The Dig - Jaylen Reyes

0:00This is the dig on the Huskers Radio Network podcast powered by a meritus featuring Nebraska volleyball associate head coach, Jaylen Reyes. Now here's your host Jessica Coody. Hey, everybody. Welcome back into another episode of the dig and welcome back associate head coach, Jaylen Reyes. Finally, a weekend at home. Yeah, it's really nice. It was actually kind of weird, you know, but uh, home gym. But some different things so much so as even the side of we start on is very different, you know, so but it was, it was great to be back in the demanding center for sure. Okay. So then also playing three matches back to back to back. How was that and just how did the team manage that and the quick turnaround? Yeah, I think, um, one you, you won them all. So that's good. Um, it was a little different, um, but, you know, just for the most part, I, I typically feel like that's kind of how we have done it in terms of like big 10 plays going to be

1:00like that. So it was good to kind of get that under our belt. But, um, I thought, I thought for the most part, we got better, sure Saturday, we got off to a slow start against Georgia Tech. But for the most part, I thought, um, I thought the team did really well. Yeah, that was the big news, right? Huskers drop a set. How did you guys like the way the team responded following that? No, it was great. I mean, I thought we didn't, you know, the, we didn't really start playing to like 220 the problem is the match started at two, right? So, um, you know, made a comeback in the first set. Obviously fell a little short there. And I thought for the most part, we controlled the match from there on out. So, um, I mean, if I'm being honest, the goal is really not to go and defeated. The goal is not to win every single set, you know, I think the goals are, can we get better each and every day? And obviously, let's win the last match of the year. Those are kind of the two big goals. And, um, just because you drop a set, the end, the world's not ending. I know, um, for the most part, we didn't really do much of that last year, but, um, you

2:02know, we got to get better and felt, you know, we, uh, felt a little adversity and had to overcome it, which I think is great for any team in any sport. So, um, you know, shout out to, I especially like Skylar came in and played great, carry came in and played great. And, you know, that's what we're going to need, um, you know, from the people that maybe aren't on the court at the time is like the people on the bench, they're going to be ready to go because, um, you know, ever since, especially ever since Danny's gotten here, she's really proven that she's going to use, she's going to trust these people and, um, we're going to play a not just in matches, we're in control of, we're going to play in matches where we don't necessarily have control at the time and see if you can come and, uh, come in and help us out. That's not easy to do, right? I mean, just come off and be ready to, hey, I'm making an impact immediately. Yeah, I think, uh, it, it all just depends, right? I've, uh, when I, I was a long time ago now, but there's times where I played with players where they were better when they came off the bench purely because when they came in, there is this freedom of, well, if I'm playing something's wrong, so I can't really make

3:04it worse. Versus when they started, um, their mindset change and you could tell their play was affected and they weren't as good, you know, so I don't know. I think there, it just depends on the mentality of the athlete, if that makes sense. And then, um, you know, I think at the end of the day, do they feel the freedom to come in and kind of be themselves, but also, um, go in there and let it rip and, um, you know, I've used Skylar and Carrie for an example, they came in and I mean, not just, didn't miss a beat with them. I mean, they totally changed the trajectory of the match, um, when those two players came in, um, with their play. So, um, really fired up for them and just another example of like, you know, we have these players that necessarily, they don't get all the playing time, um, everyone has to be ready because we're going to need you, um, you know, at a moment, it's not just Skylar specifically. What have you guys seen in her that you felt like you could call on her? Yeah. I mean, Sky's, Sky's had a great, you know, um, you know, beginning of this non-conference season, going back to even when we started training in double days in July at the end

4:05of July, um, numbers why she's been great. Um, she's made a ton of improvement, especially on her attacking. That's kind of what we, you know, brought her in for was attacking and blocking. Um, I mean, she's made improvements in all parts of her game, but, um, you know, for an example, um, Georgia Tech's opposite was having a really, really good first set, set and a half. And, um, we even spun the dial in terms of what rotation we started in set three and Skylar went, made her hitting percent. I think she was hitting like 500 through the first couple sets to, you know, she would kind of brought her back down into like the low 200s for a little bit there. Um, and that was just Skylar's impact blocking. And, um, you know, I thought she did a really nice job of like attacking the deep parts of the court, right versus trying to like hit the ball low to the tape and get blocked, um, which we were struggling with earlier. And in the match as a position group, Skylar came in and just took a bunch of high swings and, um, kind of just got us rolling. You know, I kind of, we ended up bringing T. Siggler back into the game later in that fourth set.

5:05And I almost felt like she just like carbon copied what Skylar was doing, right? She, Skylar subs in for her. T watches her, supports her for two sets, see Skylar having all this time of success. T goes back in there and think she took about seven or eight swings. I think she killed five of them. And most of them were just like attacking the deep parts of the court, you know, so, um, you know, I just thought like Skylar really, really turned the game for us, not just attacking, but also just like setting up in a really good spot on their best player or I shouldn't say the best player, but the player that was hurting us the most, um, you know, especially early in the match on Saturday. How much has her blocking improved? Her blocking, if I'm being honest, like she's, she came in as a freshman, as a really good blocker. So as blocking, um, you can improve, but there's just certain kids that just have like a knack of where to like just honestly just put their body and put their hands. Um, I think we've made upgrades to her in our time. So she has improved, um, but I don't want to take all the credit. I think Skylar's done a really, really nice job. But she's really, she's, she's came in at, I think that was always kind of a success

6:09for her. She was always a really good left side blocker in terms of like being able to slow down the slide. She's probably the biggest hinderant to, um, Monaya and Andy in terms of like in practice, um, in terms of like when they hit the slide, obviously, everyone sees the matches were pretty successful at doing that. Skylar's probably like the biggest deterrent in terms of, hey, when you set the ball in the Skylar, it's not an automatic kill like it is normally. So, um, she does a really, really good job. Just like a lot of our left side blockers, but I would say she's definitely the strongest left side blocker for us right now. Danny mentioned in her, her post game about T coming back in and we wanted to swing away. And that's what she got back to. Why does maybe one player not swing away in the, to start a match? Yeah, I mean, just, I think sometimes you just come in and sometimes you just don't have it early, right? It's like why does, you know, why does Price Sanford decide to miss all the shots in the first part of the first half? Yeah. He's not choosing to. It's just, it's just not going in. Maybe the defense is doing something a little different, which I thought Georgia Tech did

7:10a really good job of. They served her a lot of balls. So I think maybe that affected her rhythm. I also think she took some good swings and just didn't kill him, you know, she tried to hit a ball down the line and her and I was watching on video and she's talking about all these things she could have done different. I go, yeah, but like, see, the other teams allowed to make a good play too, right? So I think there's just a little bit of her rhythm was thrown off. And I think maybe when your rhythm gets thrown off, maybe sometimes you can get in your own head and like throw your rhythm off even more, maybe overthink it a little bit. And then I thought they did a really good job attacking with her serve. So it just, I think it was like a snowball effect, you know, you get that player out, they get a little reset, they get to kind of watch like, oh, okay. This is what I needed to be successful. She goes back in and she pretty much, pretty much ended the game for her. For us, you know, so that was really good to see being able to respond through adversity as a team, but also individually. But yeah, no, I think that's really important. There's going to be times we're going to take anyone out and we'd love to be able to go

8:10back to them and, you know, it gets to the point where the tournament where we might take someone out, we're going to put you back in. We have to put you back in because there's no tomorrow's not guaranteed, right? Saturday, tomorrow was guaranteed. But in the tournament, there's no tomorrow's, right? Guaranteed tomorrow. Just because we take somebody out, that doesn't mean, oh, we're done with them for the day. Like we'd love to see them be able to like, okay, so hey, there's going to be another time this season. We might take T out again. We know, hey, the last time we did this, she came in and responded really well, you know? So that's something that we're really, really, you know, I was as a position coach, it was really, really excited to see. Manaya Obeche was the big 10 player of the week. What did you guys like about her and what allowed her to go off this weekend? Yeah, I mean, she killed the ball. I mean, at the end of the day, like, you got to kill a ball, you know, so her blocking is really improved. I mean, she's touching a lot of balls there, but I don't know, I didn't vote on the big 10 player of the week, but I think they probably just saw like how many kills she had and how efficient she was doing it, you know, but it's like her range is an attacker, right?

9:14She can hit the slide cross-court. She can hit down the line. She can move the ball in front and she's also being able to hit like the efficient as an attacker at different parts of the net, which, you know, we want all our attacks. She wanted to do because then it just makes it really hard. You need five or six plans to stop Manaya versus, okay, she can only hit this set in this situation and she hits it in this direction. A little easier player to stop, you know, so the fact that obviously she's so physically gifted, but now her development in terms of being able to like hit the ball all over the court from different parts of the net and makes it really, really hard. And obviously we had a great pretty good setter set net and I thought ball handling, we're doing a pretty good job, you know, ball handling, whether it's in transition or serve receive. So we can, I guess, increase the opportunities to set her. So, but yeah, a lot of it is just the work that, you know, her, Brennan, the rest of the middles and Danny have put in to make sure that she's also available to get set, you know, and the fact that we don't need like these perfect situations, ball handling wise

10:17to set, not just hard, but Andy and, and Ciannion and, and Kenna as well, I think really, it just makes it really hard because it's not just hello Nebraska can only set the quick if they pass perfect. So if they're passing someone not perfect, those opportunities go away from those guys. It's like, you know, it's actually, I think, I mean, I don't know, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I almost think I like those medium situations are numbers go up because the other teams are not necessarily super ready for it. Yeah. You know, so Lauren has talked a lot about the blocking duo between Monaya and Harper Murray. What is it about those two that they block so well together? Yeah. I mean, Harp, Harp's probably, Harp is a very, how do I say this? Like she's very like cerebral in how she goes about blocking, you know, she, she understands, she sees the ball out of the setter's hands really well. She can kind of predict, okay, where is this ball going to be hit at? You know, sometimes that's like the biggest thing is like the actual setup over where you are, right?

11:18Blocking at its symbol symbol as form is getting your hands over the net where the other person's going to make the ball cross the net, right? Like that as simple as we can make it. But sometimes that, that where I, where I should go, where I should jump from and where I should put my hands, it's not as simple if that makes sense, especially as the people set the ball faster. And then Harp does a really good job of like maybe getting outside her body a little bit just in case maybe, hey, maybe her body's too far inside and they're going to hit the ball down the line. She can kind of reach outside herself and then, you know, maybe she kind of blows by it, maybe she can dive back in. And then Manaya is doing a really nice job of just like, again, kind of reading with the setter, you know, is telling her kind of reading where she's going to go about it, getting her eyes on the right things at the right time. And then obviously both of them are, you know, elite athletes which help. And, you know, we feel like, okay, hey, we can just get them somewhat accurate information of what to look for and maybe a tendency of where people like to go, free them up to be great athletes. And then, you know, both of them have a really good knack of, you know, touching the ball

12:20a lot. Blockers, great blockers. They don't block the ball every time, but they tend to touch the ball a lot. Both of them, even when they're not getting stuff, they touch the ball a lot, right? And it's, I mean, this is like something as elementary as possible. It's like, if you don't touch the ball, you can't block it, right? Like, like, you know, it's like, well, they're going to get tooled once in a while. I'm like, but yeah, but like if they get tooled a lot, it means they touch it a lot. And they touch it a lot. That means they can block the ball, right? And people are like, big on not getting tooled. I mean, I think that's important, but there's also a factor of like, I've been around players that never get tooled, but they never touch the ball. So if you never touch the ball, right, it's like physically impossible for you to block it, right? So those guys touch the ball a lot and now we're just cleaning up their mechanics. But you know, for the most part, I think those guys do a really nice job. Just physically, they're also really gifted. So that helps. What does it say about Harperwin? Again, maybe not everything going perfectly offensively, but she's finding some of other ways to impact the game. Yeah, I mean, that's at the end of the day, right? Your six rotation outside, it's six rotations.

13:21And it's like besides in system setting, like Bergen does for us. She pretty much does every skill, right? We talked to her blocking. She's been passing really well, serve the ball really well. I thought like that was, that was the other turn in the game too was I think Kerry came in and served great. Bergen started turning up her serve and he started serving a lot of balls in and like difficult. And Harper, Harper served a bunch of aces where I think it, you could tell it like spooked their serve received. So now even like easy serves weren't as easy anymore. We kind of got them on our heels and now we just serve the ball in and now they're not putting the ball in the net. So yeah, it's awesome to see her, you know, I think there was like some sort of clip of me and Harper and Vegas, I guess, like on social media. And the biggest thing I mean, I thought everyone thinks I'm like yelling or I'm really not yelling at her. Because more of just like getting her to like, hey, you're more than just an offensive player. Everyone's going to talk about your offense. Everyone's going to talk about it all the time. They're going to overanalyze it as much as you want. If you don't kill the ball, we should bench you, right?

14:22If you don't kill every single set, we should bench you, right? That's like the narrative that it's just such a false narrative. I, you know, it's like nobody kills every single ball, right? And but it's like just because you're not killing the ball, can you find other ways to contribute, you know, and making sure like, yeah, killing the ball is important. Like for sure. And that's what we're working on. And you know, I'm not going to lie. She's not been off to a great start offensively. But we've played seven games in a hopefully a season that's about 40, you know, we're going to play three after this weekend. We're going to play three matches. So a third of our season is going to be played in the next five days. You know, you play three good matches. Everyone thinks you're the, you know, and just I get it. We live in this world. What have you done for me? What have you done for me in the last swing, right? Like that's the world we live in. And then that's, that's the world that here in Nebraska volleyball, all of us live in, right? Like, hey, we don't block a ball. We should fire Jayland. He doesn't know how to stop anybody. And I get it. Like I totally get that part of it. But like those are expectations that are not from the coaching staff and the locker room

15:28and up to the end of that. That's the most important thing. So, Harp, we need you to make sure like, hey, you pass really well. You can set Andy, Monaya. And then on top of that, it gets you out of your funk offensively, which I really do believe she's going to start the season at the end of the day. Like, I don't know about everybody else, but like I'd rather speak in November and December because that's all that we're going to remember. No one remembers how good we played or honestly, even cares how good we played this time in the last year. All they remember is all they want to ask me about last year is Texas A&M. Yeah. So let's just make sure we play good those last six weeks and everyone's going to be happy and we look like the greatest things on earth. You know, we don't then. Yeah. I think that's just important to remember to, I think probably people from the outside just watching the game thinks it's about killing, but she does so many other things. Yeah. I mean, there's she does so many things that you don't know like like one of statute necessarily doesn't tell you. Yeah. You know, she allows us to play certain lineups or allows us to, you know, because Olivia

16:30and her and Laney and her and the combination of those three, it allows maybe T-Sigler, Skyler, Pierce to like, hey, I just got to be great offensively. I don't need to do all these things because these guys, like that's the part that, you know, even sometimes the players lose track of it's like, hey, you're a six rotation outside hitter. There's a lot of the game we need you to do. And just because she's got enough to a slow start these three weeks, we're not, you know, like we're just, we don't need to like overreact to these certain things. And yes, there are things that as a staff and Harper, we've discussed, you know, but we're also trying to find as a coaching staff ways where we can relieve pressure off of her too because we know she knows like she's not playing great offensively, you know, and there's a bunch of other factors too. It's not just Harper, right? A lot of it's coaching. I can coach her better. I can put her in a position to be more successful. You know, but at the same time, I don't want to, I don't want her to lose track of, you

17:33know, all the other things she's doing for us because everybody out there in the world thinks, you know, from their couches, they think they know what they're talking about. Like we just need her to be great in these certain situations. And when she does that, I also just think when you do that, like the volleyball guys reward you. And like she'll start picking up some rhythm. It's a really long season. And at the end of the day, everyone's just going to remember what we do in November and December anyway. The thing about that though too is teams still have to plan for her defensively. It still have to match up with her defensively going back to your price, Sanford analogy. Teams are not going to not guard him just because he's shooting it well because it any given moment, he's going off. Yeah, he can go off and now it's like, oh my gosh, he's the best player in the big, you know, so it's just, I don't know, I get it. The world we all live in, right? Because of everything that goes on nowadays, it's like, and the importance of the program, the, the amount of eyes on the program and also the mind of eyes on Harper, right? You know, because of her play, because of what year she's in, because of all the stuff

18:34she gets to do off the field, right? It's one of those things. You know, for us, it's like a lot of that is just managing, hey, yes, you got to, you got to bring out an Adidas soccer ball at a World Cup game. But that doesn't also mean you're a perfect volleyball player, right? Like you got to this stage because you were, you just were out there having fun, getting better and not focused on being perfect. Let's not change that now. Why are we changing that? You know, you're first team on American tears in a row. I don't think we necessarily have to go and reinvent the wheel. Let's just like spice it up a little bit, but we got to get the wheel turned in again. And I'm fairly confident we're going to do that. All right. Another thing I wanted to ask you about is the five one rotation. And within you have two front row attackers. I know this was talked a lot about in the broadcast as well when you get stuck in that. And Danny had said she didn't feel like it was a trend until this weekend. When you guys went back and evaluated that, why, why, why did that become an issue this weekend? I mean, a lot of the, a lot of the five one rotations we got stuck in, a lot of those were

19:34honestly simply the fact of like we didn't pass very good in those rows. So passing wasn't, that's when we kind of like hemorrhage points passing, you know, and I hate to like dump like, you know, hey, there was this play. Maybe we hit the ball too low or we made an hitting error in this rotation, you know, stuff like that. A lot of those we just, if I had to like talk, you know, the root of the problem, not the lowest hanging fruit each play, we didn't pass very good, you know, team serve the ball really well. I thought Baylor and Georgia Tech especially serve the ball really well. And then, you know, the ball gets and then just because we have, there's only three attackers on the court to only in the front row. If we don't pass great, Bergen Riley is not a threat at the net. So it eliminates something slide or the dog, we call it dog, but the slide behind the setter off one foot to be set to my nine Andy. It just becomes statistically a lower percentage play, not low, but it's just not as high percentage of play. It's kind of like the corner three is the high percentage, but we're now shooting the

20:36three that's farther away from the elbow. It's just a lower percentage shot. It doesn't mean you're not going to make it, but it's just lower percentage, right? So I thought a lot of it was just passing for per se and now, hey, if we don't pass good at all, now we're just setting a high ball out to the left right now. And, you know, I would say especially against Baylor and Georgia Tech are left weren't as efficient in those situations. So it just kind of stems from passing, but then it kind of bleeds into some other things that honestly, I'm excited about because now we get to get better. You know, I felt like people asked me all the time last year, right? Like, hey, would you guys would losing help you guys? And obviously like, because we lost the answer probably is yes, because we didn't get what we wanted. For me though, I think the root of that was we didn't necessarily feel like we got pushed last year. We got pushed now. So I'm actually super fired up. So yes, do I wish we played better, but I'm also fired up because like this is the thing

21:36people said we needed last year that I'm just going to roll with and take. So we need to get better in certain situations, but at the same time, we responded when we needed to and at the end of the day, like, that's what we need really is like we need to respond in those situate those tough moments. And I thought we did as the players that started on the court and, you know, three or four bench players that came in, they really helped us do that, you know? I think it's so fascinating because it's like, again, just the amount of eyeballs on this team, they're so good. There's so many expectations. But the way that you coach, I'm sure, is also had to change throughout the years. I mean, 10 years ago, 12 years ago, you got into it. Did you ever expect you have to coach a team like this where it's just like you're managing almost perfection? Well, I mean, that's the problem. No, problems, not the right word. That's just when they were, when I say they, you know, let's go back two years ago, right? Where Olivia, Skylar, refreshman, Harper, Laney, those guys were sophomores, right?

22:40They don't like this perspective, right? They don't know any better. They're like young players, even three years ago now, right? They're like, they're freshmen. They're like all probably just like, wow, we can't believe we get to play for these guys, you know? But now it's like, there's more expectations. And it's honestly, it's not even really from the outside. It's just they have expectations for themselves, which is awesome. But then sometimes they can be the biggest defenders of themselves in terms of like, they can, I know, all for them. And if you sat all four of them down here, you, they would probably emits you like, they can be the biggest defenders of like their own success as anybody in terms of their expectations getting in their own way, you know? So you're trying to manage, are we getting better? But like, look at the level of success you guys have had. It's not like we have to like reinvent something. We just need to make little tweaks and changes and stuff like that. But also the younger players are good enough to help you, right?

23:43Like Maniah, like T, like Skylet or like Olivia, like Campbell Flynn is able to come in and set the offense to total confidence in her. I mean, I can mention the whole team, you know, but the younger players are able to kind of help you guys, right? You don't have to carry. You don't have to carry in terms of you, if you harbor, if you don't kill 25 balls a night, we're not going to win. Like that's not true, right? It's proven that's not true because she's not doing it and we're still, you know, winning and we're, you know, still beating some pretty good teams, you know, hey, yeah. If I could press a button before every game and say, harbors going to kill 25 balls a night, I'm going to probably, as a coach, I'm going to say, yes, of course, you know, but the one thing I think we have is we have a lot of outs, right? We might have as many outs as anybody in terms of we have a few players, we have a lot of really good players and everyone, a lot of them can help us win, but really big time matches and we can win in a bunch of different ways. Like Baylor, we weren't great defensively.

24:43We just outhit them, you know, and then Georgia Tech, we weren't great passing. We probably weren't great passing for like a few sets there, but like our offense was good enough to withstand that and then we started playing great defense, right? So we're able to like mold in terms of how do we need to win this game and the girls are able to adjust and be able to like, okay, you know, we're able to win this. We're not reliant on one player playing great. And I think that's the strength of this team and I know how much necessarily the public wants it to be this one player all the time because maybe it helps them get an individual award for us. We're not really about that. We're kind of about like, let's just win the big team award at the end and let's check all the boxes on the way. Are we checking out the boxes right now? No, maybe performance wise or metrics wise. No, but it's a long season. It's a long season and we just need to be really good at the end. And you know, as someone that's been here a long time that we've won a lot of things.

25:45We've beaten really ranked teams and we've played in these cool venues and we've won big 10 championships and gone to final fours. My single focus is for those last, you know, that last tournament, can we play six great matches in a row, you know? And then, but we also be ready for the adversity that will come. We don't know when it's going to come. We don't know how it's going to come, but are we going to be ready for that? You know, and like, for an example, maybe something happens, knock on wood, something happens. We got a call on Skylar. Hey, we needed Skylar in a big moment and she delivered. You know, so that's just something that we learned about ourselves, you know, that. Hey, it hit the road and it was really awesome. And now we're able, like, that's another out we might have, right? So, you know, people might say, Oh, Jaylin, just putting a positive spin on this. I am for sure. But at the end of the day, like, I also am one that I think if you brought Danny in here, she would tell you like, Jaylin's the whole poker in terms of like, we need to get

26:46better here. I know we're good at this, but we need to get better out there. Trust me, there's enough whole poking going on to where our players know we need to get better. But at the same time, it's a long season on them. And I just feel like just hammering someone's hitting percentage all the time. Like it doesn't necessarily help. Yeah. You know, because I've seen that happen in volleyball teams and it doesn't help and it becomes, makes it this really long season versus relieving some pressure here or there and going about it a different way. And I've seen it really help in those situations. You know, well said, all right, let's talk Creighton in this matchup. I mean, going to be a sold-out crowd inside pinnacle bank arena, which will be a little bit different. You know, I think it's a reminder for folks that, yeah, that's in Lincoln, but it's not the home gym, not like you guys practice in there all the time. You have played in there, but just overall this rivalry, this matchup, how is it grown and how excited it is? How exciting is it to get to play in this kind of thing? Yeah, I mean, I feel like I'm a little biased, right? By the time I got to Creighton or to Nebraska in 18, Creighton was really good. In fact, that we were down to zero my first year up in Omaha.

27:49You know, we ended up coming back and giving reverse sweeping on. But ever since I've gone, been part of this matchup, it's been a top 20 top 15, sometimes even top 10 matchup. There's never a seat available. In fact, they just keep putting more seats in these big arenas. Last year, we had the parents literally sitting right behind the bench, which was kind of odd. But I don't know. I think it's just like we've talked about, I think I've, I know I've talked about on this podcast in terms of like how much volleyball means to this state. I feel like this is, this is like the birthday of volleyball in the state of Nebraska, like the Creighton Nebraska. Like if there's like a celebration day every year, I know we had volleyball day back in 2023, but I almost feel like this is the annual big party for Nebraska volleyball. The state of Nebraska volleyball is the Creighton Nebraska match. I mean, it's a, it's usually an awesome Jersey game, right? We got the, you know, you got the blue in the red. You got it in the crowd. Sure, I'm hoping we see way more red, which we would usually do in this game.

28:52But I mean, I just think also it's like a, it's a credit to like what KBB and, you know, Coach Rosen have done there too, right? If this was just one way traffic completely and there was only successive one program, this wouldn't be as talked about of a match as it is. But it's talked about each and every year because, because both programs usually go on to have really, really good seasons. And I think they're going to, they're going to continue to do that. And I mean, I just seen over the years, like the level of recruit, those guys have brought in has gotten better and better and better and the amount of support that, that program gets from a fan support from, obviously from, you know, maybe some, even from their admin stuff and facilities wise, like they're getting more and more each and every year. I don't know, I'm, this is a match where, yeah, sure, when you come to Nebraska, you think, I get to coach against Texas, I get to coach against Penn State, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Stanford, Kriya and it's definitely in that tier to where, like I look forward to this game every year. Please one, we played every year, which is great. You know, and the fact that we now we're playing in pinnacle and now we get, we'll up to

29:56the CHI. I would be, I don't think there's another in state game, non-conference that both teams now play in a neutral venue because the, the ticket demands. I don't think there's anything. And it's, I mean, it's not shocking. It's in Nebraska. The state loves volleyball. And I think the other thing too is like a lot of our players know their players, you know, I think of Olivia. Olivia played with a lot of the players on that team, Kerry played with a lot of players on that team because this, and then, you know, you have, you know, they're not in state kids, but Skylar's teammates with a bunch of their kids because they're, you know, they're local, but not local Kansas City. And then you have a bunch of, you know, South Dakota kids on the team and Bergen grew up with a lot of them and stuff like that. So there's so much familiar, familiar faces on that side, you know, there's a lot of those kids that came to our camps growing up, you know, so it's just familiar faces all over the place, you know, that makes it fun.

30:56It just, you know, there's a lot, there's people wearing red and there's people wearing blue, which I think is pretty awesome. I don't know if nice is the right word, but it's almost like this is the one nice, great Nebraska matchup because it gets pretty heated on the basketball floor, you know. Yeah, I've heard that, you know, so I don't know if it's nice between us. I think there's just a lot of, there's respect. There's respect and I'm sure I'm sure Coach Mack and Coach Boyd and we respect each other too. So I don't want to make it like. We're so fan base, I guess. I don't, yeah, be interesting. You know, I've heard, I don't, I don't remember what's his name, the 24 seven guy I heard he's buying drinks for everybody. Oh, that was a 25. John Rostin. Yeah. So I don't know what he was thinking. I hope he's got like, I hope the limits on that card or, you know, I'm sure, I'm sure someone, I'm sure this is some sort of write off. Maybe someone can fact check that for me, but I don't know what he was. I'm kind of bummed. I don't get to participate seeing that. This is like a celebration of the basketball team, you know, and I felt like, man, we're all right and dying with those guys. So smarter that guy doing it like from five to serve versus if he went four to five, yeah,

32:02that would be. You know, if you wear blue though, you're not allowed. I just know, I know Lincoln, I know PVA, the vault is going to be very tuned up for the game tomorrow night, which I'm excited for. No, if he was quite prepared for when he's trying to do something, I was like, did someone help him pick that day or like, you know, I don't know. Is he a volleyball guy? Is he going to be here too? We'll be after tomorrow. Okay. Perfect. I would imagine that's a experience. He can come sit next to me or he can come stand next to me during the game, you know, you'll give him your, your, I guess, seat on the bench. Yeah, exactly. I don't really have. That's why I'm going to show you that that's one of my biggest joggers everybody. I'm like, you can have my seat during the game. And someone goes, you don't sit during the game. I go, I know that's why it's the joke. I don't have a seat. So I'm giving you something that I don't actually have being come pace with me if you want. Yeah. Well, awesome stuff. As always, great to chat with you and best of luck to you this week. Thanks guys. Go be red. And Jalen Riyaz, associate head coach here with us on the Dig. Emeritus is proud to power the Dig in all of Oscar women's sports. Thanks for listening and watching.