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Iowa Football gets a Friday game at Washington, Ben McCollum Contract extension, BIG Announcement with KXNO & Circa Sports with Mike Palm · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller with
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you for the next couple of hours to talk sports with you.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Busy program, bottom of the hour, Mike Palm is going to join
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us. He's the VP of operations at
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Circus Sports Kicks and Owens Circa teaming up.
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More details coming up at 12:30. I'll be listening for that as we
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will have Mike Palm on. We will talk about the
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announcement a little bit and also pick his brain as they kind
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of await the NFL schedule to be released.
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And that should be next Thursday pursuant to their contest.
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Well, Survivor contest is the how they're going to do that.
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But the NFL schedule apparently will be coming out next week.
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We'll talk to Mike about that. Vegas along with Des Moines.
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Did you see that from Matt Nortlander here today amongst
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the I think there was probably 8 cities that are in consideration
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to be the second Dayton, Des Moines is one of which.
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Interesting. That's what I found.
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And by the way, Sean and Ben Giselisson, as Lucas is out
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today, he's headed to Chicago for the weekend, are going to
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have Chris Connelly on from the Event Center.
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Very timely. Yeah, very timely.
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So what if there's something to it?
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But Des Moines apparently is in the hunt.
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We'll see where it goes. But that's Matt Norlander from
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CBS Sports who just covers college basketball.
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I mean, that's his beat and he's his wealth in connected in that.
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Is anybody not saying it's going to happen?
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They do have some competition. But Des Moines is on that list
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of potential sites to, to, to join Dayton Rather as site #2
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what do you think that if Connelly had his way, Yes, I'm
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guessing that Lucas, Lucas, Sean will ask him.
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What would you rather see in the No, no, not.
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This isn't a Connelly question. This is a Condon question, a fan
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question. The first weekend of the
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tournament, coming to Des Moines every five years, five years or
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lock in the first two days of the tournament, the appetizer
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for 10 years. What would you rather see?
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Because of the experiences that I've seen at the former Wells
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Fargo Arena, now the KC Center, the year that we had Kansas and
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Kentucky and Indiana and the blue bloods there.
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We lucked out, man. The huge upset when Arkansas
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pulled off an upset knocking off, I think, Kansas that year.
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There's been some incredible, great games.
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The number of programs that come to our city, talking to fans of
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those people. Des Moines City.
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Des Moines is a nice city. Yeah, I had no idea.
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As opposed to come in for a day, if you win, you're jetting off
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to the next destination. You lose, your season's over.
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It is once every five years. Because we all know, look, this
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is something that people did not want.
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They did not want the expansion outside of coaches.
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And me. And I'm back on it.
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Yes, Yeah. And Doster's dead wrong.
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Dead wrong, he said. There's no extra money, Rob.
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There's extra money. There's $131 million.
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You were dead wrong. And it came in advertising, in
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advertising the TV, well, there's.
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Still, $131,000, they're going to the $131 million, they're at
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a zero that are going to the schools.
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Because now they are allowed, the NCAA is going to be allowed
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to use ads for beer and hard seltzers and all those, and
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that's where this money is going to come from.
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But not cigarettes, right? Still that aloud, thankfully.
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When is? Do you remember TV?
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Yes, and scoreboards at football.
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Oh absolutely. I remember Marlboro.
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The Marlboro Cup, for crying out.
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Loud. The back of every Sports
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Illustrated. Yes, there's a new point.
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And how about the guy you do you wear this story?
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I hope it's true. I should have asked.
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Who do you ask, Grok? Do you remember when the was it
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the Winston Cup, The NASCAR, The Winston?
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When Winston was no longer allowed to advertise and some
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low down the totem pole salesperson decided to go.
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There's a workaround I. Think I'm going to knock on
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Sprint store and got the deal. Yeah, the Sprint Cup mean my
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God, a sales guy apparently low down the totem pole was I'll
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just reach out the all they can do is say no.
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Good for you. I hope it's true.
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I'm not sure. It sounds like it's not right.
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But that was a great work around for the Winston Cigarette
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company is being able to have the Winston Cup.
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And no, you couldn't have television ads.
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Well, every single time that it popped up there, you would see
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that name, that different era. Where were we?
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I don't know. We were talking about
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advertising on the tournament. Advertising out the tournament
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cigarettes will not be allowed, but yes, liquor will be allowed.
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Hard. Liquor.
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So why is 90% of the country against this?
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You go out to dinner, right? You're at a beautiful
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steakhouse. What?
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You're going to get an appetizer?
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Yes, You're you're going to have the whatever the escar.
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No, I'm not going to have snail in every snail.
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Why would he want a snail? Go to a Chinese place.
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You're going to have the pot stickers.
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Egg roll, yes. Pot sticker not.
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I'm with you, I'm with you, my wifes.
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The egg roll. I'm the pot.
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Saver yeah, we have to split those.
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But it's not going to hurt. It's not going to hurt anything
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on Thursday and Friday at 11:20 on Thursday, it's still the
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beginning of the tournament. It's the 64 bracket is set at
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that point and away we go. Nothing's going to change.
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It's more games and it's going to be opportunity for another
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city to host. That's going to be good for
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them. I'm with you.
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I don't have any big problem with it.
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People are talking about the plight of the little guy, the
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mid major, the low major, all those things twofold.
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A, we're going to have now four more teams, either 15 or 16
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seeds that are going to win a game and with it get a full Rev
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share from that victory, just like a win in the Elite 8.
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They're going to get that same share for those conferences and
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there's going to be more opportunities for them.
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The conferences at the lower level.
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Absolutely love that part of it. And you said it right, we get to
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Thursday, everything is normal. We have gone through this now
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for two decades. Do you remember when it went to
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60? 5 And it was.
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Absolutely. And the reason they had to do
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that is because the WAC had expanded out to 16 teams and
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they said no, no, no, this isn't working for some of the bigger
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schools there. So they split off and formed the
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Mountain West. So instead of at the time taking
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away one at large bid and letting both of those conference
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still have an automatic bid, the big boys said no, no, no, no,
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no. They came up with this
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cockamamie idea. We'll have 216 seeds play in.
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It's like obviously expanded to 68 as we know it now.
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It's just a little more expansion.
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It's a little more basketball. It's going to be fine.
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Your bracket is not going to be ruined.
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No more games. Yes.
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I've never understood more sports is always good in my
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book. Yes, right.
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But for some people teach their own, I guess it's for a lot of
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people. I'd like to, you know, a couple
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years from now revisit their opinion as to, you know, was it,
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was it as bad as you thought it was going to be?
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Just like the College Football Playoff when it goes to 24, I
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think it's going to be fantastic.
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Yes, it's going to be unbelievable, but all ruins the
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regular season now it won't ruin the regular season.
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I was regular season might be ruined too.
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My God, so what's going on here? I mean, who did I would piss off
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to get this? In 14 days, they will play at
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Michigan, come home to host the Buckeyes and then on a Friday
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night play in Seattle, take on Washington on Fox.
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You're taking on three top third teams in the Big 10.
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Without a doubt. And road games, two of them.
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So the road trips that go along with it, the likelihood it was
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Iowa State game, I don't know if that'll be an 11:00 game, but
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you're going to have a quicker turn around on top of it.
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You're going to take your longest trip of the year on a
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short week going out to Washington.
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West Coast game we know about, obviously not just Kirk
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Ference's history, Iowa's history.
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Overall, going out to the West Coast has not been very good
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historically. You have all these components,
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but it's not just the schedule, it's the teams.
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And when you put that together, you're right.
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I don't know if Kirk got fired up, and I'll probably not fired
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off an e-mail, maybe a voicemail over to the Big 10 offices about
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what happened and it'd. Be one thing if it was Rutgers
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Maryland trip to Washington. Right.
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Yes. But this is Michigan.
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Ohio State. Well, and Michigan's not going
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to be Michigan. I don't think they might be.
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The quarterback's another year older.
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Yes, absolutely. Underwood's the best quarterback
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to ever play college football. Just ask him, all right?
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It's a young guy with some. I don't know, He's pretty
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excited, but. Nonetheless, they have an adult
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though. They do, I agree.
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With you, I agree with you is back at a place where people
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aren't looking around the corner saying what's next, what's next?
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Yeah, know that for him, next is retirement.
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Absolutely. You know this is it for him.
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Now set the groundwork for the future of Michigan football, win
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some games in the process and and get that thing back on the
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track. And I think he's going to do a
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very good job there. I think Underwood's going to
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have a nice season. Yeah, I do too.
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I do too. But but this was and like you
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said, and not only a top it, it's the long road trip, your
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longest road trip of the year on a short week.
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How many times have we heard coaches, athletic director say,
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we have these West Coast trips, it'd be nice wherever the bye
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week falls that it would happen at that time.
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Not the case for Iowa. I mean, you're staring in the
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face right now of an ON3 start. And by the way, I have some
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numbers for you here, numbers that were put out by a point
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Spritz professional better how he has things handicapped right
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now. He is on the Action Network.
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He is one of their college football guys.
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His Twitter handle is Step on a Duck Step.
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On a duck, yes. Josh Nunn is his name, though.
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That is his name in real life, but he put out his Iowa win
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analysis for this season and his project.
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Before we go any further, the number that you can bet on
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today, the wind total is 7 1/2. Yes.
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Correct, 7 1/2. OK.
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So here are projected spoils. Well, let's start with the side
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hockey. OK, it'd be a good place to
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start and. When are we going to get that
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kick off time? I mean, officially usually it's
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coming up, right? It's usually in this month at
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some point is when we're going to get that take a shot in Iowa
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City. Cyclone's getting I'll give you,
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I'll give you a little advantage there.
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They are getting points according to his projections.
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Yeah, well they should. I mean I saw ESP NS big Big 12
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forecast has them pick 16th and last.
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You just don't know what you don't know.
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And here's the and this may be a good Mike Palm question.
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How's Vegas going to handle this?
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Oh, absolutely right. They might be dead wrong.
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Early in the season, yes. Either way, dead wrong.
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So what does he have them at? What is the point?
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Spread that. Step on a duck.
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Step on a duck, Scott. I was a 7 1/2 point favorite. 11
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and a half, 11.6 he's got it all the way down to the 10th, so
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11.6 point favorite in that one I was in after the game against
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you and I where they're projected to be favored by 38
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1/2 by the way, in that game against the Panthers.
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Up next, it is a trip to the Big House, where Michigan is favored
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by 12/9 and 1/2. OK, a tick smaller.
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They come back home and here comes the most talented team
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maybe in the country, the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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I was. Going to say Notre Dame's
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playing here. Buckeyes are favoured in
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Kinnick. They're favoured by They're
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favoured by 17 1/2. You're very close. 19.2.
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That's a big number. That's a big number.
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If somebody gave you 19 1/2 right now, would you have to
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take it? Yeah, I think I would.
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Too. Look, it's Kinnick.
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It's Kinnick. Then they go on the road out of
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short week against the Huskies. Now, this projection came out
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two days ago, so before the news it was going to be a short week
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for Iowa. Touchdown.
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Yes, 9.7 point 9. So I was close, very, very
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close. On that.
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One and then after that Iowa is favored in every game except for
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one they're favored by. It's Illinois.
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It's Illinois favored by 1 1/2 against Minnesota, 6 1/2 against
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Wisconsin, 2 at Northwestern, 15 1/2 against Purdue, about a 2
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1/2 point dog at Illinois and then favored by two.
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And so it's not as big as I thought, only 2 1/2 at Illinois,
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only 2 1/2. What's the Nebraska number?
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54.9 Interesting you'd grab the Huskers and the points.
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Oh, you know that? Husker Miller?
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Yeah. Every time.
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Heck yeah. Very interesting.
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Very interesting. And this is Step on a Duck, and
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this guy's pretty well known. Yes, yeah.
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Does the college football podcast on the Action Network.
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So yeah, he's he started last year.
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Josh Nunn is his name. He's a little dry, but his his,
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the analytics that he used, I really do like and like
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listening to that part of it. So he kind of said he would lean
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towards the under of that 7 1/2 at this point.
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We just got this from our our our one of our guys at a fact
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checker. Is that where he called the
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program J Scott? Iowa State plays at BYU the same
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night as Iowa plays at Washington.
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Is that right? Is that right?
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No, come on. Oh boy.
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You've got to be kidding me. So, All right, I I believe him.
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I mean, he does. He's usually spot on.
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Yes, Cyclone football schedule da da da.
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Pull it up. Here we go.
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FBS schedules On the 9th, the Cyclones travel to BYU to take
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on the Cougars. The same night.
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The same night. Is that going to be an FS1 game?
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Well, I was Fox or FS1, but don't forget they're in the
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throes of the who's got the that would be the wild card round of
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of MLB playoffs is. Fox in there.
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I think we'd be further than that.
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I think we further, yeah, I think we'd be into the
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divisional. Round at that point and, and
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they've, I mean, they, they've got new television partners now.
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So I don't know when Fox rejoins.
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Post season starts on September 29th, the World Series starts on
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October. So we would be in the division
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by then, yes. For sure, absolutely.
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So Iowa State, BYU, what's their television going to be?
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I was going to be Iowa's been announced as Fox or FS1.
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It's of the Friday games and I've got the schedule in front
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of me for the Friday games. Have you seen them?
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I did, yeah. They're incredible, but everyone
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is on Fox. The only one that has an OR is
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the Iowa and Washington. We'll start with Fresno.
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That's not very good. Week 2, Mizzou at Kansas,
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Houston, TX Tech, Northwestern at Indiana, Penn State at
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Northwestern, the Iowa game. Washington then goes across the
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country to take on Purdue. They'll be heavily favored
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there. Nebraska, Illinois to kick off
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November, Illinois, UCLA, Oregon at Michigan State, West Virginia
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at Utah on Black Friday and then the Mountain West championship,
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which starts an hour after the Big 12 championship because the
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Big 12 has moved. That's right.
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That's ABC. Fox has the Mountain West.
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Isn't that just a kick in the you know what's yes, the same
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freaking night. Oh well.
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You're gonna be working some Fridays.
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Not then, not then. It's over by then.
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The curtain will have come down a couple of weeks prior to that.
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I'll be in my chair with a remote in my hand, working
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overtime. I was.
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I was waiting for you to complain like I have for the
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last 25. Years.
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Oh, because of yeah, high school, yes, yeah, that's that's
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bad. That's bad for you?
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It is. That's a tough night for you.
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Yes, added a few times. Maryland game out there.
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We've seen a few of these Friday games, but Rutgers last year?
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Rutgers last year was a Friday enjoyed the.
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Hell had just flipped on the iPad and all of a sudden I'm
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calling kickoff and there goes a kickoff the other way.
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Don't. Want to mess up what you're
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seeing on the field as opposed to watch it on the screen?
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Well, that's what's going on. This is going to be tough.
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Oh, and three. Your new Co host, you'll have to
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rely on him to get you through that weekend all right real
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quick. Don't worry, I'll watch the
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game. Again, no, I know you will.
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I know you will. You always do.
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That's why I love working with you.
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One of the many reasons I love working with you.
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You are prepared. Ben McCollum 6 year deal.
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I guess it's not officially official, but everybody, the all
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the college people, Thamel Mcmurphy, all of those guys are
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reporting that Ben McCollum has agreed to terms with Iowa and a
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six year extension. That's great news.
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It is. It's not surprising by any
17:04
means, but it's great to see it happen.
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And we heard this right as the season was concluding that this
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was something that was being worked on.
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The big question though, OK, that's great.
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Until we know the parameters, though, it's really hard to
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glean a whole lot. Out of it, Yeah.
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What do you want to see? Buyouts.
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Yes, absolutely. What the buyout is what I was
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going to get if he does depart for another job, is that some
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kind of sticking point? Is there something in there for
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the assistant coaches? I hope so you know is that is
17:28
that something that's going hand in hand a bigger pool buddy of
17:31
them and then just kind of going forward?
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It and nil promises. Right.
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I think that's got to be a component for it also because it
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sounded like as the negotiations were happening initially with
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Drake, as he was leaving Drake, that was also a big point.
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Am I going to have the funds available to go out there and
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put together a team in year #1 and obviously was able to do
17:50
that, But going forward, what that looks like and how it goes.
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And Speaking of the NIL front, I heard what I asked Tom about
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this a little bit later on. He had Brad from the Swarm on
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his podcast earlier this week and just how different and how
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much it's changed what they can do.
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No longer can you have these student athletes go out and do
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philanthropic things, go out there, show up, sign some hands,
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which was. Kind of a scam and subscribe to
18:16
begin with. Yes.
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And some places, yeah. It was basically a notion job.
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I know Iowa did it right. The people actually had to show
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up and do those kind of things in order to get their NIL check.
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Procter showed up and did his stuff and got paid and then
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just. Bolted.
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They no longer. That can no longer be a part of
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it. It has to be real incentives
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yet, he said. Like what?
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What's a real incentive? Like a real endorsement, OK.
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Yes, so like a car dealership so and so on behalf of yes, I drive
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a from. Easy enough.
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That's the simplest you. Can check that, yeah.
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The problem is you put that fund in there, you put that request
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in there through the nil go and you wait and you wait.
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From the clearing house. Because they're so stacked up,
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apparently they only have a couple of three full time
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employees for nil go. For every school or every
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school. So not just the 130 whatever at
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the FBS level and the 360 some at the Division One basketball
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level, but that's also D2D3. All these things have to go
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through this clearing house. And yeah, it might be at Co or
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Simpson and maybe there is, you know, a local company that wants
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to endorse an athlete. I hope there is.
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And for a couple $1000, OK. But it still has to go through
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the clearing house and all these people are waiting.
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He said he has had people that have graduated and I did the
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commercial but still cannot cut that check until they get the.
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Clearance. So once it gets through the even
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though they've done all the work, they will retroactively
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get that check. Right, but they're still waiting
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for the clearance. And you said how many people are
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actually doing this work? I think Brad said 33. 3
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Feasibly, how many could you do in a day if you're in a?
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If you're really doing the work, really looking through the terms
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and conditions, all that stuff, I'm.
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I mean I have. A dozen, couple dozen, I I have
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no clue. Good.
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How many of those are coming through a day though, right?
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With all those institutions. You never see the light at the
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end of the tunnel of. Course not.
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Talk about that would not be. Fun.
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That would be brutal. So he this person apparently has
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the power to thumbs up or thumbs down on an athlete's
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opportunities. Well, and that's what Nebraska's
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going through right now because they've gotten rejections back
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from the NIL go. And they thought it was on the
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up and up. Absolutely.
20:32
See, I trust Nebraska, Trent. Well, I know this.
20:34
That's why you got your Herbie over there hanging out with me,
20:39
Husker, Kenny along the way. So this is another mess after
20:45
mess after mess, even when we thought maybe, all right,
20:48
there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
20:49
All right, this makes sense on the surface.
20:51
Well, then when you only employ a couple of people to do the
20:53
work of what should be maybe 100 people, this is what you have in
20:57
the backlog that it creates. All right, so let's go to break
21:00
My palm is coming up. We've got a pretty cool
21:02
announcement with KXNO and Circa and it has to do with our 25th
21:08
anniversary of this fine radio station.
21:12
We'll get to that. On the other side, you can check
21:15
all the socials Facebook. What is our Facebook?
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Do you need to know the how to get to the?
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Just search KXNO search. KXNO.
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Yep. It'll pop up.
21:23
And on our X but right now chance to win $1000 in this
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nationwide contest. You can head to KX&O or whatever
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station you're listening to on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
21:35
A pop up box will appear. In the pop up box, type the
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keyword bills, bills. Your chance to win $1000 bills
21:44
at kxno.com. Off the Vegas we will go.
21:47
Mike Palm joins us next. Miller and Condon.
21:49
We're underway on our Friday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
21:52
Network. I'm Mallory Condon, welcome back
22:11
Iowa sports Radio network Trenton Ken with you until just
22:14
before 2 off the bench coming up at AT2O clock at 4 O clock Chris
22:19
Connelly, GM of the Iowa event centre, going to join the fellas
22:22
in the afternoon talk about the potential that Des Moines is on
22:25
the short list of teams to join Dayton.
22:29
So is Las Vegas, by the way. We'll.
22:32
See where this We got a little city fighting going?
22:33
Here, let's get to Speaking of Las Vegas, off we go.
22:36
Mike Palm is the VP of operations at Circus Sports.
22:39
Mike Trenton, Ken, thanks for coming on.
22:41
I'm guessing that Vegas would love to have the the Tuesday,
22:44
Wednesday of the NCAA guest to play in rounds.
22:48
I'm guessing Vegas would find a home for that, right?
22:53
Pretty confident that there's one other city chosen.
22:57
It's going to be Las Vegas. There's just a lot of venues.
23:00
You could OfferUp, you could OfferUp, Thomas and Max.
23:03
Certainly, you know, T-Mobile, I think it's a little big.
23:07
Remember, you're not going to draw 15,000 people.
23:10
So I think the size of the arena has to make sense as well, as
23:14
well as geographically. Where are you going to put it?
23:17
Yeah, so so like the where the Aces play at the Mandalay Bay
23:22
or. Yep, 10,000 people there.
23:26
The Orleans What's what's what's that one?
23:29
Yeah, that's a little smaller, yeah.
23:32
But yeah, Derek brought that up to me.
23:34
He said the probably Michelob Ultra Arena, which is where the
23:36
Aces play, is probably the best venue in Vegas to host it with
23:40
the I think that capacity is 9900.
23:42
Hey, since we're talking venues, just real quick and I'm going to
23:45
get to our announcement. I'm excited for this every time.
23:48
I really seemingly not a week goes by as of late, Mike, where
23:52
I'm seeing an update on the A's new ballpark.
23:55
It seems like it's coming along. I don't know if it's ahead of
23:58
schedule or on schedule, but you're we're seeing something
24:00
after seemingly being stuck in mud, at least when it first got
24:04
off the ground. We're seeing some progress,
24:05
Mike. Yeah, there's some progress.
24:08
We sat in a couple design meetings this week.
24:12
They're looking at the Plaza, looking at how you know, the
24:16
bridges that come across from come across the Tropicana and
24:20
come across Las Vegas Blvd. and what's the plan for how how The
24:24
Walking, the pedestrian traffic comes in.
24:26
What does that Plaza look like? Obviously there's going to be a
24:28
Bally's hotel there. There's going to be restaurants
24:31
and shops, possibly a sports book there.
24:35
What is what is rideshare look like?
24:36
What is parking look like? What are the that you know the
24:39
paths people take and all that. So we've we've looked at a lot
24:43
of how this property is going to work.
24:47
So yeah, there's definite progress being made.
24:49
Well, Mike, let's talk about our big announcement.
24:51
We've been teasing as much as we can, but we haven't been able to
24:54
tease very much, you know getting through legal and all
24:56
that fun part. But we are ready to go, ready to
24:59
launch and the link will go live here in less than a minute.
25:02
It's going to be an opportunity here with KX and OS Silvery
25:05
Anniversary, not just for me and Ken to go out there and some of
25:08
the people. We're sending a big group out
25:11
there, including grand prize winner airfare, three nights at
25:15
Circa coming up. It'll be Sunday, August 9th
25:17
through Wednesday, August 12th out there.
25:20
Get to hang out with you meet you meet Derek and the whole
25:22
crew out at Circus Experience at all you got a food and beverage
25:26
credit that's going to be available to the winner of the
25:28
grand prize. Also, we're going to do a
25:30
secondary prize. We're five other opportunities
25:33
for people to do some of the meet and greets and the fun
25:35
things along with getting three nights at the D.
25:38
So going to be a fun experience. And Mike, we're very excited
25:41
here to have everybody as Ken and I've been talking about you
25:44
guys for years, to be able to experience it with us.
25:48
Guys partner with you guys and of course celebrate your 25th,
25:52
25th anniversary on the air and what an opportunity for your
25:56
listeners to be able to come out to Las Vegas and not just
26:00
experience our properties, but with with you guys as well.
26:04
So I think it's terrific. Obviously the grand prize winner
26:07
with the airfare and everything, but how about the how about the
26:10
five people that get to come out also and stay at the D and be a
26:13
part of hanging out at the book and it's stadium swim and all
26:16
that. So I we're really proud to to
26:18
offer and of course we always love to have people from the
26:21
state of the state of Iowa staying with them.
26:23
Yeah. Your home state going to be my
26:25
last official duty I guess as a member of KX&O.
26:30
So I'm excited to get out there and we'll have details.
26:32
Again, you can go to our X account and go to our Facebook
26:35
account as Derek and Mike were good enough to put together a
26:39
video announcing it etcetera. And it's been posted or is in
26:42
the process of being posted as we speak.
26:45
So details on that, details on Survivor.
26:47
Mike, it sounds as though the NFL is going to officially
26:51
announce their schedule a week from yesterday, this coming
26:54
Thursday. It's going to be made official.
26:57
And one of those maybe sticking points is how they're going to
27:00
handle Monday nights that we thought that those two games on
27:03
Mondays were going away. Now maybe there's they're
27:06
they're coming back, but they're coming back to a streaming
27:10
company. Is that the hold up as you
27:12
understand it, Mike? I'm not sure I know that's one
27:16
of the sticking points is talking about possibly 5 double
27:19
headers on Mondays. I don't know.
27:22
All we care about is that they're going to announce it
27:23
next Thursday and then Derek and I, they'll give us the weekend
27:27
to digest everything. Jeff Benson to write all the
27:30
rules, send it to our legal team and, and be ready for Derek and
27:34
I on that Tuesday, the night, Tuesday the 19th, the next week
27:39
to go on with Mitch and Paul and and release all the details of
27:42
what's happening. And then sign ups will start the
27:45
following Friday, the Friday Memorial Day weekend, which is
27:49
the 22nd. Do you have a perfect number of
27:53
weeks? Is 20 a perfect number?
27:57
I mean, there's more. It's obviously more weeks.
27:59
But when you consider that, you know, in the past, Christmas has
28:01
been its own day and Thanksgiving and Black Friday,
28:04
that's been its own week. Is is 20 the ideal number for
28:07
this contest, Mike? I guess, but the more people you
28:10
get, the harder you have to make it right because we kind of like
28:14
that sweet spot of, you know, three to five people winning or,
28:17
you know, everybody becomes multimillionaires.
28:20
So you don't want to get to the point where you have, you know,
28:22
30,000 entries and 100 people. And I think that takes away some
28:27
of the allure of the contest, that you can make money that
28:30
will change your life. So yeah, I, you know, as as the
28:34
more people we get, the more I get.
28:35
I always thought 2020 and O is a key number.
28:38
And Derek said, yeah, but 20 and O for 15,000 people is different
28:41
than 20 and O for 40,000 entries.
28:43
So yeah, maybe it's 22. I'm not sure, Ken.
28:46
Keep pushing that thing out. And yeah, the guarantee, I know
28:49
you can't tell us what the guarantee is going to be that is
28:51
under lock and key. Most people, though, anticipate
28:54
it's certainly going to go up from the guarantee a year ago.
28:57
What about millions? You guys have had a little bit
28:59
of an overlay the last couple of years.
29:01
Oh, what can you do to generate just a little bit more interest
29:04
because you guys get incredibly close every year, but with
29:07
millions and reason I like 1,000,000 is because I can have
29:10
a crappy month and I can still bounce back.
29:12
And those quarterly prizes keep you in it until the end of the
29:14
season. Maybe with the Westgate folding,
29:18
not not folding but being taken over by Caesars, we've seen
29:21
Caesars not have the propensity to want to run contests.
29:25
Maybe that helps get that number over 6000 that would be think
29:29
would be the our biggest tailwind this year.
29:31
Yeah, interesting. Well, let's talk some hockey,
29:33
Mike. I was of the belief that Utah
29:36
would beat the Golden Knights in the first round.
29:38
That didn't happen. I'm all over this Ducks team now
29:41
in my for in my opinion, they should be up to nothing already
29:44
on this series as it gets what gets set for game #3 let's talk
29:48
about that one before we get into the others.
29:50
Vegas is then, and the Ducks are tied at one apiece.
29:53
I'm kind of surprised that's where we.
29:56
Yeah, they played them in both games.
30:00
Vegas, this is not generating opportunities.
30:02
It's pretty stunning. I have them right?
30:07
I didn't bet the series because as you know, I have 100 to 1
30:12
ticket to win it all. So if we can get them through,
30:16
obviously if we can get them through to, to, to the Western
30:25
Conference finals, I know there'll be a huge dog against
30:27
Colorado, but still at that point we'll be able to monetize
30:30
that 100 to 1 ticket. That's a really good one.
30:33
I I felt good about mine, but it's nothing in comparison to
30:35
that one. So we have the NHL playoffs
30:38
going on, the Wild down O2. Do you see any realistic path
30:42
for them to win four out of five against this Colorado outfit?
30:46
I'm not sure there's a there's a path for them to win one out of
30:49
of two. I really, I really hate what
30:57
Heinz did with the goaltending situation and, and maybe that's
31:00
irrelevant. They were always going to get
31:02
beat by Colorado. Look, they're missing their best
31:05
defense roadie and so you're stuck with two defensemen that
31:08
are really forwards. So that's problem against
31:12
against Lanch. I didn't think the performance
31:16
in Gables was lost. That's fault.
31:17
I thought their defense was terrible.
31:19
They go back to Gusta said, who nobody believes in, and then to
31:22
find out that he had already told them that no matter what
31:25
happened in Game 2, they were going back to Wallstead in
31:28
three. I mean, what are we doing here?
31:29
What if Gustafson would have shut Colorado out?
31:32
I, I just and then to say that Gustafson played great.
31:35
I thought he was awful on three of the four goals.
31:38
And so you can lie to the media and the fans.
31:40
I don't think you can lie to the guys in the locker room.
31:42
I don't know that Minnesota wins a game here.
31:45
Yeah, I'm with you. And I thought they were going to
31:47
give him a hell of a series. I really did.
31:49
The OPS just look so fast. They're unbelievable right now.
31:51
Well, let's go out East. Buffalo, Montreal, I think still
31:54
is going to be a good series. Carolina's just steamrolling
31:57
anybody in their path. They look like a wagon right
32:00
now. Certainly against the Flyers.
32:02
They do. And they'll probably sweep and
32:03
then have a long wait for Buffalo and Montreal for them to
32:06
finish up their series. Carolina, far and away the best
32:09
team out East. Mike.
32:11
I think Buffalo will give him a series if that's what it ends up
32:14
being. Buffalo's won in Carolina the
32:16
last few years in the regular season and they just roll 4 deep
32:20
and you look at a lot of these teams, they get a two goal lead
32:23
in the playoffs and they really kind of quit and just try to get
32:25
to a shell. Buffalo just keeps going.
32:28
They just keep coming throughout the whole game.
32:30
So I think I think Buffalo has a realistic chance to be Carolina
32:34
and look in the brand of more era.
32:36
They have not done well as the playoffs get deeper and deeper
32:39
and they're you know, they wear down there.
32:42
They're more of a European style team and they give maximum
32:45
effort every night during the regular season.
32:47
And it seems it gets there. Now all of the excuses are out
32:50
of the way for Carolina now. There's no Rangers, there's no
32:53
Tampa and there's no Florida. There's no more excuses for the
32:56
Carolina Hurricanes not to reach the NHL FDL finals this year,
32:59
so, But I do think Buffalo Carolina will be a heck of a
33:03
conference final. I'm with you and this Carolina
33:06
team, they do look different. Well, it feels maybe inevitable
33:09
we're going to get Carolina against Colorado in the
33:11
championship. Maybe it's inevitable.
33:14
The Thunder didn't feel like they played great last night and
33:17
they just pull away and they coast in the fourth quarter and
33:19
pick up the easy win against the Lakers, even with LeBron trying
33:22
to do superhero things. Are we just joking ourselves?
33:24
You look out East, everybody's banged up to Knicks, got a heart
33:28
injury, now in Adobe, he's got a hamstring problem, and just on
33:31
and on and on. The Thunder, I know you're
33:33
laying it with them, but we like to joke about free squares.
33:37
This feels like a free square to be.
33:38
How do you see it in the NBA? I mean, there's rough 5 halfway
33:43
through the third quarter last night and couldn't come close 17
33:47
I mean, it's it's, it's ludicrous.
33:50
And I know they're missing Luca, but this this Thunder team has
33:56
another level that I don't know that anybody in the league can
33:58
match when they're when they're playing like that.
34:01
They have a great homecourt advantage with the city, that
34:03
it's their whole thing. And you know, I don't.
34:06
I'm much more interested in birds and Timberwolves and I'm
34:09
fascinated, fascinated by that series.
34:12
And that's sort of where all my intention is.
34:14
Yeah, likewise, a couple of things.
34:17
One more basketball. WNBA gets underway tonight.
34:19
It does tomorrow for us here to just watch Caitlin Clark.
34:22
It's a noon Central, 10:00 Pacific.
34:25
When the WNBA is on, does Caitlin move the needle as far
34:29
as betting markets? Mike, do you notice that?
34:35
Her having gone out last year, you know, in August and then
34:39
never late July and never to return certainly suppress the
34:42
action that we got when she was involved in through the playoffs
34:46
in her first year. So yeah, it more, you know, you
34:51
can't compare it to the viewership.
34:52
Obviously she moves the dealership needle much more.
34:55
I mean, the viewership is down over 50% when she's not of all
34:59
league games, not of fever games of all league games when she's
35:02
out injured. No one has ever had that event.
35:04
Michael Jordan didn't a bowl rating.
35:07
Golf's ratings don't get cut in half when Tigers out.
35:10
I mean, they cut 20%. So there's there's just nothing
35:14
comparable to her in sports, men or women.
35:17
So yeah, I'm going to have you. It's interesting you mentioned
35:21
that I'm going to have on Palm Saturdays on the score tomorrow
35:24
morning. Christine Brennan will be my
35:25
guest. She released the paper paperback
35:28
version of on her game, and Simon and Schuster emailed me
35:33
the the forward in the afterword, which is the new part
35:35
from the hard hardback. She's written about 30 more
35:37
pages relevant to what's happened in the years since she
35:40
first released the book. So yeah, she'll be my guest at 8
35:43
at 8:25 Central tomorrow. And she's in Indianapolis to
35:46
cover Caitlyn's return. You do that from the D Is that
35:50
where I saw the video of you doing that?
35:53
Yep, from the the decent table at the Bar Canada.
35:56
Gotcha, right. That bar Canada, good stuff.
35:58
Hey, just one more baseball question.
36:00
Just because it's a big series, Braves versus Dodgers this
36:03
weekend, does that get any more attention handle wise?
36:08
When the Dodgers play a good team or they play San Diego or
36:11
San Francisco, that does hand, it does increase the handle.
36:14
So in this case, the Braves would be or if they played the
36:17
Cubs, obviously, I mean Cubs, what, 19 out of 22?
36:20
It's pretty amazing from a betting perspective.
36:23
It's much more interesting is going on South side of Chicago.
36:26
I tell when in the White Sox at 25, the one to win the Central
36:30
with Kubo going out. Listen, I think that Kansas City
36:34
and Minnesota are awful and they're not going to be around
36:37
at the end. So that makes it to me a three
36:38
horse race with the Guardians, the Tigers and the White Sox.
36:45
The Tigers are in bad shape right now for Anders, suspended
36:47
like they miss all their starters through through 1
36:50
rotation. I just think in a three horse
36:52
race, 25, the one is interesting.
36:54
They're smart. It's got a, you know, you can 40
36:58
to one for Cy Young might not be a bad bet right now.
37:00
He's got the third lowest DRA in Major League Baseball, and So
37:03
what I think is going on in the South side is actually more
37:06
interested in than what the Cubs are doing.
37:07
Yeah, because we expected that even though the injuries are a
37:10
big story, but yeah, but we expected that.
37:12
Hey, one more, one more question.
37:14
It has to do with source BI read the Purdum PC's being
37:17
investigated in multi states. When there is an investigation
37:22
such as that, do they contact each state or, and I'm not
37:25
saying that's a circa, but would they or would they just contact
37:29
the the the parent company? Would they go to circle?
37:33
Would they do go to draft or do they go state by state by state
37:36
regulator? How's that handle?
37:37
Do you? Know we as an entity Circuit
37:41
Sports were contacted only to inquire he had an account only
37:46
because he had accounts in Kentucky and we operate in.
37:49
Kentucky. So we were contacted by several
37:54
what's the state agencies inquiring if he had an account
37:58
with us, which he had not. Gotcha.
38:00
So he, so it wouldn't be, they wouldn't have contacted
38:02
Kentucky, they wouldn't have contacted Iowa, Colorado, they
38:05
would have gone right to the top.
38:06
Parent company. Yeah, that makes sense.
38:08
Good stuff anymore, TC. Thanks for popping on, Mike.
38:11
We're excited about this. We're going to promote the hell
38:13
out of it and we'll see you in August, if not before.
38:17
Have fun with your interview tomorrow.
38:18
What time with Christine Brennan on the score?
38:20
Did you say 830? Yeah, 820, about 822 Central.
38:25
Good stuff. Well done, Mike Palm.
38:27
Thanks for coming on. Appreciate it.
38:29
As always. Talk to you in a week.
38:31
Thanks, guys. Thank you.
38:31
Mike Palm, VP of Operations at Circus Sports, Circus Sports
38:36
Illinois. If you're listening on that side
38:38
of the river, or Sports Iowa, Circus Sports, Mizzou, Circa
38:42
Sports and KXNO teaming up, that's going to be a great
38:45
contest. How do we go about?
38:47
Well, we don't, but how does our audience go about trying to get
38:50
involved and maybe win that? Bad.
38:51
So details up at kxno.com. I'm going to post a link on the
38:55
Miller and Condon Twitter feed here just in a moment when we go
38:57
to commercial and I'll get that up there.
38:59
But here are the full details again depart on Sunday, August
39:03
9th through August 12th. That is a Wednesday.
39:06
You'll get hotel stays Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, come back on
39:09
Wednesday. The grand prize winner will get
39:12
all of this round trip airfare fraud with you and a guest from
39:16
Des Moines to Las Vegas. A three night hotel stay at
39:19
Circa Resort and Casino. Pay $250 food and beverage
39:23
voucher to be used at the property.
39:26
Complimentary bed stay on the day beds there at stadium.
39:29
Swim for two of the days while you're in attendance with no
39:32
minimum spend. It's not like here's a bed.
39:35
And you're right that not the case there.
39:37
No minimum speed. Also, airport transportation in
39:42
the Circa limo. Oh my, absolutely.
39:45
That's going to be a part of it. And then we have a couple of
39:47
experiences, the VIP Sports Book experience hanging out with us,
39:50
the KX&O crew at the sports book, we'll have Booth set up
39:53
there. So who's going from KX&O?
39:55
Lucas, Sean. You, you.
39:57
Me, I'll get there late though. I'm not getting there till
40:00
Tuesday. And a few more, we're still
40:02
working out a few more, talking a few more into making their way
40:05
out there, Meet and greet also with Mike Palm and Derek
40:08
Stevens. We're also going to have a night
40:10
out at Legacy Club, and I brought that up to Mike a couple
40:12
of weeks ago. We rarely talk about Legacy
40:15
Club. I love that.
40:16
Because I go to. Bed.
40:17
Yeah, you're, you're sleeping at that point.
40:18
It is absolutely beautiful though.
40:20
It is a really cool place. We'll have a night out there as
40:23
well so that. Might be fun tables.
40:25
You're outside, they've got that, that, that, that flame,
40:27
that fire. Yep.
40:29
For for. Heat, little heat out there
40:31
because it gets a little breezy. You can because you're up top
40:33
and you get a beautiful view of the Las Vegas Strip.
40:35
You can see downtown, you can see the mountains.
40:37
It's really, really cool up there.
40:39
We'll have a evening out there, but it's not just one grand.
40:42
What's the coolest part about the Legacy Club is what's that
40:44
right when you get off the elevators?
40:46
Yes. They've got a cabinet.
40:48
So, Derek, when they first opened it, it's So what kind of
40:52
cabinet would it remind you of? It's hard to describe.
40:56
It kind of is. It's probably, I don't know, 4
40:58
feet tall and couple of feet wide.
40:59
And contained in that cabinet, at least at the time, was $1
41:03
million in gold bars. And it updates instantly every
41:09
every second, every what that cabinet is now worth.
41:12
So it was a million when they, when they put it in there, when
41:16
they cut the ribbon. And now to see what the price of
41:18
gold is at, but just to see all those gold bars.
41:22
I mean, maybe some people have, I haven't, I have that right.
41:25
You go in circles, you see $1,000,000 in gold in front of
41:29
you. I'm pretty sure you don't
41:30
either. But I thought that I think
41:32
that's pretty cool, right when you get off the elevators on the
41:34
50th floor, I think, I think. Floor.
41:36
Is that what it is? Pretty sure so It's not just a
41:38
grand prize winner though. No, there's more.
41:40
Yeah, yeah. We're going to also have five
41:43
others that are going to win our second prize, if you will.
41:46
These winners will be selected and you also can bring a guest.
41:50
You're going to get three nights at the D during the same time,
41:53
plus all those VIP experiences that we talked about, the sports
41:56
book experience you're in, you're in the booth, you're
41:58
hanging out with us, meet and greet with Mike and with Derek.
42:01
That's going to be happening. The night out at Legacy Club,
42:04
that is also a part of it. Stadium swim is stadium swim
42:06
with your stay at the D. Yep, you're absolutely, you're
42:09
loud in there. We'll be doing our shows from
42:10
there from stadium swim. So you're going to be able to
42:13
hang out with us at this all kinds of different places.
42:15
It's going to be so much fun. Looking forward to that and not
42:18
just involving a couple that get to go, but getting so many
42:22
people and without Circa, their support behind this.
42:25
And as we work through this and, and making it one of our big
42:27
ticket items for our silver anniversary.
42:30
They were gung ho and love the relationship that we have with
42:32
them. They've been incredibly happy
42:34
with everything. So this is going to be an
42:35
opportunity. You've heard Ken and I talk
42:37
about Circa so many times. Yep, KX and o.com.
42:39
Experience it with us. And you can sign up every day.
42:42
So here's a little workaround. I I.
42:44
So every day you just it's not a one time deal.
42:46
As many entries as you want. As long as once a day, once a
42:49
day. Sign up as many times as you
42:51
want. So we've also talked in the past
42:53
about their All in summer package that is happening.
42:56
That goes in fact through September 10th.
42:58
That is the $400.00 deal. You get a two night stay, $100
43:02
beverage credit, $100 dining credit, the day bed.
43:05
Well, how about this? OK, put it in your calendar
43:08
right now you're going to Vegas and maybe before the flights get
43:11
too expensive, put it in there right now, sign up for that
43:14
deal. And guess what, if you win this
43:16
contest, you're one of our six winners.
43:19
Cancel the hotel stay. You already got your your flight
43:21
booked and that is the part, the secondary prize.
43:24
There's no airfare included in that, but you're already booked.
43:27
You got a great deal at Circa. You're going to be able to still
43:30
do all the experiences with us. So just do that right now.
43:32
It is the $400.00 all in summer hotel package.
43:35
You Google that, it'll pop right up with Circa and away you go.
43:38
It's a little workaround. If you don't win the contest,
43:41
you're still going to get a great deal and it's going to be
43:42
a lot of. Fun.
43:43
It's going to be a blast. I can't wait to participate it
43:45
within US. I remember when Lucas saw it for
43:47
the first time. That'll be Sean's because Sean
43:50
couldn't make it last year. As you know, he and his wife
43:53
were welcoming a new child into the world.
43:55
So we, we, we, we gave him his, stamped his pass for that time
44:00
off. We'll take a time out.
44:01
We'll come back. KX and o.com, all the details.
44:04
You can find them on our Facebook page as well as on our
44:07
Twitter account. You can go to the Miller and Con
44:09
Twitter account and you can find the link right there.
44:12
We'll come back, finish up our #1 Miller and Condon talking
44:15
sports with you on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
44:58
I'm Hillary Congdon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
45:02
Tom Caker kicks off the second hour of the program.
45:05
A lot of topics to get to with Tom Mccollum's extension.
45:10
Iowa's football schedule is the Big 10 football schedule, at
45:14
least the first three weeks. We know who they're going to
45:17
play, not when they're going to play kick off times, but the
45:20
three games in 13 days or 14 days.
45:23
Have fun Michigan State and Washington, what would you sign
45:27
for right now? One and two.
45:28
Oh yeah, If you gave me one and two right now, I'll put that in
45:30
my back. Pocket.
45:31
Yeah, I think so too. I think that is.
45:33
What would Vegas set the number at?
45:35
1/2 probably. Out of those three.
45:38
Yes, I think so too. I mean, you kind of coupled the
45:41
win probability of each of those and then put them together.
45:43
There's probably a little, a little bit better than a 50%
45:49
chance of getting one. Yeah, Getting 2.
45:51
That dissipates very quickly. Right.
45:53
So shade the over, yes, oh boy, good stuff.
45:56
So we will talk to Tom Caker then Eugene Repay on Iowa State.
46:00
He will join us coming up at 1:30 the latest on Iowa State
46:03
basketball recruiting news etcetera.
46:05
And they declined the you know what everybody has.
46:09
Yes, the private equity money. Good for them, absolutely.
46:12
Don't dig yourself a deeper hole.
46:14
I agree. Trent, it didn't sound like this
46:15
was a really good idea to begin with and they saw through it.
46:19
Good for them. Hour 2 coming up next, Miller
46:21
and Condon, we're glad you're with us on Des Moines sports
46:24
station 106.3 KX and Owen, the Iowa Sports Radio Network.