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ISU rolls Colorado, Hawkeye women fall at USC, Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert & the Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome Hillary Condon on a
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  Friday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Tran Condon and Ken Miller back at you for the next couple of
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  hours. Thanks for starting your
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  afternoon here with us. Here's what's coming up on our
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  program here today. We're going to start in about 25
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  minutes. Tom Keikert will slide on in
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  here. We'll do some some hoops with
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  Tom, some football as well with Tom Keikert, hawkeyereport.com,
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  part of Tom 3 Media, Iowa, Oregon.
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  Sunday night couldn't be any better for a tip off time. 7:00
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  tip. We'll do that.
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  We'll recap the women from last night.
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  Tom Caker coming up in 25 minutes.
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  Then we'll give four of you. We haven't done this in about 3
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  or 4 weeks. Back on the chicken coop
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  giveaway, you know the drill. I'll be listening for your queue
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  to call about 12:45-ish. We'll open up the phone lines
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  and invite 4 of you to dial 515-284-5966.
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  You'll get an opportunity to win a $50.00 gift certificate to use
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  as you please at any of the three chicken coop locations,
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  Urbandale, Ankeny and West Des Moines.
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  The runner up will get 20 wings. We'll do that about 10 minutes
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  before one O clock into the second hour of the program.
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  Eugene Repay, who covers the Iowa State Cyclones for the Des
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  Moines Register. Eugene will be joining us and
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  he'll talk cyclones with us for a whole 15 minutes or
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  thereabouts. And then Mike Palm, the vice
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  president of operations at Circus Sports.
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  Will we get the latest on the Super Bowl wagering for Mike?
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  Kinda, I'm guessing calm before the storm.
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  Big bets come in early. Then take a few days off and,
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  well, we'll see if that's indeed the landscape of how this Super
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  Bowl is shaping up. The number is 4 1/2 everywhere.
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  That was the last time I checked, I think maybe one of
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  them. What is it about hard?
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  Hard Rock's not in our state, right?
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  You can't bet on the Hard Rock app can.
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  You. I don't believe so.
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  I. Don't think so either and their
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  numbers are never like the rest of them.
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  They fluctuate either way anyways, for what it's worth.
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  But we will talk to Mike Palm, Trent, we'll make some picks and
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  we'll turn things over to off the bench with Lucas and Sean
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  coming up here at 2:00. So last night kind of felt like
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  a November game, Trent that really did this thing was an
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  ugly basketball game. I mean, I just talk about
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  overmatched. What's has gone wrong with these
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  Buffs. They just you know what, I
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  should have looked at this. Who did who have they beaten and
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  how bad must those outfits be? Is Iowa State just they they did
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  whatever they wanted last night. They embarrassed the Big 12 team
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  30 to 4 at one point finished. They beat them by 30 as I think
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  well, that's most of his starters in there.
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  And meanwhile, Iowa State's got guys I don't even know on the
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  team making hoops. Anthony rise.
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  Did you see his shot at the end of the game?
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  That little dipsy do underhand boob off the glass and.
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  In I had checked out. Don't blame you.
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  Hey, what was I doing? Really?
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  What was I doing at that point anyways?
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  I was there and I saw Anthony Rice's maybe his only basket in
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  his tenure and I was state, but it was certainly a memorable one
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  for him. I'm guessing his family etcetera
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  as well. But the game itself, good God,
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  just awful, just awful as the the usual cast of characters,
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  the ones you expected what they did, But it was a two guys not
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  named Anthony Rice coming off the bench that really I thought,
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  I mean, I thought played at his best game, Cyclone.
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  No doubt, right? Absolutely.
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  That that's and you've liked him from the jump, yes.
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  I'm just been waiting for more. He's a 21 year old freshman.
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  You can see the skill set. He definitely has the size.
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  There's a lot there and it's a big transition.
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  Not everybody can be Torre, right?
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  Not everybody can just hit the ground running and be at an
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  elite level. But I know there's there and it
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  compounds with what we've talked about a ton too with this squad
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  is how many times have we seen Iowa State have great regular
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  seasons, great Kansas City tournaments, do those kind of
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  things, but for whatever reason, they just look tired.
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  The depth of this team and using the depth, not just having
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  depth, but using depth. TJ has leaned on him more than
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  in the past. And I get the the thought
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  process is that, well, you know what, you just want to play your
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  top guys. You look at all the different
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  ways that you do it. Your top guys are going to get
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  you there, but you got to get there and you got to get their
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  health and you got to get there with fresh legs.
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  Now you can't anticipate A tweaked ankle.
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  You can't anticipate, you know, those kind of injuries that are
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  going to happen. But keep the tread on those
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  tires because we've seen last year against old Miss, this
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  looked dead. They were non competitive in
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  that game against old Miss in the round of 32.
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  Go back to the Illinois game, a game that felt like you should
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  have been a toss up in Illinois, just better in the tournament
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  that Sweet 16 game a couple years back.
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  I think because of what they have off the bench, there's an
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  opportunity that we're going to see a fresh team in Lipsy that
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  we're going to see Jefferson and these guys hopefully at that
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  time, peeking at the right time. And I was talking to a softball
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  practice last night. One of the dads, he's a big
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  cyclone fan. And I said, we know every
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  freshman kind of hits a wall in this kind of time.
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  How about Tory just hits his wall now And we were watching on
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  the phone and right as he does it he he gets a steal to run out
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  and lay up and well, that. Happened to this game last
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  night. But it's probably gonna happen
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  at some point. You'd anticipate you'd rather
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  have a beat now than early March, right?
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  Yeah, for sure, if it's going to happen especially.
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  The way the schedules sets up, I mean a lot of winnable
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  basketball games like Munchilovich only had to play 22
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  minutes. I only had a little foul trouble
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  in the game, but Jefferson, you know, low 30s Buchanan just over
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  20 tour, as you mentioned, 18 Lipsy 32.
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  It was good that they were able to get these guys in the game
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  last night. Bateman was terrific 4 of 6 from
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  three. I mean sign for that any day of
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  the week, right? Heisey was good again.
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  So just a an overwhelming win against a Big 12 school.
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  I want to see if they've beaten. This has drive me.
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  Oh, they've lost six in a row. I know that.
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  Their wins in conference are, well, two you'd expect, Arizona
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  State and Utah. And I'm guessing when K State
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  shows up on the schedule they'll have a tight game against them,
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  too. But my good God does I wish they
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  get Colorado. They go back out there, they do.
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  Not. They do not.
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  That's too bad. But you know what, at the same
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  time, I'm kind of waiting for the waters to get a little
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  deeper. I'm going to see this team
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  tested against the upper echelon teams in the conference and I,
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  and that includes Kansas because of the Kansas is not going to
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  March in here on Valentine's Day and do what happened when they
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  were at home at fog to Iowa State.
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  This can be a hell of a basketball game.
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  Iowa State figured it out. Had that little wool play poorly
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  against Kansas. And Cincinnati was the Iowa
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  group. I mean, good teams go into fog
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  alley, get beat. Sure, right.
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  But that we didn't think that Iowa State team would get beat.
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  That's the way. They did.
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  Yeah, it wasn't just a loss. It was the fashion you coupled
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  with that. Maybe that's the downturn.
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  Maybe that was the the speed bump of this year for Iowa
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  State. They're going to be, it's not
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  that they're going to run the table or anything like that, but
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  that this is going to be the squad now kind of smooth that
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  out and they're going to be good.
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  But you mentioned it. We're going to see not just Iowa
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  State, this is everybody now. I mean, it's it's time for
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  everybody to put on their big boy pants and we are going to
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  see the upper tier of this conference finally for each.
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  Other do you think basketball schedules around the NFL,
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  meaning January's got a couple of good games, but there's a lot
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  of Colorado, Ohio State's and that once we get football, I
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  want to say out of the way, believe that, No.
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  Yeah, right. You know what I mean?
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  But from their perspective, that's what it is.
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  When it's over, all of a sudden the Big 10 ratchets, I'm
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  guessing the AC. Well, we N Duke and North
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  Carolina don't play until February.
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  Right. And they have a double dip.
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  So I, I'm wondering if they, if, if all conferences, you know,
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  take that, keep that in mind when they're making their
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  schedule. And if not, maybe they should.
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  Backload the schedule a little bit.
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  Yeah, I think it makes sense because for the Big 12
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  perspective, I mean, you can see it outside of the Houston Texas
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  Tech game, see these teams face off everybody that.
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  BYU, Arizona, But yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And BYU was kind of out of nowhere, if you will, and get
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  the Banster coming in and, and we didn't know how that was
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  going to work out. But of the teams that we felt
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  very confident we're going to be in the upper crust.
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  They just haven't faced off very often.
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  And that's going to change in February.
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  Same thing in the Big 10. I mean, you look at the round
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  Robin that's still there. Now Nebraska's upset the apple
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  cart, obviously, with what they did.
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  And and that was one that we'll put that Michigan Nebraska game
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  there a little earlier because that that one's not going to
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  matter. But when you look at starting
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  tonight with Michigan, Michigan State and the way that that's
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  going to go going forward, it makes sense though from the
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  conferences. We know it's football.
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  That's all that matters. And that's certainly the
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  direction of that it goes. Speaking of big games coming up
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  and as we come on the heels of a week ago in the passing of Chris
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  St. in the anniversary, of course his final game was a non
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  conference game, a weird January non conference game, though they
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  were more prevalent back then. We have a big one coming up here
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  in a couple weeks, a non conference tilt not involving
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  Gonzaga. Remember when Gonzaga Memphis
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  played a couple of years because their conferences were not
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  getting them ready for the NCAA Tournament?
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  I have no idea where you're going, who's going to play.
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  Well, for a team that we thought November was the best team in
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  college basketball, maybe college basketball history.
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  Michigan. Michigan.
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  Who are they? Playing They will be taking on
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  the Dookies in DC. So how does that come about?
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  Is I? I don't know if there is some
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  kind of connection with Dusty May and John Shire I It's odd
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  though. But are they the only Big 10
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  team that has a non conference game of that magnitudes right
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  smack in the middle of, you know, nut cutting time in
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  conference play? As far as I know, you also
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  wonder if they were looking. They get their slate from the
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  the conferences, they say, you know what, we're actually both
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  off that weekend. I don't know if it was something
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  like that instead of and where's the game?
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  Being played. In DC.
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  In DC, yeah. I have no idea the reasoning
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  behind it. I, in fact, I should have
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  Googled it beforehand, but that'll be fun.
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  That'll be coming up on Saturday, February 21st as well,
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  and we'll get that. Nice, that is a good game.
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  That's right in the throws a couple of weeks before the
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  finale of the North Carolina Duke with their double dip.
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  Well, good stuff, basketball tonight.
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  You mentioned a Michigan, Michigan State that I think it's
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  going to be. That's where I'll be watching.
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  I can't wait to watch this game here tonight.
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  See how Michigan is. Michigan State, obviously with
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  Tom Izzo and, you know, the whistle's going to go their way.
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  At least you would assume that that's the case.
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  So I did not watch the Iowa women last night.
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  I followed Chad Leistekow on Twitter and became very apparent
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  very quickly that this does not seem to be going Iowa's way.
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  So what is it? Is it McCabe?
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  That's a part of it, I think, and.
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  Just learning to play without her.
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  You know, I thought GM Jensen brought up something very
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  pertinent and. By the way, it was a Peacock.
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  Is that? Where it was, Yeah.
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  And she talked about that. We talked about Taylor McCabe.
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  Great shooter, right? It's diversified her game a
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  little bit, but that's what it is.
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  But it's not just the offensive skill set.
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  She goes off the bounce a little bit, but that's what she is.
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  She doesn't turn it over, she said.
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  She double teams when she's supposed to double team.
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  She makes the right pass when you're supposed to hedge on the
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  screen, when you're supposed to switch on the screen.
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  She does the right thing every single time, yes.
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  And then you lose that and you you just lose that leadership
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  and. And that experience?
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  Absolutely. It takes a while to figure those
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  little things out. Not the easy things to see that
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  she's a great shooter. It's the little things that are
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  under and I thought that was something very pertinent.
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  The other thing about USCI mean I I know people looked at their
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  record and they lost. Well, of the two games, this was
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  the easy one. What?
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  Right. Allegedly.
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  This is still a top five defense in college basketball.
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  And the boy spread reflected that, right?
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  Right. Iowa wasn't a big favorite.
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  No, they weren't. They were an underdog.
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  They were a dog regardless of of Cindy Bronson, who is just
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  awful. She is an awful.
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  She was formerly the ESPN anchor.
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  She married an ESPN anchor. They you know what they did?
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  They quit ESPN and they became the first television voices
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  Arizona Diamondbacks. Anyway, I'm not sure if they
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  were the first, but they I think they might still do.
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  Or he still does calls Diamondbacks for TV anyways.
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  But Cindy Bruns is bad. She's awful.
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  Yeah, I've heard her. I've heard her do games before.
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  Not good. I don't even remember what
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  direction I was going with that. But the defense for USC was
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  excellent. They are athletic, they have
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  some length to them, something that at times can give.
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  I was some trouble. It was just you can see right
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  away it was one of those games. One thing Jensen also mentioned
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  after the game is the environment.
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  Aren't many people in the building and they're they're not
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  used to that now. It's an excuse.
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  But I, you know what, I always used it when, when teams used to
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  win Big 12 teams used to go to Colorado, right to Colorado
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  leaving, you know, the Coors events there and have 3000
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  people. You know the game before you're
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  at a Hilton Coliseum just going bananas, and then you walk into
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  that morgue. And it was a Borg at USC last
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  night. Was there just many people that
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  will change on Sunday against UCLA as they anticipate a packed
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  out building for that one. But it was 1.
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  You just got to flush it. You played awful, played really
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  poorly in basically every kind of aspect that you can look.
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  At Did Jen Jensen mention she saw it coming or anything like
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  that? No, I think it was more just
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  figuring things out. Figuring things out.
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  And that was kind of the direction of it.
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  But broadcast was not fun to listen to.
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  The game was not fun to watch on top of it.
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  And look, we get to talk about sports.
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  I mentioned something like the Iowa State game last night.
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  That is my least favorite thing in this job for also living the
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  life that I do. You are an empty nester.
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  Things are different for you. You just sit in the couch and
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  you're good to go. Sit in the recliner, you're
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  good. I got softball practice come
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  back. We got to shower, we got things
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  to do. Get the kids to bed.
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  All right, everybody's sleeping now.
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  I go down and I got to watch the Iowa State game where the last
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  thing I saw they were up 30. I know how it was going to play
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  out, so I'm watching and Fast forward and just it's hard to
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  get a lot. I hope you didn't erase it so we
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  can go back and watch it rise. You.
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  You want me to go back and watch that?
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  Part of it as hell play by the kid.
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  Anthony Rice. Anthony Rice.
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  Tell me about Anthony Rice. I got to click on his name.
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  Where is he from? He's from Mill, another
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  Wisconsin kid. Yes.
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  DJ once again mining the state of Wisconsin.
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  I I'm not, I don't want to sound like I'm picking on the kid.
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  I'm not. It was a hell of a play.
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  Not sure he's got another one in him.
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  That might be the highlight of his Iowa State career, Who
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  knows. But last night, for one moment,
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  he certainly had it. All right.
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  Switching gears to the NFL and to one of our regional teams,
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  Kwesi Adolfa Mensa fired the general manager of the Vikings
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  has been let go. I'm not shocked because he's not
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  very good at drafting and he's willing to trade, make trades
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  within his own division when it comes to the draft, which is,
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  you know, you don't see that very often.
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  But I think it's I think probably timing wise, it was
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  probably the right time to do it because if indeed, you know, his
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  his body of work when it comes to the draft, I don't think it's
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  been, you know, stellar by by any means.
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  And before the, you know, he gets close to movement going to
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  Indianapolis for the combine to start doing these things that
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  lead up to the April draft. I think it's probably it'll be
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  good that they did it now. RIP the Band-Aid off.
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  Yeah, may as well. Now, we know that there's GM's
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  out there being interviewed. The Bears assistant GM just got
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  the Falcons job, right? Yeah, yeah, he's gonna be down
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  there. Is that a loss?
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  I mean, yeah. Did you know anything about him?
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  One thing that I thought was the biggest take away is so many
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  people just saying how awesome of a guy he was.
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  Like he was very, very well respected in that realm.
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  And I think, yeah, it's going to be looked at as a loss from the
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  Bears perspective. But these things are already
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  happening now. Maybe some of the groundwork's
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  already done, I guess, for the Vikings, is the way you can put
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  it. Well, these are the names that
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  are out there. All right, We'll just kind of go
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  down that list and go that direction.
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  Still, the Vikings, out of that group of teams that were looking
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  for GM's, they'd be towards the top right, A solid organization.
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  Yeah. Coaching staff is set.
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  Don't have to worry about those kind of things.
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  Except there's just one glaring omission.
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  Well, it's a crappy. Quarterback, it's a crappy
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  quarterback, happy quarterback who I was all in on and.
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  I know you weren't. You know, we, we've gone back
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  and forth on that one a plenty. I feel pretty good about my
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  perspective on that one. No, you're right.
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  Don't feel very good about Sam Darnold.
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  Never win in the Super Bowl, but.
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  Well, I hope you're wrong there that he does win one because I
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  do not want the Patriots to win this thing for.
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  The Vikings now going forward, Flores doesn't get a job again.
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  You're set. How much perspective on this
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  because what was the Shafter report?
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  What was the term that he used that it was it was ugly.
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  That was that was what I I heard him.
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  Say when it when it comes to. Flores Yeah.
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  No, no, no, when it comes to Kwesi Kwesi and things had
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  gotten ugly in Minnesota. Was the phrasing really.
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  Yeah. Is that KOC?
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  Is that a? Power strongly it means.
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  Is that what you think Shafty was alluding?
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  To that, that's what I was trying to read into it, just
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  trying to decipher reading between the lines, if that's
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  what it was. And if that's the case, is KOC
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  close enough to the top level, the ownership level of the
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  organization that he's going to have some sway and who this is?
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  And do you do that for a guy? And KOC has done a really nice
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  job, has never won a playoff game.
• 17:17
  No, no. And. 14 and 3 two years ago
• 17:23
  somehow. I mean, that's one of the
• 17:26
  there's just absolute bananas things about this year.
• 17:29
  How did this team finish nine and eight?
• 17:30
  Right. They were dead for so long.
• 17:32
  Completely clobbered. And what was their total before
• 17:35
  the year 8 1/2? I think so.
• 17:37
  And how if you had an over and that you thought your ticket was
• 17:39
  dead, Absolutely dead. And I talked a lot of Vikings
• 17:43
  fans that bet it before the season, they thought it was free
• 17:45
  money and then they thought they were dead in November and it
• 17:47
  came back and they eventually got it.
• 17:49
  The other thing with KOC, though, that we've seen is the
• 17:52
  inconsistency. You're #1A huge surprise out of
• 17:55
  nowhere. Make the playoffs next year,
• 17:58
  step back. 7:00 and 10:00. Last year, 14 and three, and
• 18:01
  then this season 9 and eight. It's that zigzag kind of thing
• 18:04
  that's been happening. It seems historically to happen
• 18:06
  with the Vikings, maybe more. Have more than any other NFL
• 18:08
  franchise that I can think of, is just that up and down nature.
• 18:12
  Never awful, rarely awful, I should say, but up and down.
• 18:16
  And when there's expectations for the Vikings, that's usually
• 18:19
  when they take a step. Yeah, true.
• 18:20
  When they're a little bit more under the radar, that's when
• 18:22
  they step forward. It's a good job, though.
• 18:24
  It's a good job. I think for AGM.
• 18:26
  They've also spent a lot of money and the financial
• 18:28
  flexibility is not there at the same level.
• 18:30
  Some other teams though. Quarterback, I mean, you can't
• 18:33
  start the season with Brosburn, McCarthy, you just can't, right?
• 18:36
  You got to find somebody there. How much more is Aaron Jones got
• 18:39
  left? I think Hawkinson might have be
• 18:41
  might be on his way out from what I read.
• 18:45
  Kind of thing and save money. Yeah, yeah.
• 18:48
  Might be a cap hit there. Obviously the hit man, has he
• 18:50
  made it official that he's that he's retiring Harrison Smith.
• 18:54
  What a nice year. I think it was just, I think
• 18:57
  everybody did. It's just kind of seemed.
• 18:59
  I mean, they had the walk off for him in the final game too.
• 19:01
  So yeah, I think it's over. It would take a lot probably to
• 19:05
  bring him back. You know what?
• 19:06
  Let's let's grab Dame Mazatani on Monday for those Viking fans
• 19:10
  in the audience. Give.
• 19:11
  Yeah, it's too, it's it's too short notice.
• 19:13
  I'm sure he's over there now at Vikings.
• 19:16
  What do they call it? The whatever their practice
• 19:19
  facility. It's named after a health
• 19:21
  company. It is, yeah.
• 19:23
  Anyways, Vikings, by the way, when you're looking at cap space
• 19:26
  for this season, how? Much.
• 19:28
  Well, they're $39 million over the cap, according to Do you
• 19:31
  have the whole list? I do.
• 19:32
  They're 30th. Isn't who's 32nd?
• 19:35
  Would I be happy? You will.
• 19:37
  That's what I thought. The Kansas City Chiefs and
• 19:40
  salary cap, they're like 60 million, right?
• 19:43
  56.7 here according to sport trash Huge.
• 19:47
  How many more times can Mahomes, you know, reconfigure that
• 19:51
  contract? Oh baby.
• 19:53
  Your team's with the most cap space.
• 19:56
  It's crazy, Trent of they're both, oh, almost.
• 20:01
  That was close. That was close.
• 20:02
  You got halfway through it. Both crappy teams, Tennessee and
• 20:09
  the Raiders. #3 on that list. #3 on that list, not the Patriots.
• 20:14
  No the Chargers, really. So get your Chargers tickets
• 20:21
  now. Well, you already have.
• 20:22
  I already have, yeah, it's. True 5th on that list.
• 20:25
  Tina's going to win the Super Bowl.
• 20:26
  The Seattle Seahawks. This year's Super Bowl, yes.
• 20:29
  Yeah, Next year's Super Bowl is going to be the Bengals or the
• 20:32
  Chargers. Well, both those teams have
• 20:33
  money to spend. And where's Denver?
• 20:35
  But in the middle, right? Denver's 13th.
• 20:37
  Now that their highest paid player the last two years is no
• 20:41
  longer counting against them, that would be 1 Russell Wilson.
• 20:45
  And then you can let that one die.
• 20:46
  You never will. You never will.
• 20:48
  The other teams from the NFC North, Packers are 21st, They
• 20:52
  are over the cap. All these teams over the cap,
• 20:54
  Lions over the cap, they're 23rd and the Bears 26 in terms of.
• 20:58
  Caps So the Bears have how much? They are over by about 10.
• 21:02
  About 10, yes. So restructuring all over the
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  Tom Caker joins us every single Friday.
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  Well, every week, mostly on Fridays and this one being no
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  different. Hello, Tom Trenton, Ken, thanks
• 22:10
  for coming on. How are you?
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  Doing well, hope you guys are doing OK.
• 22:14
  Absolutely. Hey, before we get into
• 22:16
  basketball, both men's and women's, I've been following the
• 22:20
  the senior bowls. That what it is this week.
• 22:23
  Yeah. And and Jennings dunk are
• 22:25
  stealing the show both on the field and off the field.
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  Obviously, you had a ton of interactions with him during his
• 22:32
  during his time at Iowa. He's a character.
• 22:35
  I think that's coming up first and foremost.
• 22:37
  And boy, there's an awful lot of fan bases that are getting their
• 22:41
  first, you know, taste of Jennings dunker and what he
• 22:43
  means, what he can do both as a player, but more so just as a
• 22:47
  person. He's he's, he's different in a
• 22:50
  good way. Who doesn't want a six foot
• 22:53
  seven 320 LB ginger? That's that's hilarious.
• 22:57
  I mean, but just, you know, he changes his diet like every
• 23:02
  couple months. He goes from like not eating
• 23:04
  carbs to like loading up on carbs all the time, drinking
• 23:08
  coffee, like it's going out of style.
• 23:10
  And you know, the thing that people don't realize about him,
• 23:15
  he's brilliant. He's like, he's like an academic
• 23:18
  all American. It was very quick in his
• 23:21
  response with media, so that maybe doesn't surprise me, yeah.
• 23:24
  He's real. He's really well read.
• 23:26
  I've talked to him about books he's read and but he's just
• 23:29
  super well read and very interesting guy.
• 23:32
  So yeah, just that he's going to be a guy that whoever drafts him
• 23:37
  is going to going to have a lot of fun, the media in particular.
• 23:41
  You look at that offensive line class, Logan Jones, he's going
• 23:44
  to test through the roof. We know about his athleticism,
• 23:47
  his power, what he's going to do.
• 23:49
  You look at some of the other prospects that are going to be
• 23:51
  there. Who else do you like outside of
• 23:53
  that group? And certainly the Mark Gronowski
• 23:55
  conversation, like it changed after his performance last week
• 23:58
  in the Shrine Bowl. Yeah, I think he really helped
• 24:02
  himself, didn't we? Didn't help himself.
• 24:05
  Yes, absolutely. He's going to be somebody that
• 24:08
  you know, a year from now, you know how many guys, I mean, this
• 24:12
  kickoffs are kind of in vogue now.
• 24:15
  You kind of want to return guy. And and so maybe he I just got
• 24:20
  to think he's going to find his way onto a roster, especially
• 24:22
  the way he showed he catch the football because that was kind
• 24:25
  of the big knock on him, the high with it.
• 24:27
  He just kind of caught the ball with his body a little bit too
• 24:30
  much much and and and wasn't a great receiver, a great route
• 24:34
  runner. But like he answered some of
• 24:36
  those questions. I'm really curious where Wampa
• 24:40
  goes. That's what the guy I'm really
• 24:43
  interested in because I think we all all would agree physically
• 24:49
  he's there. You know, he's got everything
• 24:52
  that you look for. He's big, he's strong, he's
• 24:53
  fast, he's, you know, it hits hard, but it just he never like
• 24:59
  turned into the all American that I think we all thought he
• 25:01
  would be. But I think I think he gets in
• 25:04
  the right place. Maybe he could be a a really
• 25:07
  nice safety. Absolutely.
• 25:09
  Basketball, TC, let's do it. Let's start with the women.
• 25:12
  They were, you know, they played last night.
• 25:15
  Didn't go well. What do you make of that, Tom?
• 25:17
  What? What do you what do you make of
• 25:18
  the fact that you know they just laid an egg?
• 25:21
  Learning to play without McCabe, Where are you at?
• 25:24
  Yeah, I think it's life on the road.
• 25:28
  You know, I think that was more than anything else.
• 25:30
  And they just USC knew they had to get that game.
• 25:33
  They needed a big signature kind of win.
• 25:36
  And boy, they just came out and they had not shot the ball like
• 25:40
  that all year. And they just came out and just
• 25:43
  drilled it. And I thought when Iowa got it
• 25:46
  to three, OK, I was in the third quarter, they got into 3 and I
• 25:51
  thought, boy, if they can just get a stop and come down and get
• 25:56
  another shot, maybe tie it or go down one, I think they can get
• 25:59
  them. And then USC just went on like
• 26:02
  an 11 O run or something. And it was like, OK, this one's
• 26:06
  over. And they just put the foot on
• 26:07
  the gas. They just, they just played
• 26:09
  better. I would, I would just foul too
• 26:11
  much. You know, Hannah picked up the
• 26:13
  two fouls early and that's just, I thought that really derailed
• 26:16
  them. So just just a tough night for
• 26:20
  Iowa overall. And it's even tougher with
• 26:23
  what's looming on Sunday now. One of the upper crust of
• 26:25
  college basketball and you felt they go out there, you get a
• 26:28
  split. Well, the only way to get a
• 26:29
  split now is to beat #2 team in the country in UCLA with the
• 26:32
  bets and and the rest of that crew.
• 26:34
  It's not just her. It is an incredibly deep and
• 26:36
  talented team. The McCabe factor, I know Jan
• 26:39
  talked about it, we mentioned it earlier in the program today,
• 26:42
  talked about losing McCabe. It wasn't just their shooting
• 26:45
  ability. It's the little things that she
• 26:47
  does. That veteran presence there is
• 26:49
  maybe going to take a little bit longer than we anticipated and
• 26:51
  certainly after what we saw after she got injured against
• 26:54
  Ohio State. Yeah, it's sort of like, you
• 26:57
  know, when the if the Caitlin team had lost like a Gabby
• 27:00
  Marshall or just the kind of a glute player that that that
• 27:05
  really did a lot of things. So yeah, I, I think, I, I think
• 27:11
  it's maybe a little bigger of a loss than maybe we think.
• 27:15
  So definitely think. Addie deal to the starting line
• 27:18
  up what obviously didn't have very good game last night
• 27:21
  statistically anyway. What do you what do we make of
• 27:24
  that, Tom? Yeah, she, you know, maybe it's
• 27:28
  just getting back home, a little pressure on herself and just
• 27:32
  adjusting to a new role. It might take her a couple games
• 27:36
  to get comfortable being a starter.
• 27:39
  Yeah, it's just it's just Mike and and it doesn't look like,
• 27:44
  you know, I somebody asked me last night.
• 27:47
  Well, what about Emily Rodriguez?
• 27:48
  It just doesn't look like Emily's coming back.
• 27:50
  I don't know. She just, I just I'm not
• 27:52
  counting on her coming back at this point.
• 27:54
  Like she's been on the bench, spent, supportive teammate, but
• 27:59
  I just don't think she's going to play.
• 28:00
  Is she in California? Do you know?
• 28:02
  Was she on the bench last night? Yeah, she was there.
• 28:04
  She was there so I just not not playing.
• 28:09
  Don't know if she's practicing it at all either.
• 28:12
  I don't know. Yeah, there was a little shot on
• 28:14
  Instagram of her to put a shot up.
• 28:15
  And I know some people on your goofy message boards, they get a
• 28:19
  little crazy when they see something like that.
• 28:21
  Yeah, pump the brakes. I I think it doesn't take a
• 28:23
  whole lot to figure out what's happening here.
• 28:26
  She's going to red shirt this year, get a medical red shirt.
• 28:28
  She's going to depart after the season.
• 28:30
  I I think that is the most realistic scenario.
• 28:33
  Jan's not going to come out and say anything like that.
• 28:35
  It's a back injury, very difficult kind of quantify that.
• 28:38
  And even if there's something there, I think that's what we're
• 28:40
  eventually going to see. One more on the women's side of
• 28:43
  things and mention the UCLA game.
• 28:45
  Even after that though, Minnesota Bart Torvacasm is a
• 28:49
  one point favorite, Washington 4 point favorite, one point
• 28:51
  favorite at Nebraska. These are all games that are
• 28:55
  toss up games and and suddenly could go from this team that was
• 28:58
  9 and O in the Big 10. Couple of tough losses if they
• 29:01
  lose 2 out in LA. We might be having a different
• 29:03
  conversation about this team. Is there a concern for you with
• 29:07
  this squad right now that maybe they're a little bit closer to
• 29:10
  not a team that's going to contend for a regular season
• 29:12
  title, but they're just part of that group in that next year?
• 29:17
  Yeah, I think the goal for this team should be that they want to
• 29:21
  get one of those top 4 seeds in the in one of the regionals so
• 29:24
  they can get home games in Iowa City.
• 29:27
  I think that's probably the that was the goal coming into the
• 29:31
  season. I think that's probably the goal
• 29:33
  right now too. I think do that.
• 29:35
  That's good. Without a doubt, that's a
• 29:38
  successful year, no doubt. Let's Tom, we've seen guys go
• 29:41
  off, you know, bugs. Trent, that's Trent's guy keeps
• 29:43
  bringing them up. He's right.
• 29:44
  It's the Minnesota game. Has anybody done what Cam Woods
• 29:49
  did at Carver in an Iowa game? Can you recall something?
• 29:53
  I mean, haven't that type of game totally out of the blue
• 29:57
  like he did? Yeah, I was.
• 29:59
  No, I always go back to LA Fester Rhodes, you know, with
• 30:03
  that one. But this was a guy that just
• 30:06
  went nuclear in like a 5 minute span.
• 30:09
  It's unbelievable he couldn't miss, could not miss and.
• 30:13
  That's the guy they picked up mid year.
• 30:16
  It's crazy, you know? And it was Alvaro's teammate at
• 30:21
  Robert Morris. While Speaking of him, Fulgaris
• 30:25
  had a really good game, I thought one of his better games.
• 30:28
  I think so too, yeah. He really contributed more
• 30:31
  offensively, got on the glass, you know, and they needed him.
• 30:35
  They needed him to get better and play better.
• 30:38
  So I'm they've got to have him do well if they're going to, you
• 30:43
  know, make a run in March. They do, they need that
• 30:45
  secondary scoring and they're getting it out of Tavion Banks.
• 30:48
  Certainly more consistent as he's on the precipice and maybe
• 30:51
  breaking Chris Street's record and tied with Jordan Bohannon.
• 30:54
  That's in front. Didn't have an opportunity,
• 30:57
  unfortunately. I wanted to join the Zoom with a
• 30:58
  McCollum today. What did he have to say about
• 31:01
  their West Coast road trip and and are they staying out there?
• 31:04
  Just staying in the Pacific Northwest, not coming home.
• 31:07
  Yeah, they're staying out. So they're leaving today this
• 31:10
  afternoon and they'll get some practice in tomorrow and then
• 31:18
  and then they'll they'll play on Sunday and then head up to
• 31:22
  Seattle. They'll also get to see Ethan
• 31:25
  Harris the the, the forward. So I think they're trying, maybe
• 31:30
  going to try and get to see him tonight out West.
• 31:33
  So I know Ben mentioned he's playing twice, so we'll see what
• 31:38
  happens. But yeah, they're going to stay
• 31:40
  out there and just no sense in flying all the way back and then
• 31:45
  turn around going back again. I'm with you.
• 31:47
  So let's talk about the free throw record.
• 31:49
  If if we get to that point, you know, banks can make it easy on
• 31:54
  everybody. Just miss, you know, but not but
• 31:57
  not on purpose. Just have one clank.
• 31:59
  What what's he going to do? How should he handle these not
• 32:01
  from Iowa. I think that's a a huge
• 32:04
  difference. I mean, Bohannon with all that
• 32:05
  Iowa ties throughout the family. You could see that one.
• 32:09
  I'm not so sure if it if it if it banks does get on the cusp.
• 32:13
  How does he handle it, Tom? Boy, he's going to be on the
• 32:18
  road probably when he when he has a chance to break it.
• 32:22
  And so there'll be no like Carver Hawkeye arena pressure.
• 32:29
  I just think you got to go out and just make dots.
• 32:31
  I agree the point. I agree.
• 32:34
  Yeah, I never thought of that. We talked about it yesterday,
• 32:36
  Tom and I maybe you did try and I missed it.
• 32:39
  The fact that they're on the road because he is going to, you
• 32:42
  know, with these shot 8 free throws the other night, we're
• 32:45
  that close, you'd be on the road.
• 32:46
  That's that makes a difference I think.
• 32:49
  Yeah, yeah, I think it does. And it's just there's not that
• 32:52
  that pressure, not that he would feel the pressure, because I
• 32:54
  don't even know that he would know much about Chris St.
• 32:59
  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, he didn't know Tavian
• 33:01
  Banks when he got here, nor should he.
• 33:03
  I mean, we're talking about guys that were not around when these
• 33:05
  guys were around. Speaking of Tavian Banks, he
• 33:09
  played last year, Drake. He was a JUCO guy.
• 33:11
  There's been a lot of speculation about the
• 33:13
  possibility as a JUCO guy, maybe he could have some more
• 33:16
  eligibility. What can you tell us on that
• 33:18
  front? I asked McCollum about it before
• 33:22
  the year and he said he's done after this year.
• 33:24
  They they've they've been told that he was done after this year
• 33:26
  in Tavion. He can said that to me.
• 33:28
  So unless something changes, I'm just going to assume that he's
• 33:31
  done after this year. But one would think if if you
• 33:36
  know, they they figured out I was talking to somebody close to
• 33:40
  the team before the game when Chad Baker Mazzaro was at
• 33:46
  Mazzaro was at Duquesne as a freshman.
• 33:49
  Kate Sage was 12 years old. So that's.
• 33:53
  Absolutely wild. So what grade are you in when
• 33:56
  you're 12? Like 6th.
• 33:57
  Now you're playing against him in a Big 10 game between the
• 34:02
  University of Iowa and Southern Cal.
• 34:04
  It's a Big 10 Conference game. Yeah, things have changed just a
• 34:07
  little bit. Tom, one more on the basketball
• 34:10
  front. I want to get your perspective.
• 34:11
  And you know, we've heard we saw a little bit of run out of
• 34:14
  Brandon Hassan and we heard McCollum say, well, he's been
• 34:18
  practicing. Well, same, same thing about
• 34:19
  driving your rock, trying to find him a way to get in there.
• 34:23
  Do you want to see them dig a little bit more into that bench?
• 34:26
  Do you want to see them, even if it is for a spot, you know, 4
• 34:29
  minute stretch, things like that, trying to keep these guys
• 34:32
  fresh. They're going on the West Coast.
• 34:33
  Is that something you anticipate we are going to see or that we
• 34:36
  should see with this squad? I don't know that they will
• 34:39
  unless they have to. I really don't.
• 34:41
  I just don't. I don't think they're going to
• 34:43
  play a lot of guys. I think he's going to play score
• 34:47
  like 8 guys, maybe 9. You know, all those guys have
• 34:52
  been practicing well. He mentioned today on the on the
• 34:54
  zoom that Terry Thompson's been practicing, but you know, he's
• 34:57
  not going to burn his red shirt. But he always comes back to the
• 35:00
  defensive end whenever he says playing really well.
• 35:03
  He understands the offense. And then it's like defense, not
• 35:06
  so much, you know, it's just. I love it how it.
• 35:09
  Is just how it is. You know it's you read between
• 35:12
  the lines, so. Tom Kaikert hawkeyereport.com
• 35:15
  I'm surprised you're not on the West Coast, Tom, as much as you
• 35:18
  travel. Well, I, I had medical gotcha
• 35:23
  appointments, so I, I, I couldn't make it.
• 35:26
  So otherwise I'd be out there. I think I'm going to.
• 35:28
  I think I'll be at maybe headed to Maryland.
• 35:31
  Though. Nice.
• 35:32
  Well, make it. Make an appointment to be with
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  us next Friday, all right? I absolutely love it.
• 35:37
  Good to talk to you. Thanks, Tom.
• 35:38
  Have a good week. See you buddy.
• 35:39
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  Ashworth in West Des Moines and in Urbandale, 12725 Meredith
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  Drive in Urbandale. John, Joe Berry and Steve, the
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  tiebreaker for you 4 gentlemen is going to be total points in
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  tonight's Michigan at Michigan State basketball game.
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  Let's get to John. First of all, John joins us.
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  Hello John, how are you? Hello.
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  Hi John. You ready to go?
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  I'm ready. Iowa State's going to be an 11
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  1/2 point favorite at K State on Sunday.
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  I'll take Iowa State. Iowa a 6 1/2 point favorite at
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  Oregon on Sunday night. I'll take the Hogs.
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  Drake's at home. They host Bradley and will do so
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  as a 2 1/2 point favorite. I'll take Drake too.
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  Nebraska on Sunday, 4 1/2 point favorite over Illinois.
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  Oh, thank you. Annoying.
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  And the tiebreaker total points tonight's game.
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  Michigan, Michigan State closest without going over John 147.
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  John, enjoy the weekend. Thank you.
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  Appreciate it. Joe is next.
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  How you, Joe? Iowa State, 11 1/2 point
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  favorite at K State. K State, Iowa, 6 1/2 at Oregon.
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  Oregon. Drake is a 2 1/2 point favorite
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  over Bradley. Bradley, Nebraska, 4 1/2 point
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  favorite over Illinois. Oscars tiebreaker, Michigan.
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  Michigan State tonight closes without going over.
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  Joe 152. Thanks, Joe.
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  Have a good weekend. You too.
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  Thank you. Barry's up next.
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  Hey, Barry. Hi, Barry.
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  Iowa State's going to give 11 1/2 to K State on Sunday.
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  Iowa State. Iowa, 6 1/2 point favorite at
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  Oregon. Oregon, Drake's at the Nap
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  Center, 2 1/2 point favorite over Bradley Great.
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  Nebraska, 4 1/2 point favorite over Illinois, Nebraska,
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  Michigan, Michigan State total points.
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  Barry closest without going over 146.
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  Thanks, Barry. Enjoy the weekend.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  And Steve is our final contestant this week.
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  Hi, Steve. How you guys doing?
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  Good Iowa State 11 1/2 to K State.
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  Iowa State. Iowa, 6 1/2 at Oregon.
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  Oregon. Drake, a 2 1/2 point favorite
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  over Bradley. Bradley.
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  Nebraska 4 1/2 versus Illinois. Illinois.
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  And Michigan, Michigan State tonight, total points closest
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  without going over. 140. Thanks, Steve.
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  Have a good weekend. Thank you.
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  Appreciate the chicken coop for doing that.
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  Any consensus? Trent Condon.
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  No, our first two went completely the opposite
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  direction. And then one of was a Berry No,
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  I was one of us. I thought was one of them took
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  Nebraska, but other three dogs in his list, he had K State, he
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  had Oregon, he had Bradley and then took the Huskers.
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  That was Joe, Yeah, he was with Joe, Yeah.
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  We got three people on the Cyclones, 3 on the Ducks and
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  then split in the other two games.
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  Bradley and Drake, boy, if Drake can get this one.
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  And they got a big chance to do so, I think.
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  And that's on CBS Sports Network at 5:00.
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  I want to sing tomorrow. Is there any buzz for Drake?
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  It feels like there's there's buzz with you in the afternoon,
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  with Sean in the afternoon around town.
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  No, I wonder. I'm not hearing it.
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  Yeah, I wonder. Well, you're I don't get around.
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  That's true. It's been a really nice story.
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  Well, it's getting better. It's been a really good decade
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  run. Yeah, for sure, all that.
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  If you want to include that, yes, absolutely.
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  Because I used to laugh at people like you that bring up
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  Drake. Nobody cares.
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  No, I know for the most part. And I will tell you somebody
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  statewide, nobody cares. The story that the only thing
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  that I can remember from Drake basketball, from, I don't know,
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  Rudy Washington taking over the program until I moved here was
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  when all the guys got suspended that season.
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  Academically, you remember. That, yeah, I do.
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  I absolutely. Remember that 2000, 2001?
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  Maybe yeah, around that time for not hitting the two point, what
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  did they have to make the GPA? Yeah, the two point it was over
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  2. Maybe they were NCAA eligible,
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  but they weren't eligible. Yes, yes, yes.
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  And yet they were winning games, yes, and they had won games
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  forever. And it was.
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  Was that the Kanasky era I. Think so?
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  Not positive, but that's the only story I can remember
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  reverberating the time I was a little kid.
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  Yeah, until I moved here. And then, of course, 2008.
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  Yeah, that was unbelievable because I, when I was state,
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  were both down. That that helped a lot too.
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  A lot. It was huge, yes.
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  Because without. That.
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  Oh no. What about a story but not a
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  story? But we, because we followed them
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  everywhere. Everywhere couldn't.
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  We were doing remotes. Advertisers were paying for
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  Drake remotes. Honest to God, I were too.
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  Coming up next to Eugene Repay on Iowa State, Mike Palm on
• 41:30
  Vegas at Circa, Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network.