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Big 12 Football Media Days begin, what's the best College Football Playoff Model? Matt Campbell press conference · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon.
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  On a Tuesdays, the Iowa Sports Radio Network back to talk Iowa
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  sports with you for the next, well six hours.
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  We're going to start things off. Miller and Condon go to from
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  noon until 2 and then off the bench coming up from 2 until 5,
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  overtime Iowa 5 until 6. Coming up on our program today
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  along with Trent Condon, Ken Miller here.
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  We will at the bottom of the hour thereabouts, depending on
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  how long it went. Matt Campbell just got off the
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  stage, the mainstage as he spoke to the media and Frisco at Big
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  12 Media Days. So we will hear that 12,
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  whatever it is, minutes of Matt Campbell answering a variety of
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  questions from the national media that was there.
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  There was one local question, but national media had an
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  opportunity to talk to Matt Campbell.
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  We'll hear that at the bottom of the hour.
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  David Icolt will kick off hour number two.
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  He covers the Hawkeyes for 24/7 sports.
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  We'll take a look at the Hawkeyes football.
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  I believe that the Iowa media was invited to Iowa women's
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  basketball practice today, so we'll get a recap on what he saw
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  there. Pick his brain.
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  Obviously a newcomer to the men's basketball roster as well.
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  So a lot of ground to cover with I Colt when he joins us and then
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  Bill Bender on Big 12 Media Days, but just more than I would
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  state the conference overall what he has heard so far.
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  He'll join us at 1:30 with a recap of that Trent's plays of
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  the day, Circus sports sponsor, those those coming to us at
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  about 1:50 or thereabouts. And then we'll turn things over
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  to Sean and Lucas as they come off the bench from 2:00 until
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  5:00. How are you this morning and,
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  well, this afternoon? Yeah, this afternoon doing well
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  off and running again for another day, Big 12 Media Days.
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  Good to see Matt Campbell up out there and the new script helmet,
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  which is a big upgrade. Do you like it?
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  I absolutely love it. I I'm getting old now.
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  I used to proclaim myself the uniforms are of the state of
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  Iowa. Now as a made in my mid 40s,
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  it's a little bit more difficult to pull off because it's not
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  about us old guys. It's about the kids and.
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  That's why I don't care. And I'm, I'm trending more and
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  more of that direction as I get deeper and deeper into life.
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  But I love them. I, I think they're beautiful.
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  A little bit of throwback. I just like script uniforms in
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  general. There's something about that
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  script and it probably brings me back to the time when I was
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  growing up when script uniforms, the 80s, certainly the early mid
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  80s were a real big thing. And those throwbacks, now with
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  the new flair, they look good. Jeff FOMO at all today.
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  I kind of do fear of missing out just because we were there last
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  year in Las Vegas for Big 12 Media Days and it just seems
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  like, man, I kind of wish that we were there for this and but
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  we're going to Vegas for Big 10 Media Days.
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  But it's always fun to just kind of, you know, it's a box to
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  check, right? You inch your way a little
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  closer to college football, listening to the coaches and
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  some of the players and Brett, your mark, the commissioner of
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  the conference who is going to dig in his heels apparently,
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  when he wants this model to be 511 when it comes to the
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  playoffs. He thinks that in the long run,
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  that is going to benefit the Big 12.
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  He doesn't want the, you know, the 2 automatic bids.
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  And then, you know, you'll hope and pray you get one of those
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  that are left come your way. But he wants 5:00 and 11:00.
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  So we'll see if he gets his wish.
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  But after all, not sure he has vote.
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  It's going to be the SEC and the Big 10 that are going to
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  determine that they'll listen to everything and they'll do what's
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  best for themselves and everybody will have to come
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  along. Now I understand my view is a
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  little tainted because yes, I am a Hawkeye fan.
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  However, I do like the model that Tony Petiti laid out
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  because it adds depth for everybody.
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  Look, is Mississippi State going to finish in the top two of the
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  SEC any year? But can they finish in the top
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  six? Can they have a special for them
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  nine and three-year in this new behemoth of a conference and
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  have a chance to get into the playoff?
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  You'll have an opportunity. Those are the programs and of
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  course you're locally, yes, Iowa, that opportunity.
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  How often in an 18 team Big 10 are they getting to the
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  championship game place that they've been three times?
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  Not very often. When it was yeah, leaders and
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  legends and. Once every quarter century,
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  yeah, probably 2 decades. I mean, that's realistically
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  what you're looking at in this league, however.
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  Not just for I would put Northwestern in there, put soda,
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  put, you know, like schools. Per view.
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  Yeah, on and on and on. But now you get this carrot that
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  is a reasonable expectation. You have a special season, you
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  go nine and three, you get a chance to play yourself in to
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  the big bracket. I like that part of it, but I
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  also understand my view is tainted.
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  The other part though, that I continue to just be so surprised
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  by is the pushback from the Big 12.
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  We know the SEC is going to get a ton of teams in every year.
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  A16 team bracket, they're going to get 567 teams in the five and
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  11 model, but with the model where you're guaranteeing
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  yourself 2 bids every single year at minimum, and it's not
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  only two bids, you can earn more.
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  Absolutely can. The push back, I understand
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  where it comes from because you're elevating the SEC in the
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  Big 10 to a level, but that's where they're already there.
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  They are financially right to guarantee yourself for the ACC
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  and the Big 12. Those two bids, I still see it a
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  short. Side I'm with you, I'm with you.
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  But no, ultimately they can have their wish, but ultimately it's
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  not going to be up to them, right?
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  It's going to be up to the the two power of conference, the two
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  power, the two most powerful conferences.
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  And when you think about it in the SEC, and I mentioned
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  Mississippi State, Old Miss has never been in an SEC
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  championship game. Which is surprising.
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  To me it is Vanderbilt and on and on.
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  Those middle Orc, Arkansas, who was in one of the first SEC
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  championship games in the late 90s and these programs, why
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  isn't the pushback coming from there?
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  And we mentioned the Big 10. I mean, you go through
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  Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana
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  outside last year and we can keep going on that list.
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  Nebraska on the list. Washington, we keep pushing down
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  that. That's a ton of schools.
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  Is it just because they don't have the power?
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  Is it the old Big 12 where Texas runs things?
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  Is it in the Big 10, Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan are running
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  things and everybody else just fall in line?
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  Is it as simple as that? Because you would think there's
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  strength in numbers, right? And if you got over half your
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  school saying whoa, whoa, whoa, we want this, that push becomes
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  stronger. And the same thing of the SEC.
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  Arkansas is just going to sit back and hope maybe we'll attend
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  the two one year Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, these kind of
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  programs. I I'm surprised that we're not
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  hearing more from that next tier team trying to push for that
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  kind of model too. And maybe that's happening
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  behind the scenes. Maybe I was just about to say
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  something similar. Just, you know, pipe down.
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  Well, well, we'll see where it goes.
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  No decision yet. It's coming at some point before
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  December. Yeah.
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  But anyway, so. So, Campbell, again, we're going
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  to hear from. I don't want to spoil it.
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  I listened to it. It was.
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  There was nothing out of the norm, but some some decent
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  answers that I think Cyclone fans will be happy to hear their
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  head coach is addressing. I thought there was some decent
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  questions out there. But when it comes to Iowa State,
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  Trent, I'm just trying to wrap my mind around what this season
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  will look like. And but one more thing on your
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  back before we go there. It is.
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  It it become very apparent after today.
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  The reason that the Big 12 media poll went away.
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  He thought that that Arizona State was punished, penalized
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  last year. What am I missing?
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  They were a playoff team, right, right.
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  They got one of the four. What did they did?
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  They want to be seated higher. If the Big 12 media would have
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  picked them fifth, would that have somehow benefited them?
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  How am how am I missing a preseason media poll who means
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  nothing, right? Nothing.
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  It helps media people. It gives them something to write
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  about, in our case, something to talk about and your marks
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  holding that it's not that big of a deal.
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  You know, to, to 98% of the people listening, but it's just
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  a, it's a talk waking point, if nothing else, a place to start.
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  And how did that hurt Arizona State?
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  Please help me out. I don't even know if it's even
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  Arizona State. I think it's just the Big 12 in
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  general. BYU, another program that came
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  out of nowhere. You remember where they finished
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  in the final College Football Playoff rankings.
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  They're down at 17. Right on the outside, just on
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  the outside looking in. And that was in the 12 team era
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  of a 12 team era. Arizona State was actually
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  ranked 12th though they got the four seed, they were the 12th
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  ranked seed. So team.
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  So I think that's kind of the reason for it.
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  It wasn't just your champion who got in.
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  It was also because you have just those negative comment.
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  How many times do we talk about Arizona State pick last
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  throughout the course of the season?
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  And in a way, I'm sure it taints the mind of voting public.
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  Oh, this team was supposed to be terrible and they they won this
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  league or the league maybe isn't very good.
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  So you think that came up in the room with the with the selection
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  committee. You know, let's think back to
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  July, the 1st week of July. Where did the media have, I
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  mean? I think it's a narrative though
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  about this. How good can this team actually
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  be? Maybe.
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  Just they're supposed to watch the games.
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  If they watch the Big 12 championships, yes.
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  I mean, come on. Yes, but that was won and he had
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  two losses in there. You had a season where Arizona
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  State had a great year last year.
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  It's not to diminish what they were, but then you kind of look
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  under the hood. You beat a bad Mississippi State
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  team in the non conference. You struggle by Texas State.
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  I was on the Bobcats in that one.
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  You lose to Texas Tech, you lose to a very average Cincinnati
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  team, and you look under the hood.
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  The wins at the end of the year were great.
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  BYU, the K State game, of course, Iowa State, the
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  championship game. But maybe.
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  That maybe there was a lot of parity in the league last year,
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  but it wasn't upper echelon parity.
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  Maybe this was a group of not mediocre, whatever the next step
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  between mediocre and really good would be.
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  You know, maybe that's what we saw last.
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  Year. I think it's just more of that
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  innate kind of feeling that you have when you hear a team, boy,
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  they were picked last and that they win the conference and it
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  leads, I think, for a lot of people to just take a look at
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  the whole league and say, well, it must not be very good.
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  No, you know what they should be doing?
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  This should be blaming, should be poor.
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  The bunch of dope sticks cover I with that cover, the Big 12, I
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  mean that they couldn't figure this out as we were.
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  Sitting at the booth at Circa I remember talking to.
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  It's unbelievable, Brett, everybody, national media.
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  Brett Mcmurphy, Colin Wilson. Who else?
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  Tim. Tim from.
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  From visa, yeah. What's his last name?
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  Tim Murray. Tim Murray, all those guys.
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  Well, there's one thing that's easy.
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  Arizona State 16 figured out from there, but that's the easy.
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  One, that's the free square. Colin was showing me his
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  spreadsheet and going through it and yeah, just the negative, the
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  red marks on everything. Arizona State, it was
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  incredible. And then you didn't like the
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  running back, didn't like the quarterback, didn't like the
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  receiver. No saying love it, too young,
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  not ready. Unbelievable.
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  So we'll get back to the Big 12 again, Campbell toward the
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  bottom of the hour, we'll hear his entire address to the media
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  that just took place within the last 20 minutes.
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  So we'll get that relatively fresh.
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  So last night from baseball, anything strike your fancy?
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  You know what? I've done this.
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  I've watched more Kansas City Royals over the last couple of
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  weeks of the last week for sure. They're on the West Coast.
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  It's so much easier, you know what I mean?
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  Because the, the, the central teams that you're watching, in
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  my case, the Cubs are in the Blue Jays or the, you know, the
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  something, the Twins, when I watch the Twins, they're over
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  and done with. And having the Royals on the
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  West Coast, I think I know more about this team at this point
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  maybe than I have all year long. And another win against
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  Pittsburgh. WIT starting to heat up a little
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  bit now there's no path for anything to track down the
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  Titans. No, absolutely not.
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  All about the wild card. And when you look at this Royals
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  team, they're 5 back in the wild card.
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  They still got a jumps. Ahead of them.
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  Three or four. They got three teams in front of
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  it. Well, four if you include the
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  team. You got to get 2 to get there.
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  Which is Mariners at this point are Mariners.
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  Hold it. Yeah, Mariners are two up on the
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  Red Sox. 4 back are the Angels, 4 1/2 the Rangers, and then five
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  for the Royals. Also the Twins. 5 back.
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  Buyers. Sellers.
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  Is Buxton available? Speaking of buyer sellers in.
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  I don't believe so. He has maintained through all
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  his injuries he wants to go nowhere.
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  He loves fishing. He loves Minneapolis.
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  He's in the right state. Yes, absolutely.
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  He doesn't want to go anywhere. He does have a no trade clause,
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  which would be difficult. Bobby Witt, not a great season
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  for his standards. He's heating up.
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  But a guy like that, that is it at his apex.
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  And as we talked yesterday, Mike Trout came up into our
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  conversation, you have a super duper star that's Bobby Witt
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  junior. He is at that level.
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  Do you ever have A1A year where even you're on the periphery of
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  the playoffs that you're selling?
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  Or do you just say, look, we got a generational talent year after
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  year after year, If we can do anything to augment our
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  situation or even just stand pat because we have a player like
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  that, Is that the mindset that you need to take?
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  No, the American leads wide open.
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  Just. Get in.
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  Is it wide open? I think so.
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  The Astros. It seems like it's, you know why
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  I'm drawing a line through Trent and I'm not.
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  Yes. I'm not answering your question
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  about what you would do with Kansas City, but you can you.
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  Yeah, I'm sure you can. I'm not sure the Yankees are
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  going to make the playoffs the way they're going right now.
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  I mean, after Max Freed help me out, there's nothing.
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  There's absolutely nothing. The bullpen is good.
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  Yeah, all right. But the yeah, he's good.
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  The depth of the line up, I mean, radones here.
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  Number two, you don't know what you're gonna get with that guy.
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  No, these are two. You know, you wouldn't play up
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  series with that. Nope.
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  Not that two you have to have two high quality starters at the
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  top of your rotation. I think to be considerably the
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  legitimate team that can make a run in the in the Major League
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  Baseball playoffs and they don't have.
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  I'm with you. I think Rodon's a nice player.
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  I don't think he's that, you know, that guy that you feel
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  comfortable. And I get it.
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  Gerrit Cole got hurt. I mean, Cole Freed would be an
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  entirely different story, but but Cole's not there.
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  I just work. I just don't think this Yankees
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  team is going to even, I want to say in free fall, but man.
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  One guy that is starting to heat up, Jason Dominguez, who we
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  heard about a lot before the season, he's another young guy
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  that is definitely heating up. And you know, he's a young
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  talent. He was a huge prospect coming
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  up. Feels like those Yankee
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  prospects are always elevated a little bit more maybe then they
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  should be in the rankings. But that's a guy that still only
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  22 years old. He's been talked about with his
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  upside and if he continues at the path he has for the last 3-4
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  weeks now, you're talking about him and Judge together and a
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  little bit of depth that line up.
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  They're going to have to mash their way.
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  I mean, it's going to have to be a lot of nine, seven wins, going
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  to have to be a lot of games like that in order to get there.
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  I'm not going to throw dirt on him yet.
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  I'm not going to put a line through them because it's still
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  the 8th. They sure seemed like they were
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  home free a couple of weeks ago. So back to your Bobby Witt
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  question with the Royals. You know what?
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  I wonder what I wonder if you asked this question to Bobby
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  Witt what he would like to do. I would like.
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  I think you got a. I think every baseball player
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  said go all in. Yeah, but I don't think you
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  should. I don't think you should.
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  I I think you got to be realistic about your chances.
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  You're not catching the tigers. So you're hoping for one of
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  three wild cards, right? And there's, there's one, one of
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  the wild cards, at least to me, is going to come out of the east
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  and probably one out of the West.
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  I think so I. Mean the Mariners are good.
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  The Mariners are a good team. They've always had the pitching,
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  you know, Julio Rodriguez. Is he shouldn't be an All Star?
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  Has he disappointed? Yes, he should not be on the All
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  Star. Team what we thought he was
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  going to be two years ago. Yep, I think so.
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  A. Bad year for him.
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  I thought this guy was going to be.
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  Yeah, mega *. Every single year, top five of
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  MVP voting and yes, he's an All Star, but that next year and
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  he's not that he hasn't been that he hasn't been that the
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  last two years. Cal Rally is ridiculous.
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  Oh my. God.
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  Met you a couple of weeks ago with the Twins and and Mariners
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  were playing and my daughter had 32 home runs and yeah, he's only
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  played half the year. It's unbelievable what he is
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  doing. That Mariners team is dangerous
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  because of what? They have depth in that
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  rotation. I like their bullpen.
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  That's a team. And you wonder they haven't had
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  a big winner in a long time. They made the playoffs a couple
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  years ago for the first time in what, 20 years?
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  If that's a team, though, finally, hey, let's push our
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  chips in. Let's go go after this one
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  because yes, the Astros are the Astros.
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  However, the rest of the American League.
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  Are you scared of the Tigers? School's great the team is
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  playing at such a high level, but is that a team even in A5
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  game ALDS series? You say, huh, we can't get over
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  this. Huh.
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  The Tigers? No, but to be fair, who's there
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  to? It's not Flaherty, is it?
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  Probably they. Certainly you've never met a
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  Flaherty. Guy no Griebart Torres has had a
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  phenomenal year. I love Torkelson.
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  Miley Green is the star. Yes.
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  Do they have enough? Mize has been great.
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  He's probably their number two. Then Flaherty, Flaherty's your
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  three. You're in good.
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  Shape. Bullpen outstanding.
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  They do have a lot of pieces and they are I love what Hinch does.
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  Is he manager of the year? Slam dunk?
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  Oh. I think so.
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  Really. Oh yeah.
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  Can I sell you, Joe? A spot of stock?
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  Look at Houston, man. Yeah.
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  That's a good one I think though the Tigers going from out of it
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  August last. Year, but you're gonna have to
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  lay money to bet. AJ Hinge, Oh yes, you would get
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  some plus money I would think on his spot.
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  Does it come down to who gets the number one seed?
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  I think it does. Probably, yeah, I think it
• 17:43
  probably does. And it's not that big of a what?
• 17:45
  What is the difference? I mean two and a.
• 17:46
  Half. See.
• 17:47
  Yeah, Houston's, they're closing the gap.
• 17:50
  I didn't realize it was that close either.
• 17:51
  Wow. So I'm not so sure that you can
• 17:55
  just go ahead and print Hinch's name on that trophy.
• 17:57
  All right, real quick, 5 minutes on this.
• 17:59
  So I was talking to somebody about Survivor yesterday and I
• 18:03
  want to get make this a Survivor conversation, but where I do
• 18:06
  want to go and and maybe it maybe we talked about it before
• 18:10
  when the schedule came out. Have you looked at week one of
• 18:11
  the NFL? Week 1 of the NFLI have.
• 18:15
  It's been a while though, probably.
• 18:16
  I didn't think me too. And just when you reacquaint
• 18:20
  yourself with week one, just how amazing this week of the
• 18:24
  schedule is and all of the well, let me do this.
• 18:27
  We got time, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 18:28
  OK, 5 is the 5 is oh, Oh my God, what a game.
• 18:32
  All right. And you can work your way down
• 18:34
  from them. You can even have half scores if
• 18:36
  you want. So we we open the we open the
• 18:38
  season Dallas and Philly. Well, how many stars is that?
• 18:41
  Is that 4? Yes, absolutely.
• 18:43
  All right, then we go. Friday night we get another
• 18:45
  game. Chargers and Kansas City at
• 18:48
  Chargerville in Brazil, 3 1/2 four four.
• 18:52
  OK, Tampa, Atlanta Pretty big in in in division rivalry game,
• 18:56
  right? Incredibly important.
• 18:57
  Game. How many?
• 18:58
  Four. Yes.
• 18:58
  OK, since he at Cleveland 3 1/2 three. 2.
• 19:04
  OK, Miami Indy Two Yeah. Raiders Patriots 2 One and a
• 19:10
  half 1 1/2 Arizona at New Orleans Zero.
• 19:14
  You don't think you don't. You have 0.
• 19:15
  Zero star game. OK, maybe it's not as good as I
• 19:17
  thought. Pittsburgh and Aaron Rodgers
• 19:20
  going back to take on the NYJ New York Jet Jet Jets.
• 19:25
  Because of narratives, that's a force.
• 19:26
  Right, because of the storylines, giants and
• 19:29
  commanders. Two and a.
• 19:31
  Half I will go 3 Carolina, Jacksonville one.
• 19:36
  Half, half a star. I think both of these teams
• 19:39
  arrows pointing up, but I'm going to go 1 Tennessee at
• 19:42
  Denver. Well, that's a 5 for you.
• 19:44
  It is. It's the first five we've come
• 19:46
  across. Trent Cam Ward's first start,
• 19:48
  Denver. It's a three best at best, maybe
• 19:50
  2 1/2 to be fair, Niners at Seattle.
• 19:53
  Love this game. You're like 3 1/2.
• 19:56
  Do you like Seattle this year? I'm in like with him, not in
• 19:59
  love. Who?
• 20:00
  Finishes 4th in the West. I got Seattle.
• 20:06
  Yeah, but they might be 8-9, no? True, true.
• 20:10
  Here we go, Detroit at Green Bay. 4 1/2.
• 20:14
  Houston at Ramville. 3 1/2. Sunday night.
• 20:18
  Football. Ravens Bills, get your tickets
• 20:23
  early. Huge 5.
• 20:25
  Yes. And Monday Night Football
• 20:28
  bringing the curtain down in week #1.
• 20:30
  This is always a five star for me.
• 20:31
  Vikings at Bears. A lot of internal disagreement
• 20:36
  in the Cotton household about this game.
• 20:38
  No, but, but yeah, I mean, and yes, there is, but this is big.
• 20:42
  Yes, this is big. I mean, I think even football
• 20:44
  fans would say at minimum 4 out of five.
• 20:47
  It's a good kick off to the seat.
• 20:48
  It's a pretty good seat. It's a pretty good lid lifter,
• 20:50
  is it not? And when you mention the
• 20:52
  conversation starting with Circa Survivor, I'm using your Denver
• 20:57
  Broncos in Week 1. I think you have too.
• 20:59
  Yeah. You know, there's one, there's
• 21:00
  one other. That's got my attention.
• 21:03
  One other that has your. This would be so far down your
• 21:06
  list of where you think I would go.
• 21:08
  You'd probably guess eight games before you got to this one.
• 21:11
  And I'm going to try and convince my partners in our
• 21:15
  group to take this team and I know I'm going to get outvoted.
• 21:18
  Cardinals at the Saints. The Saints are going to be
• 21:21
  terrible. Trent, well done.
• 21:23
  I thought you'd take a bunch of games.
• 21:24
  No, no, no. It's the Cardinals.
• 21:25
  Because that's that's that has a star next to it.
• 21:28
  On my survivor list already is How often are you going to use
• 21:31
  the Cardinals? That's just it.
• 21:33
  The Saints are going to be brutal awful.
• 21:35
  They are taking for arcs. And they should.
• 21:37
  Go to grandpa's team. Absolutely.
• 21:39
  I mean, it makes a ton of sense. Perfect for the league.
• 21:41
  No doubt this is exactly what you want.
• 21:45
  Now we want Arch to hold on a couple of years to see his kid
• 21:48
  right, Because he's. Getting older, yes I I think
• 21:53
  that is one that bears weak. 1 is just so goofy.
• 21:57
  Well, here's the thing, Trent, look, go back to last year and
• 21:59
  everybody that got knocked out with the, quote, free square,
• 22:02
  right? Everybody's going to be on it.
• 22:04
  And Cincinnati got beat by the Patriots and then we come back
• 22:07
  the next week. Oh, this is too easy.
• 22:09
  The Raiders going to Baltimore to play the Ravens.
• 22:13
  If you can get one of those huge upsets and you're flying under
• 22:18
  the radar, maybe I'm not flying under the radar.
• 22:22
  I thought that the Cardinals Saints game might be one of
• 22:24
  these games that you can latch onto and just hope for carnage
• 22:28
  for everybody. Else.
• 22:28
  Well, even week one last year with the Cardinals going to
• 22:32
  Buffalo, how many people had Buffalo?
• 22:34
  That was a close game. And and the Bills had to come
• 22:36
  back from a pretty big it. Was it was they were down in
• 22:39
  half time, maybe double digits? Weak ones, goofy and and that's
• 22:44
  the part I know a lot of people would point to Cincinnati a
• 22:47
  their September woes are brutal. They're they're just awful.
• 22:50
  They are, I mean, it's, it's more than just a narrative.
• 22:53
  It is definitive. Last half decade of Joe Burrow,
• 22:56
  they've been awful the first couple of weeks of the season,
• 22:58
  losing 2 teams they have no business losing before injuries
• 23:01
  hit. You know, those kind of things
• 23:02
  that just happened in the course of football.
• 23:05
  And it's a divisional game. I hate divisional games.
• 23:08
  So you would stay away from the Commander's game for that
• 23:11
  reason. Same thing.
• 23:12
  Giants are going to be awful. Washington's a lot of people's
• 23:16
  girl with the curling that division this year.
• 23:19
  Am I alone on an island thinking there's going to be a step back
• 23:21
  from Washington? I don't know if there'll be a
• 23:23
  step back. I don't know if they're going to
• 23:24
  be as good as as they were because they were a threat.
• 23:26
  Last year they. Won't.
• 23:27
  Let's face it, I mean play for a championship you can't go there
• 23:34
  with. When you say that, what do you
• 23:36
  mean no playoffs? Yeah, like an 8-9 type of team,
• 23:39
  nine and eight outside looking in, that type of so.
• 23:41
  Regression from Daniels. Maybe a little bit.
• 23:45
  I mean, sophomore, step back, those kind of things, I mean.
• 23:47
  It doesn't. It's not going to have Bonex.
• 23:49
  It's not no, I've I've been told that I've heard that one before.
• 23:53
  They had so many, I don't want to say low level, but just mid
• 23:57
  level veteran signings and almost every one of them hit.
• 24:01
  That doesn't happen often in the NFL.
• 24:03
  And now those aging veterans, another year we're going to run
• 24:06
  it back again to have the health that they had.
• 24:09
  Those kind of I, I love Terry Mclaurin.
• 24:11
  I I love the receiver crew. I love the offense and it's so
• 24:13
  fun to watch Daniels just the way that he is so precise and
• 24:17
  executing and then he's going to tuck it and make plays.
• 24:19
  He's an outstanding player. It's the NFL and we've seen so
• 24:24
  many times those teams that come out of nowhere just take that
• 24:27
  step back, and that is my concern more than anything with
• 24:30
  Washington. Did their season, was there one
• 24:36
  game in the schedule that was a turning point for both?
• 24:38
  For for two teams, yeah. One went, one went into the
• 24:42
  tank. The others arrow started to
• 24:43
  point up a little. Bears commanders, right?
• 24:45
  Uh huh. What a different season it was.
• 24:47
  So maybe that maybe that was, we know what it did for the Bears,
• 24:50
  maybe that propelled the Commanders is where I'm going.
• 24:52
  We're going to break. But before we do that, we're
• 24:54
  going to hear from Matt Campbell on the other side.
• 24:56
  You Cyclone fan, you football fans want to hear from Iowa
• 24:59
  State's head coach. We've got him not live, but this
• 25:01
  was from the Big 10 Media days as he met with the media within
• 25:05
  the last 45 minutes. But right now, if you're so
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  Tuesday. Matt Campbell from Big 12 media
• 25:28
  days. Next.
• 25:29
  It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 25:34
  I'm Miller Congan. Welcome back.
• 25:35
  Iowa Sports Radio Network, up and up an hour.
• 25:38
  Number two, David I Colt on Iowa and the Big 10.
• 25:41
  Bill Bender from the Sporting News on college football.
• 25:44
  We'll take a look back at the Big 12 with everybody's
• 25:47
  perspective, at least what he's heard so far.
• 25:49
  You're about to hear from Matt Campbell as he met the media
• 25:52
  earlier this morning. Players are out there, a lot of
• 25:55
  buzz. Seems like there's a pretty good
• 25:57
  group of media that have assembled, haven't been able to,
• 26:00
  you know, compare the last year to this year as far as numbers
• 26:03
  that went out to that, but seems like a pretty good group.
• 26:05
  Yeah, You kind of wonder about the national part of it.
• 26:07
  I mean there's so many Texas based reporters that are going
• 26:10
  to be down there, Heartland College sports obviously with
• 26:12
  our guys down there making, making that be happen a big part
• 26:16
  of it. But yeah, that'll be kind of the
• 26:18
  interesting as well. We'll talk to a few of the
• 26:20
  national media members that we've got to know throughout the
• 26:21
  years when we're in Vegas and see their perspective, not the
• 26:25
  local perspective, but the national perspective of what the
• 26:28
  difference was. Because you thought it was going
• 26:29
  to be a pretty big impact movement.
• 26:31
  Yeah. I, I thought that they would be
• 26:33
  a pretty significant reduction in number of media that make
• 26:37
  their way down there because. We've been to Big 10 a couple of
• 26:39
  times in Chicago. Yeah.
• 26:41
  But Indianapolis didn't move our knee.
• 26:43
  No, I didn't. It didn't.
• 26:45
  It's a longer drive. It's just, it's just Chicago,
• 26:48
  Yeah. I mean, there's two Chicago in
• 26:50
  the summer and Las Vegas anytime, right?
• 26:53
  Right, let's hear from Matt Campbell, Iowa State's head
• 26:56
  football coach, Big 12 Media Days.
• 26:58
  First and foremost, just an honor to be here today.
• 27:01
  I, you know, can't believe we're going into our 10th football
• 27:04
  season here at Iowa State. It's truly an honor to represent
• 27:09
  Iowa State University, our athletic department, certainly
• 27:11
  our football program. And you know, from my
• 27:14
  standpoint, been really rewarding to watch our football
• 27:18
  program align itself back together in January and really
• 27:23
  watch the strain of our young men really go to work on
• 27:26
  continuing to elevate our football program forward.
• 27:30
  And we brought 5 tremendous young men here today with us.
• 27:34
  I I'd like to talk a little bit about each one of them.
• 27:36
  Really quick on on the defensive side of the football, we we
• 27:40
  brought our senior safety Jeremiah Cooper, a young man
• 27:44
  that started for four years and our football program has had a
• 27:46
  tremendous career. I'm really coming off another
• 27:49
  great year as a junior and it's certainly expecting his best
• 27:52
  going into senior year. Senior defensive tackle, nose
• 27:56
  guard, defensive lineman Dominic Orange.
• 27:59
  You know, we feel like Dominic's got a chance to be one of the
• 28:02
  best players in the defensive line in the country.
• 28:05
  We're really proud of what he's done and continue to do in our
• 28:07
  football program is made unbelievable growth on and off
• 28:10
  the football field and certainly proud of who he is.
• 28:14
  And then junior defensive back John Tez Williams coming off 5
• 28:17
  interception season from a year ago, a young man, one of the
• 28:21
  hardest workers in our football program, great young leader in
• 28:24
  our football program. And then on the offensive side
• 28:26
  of the football, two young men came with us today.
• 28:28
  Senior, six year offensive lineman, a young man that's had
• 28:32
  a tremendous career, four year starter the last four years and
• 28:35
  Tyler Miller has had a tremendous career.
• 28:38
  You talk about leader of men, one of the great leaders in our
• 28:41
  football program. And then last but certainly not
• 28:43
  least is our junior quarterback Rocco Beck.
• 28:46
  And, and Rocco has evolved into one of the best quarterbacks in
• 28:49
  college football, a guy that has been just a great leader in our
• 28:53
  locker room, stands for what's right, and certainly really
• 28:56
  proud of all he stands for and what he does for a football
• 28:59
  program. So for me, it's been great to
• 29:02
  align with our coaches, like I said, are these great young men.
• 29:05
  We've got 18 great seniors and a real great opportunity for Iowa
• 29:09
  State football to continue to grow itself forward.
• 29:11
  So with that said, we'll certainly answer any questions
• 29:13
  you'd have for us all. Right.
• 29:15
  We'll open up the questions immediate.
• 29:16
  Please raise your hand if you have a question.
• 29:18
  We'll go here. Center left, Barry.
• 29:20
  Yeah. Barry Trammell, Tulsa World,
• 29:22
  man, you're talking about Rocco. This is a pretty heavy
• 29:25
  quarterback league this year. A lot of veterans.
• 29:27
  Does that just keep you sort of even par?
• 29:30
  Does that keep you behind the 8 ball?
• 29:32
  What is what is having a veteran quarterback this particular year
• 29:36
  do for you? Yeah.
• 29:38
  You know, and Barry, I probably don't know enough about
• 29:41
  everybody else in this conference from that
• 29:42
  perspective. But I do know about Rocco and I
• 29:45
  know what he's proven, not just last year, but the last two
• 29:49
  years. I, I'd say in a lot of ways,
• 29:51
  he's the reason why our football program has clawed back to where
• 29:55
  we are right now. And, you know, I thought he had
• 29:58
  an incredible red shirt freshman year, came onto the scene and
• 30:01
  really had a great year, you know, in, in 23.
• 30:05
  And then for him to have the maturity and, and honestly, the
• 30:09
  leadership to do what he did last year was, was really
• 30:12
  special. I mean, the moments that he was
• 30:14
  able to play, especially when you look at, you know, late in
• 30:17
  the game, what he was able to do in some critical moments, the
• 30:19
  ability, ability to extend plays, make the winning plays
• 30:23
  really special. And so from our end of it, every
• 30:26
  time we've had a guy like that, it's given us a chance to to
• 30:29
  reach our full potential as a football team in a program.
• 30:31
  And, you know, I think Rocco's leadership is as special as what
• 30:34
  I've I've seen or been around from a quarterback.
• 30:37
  So we're really proud of him. And obviously, we've been really
• 30:39
  fortunate to have some great quarterbacks at Iowa State.
• 30:42
  We're going to the center left, far back.
• 30:47
  Good morning, coach. I'm Melissa Cooper with the Fort
• 30:49
  Worth * Telegram. So the Big 12 has changed the
• 30:53
  lot. You've seen teams leave the
• 30:55
  conference. You've seen new.
• 30:57
  Teams come in, but how does that impact the way that you were
• 31:02
  Crew players, either from the transfer portal or high school
• 31:06
  players in terms of illustrating that level of competition that
• 31:11
  players can expect? Yeah, that's a, that's a unique
• 31:16
  question for sure, especially in our landscape today.
• 31:18
  I, I think the, probably the great thing about Iowa State
• 31:21
  football is we really haven't changed.
• 31:24
  And, you know, I, I think from our end of it, you know, we've,
• 31:28
  we've certainly put a priority on recruiting high school
• 31:31
  student athletes into our football program and developing
• 31:33
  those young men and keeping those young men in our, in our
• 31:36
  football program. And over the last 10 years, it's
• 31:39
  probably been the pillar of our success.
• 31:42
  Now, also certainly identifying, you know, using other resources
• 31:47
  to get player acquisition. You know, whether it's been the
• 31:49
  transfer portal at one time it was graduate transfers.
• 31:54
  We've always tried to use every resource to build the best team
• 31:57
  year in and year out to help our team be the best.
• 32:00
  But I think what we've always tried to do is never flinch from
• 32:04
  the standards that it takes to play in our program.
• 32:06
  And it's probably the one nice thing about being at one place
• 32:09
  now for 10 years is we know who fits.
• 32:12
  We know what works in our football program.
• 32:14
  We'd say all the time, our kind of guys, OK G, who fits Iowa
• 32:18
  State football. And it's really helped us be
• 32:20
  able to navigate the player acquisition process and and
• 32:23
  certainly find the right young men for our program.
• 32:27
  Gentleman standing center left. Hey, Matt Callas Rabinet here
• 32:31
  with the Kansas City Star. You got a unusual season opener
• 32:36
  with Kansas State and Ireland. It's early.
• 32:38
  It's in a different country. What kind of preparations are
• 32:41
  you asking your kids to do to get ready for that?
• 32:44
  Yeah, I, you know, certainly a unique challenge.
• 32:47
  You know, when you look at at the start of the college
• 32:50
  football season, I, I think you, you look first and foremost and
• 32:54
  you're very honored to play in this game.
• 32:56
  And obviously the respect that myself and our kids have for
• 32:59
  Kansas State and being a rival game and a respect for their
• 33:03
  program and their players, you know, it just makes it a really
• 33:06
  unique opportunity. And, and so I think sometimes
• 33:10
  when it is unique, it really focuses zoom focus.
• 33:13
  And I, I almost feel like since January, we've had to talk about
• 33:16
  this, not only, you know, man, what does it mean to play a game
• 33:20
  like that, that early in the season, but also the travel and
• 33:24
  what happens post that game. I, I think if you look at the
• 33:27
  history of this week 0 game, I don't know if anybody's really
• 33:30
  handled it very well, whether they won or lost the game.
• 33:33
  I think they've, they've had some tougher moments post that
• 33:37
  game. And so I think when you look at
• 33:39
  this, you got to look at it in its entirety and you got to be
• 33:43
  able to look at what are the challenges.
• 33:45
  How did you set up your spring calendar?
• 33:47
  How do you set up your summer calendar?
• 33:49
  How do you do a great job of making sure practice fits, fall
• 33:53
  camp fits, you know, the lead up to this unique opportunity in
• 33:56
  week zero? And then obviously, how are you
• 33:59
  preparing post this game to get ready to play some hugely
• 34:03
  impactful football games right as soon as you get back from
• 34:06
  Ireland? So it's really been a great
• 34:08
  challenge for the head football coach and for our staff to sit
• 34:11
  together and and really kind of troubleshoot this from a
• 34:14
  multitude of different angles. And, you know, we've really
• 34:17
  tried to look at it as that, but as big of a challenge it is,
• 34:20
  it's certainly a great opportunity and we certainly
• 34:22
  feel honored to be able to be a part of it.
• 34:25
  The center right. High Coach Campbell, Alec Bussey
• 34:28
  24/7 Sports You talked about this being your 10th year at
• 34:33
  Iowa State, and you called the Kansas State game a rival
• 34:36
  opponent. I'm curious how you've maybe
• 34:38
  seen the Farmageddon rivalry evolve over your last decade in
• 34:43
  names. Yeah, you know, the evolution of
• 34:47
  that. I, I just, you have so much
• 34:50
  respect for the consistency that Kansas State football has had
• 34:54
  over, you know, 2 great coaches now during my time here in this
• 34:58
  league to, you know, what that team has stood for.
• 35:02
  So I think from, from our perspective, we have tried to
• 35:06
  really make it equated to a rivalry game and to be able to
• 35:10
  get our football program to have, you know, the similar
• 35:14
  characteristics that, you know, the consistency of excellence
• 35:17
  that that program has stood for. So, you know, to me, you've
• 35:20
  always had great respect for Kansas State from the time that
• 35:23
  I was at Toledo to obviously the time that I came into this
• 35:27
  league to where we are today, 10 years later.
• 35:30
  Go center right in the back. Hi coach David Helman with
• 35:37
  Devils in detail. You lost your top 2 receivers
• 35:40
  last year. Jaden Higgins and Jalen Noel
• 35:42
  both had almost 1200 receiving yards each.
• 35:45
  What goes into the challenge of replacing two players that were
• 35:48
  so productive at the same position?
• 35:51
  Yeah, You know, obviously both of those young men were
• 35:53
  tremendous players. And, you know, I don't know if
• 35:56
  you're just going to draw up the the have Higgins and Knoll right
• 36:00
  back there. But I think what you have to
• 36:02
  collectively have is, you know, great people around your
• 36:06
  starting quarterback. And obviously we're really
• 36:08
  blessed to have a building block in Rocco in that passing game
• 36:12
  and a guy that knows what it takes to be successful.
• 36:15
  And I, I think both Jaden and Jalen would say was a huge part
• 36:18
  of their success. You know, I think you look
• 36:20
  around the other rooms before you even talked about the wide
• 36:23
  receiver room, You know, we feel like we have one of the best
• 36:26
  tight end rooms in the country, you know, with Ben Bramer and
• 36:29
  Gabe Burkle. And obviously we didn't have Ben
• 36:32
  last year, which we thought really hurt us to be able to get
• 36:34
  him back to have Burkle, who came on and was just incredible
• 36:38
  down the stretch run for us as elite pass catchers, guys that
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  can really, you know, challenge the defense.
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  Then you look at the the offensive backfield and what
• 36:46
  Hanson and Sama can do both as runners and catchers out of the
• 36:50
  backfield. And then you talk about that
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  wide receiver room, you know, and, and we're we're fortunate.
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  Yeah, it's a couple freshmen stand up and really play good
• 36:59
  football for us. Brett Eskelsen won us the
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  Cincinnati game last year late in the season.
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  Had five catches for almost 100 yards in the game.
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  Man, had some big catches for us down the stretch run in the
• 37:09
  season. Yet Dominic Overby is a freshman
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  that really stepped in and had some really big moments for us.
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  And then you you talk about Daniel Jackson, a six year
• 37:17
  senior that in 23, the reason we kind of got off the off the mat
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  after that tough Ohio loss was Daniel Jackson LED us to some
• 37:25
  huge games in 23. And you know, he got injured in
• 37:29
  fall camp. We didn't have them last year.
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  And to get him back as a veteran is huge.
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  And then you talk about the addition.
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  You know, we were fortunate that you know, we chased Soul, a
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  young man from East Carolina that had a great start to his
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  career. There is now in our program.
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  We really had a great spring ball for us, Xavier Townsend
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  from Central Florida who is tremendous skill football
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  player. So we've got some great pieces.
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  Obviously those pieces are going to have to prove it in our
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  system. But to have some guys that have
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  proven in our system around a great quarterback, we feel
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  really confident about what that has the ability to look like.
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  We'll go center left. Center for JT Wister still
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  locked on youths coach So often you see teams rarely make it
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  back to the Big 12 title game for a second year in a row.
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  What is it about this conference that makes it so challenging to
• 38:18
  do that And do you just how do you feel your team is ready to
• 38:21
  try and make it back to that game with a different result?
• 38:25
  Yeah, You know, I, I just, I think from top to bottom, the,
• 38:28
  the consistency of this conference, you've got great
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  quarterbacks, you got great coaches right now and you've got
• 38:35
  a lot of great programs. And so, you know, I, I think
• 38:39
  again, you got to try to stay healthy.
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  You got to get on a great run and you got to be able to, you
• 38:45
  know, you got to be able to kind of what I would deem if we're
• 38:47
  going to get back there this year, you got to be pretty
• 38:49
  tough, you know, or are we? We've we've changed a lot of
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  things in football, but the one thing you haven't changed is
• 38:55
  arguing tough enough. And you know, that toughness
• 38:57
  isn't just physical. Sometimes it's mental too.
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  And you know, we deal with 18 to 22 year olds and are you
• 39:03
  mentally tough enough to stay the course through the entirety
• 39:05
  of a football season? And I think that's a real
• 39:07
  challenge. So, you know, I think it is
• 39:10
  really unique for Iowa State football this year and we're
• 39:12
  going to figure out if we're tough enough to be able to to do
• 39:15
  it again. All right, Matt Campbell as he
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  met the media Big 12 Media Days. We'll take time out, come back,
• 39:25
  react to that in our final couple of minutes, our #1 Miller
• 39:28
  and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 39:32
  All right, finally, a few seconds literally of our number
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  one, you heard from Matt Campbell.
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  Anything stick out to you? Love the K State rivalry.
• 39:39
  Continue to build that up. Yep, and.
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  Don't get it every year though, no.
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  Protect it. I would like to see it, I
• 39:46
  really. Would I would like to see it.
• 39:48
  You know what? I keep coming back.
• 39:50
  Higgins and Knoll. Yeah, it's a lot of receptions,
• 39:53
  man. You could count on those dudes.
• 39:55
  We'll see. Maybe Townsend and Seoul are a
• 39:58
  reasonable facsimile, but that that would be, at best, brought
• 40:01
  them both up. Yeah.
• 40:04
  Hour 2 coming up, David Eichold kicks it off.
• 40:06
  Bill Bendermore, college football.
• 40:08
  We'll focus on the Big 12 with Bill when he joins us at 1:30.
• 40:12
  Trends, plays of the day. Still to come Miller and Condon.
• 40:16
  We are on the Iowa Sports Radio Network flagship at KXNO.