Thursday: Kyle Crooks

What's, what's your kind of read on just the mood after a game like that? It could go a couple of directions, you know, just, uh, obviously frustrated for a missed opportunity.

But on the other hand, I could certainly see how, you know, I don't think you wanna say this, but, uh, uh, but the, I mean, I, if...

I'm more confident in the team than I was going into that game.

I don't know how they feel about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, same.

I, I, I didn't know how to gauge how Nebraska matched up against Indiana going in.

Everybody asked me, "Hey, what's your, what's your feeling on the game?" I looked at Indiana, I said, "Man, they, they run the ball.

They don't turn the ball over.

Uh, they defend at a high level." And, and you check so many boxes in what it took to potentially win that game.

You held them to 65 yards rushing.

Mm.

This is a team that averaged 250 a game.

They had back-to-back games with 250, uh, 200-yard individual rusher, and you held them to 65 total, uh, yards on the ground, and you put them in the positions that you needed to win the game.

You put them in third and long.

You were great on third down defensively.

They were one of 10 on third down.

Um, that's why...

But champions do what they do.

Mm-hmm.

Right? And they find ways to win, and it was four plays, three or four plays that were the difference in the game, and, and the explosives.

But, um, you know, there were lack of details defensively on, on those plays.

If you ask the coaches, there's, there were coverage busts and things that obviously were drastically wrong on those three or four plays.

So, um, you know, champions find their way.

But to me, I'm, I'm encouraged.

What's, what's your kind of read on just the mood after a game like that? It could go a couple of directions, you know, just, uh, obviously frustrated for a missed opportunity.

But on the other hand, I could certainly see how, you know, I don't think you wanna say this, but, uh, uh, but the, I mean, I, if...

I'm more confident in the team than I was going into that game.

I don't know how they feel about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, same.

I, I, I didn't know how to gauge how Nebraska matched up against Indiana going in.

Everybody asked me, "Hey, what's your, what's your feeling on the game?" I looked at Indiana, I said, "Man, they, they run the ball.

They don't turn the ball over.

Uh, they defend at a high level." And, and you check so many boxes in what it took to potentially win that game.

You held them to 65 yards rushing.

Mm.

This is a team that averaged 250 a game.

They had back-to-back games with 250, uh, 200-yard individual rusher, and you held them to 65 total, uh, yards on the ground, and you put them in the positions that you needed to win the game.

You put them in third and long.

You were great on third down defensively.

They were one of 10 on third down.

Um, that's why...

But champions do what they do.

Mm-hmm.

Right? And they find ways to win, and it was four plays, three or four plays that were the difference in the game, and, and the explosives.

But, um, you know, there were lack of details defensively on, on those plays.

If you ask the coaches, there's, there were coverage busts and things that obviously were drastically wrong on those three or four plays.

So, um, you know, champions find their way.

But to me, I'm, I'm encouraged.