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The IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (2.283.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the IU report with Grant Shouse and my Cutsal, actually you're listening to half an IU report with Grant Shouse and my Cutsal.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Technical difficulties, a kick to my butt again.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good at media, bad at the technical side.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's still a solid 10 minutes of the IU report some really good stuff and we'll make it up to you next week.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the next couple of weeks, we have our hate episode lined up, all the teams, coaches, players, and events that I, you fans have hated over the years.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also going to name their all-time I, you football team, with special guest date, Chandley in the next couple weeks.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mike, I guess I'll just cut to the chase.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: On the day we're recording this June 15th, it was announced that Indiana will play North Carolina
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: preseason exhibition game on a neutral floor at Gainbridge Field House and I'm just going to go ahead and say it that I'm getting a little tired of these big powerhouse matchups on neutral floors away from campuses.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not just for Indiana but for college basketball as a whole I'm curious your thoughts on Indiana and North Carolina Gainbridge on October 18th.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just move the whole damn campus in the
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't get it.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I truly don't get it.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know they get money from venues and these vendors are going to take over the events and you know, handle the tickets and everything.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: But and understand the Kentucky series, it kind of had to happen that you played in Indianapolis.
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, if you're a student at Indiana, you're going to go into your senior year.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's the best home game you've seen in four years and non-conference in Bloomington.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's bad man.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: As season ticket holder, I would not be happy.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're getting bowling, green, and Bellarman, and these games at home.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And their ship, and this will be three games in Indianapolis this year, three.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got the exhibition, you got Syracuse, and you're gonna have Kentucky.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's your three biggest non-conference opponents and I get it.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's an exhibition who cares, you should care, because Purdue went to the rough last year and played it in Kentucky.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kansas went to the young center, lovel's going back to Allen Field House this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These games are being played on campus and what's the harm of playing these games on campus?
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: But in the end, we get Marion at home or something for an exhibition game.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: You get bowling green in the Dan dockage bowl.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a good idea.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the disconnect with the students that we've talked about so many times on this podcast can be traced to things like this.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're not giving the students anything to look forward to before the conference season starts.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's just frustrating as a fan to see it play out like this.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I mean, look at Purdue.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're playing an in-state exhibition.
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're playing two of them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Ball State.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: is coming to Purdue for an exhibition.
• 3:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Purdue is going on the road to Purdue Fort Wayne and they're gonna play at the Coliseum.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, Indiana's done that, didn't work out so well.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Didn't go well.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, John, you know.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: John, maybe there's a little magic.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: There'll be a little magic that night.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: John, John, John, are still pulling an NBA contract because of that one game.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: pretty amazing.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: You see teams do that kind of stuff and it just it kind of just supports you.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Indiana North Carolina game to point out is the day after the Indiana Ohio State game for football the next day.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I remember they played Baylor last year and the pretty much same exhibition game on a Sunday the day after the
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was the UCDLA games either used the LA or Michigan State.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: They played that game the day after it is disappointing.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think even the Indiana Kentucky game being at Lucas oil kind of sucks.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a family, but kind of like you said, like I get it, why you, like you kind of have to do that.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like there were plenty of games in D&N and played Kentucky, you know, at the Hoosier Dome back in the day.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Indiana will not play Kentucky at Assembly Hall until 2029, and who knows, like after these two matchups, like they could cancel the series again.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I have no idea.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's just kind of the way these contracts work in college basketball, and now you just don't know anymore.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think the the Indian Kentucky series is probably in a better place now because Calapar is going
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: will come to your town and beat you a calipari with them when they don't beat you they just take you off the schedule for a decade.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's effectively what happened.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're in Cal structure that knowing full well he would not be a Kentucky by the time Indiana went to Bloomington.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: The time Kentucky went to Bloomington.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it was pretty obvious the way they structured that series to two games that were up one in Indianaapolis.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: The last game Cal was never going to still be a Kentucky when that happened.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you remember the bailer
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody went.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was a embarrassment.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was like, and if they have the same company run this and they try to charge the same prices Coming off that Ohio State game where I'm gonna guess a few fans.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's probably gonna be a prime time game unless they get the big noons But and it fans might not be feeling up to driving to Indianapolis the next day because let's face it
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes when you drink a little bit, you just don't want to get up the next morning and go do anything.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I think it's bad business.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would, I would so just love to see them, throw a bone to the students and the season ticket holders, put this game in Bloomington where it belongs.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, what is the harm in it?
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Neither team, it's an exhibition game.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Neither team is losing anything by playing it in Bloomington, but I feel like they're losing
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: the patience of their fan base when they put it in Indianapolis, the way that they are.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: When I saw that, when you sent it to me today, Grant, I just was like, Jesus.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, I mean, just play the Ohio State Game at U of I.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, let's just, let's just go all in on this Indianapolis thing.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's stupid, you know, you have a beautiful campus with great facilities and a lot of history.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: But for some reason, they just,
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't embrace it, and I don't get it.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think financially it makes any sense to do what they're doing.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mike, I'm curious, I know that like six months out on the day where requires for 75 days away from college football.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Are you thinking about kind of going to the Indiana highest state game at all?
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to, um, it's going to take a lot of things at, I mean, that that's, it's exactly what I thought it would be price wise, so, I mean, on paper, is it the game of the year in college football going in the year, going in the year?
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 7:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, some things can shake out a little, you know, differently.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if I'll house state losers that open
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Quite frankly, I think they will that could that could play one hand in a Indiana's got tough games going into that.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Indiana's conference schedule this year is not as conducive to, you know, I think it's a slight step up from last years, which I thought they had tougher games last year, obviously, then signetti's first season.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, both those teams go into that game undefeated one versus two potentially.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: absolutely game of the year.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You could see a couple of losses along the way.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very interested to see how everything plays out before them.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But in the preseason, yes, that's absolutely one of, if not the marquee game going in the next year.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, and I hate saying this and it's one of those things like I've told people, I forgot in what it feels like for that
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I hate this thing and I don't want to say it, but I will, but eventually, it, you know, as it may not even be next year, but at some point, they're going to end up losing again.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: And we're not going to know how to act.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I don't want that to be, I don't want that Ohio State day to be the day that it ends, right?
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't usually, aside from the Illinois game, I usually don't talk.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I usually don't talk shit to the other fans like at Memorial Stadium, but like, I'm already planning on what I'm going to say if if if we win that game.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing, neither does Hudson ever talk to us either.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, ever never, ever in my life ever talks back to another teen's fan base.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then he went on to do just that.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Mike and Grant talked about Brendan Sours being that whole situation, of course, former IU quarterback in the midst of the college football scandal right now.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to that on the next IU report also Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune, Elwood Collider, also an IU grad has opinions on that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll get hers as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Please join us again next week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.