JoJo Domann
Nebraska Linebacker
On what can be said about the loss
"I don’t know Sean, I thought you'd have something to say. I just know this hurts. It’s hard to put into words right now. Honestly, I need to sleep on this. It's play to win the game. You know? You’ve seen the guy here say it, that’s why we’re out there. It hurts. I'm in pain right now. I don't really have the words to describe it."
On losing momentum before halftime
"I don't know. I didn't feel what you're talking about....at all. I thought we were in good shape going into half. You're up by three. Yeah, I mean, how you come out of the second half score, stop, you know, sets the tone. I don’t think we did either. So yeah, it's a game of inches. And we lost by a few."
On Purdue’s running game
"No, we were kind of ready for it. They had to establish the run to set up the pass, so if they couldn’t run the ball we're just gonna drop eight so that's probably their game plan every week is to establish the run to open up the pass. So we just have to play fundamentally sound and hold our gaps, talk well, etc."
On the vibe of the crowd toward the end of the game
"I mean, I noticed that people were leaving, but that had no affect on the game. And honestly, I don't really care. So it is what it is. Plus your faithful stands by us. Fairweather, we don't need you. That’s how it's always been, and always will be."
On the on-side kick and whether he thought Nebraska recovered
"I thought we did. Yeah. Yeah, they had all the momentum. And so we went down to score and were an onside kick away. And a touchdown away from winning, this close, you know, throughout the entire game, just little things here, little things there. We’re all going to, when we hit the pillow tonight, just replay those things in our head and what we had control over and what we didn’t and we were talking in the locker room, how it'd be easy to give up, right about now. Really easy, guard. It’s less painful when you're one foot in one foot out. But that's not what this program stands for, that’s not what Coach Frost stands for and what I stand for. And we have to continue to lean into this. Three games, spoiler alert, win all three and go to a bowl game. The ups and downs that we've been through, and all the adversity that we face, like everything that we want is still in front of us, which is hard to fathom even at this point. We've got to do, we've got to do little things. And individually, we've got to do little things a little differently. It's our approach. It's our mindset, it's our habits. Can we can we just shift our approach just this much individually and then collectively, it all shifts to where things roll in our favor you know, when the ball bounces in our hands and not there's."
On whether Nebraska played with an edge over the past two games
"I think we did in the second half against Minnesota, and I thought we did today. It's not a matter of one, two, for us. You can't you can't challenge like our one, two like that. Just be like the man in the arena quote, like that's just unfair, plain and simple. But, there obviously there's something that's not creating the result that we want. And, you know, I'm here for three games, hopefully four games left in this thing. I'm gonna do my part in bringing everything that I have to the table, and to building the sculpture and representing this and to represent the last name on my back, and that's what I'm worried about."
On Purdue’s offense
"They study tape, too. And they're going to use our leverage against us and style offenses. An offense's philosophy is take what the defense gives you, if they're playing inside leverage, go outside, outside to inside, it's fairly simple. It's just about execution. And for me, specifically, like they RPO to make me wrong. If I’m inside leverage, they’re going to run away from me, if I’m outside, they’re going to run away from me. So, it's tough because you're, you're in a run-pass mind. And it's just the name of the game. I wish I could play those a little better at times, I'm this close to jumping one or tackling it for no gain. So yeah, that's the game of football."
On coming back for his sixth year and facing adversity
"I mean, it's a combination of all that. When we're training in the winter, training in the summer, you know, you visualize manifest. Dream about how the season's going to go and it hasn't gone that way. I mean, it rarely goes how we think life's gonna go. But I'm just disappointed for this program, for the state, and for the guys in our locker room, like, man, we're a tight-knit team. I told the guys last night, like, I have the most fun with the guys in the locker room that I've had in a long time. Like, since high school. And we want to win, we work hard, like we go down there. You know, I know they don’t let you guys into the practices, but we work our butts off. And we do everything that coaches ask of us. And we're still in this situation, so touched on it before, like, we just can't be defined by these moments. And even though, you know, like we have this emotion attached to the win or loss, we play for Nebraska, you know, I take pride in that. And I demand respect about that. And that's how I play the game, is I want to want to earn respect out there. Wins and losses are beyond me, you know. So, appreciate you guys sticking with us and not digging in. It'd be really easy to dig in from out there. So hang with us, man. We're doing our best and it'll turn around eventually and when it does, it’ll be that much sweeter."
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