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Cyclone talk with Eugene Rapay, Mike Palm from Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, Millory Condon, welcome back.
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Iowa Sports Radio Network. Scotty Scheffler introducing
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himself to Ray's Creek, the betting favorite.
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A little trouble before we get to Eugene repay and he's on
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hold. He'll join us momentarily.
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Mike Palm will join us at the bottom of the hour.
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We'll head to Las Vegas. Couple of local notes.
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Trent Duncan Davit is how did we say yes?
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Absolutely. Formerly of Indianola, has been
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called up by the White Sox. Good for him so.
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Hawkeye pitcher at Indianola. I called his final game of his
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career at high school. Starter in high school.
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Yeah, Stud. Yeah what, 11 and one.
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His one loss came in the sub state championship game at home
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against Valley in a, I think it was 2, nothing, 2-1, something
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like that. A2 run Homer from a kid.
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I think Thompson was his last name from Valley that hit that
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home run. His career comes to a close.
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Valley went on to the state tournament.
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Then he went to Iowa and had a very successful year doing it
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there. But my favorite part of the
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story, have you seen what he's also doing on the side to
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supplement his career? Yes, he's writing.
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He is writing in the newspaper. Right.
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He wrote the story for the hometown paper of his call up.
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I think that's fascinating. It really and truly is not that
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I'm guessing he need need the part time game, right?
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But good for you for doing that. Man, that that's really cool.
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I'm going to follow him and certainly be looking for him.
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Don't watch a ton of White Sox, but you know what?
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Maybe I'll go it on my way. We like those local.
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Absolutely. Now there's another local angle
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as we go back to our chicken coop contest, the Frozen 4.
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I don't think he's ever been part of it before, right?
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But there's a Wisconsin tie. Absolutely.
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Former Waukee Warrior playing for a national championship as
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Grady Dearing. Who I think was also on the
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baseball team, if my memory serves.
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I'm going deep into the recesses of the mind for these ones here.
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Deering's his last name. Deering, yes, but Waukee, he is
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with the squad with Wisconsin, so he'll be playing for a
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national championship tomorrow night.
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All this local man. Iowans are great.
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No, I love it. Love it when they get their
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opportunity. You know what?
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I'm going to let you look at yesterday's box score.
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Oh, yeah. Before we get to Mike Palm,
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let's get to Eugene. Repay.
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Don't want to keep him on hold too long.
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Eugene Trenton. Ken, thank you for coming on and
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for being patient while we did a little, not off topic, but
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brought a couple other topics into the conversation.
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How are you, Eugene? I'm I'm great, thanks for having
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me on and always cool to hear some storylines like that and a
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writers plus professional baseball player.
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I mean, come on. No, absolutely.
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But guessing it moves him up on your book, no doubt about that.
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That's great. Lots, a lot of ground to cover
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with Eugene. And guess the first and
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foremost, the news of the day, the Big 12, is a sign there's
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Friday night games. Iowa State will participate paid
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in two of them, both of which are on the road.
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Head to Provo the 2nd Friday in in October to take on BYU and
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then the penultimate game of the regular season.
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I was stable. Head to Orlando to take on
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Central Florida. So the question is to you, which
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one of those do you think Heinz will send you one and he'll
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take? Will he take the sunshine?
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Go ahead. Oh no, I was going to say, why
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should we go to both? Nice.
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It'll be interesting to some Friday Night Lights for the
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Cyclones. I don't know when was the last
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time that's happened. It's been the first time for me
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since coming on to the beat, but I'm looking forward to both.
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Yeah, I like the fact that look, the Big 10, the Big 12, they
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they have to take these dates. It's it's put them in the
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spotlight. The Big 10 played on Fox
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throughout the regular season last year.
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I thought that went very well. I know not everybody liked it
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consensus wise, but why not? It's a window and it's an
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opportunity to shine some light on your team or your conference.
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So I think so. I think it's a win, win.
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As we're going through spring practice, you're getting to
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learn more and more about this squad, learn about the coaches.
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It is something different that we just haven't seen, and
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certainly the complete overhaul of a roster of 100 and some guys
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is just so different than what we're used to.
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Just getting a feel for the program, how it's going to look,
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and one thing that pops into my mind maybe how different things
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are going to be compared to the last decade of Matt Campbell.
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Without a doubt, without a doubt.
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We're still learning more about the personnel and more about the
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the systems and and things like that.
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They actually even gave us a little glimpse into practice at
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the Bergstrom Football Complex where we got to see 40 minutes
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of action. There wasn't anything too
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concrete. I think half of it was spent on
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warming up and special teams and then we got to see maybe 10
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minutes of individual drills. So just getting that first full
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look of what the team looks like.
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Very well choreographed, very well organized practices.
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According to our safety coach Pete Manage, he said that about
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80 to 90% of installation is done at this point of the
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spring. And now it's just a matter of
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just hammering away reps, hammering away plays, answering
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questions and, and just continuing to chip away at it.
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But to me, I, you know, when they told me that the goal was
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to get 80 to 90% installed, I was thinking, oh, will that be
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like towards the end of April? What will it look like?
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But to have it already in place for halfway through the spring,
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it was pretty impressive to me. And now they're just going to
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continue to to work at it. I'm looking forward to the open
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practice on April 25. I'm hoping that maybe we'll see
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some lives, some scrimmages and we'll get to finally see what
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the picture may look like going into the summer and and see some
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live action. I know you haven't had a chance
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to talk with all of the returning players, but what are
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they saying? The guys that you know that
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stuck around to play for the the Rodgers, the to begin the
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Rodgers era, it stuck around, decided, you know what, Iowa
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State's, that's where I want to be.
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They decide to stay. Hey, how difficult has it been
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for them, Eugene, if you had an opportunity to talk to any of
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the returners, just a new system for them, new voices to listen
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to, etcetera as they're going through something that they
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didn't anticipate once they got here, obviously.
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Yeah, we spoke to Carson Willich and Dominic Overby, and it
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seemed like with those guys and even Keaton Roskopf, who I
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talked to previously, it looked like a lot of the returners.
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It was definitely a scary time. It was definitely a lot of
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uncertainty. When Matt Campbell left and a
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new coach comes in, changes everything, you see a lot of
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your teammates leave to go elsewhere.
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And for the 40 guys who chose to stay, approximately 21 of them
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were scholarship players last year.
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There was some uncertainty, but I think there there is a common
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thread there where they just love Iowa State.
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Like Carson Willis said he wanted to finish what he
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started. Dominic Overby said he he came
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here with a plan and a vision. And while that vision and that
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plan started with Matt Campbell, he feels like Jimmy Rogers can
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help him continue to to make that plan go into fruition where
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he gets to have a fruitful career here at Iowa State.
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There's definitely some weird things for them, like they go
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from being completely outnumbered by the newcomers.
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They're trying to learn new verbage and new systems.
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But for the most part, just from talking with them and and
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coaches, it seems like the new, not the new guys, but the
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returners from last year are really grasping the concepts
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well. They've been able to show some
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of the new guys around. And in turn, then the newer guys
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are the guys from Washington State who followed all these
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coaches around from South Dakota to South Dakota to Washington
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State, now to Iowa State. They're helping them that
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they're helping them out too. So it's just kind of like a nice
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symbiotic beneficial relationship where everyone's
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kind of learning together, growing up together.
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But the guys who have stayed, they're very happy with their
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decision. There was some uncertainty, but
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they really buy into Rogers message and they're liking
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what's going on so far in the spring.
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And they really feel like that this could be a big year for
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them. Eugene, when you look at this
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roster up and down and getting to know these guys a little bit
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better, is there a particular position group you can point to
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and say that's going to be the strength of this team?
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I believe that this group is going to be the best that they
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have, at least as you currently know them.
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Yeah, I I still definitely still learning, but I feel like the
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defensive line or or you just like at the defense as a whole.
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I think the defense will definitely be the backbone of
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this team. You look at just a familiarity
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and and what this coaching staff has done at Washington State, it
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seemed like that they come in with a defensive pedigree.
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Even Jimmy Rogers, he himself rose up on the ranks on that
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side of the ball. And a lot of this coaching staff
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has been together through the years all on defense.
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So I feel like defense will be where we see this team shine.
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I personally am excited for the defensive line.
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I think the four man front, I think you look at the guys that
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they brought in from Washington State, they combined for more
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than 14 sacks last year and you know, the team has been itching
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and dying for a pass brush and putting pressure on
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quarterbacks. So I feel like we're going to
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see some changes up front with that begins with that group and
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then we'll see the linebackers and the secondary follow suit
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and really hammered home. But I'm really excited for that
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defensive line. Might Kyle Kinardi be maybe one
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of the strengths, one of the guys that they can count on?
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I certainly had a great year last year, Eugene after, and I
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was in the minority. I thought he was a little shaky
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at points in his freshman season.
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Obviously hit a couple of big kicks.
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I was dead wrong. He's proven to be a very, very
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reliable kicker. So in the little bit of special
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teams that we got to see in practice, that was actually one
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thing that jumped out at me. They were doing these drills.
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They got the teams to quickly run off the sideline, get set
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and kick kind of like a high pressure.
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Like if the, you know, they had no timeouts and there was only 8
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seconds on the clock, can they quickly get set to snap it and
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kick it in time for a field goal?
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And Kyle Karate was just launching missiles from 4547
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yards with ease. Like I wish we got to see him go
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a little further back but he was not having any issues at all.
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I know last year he had some injury problems that was
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limiting him, but he looked healthy.
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He looked great and those kicks were firmly through the
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uprights, had lots of distance on them.
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I wish we got to see him go even further, but he he looked really
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good. Eugene, let's jump into some
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basketball news from yesterday. Mason Williams, we didn't get to
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see this year because of the hip injury.
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After his medical red shirt, he is back in the portal.
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There's been some speculation about that.
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Anything more to the story? Just weird.
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A guy comes in, gets hurt, now he's back in the portal again.
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It's not like he's got extra tape to show people, right?
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No, yeah, no extra tape. Just also kind of surprising to
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me, honestly, I felt like his skill set would have definitely
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fit in well with Iowa State. He was just another
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sharpshooting threat, just an all around score.
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He was the go to guy at Eastern Washington.
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And, you know, would you figure once he's healthy, he'll be able
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to be a big contributor of sorts at maybe in the rotation, maybe
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he starts, whatever it may be, but they could have definitely
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used another guy like him. Really surprising.
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I'm still trying to hammer out more details, but it is
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confirmed that he has answered the portal.
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He hasn't been expected to make a formal or public announcement
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in the coming days. But, yeah, just a little bit
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surprising to me. I thought that, you know, just
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from what I'd heard from TJ Alto Burger and some of his
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teammates, when he was able to return to practice over the last
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couple of months, he had a good attitude.
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They seemed to enjoy it and was just really working hard at
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practice. So it was just a little thing to
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get excited for once he was eligible and able to play next
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season, but looks like it'll be somewhere else.
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Is is this does I'm staying have a new wrestling coach?
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What happened to dresser is that is this true?
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Eugene, have you seen this I? Brent, I have not heard.
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Brent Metcalf is elevated to head coach at Iowa State as
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Kevin Dresser transitions to a new role.
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Really. I've seen this for the first
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time it. Just happened on the yeah.
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Are you seeing this trend? I'm not.
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Yo where where you seeing it boy?
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What? What's the account?
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I don't want to say. You you did you get duped.
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I don't know, that's why I'm asking you guys.
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And apparently I might have. I'm going to, you know what, let
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me go to the source. Yes, cyclonefanatic.com.
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Oh no. Hang on a second boys, there is
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a 2 page thread. Ben.
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CAF head coach, IO State Wrestling.
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Pat Mineo I see has it. He is very well plugged in.
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That's OK. So that's the guy that I saw,
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Pat Mineo. Yes, and I see his tweet from
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40. 5 minutes ago SO. This is new to everybody.
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Yeah. Look at us breaking a little
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wrestling news and having this, you know, what scared out of me
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after I put it out there that it was.
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I got duped again. Munchilovich, what are we going
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to know? What do we know at this point?
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It's tick, tick, tick. That portal's about to.
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I mean, a he's put an item state kind of in a tenuous spot,
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right? Because they've got it
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ultimately. Do we need to replace you?
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Are you going to be staying? Do we need to come up with more
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money? Where do you think this all
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stands right now, Eugene? I, I feel like whatever decision
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is going to happen, I feel like it's, it should be real soon.
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I, I could only imagine just looking at the way that TJ
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Alsenberger and his staff have operated in the past and you
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look at when it goes into the transfer portal, they usually
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just nab guys in a string. So I feel like there's been a
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lot of honest conversations behind the scenes since the
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portal opened on April 7th to just figure out where, where is
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Milan at? Is he saying is he going, is he
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going to GoPro? You know what, what are the
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best, you know, what's he feeling and what can Iowa State
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do to support him in that endeavour or whatever path he
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picks? So I feel like it, you know,
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these negotiations or if you want to call them negotiations
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or talks have definitely been happening.
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I feel like a decision should come very, very soon.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it comes today or, or some point
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over the weekend, but I I do feel like we're going to hear
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some sort of announcement really soon.
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That also leads to the portal. And what is it about TJ and his
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staff that they just have such a knack of finding the right guys?
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I mean, look at a guy like Blake Buchanan this year.
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You kind of look at the numbers at Virginia, how's this going to
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work and is a rock solid starter for you.
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They have an ability to guy get not the guys that are most
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expensive that you have to spend the most more just to fit their
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culture. How does TJ Altelberger and the
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staff do that? I think it's just the first, the
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identification of talent and and just upside.
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You look at Joshua Jefferson too, like they picked the guy
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who was coming off of a knee injury was that St.
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Mary's played well, but you couldn't really tell.
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Blake Buchanan was another guy. That's a great example that you
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brought up there where he felt like he was underutilized,
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misused, that Virginia comes in and and thrives in his new role.
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I think that also Berger and his staff do a good job of figuring
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out, you know, which personnel or which players can fit their
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basketball schemes, their exes and O, but also just the culture
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fit as well. It seems like everyone who comes
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into this program, they're very well aware as to what the
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expectation is the the high standards, the crazy practices,
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the crazy workouts and things that they do.
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You know, you look at even the freshmen too, like I remember
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Jamar and Bateman coming in and telling me that he's excited for
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this to be the hardest thing he's ever done in his life.
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And even then, like going through like somewhere he's
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like, this is very hard, but I know it'll be rewarding.
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And you, you hear similar messages like that from all the
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guys who come into Iowa State for the first time.
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So I feel like for TJ and his staff, it's a combination of
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identifying the right guys that'll fit what they want to
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do, X's and OYS, but also just the culture wise.
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Because I feel like, you know, you could, you could have the
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right guy, but be just mentally or emotionally or spiritually
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just doesn't fit or gel with what they're looking for in the
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program. That's also not going to work
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out. I know that that Tommy Birch's
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beat is the women's sports women's basketball beg your
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pardon, but are you guys hear anything you bump into each
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other in the in the sports room, newsroom, the water cooler,
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whatever any anything on Audie Crooks at all.
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You hearing anything as to even where she's visiting Eugene?
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Yeah, so, so I last spoke to Tommy when the the whole thing
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first went down. I would love to.
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I haven't seen him since, but I would love to know where she is
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currently looking or or going in.
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But that was definitely a big blow to Iowa State women's
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basketball and just the Cyclones in general.
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And just seeing that the mass exodus that they've had to deal
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with. I'm very curious.
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I know that they just got a commitment yesterday.
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Yeah. They're so they're starting to
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rebuild the the roster there, but to just lose the type of
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talent that they've had and just see that that she just the sheer
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exodus. Definitely, definitely a lot of
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work for Bill family and his staff.
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Good stuff Eugene repay Des Moines Register Eugene what are
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football availabilities for you guys this coming week?
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We're. Going to have Monday and
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Wednesday and possibly a little cameo with Jimmy Rogers, so
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looking forward to it now. Good stuff, Eugene.
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Repay Eugene. We'll talk to you next Friday if
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your schedule allows. We hope it does.
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Thanks for doing this, Eugene. Appreciate it.
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Have a good weekend. Thank you guys so much and enjoy
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the weekend as well. Absolutely, Eugene Repay, Des
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Moines Registers. We check in on Iowa State.
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So you're breaking news. Well, I mean, what's the guy's
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name that broke it? Pat Mineo.
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Pat Mineo. He's he's an Iowa hater.
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He's a Penn State guy. Is he?
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I think MMA background, if memory serves, something like
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that. But yeah, he's he is well
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connected and well sourced inside the wrestling industry.
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So Kevin Dresser hands it off to Brett Metcalf.
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That's his report. Brett Metcalf, Who a lot of
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Hawkeye fans were hoping. That was the heir apparent.
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That he was going to come back home, that he was going to make
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his way back to Iowa City, maybe take over for the brands.
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Well, I would stay. Beat him to the punch.
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And so now you. Think that might be part of it?
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Oh, absolutely. I think it's a a significant
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part of it of getting ahead of it before he gets hired away to
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take over back where he wrestled and won two NCAA wrestling
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championship. So definitely that is a part of
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it. But Dresser would have had to
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acquiesce to that and agree to that.
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Right. I'm sure, yeah.
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I mean, if that's the case, good for him.
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Kevin Dresser is also an Iowa guy.
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Yeah, but that's putting the program ahead of himself if this
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is the case. Yes, and that's for all reports.
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That is the kind of guy that Kevin Dresser.
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Is I mean that that tells me a lot about him, and positively.
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Yes, no doubt. And then I'm sure they'll find a
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role and maybe it's a fundraising, you know, goal for,
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for Iowa State. Transitions into a new role was
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part of what Pat Mineo put out there.
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And it goes hand in hand. Iowa announced after the a
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replacement and assistant coaches.
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And this is where a lot of people are getting excited.
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New blood, new ideas. They bring in Jacob Warner and
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no disrespect to Jacob Warner and Iowa wrestler.
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Pretty boring style as a wrestler bore the same.
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No outside ideas. I think this is leading to some
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frustration with Iowa wrestling fans is OK Give Tom Terry Brands
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another year. That's fine.
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Give them an opportunity to continue to rebuild and see if
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they can come up with the way that you're going to be able to
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unseat not just now Penn State, but Oklahoma State and what they
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were doing this year. And he just hire sort of
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retread. That's not.
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A but same old, same old, same old, more the same.
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Yes, a lot of frustration. Speaking of message boards, over
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at Hawkeye Report, Tom Kakert's wrestling board and that thing,
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really, that is the worst of the worst, is it?
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I never go. There, that's that's worse than
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Cyclone Fanatic that that is. Now come ugly.
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That's ugly. That sets the bottom I.
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Personally, I go to Cyclone Report or I go to Cyclone
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Insider. The people that help us, that's
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who I go to. I go to Alec Bussey's board.
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I go to of course we talked to Mondays and Bill Seals and
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Cyclone Ford. That's where I go to.
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You like to go over to that other.
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One. No, I go to all of them.
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I know you do. I go to all of them, but they
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you want to go into a wild, Wild West.
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The Iowa wrestling board on Tom's website.
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That is crazy you. Can guarantee I'll be over there
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tonight, especially with this news.
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Oh, absolutely. Yes, that's a good call.
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You'll get some better taping out of that.
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A lot of spelling mistakes. Well.
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Lot of spelling. Mistakes.
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All right, we'll get to Las Vegas next.
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Our friend Mike Pom, VP of operations at Circa Sports.
19:58
What's going on at the Masters before we go to a break?
20:01
Who do we have a new leader in the clubhouse?
20:04
Rory McIlroy? The defending?
20:07
And how about Tyrell Hatton? Yes. 76 under, 7 under today.
20:11
Hatton is he's within one stroke.
20:13
Justin Rose not going away. Kepka making a little bit of a
20:17
charge. Patrick Reed is 4 under, shaping
20:21
up to be a pretty decent. Board and right now we are four
20:26
over is the cut line. Where's Robert McIntyre?
20:30
Is he making his charge? No, he's not.
20:33
Where is Jon ROM? Jon ROM is is he still golfing?
20:39
You know what I have to project a cut line of three over all the
20:42
fours are done. That just changed.
20:44
So it was a tie for 50th and we're right on the cusp.
20:48
It's going to be right on that 3-4 because 51st now is a tie
20:52
for 51st. That means that four will not
20:54
make it AB3. A lot of movements still to
20:56
happen though. And Bryson's at 4 over, ROM is
20:59
at 4 over. So if you got top 10s, top 20's,
21:02
the winds probably out the out the window, but you need your
21:06
guys. Zach 6 under.
21:08
He is finished for the day. Vegas next, Mike Palm, VP of
21:12
operations, circus sports. Mike joins us on the other side,
21:16
Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network 130.
21:26
Miller and Condon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent
21:29
and I with you until just before 2.
21:32
Still to come, Trent's plays of the day.
21:34
We'll get to those circus Sports sponsors, that daily segment
21:37
coming up here in about 20 minutes.
21:39
Let's head to Las Vegas. He's the VP of operations at
21:42
Circus Sports. Are you in one of the boasted
21:44
circle watching the wall to wall masters cover Mike Palm?
21:47
Good to talk to you. Where are you at right now?
21:50
Well, in a booth and then I just went and did Stormy and JVP and
21:55
now I'm going up to my office to find a quiet space to do this.
21:59
Nice. So Trent and I've discussed the
22:01
masters and how much handle there is, how much rights and
22:04
how much it dwarfs the other majors just because as you guys
22:07
have had this on the board forever.
22:10
Is this going to any records about to be set this weekend,
22:13
Mike, or do you anticipate that? I say no because of no Tiger.
22:19
I think if Tiger was here we would have got a lot of right on
22:23
him on Miss or Make the Cut and I think without Tiger it's just
22:27
really hard to break any records.
22:30
Tiger, Phil and. Move the needle.
22:34
You got the top of the list and kind of some boring guys with
22:37
obviously Scheffler and the questions after his wife had a
22:40
kid just a couple of weeks back. So you have that component to
22:42
it. Jon ROM, who is absolutely
22:44
leaking oil throughout the course of the first couple of
22:46
days here, not a whole lot of buzz to it.
22:49
What is something like that? I mean, are we talking about
22:52
it's going to impact it by 510% or is it, do you guys really
22:56
feel it when there just isn't as much buzz overall for a masters?
23:00
It hurts it the buzz just that creates the recreational right
23:04
Trent? I mean that the pros that bet
23:06
golfers, semi pros that do it really don't care.
23:10
But without compelling storylines, people tend to drift
23:13
away. And you see, we get this big
23:15
bump on Saturday and Sunday, and I'm worried it's not going to be
23:18
as big this year because of the lack of storyline.
23:21
Who you keeping an eye on, Mike, as far as a circa, is there
23:24
somebody that would not be good for circa that's toward the top
23:27
of the leaderboard? You know, we really didn't even
23:33
take a bet on Rory, which is surprising.
23:36
Burns is great for us. Patrick Reed is a loser.
23:40
Justin Rose is probably the person closest.
23:43
That's the biggest loser for us. Darkly is a small loser.
23:49
Yeah, Ober's a small loser. So you're really the guys at the
23:53
top right now are are terrific results for us.
23:57
The new updated Circa app that we've talked about here for the
24:00
last, so quite a while now as though we were the test pilot
24:03
here in the state of Iowa getting things launched.
24:06
And now you guys have it in Missouri and the updates that
24:08
are happening across the board as it pertains something like
24:11
golf, the live betting angle to it when we get into Sunday.
24:14
If you want to fire, how much upgrade have you seen as it
24:17
pertains to something like that? With golf betting, people can do
24:20
what's the Masters has already been underway.
24:23
You know, that's the biggest sport that the live betting
24:26
impacts and people might say, oh, it's basketball.
24:29
Oh it's, you know, soccer. It's actually golf because it's
24:33
hard. When you book it manually like
24:36
we do at a commercial, you can't do any golf in round.
24:39
And that's where so much golf handle is done.
24:42
I dare to say probably 70% of golf handle at some of these
24:46
bigger joints is done on the on the end game.
24:49
So that is definitely, and that's when we talked about
24:52
getting the, you know, the stadium live and all that.
24:56
Developing our own continuous end game.
24:58
Golf was the sport that we thought it would impact the
25:00
most. Seems like it, yeah.
25:04
I mean, I'm getting involved trying to trying to because all
25:07
my guys, Mike, they're not going to make the cut.
25:09
How about you personally? Did you, Did you back anybody
25:12
before the tournament pre flop? Yeah, I made one bet not not on
25:16
anybody to win. I called it my Ken Miller bet.
25:19
I bet Fred Couples to make the cut and he gave me a nice ride
25:24
for nine holes. Yeah, he did.
25:26
Wonder. And then it went and then it was
25:28
disaster time. But yeah, for for an old guy, I
25:31
mean, he's the oldest guy ever to make the cut.
25:33
He's made the second most cuts. And everybody said they thought
25:36
he was in pretty good form. So at 4 1/2 to one, I thought it
25:39
was worth a shot. Well, the summer is around the
25:41
corner, people thinking about pool time and there's not a
25:44
better pool in Las Vegas, I guess than what you have at
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Stadium Swim. And you guys have quite the
25:48
offer coming up this summer. All in, fill us in a little bit
25:52
and all the listeners out there on the details for people making
25:55
their way out to Vegas this summer and an opportunity to
25:57
save a bunch of money. Yeah, it's really terrific with
26:01
our All in package. This is the third straight
26:04
summer that we're doing it. And you know, it's, it's about
26:11
simplicity. It's just like the struggles
26:13
that people have with with airlines.
26:16
And this is the cost of your ticket, except everything that
26:19
you do is a fee. Being able to pay a flat price
26:23
to stay two days, whether it's anytime Sunday, Monday, Monday,
26:26
Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Wednesday, Thursday and then get
26:31
all the credit back from from the package.
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So for $400.00, it's two nights, you get $100 dining credit, you
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get $100 beverage credit and you get a three day bedded stadium
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swim one of those days. So it's a terrific summer.
26:52
You know, we got World Cup this summer.
26:54
We're seeing a lot of reservations come in around the
26:56
World Cup semi finals and, and it should be and we see that as
27:00
a big trend already. So there's no resort fees,
27:04
taxes, county taxes, parking, you know, all that stuff that
27:07
you get tacked on when you go stay somewhere and you're
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getting 200 of the 400 backing up and, and a no minimum day
27:14
bed. So I I think it's a heck of a
27:16
deal. It really is like you say, about
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100 for dining, 100 for drinks, no resort fees, no taxes.
27:23
That's that's certainly a very, very good offer.
27:26
No doubt about that. Mike, I wanna move.
27:29
Are you done with Golf GC? That's God did you?
27:32
I'm sure you were watching if your schedule allows last night,
27:34
stars Wild. I was.
27:35
I was locked and loaded on that game just because these are the
27:38
two teams are going to play in the first round of the playoffs.
27:41
Sadly, one of them is going to go home.
27:42
I think they're both talented enough in a lot of areas to to
27:45
maybe make go on a long cup run. But when I watched this wild
27:48
team, Mike, I'm really worried about the goaltending.
27:51
I think that they solved a lot of their issues at the trade
27:54
deadline. They got bigger, they got
27:56
tougher. Obviously they were well skilled
27:58
with Hughes coming over, Caprice off the top ten player, I think
28:01
closer to five than 10, but I'm worried about that goaltending.
28:05
Where are you on the Minnesota Wild?
28:08
I you listen, I, I, Is it the goaltending fault you have two
28:11
defensemen that take their forwards?
28:13
In. Hughes favor, Hughes in favor
28:16
both take their forwards and I read an article of guys blaming
28:19
the goaltending hasn't been good enough.
28:21
You've got 2 defensemen that don't defend.
28:23
That's a problem. They needed to get that center
28:26
that Robert Thomas or somebody. They didn't.
28:28
I, I don't think Gus or Wall said have been bad.
28:32
I really don't. Here's, here's the problem.
28:35
I think that when you handicap the playoffs, you not just
28:39
handicapped the talent of a team, but teams that have mental
28:42
blocks against other teams, right?
28:44
So in the West, I think Minnesota has a Dallas problem,
28:49
I think Colorado has a Dallas problem, and I think Dallas has
28:53
an Edmonton problem. In the East, I think Carolina
28:57
has a Tampa problem. I think Tampa has a Buffalo and
29:00
Montreal problem. I think Montreal has a Buffalo
29:04
problem and an Ottawa problem, and I think that Ottawa's got a
29:08
mentally weak goal Fender in Olmarch.
29:09
So all those things sort of come into it.
29:13
I bet a long time ago, stars eliminated in first round plus
29:16
145 because I thought the Wild could beat them.
29:19
I don't know. It's going to be 1 hell of a
29:21
series. Any dark horses, anybody out of
29:23
nowhere that can come out of the wild card and at least give you
29:26
a little bit of run, maybe not to win the whole thing, but say
29:28
get to Eastern Western Conference final and if you got
29:32
a ticket to get there, maybe you can get a little hedging
29:34
opportunity. Anybody jump off for you, Mike?
29:37
So I'm considering two teams to add that I don't have.
29:41
What I have is Colorado in the West and I have Minnesota to win
29:46
it all and I have Tampa to win these.
29:50
So now I'm worried about Tampa being a three seat here in this
29:54
division and happened to beat Montreal and Buffalo.
29:56
So I'm considering adding Montreal or Ottawa.
29:59
And I went through every book in Nevada last night.
30:02
Kenny and the Senators, who right now are the number two
30:05
wild card. Montreal could be the one seat
30:07
in the Atlantic, right? The Senators are shorter in all
30:11
futures than the Canadian. You tell me how that makes
30:14
sense. It it doesn't, I watch a lot of
30:17
Ottawa. I lost a lot Of Montreal.
30:19
I think, wow, I'm surprised. Who?
30:22
So are you going to take both of those Canadian franchises?
30:25
I almost feel bad to take Ottawa if they're they're cheaper than
30:28
the Canadians. I'm definitely going to take the
30:29
Canadians to win the east. The Canadians are 15 to 1 and
30:33
the Senators are 14 to one. I've already bet the Canadians.
30:36
I don't know if I want to bet the senators.
30:38
They should be. If the Canadians are 15 to one,
30:40
they should be 22 to one. I've got Tampa, Carolina,
30:44
Colorado, Minnesota, Dallas. Those are my five Cup teams.
30:47
Yeah, well, you know, Attinger is, to me always the question
30:52
mark there. Yeah, I do want to tell you one
30:56
game that I love tomorrow. Well, there's fifteen of them.
30:59
Which one are you choosing? Six of them.
31:02
Both teams have playoff implications.
31:04
I love is that although this is the Malinsky A-Team coming off a
31:07
road trip, coming home, so you fade him the first game.
31:10
I really like the Predators against the Wild.
31:13
Tomorrow, Allen will get to start.
31:16
I thought Allen was much better on this road trip than Sorrows.
31:19
This big goal. He doesn't have to move.
31:21
He can sit back in the goal and be very calm.
31:23
He was dominant against the Ducks.
31:24
The Ducks put up 45 shots on the other night.
31:27
He shut him out against the Wild team that I believe that after
31:30
they lost in Dallas last night, we'll shut it down these last
31:33
three games. Makes sense.
31:34
They're going to be resigned. They're going to be resigned to
31:36
the three seat Predators at a plus price.
31:38
I bet them at plus 1:15 tomorrow over the Wild.
31:41
Are the ducks going to get in? Are you sure that they're going
31:44
to get in? We got.
31:44
No, there's only three games left.
31:46
Yeah, yeah. I tried to make the argument on
31:48
Wednesday with Mitch and Paul. The Ducks were in trouble.
31:50
They lost six in a row. How about the stat that before
31:53
last night, in all 22 games since the Olympic break, the
31:57
Ducks had trailed? I mean, they were just playing.
31:59
They were just, yes, they were just playing terrible.
32:01
The win last night I think really solidified it for them.
32:04
I think San Jose's out. I'd love to bet Nash plus 475,
32:09
but the problem is the Kings have an extra game, a point
32:11
league, and they play 3 bad teams that the season.
32:14
I think. I just think it's too much for
32:16
Nashville. Ducks never LED 1 nothing in any
32:18
of those games. They never, no, they, they,
32:21
they, they trailed and all 22, they never LED wire to wire
32:26
until they beat the Sharks last night wire to wire.
32:29
One more hockey thing for you, because I was watching last
32:31
night and I'm sure there might have been some people in the
32:33
book doing the same. Michigan, Denver in the Frozen 4
32:37
out there in Vegas. Are you seeing many people?
32:40
I would guess the Michigan people probably showing up there
32:42
at Circa and North. Dakota people too.
32:45
And I think Ken was surprised that who the favorite is in this
32:48
one with Wisconsin being the underdog against Denver in the
32:51
championship. What are you guys seeing with
32:52
the Frozen 4 in Vegas for the first time?
32:55
So this is a really interesting circus story.
32:58
So North Dakota had planned a parade on Fremont Street and a
33:01
big gathering at Bar Canada at 4:00 PM today.
33:04
Canceled, they all went home. Oh my.
33:06
And Michigan had planned an event from 5:00 to 8:00 at
33:08
Legacy Club, canceled. They all went home.
33:12
I, I don't, I'm not surprised. I mean, I yesterday I bet the
33:18
under six in the first game with Wisconsin and North Dakota just
33:21
because the North Dakota goal center hadn't given up any goals
33:23
in it. You watched that game was
33:25
dominant, but they were a huge underdog to North Dakota.
33:29
Denver was a much smaller underdog than Michigan.
33:32
I thought Denver would be a 14150 favorite in the finals and
33:36
it's it's their 160 right now at Circa.
33:39
But Wisconsin has played really well.
33:41
I thought they they made North Dakota look bad yesterday.
33:44
North Dakota wasn't generating any chances at all.
33:47
They got the late six on five goal.
33:48
Other than that, nothing. And you would have expected
33:51
being down to to nothing going into the third.
33:53
It would have been a barrage by the by, by the Sioux.
33:56
It really wasn't. Airplanes packed leaving Grand
33:59
Forks. I saw some of the pictures of
34:01
all the folks on the planes and heading back to Grand Forks.
34:04
Oh my God, good stuff. Mike Palm.
34:06
Mike, I see this NFL schedule comes out.
34:09
What did I see the 14th or the 16th somewhere around that time
34:12
frame? Is that what you guys at Circa
34:14
are anticipating so you can go forward with Survivor etcetera?
34:20
Yeah, that's that's correct, Katie, you're absolutely right.
34:23
Yeah, going to be fascinating. Good stuff.
34:25
Mike Palm, VP of Operations at Circa Sports.
34:27
Mike, thank you. Appreciate the time as always.
34:30
We'll talk to you next week. Thank you, Mike.
34:33
Thank you guys. Have a great.
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I mean, it's it's, it puts it over the top.
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For us, because we are. My wife loves it.
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She does. My wife was blown away anyways.
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Now you got the juices slowing. Yeah, I know.
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Mine too. We got two months left.
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I know I just so here's here's my problem.
35:42
This is a good a time as any to talk about what I'm going to do.
35:45
I was asked to go back to Prairie Meadows and, and I'm
35:49
going to take and I already have I, I've accepted the
35:52
opportunity. So I'm going to be the track
35:54
analyst, not the not the race caller, the track analyst.
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They're trying to build out their YouTube channel.
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So the live races are on YouTube and I'm going to have a
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significant role in that leading up to the race, after the race,
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etcetera. Going to be out there every race
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night. But in my retirement, working 76
36:11
days a year doesn't sound like too bad a job, right?
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And I'm off from late like third weekend of September until the
36:19
first week in May. That works out pretty well for
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you. It really does.
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And it's opening day on Kentucky Derby Day, which is the first
36:27
Saturday in May. So they're going to race at
36:28
5:00. They'll have one race, then
36:30
we'll pause the race card. But yeah, yes, as I talked about
36:33
the last couple of days, I'm running into a meeting.
36:35
Where the Hell's he going? Right.
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Who's he trying to kid? Normally it's a meeting to get
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in front of your television to watch after your baseball.
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Right or a meeting with jet to take him for a for a walk.
36:44
But but I'm going back to Prairie Meadows, which is really
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cool for a couple of reasons. AI love it and B the reason I'm
36:50
in the state to begin with is Prairie Meadows in 1989 reached
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out to me when the the guy that was calling the races after 11
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weeks saw the writing on the wall.
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So this is going to work and and decided to move on and they
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needed a race caller. So I took the job and a week
37:06
later we were bankrupt. That's crazy, right?
37:09
Left my country, left my job, left my family and but obviously
37:14
it survived and it's thrived. And it closed in 91 and that's
37:17
when I went to Denver, but I came back.
37:18
So I'm going to begin my United States work career in Altoona
37:24
and end it. That's awesome.
37:26
I'm very, I'm very happy for you.
37:29
I could definitely see the, the extra pep in your step here
37:32
lately as this was coming to fruition and and to kind of have
37:36
that full circle moment and to have your retirement working 76
37:40
days a year, that's not bad. That sounds good.
37:42
No, it does. So we're going to build up
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perrymeadows.com and going to do weekly vlog.
37:45
I'm going to do a racing piece, a casino piece, a sports betting
37:49
piece, and I think probably once a year I'll do a, or once rather
37:53
you, you're all do one of you know, I'll get a Tom Kakert when
37:57
I was playing a big game or one of our Cyclone guys or Paul
38:00
Allen or, you know, not not a ton, just just one a week do A4
38:05
segment vlog. But that's what I'm going to be
38:07
doing. And I'm excited to go back to
38:09
Prairie Meadows and to work for a guy that he gives me credit
38:13
for starting his career. And all I did was open a door
38:16
for him and he walked through him.
38:17
And that's Brian Arilko, who John and I spoke with on the
38:20
radio a lot when he was the head of the Iowa Racing and Gaming
38:23
Commission. So I'm going to go back and do
38:25
that and I'm going to be out there every night and I'm going
38:27
to be talking horses and shaking hands and doing those type of
38:31
things so. Congratulations.
38:33
Thank you. I'm I'm pumped to do it pumped
38:35
to do it leave radio after 30 years and go back to what where
38:38
I started and where I'll end PRM We'll take the time out
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Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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I'm Melanie Condon welcome back final couple of minutes here on
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a Friday. Boy, Rory's threatening to run
38:53
away with this thing. He's 8 under.
38:56
Justin Rose right now, second, along with Sam Burns, those two
38:59
golfers at 5 under. So Roy with a three shot lead,
39:03
he is threw 4. Hold Bush off to a good start,
39:06
set at least three under through 4 on today's round.
39:09
It's still early. Yeah, moving day tomorrow.
39:12
Yes, absolutely. But three shot lead already.
39:17
So I had to get involved just to have something because my guys
39:19
aren't going to make the cut. I bet Kepka, I just was good
39:24
Price 16 to one, OK, he's 300, he's 5 off the lead.
39:29
Give it a whirl. He was even par after the round
39:31
yesterday. Got 300 today through 17 so at
39:35
least he's going to be on that leaderboard.
39:37
Have an opportunity, give yourself a shot.
39:39
Something. To root for.
39:40
Yes, absolutely. Although I mean, it'd be hard
39:42
not to root for Roy to go back-to-back or if Justin Rose
39:44
makes her. What if it's those two dudes in
39:46
a playoff again? Who do you root for this year?
39:48
And I mean, Rory was obviously the public was all over him that
39:52
that changes this year, wouldn't it, in our hypothetical?
39:55
I would think. I think so.
39:56
Too root for the old guy. Yes.
39:58
Right, had a hell of a career. It's my age.
40:01
Well, he's old for golf. Well, not old for golf, but old
40:04
for the PGA. He's old because I remember
40:08
vividly. We are the exact same age, both
40:10
born in 1980 and sitting at Sunny Bray Golf Course working
40:15
at the bar my senior year of high school.
40:17
Where's Sunny Bray? Oh, Sage.
40:18
Oh, Sage. Yep.
40:19
And 9 hole. 18 hole. 9 hole. Yeah, I love it.
40:22
Private. Yep, Oh, was.
40:24
It yes couldn't and good thing they had youth memberships
40:27
because my family was not afraid to be there and also worked at
40:30
the golf course and watching this guy my same age as I'm in
40:33
high school in the British Open and here he is still today.
40:39
What was par 3530 do you remember?
40:41
35 yeah, only one par five, that is number 9 that comes up and #8
40:47
#2 was considered by the Des Moines Register, one of the 18
40:52
most difficult holes being the state of Iowa.
40:54
I'll. Be damned, how many years ago
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was that? I think that article came out
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like in the 80s, something like that.
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They had the newspaper clipping, of course, up in the clubhouse.
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Did you have a I'm sure, Did you have an alternate tee for those
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who wanted to play 18 and play this or this tee box and then
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another tee box? Any of those.
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We had to have a lot of alternatives because one of the
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holes, two of the holes in fact go across the river, across the
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Cedar River. So a par three that you hit
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across and then coming back a par Why?
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Is the river. There may be.
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Like a Creek. No, it's.
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OK, it's a river, all right. And there's a floating bridge or
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there was a floating bridge. Well, when the water was up, you
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couldn't put the floating bridge in 'cause it float away.
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So there were alternate holes that had to be put in because of
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that. When the bridge was out, that
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meant you had to go that direction.
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And one of my favorite stories, my freshman year of high school,
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kid a year older than me. So you hit your shot across, you
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bring, you know, a wedge. If you didn't hit the green,
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your putter and then your driver to come back across.
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You don't take your whole bag because that floating bridge is
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rickety. I mean, you're moving back and
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forth. Can bring the roll back the
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bridge now. Yes, yeah, I think they have
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something a little bit more sturdy.
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OK, good. But brings his whole bag over
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his shoulder, gets a little shaken, a little bit.
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All of his clubs, all 13 of them, dumped into the Cedar
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River, never to be seen again. How?
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Deep was the cedar. River not very deep I bet, but
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it was also late March, early April.
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You're not jumping on those walls.
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No, a little cool. After some McGregor irons.
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Unless you make a hole in one, then you're jumping.
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In, then you're jumping in. All right, have a good weekend.
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