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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn (2.144.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report Boiler Maker fans for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here to talk with Jake about all things Boiler Makers and we're going to start off today with some basketball Jake and we haven't talked in a week and I want to talk about Braden Smith and his continued climb up the all-time list and
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[SPEAKER_00]: More importantly, Jake, the Purdue is on a roll with Brandon Smith at the middle of 11.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's probably playing the best basketball of his career and now leading the nation in assists at 9.8.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely he's doing some really incredible stuff here for Purdue, you know, excited to see him get back to scoring the ball, obviously he's known for his success.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He kind of mentioned it in the post game press conference against Penn State, but it kind of seems like people forgot that you know, he was a, you know, a great score to so good to see him, you know, still has the ability there to go out and, you know, break the game with a scoring in this passing as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he said, hey, guys, did you forget I could score because the questions were all about him scoring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt he can and when he needs to, he's probably still there go to score.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would say so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And as Iowa comes into town here, 630 p.m. on Mond B.T.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and can also listen to it on the Purdue Global Radio Network.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for his looking for their eighth straight one in a row for the second time this season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So 100th straight sale out at Mackirina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also the return of the paint crew here first time in a month first time since December 13th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, really good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I match up here with Bennett shirts for Iowa and we'll get into the players here in a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I'm sure him in Bennett shirts will kind of put on a big performance here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See another performance just like Penn State here tonight for Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Braiden Smith now 14th on the all-time assist list with 914 not likely to move up into the top 13 in the next game unless he gets 20 which of course he's capable of doing but it's not a likely thing to happen and Then 25 ahead of him is the great and I mean great Gary Payme Amazing yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, pretty cool to see brain smith and this old get players like Gary Payne, for the Anthony Doug got live and Steve Blake players like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know it's kind of went through that list before, but currently he is on track to break the record in the big 10 tournaments in my finals.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if he keeps it up, which he has been been, you know, been
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll break it then and and help finish number one by by a fair margin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So certainly help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, certainly help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can keep it up and you can put a little bit of distance between him and and Bobby Hurley.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Early losses probably be the only thing that can keep him from doing that are missing a game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those things don't seem like Lisa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will not even bother talking about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Jake after the last game, Braden Smith was exactly 900 assists.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's exactly 1600 points, which moves him up to 19th on the all-time list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for Purdue fans, I just want to mention a few players who he has passed in the last few days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jaron Cornell, Greatwin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: AJ Hammond's Brian Cardinal, one of the all-time greats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Isaac Hoss and Melvin McCance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is a list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and also Brad Miller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really good players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's passed on the all-time scoring list and moved up to 19th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just that of him, 20 points out of him, John Garrett, who played from 72 to 75, Vincent Edwards, Kanzo Martin, Chad Austin, Todd Mitchell, Glen Robinson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are the players directly out of him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a 106 points behind Glen Robinson's career total.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So moving up that list as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a few NBA names there on that list that you named off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly think there is a role, you know, for Brain Smith and the NBA, you know, you know, he is maybe not the traditional size.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm sure that there's a team out there that, you know, would value what he brings to the, you know, to the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So be interested
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[SPEAKER_01]: I certainly want to cherish, you know, the time he has left here at the end of Purdue Jersey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do think he's going to be a first rounder now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think that earlier this year, I do think he's going to be first round draft pick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it'll be late in the first round, because it was size and limitations, but he's, I think he's going to be a first rounder for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If he keeps up the way that he's been playing in the past few games, I would certainly agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now, Fletcher lawyer is up to 26th on the all-time list, just passing Eugene Parker last week and travi on Williams the game before that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what a great class.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly, one of the best classes here at the Braille Eastern and recent memory.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think if they can want a national championship, could do it down as the best class ever and Purdue basketball history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: eight or nine at the time, and that's when I first kind of started, you know, following pretty basketball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I really kind of fell in love with those guys and and got some other classes in there like the Vin said words, I was a cost, P. J. Thompson, Dakota Fias, that kind of big core that came in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was really, you know, fundamental and laying this ground to work, and even before them, you know, the class
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue up from another bottom of the conference where they had been and just seems like each class that comes in really just kind of, you know, builds, you know, he was building the program and it was leading you know, better than they found it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, if that train continues can only be excited about the future classes here to come.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Greg, we should also mention Fletcher Lawyers position on the career three pointers list in Purdue basketball history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Currently he is fifth
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[SPEAKER_01]: with 240 three pointers made in this career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two behind drawn Cornell, three behind each one more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ten behind the code Matthias and 41 behind number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you guess who's number one, Greg?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Believe it'll be Carson Edwards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You would be correct.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So pretty crazy to thank you, put up 281 three pointers in three years at Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you would have stayed a fourth year, that may be a record that is long lasting as Bobby Hurley is here for the assist, but he's moving up to us here and by in a season hopefully, he'll be fighting for a number one spot if things he'd go on well for Purdue, but certainly would be at the very least in the number two spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jason, as we last spoke, Purdue has played twice and looked really good twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's really good on offense, you know, I would like to see a little bit of a bigger margin in terms of victory for, you know, plants and teams that are kind of at the lower level of the conference, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: A win is still when we saw Michigan go down, you know, they lost a home to Wisconsin who prude.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it could be by 30 if they really wanted to, not really not too much to really complain about there, but.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... went to win the victim conference can never take uh... you know a winner or really a team for granted uh... in the conference yet i thought i thought pin state played really well and we just saw a couple of nights ago play pretty well against michigan too and they were hit a lot of shots and i thought Purdue actually played pretty well in any point when against the bad team if that sounds a little strange
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're even down one of their best players too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they were down one of that same player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Michigan, no one lost by two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna grant it was that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: at home for Penn State, but they played pretty well and they seem to kind of get up for those big games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They play a lot of the good teams in the conference close.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Certainly, again, wins a win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to complain about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just hope that by the end of the season, some of these games that we're winning now, they're close against some of these lesser teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't don't slip away like we've seen in the past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to be honest, Jay, I've been a lot of time watching Penn State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I went back and watched to see how they competed with Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought they looked like they were really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think Michigan looked particularly bad, although throwing in that Wisconsin result kind of changes that opinion a little.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I thought against Purdue, they looked really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Purdue's offense, like you said, was really good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they just couldn't shake him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe there is only two bench point scored in the Penn State game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: by Daniel Jacobson off the bench there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of scoring coming from the starters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when we've been prior games this season, that get a lot of production from the bench.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think this is really kind of showing produced versatility here where you're able to go and when games where the starters are carrying the low, you're able to go and when games where the bench is is,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, for providing a lot of values, the margin of victory, although you may like it to be a little bit wider at the end of the day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not exactly relevant, producing a team that really needs to run up the score.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I think the winning games, obviously at the end of the day is the most important, but you know, produce a ability just to kind of, you know, reassert itself at the top of the league, I think is what we've seen here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jake before we get to Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nebraska 61 Oregon 38 right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oregon's not very good, but they are not very good at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know they're I'm being put still.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just kind of embarrassing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw Iowa state also has down and Nebraska teams legit, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought maybe I, I thought maybe I, you might get them at home, you know, they were able to, to be, I, you and, um, yeah, they, they, they went to the end and they, at the end of that game, they look like, they could be the best team in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Fred Hoyberg's got, uh, got the implant really well and, uh, mentioned, uh, Iowa State there that they were down, uh, pretty big there in the first half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And currently, right now, down, they, they crawled it all way back to 11 out of playing at Kansas right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So in terms of, in terms of, in terms of seating, uh, for, you know, the, the into the way
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[SPEAKER_01]: for new get actually kind of use and I was state loss to put them in a little better position for one seed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I was I went and also helped us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was state when mixed produce loss, look a little better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's kind of a mixed mixed bag there if you know, if a loss would be good, but also when mixed mixed produce loss, look a little, look a little better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's something to keep an eye on as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to ESPN analytics is favored in every game, the rest of the season, so if they just take care of the business that they should, they're going to be a number one seat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I certainly would agree with the fact that, you know, if they take care of business, they'll be a one seat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if they, if they win every single game, I would certainly be be very impressed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't think it'll happen in this league with how good the big 10 is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, again, it kind of be in the, you know, BME, as the seniors, the trick often ran, Fletcher Warrior brings Smith as they have, you know, kind of been a part of in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have that target on the back and they're going to be on court storm watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just like they were really all throughout their whole career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hear it produced.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they had a gastric experience with that and so that that experience will pay off here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, go to an IU or go to a Nebraska, you think that return trip back to Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of those games that would be a big matchups, that'll be good to have that experience there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be favored, certainly does not mean you're going to win the game, but my point is, it's all in their hands worrying about where they're going to be seated right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's probably just a waste of time because, yeah, still long done to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure, I do enjoy looking at the brachatology, but we're only about halfway through the season now, which it's been pretty crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't seem like it's been been that long, but about halfway through the regular season anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the next one is the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is against the Iowa Hawkeye's Purdue a nine and a half-point favorite.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to ESP Analytics, Purdue has an 82.9% chance of winning this game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A career disagree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to disagree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think Purdue does have a good chance to win the scheme.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they will buy things a little bit lower than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Percentage, I probably say a 75% chance, not to a big change off that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this will be the 177th meeting all time between Purdue and Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue holds a 98 to 78 series of advantage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Recently, Purdue has dominated this series,
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[SPEAKER_01]: including four straight victories by combine the 56 points.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So Purdue's gonna had Iowa's number here for really a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, three mentioned schemes at home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mackier Arena has certainly been a fortress for Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, against anybody, especially Iowa, winning six straight home game is by combine 114 points against Iowa in those matchups.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mackier, there's quarterly 77 points.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and 13 of the last 14 overall.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, we're just been able to put up quite a few points in those matchups and under Coach Painter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue is 13 and won in his last 14, meaning against Iowa and Mackie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and as a ranked team, Purdue is 17 and two against Iowa and Mackie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And all of that is why you are wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The answer is higher than that, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, 95% chance of winning this game at home, they're gonna win this game, 86 to 67.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I hope you're right, but Bennett starts is he's a one of a player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's undoubtedly the engine of Iowa's offense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a senior point guard averages 18 points, two and a half three rounds, five assists, shoots 41% from three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's kind of been talked about as a potential lottery pick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just has really, really good feel around the basket.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really good change of pace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's able to get downhill, stop on a dime too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he can get pulled jumpers and he can do quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Over the summer, both minutes starts and breadsmith were invited to Chris Paul's point guard camp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And pretty interesting that they were actually roommates at that camp.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they know each other a little bit, so I'm sure it'll be a good back and forth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: between them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll give producing problems.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure I'm sure we'll see CJ Cox on him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They do play a pretty heavy-picking role team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's also a very heavy-picking role team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They go against that and practice quite a bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Iowa is one of the slowest offensive teams in the country in terms of tempo, even slower than Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was often to general as pretty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty good, pretty proficient, they are shooting on the season 58.4% from the field that's good for 12th in the country, and 37% from three, and that's a good for 49 in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and they got about eight guys who can score.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes they do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One thing I think that'll give producer problems here is the off-ball cutting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've talked about in some of the past shows here that
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Paris didn't kind of caught sleep and didn't get him back toward when cutting off a ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm sure they are aware of that and they'll be practicing to practice that this week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't up to it, but on the other side of the ball in defense, it was ranked six in the nation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It turned over percentage, so they're pretty good about forcing turnovers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, versus the big 10 big template, they're forcing turnovers on 20% of their possessions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So obviously turnovers are obviously always a big point of contention for any team, but especially against a really good team like Iowa, and we need to make sure we're taking care of the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's kind of a good little preview there of both sides of the ball there for offensive defense, Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be um, exceptional night I believe for Oscar Cluff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Iowa doesn't have kind of that that big traditional big tin size it got a six tin junior center Iowa does Elvaro Folgware as he is from Spain he's pretty skilled average is 9.1 points 3.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists shooting 44% and 3 and we saw somebody kind of similar
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[SPEAKER_01]: at a guy who was able to kind of stretch out and shoot some trees and he would really kind of tour Purdue part of Irel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is pretty fluid, has a good passing and also has the ability to create for others.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a versatile threat, who can stretch the floor for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also for Iowa, six nine senior center, Kim Mon Yao.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's kind of how you pronounce that, I'll probably be wrong, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: He starts, and he's got a really good motor, really athletic, and has a pretty good room protector.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, always not necessarily an offensive threat, outside of the paint anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He does a cell on offer rolls, pick and roll, and is, you know, capable of catching it certainly for labs, and at 12 feet out and kind of driving to the rim.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, certainly it'd be a big game for us for Cloth, and a trick off the right as well,
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[SPEAKER_01]: have some opportunities at the ramp both on offense and defense to really show his his value.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And watch for Braiden Smith's defense to be a difference as well, Jake, your prediction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue is looking to go 5-0 in the Big 10 for the first time since the 2017-2018 season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with a win, could achieve a 6-0 big 10 start for all in the 10-to-time and school history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And just the fifth time since 1940, Purdue's 15 and one start, matches the best 16 game start in school history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And over the last four years, Purdue is 27 and three, very not the January, which is good for second best, winning percentage in the month of January and the nation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with Purdue's first of a very first and offensive efficiency, second in a sister turn over ratio, second in a sister's per game,
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[SPEAKER_01]: 10th and 3.3 percentage, 13th and fuel goal percentage, 13th and rebound margin and 16th and scoring margin.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A news can be a big game for brain smith and TKR.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think I will have the ability to kind of keep it close, kind of like we've seen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, Penn State and when Washington do, but ultimately I think Bruce can end up winning this by 12.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go Purdue, 90, Iowa, 78, that'll be my prediction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Jake, give us a football transfer portal update.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Quick update here on the portal, Purdue has seen 26 outgoing portal entries.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so far,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a fair amount of roster turnover here, but this isn't really about turning the margins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is really about continuing at that full rebuild here for Barry over the minute in the staff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is, you know, this turnover kind of aligns with that year one of showing a little bit of progress, but not yet wins, and now the staff is, you're kind of pushing hard for results.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is where, you know, getting that phase improvement has to turn to,
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[SPEAKER_01]: when we're all very old in May, uh, may have a bleak future here in West Lafayette, um, but in an interview, uh, with some local media, uh, Mike Babinsky, athletic director for Purdue, did mention that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And for the 2025 season, so the season that just completed a few months ago, Purdue did kind of withhold some of the rub share and NIL money that they had knowing that some of the the talent that was in the portal wasn't as no strong as they'd like so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: they have kind of done some up payments for some of these transfers that they have received.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that maybe that may be why we've seen a pretty solid class year for produce so far.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Looking first at kind of what Purdue lost, we've saw kind of by position group here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Hank Purvis who started some games there towards the end of the season and played.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that in a handful, brain joyer went to Florida State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hank Purvis went to South Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Next, kind of the next two biggest hit positions are line-backer and wide receiver each with four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most notably, Alex Sanford, he transferred a pit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and Sanders Ellis, a guy who came from the FCS ranks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I thought it was going to be pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Play here for Purdue, but just never really seemed to have that quickness that they needed to see the field.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He transferred down to Bullying Green.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the White or Silver Room, biggest loss there, Nitro Tuggle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He committed a South Carolina.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And our mod branch, you know, so at the start of the season was fine pretty well, but then kind of just disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He, he transferred the salary board group as a whole was pretty disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would agree, and I think Purdue really improved in that department, and we'll get into that here in a second.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Chapsarquist Kentucky, to make a Kennedy Louisville, and today actually Spencer Porath, the kicker, transferred to another Dame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's one that was really kind of a surprise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like he has a student role from Purdue and then enrolled in a Notre Dame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he kind of weird how that turned out sounds like he's already enrolled in classes there, but you've lost certainly some
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[SPEAKER_01]: still the Prueslossum experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a star too, but that experience has been replaced here pretty fast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the portal, produce certainly a prioritized production over potential.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the quarterback room, I know that was one of the biggest questions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've both said that we're not strong believers in Ryan Brown, but the staff does seem to be, I don't really foresee Purdue getting a quarterback from the portal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They already have five on
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't don't really see them getting any more unless somebody enters the portal last minute and that that portal closes here on the 16th On the full side of what produced brought in they've it got some pretty good commits from the running back room Guy from Minnesota fame Is your boy that's maybe a Butcher of a name there, but he for the season had 97 carries
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[SPEAKER_01]: 441 yards behind Darius Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was a really good money back for Minnesota, six foot, two hundred and ten pounds, got three years of eligibility left.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a really good chance of being, you know, RB1, and that first week, they also got a commitment from Travis to road junior, from Jackson State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a really good speed and that's a really good returner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we've talked about Jared Gibson from Texas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty highly talented recruit and he's a guy who's kind of a low-risk high-up side swing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So really improved running back room after losing one of the best running backs in Purdue, football history, Devin Machibi, and you know, some other guys that have transferred out and lost eligibility like Nalkai Thomas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's really been kind of revived and in the
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue got a commitment here in the past couple of days from busy Owens from the University of Penn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had 66 catches, 696 yards or 5 touchdowns last year, and for the first career, has 130 at reception.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a guy coming from the Ivy League.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's approved to be a pretty good pick up there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's able to produce and he's, he's, he's, he's a good
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[SPEAKER_01]: picked up a commitment from Xavier Townsend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This set is weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a four-year player from Iowa State.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was also at UCF where we had some overlap with Darren Henshal there, the quarterback's coach for Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he has 84 career receptions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then finally, here, a sod was seen from FAU.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a break out of sophomore season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 66 sketches for 699 yards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the skill position, I'll stay running back and life to see if we're produced had some pretty good success and has also beefed up the offensive line that was pretty mission critical and I'd say that's been addressed for the most part picked up some guys that have picked up a guy from Oklahoma state who served at left tackle all season picked up the last Stanley from South Carolina he's got nine starts at center and picked up that duo we talked about last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: from USC, who has one of them as an handful of stars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So one of them is a nice death piece on the defense upside, Purdue, and the secondary picked up a nice piece, a guy named Mr. Clark, that is his name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Clark.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of good names.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for steam, old name there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's from FIU, 59 tackles, 13 past break ups, and three interceptions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: pretty lengthy and definitely gives produce some playmaking that is lacked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jade and Mankham, easy guy we talked about last week, he's a safety played at Michigan and Michigan State 133 career tackles for in our sessions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then on the kind of that front seven, proves picked up some good pieces on the defense of line, picked up some piece in the linebacker room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I think Purdue, what's missing here is Edge Rusher forming a live here, but a couple hours ago, Purdue picked up somebody from Virginia Tech who is a defensive end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not really a needle mover though, more of a depth piece, but Purdue is looking to host some investors here this weekend at the Edge position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe like to get another defensive back, maybe you know a linebacker, really a guy, it'd be a difference to make her there to fill that spot from Mani Pal, who was, you know, led the big tenant tackles this year, but Purdue, you know, was to loss a lot, but they've been able to replace those departures with order players who have proven production, and really just better size across the roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking kind of look physically more like a big 10 team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I guess poor a class here so far is really kind of helped accelerate that the rebuild I'm rather than just surviving it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jake Dunn, thank you so much for your time as always and everybody, thank you for listening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you, Polaroop.
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