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The IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell: Rutgers Reaction, Rankings, Upcoming Schedule ... and Basketball (3.66) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to the IU report with Grant Shows and My Cutsal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today's IU report, Grant and Mike react to the Hoosiers win over Rutgers on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about the big showdown with Ohio State being on big noon Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And talk a little IU basketball as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another addition of the IE report this week, Grant Shows with Mike Hudsel, Mike, Indiana on Saturday, beat rockers 47, 15, and I mean, just right off the bat, this one I think felt really good for a lot of people.
0:49
[SPEAKER_02]: It was the most crisp that Indiana looked this season.
0:53
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like they played probably their best game of the season.
0:57
[SPEAKER_02]: with the acceptance of the Howard game.
0:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure you can really scale that one.
1:01
[SPEAKER_02]: But first big-ting game on the road, you never know what the environment's going to be like.
1:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Rackers did everything they could to get people in the stands and get it to be a hostile environment.
1:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just don't think they quite could from what it kind of sounded like and looked like on TV.
1:16
[SPEAKER_02]: But in the game, I handled it pretty well.
1:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess my initial thought was they played the game pretty well,
1:28
[SPEAKER_03]: for the preview because of the injuries to the running back room and everything I think it will not matter.
1:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the running backs were okay in this one turbo richer.
1:39
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought so too.
1:41
[SPEAKER_03]: Turbo richer to Clips' 200 yards on the ground, Lee BB goes for over a hundred and two of the wide receivers just you know will throw it in at a hundred yard receiving day.
1:53
[SPEAKER_03]: So,
1:55
[SPEAKER_03]: We tried, we tried to make the rugger's game seem interesting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They dominated a team they needed to dominate.
2:01
[SPEAKER_03]: And 47 to 15 is actually probably closer than the game actually was.
2:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I was, I'm not gonna lie, I passed out, that's how boring.
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[SPEAKER_03]: the second half had become so it was 38 and nothing 37 and nothing when I lost consciousness.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I did go back and watch the end of it to see if I missed anything too interesting.
2:25
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't really felt like I did.
2:28
[SPEAKER_03]: But man, we got a tall grant and since Indiana is the most negative fan base in the world, we've got to really break down the struggles of Nico
2:41
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't be happy about this.
2:43
[SPEAKER_03]: This has got to change.
2:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Just pull somebody off the soccer team.
2:47
[SPEAKER_03]: This is ridiculous.
2:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Who's special teams?
2:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Co-teenies to be gone tomorrow.
2:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if he was in the NFL, he would have been cut the next day.
2:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're being sarcastic, but he'll be fine.
3:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I would imagine Kurt Signetti said he'll be fine.
3:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I was the crazy myth and actually my surprise you missed a field goal that closed with any drill a 48 yarder.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he'll be fine, but that was a little uncharacteristic of him.
3:16
[SPEAKER_03]: He's been so good over the last two years.
3:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I really feel like that, you know, he's he's brought himself a little bit of currency with the fanbase where yeah, if you have a couple struggles in a 47 to 15 game,
3:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we can overlook that.
3:32
[SPEAKER_03]: There's not too many kickers and college football that I want on my team.
3:38
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've seen a lot of bad kickers in Indiana through the years, man.
3:42
[SPEAKER_03]: The Kevin Wilson era was a struggle at the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I'll take Niko.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That guy can be my kicker for a really long done.
3:52
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's only a junior I think and he I saw somewhere he's on pace to be the programs all time leading score by the time it's all set and done if he comes back next year, which you're a college kicker I don't imagine you're getting drafted to I would think you'd probably be back for a fourth year.
4:08
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's that's a really good sign good for him even missing two other missing an extra point missing a field goal.
4:16
[SPEAKER_02]: You would rather him knock on wood.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm knocking on wood when I say this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you would rather him miss to meaningless field goals versus rockers than miss one in a a crucial game like Ohio State or in a playoff game or the big 10 championship.
4:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I think if he keeps missing more maybe Ryan Dale try to poke you out of the out of the transfer board alive no idea.
4:38
[SPEAKER_03]: He he correct me from wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He missed one in the big 10 title game last year right?
4:43
[SPEAKER_02]: He did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I thought.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it completely got overshadowed by the one Ohio
4:50
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think Ohio State through the years would love to have a kicker with the consistency of Nico.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I can off the top of my head think of four Ohio State games that have been swayed by just a kicker, just absolutely pissing down his leg and a bad spot.
5:08
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're good with
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[SPEAKER_03]: this week against Nebraska, those times are changing up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can fall out a lot of what kickers pretty quickly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in Indiana dominated this game and here's, here's how you sum it up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They dominated that game so much that they even scored a touchdown and Brocker said set or at 12 guys on defense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's how much they dominated this game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it felt like at points in the first half when watching Indiana was playing with
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe 13 guys on defense, though.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, push.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Porciano was trying anything in that first half.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, let's try something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He goes for it on fourth down from like the 30.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But one point he's just throwing out.
6:01
[SPEAKER_03]: If you were in the stands, you could have played quarterback for Rutgers at one point in the game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think if you were in the stands, you could have played any position.
6:11
[SPEAKER_03]: As predicted, it sounded like a good healthy,
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[SPEAKER_03]: who's your contingent there in a pescat away that was the cheap road trip game of the year it felt like and I think a lot of who's your fans took took advantage man Rutgers man the big the bottom of the big ten it's about time to have a discussion I know we hate the SEC here so much on the show but man the bottom of the big ten is bad the Rutgers Maryland
6:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Illinois for what we saw over the weekend, Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, man, not the worst in the conference anymore.
6:52
[SPEAKER_03]: That is true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You got to give him a little bit of credit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Penn State, Michigan, Owen, too, in the conference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Purdue has a conference win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Boiler up.
7:09
[SPEAKER_02]: That was kind of late and I'm Greg there.
7:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think the
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[SPEAKER_02]: the bottom part of the league is is really bad and it's too bad that it has to be that way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is a good conference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a good football conference.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You wish everybody was
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[SPEAKER_02]: just decent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You just wish it was Indiana Ohio State Oregon USC and then like the rest were a bunch of Iowa's.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do think it is the little ridiculous and again, it's Rutgers Indiana did their supposed to do, but it is the little ridiculous when you have teams like Northwestern who are really good who probably, if they had gotten the ball,
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[SPEAKER_02]: and the, you know, if they had gotten the ball back and had a little more time, probably could have beaten Indiana a couple weeks ago, you have a team like Nebraska who I know their first test is Indiana on Saturday is undefeated.
8:01
[SPEAKER_02]: you have a couple other these schools like Wisconsin who's four and one UCLA is ranked but you have some of these teams that are four and one or five and a like like in Nebraska that should be ranked in aren't ranked because Missouri has to be ranked or Kentucky has to be ranked and I just I think it's a little ridiculous and it's a little ridiculous that you can win a game and drop one spot in the poll when we saw that happen with Indiana they went from six to
8:30
[SPEAKER_02]: which is just that this system is just completely far too bad.
8:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I at my personal favorite is Mississippi State.
8:43
[SPEAKER_03]: They get this big home game against Bama.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They get absolutely boat race by 33, I think at home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they they felt one spot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we can't get Nebraska in the rankings, even though the FPI says they should be can't get northwestern into the rankings, even though they put 500 on the 500 yards on the ground up against Penn State last week, Missouri goes from their perennial spot at 25th overall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: the Eli Drinkle with Memorial, you know, 25th spot in the rankings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have a good performance and I think they're up to like number 11 now.
9:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't even remember at this point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's such a game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 14th for Missouri.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so they moved up 11 spots.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Kentucky, though, oddly wins a road game in conference and falls out of the pole.
9:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Explain that one to me.
9:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not understand.
9:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I truly think they would rank a team like South Carolina if they could.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's incredibly broken.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of sad to see that that's kind of what this sport has become.
10:00
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just become an SEC play fest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we've known that.
10:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we've known that
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[SPEAKER_02]: it seems way more obvious than my opinion.
10:15
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems odd to me that two teams who obviously should be in the rankings are Northwestern and Nebraska, but it almost feels to me like, if we rank those teams, Indiana gets to claim ranked wins.
10:28
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm not saying it's some big huge conspiracy against Indiana, but it does feel in some ways like,
10:36
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not going to give the big tin any credit at the bottom of the polls because we don't want these teams to get these ranked victories.
10:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, Tennessee is perineally 15th to 20th in the polls.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It does not matter how bad they are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they're not good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They aren't good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They almost lost the Auburn at home over the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They are not a good football team for 15th.
10:58
[SPEAKER_03]: So you had a hail, Marietta, chance to beat Texas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You also just were absolutely steamerled by
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[SPEAKER_03]: Texas just isn't maybe as good as you think they are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Missouri, Tennessee, I think soon to be, sometimes it's South Carolina, soon to be it's going to be Kentucky.
11:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's funny they fell out of the rankings the week they played Lane, which is hilarious so he won't get to claim a ranked win if they beat LSU this week.
11:30
[SPEAKER_03]: but some of these teams just existed in that conference to just prop up and give you a ranked win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the big tin doesn't get those teams and they say, well, they're not nearly as good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Northwestern is as good if not better than just about anybody I've watched in that middle tier of SEC teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not saying their Texas Alabama, Georgia,
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[SPEAKER_03]: level.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think Ole Miss is horrendously overrated.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're getting by on a win over LSU.
12:01
[SPEAKER_03]: And this isn't really a let's break down the SEC podcast, but I am going to vent for a minute about these teams that don't fall in the market.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I saw Bretting Murphy ranked Ole Miss ahead of Indiana in his poll.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Based on what dumbass, they beat two and three Louisville by three,
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[SPEAKER_03]: They got boat raised by Florida, who got absolutely bum-rushed by Missouri over the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's because he thinks all those teams are all pretty closely bunched together in the SEC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he moved them in with that class of teams.
13:00
[SPEAKER_03]: They lost by 33 in their home field.
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[UNKNOWN]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The AP people exist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All because Camario Taylor is kind of cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: SEC Mississippi State honk in the world is Brandon Walker, and even he's like, yeah, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We got our ass kicked.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're not in the same league as those teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there's other guys ranking them 10th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana would destroy Mississippi State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it would be a
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think they, I don't know about destroy Ole Miss.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You match Indiana up with Ole Miss or Mississippi State or Missouri or Tennessee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm telling you, that's four fucking wins by Indiana right there.
14:02
[SPEAKER_02]: That's four wins from Indiana.
14:05
[SPEAKER_02]: The grandma filter has come off this podcast.
14:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it has.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It infuriates me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It does.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I absolutely love college football in this sport.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting ruined by some
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[SPEAKER_02]: BS conference because it's just a tradition because it had a cool intro on TV on CBS for like 30, 35, 40 years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's really what it all boils down to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For the longest time, you could funnel the money through a player's church and give him a job at a car dealership that he never actually went to and have five stars as your third steering linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't get that anymore.
14:51
[SPEAKER_03]: If Indiana had an Alabama logo on their uniform and the numbers on their helmets instead of the IU logo and returned what they returned from age 16 and old national title team going into the season everybody said out loud they said the quiet part all out Indiana would be ranked
15:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Alabama would read number right number one in that scenario.
15:18
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, there is no chance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There is no chance in hell that if Indiana was Alabama right now, that they would have slid three spots in the polls based on how they've played this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They haven't lost the game, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They haven't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had a nine quarter stretch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't give up a point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: have they trailed is an 11 point stretch.
15:42
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't remember have they trailed this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have not.
15:46
[SPEAKER_03]: They have not.
15:48
[SPEAKER_03]: But we deserve a little bit of credit for downplaying our own program.
15:55
[SPEAKER_03]: After Western Kentucky, where there was people legitimately saying, I don't know about this Brian Haynes guy.
16:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think you make, yeah, I think that's fair to say that definitely
16:09
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think the theme is going in the right direction.
16:14
[SPEAKER_02]: If last Saturday at Rutgers is any indicator, they're going in the right direction, right at the right time here.
16:20
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe it's one of those where maybe they're hitting their stride just a little later than they did last year or the year before.
16:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't you guys love that Kurt Signetti has all this to work with?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I agree, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's some motivating there and the guy is saying going into the records game he was concerned he didn't know what the atmosphere would be like you didn't know about false starts or anything none of that came into be a factor but that won't be the case Saturday when I go to Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It also came out on Monday, no shocker to anybody that Indiana's going to play Ohio State at noon on Fox.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think everybody in their mama saw this coming even last year when it was announced that they'd be playing each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think anyone's surprised.
17:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a little frustrating.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think anyone's necessarily surprised.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Should it be at night game probably?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But oh well, this means you got to kick their ass earlier in the day, then later.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And let's not forget this week's game is an 11 a.m. kickoff in Lincoln for those folks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, this big noon contract can expire fat.
17:31
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good money for the conference.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The teams in the conference are taking a good chunk of change with them.
17:37
[SPEAKER_03]: And I expected Indiana Ohio State'll draw a huge number at the noon spot, but man, that three-thirty game on a Saturday, like you talked about the SEC with that cool theme song.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was the bread and butter game every week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and the big tin doesn't have it like they're brought they're brought now ruggers and U.S.C.
18:01
[SPEAKER_03]: in that 330 CBS spot and the same day as Indiana and Ohio state, I think they're going to try out two horrible, horrible, horrible teams and Michigan and Penn State for that 330 game.
18:20
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's just that's just not fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not all about the biggest gains being played at night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it can be a little overrated.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I kind of, I just, I love that 330 spot on a Saturday and the big tent's wasting.
18:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like they got it right last week with Ohio State and Iowa.
18:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like they got it right last year with Indiana at Oregon.
18:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know the,
18:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know you get it right this year with Michigan at Penn State.
18:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Now in years past, you probably do nail that one on the head at 330 on CBS, but with the seasons and the starts that those two teams are having, I just don't know that I don't know that's the right play there, but
19:09
[SPEAKER_02]: They do a draft, these TV executives and brands do a draft and Fox gets the first three pigs.
19:18
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that first pig, they're securing Ohio State Michigan, and that second pig, they're probably just going to take Indiana, Ohio State Indiana, just the way it is.
19:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, I don't really care.
19:31
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a bigger deal and people are making it out to be, I think people are making it out to be a bigger deal than it is, I should say.
19:40
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't bother me at all, but it is, I do understand the frustration behind it.
19:46
[SPEAKER_02]: It just means my anxiety for the game will come in the middle of the night before the game instead of all day leading up to it.
19:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think about that the big tin title game last year, you had to sit through like an entire day's worth
19:59
[SPEAKER_03]: just existential dread watch your back watch your basketball team get ran by Louisville, which I did in person.
20:08
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't that bad for me that day because I had a press pass to the Iowa State at Purdue game and I saw Iowa State just absolutely destroy them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in mac arena.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it wasn't that bad for me.
20:23
[SPEAKER_02]: It was when I got home from the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then had to wait is when I got bad.
20:27
[SPEAKER_03]: So I do understand what you're saying now way Purdue lost at home last year to I listed.
20:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you don't remember that.
20:36
[SPEAKER_03]: Now somebody should have told the selection committee because they didn't seem to pay a lick of it for an attention and they pretty what to see it anyway.
20:42
[SPEAKER_03]: But anyway.
20:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Moving on, hey basketball, since we brought it up, great.
20:47
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, it was a great segue into it.
20:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Indiana basketball had their first inner-squad scrimmage open to the public on Friday.
21:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that anyone really knew about this.
21:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there was a big soccer game against Penn State.
21:06
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maryland, it was Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody seemed to care about the inner squad scrimmage.
21:14
[SPEAKER_02]: It looked like, you know, we said off air that it looked like they were like 500 people there.
21:20
[SPEAKER_02]: To me, that looked less.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It looked like they were maybe about 300 to 250 to 300.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just wanted a lot of people there for it, you know, like kind of sucks when you don't advertise for it.
21:33
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're advertising for that event is pretty poor.
21:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, I really didn't see anything about it.
21:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you see anything come out of that like who played well, Mike, or I guess who looked a good for Indiana in that scrimmage, not particularly the only news I saw about it at all was that freshman Vaughn Carvalho was held out as a precaution, but I didn't see much in terms of results.
22:04
[SPEAKER_03]: I think a lot of the coaching staff wasn't even there.
22:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there were a big AU of them over the weekend.
22:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, the number two versus number four soccer match was happening at armstrong.
22:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm hesitant to use the hat as an excuse.
22:21
[SPEAKER_03]: I just feel like Indiana did nothing to promote this.
22:24
[SPEAKER_02]: And anyway, I really know about it till the week up.
22:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I knew about it.
22:28
[SPEAKER_03]: I knew about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember for seeing maybe for the first time Tuesday of last week, hey, there's a skirmish.
22:36
[SPEAKER_03]: And in the end, last year they did all these fan events leading up to
22:41
[SPEAKER_03]: the season student at reach.
22:43
[SPEAKER_03]: They did the thing on Kirkwood last year, which was really cool.
22:46
[SPEAKER_03]: This year's been very subdued in that department and just not a lot of buzz and it's weird to say that about an Indian basketball season, because they have a game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This upcoming weekend, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's the Butler skirmish is coming up on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Sunday at Hinkle at like 630 and and you down in Louis will probably won't get it, but it is going to be televised locally on I think it's wish TV channel 8 or channel 13 maybe so it is going to be televised and.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So fans in the Indianapolis area will probably get to watch it if you're not going to the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought tickets tickets were actually kind of going for a high price.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like maybe 90 a ticket 75 to 90 a ticket just to get in the door ankle.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My niece is a Butler alum.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's a season ticket holder of Butler.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're very, very excited about this game from the Butler side.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Getting Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_03]: on their home court.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't think that it's happened since Indiana went there in the 90s and lost.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then they turned around and came back and be Kentucky, stunningly the next weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But from the Butler side, they are just promoting the hell out of this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They are just super, super excited about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: From the Indiana side, I
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[SPEAKER_03]: you told me it's going to be on TV.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I did see something about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But going into the season, like, Indiana has just, I've heard next to nothing about this program.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know they turn the roster over.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of hype about the guys that they brought in, but at the same time, it's been a really, really quiet leading up to the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know if that's by
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[SPEAKER_03]: build this thing up when we weren't maybe ready for it, but is any of that much of a football school that we just aren't even paying attention to the start of basketball at this point?
24:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I get to get point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a possibility that maybe Indiana is a football school now, Mike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You've heard almost next to nothing going into the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't know, maybe that's a good thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe they're flying under the radar a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they'll surprise some
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're going to be able to learn a lot about this team and the preseason with Butler this coming Sunday then the following Sunday they say in indeed they're going to have a game against North Carolina at Gainbridge which I think I'm actually going to be going to now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to the Colts game that day and me and my buddy were like let's go to that exhibition and then
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[SPEAKER_02]: then they're going to play Western Kentucky at the Ford Center in Evansville.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It should be pretty cool for the fans down deep in Southern Indiana to get to and maybe some in the northern Kentucky to make it to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think it'll be cool and hopefully we learned some positive things about this program.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They need all the positive moments on that they can get.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm cautiously optimistic going into the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to, I got a little too excited about non-conference performances last year and Mark had just ended up being awful.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't really the Indiana was good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the teams that they're playing in the record and the non-con going into this year will be a better indicator of how good they actually are when they play in Arkansas
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[SPEAKER_03]: They got the games against Syracuse and you see I think you've got some power four teams that you're going to get to play and and show you what level are you actually on are you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At an Arkansas level, that's a team that regularly competes for the sweet 16 with John Calaparri.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There are you able to compete with Kentucky because that's a team that should be in the tournament conversation this year, but in the end, talent wise might actually be better than going into the year, at least on paper.
26:52
[SPEAKER_03]: They did get mom's ill of it, the best shooter out of the portal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're expecting huge things from him, but I really feel like
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a game Indiana should compete in and possibly be able to win it is in Indiana this year.
27:05
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't forget that and yeah, but one possibly big, big, big set of news for Indiana that could come down in the next 24 hours.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how hard you follow recruiting Grant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think I sent you a text about this earlier today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: five star number 12 player overall in the class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Darius Walbington, a power forward from Arizona is announcing on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern and a lot of the wind seems to think that it's blowing east.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of people are predicting
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[SPEAKER_03]: The devries is going to pull this kid out of Arizona and go head to head with Tommy Lloyd in Arizona to get him out of the state, which would be Something that hasn't happened in a long time in these big mega recruits in the industry to try to be a part of.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if they pulled that off tomorrow, that could be a huge momentum swing for this program.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think so too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And to get a five star like that, I think it'd be the first five star devries is gotten out of the high school class.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that would be
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it'd be a big win for them off the floor to get a five star and again, it builds momentum for your program.
28:26
[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I think everything that you said, I can echo that they're in a good spot to get that kid.
28:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't even really know anything about it, so you sent it to me and I was like, oh, it's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that would be huge for that program if they can land him and hopefully it starts
28:47
[SPEAKER_03]: The home state can often be difficult to beat in the longer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I want to see this kid's announcement and I want to see his name connected in the end of before I get to to excited about it, but it feels like momentum is there towards this
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like we said, he needs all the positive momentum he can get.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This would be the third pull for the for next year's class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Highest ranked kiddies ever gotten if he pulls it off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So good luck to him and hopefully if we have a show later this week, which we should for football, maybe we can briefly throw in a victory on the off the court for the basketball program.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with you and this is going to be a big week for this athletic part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: obviously with basketball coming up and you know you're having your first exhibition game and your football teams playing it's the biggest game of the season yet and it will play it's the biggest game of the season the following week as well against Ohio State I think it'll be I think this is going to be a good week and hopefully we've got some positive news to talk about you're coming down the stretch of the season
30:18
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the IU report, so let's get to that big soccer match that we hinted at earlier, Indiana won that, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, get for that, 3-1 over Maryland.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was the number two team in the country battling number four, Indiana went volleyball to Wisconsin, a perennial file 14 lately, five set match, almost pulled off the reverse sweep, then they followed that up with a win at Rutgers, they played number one Nebraska.
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[SPEAKER_03]: this weekend, and that's home.
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[SPEAKER_03]: At home, it's the first time ever that Indiana will host a two teams in the top 15 in volleyball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's that's interesting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nebraska is a freaking juggernaut, though, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's don't get down on the program if they don't meet Nebraska because
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nebraska doesn't lose matches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They gauge how many sets they lose during the regular season often.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, but yeah, it's exciting time for teams other than the football team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The football team is obviously great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Provides us a lot of fun, undefeated podcast that we still continue to host here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's keep that streak alive, Grant.
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