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The IU Report with Grant Shouse (Aug. 14, 2025; Podcast 352.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indian Sports Report podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Number three hundred and fifty two point one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The IU Report with Grant Shows this week Grant has a recap of IU's three game excursion to Puerto Rico and of the football team's intersquads, Grimmage and coach's agnetty's comments after the skirmish.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Enjoy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: you're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host Greg Mendel's.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, who's your fans to the central Indiana Sports Report and the IU report with Grant Shows.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: We are recording over the phone today.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We've been doing most of our podcast face to face recently, but this week is the last week before season two officially begins on the central Indiana Sports Report Grant and
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I have made it bare bones this week as far as podcasts go one a day as all I'm doing to prepare for next week.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: But this had to be one that made the cut because we got some basketball to talk and there is reason to be excited if you're a who's your fan.
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana had a really good week down in Puerto Rico.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: They went three and out, which I think was a little bit of a surprise to us.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It surprised me.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you heard our podcast last week is a little bit surprising.
• 1:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They went three and a we we projected maybe you're them going one two down there and beating the Puerto Rican team.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then they picked up two wins against mega super bet.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Which is a safe role team.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was the professional team that Nicole.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yo, catch played for in Serbia.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was his team over there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they have a good track record.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they've had some good players come through their team and Indiana got them twice.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana was trailed by double digits and one game about actually in both games, they tripped by twenty at one point and came back to win both games.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was just, I mean, that was pretty unbelievable if you think about it.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they had some good production out of their new guys.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that was just a real special thing.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: for them to do and it kind of gives the fan base some hope going into the season.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Grant, you know what stood out to me?
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: What?
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: The last four coach, well since Coach Knight, none of the IU coaches have been known as coaches who make great adjustments at halftime and lead your team back from behind.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's happened for all those coaches.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Don't get me wrong.
• 3:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: But that's not really what
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not a consistent thing.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach Night did it all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He would find ways to rattle team until he got caught him from behind.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But what coach did this week leading his team back in both games and by big numbers?
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you got a real coach there.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you're right.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And you are right on the on the adjustment part.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've seen so many coaches there that
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  [SPEAKER_01]: can't make adjustments.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they'll have to make adjustments as the year goes on and thankfully now it looks like they have a coach that can do those things and we seen in years past that that just what happened, you know, that just wasn't happening with the last coach or the coach before that.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes even the coach before that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it cost them, like, I mean, with time, creating that lucky adjustments, cost them a chance that maybe go into the final four one year when they lost the circus.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he could not get through the tough two, three zone.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: My main concern would be, would have to be the defense, although they, at one point in that first game against Megas Superbett, outscored them, seventy to nineteen.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: At some point,
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: while all that's happening and you go on runs like that sometimes your offense becomes your best defense just from you scoring and going on runs can rattle a team and that throws them out of the rhythm that throws them out of their flow and I think maybe that's what happened the the only bad part about all that is that we're really like we're all so kind of scratching our heads a little bit because we really still don't know how it happened
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because we haven't been able to watch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've seen some videos here, but that doesn't really tell us anything.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the Mar Wilkers and you know, the Mar Wilkers and hitting a three really doesn't tell us much, but you kind of do get this story just based off the people who were there and then telling us about it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we got some stats and that's true.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And they're good ones because let's go through a few of these.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Trent Sicily with twenty one points in the first game, I know.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: is a college team from Puerto Rico, they were not great, but to have principally go out and lead you in scoring, you want to see that from a freshman.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I was surprised that he played as much as he did to the honest, if you know, you knew he'd be in the rotation, but you didn't know what his minutes were going to be like.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there are definitely questions.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think what he's capable of being is another Tucker de Vries, who wasn't even the best player.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was not the best player this week.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, he was a good player, don't get me wrong, but stats wise, he did not lead them in scoring.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He made, you could tell by a stats he made plays he had, six, seven, eight assists, each game.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: He pulled down, you know, eight, nine rebounds a game, but he was only scoring, you know, low double figure points, ten, twelve, fourteen points a game.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: The one name that stood out to me on the stat sheet, and I know one game in particular, I can't remember which game it was against Vegas Superbette, but was Sam Alexis that transferred from Florida.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've been talking about him for a while, Greg.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be honest with you.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: When you kept saying that, I'm like, I don't know.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: He wasn't, you know, he didn't start a Florida.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: He played, but he didn't play as, you know, he wasn't
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because a main guy drew.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and they won the national.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was on a team on one of the national championships.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: So to see what he did, that was, that was impressive.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then, of course, Reed Bailey, who hit the game winning shot in the third game, it gets make a super bet.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was big.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's that transfer from Davidson.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they just have so many guys that I think are going to step up.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds like to me that the name that jumped off the,
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: The film from what I hear is Lamar Wilkerson.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: He had a couple of really big games and he might be the best offensive player on the team.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm maybe.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good question.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's a question that I think we'll be able to answer a couple of weeks into the season, you know, hopefully by the end of the market game, which is the second game of the year in November, I think we'll know the answer to that question, but that's not a far-fetched answer at this point.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, he was one of their thought he is outside of Tucker de Vries was probably the best transfer they got in out of their portal class.
• 8:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm looking forward to see what he's going to be able to do and it sounds to me Greg like he can shoot the rock.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We know he was over a forty percent three point shooter the whole year.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: But last year at San Houston State, but the thing is is you don't really know how that's going to translate everything again.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're no some players it translates well other players that just doesn't and you just never know.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I just want to remind people.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds ridiculous, mega super bet, but this is a legit professional basketball team and a basketball country.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and I don't think this was all their best players, but it's a bunch of professional basketball players.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, this would be like playing the Detroit pistons.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I don't know how good they are in Serbia.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just no, it would not.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm throwing out of the system.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing like playing the Detroit.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: But it's like Serbia's version.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Serbia's version of the Detroit.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Detroit pistons would probably mop the floor.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: But in terms of what Serbia has over there, that is like, that's one of their main professionally.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If not their main professional team.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know enough about it to give you that answer, but they are a professional team in a professional basketball league.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: A bunch of guys who play basketball for a living, and that's all they do.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk some football news.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: There hasn't been much, but there was a scrimmage of what have you heard coming out of that.
• 9:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I heard from the head coach and his press conference this week that I watched that it was messy.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's too many penalties, but that's what a head coach is going to say this time of year.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys here, especially by the end of next week, because next week will be the last camp week, like full camp week.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then the week after that will be game week.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: So then you start treating it like you're getting ready to go play the game on Saturday.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they will be in two weeks.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: These guys by the end of next week are going to be ready to play.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I wouldn't be at all shocked if they're all not ready to play now.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're tired of practicing.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to practice.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: They want to be able to go out there and play the game.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're getting close.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he's coaches and you talk to high school coaches too about this week.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Go go ask these high school coaches Greg and your interviews with them and your preseason interviews with whoever it may be around the central Indiana sports report and you ask them if they're ready to go play that first game and they're probably going to tell you whether it's off the record or on the record that they're not ready to go play.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: They hope they can have a few more practices.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And every guy's always thinks that.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it's true.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're not quite ready yet.
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you have to take what the head coach says with a grain of salt a little bit.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, he may be right.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he probably is.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, he's going to say that because he just doesn't think that the team is where it needs to be quite yet.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they'll be there.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think if you still throw them out there right this second against old dominion, they're still going to win.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there's obviously things that are going to need to be cleaned up there.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's, you know, you're still dealing with your, you know, a little bit of injuries, you know, at this time of year, your minor injuries.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... he mentioned last week the antelope ponds their deep in their corner back was was out for a little bit of last week due to a tweaked ankle nothing to be really concerned about it he is quote fine quote yeah and then and then you know they were short handed last week a marry fairles mom passed away a few weeks ago and he was gone last week um... and just some other situations
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we knock on wood, haven't heard of a significant injury yet for many one.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: No one that I don't think's going to miss the entire year.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now I will say this, the Lewis Moore defensive back for Indiana, who was at Indiana under Tom Allen, left Indiana to go play at Ole Miss, played at Ole Miss was a starter at for Langkiffin and all of them down there.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: He realized that like everybody eventually does, the Indian is the best place in the world.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, the side he wants to come back.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, his eligibility is in, it's kind of in question.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little confused on it because he was hurt for one year at Indiana and Red Shirted.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: But he had already completed a year at his duke before he originally came to Indiana the first time and then he sat out a year.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then he played and then he transferred and now he's back.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he wants to get his year of eligibility back after this next after this year and be able to play next year in twenty twenty six.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so he is actually suing.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: the NCAA on that and was in court today and a judge said that he could practice for two weeks.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: They gave him like some kind of, I'm not a lawyer.
• 13:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really don't know what it is, but he's able to practice until August twenty seventh and then the process starts over again.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they're not even going to play a game by August twenty seventh.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: So after that, depending on what the court rules whenever they do, hopefully it's on August twenty seven, then he'll be able to play.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: But for now, he's able to practice, but as of now, his eligibility would then be up by the twenty seven, then he wouldn't be able to play in the season opener.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's all confusing.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the details are kind of not all there.
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hate to say, I don't want to say, I don't know much about it, but I'm just confused in the process they have to go through.
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: But the matter of fact is that he's battling the NCAA, they're going to court and his eligibility is up in the air.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully he'll be able to play.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the way it sounds, I think, will be able to.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't think Indiana fans should really worry that much.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's going to be a big deal, but
• 15:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're going to see him out there on the field in twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six.
• 15:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach Signetti did say that the offense was quite a bit ahead of the defense, but as you mentioned, the defense was missing a few key parts.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Does that tell you anything?
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: We talked about some of those guys that that have been missing, like the Angela Ponds who was hurt.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: He changes the defense all by himself.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, what questions?
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Marry Farrell, but
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that those, the defense still has McCall Camara.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: They still have eight in Fisher.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really just don't think it's anything to be concerned about quite yet.
• 15:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Indiana's just fine.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the offense probably was ahead of the defense a little bit that offense, you know, works together a lot.
• 15:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're, they're, they're a little, they're probably a little more in tune than the defenses at this point, but
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think things are going to get better, and I think I still don't think it's really anything to be too concerned about, but I don't know how much it really tells us as to saying.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I think you'd know more about what it tells us here in a few weeks.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's going to be the answer to almost everything that we talk about as far as the football team goes grand.
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It will be a few weeks.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Greg, we're seventeen days out from the first game against Old Dominion.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be another great season.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait man, I just been counting down the days and it's going to be here and before we know it.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you look at it on the Central Indiana Sports Report, we really have two more big IU reports.
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you wanted to more IU reports until then, that's right.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Two more.
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: two more and then we'll have a game preview and then we'll have a reaction with grant and we'll do it all again the next week and every week until the end of the basketball season.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and hopefully we're doing that until April.
• 17:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, could you imagine.
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're doing that in April.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Whether you're still doing the IU report through April or not, we'll still at least be doing it in DA tournament report either way.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So college basketball and hopefully on that college football too.
• 17:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we'll be talking about the boiler makers national championship.
• 17:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Can I say that on this podcast?
• 17:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: No, you can.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I won't.
• 17:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
• 17:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: One last thing before we go, I know you are the IU expert, and I'm just a novice, but I have been doing a little research in the name.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: LeBron Bond came up in my research and it looks like this young man is special.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: What a name that dude has.
• 17:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: It is great.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great name.
• 17:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great name.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: His parents must, his parents really are our blessed to come up with that.
• 18:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy, Greg, that is going to get time this year.
• 18:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to play and he may not be a starter, like right away, but this is a guy that's going to get on the field.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: In my opinion, and if you saw my tweet last night, I don't know if you did or maybe some people listening did, but Indiana last year at a guy where they have a Kishan Williams who was a special team's player.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: His best game of the year last year was against Michigan.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he made big play after big play after big play and he ended up making the game winning play.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Getting a, you know, returning a punt, I got them in the field goal range that couldn't move the ball of that game.
• 18:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he returned a punt that got them in the field goal range where it didn't really matter how far they moved the ball.
• 18:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: But they could set up for a field goal and it ended up winning them the game.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he had a huge game then and he contributed all year long.
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I think this LeBron bond Greg is going to kind of replace Kishan Williams, who's now with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and made him see nominal kits in a pre-season game the other day against the Jacksonville Jaguiers.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the expectations are high not only for LeBron bond, but that entire receiving course, especially Elijah Seraph.
• 19:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we know about Elijah Seraph already.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then you factor in LeBron bond and Omar Cooper Jr and E. J. Williams and there's just so many guys on in that why receivers room, Greg, that if they were to go play anywhere else, maybe not everywhere else, but most teams in the big ten, they'd be the number one wide receiver on some of those teams in the big ten.
• 19:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that just goes to show the depth they have.
• 19:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I think Indiana is going to be able to use to their advantages to depth that they have.
• 19:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Grant, thank you so much once again.
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I want to let everybody know one more time kind of clarify.
• 20:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the last week of season one of the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Next week is season two.
• 20:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to keep updating every year depending on what I think people want.
• 20:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: And what we like to do and what
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't make me go crazy with all my time.
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it all begins Monday morning with Central Indiana Sports Central, which is what we're calling our flagship program now.
• 20:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And look forward to talking to you.
• 20:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I believe it's a hundred and sixty six times between now and next year at this time.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to the um, glad that you've chosen me to participate in that.
• 20:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's really fun.
• 20:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks a lot, Brent.
• 20:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much for having me to appreciate it.
• 20:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much to Grant for joining me once again to talk some IU sports and to you for listening.
• 21:04
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• 21:20
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