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Episode Date: October 6, 2025

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before we get into the sports conversation? I'd like to know how the heck you're doing, sir. Well, I'm doing pretty well. I mean, victory Monday here. There's things that people complain about, I see,

but I'm just happy to get through it with a victory. And I was riding high when my Cardinals were just dominate, looking like headed toward an easy win, and then they do Arizona Cardinals things and blow the game. So that took me down a little bit, but I'm still happy with the Husk's victory. Isn't that just kind of the way things work now is that you fully accepted that we have enough data to realize that we cannot assume anything. We cannot assume anything.

Collect more data, let it finish out. I don't know why there's such a rush to, to, Bach, there's the rush to be first. There's the rush to be first to say, this is good, this is bad. this is how this is going to play out. What is that? What is that humanity? What humane thing is that? That you want to be first more than you want to be right.

You want to be loudest rather than being right. What is that? In journalism, it's trying to get credit for the story, right? So you can, you know, the reference back, okay, who reported this first. But, you know, for people now, of course it is citizen journalism. you will all across social media. So, I mean, I think to a lot of it is that, you know, in that case, you're not really held to your standard.

Like, if you do something wrong in your job as a journalist and you do that too often, you know, you start going to get a reputation for it. If you do that on Twitter, just your own account, whatever, go back, delete the tweets. So, I mean, I think we saw that. And I hope everybody's okay from the situation. But the Mark Sanchez situation was very interesting this week. You think? Yeah.

You think? I mean, the report was. he got stabbed and everybody was saying okay well couldn't you know this couldn't be a better guy is the worst thing that could happen and then as the day unfold it was like well maybe he kind of got himself into that situation see this is the part right i just i want to i have to stay i try to stay in the middle third right to not be extreme to just be present right that i don't need to be at the end of the spectrum where everything is terrible that i don't agree with or that everything is right that I agree with. Right. Like I don't, I don't need to, you know what you know. And if you

collect data and you, okay, if I have more data and it leads me to lean one way or the other, then cool. But it's okay to how many times on this station on this show have I said, hey, let it play out. Let's wait. Let's just wait. Because there's usually more information coming and more information than we know. It's like Bach has gotten smarter in this thing. Bach has gotten wiser as he weighs to his wife. Right? Like that Bach knew.

Okay. consumed enough data about his cardinals. He has consumed enough data about his cardinals that he knows, while this feels really good right now, there's the possibility and not a small chance possibility, but there's a possibility. This could go left, way left. and in order to not throw himself into the middle of the, of the Cardinals caravan of chaos, he simply stayed on the sideline,

cheering politely, and then going, oh, boy. Here we, here we go. Talk got it. Dog got it. And then the final clap, it happened.

It happened. Maryland fans were doing this. Oh, yeah. Right? In full, Penn State fans do it way too much, being that they only lose twice a year, right? But all, but both of those losses every year is the greatest moment of chaos in Happy Valley ever, ever. It's, we forgot that you've ever lost a football game before. Or that it's normal, right? Like, wait a minute. It's a thing.

UCLA fans were just like, we're so sure about the day that we're not even going to go. We're going to miss out on maybe the program's biggest way than years. Right? We're not going. You're not going to get me. You're not going to get me. You're not going to get me to pay good money to go to a half-empty Rose Bowl

where we're not even the majority of fans in our own building. And then, right, you're going to miss out on the greatest performance they've had a while storm the field with hundreds of fans, hundreds of fans, hundreds of Bruins fans. Like, that was... They had never led entering that game. It's just amazing story. College football's incredible with that story.

I laughed so hard. But it was so funny, right? That you've got, they've got New Hazel Jr. on their shoulders. And it is such an awkward moment. like they don't know how to do it. Like they don't know, they don't know how to surround the person that's being elevated so that if he falls,

like he's not just going to do a backwards header into the turf. And then the fear is that if you raise somebody to the shoulders, that the crowd rushing the field will throw him off balance, right? Except they're holding him up and nobody's coming. There's nobody there. There's nobody. There's nobody. There's nobody there.

It's not even happening. Like, what are we doing? And then here's the other. Again, we're just setting the table for the day because it's Monday and it's raining. So I'm just decided I'm going to laugh because otherwise the rain will depress me to no end. Watching college football on on. on Saturday. A couple of things in play.

Bach, did you notice the vibe at Memorial Stadium at all? Not necessarily, I mean, I watched a TV product, so I wasn't in there. I was interesting as I talked to folks that did go. They were telling me there were a lot of booze throughout the game, which

I was a little bit surprised by. Yeah, I didn't understand that. I did understand. Okay, so it's I put this in this is a DP and Bach conversation. So let's say it's WrestleMania, right? Mm-hmm.

Okay, that wasn't WrestleMania. That wasn't wrestling. That was in your house back in the day. Where you were definitely going to see three or four jobber matches, right? You're going to see the Brooklyn brawler a couple of times that you didn't want to see him. Maybe the Red Rooster Terry Taylor. right but but in the featured event you kind of at least hope at some point that you get the performance except for it feels it feels disconnected you're like oh i thought this match was going to be way better

than that like i mean i know it's nebraska michigan state but they're both three and one and they're both playing for something and it just felt like a spring practice it felt like a spring practice where we didn't really know what we were watching we didn't know what to expect. We just knew this wasn't it. Like what what I don't know what we expected but this ain't it. And several moments where it was insanely quiet in that building with 90,000 I've, I can officially say 90,000 people sitting on their hands trying to figure out how this is going to go. how this is going to go.

And there were some of the, the, the traumatic stress disorder vibe. Like, oh, here we, here we go. Oh, this is this. And I could hear the song. Hello, darkness, my old friend.

Right? Because that was the vibe. That was the vibe. This is not going the way the party people wanted it to go. The DJ sucks. The food's, The food's not there.

The beer's warm. It's just, and I'm hot. Like the air conditioner isn't working. I kind of, I'm pondering whether I want to be here. And you're hoping, you're hoping the cool kids show up or the hot kids show up. So we can go,

oh. And then maybe the DJ will figure out, hey, man, give me some Bruno Mars or give me some. And you wanted Bruno Mars, but he gave you come around. running boys. You got it?

You understood it, but it wasn't going to make the party better. And then it took the fourth quarter, going in the fourth quarter, to have the things happen the way they happen. Now, on the punt return, right? The punt return for a touchdown. And it gets called back.

And I just went, oh, no. That's, that's where the key. turns. That's where I thought that's where the villain's going to show up. But they found a way. They found a way to correct themselves, go on the drive, then you make the, you know, you throw the screen, it goes 59 yards to the house, you know, you get a couple of plays, you get a turnover, and it goes the way it goes. So then, Bach, I'll ask you, and I'll ask the text line. In the simplest of terms, how do you grade? How do you grade? the team's performance.

Ooh. Right. Like, right. Tough. Tough to do. Right, right. So on a scale of one at 10, 10 being, 10 being, I'm not sure we gave Huskers 10 against Colorado last year. Right? First half, yeah. Right? First half is the 10, but second half was the four, five maybe. They finished. So you couldn't give them a one in the second half. You average did. Maybe maybe you give it a six, seven, eight maybe.

I don't know. What would you, what would you grade it on a scale of one to ten? What would you grade the team, the player performance, the player. And there may be several questions in that, right? Because there may be, yeah, coach's performance too. Oh, yeah. But player performance, let's start with the team. Let's overall.

grade and text line you're welcome to do this grade the husker football performance saturday well it's interesting too because when you go on this do what i do like the the grade scales if you give them a six out of ten then you know generally it depends on how you look at it like that's a it's better than average or is that you know the the school grades go where that would be failing so it's kind of funny to run through that in your head but ultimately i mean i think you graded a w that's that's the big the most important thing um it was windy wind had very much impacted this game. You know, there was, there was good things.

There were bad things. And a lot of people, as usual, we'll focus on the bad things. But look, Williams-Wanir is a freshman. He was running around out there. Vincent Schavers as well. I mean, so there were some, there was definitely some positives here. So again, I'm not necessarily doing the, the grading scale as far as past fail in, in high school or anything. But if you kind of just go one through 10, I think, again, I think you get maybe a six, six and a half.

It wasn't always the prettiest. There were times when you held your breath. It was downright scary at times. But that's at times, you know, that's something that's been ailing this program, as we know, to finally bunker down, get a win, find a way, find a way, right? And they found a way. And, you know, so I don't know. I mean, I think this was game, it might not be the most aesthetically pleasing, right?

There's certainly things to work on when you come out of it. But again, when you look back at UCLA, Penn State, some of the things that happen around this country, on college football Saturday, anything can happen. And so again, I'm mostly happy to grade into W. Yeah, I think bottom thirds, you get blown out, right? So zero through three, you got blown out. Four through seven, it was a competitive game. It went either, it could go either way.

Seven through 10, you were in control to dominant. Fair? Is that a decent range, right? That zero to three, you could have, you could have, it just was bad. You may have had a player make a play. You may have, okay, there. The middle, that four to six is you win, ugly, lose pretty, right? There were a lot of four to six games over the past five years, right?

A lot of those one score games became fours because you didn't get it done. that could have been a six if you had got it done, right? Seven, if you're in the space, you won the game. So you win the game, you're never below seven, right? Yeah, like you passed the test to 70. You passed the test. Yeah. Under 70, you got some questions, right?

but not failing keeps you above 60. Those are the rules. Like you can fail with a 58. 60, you passed. Probably shouldn't be proud of yourself, but, you know, okay, okay, 70 to 70. You know what, valiant, you're in your lane firmly. You had a clue.

you knew most of the answers. Failed at some things. You need to clean up some areas. Maybe didn't show your work. Show your work. That's always the worst. That's the worst. Red marker, red marker, red marker.

Right. Three red markers. Three red marks. You can win. You can pass and get a C. Be average, right? Be average because that's the lane. Eight through 10 means you were dominant

and you had control, right? You knew, you knew the subject, you did the topic, you prepared, right? You studied. You couldn't have gotten an 80 without study. Right? Yeah. 90, you were showing off, right? Like you, hey man, look, we did a whole bunch stuff.

Like, I think Nebraska volleyball, volleyball got the first 10 of the year in the first set against Penn State. Wow. Right? Like that, that's a 10. Yeah. That's a 10. That's a 10 with bonus. Like we're going to give you the 4-1, the 4.1.

You know, the 4.0 people. Then there's the 4.05 and the 4.1 people. That's what the first set, 25 to 6 is as good as you can fully expect. Then, you know, Rutgers, that's a 9, right? Rutgers volleyball, that was a nine. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. So winning the game by 11, by 11,

mind you, we chuckled at that 11.5 point spread, laughing the whole while going, Vegas always knows. Yeah. The Matrix, the Matrix always knows. Because 11 and a half, right? They're letting you. And they stretched it.

They stretched it. They actually got to 13.5 at some point. Yeah. Right. Right? So that Michigan. state money came in good, especially late in the game. If you're just sitting there, you're just sitting there with a nice lead.

You got, you got a nice lead, Bach. Hey, just don't let them score a final drive. You're talking about a bad loss. You're talking about a bad loss when you're talking about betting, which is why I get, I laugh. When people tell me they're betting, I'm just like, bro, you are a whole different kind of human being than I am. Because that stuff is crazy.

That stuff is crazy. All right. So we'll read some, we'll read some of your text on this thing. Scottie Skir says, for years the fan base has been asking why we can't grant out these gritty wins. When we do, everyone complains about how it looks.

Wasn't pretty. But I'm thrilled they showed up with it mad at most and fought out the win. All valid. All valid. Cody for Broken Bow says, how is Cincinnati top 25 in Nebraska unranked? Because the people who do the run, ranking don't know what they're doing.

That is another D.Pism. Throw out the rankings. Throughout the rankings until week eight. Stop it. Just stop it. We did a whole, I got, people got mad at me for saying, well, why don't you just loosen up and have some fun and do the preseason rankings and then do the, because the number one,

the two teams that everybody thought were the best teams in college football, who hadn't played together, mind you. It took them five weeks to get unranked from number one and number two to not even be ranked. You know, why? Because people were full of crap. They didn't know what they were talking about. We built giants in the off season, every offseason. They didn't know what they were talking about.

And even with data that said head to head, Cincinnati and Nebraska, they were like, yeah. Let's put this today here. Feels good, right? Feels good. Feels good. Feels good. Sure.

Sure. Cincinnati is better than Nebraska. How about that? Because we don't understand the basic premise of ranking. It's to put the teams that we know are better above the teams that are. Do we know that Nebraska is better than Cincinnati? They beat them. They beat them.

Head to head. You have five data pools. Five. And in the first one, Nebraska, and in a way game, a game away from their stadium beats Cincinnati. Period. Point blank, Ex.

Mercer Marys, you put it in Sharpie. Well, we saw, but last year, Oregon did that to Ohio State, then we saw the rematch. Well, but the rematch, if we're talking about a rematch, let Cincinnati stay, again, same record. same record, right? Same record. Same record and we fought and you want.

I don't care who else you beat. If you and I fought and I beat you, I got the bragging rights, bro. Sorry, I don't care who else you beat. I kicked your tail, so nothing you can talk about. Like, we can talk about Michigan all we want. But Michigan say, I don't care who else you beat Nebraska, we beat you.

That's it. I'm fascinated by it all. The ranking system, we'll go through the full ranking because I take, I got receipts to people who were putting up those preseason rankings, Bach. They were so wrong.

They were so wrong. And I'm here for it. Bill and Benis says six and a half. So I think, you know, they didn't, he didn't flunk them, but he not average. not not satisfactory right you can if there's that satisfactory unsatisfactory fail that middle third somewhere along those lines

rubber duck says in second quarter after that block kick there was a nine minute run that Michigan State went on impacted the crowd and tired tired out the defense yeah all of that's true people were sitting on their hands big daddy Travis says Dylan sack five times O-line was a D. His uncle better figure it out before he transfers next year. They need to get some big-time recruits or spread some big money.

Again, all valid opinion and thoughtful. Earthquake goose is eight and a half. We won by 11. Don't care how it looks. We shouldn't be nitpicking 11-point victories. But that's what fans do. um what do you guys mean by this we can still win the nattie

he put the l-l yeah they actually can yeah it's doable there's a path there's a there it is block there's a path um Derek of the car says 4.75 not satisfied so they had too many dumb penalties

at crucial moments otherwise it would have been a blowout you're not wrong de brassica says c plus at best By the way, anybody else going to the Maryland game. I'm going to Maryland game. See you there. See you there. Oh, and I do have to, when we come back for Rick,

I'll tell you the Matt Rule engagement about Maryland that we had yesterday. Yeah. Seven. Neil says seven played well when it mattered. And when you had the win at your back, second and third quarters just had to muster through the mud to win in the fourth. Drew says first quarter was an eight. second and third was a zero fourth was a six i'm not mad at that i mean the zero part kind of tough

kind of tough uh garage justice defensive a offensive a offensive a plus special teams b plus the special teams had a punt they had a block punt for a touchdown a kick a punt return for a touchdown that was called back a 59 yard counted punt return and a b plus man you're the tough professor, man. They recovered that kickoff. Yeah, you're a tough, you are a tough professor. You are a tough Neil. Neal's at the head of the class

with the three rulers taped together. And he is popping knuckles, man. Boy, that win sure affected Archie Wilson, though. I can say that. Didn't affect their guy. He doesn't remember much. We'll talk the matter. I'll tell the Matt

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