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Bama Bob previews Week 0, Mike Palm from Circa Sports & the Voice of the Chiefs Mitch Holthus · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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On a football Friday, we welcome you to Miller and Condon on the
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Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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the next couple of hours to talk a whole lot of sports with you.
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And thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Here's what's coming up Friday very busy on in the Miller and
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Condon program. So well, you know every day in
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football season is but Friday's particularly so we will start
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going to kick around a couple of games.
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Bama Bob will join us as he does every Friday, normally on
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Monday, but I don't think we'll recap Monday this week with him.
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We will on Labor Day as we will be here on Labor Day.
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All of the shows are on as we took what was the day July the
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3rd whatever. We took a four day weekend
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around the 4th of July in exchange for Labor Day.
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So just in advance clip and save and file that away.
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That will be a local programming on Labor Day, but Bama Bob will
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kick things off here at about 10 minutes or so.
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Then we'll head to Las Vegas, catch up with a very busy Mike
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Palm. It is a busy time at Circus
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Sports contest weekend. Sign up weekend.
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Their big push to get as many people and Survivor and millions
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as possible. You see the number of radio
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stations are out there. Radio roll looks like the Super
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Bowl for crying out. Loud.
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It's wild, isn't it? Really is when we started four
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years ago. That was us.
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You know what? I'm glad we're not there this
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weekend. It it's a little overwhelming.
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It is, and you know, we get we're the only ones when we're
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there. Right.
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Yes. Anyways, that aside, we'll talk
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to Mike Palm at 12:30. Mitch Holtis will join us
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somewhere after 1245. Look forward to that
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conversation with Mitch. I think this is the finale.
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This is it I think. We're, I think training camp is
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over after this week, so this may or may not be the final
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Chiefs daily training camp report.
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But the good news is, if you're a fan of the Chiefs or a fan of
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the NFL, Mitch will join us every Thursday, although they're
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in Brazil Week 1. Might be a little different,
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we'll figure. It a little different, but
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anyways, most Thursdays he's with us to talk about the Chiefs
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upcoming game. Papa John's throughout the state
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of Iowa headquartered here in Johnston.
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They sponsor the segment both during the training camp and
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then during the regular season appearances.
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Tom Cacard on Iowa kicks off our number 2.
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Trent, I'm I want to get your take.
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On that, OK. I've seen more Hawkeye fans
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agree, agree on on a topic that I'm not sure they would have had
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been any other name. This Fitzgerald's stuff has
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legs. You think so?
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I mean, I don't know, I shouldn't, you know what I mean,
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free phrase. It doesn't have legs, but boy,
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oh boy, it has Hawk fans talking and tweeting and posting on
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message boards. Did you?
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I mean, did you see it the same way as I did?
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I I. Did.
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And I was a little bit surprised because when we brought that up
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yesterday during the show, I was being a little floppy.
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I the tweet from his son that had the black and gold.
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All right, we'll take it a step further.
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And thinking that it wouldn't have those kind of legs that
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other Hawkeye fans and people in the media wouldn't have the same
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kind of thoughts. But you're right, it's something
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that would make a whole lot of. Sense it would now the only bad
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news, I think bad news, if you want to call it that it for
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those folks that would like to see that transition happen from
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fairness to Fitz is I don't know the time period.
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I don't know how does does does Fitch want?
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How about if he gets a week and an odd right, does that lead him
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into a television for a year or two?
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Until when? Because I don't think Kirk
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Ference should ever be pushed out of the university.
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No, ever. No.
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I saw an incredible stat, his win percentage by decade that he
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was there. I would say the 90s was
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terrible. The the odds you think would be
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incredible. They were good.
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Yeah. But there were a couple of down
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years in there. The 10s were actually a little
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bit better than even the aughts were.
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Mm hmm, But the 20s have been his best decade ever.
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Mm hmm. This guy at this point in his
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career is putting together yet another great and now it's just
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only half a decade at this point.
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But the best decade of his career comes during this last
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five years. That shows you the guy still
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knows how to win and you can argue.
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And the message just getting home amongst those young
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players. You can argue about it's not
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pretty, no, but the guy wins football games.
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The nine and three, eight and four every year, a lot of
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programs would sign up for that with with occasional 10 and two,
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maybe an 11 and 1 sprinkled. In about 95.
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Percent your programs would sign up.
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Absolutely. So Tom Cake will kick off our
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number two. We will pick his brain obviously
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on that. And then some of the latest I
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saw Coach Ference met with the media yesterday.
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How did you take his Mark Karnowski comment?
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I think that's. Starting to figure it out a
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little bit more and I'm paraphrasing but it didn't sound
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like a finished work if you will.
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I think that goes hand in hand though, with what we've heard
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through this camp. Ups and downs, there's been ups
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and downs and that's kind of how we've heard it.
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And I think you could probably take what he said.
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Yes, I'll get the exact quote. We'll we'll find it.
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But he talked about the backups and you know, both of them.
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He's very forthcoming and I appreciated that about Coach
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Ference and that because I didn't think this time last week
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we were told there'll be nothing this week.
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So it's kind of a bonus to get some Hawkeye coverage on the
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football program in kind of a slow week at the University of.
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We heard it was a very slow start from Gronowski.
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We anticipate that he's going to.
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I think there's going to be times he's going to drive Kirk
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nuts because he takes chances. He goes down the field and
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that's not a whole lot of what we've seen, but that is what he
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is in the way that he wants to play is he's going to be
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aggressive down the field. And I wonder if maybe that's a
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part of it too, where Kirk's kind of reconfiguring himself a
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little bit right there. We're now going to have a
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quarterback that is going to take chances and you have to be
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OK with that because if this offense is going to be opened up
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and is I mentioned to beat an Indiana, to beat an Oregon, to
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beat a handful of teams, they're going to have to score points.
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They can't win everything 1310. No, that's not the way forward.
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I don't think with this team this this defense, I think that
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still has major question marks. They're going to have to win a
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probably a couple shootouts this.
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Year, yeah, I think it's the secondary trend.
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This kind of has to be one a little bit, and I think Hawk
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fans might feel the same way. But in order to do that, you
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have to have a quarterback that takes chances.
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I totally agree with you. And then at 1:30 we're going to
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head to Dublin and catch up with her colleague Heather Burnside.
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She's when did she get there, Saturday or Sunday?
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She's been there a long time anyways, for the better part of
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a week, travelling all over the the country.
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Now they've arrived in Dublin as most Cyclone fans have, except
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for one group. Do you see that awful story
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about that one tour group that left them high and dry left out
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of Des Moines? Now again, it weather's going to
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weather's not the travel company's fault.
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But no follow up after you get, you know, after you get
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derailed, that is your fault. And not answering your phone
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when people are panicking that have sent their money in for
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this excursion of a lifetime to watch their team over an island.
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Can't think of the company's name.
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I wish I could so I could RIP them.
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But the stories at WHOTV 13's website, I'm sure most people
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have it now. But yeah, just really
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unfortunate. But the good news there is for
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these two people quoted in the article, they've made it so they
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will see their team. And that team will kick off our
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time tomorrow at 11:00. Our time to be followed up by
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Kansas and Fresno State and then Hawaii and Stanford.
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Those are the three I'll be watching and then I'll get back
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to baseball. Do you just think of this in 24
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hours, we're going to be in the middle of the second quarter of
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a football game then not just. Location's the company's name.
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Thank you. Week 0 that we've enjoyed, Week
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0 not. Yeah, yeah.
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But this is different. This is so different that this
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is the way that not just us here locally but nationally, this is
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how sport fans are going to be able to kick off their football
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season. This is massive for the Big 12,
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yes, massive for the conference. Having these two teams, both
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teams who have realistic aspirations of winning a
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conference and they are going to bring the curtain up on the 2025
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college football season over an Ireland Ireland 2 good teams,
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two teams that you know may have an opportunity, both of them to
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play for their conference championship.
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So really, really fortunate is how I look at it.
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There are two more games scheduled for the next two years
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over an. Ireland, what are they?
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Do you have? Them I do this next year.
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TCU like a Big 12 team. Yeah, against Bill Belichick and
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the Tar Heels. Will he be there?
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No. No.
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OK, Yeah. Then in 27, Pitt and Wisconsin,
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this is different. This is not to disparage our
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cyclone brethren, but for everybody beating their chest
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and thinking that they're going to out drink Ireland and you're
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not, I mean stop. They're going to give it a
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whirl, though. You got.
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To they're going to give it a but Wisconsin, they're going to
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take it to an animal. Yeah, they're going to put it.
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I mean, if you want to take it maybe even to another level like
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LSU, those, those people put it to another level.
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But it's still, you think you're a great drinker, You think
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you're a great drinking fan base.
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It's Ireland. Yeah, let's slow down.
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And we're going to drink him out of whiskey and we're going to
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drink him out of beer. There's not a fan base that
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could do that. Ireland See.
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That old guy over in the corner, he's there every day.
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He's a pro. He'll be on.
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He'll be in that chair when you guys get back on your airplanes
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to come home. Yes, And those two next game,
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those fan bases will see that same dude and others like him in
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the same bar stools throughout the country of Ireland.
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Well, good stuff. That's what's coming up on the
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program today. Bama Bob, we will get to him
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momentarily will give us we'll get our take on kind of these
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three games. I'm gonna throw at the boys this
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one as well. Just a a team that since we last
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went on record and it's been, I don't know, over a week or so,
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There's so, so there's been plenty of time and I get it.
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We're leading up to it, right. The just the buzz around the
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team is there is there a buzz team that, you know, some folks
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that maybe you respect or you follow or at least you pay
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attention to? Is there a team like they're
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like that and you just can't figure it out for whatever
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reason. I don't get why this guy or gal
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is trumpeting this team. So we'll do that coming up as
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well. And then we're going to get the
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Mike Palm toward the bottom of the hour.
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Yeah, the the company's on location.
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That's a bad luck. That's a that's your damn phones
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when you're when the people that have botcher excursion are are
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having trouble with their travel difficulty.
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No one's blaming you for the weather in Chicago.
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OK, no one is going that far, but help him out.
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Let's get to Bama Bob. He joined.
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We didn't get his music. Don't we need?
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You want the music, we got to have the.
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Music hang. On.
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All right, here we go. Feels like football now.
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It does. College football is here.
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Hell yeah with Lynyrd Skynyrd. And Bama Bob joins Trenton Eyes,
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he does every single Friday and we're grateful for that.
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Hello Bama, how are you? I'm doing great.
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I've missed the intro there. Sounds like you're fired up, but
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I like it. I like the passion.
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Yeah, absolutely. Gotta have your tune, man.
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Yeah, I think there's Cappy has his own lead.
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How? Who else does strength Cappy
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does in Bama? Simple.
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Oh, simple. Yeah, I'm not sure he loves
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that. Simple's a little more produced,
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yeah, and I absolutely love. That's my favorite open
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apologies to you, Beva, but I've put a couple of funny quotes
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from Simple throughout the years in.
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There, it's really good. Well.
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He's. Great.
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No, he really is. I know you've known for a long
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time as well. So let's let's get into this
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three games. I think that's I mean, Trent
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will probably find a couple more, but there's three that
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move the needle, obviously the opener, the lid lifter and then
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Kansas and Fresno State, followed by Hawaii and Stanford.
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And boy, there's a lot of folks that are just poo poo in this
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Stanford football team. And maybe rightly so.
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It might be that quote rebuild, but Bama, before we get into
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that, let's let's start with the news not of the day of yesterday
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that the SCC is on board and they are going to 9.
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But not only are they going to 9, they now require yes, to play
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9 conference games here here, but you also have to play one
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game against a another power for conference.
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So I love this. The water's about to get deeper.
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I I love the fact that everybody's running the same
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race for the most part ACC Let's get going here.
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But Bama, I think this was good news.
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You see it? Do you see it differently?
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Oh. No, 100% I agree.
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And listen, this is something if you go back, there's an article
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on al.com today, you go back over a decade, Nick Saban was
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pushing for this. Now he was pushing for it back
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when he was dominating college football and there was no portal
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and there was no NIL. But he said, you know, you look,
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he said we we need to be playing non conference games.
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And I think that was even before obviously Oklahoma and Texas
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came in. So I like it.
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I think in they have the agreement now or the the rule
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now where you do have to play another power for they're
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keeping that. And I think that's huge.
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I really do, because that's going to give them essentially
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10 Power Four games, and Indiana and Curt Signetti can shove it
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whether you know you know where. All that crap.
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Yeah, how they are now. You know, they are openly
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bragging about the crappiness of their non conference schedule.
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Oh, we're going to make it an FCC schedule.
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All right, pal. Well, now, you know, look at
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Alabama this year, they've got Florida State, Wisconsin, and
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before you start, nobody knew FSU was going to be two and 10
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last year when this game was scheduled.
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Same for Wisconsin. Those look like 2 pretty good
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games. I think next year or 27, they
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play Ohio State and West Virginia.
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That's pretty salty. So I like it.
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I think this is really driven by and they listen, they knew it
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was coming. Obviously the whole playoff with
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the schedule or whatever they're going to call it now where
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you're going to end as you should.
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OK. So the one thing we don't want
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to see in my opinion, from a fan's perspective, because so
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much has changed, right, NIL, you don't know who's on your
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roster year to year. You know, people, teams can
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outspend everybody else and everything.
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The one thing that fans deserve, I think whether you're a season
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ticket holder or what else is a decent schedule, if you're going
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to shell out all this money, you're going to want to see, you
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know, 3 or 4 good games. And I think now you're going to
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have 10 Power four games as an SEC team.
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And I think it's great. Yeah, I think it's great.
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And, you know, maybe more, who knows, you know, probably
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they'll they'll still do, you know, maybe a group of five and
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then an FCS. And I got no problem with the
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FCSI really don't but. As long as it's not the second
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the last weekend of the football season.
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I don't blame that. I I really.
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Kind of a breather late in the year.
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Well, it. Used to be, you know, Alabama
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would always take something off before, you know, play 1 before
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Auburn, the Iron Bowl. But that's, that's kind of
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changed now with Texas and and Oklahoma.
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So you are getting them a little bit more dispersed throughout
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the year. And I get it.
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But if you're going to play 10 Power Four teams, what does it
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really matter when you play the FCS Team I?
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I just, I just look at it from selfish reason.
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I just want good. Games, I agree.
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I agree. You don't really want a November
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game with, you know, you know, Mercer and Alabama.
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I get it, but you know it. I think overall it is a good
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thing and I think it will preserve these big non
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conference schedules, games like Texas and Ohio State that we're
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going to see in week 1 and all these other ones.
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I think it will encourage teams and maybe Indiana will have to
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cap, you know, cancel some of those cupcakes that they have so
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proudly and openly scheduled. But we'll see.
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Trent, give me a team within the last week since we went our
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record with our picks like I I, I sat in here before the show
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today as I mentioned that Chris Falika bet in one of his tweets,
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he bet Minnesota to make the College Football Playoff at 18
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to 1 like Minnesota. Did I hear that right?
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But who's the team that's getting buzzed that you you
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can't grasp it getting buzzed that I can't grasp.
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You don't understand why this person who you might follow on
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Twitter, you might listen to on a podcast is is all over and you
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you look at the like entirely different.
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Well, there is one that I think has gone too far and it's
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something that you and I put in our back pocket back in January.
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It's the Clemson. Titans.
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No, really. And it's not nothing to do with
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the talent because they're incredibly talented and even if
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they lose to LSU in Week 1, it's not going to matter they.
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Could they? Absolutely.
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They're going to get there and they're going to have a chance.
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But when I hear people still, oh, there's still value on them
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at 8:00 or 12:50. No, no, that's not value on a
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team out of the ACC that a best is A2 bid league and maybe it's
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a one bid league. That is not value.
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I don't believe when it was 25 to 1 when we grab it, that's
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good. Absolutely.
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That would be the one that I I think the Clemson hype has maybe
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gone a little too far. OK, fair.
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How about you, Bammy? Got anything that falls in that
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category? Yeah, the team I just talked
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about and maybe it's just I'm tired of them or whatever.
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Indiana. Indiana bothers about SEC OH.
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My God, no they don't. I mean, listen, here's the no,
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they don't. The The thing is, it's like it's
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like he it's nobody down here. I promise you, nobody in power
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in the SEC gives a crap about Indiana football.
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No fan of the SEC cares about Indiana football.
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Now. We cared a little bit last year
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when they made the playoff with that, you know, ridiculously,
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you know, you'll look at the the wins that they had and how soft
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they were and the two teams they played.
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They got smoked. But look, it I, I just, I don't
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get it, right? I think they had a really nice
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year last year. Fine, you put them in the
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playoffs, they were undefeated for, you know, a long time.
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And then, you know, they, they weren't up against a couple of
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good teams and prove they don't belong.
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I, I just don't see it again this year.
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I know what I like Signeti as a coach.
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I think he's a good coach. I think he's probably right for
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that program and he's doing all the right things.
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He's trying to generate buzz. He's trying to make names.
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I just saw that they just, you know, they just got a $50
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million sponsor for their field name.
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You know, congratulations. You know, if that's the way you
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want to go, that's fine. And if you're Indiana, you
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probably need to do it. But listen, I just their
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schedule again is very, very soft, some of it on purpose.
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They don't play Ohio State, they don't play Michigan.
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You have to go to Penn State. But I just, I don't see it.
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They're not going to be a playoff team again.
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And I seen some people. I thought Trip was going to go
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with Illinois. I was a little surprised.
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That's been out there for a while.
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I've already shot holes in that one.
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Right, right. But I don't know, I just, I
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don't get the buzz about Indiana.
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I think they're going to be one of those teams that, you know,
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had a good year and kind of fell, falls off the map back
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into the water, is going to seek its level at some point.
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And I think their level is about 8:00 and 4:00.
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The one for me, it's Oklahoma. I just don't see how this, I
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think you've, I think you've got them.
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I think you've got Venables as your big name coach to be fired.
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How about this strange, this stretch home to Texas, at South
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Carolina, home to Old Miss at Tennessee, at Alabama, Missouri,
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LSUI mean, come on, they're not going.
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They're not going. Two to three wins out of that.
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Maybe we literally have 4 minutes left because we got it.
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We got to finish this segment on time here today.
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Bama, your thoughts? K State?
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Iowa State. But I just love the game, all
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the hoopla and everything around it being played in Ireland and
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the cute nickname of Farmageddon and all this kind of stuff.
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Listen, it's a conference game and it's a really important one.
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We've talked about it before, right?
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The Big 12 is up for grabs, guys.
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I think there's, we've talked about it.
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There's I think at least six teams that can win it.
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And I put, I'm putting these two in that category, maybe 6-7
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teams that could win it. And so this is a monster game,
19:41
not just because it's the first game in Week 0 or because of
19:44
being played in Ireland. I mean, this is a conference
19:47
game. I mean, I give credit to both
19:49
sides for doing this. I'm sure the fans are excited.
19:53
The last I saw it was, you know, Iowa State getting the field
19:56
goal. I like Iowa State.
19:59
I just think what they're going to, I mean, look, I don't think
20:02
there's any big secret. They're going to run it.
20:03
They're going to try to be physical.
20:05
I do like Avery Johnson, but he's got to prove it.
20:08
He didn't prove it last year. He's got to prove it this year.
20:11
So I, I, I would take the three points out.
20:14
I think it's going to be a close game.
20:15
I think it's, I don't know what the weather's going to be like
20:17
over there. It's going to be raining or
20:18
anything, but you know, it's going to be, it's just going to
20:21
be a spectacle. But I like Iowa State with the
20:25
points and I just give both teams credit for for playing a
20:29
huge conference game like this and making something about this
20:33
is putting these two teams as the focus of college football
20:36
because it is the first time of the year and everybody's going
20:39
to be watching. It Yep, without a doubt.
20:41
Great question on the weather. I don't know either, but Heather
20:43
will join us about an hour and 10 minutes.
20:45
So we'll get the latest Trent case, Kansas and Fresno State,
20:48
Fresno State and just under 2 touchdowns.
20:50
Kansas had so much buzz a year ago.
20:51
I didn't buy it. We were right on that one.
20:54
I don't even see a bounce back this year.
20:55
I I I think this. Program wins, not yeah.
20:57
Cuz something like that, yeah, but certainly not in contention
21:00
come November with a path to the championship.
21:03
I don't see that out of The Jayhawks.
21:04
And this Fresno team, they bring a Kurt Warner son to play
21:07
quarterback after being at Rice. EJ Warner will be the starter
21:10
for them. They got a hell of an offensive
21:12
line coach and Brian Ferrets, our tight end coach, whatever
21:15
he's coaching over there. I like Fresno.
21:19
He can't let it go, Bam. What I just I gave him a
21:21
compliment. Backhanded Bama, you're a.
21:25
Crappy offensive coordinator we could say that to.
21:27
Preach in the choir, brother. Yeah.
21:29
Your thoughts on this one Bama? I tend to agree.
21:32
I think it's pretty exciting. How about the how about the
21:34
Sunflower State, right? I mean, both the state schools
21:38
are opening in Week 0, you know, kind of with national windows.
21:42
Look, I agree with you on Kansas.
21:43
I thought they were going to be a little better than they were
21:45
last year. I bought into the quarterback.
21:47
I think it's going to be fun because they're opening the
21:49
remodel version of of Memorial Stadium, which man did that
21:52
place and didn't upgrade. I was 25 years ago and it was a
21:55
dump then, so I can't imagine how it was now.
21:57
But I really it's tough to pick this one out of the chute.
22:01
Maybe lay the points. I don't know from betting angle.
22:03
It's hard. I just, I think it's, I think
22:05
it's fun for the state of Kansas to have both their teams really
22:09
in the national spotlight. It's probably not going to
22:11
happen again very often this year.
22:13
Trent, your thoughts on Hawaii Stanford real quick.
22:15
Yeah, I think the steams come too fast.
22:17
I like Stanford getting the points now.
22:19
They were a favorite when this thing opened up.
22:20
As much as I love Timmy Chang, I think Stanford is going to keep
22:23
it snug. Maybe win this one out, right?
22:24
Do you see it the same Bama? You know, I have no idea about
22:28
the game. Two things.
22:29
One, I'm stunned that Trent wants to talk about an ACC game.
22:33
This is probably the only time we'll mention either of these
22:35
teams this year. And damn it, this should be an
22:37
11:00 PM kick off. Why are we kicking off at 6:30
22:41
in Hawaii? This should be 11.
22:44
Well, yeah, OK. You're probably the only time
22:46
you'll ever see Hawaii, right? In a home game, there should be
22:51
an 11:00 PM kick. What are we doing?
22:52
Come on. Bama, good stuff, brother.
22:54
We'll talk to you next Friday. We'll have more time.
22:57
We'll get to the as we normally do, 567 games and we'll run out
23:01
of time. Thank you, buddy.
23:02
Appreciate it. Thank you guys.
23:03
Enjoy the games tomorrow. Thank you, Bama.
23:05
Bob. Good stuff.
23:07
Fun. Look, All right, I've got to
23:08
tell you about a friend's Birkwood farm.
23:10
Boy, did you see this tailgate package that they put together?
23:12
This $50 bundle? Now, I've never tried one of
23:15
these WAG Shire patties. Oh, they're good.
23:17
I hear that from everybody. Four of those two brought
23:21
packages. There's four in a package, a
23:24
tenderloin and if that's not enough for your $50, a rack of
23:27
Saint Louis ribs. They're on 14th St. here in Des
23:32
Moines. That's the address.
23:34
But 50 bucks for that tailgating package.
23:37
I think this is this one week only.
23:39
So get it while you can, folks. Birkwood Farms, That is a deal
23:44
and a half. Four WAG, sharp patties, 2 broad
23:47
packages, a tenderloin and a rack of Saint Louis ribs, $50.00
23:51
for that bundle. Mike Palm next.
23:53
Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
24:02
I'm Melory Congon, welcome back the hour of sports Radio
24:05
network. John Fogarty, credence,
24:07
Clearwater Revival center field, the baseball song.
24:10
I didn't know that, but Sir and Dan Patrick inducted into
24:13
baseball's Hall of Fame. Really the song and Fogarty and
24:16
he should be. He's an unbelievable entertainer
24:18
still going strong at 80 years old.
24:21
Mike Palm joins us VP of operations at Circus sports.
24:24
How's your? Week Is he going strong?
24:25
Oh, absolutely. Been all over the country.
24:28
What's going on in your world, Mike?
24:29
How are you? Well, I did 17 interviews
24:33
yesterday on Radio Row and I did 5 this morning.
24:37
Then I did Beast and you, of course, I did 670 the score on
24:40
their show from Chicago and I got about 7 or 8 more.
24:44
So everything's going terrific. I do have to tell you I did the
24:47
102.9 the Hog in Milwaukee. Yeah.
24:50
They brought their own audience. They brought 30 people from
24:53
Wisconsin, traveled with them to their show and it was 20.
24:58
I guess we did 20 minutes and the guy stood up from the front
25:01
row and came up and he said, I have listened to them for 27
25:06
years and that's the best segment they've ever had.
25:08
You know that I would, I consider it high praise, but you
25:11
guys listen to Tim Murray every week, so it's sort of a low bar.
25:15
Nice. I hope Tim heard that.
25:17
That's good stuff. Really.
25:19
That's really cool, Mike. Obviously it's such a busy
25:22
weekend. This is your big push for sign
25:24
ups contest weekend. But your panel to me is
25:27
appointment, TVB appointment online, whatever you want to
25:30
call it. It's on X, it's on the circus X
25:34
feed. It is so good.
25:36
I learned something every year from from Betters that you know,
25:39
I may not have a future in My Portfolio that causes me to at
25:43
the very least take a look and see if I should add it.
25:46
And most times I do. What time will that be on
25:49
tomorrow and who will comprise your panel this year?
25:52
So it'll be live streamed. If you can't make it to the
25:54
Galaxy Ballroom at Circa, we live stream it Central time,
25:57
4:00 to 6:00 PM, two to four here in Pacific.
26:01
And it's another eclectic channel.
26:03
I do have a former Pro Football player and former Visa compadre,
26:07
Mike Pritchard, who was of course started Rancho High
26:10
School here in Las Vegas, stole the national championship for
26:13
Notre Dame while playing at Colorado on a clipping call.
26:17
Was a top ten pick in the NFL draft and had a nine year career
26:21
before injury sidelined him as a wide receiver for the the
26:25
Falcons, the the the Seahawks and the Broncos.
26:28
So Richard Chuck Edel from Chicago, originally a very
26:31
successful pro, better a guy who's made his living for 30
26:34
years doing it exclusively betting sports and very
26:38
credible, especially on the NFL. Not as well known.
26:41
Maybe it's some others, but a very sharp guy.
26:45
Drew didn't think the whale capper of Justine on VC and he
26:48
has his own podcast. He's been on NBC before as a
26:51
sports betting analyst with specializes in the NFL and
26:56
tennis. He'll be on the panel.
26:57
And then Sam Monson, who's from Ireland, a former football
27:01
player, soccer player, but football player and and has
27:05
worked for Pro Football Focus for years and one of their top
27:08
analytics guys. So I think four people with very
27:11
different perspectives and hopefully we'll delve in and
27:14
we'll we'll we'll shed some light on the upcoming NFL season
27:18
and maybe that folks will gain a few kernels of knowledge.
27:21
I remember last year's panel, we heard it on the panel first
27:27
about how good abortion and commanders were going to be.
27:30
And Frank Schwab from Yahoo Sports was really high on the
27:32
commanders. And boy, was he right.
27:33
So usually you uncover a few a few kernels that are actionable
27:38
to make the folks the money. That is always excellent.
27:41
Again, what time is that, Mike? A4 to 6:00 Central time.
27:45
It'll be streamed on Twitter. 4:00 to 6:00 central time.
27:47
Yeah, definitely put that in there as you're watching a
27:49
little football. Let's get into the football.
27:52
We've talked a lot here the last couple of weeks and asked you
27:55
felt like there was maybe some Iowa State steam that was coming
27:57
in. I open up the Circus Sports Iowa
27:59
app on Wednesday of this week. I already had a 13 to 1 ticket
28:03
on Iowa State to win the Big 12. I saw they were up to 16 to one
28:06
now to win the Big 12. So where's the rest of the steam
28:09
coming in? Feels like Utah has maybe kind
28:12
of been that Buzz team the last couple of weeks.
28:13
What else are you seeing as we get ready for the opener, the
28:15
Big 12 tomorrow? Yeah, I think Kansas State had
28:19
been the sharp side throughout the summer and Utah's gotten a
28:22
little love lately. We've seen come in so market a
28:26
little bit chilly on the other. So Iowa State's drifted up.
28:29
Of course the big game in Ireland that everybody's looking
28:32
forward to. It's really, you know, I, I like
28:35
it. Notre Dame plays Navy because
28:37
it's not a conference game, but you're, you know, Florida State
28:40
and Georgia Tech and Iowa State and Kansas State.
28:42
It's your first conference game and you're traveling so far.
28:45
And I mean, I think it's a tough spot to make teams play
28:48
conference games. I know they do it because it
28:51
increases the interest and gets more people to go over and spend
28:54
more dollars in Ireland, which is great for, for Dublin.
28:57
But I think it's a tough spot when you're when you have to
29:01
play in the strange place. Just like I think the NFL's gone
29:03
too far with these all these international games.
29:07
Generally, the game quality sucks.
29:10
They're not compelling games. And I I think we're over
29:13
saturated with it. I think it needs to be
29:15
contracted. We know what Vegas is like
29:17
during football season. What will it be like tomorrow
29:19
morning for? You know, it's a, it's a stand
29:21
alone game at 11. Then we get a couple of other,
29:24
you know, good ones, Kansas, Fresno State, Stanford, Hawaii.
29:26
But what will Saturday, what will tomorrow like be in the
29:29
book as opposed to maybe last Saturday?
29:32
Mike. Oh, it'll it'll be much more
29:34
abuzz. I remember mid Notre Dame played
29:36
Navy and Notre Dame was what, a 32 point favorite?
29:39
The book was still 90% full for that game.
29:42
And this is a much more compelling matchup between Iowa
29:45
State and Kansas State footballs in the week we're getting.
29:48
We had a crowd last night for NFL preseason.
29:51
I mean, it's crazy. You know what the book in
29:53
Franklin last last week had it was about 50% pull for NFL
29:59
preseason and that's sold out with stand and five rows deep
30:02
for the UFC card that we showed. They ran out of beer in that
30:06
whole casino. Even the new center bar was
30:08
talking to the part center how the center bars go.
30:10
And she said, oh, Saturday night it was bedlam.
30:13
They ran out in the first hour. The service well was out of beer
30:15
and they started they started serving the book from out of my
30:18
bar here. She said I just now got beer in
30:21
today. She said with three flights
30:23
fights to go, we didn't have one can of Michelob Ultra.
30:28
Oh, boy, people are starved, right?
30:30
And, and they got a new opportunity out there.
30:32
That is great to see. Hey, it was something
30:35
interesting as you're on Visen quite often throughout the
30:38
course of the week. And you mentioned Tim Murray,
30:40
he's out of Hawaii doing a couple of shows out there.
30:43
Him and humans going to be doing some shows.
30:45
You know what led to that? Was it just one of those idea
30:47
meetings that came up? Hey, it's week 0.
30:49
Let's go out to Hawaii. What are those couple of guys
30:51
going out there enjoying the islands?
30:54
Well, I think both of them wanted to do it.
30:57
Of course, humans loves to travel in the summer.
31:00
He goes down to Del Mar almost every weekend.
31:03
And I think it was maybe Murray's brainchild.
31:05
But Beeson told him you got to find a sponsor.
31:08
So you have to find a sponsor to pay for this trip in broadcast.
31:11
And they found a jeweler in Hawaii that that put up, put up
31:14
the dough. And that's how it happened.
31:16
So they're out there in Hawaii and you know, it's good for
31:21
them. I love it that they took the
31:23
show on the road and they do a great job with the college
31:26
football podcast. They had Brent Musburger on this
31:28
week. In fact, if you want to go and
31:29
take a look at that Beast in College Football podcast that
31:32
Brent was their guest and but Tim and and and Matt do an
31:36
excellent job with that podcast all season 1.
31:38
And for us in Franklin, KY, the big watch party on Saturday,
31:42
which is our fan appreciation day is of course, Western
31:45
Kentucky playing Sam Houston State.
31:47
But we were actually in Bowling Green, KY last year for that
31:50
game on a Wednesday night when when they played at Sam Houston
31:53
State. So we know the big following
31:55
Bowling Green just about 35 minutes up the road from
31:58
Franklin. So that's at six O clock central
32:00
time. We're also giving away, we're
32:02
doing a raffle down there Saturday.
32:04
We're giving away a booth for the every Sunday of the NFL
32:07
season. And we're giving away a trip for
32:09
two to Vegas when the tights play the Raiders in October.
32:12
That's awesome. Well done.
32:13
Last thing for us, contest update, how are signups going?
32:16
Are they still trending in a positive over twenty $20 million
32:22
in Survivor? I know you've all the Bolen by
32:24
Grandissimo's guarantee and then millions how?
32:26
What are they doing this week, Mike?
32:29
Millions, it's like every day you open it up, it's 2% between
32:33
2% below and 2% ahead of last year, right.
32:36
The Berry it's going to be between 5900 and 6100 people.
32:40
Grandissimo, we did our 20th yesterday.
32:42
I think we're doing at least three more this weekend.
32:45
I think it my number of 30 is probably a little low, maybe we
32:47
can push 40 And then if you extrapolate it out are pacing
32:53
this year compared to last year and it perfectly extrapolated
32:57
the rest of the sign up period, we would end up with a prize
33:00
pool of $20,070,000 as we speak today.
33:03
So I think we can get there boys.
33:05
I really think we can get to 20 million.
33:07
We did our part absolutely. We're in.
33:09
We hope to see October. That's the goal.
33:13
Thank you, Bud. Appreciate you coming on.
33:14
Mike, Thanks for the mail. I arrived yesterday.
33:16
Appreciate that and we will talk to you next week.
33:19
Have a great week, Mike. Pomp, thanks for doing this.
33:21
I know you're busy. Thanks guys, have a great
33:23
weekend and enjoy the the panel tomorrow.
33:27
Yes, we will count on it. Good to talk to you.
33:28
Mike Palm, VP of operations at Circus Sports.
33:31
All right, Mitch Holt is coming up next daily Chiefs training
33:34
camp report. Papa John's Central Live
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sponsors that. That's coming up next.
33:39
Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
33:52
Hi, I'm Millary Condon. Welcome back.
33:55
I think this is the first 45 I ever owned.
33:57
Really. I think it is my grandparents.
34:00
Probably. Green River was on one side and
34:03
a song called Commotion was on the other.
34:06
You remember that, Holtis? You're about my age.
34:08
You remember that, Mitch? Oh yeah, and you ought to see
34:13
the pants that I wore when I was listening to it.
34:17
Yeah. Yeah.
34:20
Oh no, I do remember that. But that's all I remember about
34:23
that night, so. Good stuff.
34:25
Well, you had a memorable afternoon yesterday, your
34:28
luncheon. I saw some of the highlights
34:30
from it, some of the chuckles. I can tell how much you enjoy
34:34
doing. How long have you done it for?
34:35
And what does it mean to the people that gather to watch
34:39
their chiefs be introduced? Yeah, it's really pretty
34:43
awesome, and it's rare. It's just like this gigantic pep
34:46
rally, much like Red Friday is 1200 people in one locale
34:50
introducing all of the team, every guy.
34:54
And it's, I told you like yesterday when I gave you the
34:57
report. It's just weird because I know
34:59
38 won't be on the 53, but still, it's their moment.
35:03
Like a local kid like Nate Matlack played at K State Olathe
35:06
East. But what does it mean to me?
35:10
My relationship with these guys is one of the things I'm most
35:13
proud of. And when a Chris Jones or a
35:16
Travis Kelsey or a Mahomes comes up and gives you a hug with a
35:21
heartfelt feeling for personally for me, it's it's great.
35:29
And I don't. It's just a matter of these guys
35:33
are humans. They're remarkable humans.
35:35
And the Kingdom Series, which now is on ESPN, gives everybody
35:41
a glimpse into what I've talked about.
35:43
And when you're involved in competition, I mean, let's just
35:46
say being a Bronco fan, you don't necessarily see it that
35:49
way. You're always looking at the
35:50
competition, at their weakness. Or it's it's the Westmont tooth.
35:54
I hate you, Anchorman, but I'm I respect you.
35:58
And then you let the ladder go. I mean, so you ask, but it's
36:02
this mixture of feelings. But one is just an immense
36:06
appreciation that I have the chance to have a relationship
36:09
with these guys and, and some of them are the greatest players or
36:15
some of the greatest players that have ever played.
36:17
And so I've done it for 32 years for this luncheon, 31 in person,
36:21
1 virtually in 2020 with the COVID situation.
36:25
But it's a blessing beyond I can even tell you.
36:28
So thanks for asking. It's just a, it's a big deal.
36:31
It's a real big deal. Mitch, one thing that we've
36:34
learned throughout the years, Andy Reid so buttoned up
36:36
attention to detail through the roof of what he does.
36:39
And in a way, we kind of know the beats of what it's going to
36:42
be. They come in though, off the
36:44
Super Bowl, lost the disappointment.
36:46
What felt different knowing that you're going to go through the
36:48
same beats and it's going to be a lot of the same type of
36:50
stories just because of who Andy Reid is.
36:53
What's felt different for you throughout the course of this
36:55
training camp? There was this reboot.
36:58
It's just the opposite of the hangover.
37:01
People always talk about a Super Bowl hangover, and it's real.
37:04
I think that you can look at it from an empirical standpoint and
37:06
go, yeah, there's something to that.
37:08
The disappointment of losing the Super Bowl game is so vast that
37:12
it takes you a while to get over it.
37:14
Not with this team, Trent. There's zero of that.
37:17
In fact, it's just the opposite if there's a hangover.
37:20
I might have told you guys when I restarted the reports a month
37:22
ago, it would be just that they have had so much in a such a
37:28
short period of time. I mean, Mahomes has played 21
37:31
playoff games in seven years as a starting quarterback, happens
37:35
to be 17 and four. I mean, think about it.
37:38
Joe Montana had 16 career postseason wins.
37:40
Pats got 17. But there's no hangover of like,
37:44
oh gosh, we got drilled by the Eagles.
37:47
Life is going to end as we know it.
37:49
It's just the opposite. These guys are on it.
37:51
They're on point. They're on task at our division
37:54
is improved. I'm going to, I'm going to agree
37:55
with all of that, but so have we, and nobody's talking about
37:59
it. No, it looks like it looks as
38:00
though again, it's early, but if training camp is any indicator,
38:04
they've they've nailed the draft again, Mitch and and for them to
38:08
year after year do that in particular where their draft
38:11
place comes up every year. I think that's one of the maybe
38:15
underrated stories of, of what makes this franchise, you know,
38:19
have the success that they've have, that they've been having.
38:23
And this conduit of communication that goes vertical
38:26
and horizontal is huge. I know it sounds like one of my
38:28
talks, but it's it's honestly a reality.
38:31
And the best college programs, you have to have a connectivity
38:35
of the president to the AD, to the coach.
38:37
If any of one of that lineup doesn't work, then the program
38:41
can't succeed over time. And then when you have the flow
38:46
where assistants want to stay, players want to stay, they and
38:50
then you get creative when you're drafting at the bottom of
38:53
every round every year and they're always looking at
38:59
they're looking at 27 now, 2829. That's the way Beach and his
39:02
staff works and the way coach works too.
39:05
But when you get that and there's a connectivity up and
39:08
down and side to side, it becomes an unstoppable force.
39:12
And that exists here. It's very rare in professional
39:15
sports and collegiate sports, but we've got it.
39:18
We've got it for the time being. I hope it doesn't change for a
39:21
while, but that's is what it is. If we saw it in Detroit, Detroit
39:25
changed when Brad Holmes got on the same plan and the Ford
39:29
family said, OK, we're going to do this different.
39:31
Same thing the Hunts did with Coach Reed.
39:33
But it starts this blow and so it's here and this team's good.
39:38
We got flaws, man. We got flaws, but this Chiefs
39:41
team is good going into 2025. And the West is going to be just
39:45
wild. I can't wait.
39:46
Well, let's talk about Papa John's and how this how this
39:49
segment comes to be every year. And then when you join us on
39:52
Thursdays throughout the regular season, let's give them some
39:55
credit because I know Trent and I are both appreciative of them
39:58
sponsoring this. Oh.
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Yeah, they're awesome Tonight, in fact, you got me in a game
40:02
day, which is really, you know, I'm wearing my game jersey.
40:05
I've got I was worthless as a kid on game day.
40:08
You like it. Tell us about the Pythagorean
40:10
theorem. I'm going like if they bring the
40:11
linebacker up, that means they're in man and I got to make
40:14
a call and get out of it. The but I when I see nickel
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tonight, anytime I see nickel, I'm thinking 5 and if I busted
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out on the air tonight, I'd be listening.
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If I say A5 cheese garlic crust one topping pizza 1199, then
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you'll know I'm I'm off focus with this Papa John's special
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great night, though. It's game night, Chiefs and
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Bears, your Bears, Trent and it's so go to papajohns.com, get
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your pizza and have have some fun.
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Sounds great. Thanks for doing this all
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training camp, Mitch. Appreciate it, brother.
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We'll be in your inbox. In a couple weeks, yeah.
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Absolutely Will. I'll e-mail you.
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Thank you, Mitch. Thanks brother.
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