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Weekend Recap, Alec Busse talks Cyclones & Big 12 Football · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Right, good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon as
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we kick off another week of noon to two here on the Iowa Sports
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Radio Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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the next two hours to talk sports with you.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Wherever you are listening in the state of Iowa, here's what's
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coming up on our program or whoever for that matter.
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We will start at the bottom of the hour.
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Alec Bussey from 24/7 Sports, cyclonealert.com love buses
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Monday over at the website. He's got his thoughts of the
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week week and there's a little bonus in there this morning as
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well as 24/7 has come up with their pre season power rankings
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when it comes to the Big 12. We'll talk about that and other
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Cyclone related topics with Alec Bussey coming up here at the
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bottom of the hour. Monday means we talk baseball
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with Matt Snyder. We will do so to kick off hour
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number two. Lots of topics for Matt Snyder.
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That's baseball to start the hour and then John Bowen camp
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will join us. More baseball, but Iowa Hawkeye
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related next, other topics for John Bowencamp when he joins us
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at about 1:30. Trent will try and build on a
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so before 2 and we'll turn things over to the drive at that
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point with Heather and Lucas. Trent Condon, good to see you.
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Trust you had a good weekend. Did.
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Yeah. Mother's Day weekend, of course,
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took a lot of the limelight and no softball this weekend.
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So has Mother's Day. Yeah, scheduled, scheduled
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weekend off this one. And nice.
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I don't know. There was no pressure being
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applied at home, but I thought that made a lot of sense.
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No. Why not?
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Let's. Take this weekend off and we'll
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get ready for the big West Des Moines Invitational coming up
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this weekend. Don't come much bigger than
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that. Buckle up.
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Yes, buckle up. It's coming.
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Good. Stuff that meant a lot of hoops.
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And I forgot to show you video Saturday night.
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So Ella was off at a sleepover with one of her friends.
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So it was just me, the wife and the boy, and Jackie's watching
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the Timberwolves with me down the stretch.
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We're playing all the games. He just wanted to play them all.
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So we're playing UMO and we're playing board games and we're
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doing it all, and Dad's keeping an eye on the TV.
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And then as we're wrapping up, he gets locked into the
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basketball and all of a sudden he just starts giggling.
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Really. Giggling watching the game.
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He loves numbers. He's, he's, he's like his dad,
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right? He likes those numbers.
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All right. They're winning by 5.
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He's he's getting that all figured out.
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And he just starts giggling. And I'm Jackie.
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What are you giggling about, guys?
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Name is Jimmy Butler. Oh.
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My. The life of a 5 year old
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watching basketball so he could not stop giggling for the last
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three minutes and I had a smile ear to ear as they put it away.
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So yeah, there's a good night for the kind of boys.
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Did they cover? I don't think they did.
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I don't think they. I think that last, that meaning
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you're right at the end, provided them with a back door.
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Yeah, that's one of those bad beats.
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Or you'll take it and run with it if you're on the other.
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Side The Timberwolves can't lose this series.
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They're not going to lose this series.
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I can't see anyway. I didn't think they played very
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well. The.
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Other night didn't. Right.
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And still managed to win. And I'm not sure Jimmy Butler
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can play much better than he did the other night.
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He was. Really good.
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Yeah, 33, seven and seven. Yeah, they'll take that from
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him. I.
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Mean if that's what you're getting from him and he still
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can't overcome. Not only that, Kamingo was
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outstanding for his. Long stretches.
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He was really good, but Draymond was not good.
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He he was bad for his and not just OK he didn't give.
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There's times he just doesn't give you anything offensively
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and what he does, racing the ball up the floor from time to
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time, well normally that's just to flip it to Steph for a 30
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foot, right. Well, it's not.
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There this week. That guy's not there anymore.
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Just watching that. Like you said, the Timberwolves
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didn't play well. They have to win the series.
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Yes, they will. They have to be marching on to
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take on, I think OK C At this point, I think Denver looks like
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a tired basketball team. The other one from Saturday.
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Excited to flip on MSG. See the environment and the the
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crowd just never can get it they they.
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Had other plans, did they not? Yeah.
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Yeah, The the Celtics took him out of that one very early in
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the basketball game. Now they're tonight, correct.
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Both of them resumed tonight. Yes, I know the late game is is
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Golden State and the T Wolves. That's a 9:00 tip. 6:30.
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Four, they don't wait till 6:30. So actually the reason it's
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9:00, OK. Push it back, I like it.
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Yeah, no, it's fine. It's fine.
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You always can hit the R button on your on your DIRECTV remote
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if indeed you can't make it up 'cause I've worn out that
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button. On mine.
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Numerous times, yeah. It was a good weekend.
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Basketball was not great by any means was what was the best game
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of the weekend was maybe it was the Minnesota game, maybe.
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Well, I mean you must go back Friday night the Thunder Nuggets
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game in overtime. Oh sure, that was yeah the best
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one. But often than that I.
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Didn't see a lot of that when I was watching my jet.
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Oh, that's right, Stars at home. And that was, Oh yeah, that was
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Friday night. And then it went back the other
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way. It did, it did, but you know,
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it's they're down to 1. Obviously tomorrow's a big
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series for the good guys if they lose.
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Yeah, sadly, probably. I means it's going to be the
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stars back in the in the Western Conference. 5 was to be 3
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straight years. I think it'd be 3, three or
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four. They seemingly get there a lot
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baseball from over the weekend. And we got to make a ruling here
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because Kate Horton, who was called up for the Cubs to pitch
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against the Mets on Saturday. We put that in the chicken coop
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promotion or the chicken coop questions.
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And the premise was was we have 12 1/2 or 13 1/2 was the number
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over under 13 and A and a half outs for Kate Horton.
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But that was based on him starting it was.
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So it's got to be a no bet. Well, we also got an opener,
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though it's not like they had a traditional and he was like a
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middle reliever or even a long. Reliever OK, so this will be the
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deciding because you know this better than I because I don't go
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to my app on I'm a futures player.
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Can you bet? Is there ever been a bet where
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relief pitcher has a number attached to his name?
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I don't believe so I believe it has to be a starter.
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Even if the game plan is this player's going to come in after
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the opener, this pitcher's going to come in.
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I don't believe so. I think it's no bet.
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I think that's right. I have not looked at last week.
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I have not taken a peek so or whether factors right if it's
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going to in fact one way or the other, but we're making an
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official ruling here I. Think that's we have to do?
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It without even looking in the notebook.
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I'm not trying to screw somebody one way or the other.
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That's not what this is. We're going to make an official
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ruling, No. Yep, he didn't start yes, but
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when he did get in the game, he looked really good.
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He did with the with the exceptional one pitch.
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He looked really good. Family was there good for them.
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They all made it there as as the most families do, but it was it
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was good to see. I think they might have
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something. Obviously, we'll, I'm not going
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to base this opinion on one start or, or one appearance
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rather, but so far so good out of him.
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Whether he's able to stack them up, that obviously remains to be
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seen, but that was good for him. Another manager was fired,
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Colorado fired their manager. And the only reason I bring it
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up is because they've got now they've got seven wins.
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Have you looked at their schedule for the next?
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I don't know for the remaining month?
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I didn't make the cut of research that I did going into.
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Today, let me just run this by for the seven win baseball team.
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Here's what the Colorado Rockies are about to embark on.
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They're going to go to Texas and play three games.
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Then they're going to go to Arizona and they're going to
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play three games. Then they're going to host
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Philadelphia for four games and here come the Yankees for three
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before they go to take on the Cubs and the Mets before they
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get the Marlins to begin June. That's what we should be putting
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an over under on is how many more wins between now and and
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the Marlins games on the 2nd of June.
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How about that for the worst team in baseball?
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Do they get to 10? They have.
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So it's 19 games that you're talking about, the series
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through that Mets series, which will end on Sunday, June 1st. 19
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games if I put the over under at 3 1/2.
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I think that's a good number. Think about that. 3 1/2 and 50
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1/2 is basically your your implied record for this team.
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Rangers, Diamondbacks, Phillies, Yankees, Cubs, Mets.
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And if it was or do you have to bet aside, I'd bet the over It's
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baseball. I know they're terrible.
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They're terrible. You're still talking about four
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wins over the course of three weeks.
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I mean, as bad as the White Sox were last year, that was a much
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better team than this. Their record was significantly
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better at this point than the Colorado Rockies.
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Trevor, I lived in Denver when the Rockies were born.
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It was an absolute celebration every day at the ballpark a that
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there was Major League Baseball in downtown Denver.
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They were packing the building. I don't know what they averaged
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the first year they played at Mile High Stadium, which I mean,
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I think there was 80,000 people there on opening day.
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I think there was in the 70s for years.
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I think it's in the 80s and I think the average attendance
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that year had to be like 50 before Coors Field opened and it
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was a thing. But it's no longer a thing.
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A brand new ballpark. No, it's not brand new anymore,
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but it's still relatively new in in an area of of of Denver,
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downtown Denver. When I move there, don't go
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anywhere near that. Oh, yeah, lower downtown.
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No, no, no, no, you stay away from there.
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You make it bad to a wrong turn into there, taking your life in
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your own hands. Now it's one of the, you know,
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the hip places in the Mile High City.
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Take a stab at the announced attendance for Let's Go
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Saturday. Saturday night a 21.
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Nothing. Shellacking.
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Oh. My God.
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Announced the tenants. I don't know if this is Fanny's
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in the stands, but I did see some highlights.
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There were people there, certainly.
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Announced the tenants at Coors Field on Saturday night and they
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got B 21 zip. 21 Zero. 15,000. 38,000 Really 423 And then I
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thought when I saw that, well, it had to really, there must
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have been some event, right? They bobble head.
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Something that after the game. Yes, something like that.
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Had to be something, right? So then I look at Sunday, all
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right, What it is on Mother's Day, it can't be close to that.
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Yesterday's attendance at Coors Field, 34,400. 22 That surprised
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me how many people were at Target Field because I watched,
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I watched a lot of that watching the the Royals.
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I was watching the Royals game and I was watching the Twins.
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I was going back and forth and there were way more people at
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Kauffman, especially behind home plate.
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How many people showed up at Target Field to see the all of a
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sudden red hot Minnesota Twins? 23,000.
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On Mother's Day. 551 the fan base has checked out, that's
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what. You've said.
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They are so upset with the ownership group and then it
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finally looked like they were selling and the pull ads now
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buyer pulled away. Have you heard anything?
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No, no. Nothing.
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So you're stuck with this crappy ownership.
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You had a window, it closed, you did nothing and said you took
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away payroll. People said, well, we're staying
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away. We're not going to support this
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product even with eight straight.
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Wins if they're leading the division in let's say they, they
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continue this terror, they they them and the Tigers are in a
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real dog fight here. As we approach the All Star
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break, are people showing up? No.
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You really think so? Not, I mean not even close to
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being not 30,000 plus night in and night out, but that's.
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I mean, that's sending a message.
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It is, but that's not just a Minnesota thing.
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One thing that we have learned throughout the years as you look
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at the look at those attendance figures, it doesn't happen as
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quickly as you would think. It's because you know the reason
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that they're always driving for your season ticket pace, because
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in the grand scheme of things, that's what matters.
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Even a great run, even a great month, even a great half year
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does not translate at the level that it feels like it should in
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Major League Baseball. And that's why it's so important
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to get those checks in January, February, get those in there
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because they matter more than anything.
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Those are the ones that are going to drive exactly how your
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tenants usually looks through the course of a season.
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I got the Major League Baseball attendance for the year up here
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in. Front of me.
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Do you have last year's? I can pull it up.
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So we can see if it's up or it's down.
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I can pull that up. So for this year, the Dodgers
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leading the way, 51,000 home attendance, Padres, Yankees,
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Phillies, Mets. That's your top five in terms of
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average attendance per game. Cubs at number 830-5000 plus
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Saint Louis. We'll get to them.
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And the the red hot Saint Louis Cardinals. 13th 28,000 In change
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in the building. The Rockies are 18th with
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26,000. Surprises me. 26,000 In change
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for the Rockies at #18 we go down at #24 the Kansas City
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Royals 19,316 one spot below them, the Twins 18,000 zero 08
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their average attendance. So who's bringing up the rear?
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With the exception of the A's, because that's.
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Not and Tampa because they're. Playing Oh, they're Tampa's
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playing at Yankee spring training.
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Well, it's Miami, yeah. Above them though, at #27 the
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White Sox 16,663. Big gap.
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And we see a big gap obviously as it pertains to the, well,
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financial part is what I was looking at the Dodgers there,
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what I was saying that the Dodgers and their finances
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compared to everybody else. Absolutely.
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So let's talk about those Cardinals because don't look
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now. They've won eight in a row and
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they're a game back. So game back of the Cubs.
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You last week before we had Brian Walton on from Cardilation
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and you said, hey, you want to talk?
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And I in my head, I said what might be the last time, yeah,
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maybe we'll check in about once a month, but but this will be
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the last time that we'll talk about them being a relevant
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team. That's true.
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You know, a couple and all of a sudden they're hot.
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I flipped them on a couple of times against the nationals
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because, you know, for whatever reason, I got an affinity for
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that team of that order gonna say I love that young staff and
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really the young guys. Washington, yes, Washington.
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I, I just, I think they're coming.
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It's not happening this year and every and they're just in
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control of it. So what's happening?
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Like you look at this team, this doesn't look like a team that
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should be in contention. I don't see it.
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Veteran starting to hit a little bit, I guess get a little bit of
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good mojo, but there's nothing that you can do.
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This is the reason. Is this going to be the race?
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Oh, that. 'D be great.
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It would. Be really good.
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I hope it is. When's the last time we've had a
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cup? Cards.
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Well, I'm sure it's happened relatively recently, but I I
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guess off the top of my head I don't know for sure.
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That would be tremendous to get through a a couple of numbers
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for the Cardinals strikeouts per night.
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That is a pretty big factor in today's baseball, right?
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Straight guys out. That's what you do.
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That's why you build up your staff.
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They're 29th in baseball. Are they really 29th in
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baseball? Yeah.
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Just going through kind of the team statistics, there's nothing
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elite. Batting average, they're 4th.
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OK, but in terms of runs, they're 10th, 10th in slugging
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percentage, 19th In home runs, 20th.
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In stolen bases, runs allowed. They're 12th.
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Trent, I wasn't sure Ollie Marmol was gonna see May.
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Is he pushing the right button I.
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Don't know if it's, I don't know.
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I mean, obviously something's working.
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They're a game out of it and the cups have been hot.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, with the exception, it
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kind of wore down the end of this road trip.
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But again, is we talked about Colorado's schedule, look at the
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Cubs schedule, it's about to get a whole lot easier.
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Cincinnati, Colorado, Cincinnati, Washington, Detroit,
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Miami's in town. They got the White Sox after
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that. So there there's a lot of
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winnable baseball teams for the our games, rather for the North
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Siders coming up. And now Speaking of the
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Cardinals going forward, we just talked about that rocky
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schedule. This isn't that difficult, but
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we're going to know a lot more before we get to June at the
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Phillies starting tonight. Then they go to Kansas City for
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three, home for the Tigers, the best team in the American League
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for three Diamondbacks, who we both think is a good.
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Team they are. They go to Baltimore, bit of a
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respite, but then two. Texas after that and then back
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on beginning of June for three games with the Royals, then the
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Dodgers. When do they see the Cubs?
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They got a four-game series at home against the Cubs for four
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late June. Is that the did they play them
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toward the end of September, If we're going to, if we're going
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to have the Cubs and the Cards? Last one of the year.
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Is it that's they finished the season?
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Awesome. In Chicago Wrigley Friday 1:20
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Saturday 1/20 Sunday as everybody be playing at the.
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Same time on Sunday. Well, schedule maker maybe got
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one right this time. Speaking of the schedule maker,
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it is NFL schedule leaks for the first three days of the week.
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I get such a kick out of my truly dope.
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Well, for a while you were getting duped.
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Yeah, I know, but I was willingly getting duped because
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I just wanted to see something. But when the when the NFL puts
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their, you know, their their mark on it.
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If you they they've announced opening night's going to be the
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Cowboys and the Eagles as the Super Bowl champs will lift the
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curtain on the season. You like that game?
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I do. I enjoy having the Cowboys rival
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the Cowboys involved. America's team.
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Yes they are. I I enjoyed it when I saw that
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was it today today? Yeah, this morning, this morning
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when I thought I'm like, yeah, that's good, I'm happy with
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that. I'm fine with that because the
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other ones, well, I thought the. Rams made sense.
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It made sense. But you can save that game.
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Yeah, you can save that game. I didn't love it.
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I don't know why. And I know Rams gave him a game,
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the only team that gave him a game in the playoffs.
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I didn't love it. Maybe it's just the uniform
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game, getting a uniform game like that to kick it off.
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No, it's pretty good. I'm with you, I'm with you.
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This and. It's Dallas it's well they're
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still relevant right use those TV games early in the year
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before if they do fall out of contention before we get we
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don't need to see we. We tried to make a case for the
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Cowboys last week and I, I think you, you sold it.
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I'm not sure I bought it as much as you.
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I mean, the Giants are clearly 4th and then the and the Eagles
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and the and the Commanders and the Cowboys and where are they
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going to fit in? Yeah, I guess at the end of the
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day, I mean, I have no problem with it.
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It's a divisional game, obviously.
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I think it's only the third time that it that's that they started
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doing this Super Bowl champ playing on Thursday.
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That has been a divisional game. And by the way, every single
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time it's been, it's been the NFC East that's lifted the
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curtain. The Bears Packers played a few
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years back in a Thursday game that did not involve the Super
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Bowl champ. What was that five years ago?
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They didn't remember and I hated it.
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I absolutely despised why. Who was the Super Bowl champ
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then? I don't remember what the
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reasoning was behind it now, but I just remember that it was It
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was the kickoff to the season and for whatever reason.
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And the defending champs couldn't.
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Play. Was it coming on the heels of
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2020 or there was something, there was an oddity that led to
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it and they didn't like it? Yeah, that's the Super Bowl
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champ that is. That's the reserve for the
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winner of the Super Bowl. It is basically every year.
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Let's try to keep it every year. Yeah, I, I, I don't remember
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that being the case. I'm not saying you're wrong, but
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you'd remember you're a Bears fan.
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Yes. And they're going to have a
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really good year, Trent. This is their year, Trent.
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Do you think so? They're a playoff bound team,
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Trent, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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So I bet a a Big 12 school this weekend in football to win the
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conference. Do you have any idea who it is?
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A Big 12 school. I was just.
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Business around I, I think the Mets are going to win the
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division. I I want to try to, you know I
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like stacking things together, right?
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OK. So I don't know how I got on
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this, but but I did and, and I and I open my app and I'm
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clicking through college football and I see conference
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winners. So I'm starting to sniff around
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in there a little bit. So I I landed on the Big 12.
20:32
And the Big 12, All right, let me see if I can.
20:34
Are the odds up currently? They're at DraftKings.
20:37
All right, Big 12. All right, I I pulled up.
20:40
What do I got here? Bet Rivers.
20:42
OK, bet Rivers has it now. Yes, I couldn't find it the
20:45
other day. Bet Rivers Big 12 champion
20:48
You're betting favorites. Co Favorites.
20:50
Oh, there's Co favorites, OK. Are the Kansas State Wildcats?
20:54
Really. And the Sun Devils.
20:55
And the Arizona State. K State's the Second are Co
20:58
favorites. Co favorite 11 to 2 + 550.
21:01
A little better than 5 to 1 odds.
21:03
I don't think either of those teams does it.
21:05
Well, did you, were you impressed by Avery Johnson last
21:08
year? No, I thought that.
21:09
I mean, I would have. I thought he's going to be way
21:12
better, right? And maybe it's a me thing so,
21:14
but I don't think it is. We were also hanging out with
21:17
Kim K State people in Vegas and they were selling us.
21:21
They were trying to sell us hard.
21:23
And Avery Johnson was going to be, well, Howard let him go.
21:26
He's nothing. We got Avery Johnson.
21:28
Yep, he's got a long ways. BYU 7 to one, OK, as is Baylor,
21:33
as is Texas Tech. I don't think you jumped to
21:36
border those kind of prices. What's Texas Tech?
21:41
7 to 1. Baylor and BYU all 7 to 1.
21:44
I bet Texas Tech. It was Texas Tech.
21:46
And the Mets. So what did you get them at?
21:48
DraftKings? About the same price.
21:49
Same price, same price 7 to 1. So Lucas just sent me a text.
21:52
Let me, let's finish up. The Patriots were the Champions
21:55
that year. It was the NF LS 100th season.
21:59
They wanted the Bears and the Packers.
22:00
Gotcha. Thanks, Lucas.
22:02
Told you, why don't you listen to me?
22:04
I I did say you were wrong. I just didn't remember the the
22:06
circumstances. So thank you, Lucas.
22:08
Thank you, Lucas. Iowa State is 11 to one.
22:13
Why at these Now I know you don't want to bet any of the
22:16
locals. I won't, no.
22:18
I don't care about betting the locals.
22:19
I bet the locals all the time. I was state at 11:00 to 1:00.
22:23
What is it about BYU and Baylor in Texas City, Kansas?
22:26
In Utah? These are all teams.
22:28
No, I don't like Utah. I don't like Utah.
22:30
I don't get that one bit. They're the 8th betting choice.
22:36
I'll be out here. This seems dead.
22:38
Wrong. Well, Texas Tech has unlimited
22:41
supply cash for the football team, and they had a great
22:44
portal season. You want to call it that Iowa
22:49
State. So why are folks maybe the
22:50
receivers, maybe they're not sold on Townsend and is it so
22:54
well or sold? So John Walters, when we had him
22:57
on last, he said what it was so well, I so well.
22:59
Yes, that's what I think he said, yes.
23:02
So maybe that's the question, I guess.
23:07
What? What else did they lose?
23:09
We hear the offensive line hasn't taken a step back at all.
23:12
The running backs are still the same.
23:13
Obviously, the most position, most important position in all
23:16
of sports hasn't changed. Is it the fact that the
23:19
receivers are gone? Tight ends should be back to
23:22
health. Iowa State's 12 to one at
23:25
DraftKings. I don't get it.
23:28
And what? Who's the favorite at
23:29
DraftKings? Remind me?
23:30
Co favorites also K State in Arizona State state yes.
23:35
Boy, that arm, that Armageddon, the Ireland game, what are we
23:38
calling it? Farmageddon.
23:39
Farmageddon. Yes, it's a big one.
23:42
It's a huge game. The.
23:43
Importance of that right? Oh my God.
23:45
You're going to be sitting with that one and O at the top of the
23:47
egg and type for. Three weeks, September, yes, How
23:50
about that? That's a big spot.
23:53
Is the point spread out? Didn't we say it was out and
23:55
wasn't Iowa State was getting how many?
23:57
2 1/2. Is it changed I?
24:00
Don't believe so. Game lines.
24:03
I think Circa is coming up with their games of the week, by the
24:05
way, this week. Oh, nice games of the year.
24:07
Beg your pardon. There has been a point spread
24:10
change for the open SO. Iowa State is now getting how
24:13
many? 3 1/2.
24:14
Above a field goal. North of a field goal, you want
24:17
to play the money line plus 136 on the clones.
24:20
Just pay for your trip. Don't do that.
24:23
No, that's anybody listening. Yes, don't do that.
24:26
Fall victim to that one. That's wrong.
24:30
I you like Iowa State. Admittedly, I have not started
24:33
my dive into other teams in the conferences, but on the surface
24:39
of these numbers here, give me Iowa State at DraftKings at 11.
24:44
Give me a DraftKings 12 to one. Excuse me, 11 to one at Bet
24:47
Rivers. We'll see what Circa comes out
24:49
with. Wow, that is very, very
24:54
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Alec Bussey joins us next. We'll talk football with Mr.
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24/7. And I guess let's start there.
25:57
First of all, good afternoon. Thank you.
26:01
At the top Arizona State, that's the consensus amongst the team
26:05
over there that they repeat. Obviously the quarterback is
26:09
back, Levitt's back, Lou Scatibow, lose a couple of
26:12
dudes, but from the feast of famine department, right?
26:16
Everybody picked them last this time last year.
26:18
Not only would they win, but they're picked to repeat quite a
26:21
story. The Sun Double S.
26:24
Yeah, I think Kenny Dillingham has done a great job there.
26:27
Obviously he's entering his third year.
26:28
He kind of inherited a mess of a program that had self-imposed
26:32
bull bands entering his first year.
26:34
Believe he goes just three and nine back in 2023.
26:37
But last year they're probably right up there with Indiana as
26:40
the biggest surprises. College football, you mentioned
26:43
how you know they lose Cam Scataboo and I think that that's
26:47
obviously a big deal. But they also returned.
26:49
Sam Levitt. They returned.
26:50
Jordan Tyson, 1000 yard wide receiver on the outside, they
26:54
returned. That's the kid that was hurt for
26:55
the Bull, for their Bulls or for their playoffs.
26:58
Right. And the championship.
26:59
And the champion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:01
Yeah, yeah. Tyson did not play the Big 12
27:03
championship game either. Believe it was a shoulder injury
27:06
for him. They returned Tyson.
27:08
They returned a really physical, impressive tight end.
27:11
Metier. Metier, I believe, is how you
27:13
pronounce the last name. It's French, but they also
27:16
returned their entire starting offensive line.
27:18
So Arizona State, to me should be the favorite of the Big 12
27:22
this coming year, especially because they added some
27:25
impactful rushers as well, including armies running back.
27:28
He was very productive last year.
27:30
He was in high demand across the country as well.
27:33
I think Texas Tech, another team at the top of our rankings that
27:36
Cody Nagle put together, they've invested a lot of money into
27:40
this roster, upwards of 35 to $40 million.
27:44
Like Kurt Signetti said in Indiana a few weeks ago, say
27:48
daddy obviously. Does that hold back his
27:50
feelings? I think that's why a lot of
27:51
people really like him or dislike him, whichever side of
27:54
the spectrum you fall on there. And they spent $10 million alone
27:58
in the winter trans report. I think Max Olson of ESPN was
28:01
the first to report that. I think Iowa State kind of in a
28:04
similar spot here, right there in the top four or five of a lot
28:08
of people's projections in the conference.
28:10
You know, they have to replace a lot of production in names on
28:14
the offensive and defensive lines, but they return a lot of
28:16
playmakers, especially on offense, headlined by Rocco back
28:20
to a couple impactful rushers like Carson Hanson and Abu Sama.
28:24
Another team that I really like that I think how do you ranked
28:27
in his top five as well is BYU. They return Jake Ratzlaff, a
28:31
quarterback, obviously he's become known as like the BYU
28:35
because he's a Jewish quarterback at BYU, which I
28:37
think is a fun storyline. They return their leading
28:40
rusher, LJ Martin, their top receiver, Chase Roberts.
28:44
And we always know how good and physical BYU teams tend to be at
28:47
the line of scrimmage under Kalani Sataki.
28:49
And, you know, I would say it's Week 1 opponent, or I should say
28:52
Week 0 opponent, K State. All this picking at the top of
28:54
the conference. They have to replace a couple
28:57
important people on offense, including across the offensive
29:01
line. But Avery Johnson is back.
29:02
Quarterback Dylan Edwards will step into the RV one role for
29:06
for K State. And then obviously, you know,
29:09
Joe Clanderman, their defensive coordinator does a good job down
29:11
there in Manhattan as well. So it should be a fun year in
29:14
the Big 12 as always. And I'm sure there's going to be
29:16
some team in the bottom half that is competing to get to the
29:21
conference title within the last couple of weeks, just like we
29:23
saw last year with BYU and Arizona State both in that group
29:27
and to a certain extent Colorado as well.
29:28
Let. Me ask you about K State
29:29
Trenton, I talked about this in our first segment.
29:32
We, we both had higher expectations for Avery Johnson
29:35
last year. Maybe this unfair, maybe this
29:36
was an US thing, but he ran off Will Howard who went on to Ohio
29:40
State. That turned out pretty well, as
29:42
as we know, but I guess I just expected Avery Johnson to just
29:46
take this league by storm. What were your?
29:50
What are? Your thoughts on what he did
29:51
last year and he's is he got another level to his play, do
29:55
you think? Yeah.
29:57
I think in a certain sense, Avery Johnson might be a little
29:59
bit of a victim of the media machine he experienced a year
30:03
ago. He was one of the most
30:05
anticipated quarterbacks to make his debut a season ago.
30:08
You talked about K State running off well, Howard, to make Avery
30:12
Johnson their starting quarterback.
30:14
I think that was as much of a product of a time value where
30:18
they felt they could have Avery Johnson be their starting
30:21
quarterback for 2-3, maybe four years where they knew they had
30:23
just one more season with Bill Howard.
30:26
You know, Avery Johnson statistically had a good season.
30:29
I don't think it was maybe a great season.
30:31
Completed less than 60% of his passes.
30:34
Believe he had 25 touchdowns, ran for over 506 hundred yards
30:38
somewhere in that range. And we know he's a really
30:40
dynamic, fast runner. I think that's something that KT
30:43
is going to do with him more this season with a new offensive
30:46
play caller. He is someone who who can throw
30:49
the ball. I think it's an area of his game
30:50
that's still developing as he kind of grows more and more into
30:55
it. He's a really good athlete.
30:56
He's a really good just quick mover.
30:59
I think getting Jace Brown back at receiver will really help
31:03
them this upcoming season because he was, you know, an 800
31:08
yard receiver a year ago in his first big opportunity in K
31:11
States offense. But I think it's worth pointing
31:13
out that I think every Johnson sent set the single season
31:16
passing touchdown record at K State.
31:19
A lot of people may not know. Now, that's obviously all
31:22
relative. You, you set a record.
31:24
It's relative to the success of people before you.
31:26
In case they tag good quarter. Yes, they have Culverson, Colin
31:30
Klein. Yeah, Michael Bishop, people
31:33
like that that have been very impactful and successful in
31:36
their career. So it's not like Avery Johnson,
31:38
you know, was setting records held by people in the 1920s.
31:43
Hey Alec, want to jump to the bottom of your weekly thoughts
31:46
article? And it's about the what looks to
31:48
be almost rubber stamped 16 team playoff is coming starting in
31:52
2026. Here's the part that I can't
31:56
wrap my mind around. All right, so SEC Big 10,
31:59
they're going to have the three seed against the 6A, four
32:02
against the five. Winner gets an automatic spot
32:04
into the playoff. What is the reasoning?
32:06
Why would you even clean your conference championship game
32:09
outside of seeding of week off? Because if you're a 16 team
32:13
playoff, everybody's obviously playing in the first round.
32:17
That means no time off. Why is anybody going to play in
32:19
their conference championship game knowing it's not going to
32:22
help you? You're going to have to play
32:23
that following week. Yeah, I think, you know one
32:26
thing that I found interesting. Ross Dellinger wrote a story
32:29
about this, I think back in February, just about all the
32:32
different possibilities and within his long story, and you
32:36
can check it out on Yahoo, he's linked it a few times in the
32:39
last couple of days on his Twitter X account.
32:42
He never specifically reported that conferences were seriously
32:45
considering getting rid of their championship games.
32:47
He kind of included it within a list of five or six questions,
32:52
which I find really interesting because I don't really think you
32:55
should report with questions very often in long stories like
32:58
that. Like that's not really reporting
33:00
in my opinion. And Rock does great work.
33:02
I'm not trying to be critical of him.
33:04
He's an awesome reporter. He does a great job with all the
33:06
legal stuff and CFP legislative stuff in college football.
33:11
I think there's a possibility that I guess you potentially see
33:14
conference championship games go away if they do a 16 team CFP.
33:20
I would hate that. But I guess you're also getting
33:22
increased inventory on what we now know as conference
33:26
championship weekend because you would have, like you mentioned
33:29
there, Trent, you know, three playing 64 playing 5 for the
33:33
opportunity of those teams to get automatic bids in the Big
33:36
12. And in the ACC, you would have
33:41
presumably one playing 4/2 playing three.
33:44
The winners of those games getting automatic bids because
33:47
they're those two conferences will each get two bids with the
33:51
16 teams CSP or 14 teams CSP, whichever they decide to do.
33:55
And then there's 3 automatic bids and one bid reserved for
33:58
the highest ranked Group of Five champion.
34:00
And that is guaranteed until I believe 2032 when the current
34:04
CSP contract ends. So I'm a proponent of it moving
34:08
to 16 because I think 14 is just a really dumb number.
34:12
Like if you're going to move to 14, just go to 16 because you
34:15
eventually you're going to get there.
34:17
Personally, I really liked 12. There's tinkering that I would
34:20
make to 12. I think that accurately seeding
34:24
it makes a lot of sense. The deliberate misleading of it
34:26
this past season. I think it's confusing for fans.
34:29
It makes no sense to casual fans.
34:32
Not that we should be catering too much to those people in
34:34
college football, but I do think you want it to be easy to
34:36
understand. And I don't think that that
34:38
necessarily was a year ago. So I do think that fixing that
34:44
this upcoming season should be a priority.
34:45
But big picture into the future, I do think that there is value
34:49
in moving to 16 instead of being at at 14.
34:54
What is there Is there any way we could use the final week of
34:57
the Thanksgiving weekend to as a semi final before those
35:01
conference championship? I'm trying to figure it out
35:03
because I I don't want to lose them personally, but I could
35:07
see. I mean, Trent's point is spot
35:09
on. Why bother, you know, But I
35:12
wonder if they if you can come up with this with the system
35:15
that there's a carrot on Thanksgiving weekend to get into
35:18
the and it's just be seating right.
35:22
Yeah. And I think the issue is if you
35:25
do get rid of conference championship games.
35:28
And I think the big reason that there's a push from the two big
35:32
power brokers, the Big 10, the SEC for a changing in structure,
35:36
obviously, one is the financials of it.
35:38
That's what motivates everyone in today's society.
35:41
But secondly, I think another thing that the Big 10 and SEC
35:45
saw and felt this first season is their conference championship
35:49
games meant nothing. There was no stakes on either of
35:52
those games. The winners were going to get
35:54
in, the losers were going to get in.
35:56
And that was, in my opinion, a motivation behind the 14 team
36:00
was, hey, we know that our two teams are going to be our two
36:03
highest champions, going to be the the highest ranked teams.
36:07
So if we do 14, those two teams are going to get a buy.
36:10
But I think they're also realizing like 14 is dumb.
36:13
And I also think that expanding to 16 probably pleases the Big
36:18
12 and the ACC parties a little bit.
36:22
Frankly, I think that what the, the ACC and the Big 12 should
36:26
propose because they don't have much leverage in this current
36:29
setting or climate is like a scheduling agreement of some
36:34
sort in the offseason of, or excuse me, in the non conference
36:37
to say, hey, we, we understand that we're going to lose bids to
36:41
you guys, automatic bids to you guys every CSP.
36:45
But in exchange for that, you're going to play us in the non
36:47
conference. We're going to have a rotating
36:49
thing every every year where we'll play each other every
36:53
year. And if you're the Big 12 in the
36:54
ACC, there's a lot of value in that because you're welcoming
36:57
teams like Alabama to Ames, IA, or you're welcoming a Florida to
37:02
Boston College or whatever example you want to use.
37:05
And not only did that help you saw at your stadium, obviously,
37:08
but more importantly, you know that potentially gives you a
37:12
really marquee win either at home or on the road to improve
37:17
your resume as an at large team, which I think is valuable as
37:20
well. Good stuff.
37:22
Do we have time for one more quick question, basketball, Why?
37:25
And this was in your column. The challenge, the coaches
37:27
challenge might be on the table. Is that as soon as this year and
37:32
if the coach say TJ challenges, he wins the challenge, he gets
37:37
another one. He also doesn't have to burn a
37:38
time out if he loses, obviously gets no more challenges and cost
37:42
him a time out. Is that a potential change that
37:44
could be in place for this season, Alec?
37:48
It is. It's something that the
37:49
committees will all have to kind of vote on and go through and
37:53
determine if it's something that they want to use.
37:55
I think one of the big motivations behind it is the
37:58
idea of limiting monitor reviews in the last minutes of the game.
38:04
I know that that's something a lot of people have talked about
38:07
is how annoying and frustrating those can be.
38:10
I would also say a reason that I think they want to do it in
38:13
terms of the the monitor reviews or to challenge it's to get rid
38:18
of the reviewing of possession I guess, or who the ball went out
38:23
of bounds of late in games as well because they wouldn't
38:27
review that unless it was challenged late in games.
38:30
And you're only allowed to review that last two minutes
38:32
currently. So I think that's another
38:34
motivation for it right now. We'll see.
38:36
Fingers crossed. Good stuff.
38:37
Alec Bussey, 24/7 Sports, cyclonealert.com I know you're
38:41
in with Sean tomorrow morning. Look forward to that.
38:44
Are you doing the drive this afternoon?
38:46
Power Hour. Yeah, I will be in studio on
38:49
this afternoon with Lucas and Heather.
38:50
I don't know if Dave's going to make it in, but I hope to to
38:54
join him in there because I will be in studio.
38:55
Good stuff. Thank you buddy.
38:57
Have a good week. Thanks guys.
38:59
Have a great day. Good.
38:59
To talk to you Alec Bussey 24/7 Sports cyclonework.com Come back
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up, come back and wrap up our number one that's next Miller
39:06
and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
39:09
I'm Hillary Condon, welcome back.
39:10
Final couple of minutes of the first hour.
39:12
So we didn't have much time to get into with with Alec Bussey
39:15
the potential of a challenge system coming to college
39:19
basketball. I mean on the surface, what's
39:22
what's they're not to like? As long as it's quick.
39:25
As long as it's quick, and if it does away with some of the
39:27
monitor challenges, I'm not sure how that'll happen.
39:30
But if you can make that quick, that's what drives people nuts.
39:34
Basketball games, it's just extending it like that.
39:38
And if you get one challenge, if there's an egregious miss and
39:40
you've still got your challenge, you can use it.
39:43
You get it right, you keep it and you can do it again.
39:46
I mean, I on the surface, what's not to like?
39:49
It is what you want. Get that thing because it's
39:52
awful and the game scenarios, It annoys my wife.
39:56
It annoys everybody. I'm sure a lot of people out
39:58
there. How?
39:59
Especially if your game's supposed to start at 8:05.
40:02
Absolutely. Plenty of those too, as you're
40:04
waiting and waiting and they're going through it all.
40:06
Yeah, I mean. It just doesn't find it on the
40:08
ESPN app. Yeah, absolutely.
40:10
And then you're getting out your phone, you're getting out your
40:12
iPad. You're trying to figure that
40:13
out. It's just not the same if it
40:15
actually happens. But this one is not one of the
40:18
proposed rule changes about the fouls, right?
40:21
The college basketball, they've been trying to do this last 50
40:25
years and it doesn't change. Freedom of movement, right?
40:28
And by the time we get to January, it's that's the same
40:30
guard. The way it was.
40:31
Yeah, clutch and hold and grab and do everything possible.
40:34
November officiating gets a little different when conference
40:36
play starts, is it not? But if we have a hard and fast
40:40
rule, this many challenges. And and I think 1's the good
40:43
number. Coupled with how many times they
40:46
can go to the monitor as officials, can we put a number
40:49
on them? Yeah, we want to get it right,
40:52
but there's so many times it feels like they.
40:54
Take the easy way out. Know that they can go to the
40:56
monitor what's? It called something.
40:59
I think there's something there, so let's go look.
41:02
Do your job. Yeah, if it's not there the
41:03
first time, it's not going to mysteriously just.
41:06
Pop up, that's another thing. Hour 2 coming up next, talk
41:08
baseball with Matt Snyder to kick it off John Boenkamp on the
41:11
Hawks number in Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.