previous facility. That's one thing that Dr. Elza PERSON noted. They can now. So all 149 players. So 149 on the roster, by the way. All 149 can lift in this new facility.The old weight room, you asked about this. The old weight room will call it in North Stadium FAC. That's now transitioned over to Olympic sports. weight room you asked about this the old weight room will call it in north stadium um

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that's now transitioned over to olympic sports because they used to have a weight room or they still have one that's in the hawks kind of buried in the back of the hawks indoor facility and that was where

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the olympic NORP sports went so it sounds like they're going to be transitioning those athletes now to

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the old football weight room see there yes yes, the other things she know,

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one of the other things she knows that the coaches' offices overlooked the practice field. What Sean Padden PERSON said, he had a good quote. I'm going to have to find it in my notes. Oh, yes. You know, it's, we always talk about this facility as a recruiting advantage.It may or may not be. But there's no doubt about this, according to Sean Padden PERSON. This is this quote, it's emblematic of the effort that we pour into players. That's what it's about. And largely what Sean Padden and Dr. Susan Elza PERSON wanted to impart on us is how much they, this, this program pours into its players. And you know what?That's what the training facility largely represents. Shifting gears a little bit, Sean PERSON, I know this is true. That people, I know this is true because I'm like most people in that I hear Sean Padden PERSON, his title's GM. And my thought is always, okay, what does a GM do? What does a college football GM do? Well, Sean PERSON did a good job of explaining what he does. So what he said is he's responsible for all of the recruiting apparatus. All of the recruiting apparatus, he said, runs's responsible for all of the recruiting apparatus.All of the recruiting apparatus, he said, runs up to me. Okay. That's your world, Sean PERSON. You know Sean Patton PERSON because of that.

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And he's the liaison to the collective as well.

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He's the main liaison to 1890. That's, okay, those are two very significant roles, right? He's dealing with player contracts. I mean, he's direct, he, Sean Padden PERSON right there directly deals with that. Probably deals with Davis and Matt nearly every day, right? I would think so.He also helps with the scout teams. Now, that's pretty big. And he ran that spring league, which I never quite understand what all that means, but, um, he runs the spring league, which was the way they practice essentially. Nebraska putting its players on four different fields and all that, all that rig and my role.

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That's what Sean PERSON,

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those are Sean Pad's PERSON main jobs. As you also wonder, Dr. Susan Elzo PERSON, chief of staff, what's a chief of staff? What is that?

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Well,

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she runs all the other elements,

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the, you know, the behind the scenes day-to-day operations. Yes.

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Around the program.

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Right.

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I don't know. I mean, I wanted to ask her, but it was sort of a two nuts and bolsey. There's 73 staff members for football, 73, all told. I think she would be the chief of staff for 73 people, not just the chief of staff for Matt Ruhin his 10 assistants, or how many coaching football coaching assistants there are. We're talking about a staff of nutrition

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people, weight room. You report to her first. Yeah. Then she goes to Matt Ruhl PERSON. So she,

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she says she, she helps with recruiting also. She works with the top level administration.

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She helps in the organization of road trips.

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She talks to the governor, if need be. And I thought the key thing she does that she said she does is she helps avoid silos. All these different people and all these different parts of the football program, she doesn't want them operating in a silo without collaboration, without other parts of the program understanding what they're doing. And I think that part, that might be the most important things she said about her job. So that's, so yeah, we got to know them.Interesting move. Sean PERSON, I don't think this has ever been done since we've been covering the team, has it?

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Well, they've done like round table-ish type of things where, you know, you might get to sit down in like a meeting room with like the recruiting staffers and whatnot.

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I must have missed those.

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You know, like for Scott Frost, Jared Lamprick PERSON was the chief of staff.

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And that wasn't his style. He didn't want to, he didn't want to do interviews.

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Like in kind of he wanted to be more in the back.

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Like he didn't really ever present himself on camera like this.

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No.

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And this was on this was a podium setting today that we got.

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Yeah.

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Um, so pretty formalized. I mean, both both guys talk for 30 minutes.

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By way of our, our expertise, our expertise, I say that in quote, wouldn't you say, okay, that's interesting that you brought up Jared Lambrick PERSON as a chief of staff. He was a chief of staff. Dr. Els is chief of staff. My perception is Jared Lambrick had much more to do

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with the pure day-to-day football operation. Yeah, because that wasn't really, like Matt Rule PERSON,

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when you compare his style, Matt Rule PERSON has his hands on everything. Matt Rule has his hands on

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everything. Frost PERSON did not. Frost didn't want his hands on much other than just coaching ball.

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Right. And, you know, but like he let, I mean, Jared PERSON was the head coach and a lot of

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respects behind the scenes.

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This is almost a column.

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I mean, it's a damn near a column.

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It's way different. This chief of staff is, it's a much different role than Jared PERSON was.

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I mean, Jared PERSON was in charge of the COVID protocols for, I mean, everything.

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He ran the protocol.

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He ran the team basically at that point. Like he, tell me I'm wrong. He's, I mean, everything. He ran the protocol. He ran the team basically at that point.

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Like he, tell me I'm wrong.

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He's, I mean, he organized the medical contracts back then, you know, over the

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athletic director about COVID tests and.

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Yes.

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Traveling nurses and.

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Jared knew the four deep as well as any coach on the staff and probably had input on it, would you say?

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Yes.

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So, I mean, there's just different ways to run the organization.

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And I think a lot of it is rule.

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I mean, rule is he's got his hands on everything.

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That's the best way to put it.

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The chief of staff role by nature would be different depending on a head coach.

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And rule is extremely hands-on.

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So there you go.

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All right.

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Interesting, Sean PERSON.

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What is that?

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Nebraska is targeting Michigan State Safety, Jaden Mangum PERSON. And, you know, they've been really selective in what they've done in the spring portal. Because number one, they don't have a lot of spots. And number two, I don't know if there are a lot of glaring needs. It's to the point where if a guy is good enough to make your team better, you make room for him. And I think Mangum fits that description when you look at him as a player, Nebraska ORG's staffconducted an in-home visit with him this week. Jane PERSON. And he will visit Ohio State this weekend. Nebraska's official visit will take place Monday. And then Michigan, he's from Detroit GPE. Well, they'll have their visit the following week as far as a official visit goes.So he's got three big 10 official visits. He had four interceptions a year ago, highly productive. He had a brother on the team as well in East Lansing that followed Mel Tucker from Colorado to Michigan State ORG. That brother has left the program. He'll play running back at Minnesota ORG. Jaden PERSON.Jaden Mangum PERSON. Jaron is his brother. Good God, Steve. Yes, Mangum. Jaron is his brother. Good God, Steve PERSON.

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Um, yes, Jaron.

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Jaron is the running back.

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Jaden PERSON is the safety.

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It's right in front of you on the screen right now if you need a little help.

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Okay.

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Keep going.

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But this,

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um,

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six one and a half safety and he's heavier.

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I think he's closer to probably 185 right now.

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He's a really rangey.

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That was his high school weight. Yeah. Yeah. No, he's he's got to be 185. There's no way he's playing in the Big Ten at 165.

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You wrote in your 321, and I think this is pretty obvious. This will be a business decision.

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An NIL, 1890s, gigantic in this.

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Probably playing time is something you'd watch too. But here's the thing. I don't know what Nebraska ORG can, they can't guarantee him anything in terms of playing time because as everybody knows that follows Nebraska ORG football, Nebraska ORG's well-stocked at safety.I mean, if you just look at the top three guys, Gifford PERSON, Isaac Gifford, Marquis Buford, Deshawn Singleton PERSON. I mean, it's going to be hard to determine who's starting out of those three, except I think Isaac Gifford PERSON's locked in. But I don't know with Gifford PERSON and single.

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And Tommy Hill PERSON.

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Tommy Hill PERSON's a, yeah, at corner.

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Quarter. Oh, we're talking about the three safeties. I'm talking pure safeties. Yeah, Beaufort, Singleton coming back, heart Yeah, corner. Quarter. Oh, talking about the three safeties. I'm talking pure safeties. Yeah, Beaufort, Singleton PERSON coming back, Hartstock PERSON can play safety in corner.

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So, too, yeah.

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But see,

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if you get Bangham PERSON,

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I think Hartsock PERSON moving to corners and no brain. If you get Mangum PERSON in here,

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why? Could Mangum PERSON play corner? You just have good safety stumbling all over each other.

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Could he play any corner?

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Mangum PERSON, maybe, yeah.

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I don't know that. I don't know.

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I don't know either. That's a good question.

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That's a really good question. But he's, I mean, I'll tell you this. Five teams called him in the first day. Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, State, Georgia, and Alabama GPE.

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That's how good he is.

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Right.

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It's purely an example of what rule has said or what any coach, I'm not just, almost any coach would tell you. If there's a good player available and he's interested, you don't, you don't say, oh, yeah, we got enough safeties, we're good. No, if he's that good, 52 tackles, four interceptions,

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you look at it. We're like, to get him. Okay, play this game here. If Hartzog PERSON, Singleton, or Buford, went in the portal, would Alabama Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan and Georgia call in the first day? Okay.

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Now, wait a second.

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Name the three again, Singleton PERSON.

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Singleton, Hard Sog and Buford PERSON.

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If they went on the portal, would those teams call him on the first day?

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Um, I think you're asking me a loaded question and I'm not, I'm, I'm, I don't, a couple of

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those guys, I'd say may, no, they're good power five players question and I'm not I'm I'm I don't a couple of those guys I'm I'd say

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no they're good power five players am I crazy on this simple yes you are I don't I don't think

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Kirby smart and Alabama and Michigan and Ohio State ORG would be calling on those guys I'm not

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on the first day on the first day come on baby it. I'm not convinced you're right on that.

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Those guys are good.

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Yeah, but they don't have the production he had.

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He's got legit proven production.

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He had four interceptions last year.

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He was second team all big 10 by some publications.

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On a bad team.

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Like, when you're a voter for all big 10,

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and you know Mel Tucker got fired like in September. Like you're not voting for any Michigan GPE state guys. I haven't looked at this film. I don't know. But I, but I, am I going to see a player who's that much better than Buford PERSON and Singleton PERSON?

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It's this, I mean, to me, it's interesting that those film personnel staffs, the best in college football right now, called them on the first day. I don't know. If a Singleton coming off injury, a Buford PERSON coming off injury. Injuries are a factor.

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We would get those kind of calls.

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I don't think Malcolm PERSON would get those calls.

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No, I don't.

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But I'm not, no, no, I have a lot of respect for those.

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I do.

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I'm not saying I did, but I'm just saying that when you're trying to make this analysis of make room guys, well, if those teams want him, you're probably going to want him to.

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You're probably right. And it's going to, there's going to be a price tag, though. Yeah, I'm not

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planting my flag in the hill on this one, but I, those guys are good. Buford, Puford ORG can play

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about anywhere. I mean, but yeah, this is the only real activity we've seen in the portal.

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This is big.

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I mean, this is a big visitor for Nebraska ORG.

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It's fascinating.

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He's been here once before.

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June of 2021, he took a high school official visit here.

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Now, I would say this.

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I don't think he's here without 1890.

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No, I mean, you can't even get in the conversation with the guy like this. If you don't have a very well-structured and well-heeled collective, if you don't pass the credit check.

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Right. Right. You've got to have a good credit score on this one. You got to go through the

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finance department first before you get even buy the car. Yeah. You can't have just a good

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credit score. You need a very good credit score, very good to grade. But like Michigan GPE is not known

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for a lead in. Now, maybe that's changed, but they have not really tried to go like

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crazy and Ohio State we know has. Yeah. Michigan GPE's known for winning a national title. Right.

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That's. And they're known for winning big 10 titles of late. Um, so. Yeah. He,

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yeah, really interesting though that Nebraska ORG is getting a visit along with Ohio State and Michigan. Good on Nebraska.

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Right. Let's take it. Headline 4, Huskron Headlines ORG. Before you go crazy on me.

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Well, unfortunately, the C5 district and Atkinson at Westhold High School ORG.

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Carter Nelson is competing here on Thursday in the 200 meter, the pole vault, the long jump, and the discus. The discus was considered to be his top event. He was ranked in the top 20 nationally number one in the entire state. Well, he got three throws. He scratched two of his throws at districts. And his third, his other throw went 123 feet in change.So Carter Nelson, who has one of the top discus throws in the country,

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has failed to qualify for state track and the discus.

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That's a good update.

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It's unfortunate for Carter PERSON.

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He had thrown the disc is 188 feet.

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Yeah, 188 feet one inch.

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Yeah, so you were right.

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Number one in this state. We wonder what happened. I guess it can just happen.

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We get three try. I mean, I'm getting, it can just have it.

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It's easier you just say like, hey, you should just get one on the board, you know,

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get one that that's like 160-ish, 50-ish, get it out there.

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Then go for it. Yeah.

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Um, but. Calhanna PERSON. He scratched it. Now, he won the long jump. He did win the long jump. And he's got pole vault coming here as we're taping Thursday in the 200.And the 200, okay.

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He's ranked in the state.

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I got it right here if he needed.

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He's number,

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number two in the 200 meter and three in the pole ball.

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Three in the pole vault at 14. So, yeah, he can still score high. Yeah, it's disappointing,I guess, but he's still having a remarkable spring. He's a remarkable athlete. You see that photo. He loved, you know, Carter PERSON's all about teammates. Tracks really not a team sport. Is it not in my opinion anyway?But he's all about, he loved being in Ainsworth GPE. He loved competing with those guys. And, yeah, he'll do fine. He'll do fine.

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I just said somebody on our board had posted that he broke his pole in the pole vault.

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Oh boy.

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Um, but he's got another pull evidently, but that was always a challenge. Yeah.

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I don't think the lay person understands that, but, um, a lot of these polls only go up to

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215 pounds.

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Right. Yeah. So he's put so much force on it because of his size, 64, 220, that they had trouble he and his father finding poles.

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And they make an Olympic pole that's 245. Okay. And those are extremely expensive and hard to come by.

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Yeah. So there's challenges there. But again, he's had a remarkable spring. Are we going to see this? That's

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what's Megan have here. Oh, that that's his indoor vault at South Dakota GPE. That's

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pretty good. And that was that. Hey, this was like one week after state basketball. He's a freak

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athlete. That was one week after the state basketball tournament. He's a freak. I mean,

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that's what we're dealing with. I mean, try pole vault. Okay. Yeah, he's an amazing athlete. He's going, now, I keep saying it, and I'll say it again. I don't mind.Get him ready. He'll be here in June. Give him a crash course in that offense. Get him ready. He'll be a weapon.

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I spoke in Hawaii. He'll be a weapon. And I spoke to a track coach this week, um, ran track for the Huskers ORG as well. We're, you know, big time track coach in the state right now. And he said that Carter Nelson PERSON is one of the best all around track athletes he's ever seen come through this state.

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And that's what's crazy is he, he could go to college and be a decathlete.

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Good God. I mean, the only thing he'd have to tune up is a mile.

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But for most of the catholics,

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that's always the, that's the hardest one.

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Yeah, yeah. Because you, you throw, jump, run.I mean, yeah, that's a lot.

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And look, he's, he's, he's, uh, teams have asked him to do track. Jake Nelson PERSON has told me that he's not,he's interested in going to the NFL ORG. Right. Yeah.

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And I don't want to go overboard with that whole talk. I'm not, I'm not going to project him as, you know, the next Dave Casper PERSON or anything like that. But I think he can come to, I'm just saying, I think he can come to Nebraska ORG as a true freshman and make a significant impact. I'll just leave it at that, significant impact. He's that kind of player. It's not crazy.We, we not only saw him play in an all-star game in Hawaii, more importantly, we saw practice. And he's, he was one of the best players on the field and on that field where a lot of four and five star players. There were times I thought he looked like one of the top five players on that field. So yeah, it's not, it's not trust me when I tell you,

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it's not crazy talk. All right. Some other notable track mark. So the state track meet is next

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week. Yes. In Omaha ORG and class A will, and B will take place. That will all take place on

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Wednesday and Thursday. And you know, a lot of Husker, future Huskers ORG, Husker targets, uh, Rowdy Bauer, um, from Norfolk, a walk on leads the state in Long Jump. Um, that's notable. You'll have, um, how about this? Mo, Maurice Purify has got a kid that as a sophomore long jump 21, 2.

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Maurice Purify goes by Maurice Pierrify the second and he's a 6-4 sophomore, Lincoln North Star ORG.

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Boy, dad was good.

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I mean, you know, I always go when I talk about big receivers, that's the guy that's the guy I go to first. Maurice Purify PERSON. Maybe Quincy and Nunn PERSON were right.

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That's like the first big body, I mean, Wilson Thomas PERSON was one of the, but not even in the same league as Marie's ORG.

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God bless Wilson Thomas PERSON. He had a nice career, but Maurice's. But like Maurice Purify is the standard of the, but not even in the same league as Maurice. God bless Wilson Thomas PERSON. He had a nice career, but

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Maurice Purify PERSON is the standard of the

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Steve Sipple, all big body team. Yeah. Yeah. He, well, I'll say all big body receiver team. All big body. And then I'd say Quincy PERSON. Right. Quincy.

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The A and M touchdown pass to Zach Taylor PERSON to purify.

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It's beautiful to watch. Right. And it's exactly why a part of the reason I like those big receivers because I'm sure the conversation was, hey, Texas A&M's corners 510, just run to the- Like a box them out, like you're going up for a rebound.

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Run to the corner of the end zone and box him out.

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And Zach PERSON will throw it up, throw it up for you. And it'll be a touchdown and that's what it was.

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Don't make it harder than it is. If you have a 6-4 guy like Maurice Purify PERSON, do it. Maybe Maurice Purify the second.

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Is he a good football player?

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Yeah, he had a good sophomore year. Now, is he a D1 level prospect? Yeah, it's hard to say. But that's a long jump number should get to your attention.

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It sure does.

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For a sophomore jumping that far.

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Yeah. Christian Jones, Westside, not running the 100.

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Didn't run the 100 at districts.

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So I don't know if that's an injury deal, but he did qualify in shot put.

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He goes 54, 3 in a quarter as a linebacker.

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Donovan Jones is going to take part in three events at state, ran 1088, 22 and the hundred and the 200 and he's also on

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north highest four by one team on preston ok for future usker walk on ran 1088 kaden vermas

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um in his first year of running track he's qualified for state in three events

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katin wants to come up we got to get katin back in the studio this summer yeah we need to

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he's he want they want to come up here so So we'll get him up here again. Um,

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there's another cotton by the way, Keenan Cotton at Westside man the youngest of the Cotton brothers. He ran 10.9.6. He's faster than that. I think he probably held back a little bit at districts. He could win the hundred. Uh, so a lot of, uh, a lot of names to watch. Ryman Zebert ran 4984 in the 400. Oh boy.

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Man. All right. Good list, Sean PERSON. That's a good list.

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So yeah, you'll, uh,

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Oh, there's Ryman PERSON. Okay. Ryman Zebrot PERSON. Tide ends. Tide ends. There's a lot of tight ends around here, Sean PERSON.Tideons central.

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Tideons all over the place.

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Jet Tinglehof PERSON,

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Elkhorn North GPE. That's Mick. He's related to Mick Tinglehoff. If he's not, it'd be really strange. Like,ons all over the place. Jet Tinglehof, Elkhorn North. That's Mick, he's related to Mick Tinglehoff PERSON.

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If he's not, it'd be really strange. Like,

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he's Elkhorn North's ORG best football player. He could win the 400, though. He's really, he's a 48, 49 type guy at his peak.Well, yeah, I'm excited for stay track. Unfortunately, Carter Nelson PERSON couldn't get in the discis because he was favored to win the all-class goal.I've never seen that happen. Wow.

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Yeah, not just an unfortunate day, but again, he'll be fine.

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All right, before we close the show on headline number five, you're not a member of Husker Online.com. Check us out. We got a great deal right now. Get two months of access to Husker Online for just $1 by simply using the promo code in U1 PRODUCT. That's promo code in U1, two months for $1 at Husker Online for just $1 by simply using the promo code in U1. That's promo code in U1, two months for $1 at huskeronline.com ORG.That's the best deal we're going to give, and that is for our YouTube ORG and our podcast listeners to take advantage of at huskerline.com promo code in you one, two months for $1. Okay, final headline. Nebraska is preparing now, Steve, for a big visit weekend. It's the first of kind of a run here. They have two more weekends coming up in June, but you kind of look at the map here.They've got spring game weekend, which they've had eight official visitors in. They've got this weekend where they're expected three or four to come in for Mother's Day weekend. And then there's two more visit weekends on June 14th and June 21 where 17 more guys come in. So as a show taping, there's 29 official visitors that will come in. And that number will probably get into the 30s. But that's the board.When you try to figure out a team's recruiting board, look no further than who the players are coming in for official visits official visits well the big one this weekend is the four-star offensive lineman from bixby

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oklahoma broderick shoal PERSON that's the big one well well and stay tuned there's i think there's more

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coming but yeah um that's what we know of right now broderick sholl PERSON and then nicholas clayton

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and edge rusher out of florida um our own brian Munson has put his RPM pick in for him to Nebraska ORG.

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And then Caleb Benning will come in for his official and never was able to take it last year because of basketball. Uh, but positive on that is you'll have, you know, a current member of the recruiting class around the other recruits. And then Damon, uh, a former Husker NORP player, color analyst, great ambassador for the program. He'll be around the weekend as well.

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Big. Yeah. That's that's, uh, yeah. I mean, they're going to be working on Mother's Day weekend pretty hard. Not in Scholl GPE gets your attention for sure. Um, but now people are going to be wondering, who's this other person, Sean PERSON's talking about? Stay tuned. Who's this other person?

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But yeah, we talk about like a skill player. I'm not going to. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it gives you an idea about Matt Ruhl PERSON. Um, just, I mean, they're working on mothers.There's no, there's really no other staffs in the country that are going to host visitors this weekend.

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You don't think so? No. Really. Yes. Yeah, Matt PERSON. And then like, let me just think about what's going on here.They play the spring game significant. And it goes really well, by the way. The spring game like, let me just think about what's going on here. They play the spring game significant. And it goes really well, by the way. The spring game went really well when you think about it. Came off well, came off better than his first one. It did generate some excitement. It was well done.And then what's, what's he do the next weekend, Sean PERSON? Goes into Omaha ORG with a camp.

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Now they're working Mother's Day weekend.

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Yeah, yeah. So rule will tell you, in fact, I heard him say this the other day. He, it's not working for Matt PERSON isn't for everybody. It's because of the pace and the expectation. That's what he said. That's right, right from Matt Rule's PERSON mouth.The pace, the pace is high. I mean, it's not, it's not easy. It's not for everybody, frankly. He has high expectation level. In fact, we heard some of this from Dr. Elsa today. The expectation level is high. Everybody's tied to the win-loss record. I mean, your job is, it's tied to that. And it's not like that everywhere. One thing we found out a lot about today, and we talked earlier about meeting, the media meeting with Dr. Susan Elza, the chief of staff, and Sean Padden PERSON, the general manager. We learned a lot, Sean PERSON, about the operation.We did. It's, we have to write about it. I mean, we're not going to write about it all today, but we're going to write about it because I think there's a lot in that talk that people need to know.

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Yeah, and then, um, or just watch the video.

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Recruiting wise, though, you know, one of the reasons why you might bring a higher profile guy in right

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now is because everybody's fighting for those June weekends. Okay. And some of these players are, you know, they of the reasons why you might bring a higher profile guy in right now is because everybody's fighting for those June weekends.

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And some of these players are, you know, they have their pickup, Georgia, Alabama GPE, teams like

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that for the June, the June weekends. Because those are the premium tables in the restaurant, the June recruiting weekends. Yep. And some of these guys, Nebraska probably couldn't get in in June because they've already got Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, you name it, in those weekends.

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So that's why maybe this weekend, you're going to see Nebraska ORG bring in some higher

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profile guy, um, like they, that we know about already, uh, coming in, Scholl GPE, um, just because they can get them in here now. And this is their opportunity. And you might only get one swing at them.

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Well, this will be a big swing.

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And a new facility will be fully opened. Yes,

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and that's helpful. It's helpful. It's not a, I don't think I would call ever, it's not necessarily a deal breaker in these conversations, but it definitely helps.Definitely helps. And we need to, I think we're going to, Dr. Elsa PERSON kind of hinted that I think we're going to get a tour.

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Yeah, we'll get a tour. I need a tour. I just need to drive by it.'re going to, Dr. Elsa PERSON kind of hinted that I think we're going to get a tour. Yeah, we'll get a tour. I need a tour.

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I just need to drive by it. I haven't even drove by it. You can drive by it.

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Yeah, that East LOC horseshoe, you don't even like get around there anymore.

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Oh, you don't.

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Well, I just feel like I never get on that side.

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Oh, you can if you want to.

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No, in general, though, you just never have a reason to drive around. Here's my deal.

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And this is too much information for you. And you probably didn't even know this. They used to have, and I'm talking two years ago, pull-up bars outside the military science, military and science building, whatever it was. And I would go on that horseshoe all the time.

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During COVID EVENT, you did a lot of work out there, right?

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Yeah, well, COVID EVENT and beyond.

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And I would park over on that horseshoe all the time and then wander over to the stadium and just kind of look at, I don't know, just look at it because it was kind of fun.

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They have the, they have the statue out there, the football players. And I'd go over there and check things out, but I haven't been over there recently.

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During COVID EVENT, when you just were looking for things to do.

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I mean, people would go over there. Like my wife and daughters, we would just drive over there. Yeah. And we'd have a picnic on campus. Yeah, I saw people doing that. And it was, it was like a big part. I mean, it was great. Nobody's on campus. Right. And it was weird.

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You were just sitting like, it was almost like a, like a nuclear bomb went off and cleared out everybody. and you were walking around this campus that houses 25,000 people and you were the only people on it.

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Oh, I used to do it all the time. It was eerie. It was really eerie. Well, and what I was fast, I was like, because that was when they were supposed to break ground for the project.

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And they never did. They had a wait. Right. And in my mind, I'm like, God, it would make so much sense to do all this right now when nothing's going on.

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You'd have car boulange access to the campus.

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But I wonder.

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They had to wait politically because of the money, you know, like they had a bunch of construction workers out there during COVID EVENT.

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In that period, yeah, just wouldn't have been.

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Even though construction companies had record profits during COVID EVENT, I mean, things did not slow down.

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Interesting.

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But yeah, that was a fascinating time.

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The facility's now done.

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Everybody's in is my impression. Is that right?

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Just think about that press conference in 2019 when Wondell Robinson and Bill Moose PERSON, Scott Frost PERSON spoke. And here we are in June of 2024, finally there.

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It took longer than they wanted. Dr. Elsa PERSON mentioned that. I mean, she was pretty frank about it. Took longer than they wanted. Dr. Elsa PERSON mentioned that. I mean, she just, she was pretty frank about it.Took longer than they wanted. But here they are. And they're very, they're very appreciative of it. And it would be, I always think of it in terms of what a place to go to work every day.

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Then Moose PERSON did the groundbreaking.

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Not that the post office is bad.

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Hey, we're, we got a new sign out front. I don't know if you've seen it. You got a brand new sign. Appreciate your defense of the post office is bad. Hey, we're, we got a new sign out front. I don't know if you've seen it. You got a brand new sign.

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Appreciate your defense of the post office. Um, it doesn't look handsome. Yes. Okay. Good. All right.

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Well, not quite, not quite like the training facility on campus, but close enough.

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Big weekend for Husker baseball as well, Home games, final home games against Indiana GPE,

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and these are probably the final home games of the year as Nebraska's RPI dropped from the low 20s to about 30 after their loss of South Dakota State ORG. So rough weekend for a rough midweek loss, and that continues to be the bugaboo for Nebraska ORG baseball as they can't figure out the midweek.

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No, and it's interesting. It's been, the season is, the dynamic is interesting to me because it is a good season. They're still, they're still in the thick of Big Ten ORG contention. They can win the Big Ten title, but the whole conversation is so marred by the midweek record, which I believe is four and seven.

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Because you're losing the teams with players that you wouldn't even recruit.

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Right. South Dakota states the last place league team, excuse me, the last place team in the Summit League ORG.

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And they came up here with a guy from Waverly GPE.

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Who hit two three run homers. I think his name is Thatcher Cozell PERSON.

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Double chief. That you probably has Nebraska ORG never even considered recruiting here.

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It's two, three-run, home runs in your stadium. Oh, I almost hate to talk about this. And you know why, because Will PERSON is not a good loser.

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No, I can't even imagine Will Bolt this morning on Thursday morning.

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Agonizing.

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And Childress, I mean, those guys are intense competitors.

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The expectations that are at

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nebraska baseball that are still here today are because of those guys yeah because of childer ORG's

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fan horn will bull guys like that and you're getting you a lot i think you're ahead six to going in the

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eighth i remember i i kind of tuned it off like all right they're going to get it yeah and i was working

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on my three two one and then i'm like god this inning's lasting a long time. They figured out why.

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They gave up like 10 runs in an inning. No, they didn't give up 10. I know, but it was bad.

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But it was bad. Yeah. Yeah. It was bad. It was a tough loss. So yeah, but again,

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huge series against Indiana, chance to win the big 10. So our full coverage of that as well

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on Husker Online ORG and more coverage coming out through these press conferences we had, as well as the visit weekend. So we'll have full coverage of that as well on Husker Online and more coverage

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coming out through these press conferences we had as well as the visit weekend. So make sure you

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tune in or check us out at huskeronline.com for Steve Sipple. I'm Sean Callahan PERSON signing off here

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