>> NO LETDOWN FROM NEBRASKA AS THEY HANDLED THEIR FINAL NONCONFERENCE GAME OF TH SEASON, RUNNING AWAY FROM NORTH DAKOTA 34 TO 7 AS THE FENSE AND DEFENSE BOTH LOOK GOOD.

EYES NOW TURNED SCHEDULE, AND H THESEIG TEN LAST THREE GAMES HAVE SET UP THE HUSKERS.

JOINING US TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THA IS MITCH SHERMAN FROM THE ATHLETIC.

SEAN CALLAHAN WILL HAVE THE LATEST ON BIG RED RECRUITING.

IT'S ALL COMING UP NEXT ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.

[MUSIC] HI EVERYONE.

I'M MICHAEL SEVERE AND WELCOME TO BIG RED WRAP-UP ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, NEBRASKA STARTS OFF THREE ZERO GETTING THE 2026 SEASON GOING RIGHT.

JOINING ME, THE JAY'S FORMER HUSKERS JAY MOORE AND JAY FOREMAN COMING OFF THOSE THREE GAMES.

I KNOW YOU WANT TO PREPARE THE SAME FOR EVERY TEAM, BUT THE EMOTIONSOT TO BE DIFFERENT, RIGHT?

GETTING READY FOR NORTH DAKOTA OPPOSED TO MICHIGAN STATE.

>> RIGHT THERE.

YES, Y. I MEAN I'VE I'VE BEEN THERE IN THOSE NON CONS.

I ALWAY REMEMBER LIKE MY SENIOR YEAR WE HAD NICHOLLS STATE BEFORE WE HAD USC OPTION.

>> YEAH.

NICHOLLS STATE, I FELT LIKE I WENT THROUGH ABOUT TWO GAMES BECAUSE OF JUST HOW WE HAD TO PLAY THE TRIPLE OPTION LIKE THE WISHBONE THEY HAD.

SO BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU'RE YOU'RE LOOKING AHEAD.

AND I THI NEBRASKA IN A WAY IS KIND OF I MEAN, EVEN HOLRSEN SAID IT IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE PRESEASON, RIGHT?

YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT IT'S NO DISRESPECTO THE OPPONENTS, BUT NEBRASKA KIND OF DID SOME THINGS DEFENSIVELY, KEPT IT PRETTY VANILLA.

I THOUGHT THEY TURNED IT UP A AGAINST NOH DAKOTA.

BUT YEAH, YOU YOU KNOW WHEN CONFERENCE PLAY STARTS THAT YOU YOU HAVE IT CIRCLED AND YOU WANT TOE AS READY AS POSSIBLE.

AND I THINK, LET'S BE HONEST, I THINK NEBRASKA FOR THE MOST PA IS, IS GOOD TO GO FOR BIG TEN PLAY.

>> I GUESS THE BIGGEST QUESTION JAY IS KING OF NEBRASKA GET PRESSURE WITH JUST THE FOUR.

OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE AGAINST NORTH DAKOTA WHERE THEY HAD THOSE BLITZES?

>> WELL, I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO START OUT AND SEE IF YOU GUYS CAN GET THERE.

I THINK THEY'VE RUSHED THE PASSER PRETTY GOOD UP THE MIDDLE.

SEE WHAT WHITTINGTON AND IZZY VAN POPPEL HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB GETTING TO E QUARTERBACK.

BUT I THINK OVERALL THE DENSIVE LINE THEY'VE HIT THE QUARTERBACK.

NOW WE NEED TO GET HOME FROM THE OUTSIDE.

AND I CALL THAT THE CONVENTIONAL PASS RUSH.

IF YOU CAN RUSH FOUR AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE AND THEY G A PRETTY GOOD OFFENSIVE LINE, YOU'LL BE COOKING WITH SOME PEANUT OIL.

>> NO DOUBT.

I DO LIKE PEANUT OIL, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE FRYING A TURKEY.

WE GOT LOTS TO GET TO TONIGHT.

WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU.

YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS E A HUGE PART OF THE SHOW.

YOU HAVE A LOT OF WA TO CONNECT WITH US.

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WE'LL TRY TO G TO AS MANY OFHE CALLS AND QUESTIONS AS WE CAN TONIGHT.

SIDELINE SURVEY TIME.

LAST WEEK WE ASKED YOU HOW IMPRESSED YOU ARE WITH THE OFFENSE IN THE GAME THROUGH THE FIRST TWO GAMES.

VERY IMPRESSED.

WAS 35% IMPRESSED.

BUT THEY'VE ONLY PLAYEDWO MAC TEAMS AND AN FCS TEAM 62% 1% FOR MATT AND 2% REALLY NEGATIVE PEOPLE SAYING UNIMPRESSED COMPLETELY.

HERE'S THIS WEEK'S NEW SURVEY QUESTION.

OVER THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, WHAT WILL BE THE HUSKERS RECORD?

FOUR AND OH THREE AND ONE, TWO AND TWO, ONE AND 3 OR 0 AND FOUR.

HEAD TO OUR WEBSITE NOW TO VOTE AND HEAD BACK EACH WEEK FOR THE BRAND NEW SURVEY.

58% ARE CALLING IT TWO AND TWO.

SO I'M ASSUMING THEY'RE THINKING BEAT MICHIGAN STATE, BEAT MARAND, LOSE THE INDIANA AND OREGON.

>> THAT SEEMS THE MOST.

THAT TO BE THE MOST LOGICAL.

WHEN YO LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE KIND OF SET UP, YOU KNOW, PRESEON THAT'S.

YOU WANT.

HOPEFLY NEBRASKA COULD GET THE FIVE ZERO BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, INDIANA AND OREGON, ESPECIALLY GOING OUT TO EUGENE, I DON'T CARE.

EVEN THE LOSS OF ILLINOIS, IT'S GOING BE A TEST CAN BE A BRUTAL GAME TO PLAY.

SO I THINK THE TWO AND TWO IS IS PROBABLY THE MOST LOGICAL SWER RIGHT NOW.

>> IS THERE A FEELING FOR YOU BECAUSE OF OREGON NOT PLAYING AS WELL?

LOSING OKLAMA STATE, ILLINOIS GETTING THEIR LOSS, WASHINGTON PLAYING PRETTY POORLY.

THAT DO YOU FEEL DIFFENT AT ALL ABOUT THE SCHEDULE?

>> WELL I THINK IT'S TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF OPPORTUNITY AND THERE'S OPPORTUNITY EVEN BEFORE THE SEASON SRTED.

BUT I THINK IT CAN GIVE YOU LITTLE BIT MORE LIFE.UT BEFORE YOU START THINKING ABOUT NINE, TEN WINS, YOU GOT T GET TO FIVE.

AND I THINK IT'S THE RACE TO FIVE AND THAT'S GOING TO SHOW PROGRAM MATURITY.

SO THERE'S A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITY.

BUT ALSO YOU GOT TO EXPECT THOSE TEAMS AND THOSE COACHES, THOSE PLAYERS TO PLAY A LOT TTER WHEN THEY PLAY NEBRASKA.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

NEBRASKA'S THIRD IN THE BIG TEN IN YARDS RUSHING PER GAME.

THEY'RE THIRD IN YARDS P CARRY, AND THEY'RE THIRD TIED FOR THIRD FOR RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS WITH IOWA.

WT HAVE YOU SEEN THROUGH THESE FIRST THREE WEEKS WITH THE RUN GAME?

>> IT'S JUST BEEN CONSISTENT AND IT'S ALL THREE BACKS HAVE RAN WELL.

OBVIOUSLY MEKHI AND AND JAMAR RHULE HAVE GOTTEN THOSE THOSE BIG RUNS.

AND WE'VE SEEN THAT THOSE EXPLOSIVE RUNS, BUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOING IT.

NEBRASKA LOVES THE SPLIT ZONE LOOK BRYNN LINDENMEYER IN MOTION AND CRACKING.

NOW THEY HAD A LITTLE PIN AND POLE ON THAT UCHDOWN RUN BY ON THE TOSS.

BUT BUT JAMAL RULE ON THEND ZONE THAT NORTH END ZONE IN THE FIRST HALF.O A LOT OF DIFFERENT I MEAN THEY R A DUO.

YOU'VE SEEN SO POWER.

SO IT'S JUST A MULTIPLE OF THINGS.

BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED TO SEE FOR THESE FIRST THR GAMES RUN RUNNING THE FOOTBALL.

BECAUSE ONCE YOU GET INTO BIG TEN PLAY YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH IT.

AND I DON'T CARE HOW LONG, HOW LONG THIS GAME CONTINUES TO GO.

ON THE TEAM THAT CAN RUN THE FOOTBALL THE BEST HAS ALYS HAS THE BEST CHANCE OF WINNING THOSE GAMES.

>> AND STOPPING THE RUNS PRETTY GOOD TOO.

WHEN YOU HAVE A GUY LIKE LINDENMER, YOU CAN RUN A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS BECAUSE HE MAKES IT EASY.

>> FOR YOU.

YEAH, HE CAN BLOCK ON THE MOVE, HE CAN BLOCK AT THE, YOU KNOW, THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

AND I THINK HE MAKES A GO.

BUT THEN ALSO, LET'S NOT, YOU KNOW, MINIMIZE WHAT THEY' DONE ON THE EDGESOO WITH THE IMPORTANCE THAT THEY'VE PUT ON IT WITH THE RECEIVERS OCNG AND BLOCKING DOWN FIELD.

AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THEIR RUNNING GAME, IT KIND OF REMINDS ME OF T SAN FRANCISCO 49 ERS IN THE NFL.

EY RUN A LOT OF SPLIT ZONEBUT THEY THEY YOU KNOW MIX IT UP AND DICE IT UP, YOU KNOW TO MAKE IT LOOK DIFFERENT.

AND THE PUT A TON OF RESS ON THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATORS AND PLERS.

>> AND KITTLE MAKES A BIG DE FOR THEM.

AND HE SETS HIMSELF AND HE MAKES ALL KIND OF PLAYS.

WHAT ABOUT GEEP WADE ANWHAT HE'S KIND OF DONE FOR THIS OFFENSIVE LINE, BASED ON WHAT YOU WERE WATCHING LAST YEAR AND SEEING THIS YEAR?

>> WELL, YOU JUST YOU SEE THEM EVEN FOR FIVE GUYS, I'VE THIS IS OUR YOU KNOW, FOR THESE THREE GAMES, THE FIRST TIME THESE THESE FIVE GUYS HAVE PLAYED TOGETHER.

IT REALLY HELPS WHEN YOU HAVE A PHENOMENAL CENTER WITH JUSTIN EVANS IN THERE.

AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME NEW FACES WITH WITH BLACK AND BABALADE ANDND MUBENGA.

SO I MEAN, PRITCHETT AND GUTHRIE GUNNAR HAVE BEEN HAVE BEEN THERE, BUT I LOVE HIS THE TING OF IT ALL.

IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THEY'RE NOT BLOWING GUYS DOWN THE FIELD.

IT'S JUST THEY WORK IN UNISON VERY, VERY WELL.

TY'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.

AND THAT'S SO HUGE.

THE COMMUNICATION SEEMS TO BE THERE.

I MEAN, THROUGH THREE GAMES HAS ONLY BEEN A COUPLE TIMES WHERE ONE GUY HAS HAS MESSED UP, BUT OTH THAN THAT, JUST THEY WORK REALLY WELL IN TANDEM TOGETHER AND THEY PLAY OFF OF EACH OTHER VERY, VERY WELL, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY REALLY ENCOURAGING TO SEE THROUGH THE FIRST THREE GAMES.

>> I ALWAYS HEAR FROM FORMER PLAYERS WANT HONESTY FROM THE COACHES, FROM EVERYBODY, HOLGORSEN SAID.

IF BABALADE PRACTICED BETTER, HE'D PLAY MORE.

DO YOU LIKE THAWHEN A HEAD COACH COME IN, I MEAN, WHEN AN OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR CALLS OUT A PLAYER.

>> LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU AS A PLAYER, A LOT OF TIMES JAY YOU KNOW THIS A LOT OF TIMES YOU'RE ALWAYS WONDERING IN THE LOCKE ROOM, WHAT CAN I DO?

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

WHY AM I NOT PLAYING MUCH?

IF HE SAYS IT OUT THERE, THEN I'M GOING TO GO.

I'M GOING TO PRACTICE BETTER AND I'M GOING TO BE IN HIS OFFICE THAT VERY NEXT DAY OR THAT MONDAY.

YEAH, I WANT MY REPS, BUT I LIKE IT.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SHOT OVER THE BOW TO GET SOMEBODY'S ATTENTION.

THEY KNOW THE POTTIAL THAT HE HAS.

THEY BROUGHTIM IN, AND OBVIOUSLY THEY NT HIM TO BE A PART OF THE ROTATION ON A REGULAR BASIS.

PEOPLE SAYING THAT GUYS OF DON'T WANT TO PRACTICE.

YOU EVEN HR KE MATT RULE HAS MENTIONED IT BEFORE.

I FIND THAT TO BE CRAZY, BUT I GUESS MAYBE WITH THE MONEY PUT IN THERE AND OTHER THINGS, MAYBE THAT'S PART OF IT.

>> LISTEN, I DON'T KNOW.

I MEAN, AT ALL LEVELS YOU HAVE TO I DON'T KNOW WHERE PEOP GET IT, WHERE THEY CAN JUST ROLL THEIR HELMET OUT THERE ON SATDAY AND THEY CAN PERFO.

YEAH.

I MEAN, FOR ME TO GET TO WHEN I GOT TO NEBRASKA FOR MY GAME TO GO TO THE NEXT LEVEL, I HAD TO LEARN TO PRACTICE THE RIGHT WAY.

AND THAT'S APPROACHING EVERY SINGLE REP LIKE A GAME REP.

AND THEN WHEN I GOT TO THE NFL, I HAD MY ROOKIE YE.

BRYANT YOUNGAS A DEFENSIVE LINEMAN, RIGHT.

AND HE DIDT PRACTICE ALL THE TIME BECAUSE HE WAS AN OLDER GUY.

BUT WHEN HE WAS IN THERE, IT WAS IT WAS A GAME REP.

SO LIKE, IF HE'S DOING THAT IN HIS 12TH YEAR OF THE NFL IN A HALL OF FAME.

WHY SHOULD WHY SHOULD IT BE ANY DIFFERENT, YOU ASK?

I MEAN, JAY KNOWS THIS TOO.

IN NFL, ALL THE MAJOR VETERANS IN NFL, THEY LIKE IT'S AAME.

NOW.E REP THEY'RE NOT HITTING.

THEY'RE HITTING THE QUARTERBACK AND TAKING PEOPLE DOWN.

BUT WHEN YOU'RE GOING, Y'RE A DEFENSIVE LINEMAN AND YOU'RE GOING AGAINST THE O LINE.

IT'S THE EXACT SAME SPEED AND PHYSICALITY AS A GAME REP.

AND THAT'S HOW YOU HAVE TO DO IT.

YOU HAVE TO PREPARE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY TO GET YOURSELF READY FOR SATURDAY.

YOU CAN'T JUST THINK, OH YEAH, I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A COUPLEEARS NOW.

I GOT IT, MAN.

YOU BETTER BE.

YOU BETTER BE ON YOUR P'S AND Q'S.

I'S ARE DOTTED.

T'S E CROSSED.

EVERY SINGL REP IN PRACTICE.

BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, IT DON'T TAKE MUCH TO MESS UP ON THE GAME'S.

>> NOT JUST PRACTICE TAPE WATCHING TOO, RIGHT?

OH, THAT'S A HUGE PART.

>> OF IT.

YEAH.

THAT'S A IT TOOK ME TO THE NEXT LEVEL, NOT ONLY LEARNING HOW TO WATCH, TAPE STY AND LOOK FOR TENDENCIE I THINK A LOT OF TIMES THESE YOUNG PLAYERS JUST WAH IT LIKE THEY'RE WATCHING A MOVIE.

LIKE IT'S NETFLIX.

YEAH.

LOOK, I ALWAYS SAY ABOUT PRACTI IS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BLESSED TO HAVE 88,000 PEOPLE HERE, YOU KNOW, AT OUR STADIUM.

YOU'RE JUST SHOWING EVERYBODY HOW YOU PRACTICE RIGHT NOW.

OBVIOUSLY, IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK OUT IN YOUR FAVOR.

BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU PRACTICEARD, YOU PLAY HARD AND YOU PREPARE, YOU'RE DEFINITELY ALWAYS GENERALLY PLAY GOOD GAME.

AND SO THAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT THESE YOUNG PLAYERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT PRACTICE IS.

YOU GOT TO DOMINATE IN PRACTICE BEFORE YOU EVEN THINKIN ABOUT DOMINATING THE BIG TEN.

AND THEN IF YOU DOMINATE IN THE BIG TEN OR CONSISTENT, THEN YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO THINK ABOUT GOING TO THE NFL.

>> I LOVE HEARING THE LINE RAMS.

THEY HAD TO PULL AARON DONALD OUT OF PRACTICE BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GET ANYTHING DONE ON OFFENSE.

RIGHT.

THAT' HOW HARD HE WAS PLAYING IN PRACTICE.

>> AND YOU HAVE TO YOU HAVE TO I DON'T YEAH IT'S I TELL ABOUT ACTICING, I'M LIKE, LISTEN GUYS, YOU GOT TO DO IT HERE BEFORE YOU CAN THINK YOU CAN DO IT IN THE GAME.

AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP DOING IT AND DOING IT UNTIL UNTIL IT'S RIGHT.

>> AND DOING IT AND DOING IT RIGHT.

BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH THE DISCUSSION, IT'S A GREAT TIME TO MENTION THAT NEBRASKA VOLLEYBALL IS BACK ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

THE NUMBER ONE RANKED HUSKERS WELCOME RUTGERS INTO THE BOB DEVANEY SPORTS CENTER FOR A BIG TEN MATCHUP.

CHECK OUT THE MATCHUP THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 25TH A 7 P.M.

RIGHT HERE ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

NOW IT'S TIME TO LOOK DEEPER INTO THE PLAYBOOK WITH SOME OF JAY'S PLAYS.

>> WELCOME TO JAY'S PLAYS TONIGHT.

I'VE GOT TWO PLAYS.

THE FIRST ONE TO LOOK AT IS TWO CONVERSION THAT THEY HAD IN THE FIRST HALF.

NEBRASKA'S GOING TO DO AN HAS AN INTERESTING LOOK HERE TO PUT THIS LINEBACKER KIND OF IN CONFLIC BARNEY IS OVER HERE KIND OF ON THAT SLOT SIDE HERE.

THEY'RE GNGO GET HARD DOWN BLOCKS HERE.

INGWERSON AND LINDENMEYER GOING TO KICK OUT ALL RIGHT.

SO THIS THIS LINEBACKER LINEBACKER IS JUST BEING KIND OF CAUGHT.

IT CREATES A NICE GAP FOR HIM FOR BAEY TO CREASE HERE TO PICK THIS UP.

SO YOU CAN SEE GO AHEAD AND RUN THIS DOWN DOWN BOOM.

THE TIMG WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD ON THE HANDOFF.

THERE WAS ANY BOBBLING OR IT WASN'T A CLEAN HANDOFF THAT NORTH DAKOTA LINEBACKER MAKE THAT PLAY.

BUT THE TIMING AND THAT SPLIT ACTION LOOK BY THE OFFSIVE LINE AND TIGHT ENDS WAS ABLE TO CREATE THAT G. SO NEXT PLAY I WANT TO LOOK AT IS THE RILEY VAN POPPEL RILEY VAN POPPEL SOCACK HERE.

HE'S RIGHT HERE.

HE'S IN A THREE TECHNIQUE THAT'S JUST AN OSIDE SHADE OTHE GUARD.

HE'S GOING TO DO A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH HIS TECHNIQUE.

PLAYING WITH NICE HEAVY INSIDE HANDS.

PLAYS THE PLAY ACTION NICELY, THEN CONVERTS FROM TEXTBOOK PLAY BY RILEY VAN POPPEL.

HERE WE CAN GO AHEAD AND RUN IT.

SO YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW BOOM.

GOOD.

INSIDE HANDS RECOGNIZE THIS PS RIPS OFF OF THERE.

THEY MISS A BLATANT HOLD UP THE ON FOSTER.

BUT REALLY GOOD TECHNIQUE.

THE NEBRASKA HAVE TO CONTINUEO BUILD ON.

NOW THEY'RE HEADING INTO BIG TEN PLAY.

>> IT'S A LOT EASIER WHEN THEY GIVE YOU THAT END ZONE VIEW TO TO SHOW IT.

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THAT PLAY THOUGH?

THE FST ONE UNDER CENTER, THEY WERE UNDER CENTER A FEW TIMES.

IT SHORTENS THE SIMPLE DISTANCE OF YOU BEING IN SHOTGUN AND GIVING IT TO WHERE YOU'RE ALREADY TIGHT TO THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

>> IT MAKES IT EASY, DOES IT?

IT LESSENS THE CHANCE OF THE LINEBACKER TO MAKE THAT PLAY IN.

AND ALSO WHAT JAY SAID, THE TIMING OF THAT IS IMPECCABLE.

IF THE TIMING IS OFF, THAT LINEBACKER HAS A CNCE TO RECOVER AND HE MIGHT NOT GET THE FIRST DOWN.

>> YEAH, LET'S TALK DEFENSE.

NEBRASKA ONE OF 13.

NORTH DAKOTA WAS ON THIRD DOWN.

THEYAVE U 205 YARDS.

THEY PROBABLY DON'T SCORE WITHOUT THAT UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT PENALTY.

YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE WAY NEBRASKA PLAYED DEFENSE.

>> YEAH IT CAUGHT ME BY NOT BY SURPRISE.

I THOUGHT THEY WOULD STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT JUST BECAUSE OF NORTH DAKOTA'S OFFENSE HAD BEEN SO HAS BEEN WAS POWERFUL FOR THE FIRST THREE GAMES.

AND KAMINSKY WAS IS A REALLY GOOD QUARTERBACK.

I LOVE THE GAME PLAN.

THE LINEBACKERS HAD A GREAT GAME.

THEY GOT OFF TO THE PASSER, THW SOME DIFFERENT WRINKLES IN THERE.

SOME PRESSURE RUSHES BY THE LINEBACKER TO COME IN THERE TO BRING THOSE SACKS IN THERE.

SO I THOUGHT JUST THE OVERALL THE EXECUTION WAS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

I MEAN THEHE ONE PLAY ON VICTOR EVANS THERE WAS THAT THAT WAS WE SAW A LOT OF THAT IN THE WORLD CUP, THE FLOPPING GOING ON.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS IT WAS WHAT YOU WANTED TO SEE.

BECAUSE IF THERE WAS ANY MAYBE UNCERTAINTY WITH THIS TEAM OFFENVELY, DEFENSIVELY, IT WAS PROBABLY MORE ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE.

BUT AFTER THIS PERFORMANCE IT MAKES YOU FEEL A LOT BETTER.

>> YOU HAD A CAT BLITZ FROM ODEM YELK TWO A-GAP BLITZ FROM YOUR LINEBACKERS.OU HAD ANOTHER DELAYED BLITZ ON JOHNNY JONES, RIGHT?

ARE THEY KIND OF SHOWING YOU WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE AS THE SEASON GOES ALONG?

YOU THINK?

>> WELL I THINK YOU KNOW DEFENSIVE PLAYOK AND HISHIS BAG THAT HE CAN YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY EXPOSE AGAINST OFFENSES.

SO IT'JUST A LITTLE BIT, THINK WHEN THE DELAYED BLITZES FROM LINECKERS BASED ON THE DEFENSIVE END, GETTING THE COVER, TAKING THEIR COVERAGE AND IT'S ST ADDING TO THE BLITZ.

BUT THEY HAVE ATHLETIC LINEBACKERS THIS YEAR THAT CAN MAKE PLAYS AT THE QUARTERBACK.

YEAH, AND I THINK DONNIE JONES HE GIS YOA LOT OF FLEXIBILITY.

YOU KNOW YOUON'T REALLY HAVE TO TAKE HIM O YOU KNOW ON OBVIOUS RUNDOWN RIGHT.

AND HE GIVES YOU, YOU KNOW FLEXIBILITY AGAINST THE PASS.

SO YOU KNOW I THINK HE CAN BRING HIM.

I KNOW THAT WHEN I WATCHED SAN DIEGO STATE LAST YEAR, I SAW MCDOUGLE.

IT SEEMS LIKE HE CAME FROM THE LOCKER ROOM AND BLITZED.

SO I T HE HAS PLENTY OF IN HIS REPERTOE TO BRING ON OFFENSE.

>> AND STAY WITH YOU FOR A SECOND BECAUSE OF DAWSON OBVIOUSLY LINEBACKER POSITION.

I REMEMBER TALKING TO Y WHEN HE WAS A FRESHMAN.

YOU SAID HE'S GOING TO BE GOOD.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE BACKUP LINEBACKER NUMBER 40?

>> WELL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, JUST NATURAL ATHLETIC ABILITY.

I COMPARE HIM TO JAMAL RULE.

HE JUST KNOWS HOW TO PLAY.

HE KNOWS HOW TO DIAGNOSE PLAYS.

HE PLAYS WITH GOOD BEND.

I THINK HE HAS THE BEST CLOSING SPEED OUT ALL OF THEM.

AND HE HAS POSITION FLEXIBILITY.

I THINK HE CAN PLAY ALL THREE.

I THINK HE CAN PLAY OUT THERE IN SPACING THE NICKEL.

HE COULD PROBABLY PLAY MIKE IN A PINCH.

I KNOW HE CAN PLAY MIKE AND NICKEL.

HE CAN PROBABLY PYILL.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY HE'S BEEN AROUND THE GAME FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE, SO HE'S SEEN A LOT OF THINGS AND HE KNOWS HOW TO PREPARE.

AND SO THEN ALSO, I THINK IN HIS SITUATION, HE CAN LEARN FROM THE OLDER GUYS, BUT THEN ALSO PLAY AND GE HIM A RELIEF AND MAKE PLAYS.

>> JAY IF THERE'ONE ING THAT PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE WORRIED ABOUT IS SPECIAL TEAMS, RIGHT?

SO YOU GOT THE PENALTIES, TWO MISSED, MISSED FIELD GOALS.

YOU ALSO HAD A TIMEOUT BECAUSE ONE OF THE PLAYERS DIDN'T GET ON THE FLD FOR A FIELD GOAL.

THOUGHTS ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING FROM SPECIAL TEAMS.

>> YEAH IT'S BEEN A LITTLE SLOPPY.

I'M CONCERD AS WELL.

I'M NOT VERY ENTHUSED WITH ARCHIS PUNTING.

YOU KNOW.

THAT IS WHAT THAT'S NOT I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM REALLY LET ONE GO.

NOTHING.

HAS ANYTHING A PUNT BEEN OVER0 YARDS EVEN 40.

>> HE HAD A 49 YARDER.

OKAY.

>> SOIKE THAT'S AGAIN JUST YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HIM KIND OF LET ONE LOOSE AND KIND OF FLIP THE FIELD.

NOW AGAIN OFFENSE HAS BEEN PRETTY GOOD.

SO NOT A TON OF SPECIAL TEAMS OPPORTUNITIES.

BUT THE TWO MISSED FIELD GOALS NOT A HUGE CONCERN.

THOSE ARE ALL 50 PLUS YARDERS.

BUT JUST THE PENALTIES.

IT JUST HASN'T BEEN AS CLEAN AND CRISP.

WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY GOOD RETURNS.

THE ONES THAT WE HAVE HAD, THERE'S BEEN HOLDINGS, EVEN THOUGH THE ARGUABLY PROBABLY EASILY COULD HAVE NOT HAVE BEEN HOLDING.

SO THAT'S PROBABLY THE BIGGEST QUESTION MARK AND THE MOST CONCERN I HAVE HEADING INTO HEAD INTOIG TEN PLAY BECAUSE SPECIAL TEAMS.

NOW ONCE YOU HEAD INTO THE CONFERENCE PLAY, IT MATTERS SO MUCH MORE.

THE HIDDEN YARDAGE, THE FLIPPING, THE FIELD, JUST THE THE CLEANLINESS YOU NEED TO PLAY, PLAY WITH ON THAT SIDE OF THE FOOTBALL BECAUSE FITZGERALD IS GOING TO TEST THEM ON ON SATURDAY AND SPECI TEAMS.

AND IF YOU'RE NOT IF YOU'REAN GUY RIGHT ON THEIELD LATE YOU YOU'RE JUST SLOPPY ANY, ANY, ANY ASPECT OF IT.

THEY'RE GOING TO EXPOSE YOU REAL QUICK.

>>RE YOU WORRIED AT ALL JAY ABOUT THOSE THREE GAMES PREPARINGEBRASKA FOR WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SEE IN EAST LANSING?

>> NOT TO.

WELL I MEAN, OF COURSE, I MEAN, YOU ALWAYS I WOULDN'T SAYORRY, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT,OU KNOW, THEIR THEIR KNIFE ISHARP AND YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE IT COMES DOWN TO PRACTICE.

I MEAN, EVEN YOU WERE ABLE TO OBLITERATE THESE TEAMS YOU WERE PLAYING IN THE FIRST THREE WEEKS.

YOU SHOULD PRACTICE AT A LEVEL THAT YOU SHOULD BE READY TO GO.

YOU GOT TO GO.

GOOD ON GOOD.

I KNOW THEY DO THAT.

COACH RULE SAID IT.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THI IT'LL BE TOO MUCH OF A CONCERN.

I'M A LOT LIKE JAY.

I WANT TO SEE A LITTLE BIT CLEANER AND SPECIAL TEAMS.

I THINK THE ONE THING IN THE BIG TEN, YOU HAVE TO PACK, YOU GOT TO PACK YR DEFENSE, YOU GOT TO PACK YOUR SPECIAL TEAMS.

AND BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S AN AANTAGE NEBRASKA CAN HAVE ATHLETICALLY OVER A TEAM LIKE MICHIGAN STATE BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, EMPTY THE TANK AGAINST US AND THEIR FIRST BIG HOME GAME.

>> YEAH.

I REALLY HOPE THAT KIDS TUNINTO THIS AND PRACTICE, YOU'VE GOT TO TO PRTICE, YOU'VE GOT TO PRACTI, YOU GOT TO PRACTICE.

>> YOU GOT TO LOVE IT THOUGH.

YEAHYOU KNOW, PRACTICING IS PART OF THE GAME.

AND IF Y WANT TO BE GOOD OR GREAT, YOU GOT TO PRACTICE.

I DON'T KNOW ANY GOOD PLAYER ORREAT PLAYER THAT'S EVER BEEN HERE OR EVER PLAYED THAT DIDN'T PRACTICE WELL.

I MEAN, JERRY RICE WAS FAMOUS FOR IT.

EVERYBODY ELSE LEBRON AND EVERYBODY MICHAEL RDAN, EVERYBODY PRACTICE.

>> GOT TO PRACTICE TO PRACTICE.

LET'S GO TO THE TAPE AND CHECK OUT THE HIGHLITS FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA GAME.

WE START OFF WITH THOSE GUYS WHO GET TO THE GAME 3.5 HOURS EARLY.

SO THEY GET THE FRONT SEATS IN THEIR BIBS.

FIRST QUARTER COLANDREA COMES OUT RIGHT AWAY, GETTING TO HIS FAVORITE TARGET, KWAZI GILMER WITH A TEN YARD COMPLETION.

RIGHT THERE ACROSS THE MIDDLE.

YOU SEE A LOT OF GILMER AND BARNEY IN THESE HIGHLIGHTS, OF COURSE.

AND THEN ALSO MEKHI NELSON, WHO GOT THE START THIS WEEK, OVERRULE AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF IT EARLY WITH A 24 YARD RUN TO GET STARTED.

THEY ARE THEIR DIFFERENT BACKS, BUT THEY BOTH ACCOMPLISHED KIND OF THE SAME THING.

>> YEAH.

MEKHI IS A VIOLENT RUNNER AND THAT WAS JUST A GREAT PICK.

PRITCHETT PULLING UP THERE TO CLEAN UP THAT QUARTERBACK.

THAT WAS A THING OF BEAUTY.

>> YEAH, THERE'S THERE'S NO WAY IN THE WORLD THAT JAY FOREMAN LET THIS GUY GET AROUND THE CORNER.

I'M JUST SAYING NO, NO, YOU'RE RUNNING.

>> HIM DOWN.

NO, I'M RUNNING HIM DOWN AND I'M NOT GETTING I'M HEAR IT FROM CHUCK FOREMAN FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS.

>> I'M CLIPPING AN ANKLE SOMETHING GETTING AN ARM OUT THERE.

>> I'M LEANING BACK.

>> I'M HOPING TO WIN THE SWIFTS THERE.

THERE.

I CAN AT LEAST KNOCK HIM DOWN.

I'M NOT GOING TO GET OUT.

RUN BY.

>> THE SACK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE THAT YOU WENT OVER IN JAY'S PLAYS FROM VAN POPPEL.

I LOVE HOW YOU WENT FROM PLAYING THE RUN PLAY ACTION AND GOT THERE TO MAKE THE PLAY.

AND THEN HERE'S ANOTHER PLAY ACROSS DONNIE JONES ALMOST GOT A PICK HERE MAKING A PLAY.

>> YOU KNOW JOHNNY ON THE SPOT.

I THINK DONNIE JONES IS REALLY STARTING TO STEP UP AT THAT NICKEL SPOT.

AND HE'S SHOWING THE FLEXIBILITY THAT MADE HIM APPEALING TO PUT HIM IN THERE ALL THE TIME.

>> IT'S SO FUN TO WATCH RULE RUN BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS GOT GREAT.

HERE'S THE PLAY OTHER PLAYER YOU WENT ACROSS FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT RULES BALANCE HIS CONTACT, BALANCE BOTH.

AND JUST WHEN HE'S TURNED THE CORNER, HE REALLY DOESN'T EVER LOSE HIS STRIDE, WHICH IS, I THINK, RARE FOR A YOUNG RUNNING BACK.

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK HE HAS THE BEST NATURAL RUNNING SKILLS OF A RUNNING BACK THAT CAME THROUGH NEBRASKA IN A VERY LONG TIME.

HE'S BIG AND HE RUNS WITH GOOD VISION, AND HE ALSO RUNS BEHIND HIS PADS FOR A YOUNG GUY.

>> SO HERE'S THE HERE'S THE SECOND TOUCHDOWN OF THE GAME.

WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER.

WATCH LINDENMEYER HIS BLOCK ON HERE.

HE SEALS.

HIS GUY GUNNER REALLY HAS TO JUST NOT DO MUCH.

AND THEN THEN BONNER IS THE FULLBACK.

HE'S GOT NOTHING TO DO.

>> YEAH IT'S ALL PIN AND PULL RIGHT THERE.

>> YEAH.

MAKE THAT LOOK GOOD.

COLANDREA AGAIN THIS TIME LOOKING TO OH THAT'S WHERE HE RUNS GETS THE EIGHT YARD RUN AND GET AND RUNS INTO CONTACT.

I KNOW PEOPLE GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

THAT'S A LITTLE GUY.

YEAH LET'S LET'S SLIDE.

LET'S GET DOWN.

>> I THINK A LITTLE INDECISION THERE.

GOT HIM.

>> YEAH I THINK SO TOO.

HE WAS TRYING TO DECIDE HE WAS GOING TO DO THE SLIDE OR NOT.

51 YARDER HERE 54 YARD ATTEMPT HERE SHORT.

THAT'S THE SECOND ONE THEY'VE MISSED.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THEM TRY.

JOHN HOHL.

JOHN.

HOHL MADE A 54 YARDER AGAINST OHIO STATE.

HERE'S THAT MIDDLE BLITZ I WAS TALKING ABOUT OR MIDDLE RUSH FROM OWEN CHAMBLISS.

THIS WAS A SPLIT SACK GETTING THAT SACK AND GETTING E STOP.

>> YEAH, A REALL GOOD B THERE BY CHAMBLISS AND STOUDMIRE OF PLAYING TOGETHER.

BUT CHAMBLISS SAW HIS RUNNING BACK BLOCK AND HE WENT AND GOT AN EASY SACK.

>> THIS MAN I LOVE THE SCREENPLAY AND I JUST LOVE IF YOU GO BACK, I'M NOT SURE IF WE REPLAY ON THIS ONE, BUT EVERYBODY DID THEIR JOB ON THIS SCREENPLAY, AND IT REALLY WAS ONLY ONE GUY AWAY FROM GOING THE DISTANCE FROM THAT FAR OUT.

AND HERE'S LINDENMEYER FINALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH THE BALL AND GOES 33 YARDS, RUMBLING, STUMBLING, AND THEN A MADE FIELD GOAL THAT JUST BARELY SQUEAKS BY THERE.

1710 AS NEBRASKA HEADS TO HALFTIME, WE GO TO THIRD QUARTER ACTION.

NOW FIRST PLAY OUT OF IT.

TALK ABOUT THIS RHULE RUN.

>> I MEAN WELL THERE'S I MEAN TALK ABOUT GILMER GILMER BLOCK.

I MEAN THIS IF YOU DON'T GET GILMORE'S BLOCK THIS THING DOESN'T DOESN'T SCORE.

BUT WAY TO COME OUT OF THE HALF.

BUT THE WIDE RECEIVER BLOCKING THIS YEAR HAS BEEN >> THIS IS A GREAT ANGLE OF THE STOCK WHERE GILMORE HAD TO COME FROM TO GET IN THERE AND GET IN FRONT OF HIM.

AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS AN ISO ON HIM.

KIND OF TALK ABOUT JAY FOREMAN, ABOUT WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO TO MAKE SURE HE'S NOT GOING TO GET A PENALTY CALLED ON HIM.

>> WELL, HE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB RIGHT HERE OF REALLY CUTTING HIM OFF.

RIGHT.

AND THEN JUST KIND OF PUTTING HIS BODY THERE AND KEEP WORKING AND KEEP WORKING.

AND DIDN'T OVEREXTEND HIS ARM.

SO THEY COULDN'T CALL A HOLDING CALL.

AND, YOU KNOW, EVER SINCE DANA HOLGORSEN HAS GOTTEN HERE, THE PERIMETER BLOCKING HAS BEEN AN EMPHASIS AND BEEN A LOT BETTER.

>> WELL, HE CALLED HIM OUT WHEN HE FIRST GOT HERE.

24.

NOTHING.

NOW KAMINSKY THIS IS THE DRIVE WHERE THEY FINALLY GET A SCORE.

THIS IS A NICE PLAY.

NICE THROW TO THE CORNER.

GETTING THE FIRST DOWN IS ONE OF ONLY YOU KNOW REALLY 5 OR 6 PLAYS THAT WERE TEN OR MORE YARDS.

BUT THIS IS THE PLAY THAT TURNS IT.

IT'S THIRD AND 17.

KAMINSKY GETS OUTSIDE STARTS TO RUN AS HE TURNS THE CORNER.

IT'S KIND OF A BUMP OUT OF BOUNDS.

I WOULDN'T CALL IT EXACTLY VIOLENT BUT THEY CALL IT IT GIVES A FIRST DOWN TO NORTH DAKOTA ALLOWS THEM TO CONTINUE THE DRIVE BECAUSE THEY HAD TO PUNT THERE.

IT CONTINUES TO DRIVE AND THEY MAKE THE PLAY HERE FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.

KAMINSKY PASS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

IS IT THE SAFETY COMING UP OR IS IT THE CORNER.

WE'LL SEE A REPLAY HERE.

YOU TELL ME.

>> WELL IT LOOKS LIKE THE UMP GETS IN THE WAY.

BUT IT'S ONE OF THE SAFETIES THERE BECAUSE NEVER IN ANY DEFENSE DO YOU SEE SAFETIES CROSS PATHS.

AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE TWO TRAINS YOU KNOW CROSSING.

>> YOU DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.

>> YEAH.

SO YOU KNOW COMMUNICATION AREA, ANYTIME THAT YOU SEE SOMEBODY GO WIDE OPEN THAT LIKE THAT, IT'S A COMMUNICATION ERROR.

>> YEAH.

THAT'S WHAT I KIND OF THOUGHT THAT MAYBE MCDOUGLE ON THAT ONE HERE.

AND THIS IS THIS IS OUTSTANDING BY COLANDREA.

THIS IS A D'ONOFRIO HAD A CHANCE TO SEE HIM THREE DIFFERENT READS BEFORE HE COMES BACK AND HITS QUINN CLARK ON HIS TOUCHDOWN.

JUST GOING THROUGH HIS PROGRESSIONS LIKE YOU NEED TO GO THROUGH.

>> I LIKE IT BECAUSE HE THREW IT.

QUINN CLARK IS SIX FIVE ONLY WHERE HE COULD CATCH IT.

AND A GOOD PITCH AND CATCH THERE BY THOSE TWO.

>> NEBRASKA DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB OVERALL ON GETTING SOME SEPARATION.

THIS IS SIMPLY A QUARTERBACK GOING THROUGH HIS PROGRESSIONS AND FINDING A GUY WHO COMES OPEN MAKING IT 317 WITH THAT WONDERFUL ANGLE RIGHT THERE.

AND COLANDREA, NEEDLESS TO SAY, WAS A LITTLE EXCITED.

[MUSIC] JUST A LITTLE DUDE IS ALWAYS PUMPED UP.

THIS IS WHERE THE ONE FEW.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF GREAT RUNS FROM THEIR QUARTERBACK SPOT.

BUT HERE'S ONE BY KAMINSKY.

IT'S A 22 YARD RUN.

IT'S REALLY A LONG ONE OF THE DAY FOR THEM.

BUT THEN THEY TRY TO DO SOMETHING TRICKY.

THIS WAS TRYING TO BE A PHILLY SPECIAL.

THIS IS CALLED PHILLY ORDINARY.

THIS IS THIS IS NOT THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO.

AND IT'S AN INCOMPLETE PASS.

AND THE REST GETS THE BALL BACK.

>> IT'S A GOOD JOB BY NEBRASKA.

PICKED IT UP NICELY.

THAT WAS A GOOD THING TO SEE.

JUST THE FLOW OF THE ROUTE TREE THERE.

>> ESPECIALLY WITH THE BACKUPS IN RIGHT.

AND THEN HERE'S QUINTIN IVES HAS A NICE RUN.

HE GOES 40 YARDS EVERY TIME HE'S COME IN.

HE'S HAD A CHANCE.

HE'S ACTUALLY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF IT.

SO GOOD TO SEE THERE.

>> WELL I THINK HE'S HEALTHY THIS YEAR.

AND OBVIOUSLY YOU MIGHT NEED HIM LATER IN THE SEASON.

BUT IT'S ALSO GOOD TO SEE HIM GET ME GOOD REPS.

>> ANDHEN YOU GET CUNANAN WITH THE 40 YARD FIELD GOAL RIGH THERE.

GO TO GET HIM KIND OF ON TRACK WITH A COUPLE MADE 347.

YOU SEE UNDER 100 YARDS RUSHING FOR NORTH DAKOTA.

AGAIN THEY WENT ONE OF 13N THIRD DOWNGREAT JOB BY NEBRASKA'S DEFENSE OVERALL AND THE TIME POSSESSION.

YOU'RE GOING TO OIOUSLY WEAR THEM OUT ANYWAY BECAUSE IT'S AN FCS TEAM.

BUT WHEN YOU HAVE MORE THAN TEN MINUTES MORE OF TIME POSSESSION, THAT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN THERE.

TIME NOW FOR OUR PLAYERS OF THE GAME.FTER THE NEBRASKA WIN, FRESHMAN PHENOM JAMAL RULE WITH A GREAT DAY.

HE HAD LEADING A KNOCKOUT PEORMANCE TWO RECEPTIONS FOR 35 YARDS, 15 OF 119 FOR TWO TOUCHDOWNS RUNNING THE LL.

AND THEN DONOVAN JONES CONTINUES TO PUT TOGETHER A GOOD SEASON, DOING REALLY GOOD WITH HIM AS WELL.

HE HAD A SACK AND A PBU ALONG WITH THREE TACKLES, A SOLID GAME AGAINST NORTH DAKOTA.

NEXT UP ON THE SHOW WE'LL KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING.

SPORTSWRITER MITCH SHERMAN FROM THE ATHLETIC.

BEFORE WE GO TO BREAK THOUGH, SOME SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE FINAL NONCONFERENCE GAME AGAIT THE FIGHTING HAWKS COURTESY OF HURRDAT SPORTS.

WE'RE BACK SOON.

[MUSIC] ACTUALLY AN HOUR.AT FIVE AND A HALF >>H, WAIT.

GO UP EVEN HIGHER THAN THAT.

[MUS] TIME NOW TO CHECK OUT THE TOP PLAYS FROM THE NORTH DAKOTA GAME.

THE SECOND OF FIVE SACKS SPLIT BETWEEN THE TWO OWENS, OWEN CHAMBLISANDWE STOUDMIRE ON THAT PLAY COMING RIGHT UTHE MIDDLE.

I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM STOUIRE, BUT THAT'S AMBLISS A SACK.

I MEAN, I'M MAKING STAT THAT'S A QUARTERBACK ANTHONYHT THERE.

COLANDREA RUN TO THE END ZONE IS OUR NUMBER TWO PY OF THE DAY.

NO IT'S NOT.

AND THEN I THOUGHT IT WAS.

AND THEN JAMAL RULE THIS IS DIFFERENT.

THAT'S THE KWAZI GILMER CATCH.

THAT WAS NOT THE NUMBER TWO ONE.

AND THEN THE GREAT RUN.

WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT IT.

THIS MAKING THE PLA AND OF COURSE GILMER HELPING HIM A LOT.

>> YOU KNOW JAMAL RHULE IS A PRETTY GOOD BACK.

AND OBVIOUSLY TO SEE A YOUNG FRESHMAN HAVE GOOD VISION LIKE TT.

AND THE FIRST, YOU KNOW, TO RUN AWAY FROM HIM.

AND THAT'S ALWA GOOD TO START THE SECOND HALF WITH 5051 YARD TOUCHDOWN.

>> NESPECIALLY THEY'VE BEEN STRUGGLING IN THE THIRD QUARTER.

SO YEAH DEFINITELY.

WELCOME BACK TO BIG RED WRAP-UP.

WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE MITCH SHERMAN FROM THE ATHLETIC JOINING US.

MITCH WE APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME.

>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON.

HOW ARE YOU GUYS?

>> GOOD.

BIGGEST TAKEAWAY ANYTHING SURPRISE YOU?

WHAT DID YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THOSE GAMES?

>> PGRESS.

I THINK BOTH SIDES OF THE FOOTBALL AT LEAST ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE NOT TALKING ABOUT SPECIAL TEAMS PROGRESS FROM WEEK ONE TO WEWO TO WEEK THREE.

I THINK THE THE BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL SEEM TO HAVE A PLAN AS TO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, AND WE HEARD THAT THIS WEEK FROM DANA HOLGORSEN ABOUT OFFENSIVE IDENTITY.

AND IT LOOKS LIKE NEBRASKA'S BALANCED THEIR RUNNING AND THROWING FOR 260 YARDS A GAME, WHICH I DON'T KNOW THAT YOCAN ASK FO A WHOLE LOT BETTER THAN THAT, REGARDLESS OF THE COMPETITION THROUGH, THROUGH THROUGH THREE WEEKS OF THE SEASON TO ENTER B TEN PLAY AND THEN THAT THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF THE FOOTBALL.OU KNOW YOU'D LIKE TO SEE NEBSKA, ON THE FLIP SIDE, CREATE ME TURNOVERS, BUT THEY'RE ABLUTELY TAKING CARE OF THE FOOTBALL WITH JUST ONE ONEURNOVER IN THREE GAMES.

>> MITCH I'M GOING TO STICK WITH OFFENSE.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THREE PLAYERS THREE NEW FACES THAT WE'VE SEEN.

NEBRASKA'S OFFENSE COLANDREA, RULE AND GILMER.

WH WAS KIND OF SURPRISED YOU THE MOST IN THESE FIRST THREE GAM OUT O THOSE THREE PLARS.

>> I PROBABLY HAVE TO GO WITH RULE JUST BAUSE OF THE INEXPERIENCE LEVEL I. I DIDN'T THINK THAT WE WOULD SEE THIS OUT OF HIM RIGHT AWAY.

CLEARLY HE HAD SOMETHING IN IN THE SPRING AND YOU COULD TELL THERE WAS A STAR QUALITY ABOUT HIM.

AND WHEN YOU GOTO TALK TO THE GUY, YOU KNOW, I THINK HE HAS A UNIQUE PERSONALITY THAT'S CONDUCIVE TO PLAYING WELL.

AND RIGHT AWAY AS A AS A FRESHMAN TO START OFF HIS CAREER.

BUT THINGS VE COME AWFULLY EASY FOR HIM AND HE'S A BIG PLAY WAITING TOAPPEN.

LOVE HIS PATIENCE, HIS VISION, THE BURST THAT HE'S GOT THROUGH THEHROUGH THE HOLE.

SO WITH GILMER AND AND COLANDREA, IT'S BEEN VER GOOD.

BUT THOSE GUYS HAVE DONE IT BEFORE ATHE POWER FOUR LEVEL.

AND AND ALL THE JAMAL RULE HAS DONE BEFORE.

THIS IS PLAYING HIGH SCHOOL.

SO HE'S A SURPRISE F ME RIGHT OFF THE BAT.

>> MITCH I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT ON THE DEFENSIVE SIDE COACH ROB AURICH OBVIOUSLY COMING IN AFTER BUTLER WAS DISMISSED.

AND OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF PRESSURE TO GET THIDEFENSE UP TO BIG TEN STANDARDS.

WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH HIM AND OBVIOUSLY HIS PERSONALITY,BVIOUSLY YOU SEE HIM IN THE PRESS CONFERENCES.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S ABOUT HIM THAT'S ALLOWED THIS DEFENSE TO BE PRETTY CONSISTENT THROUGH THE FIRST THREE GAMES?

>> YOU KNOW, HE'S SOMEBODY THAT THE FIRST TIME YOU TALK TIM, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU KNOW HIM A HE'S JUST HE'S WARM AS A PERSONABLE NATURE TO HIM.

I THINK THAT MAKES PLAYERS TRUST HIM.

AND I THINK HE DEVELOPS THOSE RELATIONSHIPS VERY QUICKLY.

IT'S IT'S IT'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, A SKILL THAT THAT HE'S GOT.

OBVIOUSLY HE KNOWS DEFENSE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN THIS DEFENSE COME ALONG AND I THINK PLAY FASTER AND WITH MORE AGGRESSIVENESS AND AND BRINGING MOR PRESSURE AND DOING DIFFERENT THINGS FROM WEEK ONE TO WEEK TWO TO WEEK THREE, I'M EXCITED TO SEE HOW THAT'S GOING TO CONTINUE NOW THAT THEY GET INTO THE BIG TEN AND, AND, AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, LIKE WHAT TH DEVELOPMENT LOOKS LIKE, BUT NOT SURPRISING HAVING HAVING MET ROB AND, AND, AND, AND, AND LISTENED TO HI TALK.

AND, YOU KW, THERE'S AN INFECTIOUS NATURE TO HIM THAT HE'S APPEALED TO THE PLAYERS AND WON THEM OVER AS QUICKLY AS HE HAS.

AND THAT THIS IS NO THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S WALKED INTO A TEAM ENVIRONMENT AND BEEN ABLE TO FLIP SOMETHING AS QUICKLY AS HE, AS WE'VE SEEN HIM DO OR SEEM TOAVE SEEN HIM DO AT NEBRASKA.

>> WHICH YOU MTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, SPECI TEAMS.

ARCHIE WILSON HASN'T NECEARILY DONE WHAT YOU WERE HOPING HE WOULD DO.

THE PENALTIES.

OBVIOUSLY, THERE WAS A TIME WHERE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLWERE ON THE FIELD, SO THEY HAD TO CALL A TIMEOUT.

YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT TRANSITION FROM MIKE ECKLER TO A COUPLE GUYS WHO HADN'T REALLY DONE IT BEFORE?

>> YEAH, IT HASN'T BEEN AS SMOOTH AS I KNOW THAT THEY THEY WOULD HAVE LIKEDAND YOU KNOW, I CAN I CAN MAYBE GET PAST THE PENALTIES.

YOU KNOW, IT'S EXPLAINED BY T NATURE WITH WHICH OFFICIALS HAVE CALLE GAMES EARLY THISEASON.

AND YOU KNOW, MATT RULE HAD A HAD AN EXPLANATION FOR THAT.

AND AND YOU SAW THAT POTENTIALLY GET GET FIXED IN IN WEEK THREE.

SO, YOU KNOWI THINK THE, THE OFFSIDES ON THE KICKOFF AND THE MULTIPLE KICKOFFS IN WEEK ONE IS, IS A, IS A FLUKY KIND OF THING.

AND YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE THAT AGAIN.

YOU WON'T SEE THAT AGAIN.

BUT YEAH, THE HOLDINGENALTIES ON, ON, ON PUNT RETURNS IS, IS A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW.

THEY CAN PROBABLYIX THAT.

BUT IT JUST IT'S BEEN DISJOINTED AND REALLY NOT JUST IN THE RETURNS, BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY KICKED E BALL KICKED OFF A BALL OUT OF BOUNDS IN WEETHREE.

IT SEEMS THAT WHEN YOU KNOW WHEN ONE PROBLEM GOES AWAY, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE THAT CROPS UP.

ANDND THESE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE NOT COST NEBRASKA HAVE NOT HURT THEM IN THE NON-CONFERENCE SEASON.

BUT THEY WILL IF THEY DON'T IF THE DON'T BUTTON I UP AND, AND PLAY RONG ACROSS THE BOARD ON SPECIAL TEAMS, THE KICKING, THE COVERAGE, THE RETURNS, YOU KNOW, THE LACK OF PENALTIES AT SO POINT IN THE BIG TEN, THAT'S GOING TO COST THEM A GAME.

>> MITCHTICKING WITH THE OFFENSE.

WE'VE SEEN WHAT NEBRASKA WAS ABLE TO DO UTIZING THE RUN GAME AND THOSE THATHREE HEADED MONSTER IN THE BACKFIELD.

WE SAW COLANDREA IMPLEMENTED IN THE RUN GAME A LITTLE BIT.

DO YOU EXPECT THAT TO GET TURD UP IN BIG TEN PLAY, OR DO YOU THINK THEY'RE GOING TO KIND OF KEEP THE SAME AND SAY, HEY, WE GOT A PRETTY GOOD THING ING WITH THESE THREE GUYS RIGHT NOW?

>> WELL, I THINK IF YOU WHO ARE RUNNING IT THE WAY THAT THEY HAVE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO RELY ON THEM.

BUT COLANDREA IS A IT'S A CHANGE OF PACEN THE RUN GAME.

YOU KNOW, I DON'T EXPECT THEM TO CALL HIS NUMBER 15 TIMES OR TEN TIMES A GAME ON DESIGNED RUN PLAYS.

I THINK IHE RUNS IT 5 OR 6 TIMES A GAME, THEN THAT'S THAT'S EFFECTIVE FOR THE NEBRASK OFFENSE.

MAYBE IT'S A COUPLE OF TIMES ON SCRAMBLES AND THEN YOU THEN YOU YOU DIAL UP QB, RUN A FEW TIMES IN THE RIGHT TUATIONS.

I DI DO THIN THAT THAT THEY CAN GREAT BENEFIT AS AN OFFENSE FROM FROM PICKING THEIR SPOTS THERE.

BUT YOU NEED HIM FOR NINE GAMES.

THEY NEED HIM FOR NINE MORE GAMES THIS YEAR.

AND A FEW OF THE PLAYS THAT HE MADE IN THIS LAST GAME IN IN IN THAT PRABLY APPLIES TO THE TO THE FIRST TWO A WELL.

BUT THIS MOST RECENT GAME IS FRESH IN MY MIND WHERE WHERE HE CAME AROUN THE CORNER AND, AND PUT HIS HEAD DOWN EARLY IN THE GAME.

AND THAT WAS A TONE SETTER.

I THINK HE PICKED HIS SPOT THERE.

BUT YOU KNOW THAT COULD HAVE A DIFFERENT OUTCOME AGAIN THE BIG TEN LINEBACKER OR A BIG T SAFETY.

LIKE THEY'RE MORE SKILLED AT BEING ABLE TO PUT THEIR HELMET ON THE FOOTBALL OR, OR, YOU KNOW, EVEN IURE A PLAYE YOU KNOW, UNINTENTIONALLY.

AND THAT KIND OF A SITUATION BECAUSE OF THE STRENGTH AT THEY, THEY BRING TO THAT EDGE ON THE, ON THE FIELD.

YOU KNOW, ANTHONY'S NOT A HUGE GUY.ND THERE WAS ANOTHER PLAY WHERE, WHERE HE, HE, HE WAS, HE WAS TRYINTO MOVE THE STICKS.

AND, AND HE HAD, HE HAD A NICE GAIN.

AND THEN HE TURNED HIS BODY, SQUARED HIMSELF UP TO THE FIELD AND YOU KNOW, TO THE, TO THE, TO TO, TO MOVE NORTH AND SOUTH.

AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF CRASHED INTO THE SECONDARY.

AND, YOU KNOW, I I COVERED MY EYES FOR A SECOND BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU DO THAT, YOU DO THA AGAINST IOWA, Y DO THAT AINST INDIANA.

LIKE IT'S, IT'S MORTHAN LELY TO END IN SOMETHING NEGATIVE HAPPENING.

SO I THINK HE, YOU KNOW, HE NEEDS TO HE NEEDS TO LOOK FOR THE SIDELINE AT TIMES.

HE NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO GET DOWN AND SLIDE WHEN, WHEN THAT'S NECESSARY OR, OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME PLAY THAT THAT THAT DOESN'T END WELL.

BUT YEA HE'S ABSOLUTELY PART OF THE RUNNING GAME.

AND, AND I THINK IN SPOTS, IT CAN BE RELY BENEFICIAL TO THE NEBRASKA OFFENSE.

>> YOU KNOW, MITCH, MOVING FORWARD I WASANTING TO ASK YOU ABOUT BIG PICTURE.

OBVIOUSLY THE BIG TEN HAS STRUGGLED YOU KNOW IN THEIR NONCONFERENCE.

AND OBVIOUSLY DEPENNG ON WHO THEY PLAYED.

AND IT'S VIOUSLY MAYBE CHANGED SOME O THE EXPECTATIONS FOR NEBRAA MOVING FORWARD.

IN YOUR OPINION, HAS THAT REALLY LIGHTENED THE EXPECTATIONS, MEANING THAT NEBRASKA HAS A CHANCE TO REALLY HAVE A SPECIAL SEASON, OR ARE YOU JUST KEEPING IT VERY MODEST?

AS NEBRASKA APPROACHES THIS BIG TEN PLAY?

>> YOU KNOW, I HAVEN'T SEEN ENOUGH FOR ME TO THINK THAT THE BIG TEN IS A DIFFERENT BEAST THAN THAN WHAT I THOUGHT A MONTH AGO.

FROM NEBRASKA'S PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 1 OR 2 OPPONENTS.

I LOOK AT WASHINGTON AND I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THERE, AN THAT'S NEBRASKAOME GAME.

SO I MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION ABOUT HOW THAT GAME ON HALLOWEEN IS, IS, IS LIKELY TO GO THEN WHAT I DID MONTH AGO, REALLY, THERE'S NOT MUCH ELSE OUT THERE.

I MEAN, ILLINOIS IS GOING TO BE A DIFFICULT GAME ON A FRIDAY NIGHT.

YOU KNOW, RUTGE LOOKS BETTER THAN IT DID AT THE BEGINNIN OF THE SEASON.

NOTHING THAT OREGON OR INDIANA OR OHIO STATE HAS DONE SO FAR THIS SEASON MAKES ME CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT HOW I HOW DIFFICULT I THINK THOSE GAMES ARE FOR THE HUSKERS.

SO IT'S IT'S IT'S PRETTY MUCH STUS QUO AS FAR AS WHAT I WAS AT THE BEGINNING, IOWA ABSOLUTELY LOOKS TOUGH.

THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A DIFFICULT GAME ON ON BLACK FRIDAY AT KINNICK STADIUM.

SO WITH THE EXCEPTION POSSIBLY OF WASHINGTON, YOU KNOW I FEEL LIKE THIS THIS THIS I FELT LIKE THIS WAS A VERY DIFFICULT CONFERENCE SCHELE FOREBRASKA IN THE SUMMER AND GOING INTO THE SEASON.

AND I STILL FEEL LIKE THAT.

>> MITCH, IAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO GO TO EAST LANSING.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE.

I'M KIND OFONDERING WHAT NEBRASKA HAS TO EXPECT FROM THE CROWD, THE NOI THERE, WHAT'S T STADIUM LIKE?

>> IT'S AT'S A IT'S A BIG STADIUM.

IT'S YOUNOW, IT'S NOT GLITZ AND GLAMOR.

IT KIND OF TAKES ON THE PERSONALITY OF, YOU KNOW, I THINK FITS PAT FITZGERALD, THE THE NORTHWESTERN COACH.

HE'S A GOOD FIT FOR FOR THAT PLACE.

IT'S BLUE COLLAR.

YOU KNOW YOU DON'T YOU DON'T HAVE THE YOU KNOW THE THE DAZZLING FACTOR OF AN OHIO STATE OR, OR A CHIGAN.

BUT IT'S A TOUGH PLACE TO WIN THE CROWD IN THE IN THE TIMES THAT I'VE BEEN THERE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THEY RAMP IT UP WHEN OHIO STATE.

IT'S NOT BEEN OVERLY INTIMIDATING FROM AS A AS FAR AS A VENUE GOES, IN THE TIMES THAT I'VE BEEN THERE SEVERAL TIMES TO VER NEBRASKA GAMES THERE.

AND YOU KNOW, THEY HAVEN'T GONE WELL FOR NEBRASKA.

THE GAMES HAVEN'T.

THERE HAVE BEEN SOME, SOME, SOME SOME REALLY DIFFICULT PILLS TO SWALLOW WITH, WITH TOUGH ENDING TO GAMES AND, AND, YOU KNOW, SEEMING SEEMINGLY COIN FLIP TYPE OUTCOMES THAT HAVE THAT HAVE FALLEN AGAINST NEBRASKA.

SO FROM THAT STANDPOINT, IT'S BEEN TOUGH.

BUT AS FAR AS THE ENVIRONMENT GOES, YOU KW, I'D PUT IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIG TEN AS FAR AS DIFFICULT PLACES TO PLAY.

>> MITCH, AFTER SEEING MICHIG STATE'S PERFORMANCE AINST NOTRE DAME AT NOTRE DAME THIS LAST WEEKEND, HOW DO YOU HOW DO YOU FEEL NEBRASKA MATCHES UP WITH MICHIGAN STATE ON SATURDAY?

>> WEL THEY'RE TOUGH.

THEY COMMITTED A COUPLEW, TURNOVERS.

THEY DIDN'T DO GREAT IN THE IN THE YARDAGE MATCHUP AGAINST NOTRE DAME.

LOOKING AT IT ON PAPER, IF YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE GAME, I TNK YOU WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THE SCORE TO A LITTLE BIT MORE LOPSIDED.

BUT THAT IS ABSOLUTELY A CHARACTERISTIC OF A PAT FIGERALD COACHED TEAM, ANDEBRASKGOT USED TO THOSE KIND OF SITUATIONS.

MAYBE NOT SO MUCH WITH THE YARDAGE AND THE TURNOVERS, BUT THEY'RE OPPORTUNISTIC AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK ABOUT THIS MICGAN STATE TEAM.

THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT HIS NORTHWESTERN TEAMS AND ALL THE YEARS THAT NEBRASKA PLAYED THEM.

YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT WHAT MICHIGAN STATE HAS FROM A COACHING PERECTIVE ON SPECIAL TEAMS AND ON DEFENSE.

AND AND LAVAR WOODS AND JOE ROSSI ARE COACHES THAT HE HAD ALL KINDS OF SUCCESS AGAINST NEBRASKA IN THE KIND OF GAMES THAT I EXPECTHIS TO BE ON, ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTTHE EVENING.

SO I THINK THAT THEY'VE DONE THROUGH THREE, THREE GAMES OF THIS SEASONND THREE GAMES OF THIS PAT FITZGERALD REGIME.

I THINK THAT THEY'VE THEY'VE ALREADY TAKEN OTHE PERSONALITY OF THEIR HEAD COACH AND AND THEIR COORDINATORS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST GOING TO MAKE THEM A TOUGH OUT.

THERE MAY BE SOME GAMES ON THEIR SCHEDULE THIS YEAR WHERE THEY DON'T PUT UP AS MUCH OF A FIGHT AS WHAT WE SAW GOING TO NOTRE DAME.

BUT I FULLY EXPECT THAT THEY'RE GOING TO PUT UP MORE THAN PUT UP A FIGHT AGAINST NEBRASKA.

YOU KNOW, I EXPECT THEM TO BE I EXPECT THIS TO BE A FOUR QUARTER GAME.

I EXPECT MICHIGAN STATE TO GIVE NEBRASKA EVERYTHING THAT IT CAN HANDLE, CONSIDERING THAT IT'S T CONSIDERING WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THE MATCHUP IS, AND THAT IT'S THE FIRST TIME AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE HUSKERS IN THE CONFERENCE OPENER.

>> MITCH, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

SAFE TRAVELS.

AND DON'T FORGET YOUR LICENSE.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

THERE'S ZERO CHANCE OF A REPEAT THERE.

>> THANK YOU.

ANKS MITCH.

WE APPRECIATE IT.

L'S CHECK IN WITH THE COACHES AND PLAYERS IN THIS EK'S BIG RED REPORT.

>> GLAD PRESEASON IS OVER.

WE'RE HERE TO PLAY BIG TEN FOOTBALL.

IT'S WHY EVERYBODY'S HERE.

AND SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

YOU KNOW THERE'S SOME THERE'S SOME CHALLENGES IN PLAYING A PRESEON SCHEDULE LIKE THAT.

I THINK OUR GUYS HANDLED IT WELL.

SHOWED IMPROVEMENT, STARTING TO DEVELOP AN IDENTITY OF WHO WE ARE AND WHO WE CAN COUNT ON.

>> WE'VE BEEN HOME FOR THREE WEEKS, WHICH IS A GREAT BLESSING.

IT'S BEEN FUN TO GET TO KNOW MEMORIAL THE WAY WE HAVE, BUT I LOVE ROAD GAMES.

I LOVE ROAD GAMES.

IT'S JUST YOU AND THE BOYS AND YOU GET TO GO TO WORK AND YOU GET MORE TIME TOGETHER.

AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO TO HAVE THIS THIS WEEKEND, THIS WEEK TOGETHER AS WE AS WE START THIS BIG TEN SEASON.

>> HEY, LIKE NORTH DAKOTA SCHEMATICALLY WAS REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CHALLENGING.

THESE GUYS ARE CHALLENGING IN A DIFFERENT WAY.

LIKE THEY KNOW EVERYTHING THEY'RE GOING TO GET RIGHT.

YOU RUN A ROUTE ON THEM, YOU KNOW THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO BEAT QUARTERS LIKE THEY'RE THEY'RE OFF.

DBS ARE TURNING TO THE ROUTE BEFORE YOU EVEN BREAK.

SO LIKE, THEY JUST KNOW THEIR DEFENSE SO WELL.

AND THAT'S VERY SIMILAR TO, YOU KNOW, IOWA AND MINNESOTA AND ALL THESE GUYS, YOU KNOW, THESE GUYS ARE THESE QUARTERS BASED DEFENSES.

AND SO THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN SLIGHT VARIATION ON IT, BUT THEY ALL KIND OF DO THE SAME THING.

ROB RH IS KIND OF FROM THAT FAMILY.

THAT'S WHY WE HIRED HIM, BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE IN THESE GAMES, WE DIDN'WANT TO BE TRYING TO REINVENT THE WHEEL.

WE WANTED TO KIND OF DO WHAT WE DO VERSUS THAT STUFF.

SO WE'VE SEEN IT.

>> MICHIGAN STATE'S DECADE TO RUN THE FOOTBALL THAT IS, THAT IS THEIR DNA.

THEY WANT TO ESTABLISH THAT SO THEY CAN OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR QUARTERBACK AND THE PLAY ACTION PASS GAME AND MOVEMENT PASS GAME.

I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A TEAM DEDICATED TO RUNNING THE FOOTBALL.

NOW, LOOKING A THE OC A HIS PAST AT WASHINGTON AND ALABAMA, THERE'S CERTAINLY ENOUGH IN HISISTORY TO TO WARN US TO TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

AT TIMES.

>> THEY DON' BEAT THEMSELVES, LOIS AND LEAGUE IN PENALTIES.

THEY DON'T TURN THE BALL OVERUN THE OTBALL.

CAM EDWAR IS A GREAT BACK.

THEY GOT A BIG POWERFUL OFFENSIVE LINE PLAYMAKERS.

YOU KNOW WE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE QUARTERBACK LAST YEAR.

HE THREW FOR TWO TOUCHDOWNS AGAINST US.

HE'S REALLY GOOD IN THIS SYSTEM.

THE COACH SHERIDAN'S COME IN AND BROUGHT.

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID WIT COACH DEBOER AT ALABAMA.

AND THEY HAD EVERY CHANCE TO WIN ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

SO THEY'VE THEY'VE CERTAINLY PLAYED BIG TIME COMPETITION.

AND WE HAVE WE HAVE OUR HANDS OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US ON DEFENSE.

AND THEN OFFENSIVELY I THINK JORDAN HALL IS ONE OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE BIG TEN.

>> ALL RIGHT.

HOT TAKES TIME.

JOE YOU READY TO AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THIS HOT TAKE.

>> I AM READY.

>> ALL RIGHT HERE WE GO.

BEN ON X SAYS THESE NEXT TWO GAMES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT OF MATT REYNOLDS NEBRASKA CAREE BY FAR.

HE SAYS.

IMAGINE THE MOMENTUM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOING FOUR AND ONE AND FIVE AND ZERO GOING INTO THE INDIANA GAME.

ARE TSE TWO MATCHUPS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF MATT REYNOLDS CAREER?

>> THEY'RE CLOSE TO IT, SO I'LL JUST SAY YES.

I THINK IT'LL SHOW PROGRAM MATURITY AND I'LL SEE THE CONSISTENCY THAT YOU WANT TO BE FIVE A ZERO AGAINST TEAMS THAT YOU SHOULD BEAT.

AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S MICHIGAN STATE AND MARYLAND GOING INTO THE INDIANA GAME.

>> YEAH.

SO THAT'S THAT IS AN AGREE ON THE HOT TAKE.

WE WANT TO HEA FROM YOUR TAKES ALL SEASON LONG.

CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA VIA EMAIL OR FM THE PHONE TO SHARE YOUR HOTTEST TAKE.

WE'LL SHOWCASE THE ST HERE ON THE SHOW.

AND THAT BEST TAKE WILL ALSO WIN A COPY OF SEAN'S BOOK, THE PROGRAM HANG TIGHT, BECAUSE WE'RE BACK WITH MORE WRAP UP.

WRAP UP WITH SEAN CALLAHAN.

TALK ABOUT BIG RED RECRUITING.

BUT FIRST, ANOTHER LOOK FROM NORTH DAKOTA GAME COURTESY OF HURRDAT SPORTS.

[MUSIC] [MUSIC] WELCOME BACK TO WRAP UP MICHAEL SEVERE JOINED BY SEAN CALLAHAN.

ROAD WEEK FOR NEBRAA.

HEADING ON THE AD BY COACHES.

>> YEAH.

COACHES LAST WEEK WE'VE SEEN THE MATT RULE COACHING STAFF GO OUT ON THE ROA GET A LOT OF THINGS DONE.

THEY MADE 12 PLUS OFFERS IN GEORGIA ON FRIDAY.

SO KIND OF LAYING THE GUNDWORK WORK, HOPEFULLY TRYING TO GET SOME OF THESE NEW OFFER GUYS INTO LINCOLN, WHETHER IT BE FOR THAT WASHINGTON GAME, MAYBE THE OHIO STATE GAME LER IN NOVEMBER.

IN THE 27 CSS IS KHALILUYS TAYLOR.

SO FAR THIS SEASON, 16 RECTIONS, 314ARDS, SIX TOUCHWNS.

RUNS THE BALL A LITTLE BIT TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THE KID OUT OF PITTSBURGH.

>> YEAH TH IS A HUGE RECRUITING SCORE FOR NEBRASKA.

KHALIL TAYLOR IS DEFINITELY WIDE RECEIVER NUMBER ONE IN THIS RECRUITING CLASS.

RUNS A TEN FIVE IN THE 100.

SO LEGIT VERIFIED TRACK SPEED WAS CONSIDERED A NEAR LOCK PENN STATE.

IN FACT TOOK HIS OFFICIAL AS A PITTSBURGH KID TWO PENN STATE, AND THEN VISITED NEBRASKA.

AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH, HE'S JUSTOING TO NEBRASKA TO KIND OF TRY TO WORK E MARKET A LITTLE BIT.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK MATT RHULE AND HIS STAFF KIND OF USED THAT TO MOTIVATE AND FOR THE VISIT OR ARE YOUERE INTERESTED?

AND THEY FOUND OUT HE WAS REALLY INTERESTED AND THEY WERE ABLE TO FLIP HIM.

IT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BETTER RECRUITING WINS THAT WE SAW THIS NEBRASKA STAFF HAVE OVER THE SUMMER MONTHS.

>> IN-STATE RECRUIT ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE PAPILLION OR PAPILLION SOUTH.

ONE OF THE TWO HAVE A GOOD LINEMAN.

LET'S TALK ABOUT BRYCE BIGNESS OUT OF PAPILLION.

>> YEAH, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE BRYCE VINES IS THE BEST OFFENSIVE LINEMAN, ARGUABLY IN THE STATE.

HE JUST DOESN'T MAYBE HAVE THE MEASURABLES LIKE AN ERICKSON WOULD HAVE AS FAR AS THE HEIGHT.

[MUSIC] BUT A DUAL SPORT BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL TRACK GUY, YOU KNOW DOES ITLL MOVES REALLY WELL.

[MUSIC] PICKED UP SOME EARLIER BIG 12 OFFERS BUT COMMITS TO NORTH DAKOTA STATE.

AND YOU KNOW YOU LOOK AT THE PRO TRACK RECORD THE DEVELOPMENT HISTORY YOU KNOW MAKES THE RIGHT MOVE.

I MEAN WE'VE SEEN WHAT NORTH DAKOTA STATE HAS DONE WITH LINEMEN.

AND NOW THEY ARE IN THE FBS.

[MUSIC] I MEAN THEY'RE A TEAM THAT, YOU KNOW ARGUABLY COULD KNOCK ON THE DOOR FOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF SPOTS NOW WITH THAT ONE GROUP OF FIVE SPOT EVERY YEAR.

SO I THINK FOR NORTH DAKOTA STATE THIS IS A BIG TIME GET OUT OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME POWER FOUR SCHOS, DEFINITELY ON THE RADA THAT OFFERED BRYCE VAGUENESS.

>> YEAH, THEY'RE A FAVORITE IN THE CONFERENCE 264285.

PROBABLY A CENTER OR GUARD.

>> YEAH.

INTERIOR GUY.

>> YEAH.

>> POINT >> SO APPRECIATE IT.

SEAN.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AROUND THE BIG TEN NORTHWESTERN.

NORTHWESTERN WELCOMED IN COLORADO TOVANSTON D THEN HUN 41 POINTS ON THE BUFFS.

RUTGERS PLAYED THE TROJAN CLOSE.

USC HANGING ON TO WIN 42 TO 35.

AND OF COURSE MICHIGAN STATE FELL TO NOTRE DAME 27 TO 10, WHICH WAS A VERY GOOD GAME.

SPEAKING OF MICHIGAN STATE, WE'RE PLEASED TO BE JOINED BY HONDO CARPENTER TO HELP US PREVIEW SATURDAY'S GAME AGAINST THE SPARTANS.

APPRECIATE THE TIME.

HONDO, THANKS FOR COMING ON.

>> HEY, ANYTIME I GET TO FOLLOW SEAN CALLAHAN, THAT GUY'S A LEGEND AROUND THE LITERALLY AROUND THE COUNTR AND I'M GOING T VE A SHOUT OUT TO HIM FOR A MINUTE.

I WAS IN LOS ANGELES OVE THE WEEKEND COVERING THE FOOTBALL DOWN THERE.

THERE WERE SOME BI GAMES IN THE NFL, AND WE WEALKING ABOUT JEREMIAH SMITH.

AND THE SCOUT I WAS TALKING TO ACTUALLY MENTIONED THE YOUNG MAN AN JUST MENTIONED FROM PENNSYLVANIA THAT JUST FLIPPED TO NEBRASKA AND TALKED ABOUT WE WERE TALKING ABOU JEREMIAH SMITH.

HE GOES, I'LL TELL YOU, A KID TO KEEP YOUR NAME OUT OF THRADAR.

HE GOES, MA RULE JUST FLIPPED HIM.

SO HE'S ALREADY GOT NFL SCOUTS LOOKING AT HIM.

SO THAT WAS A GOOD MENTION BY SEAN THERE.

>> HONDO, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE TEAM IS UNDERHE NEW COACHING STAFF.

IT MAKES SENSE TO GO OUT AND GET A GUY LIKE FITZGERALD.

BUT YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW STAFF.

>> ABSOLUTELY LOVE MOST OF THIS STAFF.

I LOVE THAT THEY'VE GOT FITZ.

I LOVE THE DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR.

I LOVE MAX BULLOUGH.

AGAIN SOME REALLY GOOD STUFF THERE.

YOU KNOW I DON'T I DON'T THINK TOP TO BOTTOM THERE ARE STILL A COUPLE OF GUYS THAT WILL PROBABLY END UP GETTING WEEDED OUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, BUT I, I LOVE FITZ, I'M ALLN ON FITZ.

'S A CULTURE FIT AND THAT'S WHAT MICHIGAN STATE NEEDED.

LISTEN, JONATHAN SMITH, EXCELLENT COACH AT OREGON, DID NOT FIT THE CULTURE PERIOD.

IT WASN'T LIKE BRINGING JUD HEATHCOTE FROM THE NORTHWEST INTO MICHIGAN STATE WN HE WON A CHAMPIONSHIP WITH MAGIC JOHNSON IN BASKETBALL.

IT JU DIDN'T FIT.

WASN'T A TOTAL CULTURE FIT.

HE GETS IT.

HE WL GET MICHIGAN STATE.

YOU KNOW, AT A TOP LEVEL.

MICHIGAN STATE'S GOT EMENDOUS FACILITIES NOW.

ABUNDANCE OF CASH.

AND HE'LL GET THIS TURNED AROUND QUICK BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A TURNAROUND THIS YEAR.

>> HONDO NEBRASKA OBVIOUSLY HAD THREE MAC TEAMS.

MICHIGAN STATE WAS ABLE TO GET NORTH NOTRE DAME THIS LAST WEEKEND.

WHAT DID YOU DID YOU LEARN MORE ABOUT MICHIGAN STATE IN THAT NORTH DAKOTA GAME OR EXCUSE ME, I KEEP SAYING NORTH DAKOTA, THE NOTRE DAME GAME.

THEN THE PREVIOUS TWO WINS THAT THEY HAD.

>> YEAH, THE PREVIOUS TWO WINS TO ME WERE IRRELEVANT.

THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THOSE.

AND THINK YOU DEFINE YOURSELF AGAINST BETTER TEAMS.

AND AND I THINK WHAT YOU SAW WITH MICHIGAN STATE IS EXACTLY WHAT FITZ IS GOING TO BRING.

WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT YOU IN A PHONE BOOTH EVERY TIME WE'RE IN.

AND THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS.

WHAT I THOUGHT CAME OUT OF THE NOTREAME GAME BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS.

HE NOW HAS ON FILM WHEN HS RECRUITING FOR THESE NEXT CLASSES TO SAY TO GUYS, THIS IS WH WE NT TO DO AGAST THE ELITES, AND HERE'S WHERE YOU FIT OUR SYSTEM.

I THOUGHTHAT WAS SMART, AND I CAME AWAY FROM THAT.

YOU KNOW, I EXPECTED IT.

IT'S EXACTLY WH WE W. BUT I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE FIGHT IN THOSE GUYS.

>> HONDO, I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE OFFENSE.

OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNO COACH FIGERALD IS ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A GOOD DEFENSEND SPECIAL TEAMS UNDER COACH WOODS.

WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP FOR THAT OFFENSE?

I THINK THEY CAN RUN THE BALL PRTYELL IN THE BIG TEN.

IS IT BECOME MORE EXPLOSIVE OR MORE CONSISTENT ON THIRD DOWNS?

AT KIND OF SHOT HIMN E FO AGAINST NOTRE DAME?

>> WELL, THAT THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

FIRST OF ALL, CONSISTENCY ON THIRD DOWN IS THE NAME OF THE GAME.

IN FOOTBALL.

YOU GOT TO BE ABLE TO GET FIRST DOWNS.

A THAT'S WHERE THEIR STRUGGLE IS AND THAT'S FOR ME IS THE NEXT STEP FOR THEM.

AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO CE DIFFERENT SCHEMES EVERY WEEK.

THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME WEEKS AND SAY, NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET CAM LINE UP AND BEAT US.

YOU'RE GOING HAVE TO THROW IT AND THAT'S FINE.

AND THEY NEEDOAP THE BRAKES A TTLE BIT.

AND JUSTOU DON'T YOU DON'T GET EXPLOSIVE PLAYS EVERY TIME.

IT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED EXPLOSIVE.

BUT THEY'LL SETTLE DOWN AND AND YOU KNOW I EXPECT THEM TO.

BUT YESHIRD DOWN EFFICIENCY TO ME IS IS THE NAME OF THE GAME.

YEARS AGO I WAS HAVING LUNCH WITH BOBBY BOWDEN AND H I ASKED HIM, WHAT'S OTHER THAN THE SRE?

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT A GAME?

AND I THOUGHT BOBBY WOULD SAY TURNOVERS.

AND HE LOOKED AT ME AND GOES, THE FIRST STAT I ALWAYS LOOK AT WHEN I SCOUT A TEAM IS NOT THE RECORD.

I LOOK AT THIRD DOWN AND HOW MANY FIRST DOWNS, HOW DO THEY T THEM?

ARE THEY GETTING TM BY PENALTIES?

YOU KNOW, A THEY OUT THERE GETTING 31ST DOWNS?

IS IT JUST CHUNKS AND EATING UP THE CLOCK?

AND I'VE ALWAYS LISTENED TO WHAT BOBBY SAID, BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK OF BOBBY BOWDEN YOU THI OF EXPLOSIVE OFFENSES.

BUT HE TALKED ABOUT ME.

THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAMS WIN ON THIRD DOWN AND HE GOES, I WOULD IF I YOU COULD TELL ME I COULD ONLY HAVE ONE STAT.

IT WOULD BE THIRD DOWN WINS.

AND THAT THAT REALLY SAID A LOT TO ME.

>> HONDO WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING FOR THE ATMOSPHERE?

THIS WILL REALLY BE THE FIRST BIG HOME GAME FOR PAT FITZGERALD.

IT'S NOT BASKETBALL SEASON YET IN EAST LANNG.

WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING AS FAR AS ATMOSPHERE, ESPECIALLY WITH 5 P.M.

LOCAL KICKOFF IN EAST LANSING?

>> IT'S GOING TO BE CRAZY.

MICHIGAN STATE FANS ARE REALLY THRILD, MY FRIEND, TO HAVE PAT FITZGERALD, THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT HIM.

THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF THE PROGRAM.

AND, YOU KNOW, LET'S BE FRANK, TO BEAT NEBRASKA, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE UPT HIM.

BUT THEY ALSO SAW WHAT THEY JUST DID AT NOTRE DAME.

AND SO THAT'S A BIG DEAL TO THE SPARTANS.

AND AND YOU KNOW, THEY THEY THEY DON'T THINK THAT NEBRASKA'S NOTRE DAME.

I DON'T EITHER.

BUT I THINK EVERYONE WOULD AGREE.

NEBRASKA IS ANNCREDIBLY IMPROVED PROGRAM UNDER MATT RHULE.

I THINK YOU COULD SEE THE TRAJECTORY.

I THINK >> IT'S TAKEN A LITTLE BIT LONGER MAYBE THAN SOME FANS WOULD HAVE WANTED, BUT YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY SEE THE TRAJECTORY THERE.

THIS IS A GOOD FOOALL TEAM THAT'S GOING TO ABSOLUTELY COME INTO A HOSLE ENVIRONMENT AND IT'S GOING TO BE HOSTILE.

AND THEY JUST STARTED BASKETBALL PRACTICE TODAY.

FANS ARE CRAZY.

JUST GOT AIVE STAR ANOER FIVE STAR POINT GUARD.

TH BASKETBALL TEAM WILL BE THERE CHEERING EVERYBODY ON.

IT'S GOING TO BE A CRAZY CRAZY ENVIRONMENT.

>> THANKS.

AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.

>> THANKS GUYS FOR HAVING ME ON.

>> BE SURE VOTE ON THIS WEEK SIDELINE SURVEY OVER THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS.

WHAT WILL THE HUSKERS RECOR BE?

CURRENTLY WE HAVE TWO AND 244%, 1 IN 3 24%.

ONLY 7% SAY FOUR.

AND OH, AND ONLY 3% SAYH A FOUR.

BE SURE TO VISITHE WRAP UP WEBSITE AND CAST YOUR VOTE.

ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK IS INTERESTING ABOUT MICHIGAN STATE, LOOK AT THEIR STATS.

THEY'VE GIVEN ORE 20 PLUS YARD PLAYS THAN ALMOST ANY TEAM IN THE BIG TEN SO FAR.

DO YOU FEEL NEBRASKA HAS A CHANCE TO GET SOME EXPLOSIVES?

>> WITHOUT A DOUBT, BECAUSE NEBRASKA'S BEEN EXPLOSIVE ON OFFENSE.

I KNOW PEOPLE LIKE WANT TO SEE METHODICAL DRIVES, BUT GIVE ME THOSE EXPLOSIVE PLAYS ALL DAY LONG.

SO I THINK THEY CAN ABSOLUTELY GET SOME BIG PLAYS AGAINST TS MICHIGAN STATE DEFENSE EARLY AND KIND OF SET THE TONE.

>> YEAH.

WHAT IT LETS ME KNOW IS THEY DON'T KNOW THE DEFENSE.

THEY DON'T OWN IT YET.

SO THERE'S PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEBRASKA IN THE RUN GAME ANDHE PASSING GAME.

>> WHO'S THE PLAYER.

SO PEOPLE KP ASKING COLANDREA,ULE OR GILMER THAT SURPRISED YOU THE MOST THIS SEASON?

THE NEW GUYS?

>> I WAS GOING TO SAY RHULE BECAUSE HE'S A TRUE FRESHMAN AND YOU KNOW THAT AHMAN GREEN TRUE FRESHMAN RUSHING RECORD IS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE ONES THAT YOU NEVER THOUGHT WOULD FALL.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK FOR HIM TO BREAK IT, HE'S ONLY GOING TO HAVE TO AVERAGE LIKE 75 YARDS A GAMEHE REST OF THE SEASON, WHICH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A BIG NUMBER IN THERET SOME POINT FOR JAMAL RHULE, WHERE HE'S GOING TO HAVE A 180 YARD DAY AND THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE HIM THE BALL 25 TIMES.

AND I THINK THIS GAME SATURDAY COULBE ONE OF THOSE GAMES WHERE HE TAKES OVER 20 US CARRIES.

AND THEY KNOW HOW MICHIGAN STATE'S GOING TO WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME.

SO YEAH RULE WOULD BE MY SURPRISE RIGHT?

>> NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

>> FROM MARY MAGUIRE BECAUSE WE DON'T DO THIS ENOUGH.

WHAT YEARS DID YOU JAY'S CAUSE SHE WANTS.E TO >> TO KNOW.

>> THAT WAS 2002 THROUGH 2006.

SO I WAS SOLICHND BILL CALLAHAN.

>> JAY 94 TO 98.

COACH OSBORNE IN THE FIRST YEAR OF COACH SOLICH.

>> THAT'S NOT BAD.

THAT SEEMS LIKE THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS.

>> IT IS.

WHAT ITEELS LIKE IT WAS.

>> IT FEELS LIKE THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS.

SEAN WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT MICHIGAN STATE DID AGAINST NOTRE DAME, DID THAT SURPRISE YOU AT ALL?

BECAUSE, I MEAN, THE LINE WAS WAS A PRETTY BIG LINE.

PEOPLE EXPECTED IT TO BE A BLOWOUT.

OBVIOUSLY IT WASN'T.

>> YEAH.

27 TO 10 SCORES A LITTLE MISLEADING.

IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN NEBRASKA PLAYED USC IN LA.

IT WAS A 17 POINTOSS TO PETE CARROLL.

IT WAS NEVER CLOSE, BUT IT WAS NEVER CLOSE.

I MEAN, MICHIGAN STATE ONLY RAN 45 PLAYS IN THAT GAME, 45 SNAPS.

>> AND AVERAGED 1.6 YARDS RUSHING.

>> I MEAN, THEY GOT DOMINANT THEY TURNED IT OVER TWICE.

YEAH THAT SCORE IT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE ALL RIGHT WE'RE GOING TO PLAY STATION TO STATION BASEBALL AND KEEP IT LOW SCORING.

AND YOU KNOW IF THEY TRIED TO OPEN IT UP THAT GAME MAYBE WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOTORSE.

>> LET'S TALK ABOUT THE RECEIPT.

WE ACTUALLY WENT OVER THIS A LITTLE BIT JAY MOORE EARLIER, BUT HOW IMPRESSED HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THE RECEIVER BLOCKING, ESPECIALLY AFTER HOLGORSEN CALLED IT OUT HIS FIRST YEAR?

>> THAT'S I MEAN, THE THE RULES.

LONG TOUCHDOWN FIRST PLAY OF THE SECOND HALF.

GILMER I JUST THE COLANDREA TOUCHDOWN RUN AGAST OHIO.

KEVIN CLARK DID AN AWESOME JOB BLOCKING HIS HIS DEFENSIVE BACK OUT OF THE OUT OF THE OFF THE FIELD.

SOT'S BEEN BARNEY.

HE'S BEEN GOOD.

EVEN THOUGH HE'S GOT A COUPLE HOLDING CLS.

BUT NO IT'S BEEN SO MUCH IMPROVED.

IT'S T TO BE EVEN BETTER ONCE YOU GET INTO BIG TEN PLAY.

>> JAY FOREMAN RHYAN CORCORAN WANTS TO KNOW ON FACEBOOK.

BIGGER CONCERN FOR SPECIAL TEAMS NOT BEING ABLE TO KICK LONGER THAN A 45 YARD FIELD GOAL, OR THE UNNECESSARY PENALTIES >> WELL, I THINK THE PENALTIES ARE MAYBE THE MOST CONCERNING BAUSE THE ONE ING ABOUT REFEREEIN THE BIG TEN, ONCE YOU KIND OF GET THE RAP ON YOU, IS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE SPECIAL OR SPECIAL TEAMS PENALTIES.

THEY JUST THROW THEM ON YOU.

SO YOU WANT TO RELY REMEDY THAT STARTING THIS WEEKEND.

SEAN DO YOU THINK THAT YOU'LL GET TO SEE JOHN.

HOHL.

MAYBE GET A SHOT ON A NG FIELD GOAL BECAUSE HE'S KICKED ONE BEFORE?

>> YEAH, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY WANT TO TRY THE IN A GAME LIKE THIS.

I MEAN, I THINK ONE OF THE LONG ATTEMPTS SATURDAY WAS FOTH AND FIVE.

AND THEY, YOU KNOW, IN SOME SITUATIONS I THINK THEY JUST WOULD HAVE WENT FOR THAT.

BUT I THINK MATT RULE WANTED THE REP TO TO SAY LET'S THERE'S GOING TO BE A BIG TEN GAME WHERE YOU MIGHT NEED THIS.

LET'S REP IT.

LET'S GET IT OUT THERE.

BUT I PERSONALLY AGAINST NORTH KOTA, ESPECIALLY, I THINK IN A LOT OF SITUATIONS, YOU MIGHT HAVE JUST GONE FOR THAT AND THEY LET THEM TRY IT INSTEAD.

>> BENNING.

QUESTION.

>> SEAN.

MY BURNING QUESTION ICAN DANA HOLGORSEN AND ROB AURICH PUT TOGETHER A GE PLAN TO WIN A PHYSICAL BIG TEN FOOTBALL GAME, A GAME AGAINST A VETERAN BIG TEN HEAD COACH AND PAT FITZGERALD?

>> WELL, I THINK THEY C. I THINK THEY'VE SHOWN THEY.

I THINK THEY MATCH EACH OTHER PROBABLY BETTER THAN YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY.

HOLGORSEN AND BUTLER.

SO I THINK IT'S A YOU KNOW EASY FOR THEM TO DO IT.

I THINK EIR THEIR PERSONALITIES MATCH WELL AS WELL.

>> MY MINE IS CAN ARCHIE WILSON FLIP THE FIELD ON A PU?

THERE'S GOING TO BE A COME A TIME WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE PINNED UP.

CAN HE BOOM ONE AND FLIP IT TO CREATE MORE SCE FOR THAT DEFENSE.

>> JAY MOORE KEEPS PICKING ALL THOSE THOSE ALL THOSE SPECIAL TEAMS ONES.

I'M THE JET ARD GUY.

HE KES PICKING THEM.

MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE.

CAN NEBRASKA RUN THE BALL LIKE THEY' RUN NOTRE DAME HAD A COUPLEATE, CHANCES TO GET SOME BIG PLAYS AND DIDN'T GET HIM IN THE RUN GAME.

CAN NEBRASKA TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MICHIGAN STATE, ESPECIALLY SOME OF THAT OVER PURSUIT THAT THEY HAD AGAINST NOTRE DAME?

WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK PAGE AND CLICK ON THE PREDICTION JAY SEAN.

AND I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY.

NOPE, NOT SN.

JAY.

AND JAY WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT ON SATURDAY.

BIG TEN PLAY STARTS ON SATURDAY FOR THE HUSKERS, AND THEY TRAVEL TO EAST LANSING TO TAKE ON MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS.

KICK OFF IS SCHEDULED FOR 4 P.M.

CENTRAL ON THE BIG TEN NETWORK NEXT TUESDAY.

WE'RE BACK TO BREAK IT ALL DOWN AGAIN WITH FORMER HUSR RUNNING BACK AND RECENT NEBRASKA FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER PORK CHOP HIMSELF, CORY ROSS.

FINALLY DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA SPORTS YOUTUBE CHANNEL TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THIS SHOW.

STATE OF VOLLEYBALL PROGRAM, LIVE STREAMS, AND MUCH MORE.

SPECIAL THANKS TO MITC SHERMAN AND HONDO CARPENTER AND SEAN CALLAHAN FOR JOINING US TONIGHT FOR JAY MOORE AND JAY FOREMAN.

I'M MICHAEL SEVERE.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.