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David Kaplan on Chicago sports, Blake Walker & Andy Pollock with Trent on conference realignment · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 on the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon
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  here, joined today by Andy Pollock and Blake Walker as we
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  talk the world of sports. Time to head to Chicago and our
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  weekly conversation with David Kaplan presented by Centurion
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  Stone of Iowa as he joins us here today.
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  Cap, as always, appreciate the time.
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  Good to catch up with you once again.
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  What is new in Shy Town? 66° on February 18th and after I
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  get done talking to you, I'm actually going to go for a hike.
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  Nice. So yeah, take me sick and sunny.
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  Sign me up brother. Got to take advantage of that
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  Monday. We had a very similar weather
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  here. Kids were off for school for the
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  conferences and kids were outside playing with water
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  balloons. They had a water blue flight in
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  the middle of Iowa in the middle of February.
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  But there's no global warming that will leave the politics
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  aside. Cappy.
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  Let's get into sports and let's start with the Chicago Bears.
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  As the Bears offseason continues, the full announcement
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  of coaching staff changes came out from the Chicago Bears and
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  some movement in the ranks for Ben Johnson squad.
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  As you can anticipate after a successful season of what was
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  going to happen and the big one in the local connection us to
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  here in the state of Iowa, Declan Doyle moving on with the
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  Ravens to become their offensive coordinator.
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  What do you think of some of the change up we're seeing with
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  offensive staff? I mean, you promoted Press
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  Taylor, so you get continuity because he was there with them
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  this past season. So look, Ben is driving that
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  bus. I watched the Caleb Williams
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  podcast. He was a guest on Max Crosby's
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  podcast. I don't know if you guys saw
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  that, but it's on social and it is spectacular to listen.
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  Guys talk so differently when they talk to another athlete.
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  I don't care who the media guy is.
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  They just talk differently when they talk to a fellow football
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  player or fellow basketball player.
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  And I'm listening to Caleb and he talked about, you know, Ben
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  is so serious that when even when he cracks a joke, he does
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  it with a straight face. And then he's like, that's a
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  joke, guys, you can laugh and oh, OK, we can laugh.
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  He said. That dude is so intense and so
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  locked in and he goes to their coaches sleeping in the facility
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  during the football season. And so his point was that
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  whoever comes in here, Ben's the boss, whatever Ben wants, and
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  pretty much Dennis Allen on the defensive side.
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  But they have a certain way they do things, and if you don't do
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  things the way they want, get out, they don't care.
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  They don't care how good you are or who you are.
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  You're going to run the offense or the defense the way I want it
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  done or get out. And so whoever they promote, if
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  they brought you and me in there, we would just do exactly
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  what Ben wanted. That's it.
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  I had another question with what we've seen here recently with
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  Eric B Enemy. So he was the running back coach
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  for the Bears this year. He goes back to Kansas City.
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  He's going to be the offensive coordinator.
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  You know, Andy Reid though, with a thumbprints that he has had
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  talk about a weird coaching career that he has had.
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  When he was in Kansas City the first time it felt like he was
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  going to have his pick of jobs and it never came to fruition
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  there. What did you learn?
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  And I know it wasn't even a full season there in Chicago about
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  Eric B Enemy because they're always just feels like there's
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  something almost bubbling under the surface with him personality
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  wise, the way that he connects. What were your thoughts on the
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  Enemy? The running backs loved him and
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  the Bears run game was outstanding.
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  So I can only tell you that he was well respected.
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  He's very intense. When we were at training camp, I
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  mean, he didn't care who you are.
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  He was going to call you out and you're moving like an old lady.
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  You're this, you're that like he was, he was very, very intense.
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  The way he coached his guys at training camp.
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  And you can't argue with the results.
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  Swift had his, you know, maybe the second best season of his
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  career, certainly best in Chicago.
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  The none guy, seventh round pick had a really good year.
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  So now he goes back and he's the OC for Andy Reid.
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  Is he ever going to be a head coach?
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  I don't know. You're probably right.
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  If you go back through his history, maybe there's somebody,
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  something happened. I don't know what it is, but it
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  doesn't seem like he's going to be a head coach anytime soon.
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  But he's a really good offense of mine and from what I hear, a
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  good guy. Yeah, that's that's one
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  certainly interesting. So the Bears offseason as it's
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  in front of us cap, I want to get your perspective.
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  Salary caps, some of the cuts were going to be seasoned, kind
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  of the work that needs to be done on the business side of
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  things, salary cap and all that together and what you anticipate
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  cuts that are going to happen, veterans that they're going to
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  move on from. Well, I don't think they're
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  going to resign Jaquan Brisker. I'll be very surprised if they
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  do. I'll be equally surprised if
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  they don't resign my guy Kevin Byard, he's a leader.
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  He's a really good football player.
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  He's not trying to hold you up for crazy, crazy money.
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  But he's, he's told me. I had dinner with him and he
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  said, look, I don't want to play two years in Chicago within a
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  year in Vegas, and then they don't want me back.
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  So I go for a year to Houston because I'm not doing it.
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  I'm not moving my wife and three young kids to different cities
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  every year. We like it here.
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  I want to be here, they tell me. They want me to be here.
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  Now we just got to find a number that works for both sides, so we
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  will see. So joined by a couple of Co
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  hosts today, going to jump in. First, we got Andy, a lifelong
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  Iowa and he's got a question that has been certainly making
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  the rounds here in the state of Iowa.
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  Take it away, Pollock. Yeah, file this under.
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  There's not a whole lot going on in Iowa this time of year.
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  But yeah, recently the Iowa Legislature has talked about
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  trying to make a run to get the Bears to come to Iowa.
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  Is that what's even right? I know what, but what is that
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  look like right now out in Chicago?
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  What's what? What are things looking like as
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  far as where the Bears will end up?
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  I'm telling you what, Indiana's for real now.
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  Indiana's not Iowa. And I said on the air,
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  kiddingly, if the Bears move to the Quad Cities, I'm becoming a
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  Packers. No anything but that.
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  Because that is never, ever going to happen simply because
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  the Chicago Bears are in Illinois.
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  That for me, and I think they want to be in Arlington Heights
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  to the best of their ability. But if Governor Pritzker and I
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  don't, I don't talk politics on my radio show.
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  But we are the most messed up state politically, probably in
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  the country, maybe next to California.
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  I mean, we have a $0.48 per gallon gas tax.
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  It's stupid, it's ridiculous. And they can't figure out a way
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  to keep a charter franchise of the NFL happy when that charter
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  franchise is not asking them to build them a stadium.
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  Let me be clear. Chicago Bears said we'll pay for
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  the stadium. We just want you to give us two
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  things. You pay for the infrastructure
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  that has to be expanded, whatever that is, I-90 or Route
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  53 or the exits, that Euclid near the racetrack property
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  that's going to benefit the whole region, not just the 9
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  Sundays that they play a football game there or concerts
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  or whatever that are held in that facility.
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  And then the other thing we want is we want property tax
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  certainty. The number one highest property
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  tax in the NFL is paid by the LA Rams.
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  They pay 8 and a half, $1,000,000 per year.
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  That doesn't include amusement tax on tickets.
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  Any of that. Property tax on Sofi is 8 and a
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  half million dollars right now. If the Chicago Bears just
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  accepted whatever Illinois is giving them under, depending on
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  how the economy performs because it would be tied to that, they
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  could pay $100 million in tax. Unsustainable.
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  You can't run a business that way.
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  They'll give Boeing a tax break. They'll give McDonald's or
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  Walgreens or any of these big companies that move here.
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  That's why you've seen some big corporations.
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  Citadel, owned by what was the richest guy in Illinois, Ken
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  Griffin. He said I'm out, I can't deal
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  with the politics here, I'm gone.
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  And he moved his operations to Miami, FL, because Florida is
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  much more probusiness. Illinois, despite what the
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  politicians want to tell you, does not know how to get out of
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  their own way. So Indiana said hang on a
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  second, we'll build you a stadium, We won't charge you any
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  rent in Portage IN and you won't have to cover any tax bill.
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  Nothing. We want you here.
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  We've got 300 plus acres around it that you can develop and put
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  whatever you want there. Restaurants, sports book,
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  whatever. You have no obstructions with
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  us, but they think it would be great and a real shot in the arm
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  for that region. I don't know if they're going to
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  Portage. That's a 45 minute drive from
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  downtown Chicago. But I do think Hammond, Gary,
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  like that governor wants the bears desperately.
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  They're also telling the bears, hey, the 27th of February is the
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  last day of our general session for our legislature.
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  We want an answer by then. That's next week.
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  So we're going to know something here in the next 10 days.
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  And I think it woke Illinois up to the degree that they're at
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  least going to have a big meeting tomorrow, a number of
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  the state legislature to see if there's a way they can figure
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  out the tax bill, this mega project bill, and figure out the
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  infrastructure. But I'm telling you, if they
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  don't, if they screw around, Governor Pritzker is going to
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  wake up one day and go, Oh, my God, I might watch the show.
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  The Chicago Bears now are playing in Indiana and they're
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  not going to give up the name. I remember the old mayor daily,
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  not the last mayor daily. His dad says when George Hallis
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  was alive, he said, I want to move to Arlington Heights.
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  He goes over my dead body. You'll be the Chicago Bears
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  then. You're going to be the Arlington
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  Heights Bears. And that's not going to happen.
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  They're going to be the Chicago Bears no matter where they play.
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  But I I used to say it's a done deal, they're going to Arlington
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  Heights because I can't believe that the politicians in my state
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  are as stupid as they are. But when I see some of the other
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  decisions that they make, it won't shock me if they end up in
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  Indiana. We saw plenty of grand standing
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  here thinking that they're going to have the Chicago Bears in the
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  Quad Cities. But yes, it happens everywhere.
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  Cap. You are certainly not alone on
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  that. One final thing on the Bears
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  before we get into a little baseball talk with you a Cap.
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  There are murmurs, rumblings, rumors out there of a possible
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  reunion with Kirk Cousins, going back to Minnesota with the
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  Vikings. He has been moving on from
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  Atlanta. What is final four games with
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  the Falcons. At the end, we know JJ McCarthy
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  looks like a lost cause at this point in his career.
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  The Lions aren't going anywhere. They're going to look to improve
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  that offensive line. The Packers we know are going to
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  be consistent winners. It feels like year in and year
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  out and the Bears have a first place schedule.
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  Does Kirk Cousins going back to Minnesota change your perception
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  at all of them going into next year?
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  No, it does not. It absolutely does not.
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  Look, I think the Vikings have talent.
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  I love their head coach. Kevin O'connell's really good
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  Kirk, let's be fair with Kirk Cousins is here and I hear he's
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  a great, great teammate, a great dude.
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  That's all well and fine. He's, what, 363738?
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  He's in that range with he'll be now another year removed from a
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  torn Achilles. But he's a good player.
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  He's not a star. He's not.
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  Is he better than JJ McCarthy right now?
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  Probably I just I don't think that that is a Oh my God, the
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  Vikings just got real. They got Patrick Mahomes from
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  the Chiefs. Nice player.
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  I still think this division is going to go through the Bears
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  and the Packers. One of those two are going to
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  win it. Let's jump into some baseball.
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  David Kaplan joining us. ESPN 1000 presented by Centurion
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  Stone of Iowa As pitchers and catchers are reporting we're
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  getting ready for the World Baseball Classic.
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  Give us the top storyline that we've had at this point in time.
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  The Cubs much more boring than what's happening with my team.
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  Pablo Lopez out for the year for the Twins.
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  The GM leaving the team two weeks before spring training
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  begins. Feels like the news not quite
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  the same for the Cubs pretty much as in anticipated here to
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  begin the offset begin. Excuse me, Spring training I.
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  Mean the Cubs are really, really excited how Kate Horton looks.
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  He was thrown the other day and Craig counsel said someone said,
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  how's Horton look coming back from the broken rib that he
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  missed the playoffs with? He said, well, it's the middle
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  of February and he's sitting at 96, touching 98.
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  And then someone else there said, don't forget Jackson
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  Wiggins, our #1 prospect who your Twins tried to extort the
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  Cubs for in a Joe Ryan deal. He's sitting at 98, touching
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  101. He's their number 1 prospect and
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  that's why they did not trade him in a Joe Ryan, John Duran,
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  Mackenzie Gore, that type of deal, because they think he'll
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  be here sooner rather than later this season.
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  Justin Steele's coming back, you've got Kate Horton, you've
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  got Matt Boyd and you got Jameson Dion and you've got
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  Imanaga. I mean, you've got a lot of arms
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  in this camp and then if you look at their everyday line up,
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  I don't think there's a team in baseball that is good
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  defensively. Three time Gold Glover in left,
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  Gold Glover in center. And then you've got Sale who's
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  just a very average outfielder. You got a really good first
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  baseman and Michael Bush who hit 34 home runs.
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  You got a Gold Glove second baseman, Gold Glove shortstop,
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  Gold Glove third baseman. So you've got a really, really
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  strong team that I know the Dodgers are the Dodgers, the the
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  Cubs are maybe not quite there, but I think they're the second
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  best team in the National League potentially.
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  I saw an interview with the swarm of reporters down a spring
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  training with Tom Ricketts, and Ricketts, it felt like maybe
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  chess puffed out a little bit. Believes in this team winning a
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  division, competing for a championship.
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  That's obviously the way it should be for an organization
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  like the Cubs seemingly every single year.
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  But feels like we're getting a little bit of bravado out of
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  Ricketts. Does that lead you to believe
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  that? That checkbooks open and come
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  deadline time, if there is something that is going to help
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  this team and maybe push them over the edge that Ricketts is
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  going to spend. Yeah.
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  You know, the one thing I'd like to make sure people realize is
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  that it's not what you're willing to spend at the
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  deadline. Because when I was talking to
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  Jed Hoyer on my YouTube show a few weeks ago, he was in here.
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  He said let me just correct you guys because I asked the same
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  exact question. Your boss is going to let you
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  spend when it comes to the deadline.
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  He said it has zero to do with money.
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  He said there were plenty of guys we could have acquired.
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  He said we have money to be able to spend, but he said when you
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  call up a particular team and he wouldn't say who it was, but I
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  did on the show and he just looked at me and smiled.
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  When you call up the Minnesota Twins and you tell them, hey,
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  what do you want for Joe Ryan? And they tell you, yeah, we want
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  Jackson Wiggins, your number one pitching prospect who's going to
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  be here in six months. And we want Kate Horton, and we
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  want Owen Casey. And Jed just goes, yeah, thanks,
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  good luck. See you.
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  Hope that goes well for you. Then you call the Washington
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  Nationals for Mackenzie Gore, and you're told the same exact
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  names. Or, well, if you don't want to
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  put Wiggins. And we'll take Nat Shaw, who is
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  a Gold Glove finalist as a rookie at a position he never
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  played at third base. And now they're going to use him
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  in the outfield some in right. He'll spell Horner at 2nd, and
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  he'll give Bregman a day off at third.
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  He's like 24 years old. And so my point is it does, it
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  does not matter what contract you're asked to take back.
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  It's what players you want off my team.
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  Kate Horton is my #1 starter. Jackson Wiggins, many people in
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  the organization believe has a higher ceiling than Kate Horton.
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  So I know he's coming from AAA and maybe it's not this year,
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  but let's go three years down the road and I got a 27 or 28
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  year old Kate Horton, like a 24 year old Jackson Wiggins at the
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  front of my rotation. Boy, I'm glad I didn't make the
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  trade for Joe Ryan then. That is incredible.
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  Yeah. I'd take that hall for my twins.
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  They need a lot. They need a lot of work.
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  David Kaplan joining us, as always, presented by Centurion
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  Stone of Iowa. Cap, appreciate it.
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  Talk to you next week. Have a great day.
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  David Kaplan joining us on a Wednesday here as we talk some
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  Chicago sports. Little Bears and Cubs for you.
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  Sorry, White Sox fans, Bulls fans, Blackhawk fans, A Blake, I
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  know you like racing. Yeah, we have got to Wednesday.
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  I have not spent literally one second talking about whatever
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  happened at Daytona. Yep, because I didn't see a
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  second of it. I am not a race fan.
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  Are you a hockey guy? Are you an NBA guy?
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  You're younger than Andy and I, so I wanna get your thoughts on
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  that. The it's baseball, it's
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  football, it's basketball. Those are the main things that
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  certainly college basketball. What else do you root for?
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  What else do you cheer for outside of your NASCAR?
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  I think, you know, NBA wise, I've always been a Timberwolves
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  guy. There you go.
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  You know, I like, I like that. I, I've, I haven't gotten into
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  hockey. I, I just, it's hard.
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  I want to, I will say the the classic that they had last year
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  with all the different countries I was locked in, you would have.
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  Thought Four Nations. Oh, it was unbelievable.
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  I was when, when we lost, I was so, so disappointed for no
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  reason. But yeah, I think, you know,
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  those I really enjoy. And you know, I, I'm not a big
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  soccer guy, but with the World Cup this year, I might as well.
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  I mean, you know, cuz it's, you're just part of it.
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  And I like to say that I, I want to be able to watch all
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  different kinds of sports. And, you know, it's, it's fun to
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  keep up with them. Now you're a Vikings fan,
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  Pollock, and it's gross. I grew up surrounded by you
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  guys. Yeah, you're you're closer to
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  there than I was. Absolutely.
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  And it was like growing up, it was like 90% Vikings fans.
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  So North Central Iowa grew up 10 miles away from the border on
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  the correct side of the border, and it was all there.
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  There were no Packer fans, No. We don't have any where I was
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  either. Suddenly in the 90s, these
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  people in their John Deere Green, they start coming out of
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  the woodwork. Where did these people come
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  from? And of course, we know the pro,
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  what the Packers have turned into and what they've been,
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  though those Packer fans were always there.
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  Viking fan. What else though?
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  Iowa State, your Wartburg nights.
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  You bet. AP Dolly, all the you you got
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  too many I. Got yeah, I got.
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  There's not too many teams I actively cheer against other
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  than the Hawkeyes and the Cornhuskers.
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  That's it. So and honestly.
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  Broncos for me. Oh, huge, huge Denver Broncos.
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  Ken would like to hear you had just heard.
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  NBA and everything else. Are you ever mentioned those?
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  I was like, yeah, huge Denver Broncos.
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  I actually Broncos would be one of the teams I pulled for as
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  well. We got a local kid, Riley Moss,
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  his his dad was my girl's principal all all the way
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  through. Awesome dude.
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  Yeah. And so having him around, that's
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  been great. Honestly, there's a lot of over
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  the last 22 years I think that I've been coaching.
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  There's a lot of CIML kids that have moved on and gone on to the
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  pros, the colleges they go to, and over that time you network
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  with other coaches. They get jobs in other places.
• 20:22
  There's a lot of help. Fresno State, big fan of them
• 20:24
  right now too, you know, with ants out there and you know,
• 20:26
  Kansas State, I've followed them quite a bit with climbing over
• 20:29
  there. They're just there's a lot of
• 20:30
  good guys in the profession that you want to pull for.
• 20:33
  So there's not very many teams that I actively root against.
• 20:36
  Heck, even, you know, George Barnett's been a friend of mine
• 20:38
  for a long time, the Iowa line coach and we have been known to
• 20:41
  text each other some pretty, some pretty, I don't know,
• 20:44
  things that wouldn't normally get put out there.
• 20:46
  He's at the Hawkeyes and Cyclones play each other, so and
• 20:49
  it's relationship with those guys.
• 20:50
  So, you know, the Bulls in the 90s growing up, how could you
• 20:54
  not cheer for the 90s? So those were some classic
• 20:57
  teams. Just never been into hockey
• 20:59
  really at all other than the Olympics.
• 21:00
  Watching that and hanging on Canada, hopefully getting beat
• 21:03
  by Chechea. And then it didn't happen.
• 21:04
  Is that how you say it? Yeah, See, you got it.
• 21:06
  Right. Yeah, OK.
• 21:07
  And then Canada ends up winning in the shootout there at the end
• 21:10
  of overtime. So yeah, not, not super big into
• 21:13
  hockey. I I have started to appreciate
• 21:15
  soccer a lot more over the last five years than I ever did
• 21:18
  before soccer. Yeah.
• 21:19
  I think any probably of us could have imagined just a few years
• 21:22
  back, Yeah. Combination of both the high
• 21:25
  school coverage that we've got around here and then Ted Lasso.
• 21:27
  Honestly, like I say it kind of in jest, but holy cow, I mean
• 21:31
  that what a what a boom to the sport to have something that
• 21:34
  popular and connectable, right? You watch that and everyone, I
• 21:38
  think everyone sees a little of themselves or someone they know
• 21:41
  in Ted Lasso. So that's been a good reason to
• 21:43
  follow the sport of soccer as well.
• 21:45
  Good to get to know you. Guys a little bit more and we
• 21:47
  work in workspaces I show up usually about 10 minutes before
• 21:51
  opening tip plug in my equipment I'm ready to go so always good
• 21:55
  to chat with you guys and find out a little bit more we're
• 21:57
  going to dive into a few more topics that we've been batting
• 21:59
  around including one of the more crazy ones that is out there and
• 22:02
  that is the continued movement in college athletics and the
• 22:07
  realignment that happens. We talked about Northern
• 22:09
  Illinois a little bit later losing their coach.
• 22:11
  Well, they're moving on. North Dakota State is lose,
• 22:14
  leaving the FCS and going up to the FBS level to going to the
• 22:17
  Mountain West. But it's not the Mountain West
• 22:19
  that even we know at this point in time.
• 22:21
  A lot of changes. We're going to talk about it.
• 22:23
  Good move for North Dakota State moving up.
• 22:25
  That's next. As we continue it is Miller and
• 22:27
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network 130 on a Wednesday.
• 22:31
  It's Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network
• 22:34
  flagship one O 6.3 KX&O as we are on the day state wrestling
• 22:40
  begins. Already dealt with some people
• 22:42
  coming to town on 235. On my way into the studio today
• 22:46
  going 58 in the left lane on 235.
• 22:50
  Those cameras. Will get you.
• 22:51
  I mean, you just got to be. Careful, Oh boy, it's going to
• 22:56
  be our life here for the next 4 days though.
• 22:58
  A lot of visitors in town and hello to all of them out there.
• 23:01
  Andy Pollock, Blake Walker hanging out with me.
• 23:03
  Shrek Condon here today. Ken on vacation and he will be
• 23:07
  back with us next week on Monday.
• 23:09
  Guys, let's start right there. State wrestling.
• 23:12
  It's such a great time. So we all grew up in smaller
• 23:15
  towns. Osage, little less than 4000
• 23:19
  people. Grinnell 10,010 thousand.
• 23:22
  Big town tonight. Yeah, I know.
• 23:24
  AP Is Appleton bigger? Than Parkers no Parkersburg has
• 23:27
  about. 2000 Appleington's about 1000.
• 23:29
  OK, All right. I had it.
• 23:30
  Flip-flopped in my mind. How's the Appleington?
• 23:32
  Side yeah, OK, you're the. Appleington side, so an AP guy,
• 23:35
  a Grinnell guide, an Osage guy. We grew up in small towns and
• 23:38
  for me it was a wrestling town. Osage has always been a
• 23:41
  wrestling town, even during some of the downturns.
• 23:43
  That's what you did in kindergarten.
• 23:45
  Everybody. You go out for wrestling and it
• 23:46
  starts there. And that's how the program was
• 23:48
  back, way back in the day and certainly has grown into that.
• 23:51
  But as we've been doing this now, this will be our second
• 23:53
  year with all three of us together.
• 23:55
  It was really fun. I've tried to do it on my own.
• 23:58
  It's 8 mats. It's impossible, Auctioneer.
• 24:00
  And. I try to get.
• 24:03
  All the central Iowa kids names out there, at some point, even
• 24:05
  if they go out there and pin or get pinned in 18 seconds, want
• 24:09
  to have all that out there. I want to thank you guys and
• 24:11
  what you've done and the amount of coverage back for your number
• 24:14
  2 of doing this. Heard from so many people a year
• 24:17
  ago, you guys, just how tremendous it was filling in the
• 24:19
  gaps, helping me out as much as possible and and being able to
• 24:22
  do it because we're all play by play guys.
• 24:25
  We all love doing play by play state wrestling in these first
• 24:28
  couple of rounds. This is not play by play.
• 24:30
  We're going to do starting this afternoon.
• 24:31
  It's horrified public address. Announcing really is what it is.
• 24:34
  I mean, you barely have time to just announce a score when
• 24:36
  somebody does something and that's about it, 'cause again,
• 24:38
  like you said, you're following 8 mats and if you don't know
• 24:41
  what's going on when you walk in there, you're completely lost.
• 24:44
  It's over completely. Lost, so it's.
• 24:48
  Wrestling is something relatively new to me.
• 24:50
  I mean, at Wartburg it was different.
• 24:52
  You know, the the tournament said that it's a wrestling
• 24:54
  craze. College still is 25 years later.
• 24:57
  Nothing like Osage right where I grew up at API mean we, I did
• 25:00
  wrestling in 6th grade, went to open mat night on Monday nights
• 25:03
  and then went to one tournament and never made it out of the
• 25:05
  first period. Like I got really familiar with
• 25:07
  the little, the holes that were in the ceiling Parkersburg gym.
• 25:10
  So had no clue what I was doing. But you know, we're a football
• 25:13
  town and that's, that's what everybody did.
• 25:14
  Basketball was pretty good for a little while too.
• 25:16
  But this wrestling thing, I mean, having track is great.
• 25:20
  Having track wrestling I'm talking about and able to follow
• 25:22
  along with what's going on there, having the girls as a
• 25:25
  warm up. I shouldn't call it a, but you
• 25:27
  have it a couple weeks before it gets in the in the mode of
• 25:30
  following along and seeing everything that's going on and
• 25:33
  being able to get ready to go. And then, yeah, we move it into
• 25:37
  what's going to happen tonight for almost 4 hours.
• 25:39
  We we have. A long, long afternoon, but it
• 25:42
  goes. It goes so.
• 25:42
  Fast. It does incredibly fast and one
• 25:45
  thing. That I've also learned we do a
• 25:47
  lot of sports, we do a lot of different things.
• 25:50
  It's we get to do a lot of fun things.
• 25:52
  But this week, more than ever, when I get done with this
• 25:55
  Saturday night, I am so wiped out, Blake.
• 25:58
  It is so much it is. And I mean.
• 26:01
  We know that from Girls Day. I mean, it's just it's just
• 26:04
  constant. You're always on it and it's
• 26:06
  always on top of things. But the stories are what make it
• 26:09
  cool. I mean, because you'll always
• 26:10
  remember the ones. And I think this year
• 26:12
  everybody's eyes will be Andre, Sean Ross out of Fort Dodge.
• 26:14
  He tries to become a four time state champion.
• 26:16
  I don't think he's lost. I don't believe so.
• 26:18
  So I mean, he's going to Oklahoma State, an unbelievable
• 26:21
  athlete. And even last year, I remember
• 26:24
  we were all there there for the championships and we knew he was
• 26:26
  going to win. But you're still like, you're on
• 26:28
  it. And we're UPS.
• 26:29
  You know, there's upsets, there's highs, there's lows.
• 26:31
  And I mean, it's so cool that we can say that we are technically
• 26:35
  a part of, I'd say the biggest high school wrestling event in
• 26:39
  the country. I mean, next to Pennsylvania, I
• 26:41
  don't even know what Pennsylvania.
• 26:42
  Is. I don't think so.
• 26:43
  I mean. It's you'd think it is the
• 26:44
  number one. It's just really cool to be a
• 26:46
  part of and it's very exhausting.
• 26:48
  Yes, it is. I tell the story.
• 26:50
  My uncle was great. Uncle was the wrestling coach at
• 26:53
  LSU back in the 70s and early 80s until it disbanded and my
• 26:56
  grandma went down there one year and went.
• 26:58
  It was after LSU and all the SEC rograms didn't have wrestling
• 27:02
  anymore. She went down there though
• 27:03
  because he went back and coached high school in Baton Rouge and
• 27:06
  went to their state tournament. She said Osage gets bigger
• 27:09
  crowds for a regular season duel against W Hancock.
• 27:13
  Then what was there for their state wrestling be to just how
• 27:16
  different it is here in our state.
• 27:18
  We got wall to wall coverage for you here starting this
• 27:20
  afternoon, four O'CLOCK 96.9 FM and then the following three
• 27:24
  days right here on KX and O. We'll have the coverage evening
• 27:27
  sessions for all three of them as they continue to rotate that
• 27:30
  schedule through with the classes and the prime time this
• 27:33
  year for Class 3. A 7:00 tomorrow night, 7:00 on
• 27:37
  Friday night, and then the Grand March at 5:30, followed up by
• 27:40
  State Championship Wrestling all here on KX&O Thursday, Friday
• 27:45
  and Saturday. Well, guys, it's a topic.
• 27:46
  And Pollock, you told me right away when I gave you a kind of
• 27:49
  potential topics we could talk about.
• 27:51
  I know you want to tackle it, Blake.
• 27:52
  I know you want to tackle it. North Dakota State is leaving
• 27:57
  the Missouri Valley Football Conference, a division at the
• 28:00
  FCS level that they have dominated 10 of the 15 last 15
• 28:04
  years national champions. It is a program we have seen
• 28:07
  come into our state and embarrassed both Iowa and Iowa
• 28:09
  State with victories. Kansas State knows about it.
• 28:12
  A lot of teams know about it. They are a power now.
• 28:16
  They make the move up here on the surface.
• 28:19
  You like the move, Pollock. I do.
• 28:20
  I love. The move, I think that's it's,
• 28:22
  it's the right time. I mean, what else are they going
• 28:23
  to do that they haven't done already?
• 28:25
  And the money is going to be better.
• 28:28
  It's going to be a lot more exposure.
• 28:30
  We've already seen teams that have moved up have a make a
• 28:33
  splash relatively soon. I love their style of play.
• 28:36
  I love what they do up there. Their pricks, their fans are
• 28:39
  pricks. Everybody, everything about them
• 28:41
  is prickish. And I love that in football.
• 28:43
  They are, they are absolute bullies.
• 28:44
  I mean, that's that's what they do.
• 28:45
  They take those big old farm kids and they come out there and
• 28:48
  they run it down your throat. Yeah, I love that.
• 28:49
  And they're known for for running power, a gap power.
• 28:52
  That's what North Dakota State runs and they they play
• 28:54
  everything off that. But those guys are so well
• 28:56
  prepared. I will be curious to see how
• 29:00
  things operate now that they'll be in more in the NIL market.
• 29:03
  And some of those players, I don't think they're going to be
• 29:05
  as big a destination for NIL dollars or the transfer portal
• 29:09
  kids coming in. But I think this is absolutely
• 29:11
  the right move right now for North Dakota State.
• 29:13
  And I don't know if you've ever watched games with North Dakota
• 29:15
  State fans of Bison fans, it's like watching him with the
• 29:17
  Cardinals fans are absolutely insufferable.
• 29:19
  But he and it's because they you know, they they expect to win.
• 29:23
  I mean, and they we've seen it happen.
• 29:24
  And when they came to Kinnick, when they came to Jack Trice,
• 29:27
  they went down to K State, they went to Minnesota.
• 29:28
  They take over your stadium when they travel and they're in a
• 29:31
  stadium that seats about 18,000, maybe 19,000 there in Fargo.
• 29:35
  And they're going to fit right in there.
• 29:36
  The amount of people that they have at their games is going to
• 29:38
  fit right in with about what they have for crowds in the
• 29:40
  Mountain West, even though you look at the stadium maybe not
• 29:42
  being as big, but it's it's going to fit right in.
• 29:44
  And it's I think it's going to be a very good thing for North
• 29:46
  Dakota State. And they're one of my favorite
• 29:48
  programs to follow over the years.
• 29:49
  I just, you know, sometimes when it you don't necessarily as a
• 29:52
  program want to be liked right? And then there I think they fall
• 29:55
  under that realm right now. No one really likes North Dakota
• 29:58
  State as a fan because of their fans and the following and the
• 30:00
  success they've had. But I I will be pulling for
• 30:03
  North Dakota State to have success, I think, for Tim.
• 30:06
  Pawlasek, it's great. I mean, I that's the coach that
• 30:08
  you want in that position. I feel like this is a great move
• 30:10
  for North Dakota State. And I mean, nothing against the
• 30:13
  Mountain West right now, but it's not the best conference.
• 30:17
  I mean, it sure feels like you plug North Dakota State in,
• 30:20
  they're going to be a top four team.
• 30:22
  And I mean, you know, you think about the playoff stuff and
• 30:25
  everything else, yes, they're probably going to have to win
• 30:26
  every single game. But I think some teams they can
• 30:29
  though, yes. Yeah.
• 30:30
  Absolutely. They absolutely.
• 30:31
  Can and I, I think, you know, their last two games against FBS
• 30:35
  opponents are losses. They lost to Colorado with Deion
• 30:38
  Sanders and the Sanders, and then they lost to Arizona.
• 30:41
  But they were trying those and obviously they beat Iowa and
• 30:44
  they beat Minnesota, Kansas State, Central Michigan, all
• 30:46
  these other teams. But I think it's a great move.
• 30:48
  I hate the whole having to wait. They can't be bowl eligible till
• 30:52
  2028. I think that's it.
• 30:54
  Just it stinks. We saw James Madison go only one
• 30:57
  loss or maybe undefeated when they first got here.
• 31:00
  I think that's tough. It the travel will be
• 31:02
  interesting. I mean, Can you believe it?
• 31:04
  They're going to probably have to play a 12:00 kick in Hawaii.
• 31:07
  I mean, you know, like, and that's crazy.
• 31:08
  That's crazy to think about. But I I agree, I think it's it's
• 31:12
  a great move for North Dakota State.
• 31:14
  I know they got beat this past season by Illinois State in the
• 31:16
  playoffs, but I think the tides are kind of changing.
• 31:19
  It's Montana. Montana State's time now, it
• 31:22
  feels like in the FCS level, and I think South Dakota State
• 31:24
  probably won't be too far behind if I had to guess.
• 31:26
  Well, and you? Couple that with you mentioned
• 31:28
  those Montana schools, this changing demographic and what
• 31:31
  we're seeing and we don't know what the, it won't be the final
• 31:34
  version, but the next version of college athletics is going to be
• 31:37
  for football and what it's going to look like.
• 31:39
  Does it make sense for these power programs, the programs
• 31:42
  that also have money? And that's been, I think under
• 31:44
  the surface with all of this, North Dakota State, they have a
• 31:47
  crap ton of money and comparative to a program like
• 31:51
  you and I, even programs like Illinois State and Southern
• 31:54
  Illinois, the financial component is a completely
• 31:57
  different level than what we see some of these smaller state
• 32:00
  schools that are out there because they're the only show in
• 32:02
  town. And it's why North Dakota has
• 32:04
  been a power in hockey and they've had an investor and they
• 32:06
  got oil money up there. They have a different kind of
• 32:09
  money than some of these other programs.
• 32:11
  That's what gives North Dakota State, I think, a leg up with
• 32:14
  the Sanford hospitals in South Dakota.
• 32:16
  The South Dakota State, I think can go in that realm.
• 32:19
  And you wonder, Mount W is changing, the PAC 12 is
• 32:22
  changing. Is this a move, though for North
• 32:24
  Dakota State? Hey, let's get ahead of those
• 32:25
  teams. Let's get ahead of the curve.
• 32:27
  And if the PAC, PAC 12 turns into something a little bit more
• 32:30
  as Boise's moving there, Colorado State, Fresno, San
• 32:33
  Diego State, I'll go in there with Oregon State, Washington
• 32:36
  State. And then there's going to be
• 32:37
  maybe a step up for them from this new Mountain West up to the
• 32:40
  PAC 12. It sure feels like.
• 32:42
  You know, I always and people my age will understand when you
• 32:45
  play these video games, these college football while video
• 32:47
  games, you can change conferences.
• 32:48
  Yeah. And a lot of people, they'll
• 32:49
  start at a small conference and they'll work their way up.
• 32:51
  Like if you're down in a Texas school, UTSA, you start down
• 32:54
  where in the American and then your goal is the SEC.
• 32:57
  It sure feels like in the next 25 years, could North Dakota
• 33:01
  State be a part of the Big 10? Because you said it.
• 33:03
  I mean, they got the money for it.
• 33:04
  I think it's definitely a possibility.
• 33:06
  It it'll just be so interesting because you talk about the NIL
• 33:09
  and everything else, but look at all the national champions in
• 33:12
  football this past year in every division.
• 33:14
  Where do they come from? They came right here in the
• 33:17
  northern part of the United States.
• 33:18
  So it, it just works in North Dakota state's favor.
• 33:20
  And I, I, I think you're right. Getting ahead of the 8 ball is
• 33:24
  huge because who knows what's going to happen?
• 33:26
  I I will say I don't. Think North Dakota State would
• 33:28
  be a big 10 school. I think you'd more likely to be
• 33:30
  a Big 12 school. I don't think they have the TV
• 33:32
  eyeballs up there to that would be big 10 would be attracted to
• 33:36
  at that point. But I think you know, and you,
• 33:38
  you brought it up to, I think it's going to be a good thing
• 33:40
  for the other schools in their current conference because.
• 33:43
  But also lends itself to the question, what's next for school
• 33:46
  like you and I? Yeah, because they're not going
• 33:49
  that way right now. No at all.
• 33:51
  It's more likely they go. Drakes way correct goes no,
• 33:54
  Yeah, fortunately. And even with all the.
• 33:56
  Upgrades they've had to that stadium up there.
• 33:58
  The unit was beautiful. Right now, I don't know the last
• 33:59
  time you guys were up there, but it's awesome.
• 34:01
  Other facilities have improved a ton, but I just don't and it
• 34:04
  we've heard that for years though with you and I have is
• 34:06
  sustainable to have scholarship football there and I don't know
• 34:09
  if that's the answer. And I agree with you Trent.
• 34:11
  I think that much more likely that they had that Drake
• 34:14
  direction in the next 10 years as opposed to anything else even
• 34:17
  currently staying the same. Northern Illinois is.
• 34:19
  Leaving the Mac, a perfect conference for them.
• 34:22
  All the Ohio schools, all the Michigan schools, close
• 34:25
  proximity. It was really our last major
• 34:27
  conference at the FBS level that actually made sense, even with
• 34:31
  the addition of UMass. We'll move them to the side.
• 34:33
  And now they're joining up and they're leaving as they're going
• 34:37
  to be a football member only in this new iteration of their
• 34:41
  conference in this new Mountain West.
• 34:43
  And then you have Sacramento State, They're going to be
• 34:45
  joining the Mac and they paid a ton of money.
• 34:48
  I wonder where that buddy's coming from because I know there
• 34:51
  was talk them trying to get up to the FBS level, what they're
• 34:53
  going to do. And they had all these
• 34:55
  commitments, but it actually wasn't dollars and cents.
• 34:58
  It just it leads you to the world of I understand you want
• 35:01
  to be your front Portugal University, right?
• 35:03
  Is your athletic department, your football program and what
• 35:06
  it's done for a university like Alabama, which was a middling,
• 35:11
  no, not well known university, and the academic side and the
• 35:14
  number of enrollments that have gone up and with it, the way the
• 35:16
  school has improved because of those kind of things.
• 35:19
  But for somebody like Sacramento State, well, this one feels like
• 35:22
  a big stretch It it's just. They haven't done enough.
• 35:25
  You know, you think of the FCS powerhouses, you just don't
• 35:28
  think of Sacramento State. And you know, I, we were talking
• 35:31
  about it before there was a really good post that I saw
• 35:33
  about the money. It's $18,000,000 to the Mac.
• 35:37
  That's $18 million paid to the Mac, $5,000,000 for NCAA
• 35:40
  advancement. So there's already a good chunk.
• 35:42
  The travel is going to be insane.
• 35:45
  I mean, like, this is a California school.
• 35:47
  You think about the Big 10, they're Big 10 schools.
• 35:49
  This is a California school that's going to keep having to
• 35:51
  go to the Ohio Valley back and forth, back and forth.
• 35:53
  It it just, it just doesn't make sense.
• 35:55
  They're going to have to upgrade their stadium.
• 35:57
  Nothing against their stadium, but it's not an FPS level
• 35:59
  stadium. It just the disbursements,
• 36:02
  everything else, I think they're going to lose money and they're
• 36:04
  going to lose a lot of money. And it just feels like this is
• 36:07
  an Idaho situation where, yeah, it's great to be here, but you
• 36:11
  just realize I'm getting my butt kicked every single week.
• 36:13
  We're losing money. Nobody wants to come here.
• 36:16
  I I don't know, I just feel like maybe they saw a couple of these
• 36:19
  schools, they heard the rumors, the rumblings, they saw what
• 36:21
  James Madison did and said, oh, we got to do that.
• 36:23
  We got to jump on it. I.
• 36:25
  Breaking up Idaho, who was at the FBS level and then went back
• 36:29
  after being a Power in the 80s and 90s?
• 36:31
  I know them and you and I had a great playoff game back in the
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  90s. Idaho, Moscow, very difficult
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  place to get to up there. They were in the Sunbelt for a
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  couple of years. I mean, you talk about just a
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  complete outline Dome. It's amazing.
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  The Kipping Dome, absolutely a beauty.
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  Speaking of that, back in the day, I built them into a
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  national power out there. Yeah.
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  Probably NC double AO one or something a little while back
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  that we were able to build the Vandals up to them.
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  Bill Walsh College. Yeah, Bill.
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  Walsh, now you're. Life I come full circle.
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  I made Aaron Granquist, A Heisman winner, the Hawkeye.
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  Can be done the Hawkeye full back.
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  He was A and the average about 2.3 yards per carry.
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  But we made it happen and we got it done on that front.
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  We need one more final time out. We'll come back on the other
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  side, put a cap on things. My picks of the day and story
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  time that has never been uttered on these airs before.
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  That's next. It's Miller and Condon final
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  time on a Wednesday. Miller and Condon continues on
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  the Iowa Sports Radio Network off the bench coming up next
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  with Lucas Strain. Connor Ferguson will take you up
• 37:30
  until 5:00 before out overtime Iowa here on the network.
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  I'll play some 90s music coming back as we go back to the 90s.
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  And I've been teasing this one for a while.
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  So Blake, how old are you? I am 20.
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  Five born in 2000. Cool, So this is before you.
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  Report. All right, I'll sit well and
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  enjoy well. Before.
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  So I take you. Back to the fall of 1996 as I it
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  is the playoffs. The Green Devils are in the
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  playoffs for the first time and I believe about 5-6 years as
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  Osage is getting ready to go up against the behemoth that is AP
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  absolutely number one at the time.
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  Even I think very good team. Iowa, the Osage squad that year
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  was really good too. Had some dudes.
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  Had some dudes on that. Squad Nick Cockrum, one of my
• 38:15
  good friends. He was a baller on both sides of
• 38:17
  the football. Jake Olson, the quarterback with
• 38:20
  him several. Years at Warburg, later on, Sean
• 38:22
  Buckeyt. Who made Lane Danielson on both
• 38:24
  sides of the ball at Dyke New Hartford not look very good?
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  Who went on to start Iowa State? And we got to give my buddy Sean
• 38:30
  a hard time about that. Look what he did and look what
• 38:32
  you did. He just drank in college.
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  But that aside, didn't we all? Yes.
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  We, me and two buddies make our way over the night before that
• 38:41
  game to a volleyball match, probably a regional match I
• 38:43
  would guess. You were in Cedar Falls, right?
• 38:45
  That night or what were you doing somewhere in the area,
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  Somewhere in that area? We went to the volleyball match,
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  watched it, and we're on our way back.
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  We have the bright idea. Well, we're right by AP.
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  Let's go check out the field. Let's go see what this sacred
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  anchor Thursday night. Thursday night, yeah.
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  Night before the game. Well, actually probably would.
• 39:03
  Have been about a Monday or a Tuesday night, probably back
• 39:05
  then a Tuesday or a Monday because the games were on.
• 39:08
  It was the week of the game, yeah.
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  We didn't play on Fridays. Though Oh, that's right, Yeah,
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  the. Playoffs were, so it was
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  probably, it was probably Tuesday, right, Because we had
• 39:14
  that quick turn around to Wednesday.
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  And as we make our way, we find the football field.
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  There's no GPS, of course, back then, but we find it.
• 39:22
  We see the sacred Acre and like, oh, OK, that's cool.
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  And we get out of the car and we kind of look around a little
• 39:27
  bit. All right, there it is.
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  And it was 2 minutes. This is in the middle of the
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  night. This is, yeah, probably. 9/30,
• 39:33
  10:00 at night, something like that.
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  It's not much is open in Parkers.
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  Yeah, quick start, Quick start would have been.
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  Open. That's about it.
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  And so we're coming around the. School and we're trying to get
• 39:41
  out of there and we take a wrong turn and we take a wrong turn
• 39:44
  and it had been wet and as we'll find out the next day with the
• 39:47
  football game that was an incredibly wet game 86 the final
• 39:51
  AP on a 2 point conversion the difference as they go on all the
• 39:55
  way to the state championship game and you guys henceforth.
• 39:58
  And forevermore we knew you guys as Osoggy, Osoggy at that point
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  it was. A wet one.
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  Well, it was a wet one before, and we make this turn in the
• 40:06
  dark of the night into this area.
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  They're not supposed to drive it.
• 40:10
  It was grass and we can't get out.
• 40:14
  We're stuck in the mud and there's three of us and I'm not
• 40:17
  a real big guy. My buddy Mike's not a real big
• 40:19
  guy. My buddy James is the one that
• 40:21
  actually had the license that was driving.
• 40:23
  So he's the one that's trying to get us out of there.
• 40:25
  We finally do. I don't know the mess that we
• 40:27
  left behind, but apparently Andy Pollock, this was a pretty big
• 40:31
  story down there in AP. It was because, well.
• 40:34
  If I remember right, as you shared this story with me over a
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  couple soda pops up in Ankeny a few years ago that you guys
• 40:40
  needed some help and you might have knocked on the door of a
• 40:43
  football player up there at API. Remember right, you, so and he.
• 40:48
  Might. Have been our starting middle
• 40:49
  linebacker Oh my so he. Went by the school and he helped
• 40:52
  out. He did he.
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  Didn't know who you guys were. No, not at all.
• 40:55
  He had no idea. But word got out the next day
• 40:58
  that there you guys were right up next to the football field,
• 41:01
  like right up next to the football field, there was tracks
• 41:03
  in the mud. And the next day that was kind
• 41:04
  of the rallying, crying, got some little punks from Osage and
• 41:07
  I swear to everything. Trying to get onto the field I.
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  Absolutely swear. We were not trying to ruin the
• 41:11
  football field anything like that.
• 41:13
  It was absolutely just we're going to check it out and a
• 41:16
  wrong turn and a muddy field, our muddy, grassy, grassy area
• 41:20
  turned into that. Now, I was not a football player
• 41:23
  at that point. I had hung up my cleats at that
• 41:25
  point as a cross country runner, as you guys can see.
• 41:27
  Obviously that makes a whole lot of sense.
• 41:29
  I beat 8 guys. A district though, 8 guys.
• 41:32
  There's like 400 of them, but still I beat 8.
• 41:35
  All of them. I think we're probably big guys
• 41:36
  off. It's alignment wrestlers that
• 41:39
  were trying to cut down to heavyweight, but I beat them, I
• 41:41
  beat them. That is my story as I ruined the
• 41:45
  field at AP. Well, not me personally.
• 41:47
  I just happened to be in the car.
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  I'll, I'll plead that part of it.
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  But there was nothing that we were going to do this.
• 41:53
  This wasn't some grand scheme. None of us were football players
• 41:56
  at that time. It was not that these football
• 41:58
  guys are coming down there. We made a mistake and then
• 42:01
  unfortunately it went a PS way. And I wonder if that's just that
• 42:04
  little difference in an 86 game that that just that little extra
• 42:07
  edge for the Falcons came from us.
• 42:09
  I remember you. Sharing this story with me a
• 42:11
  couple years ago as we were sitting there and you're like,
• 42:13
  you remember that game? I was, oh, yeah, I remember that
• 42:16
  game. And then you were remember what
• 42:18
  happened the night before. I was like you before you even
• 42:20
  shared the story. My eyes got big.
• 42:22
  You have got to be kidding me. That was you.
• 42:25
  That was. Us.
• 42:26
  That was us and a story that I never thought I'd tell on the
• 42:29
  air, but here we are only for you, Andy Pollock.
• 42:31
  Blake. Andy.
• 42:32
  Hey, it's been a lot of fun. Thank you guys so much for your
• 42:35
  time. More with these guys coming up
• 42:37
  down the hall. 96.9 FM for a wrestling coverage and then
• 42:40
  right back here Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with all your
• 42:44
  state wrestling coverage on KX and O out of time for today.
• 42:48
  Lucas has got you covered along with Connor coming up next year
• 42:51
  as off the bench. Thanks to Blake and to Andy once
• 42:54
  again for joining us here today. Ken will be back with us on
• 42:57
  Monday. Coming up tomorrow, Todd
• 42:59
  Bramelkamp will be hanging out with me.
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  And then Friday we bring some Cyclone flair.
• 43:04
  Brent Bloom, get ready for the fireworks on Friday.
• 43:08
  Thanks for being with us. It's Miller and Cotton on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network.