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Bama Bob recaps the College Football Playoff 1st Round, Hawkeye talk with David Eickholt & Mr. Monday Night presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 on a Monday. Merry Christmas to everybody out
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  there as we have an abridged version of things this week will
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  be off after tomorrow, but still so much content to get into.
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  So much to talk about in our next guest.
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  He joins Us Weekly during college football season.
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  Mondays to recap, Fridays to preview.
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  But sadly, Bama, Bob, we are dwindling down.
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  The games are tightening up. We still got bowl games.
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  We still got a playoff bracket that is down 28 but just kicked
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  off Wazoo and Utah State on the Smurf turf out in Boise.
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  We got bowl games going on. Got to love it.
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  I mean, it seems like I'm trying to look, it's like almost one
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  every day. Is that right?
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  Maybe for for the foreseeable future, which is never a bad
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  thing. Of course, you got Christmas
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  with the NFL. But yeah, Saturday's a really
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  good schedule. Big slate.
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  Absolutely. Before that, though, let's take
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  a look back and gander back at what we saw.
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  And Bama, we were going back 4th, you were giving me crap
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  about picking Alabama at 17. Nothing.
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  You're all pissed off. And then talk about momentum.
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  It completely changed late in that first half and then the
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  onslaught was on. Just take us through as an
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  Alabama fan, as you are. And you know, we don't get into
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  your fandom a ton here, but you are a Bama fan, You live down
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  there. Obviously you are very close to
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  watching the program. Everything going on down 17,
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  nothing. And the questions.
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  Caitlin de Boer or is he going to be getting his meal in Arbor?
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  What is happening there? What a crazy, crazy football
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  game. It was First of all, you are not
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  feeling confident about that. Oklahoma, Alabama by double
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  digits when it was 17 to nothing.
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  I ain't buying that. Yeah, it was, you know, my kind
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  of thought I had when it was 17. Nothing was.
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  This looks just like Florida State beginning of the year, you
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  know, silly penalties, bad gaps, poor tackling, just just all
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  those things, right. And and, you know, just kind of
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  an onslaught at that point. I've got to give Caitlin de Boer
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  and his staff credit. And I will fully acknowledge
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  that I would say 6. I'll give Alabama 60% of the
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  credit. But a lot of the blame for this
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  goes to Oklahoma because not only maybe for some for some
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  decisions, but just some poor execution.
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  I think the biggest play, the biggest play of the game was to
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  pick 6 because that tied it right.
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  And and those are just one of those plays where when you're
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  down a touchdown, all of a sudden 10 seconds later you're
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  tied. OK, You don't have to drive the
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  link to the field. You don't have to worry about
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  penalties or anything like that. That's just bang, all of a
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  sudden you've got 7 points on the board.
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  Those sudden plays are really hard to overcome.
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  But to me, the key play in that game was Matir on that scramble,
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  not running for the first down. And I understand he had a wide
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  open receiver and he hit him in the hand and the guy dropped.
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  If he makes that catch, it's probably going to be it's going
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  to be at least 20 to 7, probably 24 to 7.
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  And we were talking about a wholly, completely new set of
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  topics today, not only about Oklahoma moving on, but divorce,
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  future, everything else, right? But instead, they come back.
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  I still don't know what happened to the kid on the punt.
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  I mean, that was a good snap. He caught it.
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  I mean, got to check his DraftKings account, maybe I
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  don't know if there's something going on there, but he just flat
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  out dropped the ball on the ground.
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  Maybe he saw Tim Keenan, all £350 coming at him and made a
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  business decision. I'm not sure.
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  But it it that that one play, that one decision by mature to
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  me was, was the difference in the game?
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  Was was the turning point, not the difference, but certainly
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  the turning point. And from there, you know,
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  Alabama found a a little bit of a running game.
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  They made adjustments. I thought their protection of Ty
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  Simpson was excellent in the second-half.
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  Really about midway through the second quarter on, I thought it
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  was excellent. They got after Mateer on
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  defense, made him uncomfortable. You know, if you make him beat
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  you throwing, you've got a really good chance because he's
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  going to put the ball in harm's way.
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  And he did. He made some good throws.
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  You got to give him that. But I just, it was almost a
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  mirror image of what happened in the first game in Tuscaloosa
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  about 5 weeks ago and that Alabama dominated the stats, but
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  the turnovers is what cost them the game.
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  Well, this time it was completely the other way around.
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  You look at the yardage and you know, everybody's having their
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  fun on Twitter and you know, the Notre Dame people coming out of
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  the woodwork and all this kind of stuff.
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  But I give the bore and his staff and I give the team a lot
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  of credit, the players, because it was, I mean, it would have
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  been really easy to fold up the tent and go home at that point,
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  you know, just finish out the next half and off you go.
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  But they they tied it at half time and then, you know, just
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  pulled away, you know, comfortably, you know, at the
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  end. So I give I give that staff a
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  lot of credit. They kept fighting and now
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  they've got a much tougher, much tougher test because they've got
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  a legit, you know, top two, top three, maybe number one overall
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  pick a quarterback and Indiana is low.
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  I'm sure. I know we're going to get into
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  this game as we go along, but you know, in future segments.
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  But Indiana's legit. They can, they're physical,
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  they're big. I said at the time to me, the
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  number one take away of them winning the Big 10 championship
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  was the way they did it. They didn't have to outscore
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  Ohio State. They out they out punched Ohio
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  State, which I didn't think was possible for them.
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  So Alabama has got a big, big test coming up in the Rose Bowl,
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  but they passed this one. I don't know where Michigan's
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  going to go from here. Sounds like Dillingham staying
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  Arizona State, but you know, I don't think they can wait until
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  after New Year's if if they're still waiting on the board.
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  I don't think that that's really happening anyway.
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  It might be, but I will be surprised if it is.
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  But I don't know how they can continue to wait for Alabama
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  season to end because it may not end on January 1st and they just
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  may keep going. But good win for them.
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  Everybody is excited down here more for the comeback.
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  Didn't like the way they started, but really like the way
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  that they finished obviously. Bama, if the team that we saw
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  throughout the course of the game shows up against Indiana, I
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  think they get throttled. I think the Hoosiers, I agree.
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  Just absolutely. Yeah, they ran the ball a little
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  bit, but not enough. I mean, they're just not enough.
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  How how they can't run the ball. It is one of the more
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  confounding things. I know Oklahoma's defense is
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  really good, but again, Jim Miller looked like he shouldn't
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  even been playing. The other running back was OK,
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  but it just it was OK. If that team shows up against
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  Indiana and we know what Signetti's team does and we know
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  how good they are up front on both sides of the ball, I think
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  it's crazy. If you take away the helmets, if
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  you take away the history, you take everything away from what
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  I've seen from this Alabama team for the last six weeks and what
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  we've seen from Indiana all year long.
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  I think it's a clubbing. But I know the uniforms are
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  probably going to get my way by the time we get.
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  But we got plenty of time to do before that.
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  Then we get things started Saturday morning and it is.
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  Lovely. Not fun football 10 three the
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  final we get one touchdown in the game.
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  It was entertaining in the aspect that at least it was
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  close, but miss kicks, I mean not even close on some of the
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  kicks. Just one thing after another.
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  In the end, Carson Beck who didn't make many plays, he made
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  one play flipping it out there and get it to Tony that kids a
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  stud, but that was about it. Not a very enjoyable experience
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  as a fan. No, it wasn't.
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  I thought that game had a chance to be pretty good because, you
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  know, these teams aren't familiar with each other.
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  I mean, right, Alabama and Oklahoma had played.
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  There were some familiarity there.
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  A lot of times we saw it again, you know, Indiana, Ohio State,
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  familiarity in the Big 10 championship game, Alabama,
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  Georgia, you know, those those games tend to be, you know, tend
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  to be a little uglier. This one was just, I mean, it
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  was a hard watch in the first half.
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  I mean, scoreless, right? I thought Fletcher was the was
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  the key to the game. The Miami running back, I mean,
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  172 yards on the ground and that last drive, he really took over.
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  And you mentioned Malachi. It was not outside Tony.
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  I mean, it, it was from the fumble, right?
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  To come back and make that play and you know, I guess it's a
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  passing touchdown. Can we please stop giving Carson
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  Beck a touchdown pass on that? I know we flipped it forward,
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  but come on. If it's behind the line of
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  scrimmage anyway, it's a different story for another day.
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  But it was ugly. I don't think either one of
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  these teams has a shot or would have had a shot from what I saw
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  in the next round against Ohio State.
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  I just I mean, I can't I don't if Miami play you tell my
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  getting throttled. If Miami plays like that, they
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  are going to get absolutely throttled.
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  But that was AI think that was a tough loss for Anli.
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  Think they're ahead of schedule, right.
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  If you want to look at big picture, Mike Elko year 2 has
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  them way ahead of schedule. He had them undefeated.
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  What 11 know going into the rivalry game against Texas.
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  We talked about their schedule all year.
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  They played the the literal bottom half of the SEC.
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  If you go look at the standings now they finished.
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  That's who A&M played save for that last game.
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  So I think they were a little bit overrated.
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  I think Marcel Reed got exposed a little bit.
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  We talked about that I believe Friday, You know, make him beat
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  you if you can contain him. And they did pretty well.
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  Now he he made some, he piled up some yards, but it was the
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  picks, right? I mean the the turnovers, the
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  mistakes. You can't do that in a in a good
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  team. This is, you can argue if this
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  is the best team they played all year, second best team maybe you
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  know, with Notre Dame or Texas or whoever you want to, But this
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  wasn't you. You weren't just running through
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  Mississippi State and Arkansas in this game.
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  So it was it was ugly. Watch, I don't think Miami, I
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  can't give them much of a chance from what I saw against Ohio
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  State, but I still think Ohio State's the best team in the
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  country, even though, you know, Indiana's got the scoreboard on
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  them. I think top to bottom talent
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  wise, nobody can line up with them across the board.
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  Maybe Georgia about it. But that said, you know, Miami,
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  it's it's kind of like a, you know, buddy of mine was texting
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  the Alabama game like, man, this is ugly.
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  They're not going to go anywhere.
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  You know, they have a chance chance against Indiana.
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  And he said you listen, this is a tournament, man.
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  It's like the NCAA. You just whatever you got to do
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  to win that game is what you got to do.
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  You don't have to worry about, you know, quality win or
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  anything, you know, FPI or this other crap when you're doing
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  during the regular season, whatever.
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  You don't have to worry about what anybody else is doing other
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  than team across me. Whatever you have to do to win
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  that game, that's what you do. It is surviving advance and
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  Miami did. I'm sure they'll go back to the
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  drawing board. I think the the encouraging part
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  for them is they were able to run.
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  I don't know if they're going to be able to do that against Ohio
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  State, but again, we get into a little danger area when we start
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  trying to say, well, maybe you that game's not going to beat my
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  Ohio State. Well, that game's not.
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  But they got two weeks to get ready for that game.
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  And it doesn't matter how pretty it was as long as you get the
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  win and they got the win. And disappointing for Anmi.
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  Know that big crowd, you know, kind of went home disappointed.
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  But again, I think that program, they got a tougher schedule next
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  year already with the head and they got a they do have a
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  tougher schedule. I don't expect them to be 11 and
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  O going into the Texas game next year, but he's got them.
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  It's a good season for them ahead of schedule and they build
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  on it. I think that's going to be
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  tougher than than what some people think.
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  And you mentioned the running game there, Mark Fletcher, what
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  a story, the picture of him and and big Mark, his dad that just
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  passed away a year ago that was. Yeah, I mean, that did me
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  anyway. Yes, I was right there with you
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  just seeing the picture and you know, them talking about just
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  how much he meant to Miami and EU and getting to play at home
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  for Fletcher, how big that was for him.
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  That was a good part certainly of the weekend.
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  Ole Miss, Tulane, another blowout.
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  But I guess the biggest story that comes out of this is the
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  injury to Lacy, right? The running back for a little
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  bits. Yeah, that's tough because
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  again, now they got to go play Georgia, right?
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  Familiarity. Those two teams know each other.
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  They've already played once this year.
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  This is another one. I don't know, you know, I'm not
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  this. It's in New Orleans.
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  I don't think there's going to be an advantage for either team.
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  I think that's going to be pretty much a 5050 split.
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  But I think this is a real uphill climb for Ole Miss
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  without Lacey. I don't I have not seen if if
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  that is if he's out for this game officially.
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  I know shambles got hurt also that's a concussion it looked
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  like, but he came back. So you would hope that he'll be
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  fine. But you know, you're getting
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  into now. You know, again, I I think
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  Georgia has the best coaching staff in the country was smart
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  and his assistants, they they're just experienced.
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  They've been through everything. This is going to be a this is a
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  heavy lift for Ole Miss to go in there without Lane Kiffin and
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  try to match wits with Georgia and Kirby and Mike Bobo.
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  And in that I think they'll hang for a little while.
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  We can get into that. You know that will, you know,
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  dissect that game later, but you know, this one was they just
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  kind of needed. They did what they needed to do.
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  You hope the injuries aren't serious.
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  If they are, if Lacey's out, you know, for the Georgia game that
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  is. I mean that's that's a big, big
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  loss for them. You know, shambles, probably the
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  second most important offensive player on that team because that
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  kids explosive. They line up.
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  They lined him up so many ways, you know, straight runs.
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  They give it to him in the passing game.
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  They're running on sweeps. They do a lot of different
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  things with him. If he's out, that's big weapon
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  for them and you hate to see that.
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  I was I was happy to see Ole Miss the fans show up, right?
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  They weren't it wasn't any of this all you know, gosh, Lane
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  Kiffin's gone. What are we going to do now?
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  And you listen, it wasn't the probably wasn't the opponent you
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  would hope to have in a playoff. And you know, maybe it is for
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  some fans, you know, because it's like, you know, you kind of
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  knew you were going to be able to do something like this or you
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  should be able to do something like this.
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  You know, maybe you'd want to, you know, somebody with a little
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  bigger, better logo on the helmet, if you will, But good
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  for them. Good for those kids to I don't
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  know if you call it revenge or whatever, but basically show
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  Lane Kiff and listen, it's not all about you.
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  We're we're capable of getting here and winning a playoff game
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  and but can they beat Georgia? Anything can happen again, A
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  surviving advance doesn't matter.
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  You lose, your season's over. I think it's a really tough ask
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  for them to go into to New Orleans and and win, But they've
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  got a certainly going to be no surprises in this game.
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  These two teams know each other from having played obviously
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  earlier in the year. But that was turns out.
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  I don't know if that was the least competitive of the four
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  that we had. I mean, it was it was the the
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  margin was wider than the one in Eugene.
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  So but I don't know if that makes it, you know, any better
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  game or not, but good for Ole Miss happy for their players not
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  not to just go, you know, down the tubes kind of with with Lane
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  Kiffin and you know, him tweeting during the game.
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  Just shut up, lane. I mean, just stop.
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  You know, you left, OK, It was your choice to leave.
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  Don't nobody wants to hear your congratulations to your players
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  and how proud you are of them. You know what, if you were that
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  proud of them, you would have stayed and you didn't.
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  So just stop. Just I'm kind of, I mean, the
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  drama with this guy just did never ends.
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  Always about lane, we've definitely.
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  Always about Lane Exactly, yeah. Final game, Oregon, James
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  Madison backdoor cover out of the Dukes, they moved the ball,
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  you know the 1st Dr. March down, get a field goal, March down the
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  second drive, have a field goal blocked and then oh boy, couple
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  plays later it's all of a sudden 2120 to 3:00 and then the
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  onslaught was on for that one. Do you make anything at all out
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  of the Dukes coming back late in that game or is it just it was
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  window dressing? Oregon did what they needed to
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  dominated, then put in cruise control for the final, basically
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  half of the football game. Dan Lanning wasn't happy.
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  You could tell, you know, his immediate reaction after the
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  game, you know, with the on field interview, his press
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  conference, you know, I saw some clips there.
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  I saw some clips on Sports Center or wherever it was.
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  He was not happy with the performance overall.
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  I don't know what you can make of it.
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  I think it's it's a little bit, I don't want to say alarming
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  maybe, but it might because for concern, right?
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  I mean, Texas Tech is going to be a much tougher opponents and
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  they got to fly all the way across the country to play this
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  game, which I again, we talked about before.
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  Just ridiculous what they're having to do, you know, to go to
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  Miami to play a quarterfinal game again, both these teams,
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  right? Lubbock to Miami is no, there's
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  no just, you know, our plane ride either.
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  It's just crazy what the schedule is, but you know,
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  they're going to go play it. I think it's concerning.
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  I think they need to tighten it up.
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  Maybe they were maybe there was a little bit of a let down again
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  as to who the opponent was. I mean, I can't imagine they
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  knew much about them other than what they saw from film.
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  It was not it wasn't close. You know, again, backdoor cover.
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  Thanks, Madison. I think, Oh, you give, I think
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  we can all agree they didn't belong in this tournament.
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  And I've seen that all over, you know, social media and it's
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  true. And I'm also seeing some people,
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  a lot of people post, you can't blame them for being there.
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  You blame the committee for putting them there.
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  And that's 100% accurate. They enjoyed their time, right?
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  They enjoyed the experience. They go all the way across
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  country. They don't care.
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  They don't care if you want them there, if they don't care, if
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  you like them there, you know, they're going to go in and
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  they're going to, they're going to enjoy the experience.
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  And they played to the end. As you know, Scott Van Pelt
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  says, we signed up for 60, we play 60.
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  You know, they don't care about your back door cover.
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  They don't care about any of this stuff, right?
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  So they enjoyed it. I think they're obviously A1 and
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  done. More than likely they could
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  sneak in as a group of five next year.
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  We'll see. I don't know how I don't know if
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  this builds their program or if this is just a flash in the pan
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  and they go back to being kind of irrelevant in the Sunbelt.
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  But good for them. You know, they had their moment
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  in the sun and they enjoyed it. I don't know how many people
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  watched it. This was up against the NFL and
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  you know, it was a blowout, but good for them.
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  But if I if I'm Oregon, there's some things, this may be one of
• 18:25
  those wins that Dan Landing looks at and goes, you know,
• 18:27
  listen, guys, you know, there's no celebrating this and we're
• 18:30
  not even going to have the 24 hour rule here.
• 18:32
  You know, there's a lot of things we did that wasn't up to
• 18:34
  our standard. That's kind of how he put it.
• 18:37
  And I think he knows that if they play that way, they got no
• 18:39
  shot, Sir. I don't really have a they're
• 18:42
  going to lose to Texas Tech more than likely if they play like
• 18:44
  that. But certainly the better teams
• 18:47
  that they've got their eyes set on.
• 18:49
  I thought going in they were one of five teams that I thought
• 18:52
  them and Texas Tech were two that maybe had a backdoor shot,
• 18:56
  long shot or whatever at winning it all along.
• 19:00
  You know, with Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia being the big
• 19:03
  favorites, you know any, you know, the betting favorites, if
• 19:05
  you will, but they play like that.
• 19:07
  They're coming home after that Miami game or the game in Miami.
• 19:11
  So they've got more skill. They should have.
• 19:15
  They should have done better, I guess.
• 19:17
  And I think he's probably upset that they didn't finish it and
• 19:19
  they didn't finish the game the way they wanted to.
• 19:22
  Out of some of that credit goes to James Madison.
• 19:24
  Some of it probably goes to, again, let's just get out of
• 19:26
  here. Let's don't get anybody hurt.
• 19:28
  We don't care what the final margin is.
• 19:30
  Let's just take our ball and go home.
• 19:32
  With that Bama, we got a lot of games in front of us.
• 19:35
  Mentioned the Potato Bowl underway.
• 19:36
  Still no score with wazoo. Know a lot of Cyclone fans keep
• 19:39
  an eye on that one. Some potential assistant coaches
• 19:42
  might be coming with Coach Rogers in that one.
• 19:44
  We got 3 bowl games tomorrow, one on Christmas Eve, of course
• 19:48
  the Hawaii Bowl with Kalin, Hawaii 3 on Friday and how about
• 19:51
  this eight bowl games on Saturday the 27th including the
• 19:55
  Pinstripe Bowl, Penn State, Clemson, We get Georgia Tech,
• 19:58
  BYU team with a little bit of angst themselves in the Cougars.
• 20:02
  So. Pretty good week and you got a
• 20:04
  favorite. What's the one that you got
• 20:05
  circled as we make our way towards the weekend?
• 20:08
  You know, it's funny because some of these games and it's,
• 20:10
  again, it's so hard to tell, you know, who's in, who's out, who's
• 20:14
  happy to be there, who doesn't want to be there, that kind of
• 20:16
  thing. I kind of go with venue here.
• 20:18
  So I, you know, I like the game at Fenway Park.
• 20:21
  I think it's weird. It's goofy, you know, they're
• 20:24
  both on one side of the field, you know, and that's Army.
• 20:27
  I'll, you know, I generally watch Army if I can Army, UConn,
• 20:30
  I think it's a good game. Northeast.
• 20:31
  I think that's an excellent match up at Fenway Park, right?
• 20:35
  You had Army and UConn 2 NE schools in Fenway Park, you
• 20:38
  know, the game and, and, and Yankee Stadium, you know, that's
• 20:41
  fine. That's that's kind of fun too.
• 20:45
  You know, if you just look at it match up wise going in, I like
• 20:48
  the Georgia Tech BYU game, but again, don't know who's there.
• 20:51
  You know, where's BYU head? I guess since they decided to
• 20:54
  play, you know, they're going to all show up and like another
• 20:57
  team. By the way, you see BYU and
• 20:59
  Notre Dame signed A2 games to play next year and the year
• 21:03
  after. So I'm sure that's just
• 21:05
  coincidence. But yeah, I you know, it's I'm
• 21:09
  going to go more venue more than actual match up because it's so
• 21:12
  hard to tell, you know, Penn State, Clemson on paper is, you
• 21:16
  know, a really nice one. But again, who knows how that's
• 21:19
  going to turn out. But Virginia, Missouri looks
• 21:22
  good. But I just go with venue on
• 21:24
  those. So I'll be sitting down Saturday
• 21:26
  morning early and watching the two playing in to the iconic
• 21:30
  baseball stadiums that we have in this country.
• 21:33
  We'll talk to you in a week's time.
• 21:34
  Bama, have a great Christmas. We'll talk to you next Monday to
• 21:37
  recap and get ready for the playoff.
• 21:39
  I look forward to the guys and you know, all the best I can and
• 21:43
  you guys have a Merry Christmas, Happy holidays.
• 21:45
  Please stay safe and be thankful.
• 21:46
  Thank. You.
• 21:47
  Yep. Thanks, Bama.
• 21:48
  Bama, Bob checking in, as he does twice weekly during college
• 21:51
  football season. A look back at what we saw in
• 21:53
  the playoff and get ready for those quarterfinals.
• 21:56
  Boy, how good is this going to be?
• 21:57
  Starting on that Friday night, we're going to get New Year's
• 21:59
  Eve, Miami against Ohio State, a rematch of the 2002 season, a
• 22:04
  national championship game, and the Chris Gamble play in the end
• 22:08
  zone. Then on that Saturday, January
• 22:10
  1st, the triple header starts with Oregon, Texas Tech, for my
• 22:13
  money, the best of the games, that's in Miami.
• 22:16
  Then Game 2, the Rose Bowl, Indiana, Alabama and Georgia,
• 22:19
  Ole Miss to cap things off down in the Sugar Bowl.
• 22:22
  What a stretch we're going to have coming up in college
• 22:25
  football. We continue on the other side.
• 22:27
  Time to tell some Hawkeyes. David Eicholdt's going to join
• 22:29
  us from hawkeyeinsider.com, It's Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 22:32
  Sports Radio Network. We continue, it's Miller and
• 22:34
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 22:37
  Ken, back with us tomorrow, today just myself, Trent, joined
• 22:41
  by David Eichold. Now as we talk a little,
• 22:44
  Hawkeyes getting ready for the bowl game and opt out, though
• 22:47
  not from the Iowa perspective. It will be on the Vandy side of
• 22:52
  things, the Star Wars, their outstanding tight end.
• 22:53
  He is not going to be there. We know Diego Pavi will be in a
• 22:56
  guy that likes to party. Wonder if he's going to run into
• 22:58
  Diego, he is David Eichold. What's up, David?
• 23:02
  What's going on, man? Yeah, we'll we'll see.
• 23:03
  I'll tell you what, the weather is going to be nice.
• 23:05
  I I finally checked it out. It looks like it's going to be
• 23:07
  about 80 and sunny, I think the entire week.
• 23:09
  So there's a reason I booked a one way dig it.
• 23:12
  We'll we'll see when I feel like coming back.
• 23:13
  I might hang out for a little bit.
• 23:15
  Spend a little bit more time in Florida.
• 23:17
  Not a bad thing. As we know, though, the weather
• 23:19
  decent here across the state today.
• 23:21
  We know how the weather could turn, certainly.
• 23:23
  So you're making your way down there to the bowl game.
• 23:26
  It is Vanderbilt. Let's just talk about the game,
• 23:28
  mentioned Stowers. He's not going to be there.
• 23:31
  I've been back and forth very conflicted on this one.
• 23:34
  You know, we, we got to come up with an opinion and a take and I
• 23:37
  just don't have a good feeling one way or the other for this
• 23:40
  match up against Vandy. There's times the way they run
• 23:43
  the ball and what Oregon did against Iowa and kind of get
• 23:46
  concerned and then it comes the other way.
• 23:47
  Where are you right now? I don't.
• 23:48
  We're still almost two weeks away from the game actually
• 23:51
  happening. Where are you when we just look
• 23:53
  at the match up, not knowing who's all going to be there on
• 23:56
  both sides when you look at the match up against Vanderbilt?
• 23:59
  Yeah, I mean, I think the line is about right news.
• 24:01
  Unfortunate the Stowers Mackie Award winner did opt out.
• 24:04
  And I'll tell you, that's a different tune than what we kind
• 24:07
  of heard over the last couple weeks.
• 24:08
  Because when Clark Leah met with the media, he said he was not
• 24:11
  anticipating any opt outs. And that was a big reason I
• 24:13
  think a lot of eyes were going to be on this bowl game.
• 24:16
  I know we it's become cool to devalue bowl games.
• 24:19
  I understand it to a certain extent, Trent, but this to me is
• 24:22
  a top five bowl game like outside the College Football
• 24:24
  Playoff. I think this is going to be a
• 24:26
  really fun matchup. Vanderbilt's been extremely
• 24:29
  physical. They really haven't played a lot
• 24:31
  of great rushing offenses. So I'm very intrigued about how
• 24:34
  Iowa's mid zone game kind of attacks them, how Mark Granowski
• 24:37
  is going to be utilized. But you know, Diego Pavea was
• 24:41
  one of the most dynamic players in all of college football and
• 24:44
  you know, what better test for him to be able to go against
• 24:46
  than a Phil Parker coach defense.
• 24:48
  So I do think Vanderbilt should be ranked.
• 24:52
  I mean, just a little bit higher in the odds should be in their
• 24:54
  favor that they're a really solid football team.
• 24:57
  And it really is incredible job that Clark Lee has done with
• 25:00
  them because I mean, Vanderbilt, it was what trended bottom three
• 25:04
  power 5 football program all time, maybe maybe arguably the
• 25:07
  worst. I mean, they really haven't had
• 25:09
  a lot of sustained success. I mean, you could argue this is
• 25:11
  their most successful season they've ever had.
• 25:14
  And I think that's why they're going to be motivated to kind of
• 25:16
  continue that and to beat what I think is a really good Iowa
• 25:19
  team. But from a matchup perspective,
• 25:22
  I like to see some new wrinkles. I like for Iowa to try to attack
• 25:25
  them through the air. I'm not going to be surprised if
• 25:27
  they end up doing that. But you know, there are some
• 25:30
  things about this Vanderbilt team that they play good
• 25:32
  defense, man, and they like to push the pace and and Diego
• 25:35
  Pavea is the reason behind that. So we go from the match up to
• 25:40
  the Iowa perspective. They have said all the right
• 25:43
  things, Kirk said. Doesn't anticipate any opt outs.
• 25:46
  But it's different when you get there.
• 25:47
  Guys certainly look at their NFL futures outside the guys.
• 25:50
  We think maybe we'll depart for the portal.
• 25:52
  That'll be happening just two days later.
• 25:54
  When that opens up on January 2nd, will you be surprised?
• 25:57
  Let's just put it that way. Will you be surprised if we find
• 26:00
  out a guy or two, you know, a day before the game that you
• 26:03
  know what, not going to play in this game.
• 26:05
  Will you be surprised by that? I would a little bit and and I'm
• 26:09
  trying to say this with the utmost respect to the players
• 26:12
  that I cover and and everything like that, But Trent, how many
• 26:15
  players from I were good enough to opt out?
• 26:20
  Like I don't want to come across like that.
• 26:21
  But I mean, you know, I think Logan Jones has already said
• 26:24
  he's not going to opt out. You think that Joe Moore
• 26:26
  award-winning offensive line. They basically said on their
• 26:29
  live stream today that they they aren't going to opt out.
• 26:31
  They kind of laughed, laughed it off when they were asked about
• 26:34
  that. So Logan Jones is not going to
• 26:35
  Jennings dunker is not going to, you know, both Stevens is not
• 26:39
  Mark Gronowski has no reason to opt out.
• 26:42
  And and you know, obviously he said all along that he's going
• 26:44
  to play. And then you look at some of the
• 26:46
  members of the secondary like TJ Halls upped his draft stock
• 26:49
  significantly. But after the way his season
• 26:51
  ended with that kind of nagging shoulder injury, he wants to
• 26:54
  play one last time with this team.
• 26:56
  I I think Xavier Wampa, you know, had he been able first or
• 27:00
  second round draft, he could have potentially done that.
• 27:02
  But I think his leadership in his production has been very
• 27:04
  critical for Iowa's back end. So it won't long answer a little
• 27:08
  bit Trent, but I would be a little bit surprised.
• 27:11
  But then again, it's kind of hard to surprise me from this
• 27:13
  extent. We see and hear so much stuff
• 27:16
  that goes on in college athletics on a daily basis.
• 27:19
  At this point, there's very few jaw-dropping things where I'm
• 27:22
  just sitting there mind blown, because when you really think
• 27:25
  about the grand totality of things, everything's almost on
• 27:28
  the table at this point. It really is.
• 27:31
  Nothing should surprise us. Well, wasn't a surprise at all
• 27:34
  in the recruiting world, Jax De Jean makes his commitment to
• 27:38
  Iowa. Long felt like this was going to
• 27:40
  be the case. But I know after Levar Woods,
• 27:42
  his departure was announced, there was a little bit of
• 27:44
  tepidation out there. Levar obviously recruits western
• 27:48
  Iowa, northwest Iowa specifically.
• 27:50
  So maybe some concerns there. No concerns now.
• 27:52
  He makes his commitment to Iowa. The younger brother of Cooper
• 27:55
  Jacks is going there, but a different kind of player
• 27:58
  certainly than older brother Cooper.
• 28:01
  Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think right now you
• 28:04
  can throw him in a wide variety of different positions.
• 28:06
  He is listed as a tight end. The offer is at tight end about
• 28:11
  6/4 and 1/2, about 2:15. And you look at that tight ender
• 28:14
  man, I think Abdul Hodge has to be smiling ear to ear with some
• 28:17
  of the talent that he's got there.
• 28:18
  Because as we mentioned earlier, DJ Venami in that group and his
• 28:23
  emergence over the course of the year combined, Luke Brewer, the
• 28:25
  Norwalk IA, I have Jax, Digene, Thomas Meyer.
• 28:29
  I mean, you just go up and down the list.
• 28:31
  Like there's a ton of potential in that group.
• 28:34
  But yeah, Jax is a really good athlete.
• 28:36
  Again, he's a very productive basketball player as well.
• 28:38
  I think he's averaging about 14 and 10 already this early
• 28:42
  season. I do think he's become a little
• 28:44
  bit more physical at the point of attack on blocking.
• 28:46
  But as far as hands go, as far as, you know, making the right
• 28:50
  football plays, understanding football to a high level, I
• 28:53
  think he's got a bunch of upside there.
• 28:55
  I think there, I don't think this is going to happen, but I'm
• 28:58
  just saying this testament to his athleticism.
• 29:00
  You could line them up as a as an outside edge guy and you'll
• 29:04
  put on another 4050 lbs on him, be about 6-4 and a half, 260, do
• 29:08
  some damage there on that line of scrimmage.
• 29:10
  But yeah, Jax is going to be kind of an emerging target.
• 29:13
  And the big thing for me is that that surprised a lot of people
• 29:16
  when Cooper got to Iowa, it was how good he was so quickly.
• 29:21
  But think about the level of football he grew up playing,
• 29:24
  right? I mean, he's an Iowa high school
• 29:25
  legend, but it's not exactly a a big high school.
• 29:29
  I get this competition is not great.
• 29:30
  So what's that transition period going to be like once Jax gets
• 29:34
  on campus at Iowa? Is he going to be able to adjust
• 29:37
  like his brother did? Or is he give you like most
• 29:40
  other people and needs a little bit of time to kind of grow into
• 29:42
  himself? So again, I think it's good that
• 29:45
  he's this size early because he'll know how to move and
• 29:47
  utilize his body once he gets in that tight end room.
• 29:51
  But ultimately, I mean, again, this is a really good pick up I
• 29:53
  think for in Iowa 2027 class trend that's #20 overall by the
• 29:59
  24/7 sports ranking. So, I mean, you know, it took
• 30:02
  them a little bit to get going, but they've been reeling in the
• 30:05
  commitments here over the last few weeks.
• 30:07
  Over to some basketball. Let's start on the women's side.
• 30:09
  Ladies first. Number one, UConn, boy, they
• 30:12
  look like #1 My big take away, though, it wasn't just the 26
• 30:16
  turnovers. It was a lot of times it wasn't
• 30:19
  the ones that they're athletic. They make a play.
• 30:21
  You know, it was the times not going out and, and catching the
• 30:25
  ball right, just waiting for it to get to you and somebody steps
• 30:28
  in front. It was not being lazy on the
• 30:30
  pass, actually get a little velocity behind it.
• 30:32
  It was those kind of turnovers. You don't have to play perfect,
• 30:35
  but you got to play clean. And the Iowa women certainly
• 30:37
  didn't play clean on Saturday. No, they didn't.
• 30:40
  You're right. I think that was the most
• 30:41
  frustrating thing. But give credit, like you, you
• 30:44
  said it, give credit to UConn. I think that is the best UConn
• 30:47
  team they've had. And again, this is no shot at
• 30:50
  Page, Becker's or any other former players.
• 30:52
  That's the best and deepest UConn team I've seen probably in
• 30:54
  the last eight or nine years. Like Sarah Strong, I thought was
• 30:58
  the MVP of that team last year. She looks like she could be a
• 31:00
  top 15 WNBA player tomorrow. Like she is that good.
• 31:03
  She's going to be the number one pick whenever she leaves.
• 31:06
  I think UConn is a national title favorite.
• 31:08
  But Iowa, you're right, the unforced errors were there.
• 31:11
  I think that, you know, you did see some good stretches of play
• 31:14
  from Layla Hayes when she was out there.
• 31:16
  Chit chat, right, with what Iowa got out of her in the transfer
• 31:20
  portal and writes willingness to be able to become a shot creator
• 31:24
  and a shot maker at a high level.
• 31:26
  Boy, her ceiling looks like it's that completely different level.
• 31:29
  But ultimately, this is a young team going into a hostile
• 31:32
  environment because again, I always give you the favorite
• 31:34
  most Rd. venues. That's just the way the
• 31:37
  reality's been over the last several years.
• 31:39
  I think it's going to continue. They were not going to be the
• 31:41
  favorite in that place near that close to U Conn and how much
• 31:45
  they love basketball. So again, you think about
• 31:47
  ideally, you think about Layla Hayes, you think about some of
• 31:49
  these younger players right now, Trent, that experience they got
• 31:53
  and the standard which they can strive for.
• 31:55
  I really think that's going to be a difference maker for this
• 31:58
  program for the rest of the year.
• 31:59
  And again, I think 2 years from now and we're interviewing these
• 32:02
  girls when there's, you know, juniors and seniors, they're
• 32:05
  going to be able to look back at that game and say that's what
• 32:07
  really taught me to get to that next level.
• 32:09
  But you're right, a lot to improve on.
• 32:11
  But again, I also think you wanted to get kind of a
• 32:14
  foundation of where Iowa's at because look, they didn't play
• 32:17
  great. Trent, you're not going to be
• 32:18
  able to convince me it's not a top 15 team in the country.
• 32:21
  I still think Iowa's capable of making a Sweet 16.
• 32:24
  I'm right there with you. And the upside of this team I
• 32:27
  think is bigger than we what we've seen some past years.
• 32:30
  It's still a really young team. Yeah, they got Stolky, who we
• 32:33
  all remember from the championship game runs and
• 32:35
  Fierbach and and obviously McCabe on the outside shooting
• 32:38
  the ball. We know those.
• 32:39
  But the rest of the this squad is incredibly young.
• 32:41
  That leads to the question. Another young player and a new
• 32:43
  player, Emily Rodriguez, didn't make the trip out to New York.
• 32:46
  What's the latest on Rodriguez's front?
• 32:48
  Yeah. I mean, I think we're going to
• 32:50
  learn a lot here when Iowa has the next game against Penn State
• 32:53
  because obviously word came out about about Rodriguez and and
• 32:56
  she's, you know, currently away from the team.
• 32:58
  And I have a couple takes on this trend.
• 33:00
  I want your opinion on this too, because when Jan was asked point
• 33:04
  blank if she was still part of the program, she said, as of
• 33:06
  now, yes. So again, I don't want to vilify
• 33:10
  Emily Rodriguez when we don't know the full story, right?
• 33:14
  But at the same time, do you know how hard it is to take off
• 33:18
  someone like Jan Jensen, who is Miss Sunshine, doesn't talk bad
• 33:24
  about anybody. And again, I'm not.
• 33:26
  I don't know the situation because you think about Emily
• 33:29
  Rodriguez. She grew up her first 16 years
• 33:31
  of life in the Dominican Republic.
• 33:32
  Moved to Florida. Two years of high school,
• 33:35
  they're played one year at UCF and then moved to Iowa.
• 33:38
  That is such a culture shock in a transition that very few
• 33:43
  people I feel like in the Midwest could appreciate or
• 33:46
  understand. Maybe not appreciate, but
• 33:47
  understand, right. So I think there's other aspects
• 33:50
  to everything. But if if she's not on the
• 33:53
  sideline against Penn State, I I still think right now there's a
• 33:58
  chance she comes back, But I'll be I'll level a few man.
• 34:01
  I think there's a non zero chance that Emily Rodriguez is
• 34:03
  done as a Hawkeye. I do think that possibilities on
• 34:07
  the table, you think about the semester break, what better way
• 34:09
  to kind of step away from the team and move wherever she was
• 34:12
  going to move or take her next steps on her journey.
• 34:15
  This is probably about that time frame again.
• 34:17
  The door is still. Open for her, but I'm very
• 34:20
  interested about how all this develops because again, I do
• 34:24
  think there is a chance that Emily has done at Iowa.
• 34:27
  Yeah, I would say that's probably the betting favorite,
• 34:29
  you know, bringing it to my world, the betting favorites
• 34:31
  probably that she's going to depart as opposed to return.
• 34:33
  It's not a non zero chance. I think it goes both ways, but I
• 34:36
  think that's certainly all the way that I'd be leaning at this
• 34:38
  point. Hey, final minute with you,
• 34:39
  David. I do think it's trending in that
• 34:41
  direction. Yeah, I agree with you on that.
• 34:43
  David, last thing men's team played here in Des Moines,
• 34:46
  domination against Bucknell 9439 in that one.
• 34:50
  The story to me though, my biggest take take away was both
• 34:53
  Hassan coming in and the applause when he was splashing
• 34:57
  down a couple of those threes that he was getting for the fans
• 34:59
  in attendance and then getting fool Garris going again.
• 35:02
  We've talked about a ton. He is The X Factor.
• 35:04
  If this team is going to be not just a good team, good enough to
• 35:07
  be the tournament, but a step beyond that.
• 35:09
  I think Alvero fool Garris is the guy that'll take him there.
• 35:13
  Yeah, I agree with you 100%. I wasn't sure if he's going to
• 35:16
  be the biggest X Factor going into the year, but the team
• 35:19
  flows so much better when he's engaged, right when he's out on
• 35:22
  the perimeter, when he's in the passing lanes, creating steals,
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  getting those turnovers, getting out in transition.
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  The team plays with more of an elevated sense of confidence.
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  And again, this is not really great Bucknell team, but I think
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  when full Garris is confident and he stays out foul trouble,
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  Iowa's defense works better. I think they run better in
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  transition and I think there's a lot more pressure off of Bennett
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  starts. The shoulder did not have to
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  create everything full Garris is capable of that.
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  So they are the number 25 team, the AP top 25 today.
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  I think that's well deserved, but we're going to see what
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  happens. I I really like this team.
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  I think it's a lot of fun to watch.
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  That is David Eichold, hawkeyeinsider.com 24/7 Sports
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  at hawkeyeinsider.com, part of 24/7.
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  David, enjoy Florida. I'm sure we will talk to you, if
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  not down there before we'll try to track you down.
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  Enjoy in Florida and have a Merry Christmas.
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  Merry Christmas man, I I always appreciate, you know, our
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  friendship and you having me on and a lot more to come for sure.
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  But make sure you get some family time.
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  Maybe you have a fireball or two for me.
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  We'll call it good. That's alright, Trent.
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  Appreciate you. See you, David.
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  David Eichel joining us, 24/7 sports again,
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  hawkeyeinsider.com. Final time out on the other
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  side, Mr. Monday night. It's the final big Monday night
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  of the year. Yes, we come down to the stretch
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  run. It's the 49ers and the Colts
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  next Monday night. Little bit different, though.
• 36:45
  The Rams are involved. They play Atlanta in that one.
• 36:48
  We'll come back. Mr. Monday night's pick
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  presented by Circus Sports. It's Miller and Condon on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Wrapping up a Monday with you,
• 36:55
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Ken will be back with us tomorrow for our final show of
• 37:03
  Christmas week. Hope everybody's ready to go.
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  We got some shopping still to do.
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  We're behind the 8 ball is always though used a mail a
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  little bit more than normally do but still got to make that trip
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  out to the mall. Got a couple other stops on the
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  agenda before we get to Christmas time and looking
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  forward to that. Looking forward to tonight.
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  And yes, the music. Let's play it.
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  No, not that one, this one. There we go.
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  Mr. Monday night seeking suspicion and that's all it is.
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  Colts with old Man Rivers hangs around going to grab the hat.
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  The 5 1/2 for the Colts on A5 game losing streak.
• 37:44
  Charge up atmosphere. Colts defense, though not what
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  they were at the beginning of the season, makes enough to keep
• 37:52
  this one interesting. We will be entertained at
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  minimum. Going to grab the five and a
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  half. Three other plays for this
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  evening, one starting in less than 10 minutes.
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  Tulsa, one of the stories of the mid major level beat.
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  You and I handled the Panthers, one of their two losses this
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  year. They're laying 16 1/2 against
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  Denver. The Pioneers, though, they keep
• 38:13
  it snug, going to grab the 16 1/2 tonight.
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  Kansas against Davidson, lay the 16 1/2 in that one and I'm going
• 38:20
  to play the Panthers tonight. You and I getting 12 1/2 out at
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  Saint Mary's. Saint Mary's, I thought they
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  were going to have a step back this season.
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  They're not Gonzaga good, but boy, year after year after year,
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  so good out there. We're going to grab the Panthers
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  on the 12 1/2 this evening. That will do it for today.
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  Tomorrow, normal show. Ken, we'll be back in the fold
• 38:42
  and glad to have him back aboard with us.
• 38:44
  Enjoy the day, enjoy the bowl game.
• 38:46
  Wazoo. Utah State, a battle 7UP in
• 38:50
  wazoo with the lead in that one coming up next.
• 38:53
  It's off the bench. Sean and Lucas got you covered.
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  They'll take you up until 5:00, then overtime.
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  Iowa, we'll talk to you again tomorrow.
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  Have a great day. It's Miller and Cotton on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network.