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Cyclone talk with Bill Seals, Iowa Football Schedule Leak? Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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I'm Hilary Condon, welcome back. Hour number two, Iowa Sports
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Radio Network wherever listening in the state of Iowa.
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take you until 5 overtime Iowa 5 until 6.
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Let's talk cyclone, shall we? Every Monday, Bill Seals joins
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us cyclonereport.com. cyclonereport.com, part of
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rivals slash arm 3 and Bill is here.
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Hello, Bill Trenton, Ken, good to talk to you.
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How are you? I'm doing great guys, it's a
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pleasure to be on Chatting Cyclones again.
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Absolutely won't get a chance for the men until Thursday, but
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let's recap what we saw this this past Saturday.
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I don't know if I've seen Iowa State put together a more
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convincing 20 minutes than we did in the 1st 20 minutes of
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that game against Oklahoma State.
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They couldn't miss John Fanta and Tom Crean, who couldn't
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figure out where I would stay played but got past that.
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You know, I like him by the way. Everybody makes mistakes, right?
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That that was just I mean he's coached there at at Carver.
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But anyways, what a what a difference though, Bill.
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I mean, T JS got to love that a that they that they played well
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right out of the from the opening bell or tip and then the
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fact that they did not play well in the final half.
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You'll get to do some coaching this week.
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Yeah, and, and plenty of time to do it.
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Luckily the team was able to get out of Stillwater on late
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Saturday afternoon and and get back and probably get off their
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feet, I would imagine for at least a good day or two days,
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depending on how the schedule structured this week.
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And play Colorado Thursday and then a relatively quick turn
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around. They'll play on Sunday at Kansas
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State. So this is the part of the
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schedule where Iowa State, you know, I guess, so to speak,
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needs to put the hay in the barn back.
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Some wins get into good shape because the schedule really
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flips on February 14th when the Kansas comes to Hilton.
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And it's going to be a tough, what, 3 weeks, I guess to, to
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wrap up the regular season. We know how well Manchelevich is
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playing at this point. Lipsy is Lipsy.
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You know what you're going to get out of him.
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Buchanan, boy, what a surprise he has been.
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I think he has exceeded expectations.
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I guess the one guy out of the regular rotation at this point,
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I'm still waiting for more. And maybe it's not fair because
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he's a freshman, not just a freshman.
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Coming over across the pond from Germany is Dom Pleita.
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Is there more this year or is he kind of, as I mentioned, with
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Lipsy, Lipsy's Lipsy, right? Is this just what he is at this
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point in his career? Well, I think that, yeah, I mean
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it. It's still, it's still taking
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him some time. He played with 10 1/2 minutes.
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I think there will be games just with the foul trouble probably.
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You'll be cannon he was one of one or two guy well wanted to
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post to foul out against Oklahoma State and there I think
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there will be games where he's asked to play play to to play
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more than 10 1/2 minutes. But I think T JS been happy with
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what he's been able to do and you know, it continues to be an
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adjustment for him to there what seven games I guess into the Big
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12 schedule things are going to get a lot more difficult.
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I I think with the schedule. So it's still you're still going
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to see some ups and downs with him.
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But you know, with Jefferson moving on after, after this
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season, I think that the, you know, the sky continues to be
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the limit for Plato and he'll get back for a full offseason
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and I think you'll see even better play from him his
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sophomore year. He's really going to benefit
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though I think for the time he has played this season and and
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who he's played alongside. Yeah, no doubt.
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Get that experience this year because he's going to have to
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pull more of the rope next this year once once this team
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transitions and changes over Bill, you mentioned an
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opportunity to win some games here coming up and they they
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certainly there's certainly a couple of those K State after
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after Colorado will return again against Baylor.
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Who's the team that may be flying under the radar?
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Let not an Arizona or a BYUA Houston.
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Is there another team that's you know, there's that first tier
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which Iowa State is a part of it and if you want to throw all of
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them BYU, Kansas, Houston, TX Tech.
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Is there another team out there that you know, depending on what
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night you watch them that you know this team this this team's
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better than I thought. I thought that maybe it was
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Central Florida and then I was state destroyed them.
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Is there a middle of the PAC Big 12 team that you got your eye
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on? Well, I think just in in lieu of
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where they play them, maybe at TCU on on Tuesday the 10th,
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they're a top 50 team right now. And in Ken Palm they've had a
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couple of wins in a row. Had a nice win at Baylor on
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Saturday. That was a 7 point win.
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And when you know what, Jamie Dixon, you're always, you know,
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the team's going to be well coached and they're going to
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play them down in Fort Worth. So if it before things quote UN
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quote get real difficult starting on Valentine's Day, you
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know, who knows? They're going to this team's,
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they're never going to publicly come out and say they're looking
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ahead. What's what's to come next?
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But that TCU game on what, Tuesday, February 10th?
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But that might be 1 right there that they're going to need to go
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on the road and and play well against a very well coached
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team. We've seen Iowa State, Kansas to
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this point. We saw over the weekend Houston,
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Houston, TX Tech, but for the most part it feels like the Big
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12 is kind of back loaded this schedule.
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Do you think there's there's kind of a reasoning behind it
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that there is a justification it's a good?
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Point you never thought of it. We'll kind of inflate everybody
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up. Our top level teams will
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separate and then we'll have them go head to head and if you
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lose a game, it's not going to matter that much because you're
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losing to it another 20 and 19 and one team or whatever it is.
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Do you think that there's a reasoning behind the way they
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put this schedule together? That does feel very back loaded.
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Yeah, I mean very well could be there.
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There are other teams on the schedule.
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Iowa State's played that the Big 12 it's a very front loaded
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schedule. You know, granted it's not
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really one of the top tier teams.
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I guess you could stay in the Big 12 like I think it was
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Oklahoma State or UUCFI think that they had just played that
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played a very is is playing a very front loaded schedule in
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terms of level of competition. So yeah, I mean, Iowa State's
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already 5, I believe five and two.
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And in quad one games or quad one games so far got what, 3
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what? 5-6 more quad two wins.
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So already a very impressive resume and they're in an
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analytics or darling right now. Ken Palm very highly considered
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the ESPNSBPII believe they were sixth in the latest update there
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and and a good opportunity starting with Kansas on the 14th
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that continue to build that resume.
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It looks like over the last well, they'll have it in a
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starting on February 14th. They will have what five of six
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of those next games starting with Kansas will be quad one
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games. So certainly an opportunity for
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Iowa State to really bolster that resume and and get into
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good condition and heading into March Madness.
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And I think if if they can can do that, the the path that
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through the NCAA tournament, I guess we're the ones that get to
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look forward to to this kind of stuff.
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The team never will, but sets up very favorably.
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St. Louis could be a possibility
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that first weekend. And if they can get into the
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Midwest regional up to Chicago for that.
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So all venues that could be very well attended for Cyclone fans.
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Boy, that's a fact. My gosh, didn't realize Saint
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Louis Bill switched to football. TC, you good?
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I know you had enough opportunity to talk to Jimmy
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Rogers last week. I had a sit down.
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Good for him for, you know, taking time out to meet with the
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various media throughout the state of Iowa.
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They're also going to open up Jack Trice at some point.
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Let the team not see a game, but to to watch a practice.
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That remains to be seen how that's going to play all but it
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is on the on the drawing board. So, so grateful to that.
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And I think Cyclone fans will be very appreciative of that.
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But to your conversation with Jimmy Rogers, just to take away
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or two from your conversation with the Iowa State's new head
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football coach. Well, it was nice to get into
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several topics with him. I I spent pretty much my entire
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30 minutes asking questions there.
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There wasn't an end with him too.
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And there wasn't a whole lot of small talk or anything like
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that. And before or after.
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So we got right into it, got some position, groups of
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interest, talked about Jalen Rayner, his fit in this offense.
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I think it it, well, they've got the OC from, well, not the OCI
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should say that's Tyler Roll, but the quarterbacks coach who
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had been the OC at Arkansas State, Heckendorf, Keith signed
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off on that in a big way. I think with what the offense is
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going to look like under Roll, the Rainer is a guy that is
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going to be a good fit. I think in that Jimmy talked
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about that and then also the guys coming back in that room.
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It was interesting, too, to get into some specifics on the the
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running back room. You know, they saw a little bit
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of turnover there. They got a lot of guys coming
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back. You can't say the same thing
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about other positions, but he's really with Salahuddin Allah.
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I think I pronounced that right out of Oregon State.
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He was a guy that Rogers was hoping wouldn't play against him
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last season at Washington State. You know, Allah was with Oregon
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State. But I think they've got think
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they've got a couple of guys with a lot of potential out of
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the portal. Probably it was certainly not
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the production level we've seen out of Hanson and Sama, but some
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guys with potential there with some others coming back the
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offensive line. It was interesting to get him to
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talk about that. I, I take away out out of it.
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I I think that he, he felt that they were able to land a lot of
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their first, first priorities there.
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You know, so many times in the portal you're, you're going to,
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you know, a plan CA plan D, plan E.
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But it sounds like that came together pretty quickly for
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them. We saw that too.
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They seem like there for a while it was O line D line is all they
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were getting and it was early on in that portal process.
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So I think they got a lot of the guys that they set out to be
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priorities. They got em, got em in the fold.
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So and they're gonna need to as well with pretty much rebuilding
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an entire 2 deep. So gonna be a Big Spring for
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that group. Got some some talk in about the
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four two or what on going by the scholarships being distributed,
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I thought maybe it'd be a lot more like a 425, but it is going
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to be a 434 system. He gave me some names of some
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guys who might factor into that is kind of like a hybrid
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linebacker, kind of a a strong safety that'll come up and and
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run support and be that hybrid got into some names.
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There are 4 four guys that they've well, three or four that
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they've added. So as that defense transitions
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over and I think I'm really happy with what I heard about
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and how that's going to situate. They've got a plenty of depth on
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the D line, some pass rush guys and Iowa State.
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You're probably going to get after the quarterback a little
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bit this season, I think with that four man front.
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So some Cyclone fans going to be excited about that.
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Yeah, no more sitting back waiting and playing that
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umbrella coverage. Get to look a little different
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defensively, certainly for ISU covered up this year.
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You talk about the portal and some of the entries that they've
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had. They continue to stack things up
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here over the last week, even though the portals closed.
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As Ken said, there's a lot of guys still out there.
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Do you anticipate that's going to continue?
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You know, is there maybe a handful of guys?
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Could it still be 567 guys still that are out there still
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incoming? What do you anticipate as they
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still continue to remake this roster?
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What I was told is that they are done in the transfer portal and
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I don't, I didn't get that. That was the vibe.
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I think if you look at my scholarship pipelines that I've
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I've published here in the last week or so or kept updating, I
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think they're at like 92 scholarships right now.
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It's not an 85 hard cap anymore like it used to be.
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They can go up to what, one O 5 now.
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So there's, there's wiggle room on scholarships now, but I think
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they're happy with where they're at.
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But I was, I, I, I am under the impression though that that
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there could be maybe two or three more high school JUCO type
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kids that they add in in February.
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And those of course would be players that enter the program
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and in late May. So there are maybe some news to
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report there. Granted that the February
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signing period is not the be all end all like it used to be.
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The December's kind of the the name of the game right now.
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But Iowa State could be in the market for a couple more guys
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there. And I think this will be
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probably of the stealth variety as well with the time running
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out here between now and and when the dead period starts in
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February. They're trying to keep a lot of
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these guys, I think under the radar and then sign them before
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maybe some other programs are are tipped off on those guys.
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I want to go to women's basketball.
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Good TC Addie Brown Bill. Good to see the getting a couple
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of wins. Most recently was the Arizona on
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Saturday. That game was on Wednesday,
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2/19. First one when I was flipping
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around saw some of that game. Addie Brown, bill, is there
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concern that this injury might be longer than first?
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Not reported but first speculated is is because is she
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maybe not even at this point close to getting back on the
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floor? What's her stat obviously so
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critical to this team's success? The latest on Addie Brown?
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Yeah, I think that it's still kind of a week to week type of
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thing with her. And I I believe the nature of
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that injury is a lower back injury is what I thought that I
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had heard reported initially on that.
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So and as you guys can imagine with with something like that
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she might feel like she could play and then the next day like
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the worst pain in the world. So I think it just continues to
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be monitoring that and it'll be interesting to see, you know,
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when she gets out of this in the offseason if they decide to do
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anything more with that treatment wise going into her
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senior year. But you're right, Kenny, they do
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need her back in the lineup. I think it would.
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The Big 12 schedule I got, it was favorable there.
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Even when they were stringing some of those losses together,
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it seemed favorable with the level of competition.
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You know, Ariana Jackson getting her back back was huge for the
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team's defense. And it's it's not a it's not a
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coincidence they go from those two, those two wins, Cincinnati,
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Arizona back-to-back. Cincinnati had 68 points,
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Arizona 65. And that you know, right, the
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game before that that they lost, they got blown out.
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They give up 86 at Oklahoma State in a loss.
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So I think there's no coincidence there with getting
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Ariana Jackson back is going to help on that end of the, but
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certainly offensively this team ceiling so much more higher if
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they could get Addie Brown into the lineup.
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And had to feel good for Jada Williams, who was on the injury
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report with an illness. She goes out there and plays,
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played tremendously in the game, and though she turned it over a
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handful of times, still had 19 points in that one.
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To do against your former team, well, that's got to feel good
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for Williams. Oh yeah, yeah.
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And that I think she escaped a bad situation there and and she
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got into a great one at Iowa State, certainly with Emily Ryan
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graduating and after last season and and you saw it with Arizona
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that that program's a mess. They what was like a moment from
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Hoosiers there when the the head coach would had to tell the refs
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that her team's on the floor when they had four players
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available with the injuries and the foul outs.
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So yeah, it's certainly much better situation though for her
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at Iowa State with a Jada, with those who are around her and the
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coaching staff. Well done on your piece with
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Jimmy Rogers. I enjoyed it on the front page
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of cyclonereport.com. That's one of the benefits.
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If you subscribe to any of those, whether it be Kacred site
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or simple site over in Nebraska or bill sites, you can read
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everything with your one. What is it a month?
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It's not even 10 bucks. It's relatively inexpensive.
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Good stuff, Bill says. What do you got coming up this
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week, Bill? We're we should have a
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basketball availability coming up, so we'll have that to look
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forward to with a game against Colorado forthcoming on
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Thursday. Getting cooking on some of these
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recruiting updates as well. The staff has been on the road
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from what I understood a couple of days last week and it'll be 3
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days on the road this week. Dead period starts in February,
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the entire month of February. So trying to get some updates
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together on some guys they've been out to see and then
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probably some more coverage too out of that Jimmy Rogers
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interview, half hour long put together something spotlighting
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the running backs room this morning that's up on the front
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page right now. And and probably some other
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updates on on some, some position groups that he covered
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during that interview. One final thing, as I was
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flipping around, see IPTV has wrestling yesterday and it's
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Iowa State against South Dakota State and certainly took me back
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to the days when we saw a lot of wrestling on IPTV.
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But what a cool moment. And, and I know dresser's done
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this before, but taking his team back to his high school
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wrestling up there and Humboldt against South Dakota State,
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really, really cool. And maybe my favorite part
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though, is they didn't use an Iowa State mat.
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They actually used the Humboldt wrestling mat.
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How cool that was and and a cool experience for the people back
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in his hometown. Yeah, yeah, it really was.
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And I think that's something that Coach Dressler is really he
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he's wanted to highlight that since he he got to Iowa State
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and then built this thing into to what he has now.
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And and what a what a busy guy. You know, it's kind of funny
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they they they played up there or they wrestled up there on on
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Sunday. They had the the match against
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Northern Colorado on Friday at at Hilton and then the guy is
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out making the rounds at the Ed Winger Invitational at Urbandale
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on Saturday. I saw him out there, talk to him
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for a minute. So a busy guy.
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But yeah, he, he, he, they've loved that thing up and Humboldt
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and it's just doing a great job, I think, in the state of Iowa,
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too, Appealing to a big wrestling base here and a
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phenomenal atmosphere up there in Humboldt, though, yesterday.
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Bill seals cyclonereport.com on three slash rivals.
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Bill joins us each and every Monday and we're grateful for
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that. Bill, have a good week.
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We will talk to you next week. Thank you, Bill Seals.
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Looking forward to it guys, have a good one.
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Yep, you do the same Bill Seals on Iowa State.
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We mentioned the Iowa State women probably should have done
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something on this in the first half hour of the show.
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Taylor McCabe obviously has pretty injury.
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I mean pretty bad injury. I mean you it was non contact.
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Yeah, saw it right away on the television.
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It was. I wasn't watching at the time,
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so. We we know what that is.
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Yeah. And and certainly woman's
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basketball, women sports, ACL, yes, absolutely.
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That's exactly where your mind goes every single time.
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Jan Jensen said in the post game that we're going to have an MRI
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last night. Haven't heard anything yet.
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I think there's availability with Jan tomorrow morning.
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I think there's a scheduled Zoom with the beat reporter.
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So at that point, I would anticipate we'll probably have
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more information. I would say the likelihood is
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very low that Taylor McCabe is going to be a part of it and.
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She's 2520, thirty minutes A. Game.
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Oh absolutely. Now Addie deal was tremendous.
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She came in and she was really good and she has feels like
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she's turned the corner OK as a freshman, this is 3 of the last
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four games scoring in double figures.
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And what you like about her and when you kind of this is not to
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denigrate Taylor McCabe, but we know she is.
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She's a smile up shooter. Eddie Deal can get to the rim.
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Eddie Deal is a better defender, more athleticism when you're
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kind of talking about upside of this team.
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Well, she let the team. Scoring yesterday and what this
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team is doing, if you're talking about making a run and getting
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not just to the second weekend, but maybe even playing in that
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Elite 8, getting to those levels, Patty Deal might be the
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difference of getting them there.
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They're a more athletic team When she's on the floor.
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She has more versatility to her game.
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She's not the shooter. The Cave is because she's kind
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of in an island by herself, just how good she is as a shooter.
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But when you're talking about because to get to an Elite 8,
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you're going to play somebody good in the Sweet 60, right?
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And and to get to that point, maybe that is something that can
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unlock them. And another thing I saw
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yesterday, how many times have you mentioned that senior light
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bulb? It's coming to an end.
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Yeah. Sense of urgency.
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It might be happening with Hannah Stulkey.
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She had a couple of double, double, couple of moves in the
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paint, want to fade away. The other kind of a pull up like
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8 foot jumper and just using that great athleticism that she
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has really elevated in it, you know, a little soft shot up
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there. There was a place we don't see
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if you get that Hannah Stulkey chitchat shoot nearly 40% from
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behind the 50%. Of great names.
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She's got a lot of game, too. She she's tremendous this team
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and this is so different than not just the Caitlin Clark
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gears, but the 15 years before that under Lisa Bluder.
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This team's defending, they're playing at an elite level on the
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defensive end compared to what they normally are for Iowa
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women's basketball. They continue to grow.
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It's still a very young team, got a lot of different pieces
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and a lot of different ways they can beat you.
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But I think the big question if for tomorrow in that Zoom is
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Emily Rodriguez just done. I mean, I think at this point
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and if McCabe is out for the season, don't you just have to
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say that as well that we're not going because don't you don't
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want that question continuing to linger out there?
22:43
Could she? Is there any chance?
22:45
I think it's over. I said it a month ago that I
22:48
thought it was over. She's still out there.
22:49
She's still on the sidelines with the team, but isn't it time
22:52
to make that definitive statement?
22:54
Yes, I agree. Get rid of that speculation.
22:57
If it is the case that Emily Rodriguez is not going to play
22:59
the rest of the year, just say it.
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So deal goes into the starting line of part of what you think.
23:03
I think so. It's either her strum low.
23:05
I think the just the way the deal's playing though, I think
23:07
you have to go with her. Take your time out.
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We do have an Iowa football conversation we're going to get
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All right, Speaking of football, Trent Condon, the Big 10 is
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going to release their football schedule tomorrow.
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Tom Caker join me on Fridays, does all the time.
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His board had the a leak apparently that Michigan and
24:25
Iowa will play to start the Hawkeyes Big 10 schedule.
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You know anything more? There are rumors.
24:34
That's all these are. Message board rumors or rumors,
24:36
Rumors, Message board rumors. And social media, Yep.
24:40
So take it with a grain of salt. OK but this is and I've seen
24:44
this multiple places now. It could have been just one guy
24:46
put it together and then other people followed it right and and
24:50
made it their own. But I have seen it multiple
24:52
places that this is what I was Big 10 schedule is going to be
24:56
again. According to the rumors at
24:59
Michigan open up September 26th. They come back home for Ohio
25:03
State, Not Purdue, No back-to-back, the two biggies,
25:08
Michigan, Ohio State. Then they go on the road again.
25:13
OK, well, they got to go to play Northwestern.
25:15
Not Northwestern. No.
25:16
Not Illinois. Not even Minnesota.
25:19
No, they make their longest road trip of the year out to Seattle
25:22
to take on the Washington Huskies, and I don't think
25:24
there's any doubt their three most difficult games next season
25:28
in the Big 10 are Michigan, Ohio State and at Washington.
25:32
You know, if the Big 10 really wants to put it to Iowa, the
25:34
Washington game would be a Friday nighter.
25:36
Oh yeah, Make it a short turn around, right?
25:38
Yeah. After you play Michigan, Ohio
25:40
State and they play Friday in Washington.
25:42
Now I don't think there is treachery at hand.
25:45
However, this will be the 5th consecutive year that I will
25:47
will open up on the road in the Big 10.
25:50
And Kirk Feretz's 27 years as the head football coach, 19 of
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them they have opened up Big 10 play on the road.
25:58
Two of those years were in kind of odd years.
26:00
The one when they opened up the season against Indiana back in
26:03
2019. Remember that game lost couple
26:06
of pick sixes in that one. And the other one they played
26:09
Rutgers in game two of the season before the Iowa State
26:12
game that came in 2021. So those are two of the home
26:16
games with the came kind of in the early portion of the
26:19
schedule. Iowa year after year after year
26:22
going to open up on the road. But if that is the slate that
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they get, Michigan on the Road home for Ohio State and at
26:30
Washington, you're talking, can you get a win out of that?
26:35
Group you'd sign for one right now, Absolutely.
26:38
You know, Northern Illinois, Iowa State and Northern Iowa.
26:44
Yes. In that order, correct?
26:46
I believe so, yes. Yeah.
26:48
And then, then, then Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington.
26:53
So the other Rd. games, you said?
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At Illinois, at Minnesota, at Purd?
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No. Purdue's at home.
26:59
Yep. Northwestern, the other one.
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That's stadium. Be ready too, won't it?
27:03
It I'm not sure. I think it is.
27:06
That's kind of cool. Yeah, absolutely.
27:09
Get the new environment there. And the other big question that
27:11
remains because Speaking of rumblings and rumors and
27:14
innuendo about Black Friday going away for Iowa.
27:16
No, don't do that. I'm not doing it.
27:20
I'm just saying that these don't yell at me that has been out
27:25
there. Why?
27:26
Exactly why I don't know if the. Parents has come around, he.
27:30
Even braces. Oh, absolutely.
27:31
I think Nebraska is just sick of losing.
27:33
I mean, they're going to take that they.
27:34
Think an extra day is going to change their fortunes in this
27:36
game? Who knows?
27:38
I don't, I don't know. Maybe it's just the Big 10
27:40
saying maybe we want that real estate for a bigger game.
27:43
That's big game. I don't care what anybody says.
27:46
No doubt about it. And if you put that game on
27:50
Saturday? Yeah, get lost.
27:51
Absolutely. You're not beating Ohio State.
27:54
No Michigan of the clock that's taken.
27:56
And then you got Auburn, AL and the Iron Bowl.
27:59
All the other rivalry games, it just becomes another game.
28:03
It gets lost in the shuffle. Nebraska has had it well before
28:06
Iowa. Hell yeah, this has been.
28:08
Their day Colorado huge. This is one of when I think of
28:13
Nebraska football, it's one of the things you think about and
28:16
you've lost so much yes. I mean you got your fake sell
28:18
out streak. The black shirt should have been
28:20
retired 2 decades ago. You got all these things that.
28:23
Really bothers hockey fans I love.
28:24
That what the black shirts? No, no, no, the fake sellouts.
28:27
So fake. I got it.
28:29
So do you think Nebraska's pushing for?
28:31
This I don't know I but it's been out there a bunch of
28:34
Nebraska people have talked about it.
28:35
That's probably thing number one.
28:37
I want to see though is is that true?
28:40
Has that just been scuttlebutt? It's just rumors that have been
28:42
rampant for months and months and months that would be a miss
28:44
for both for both Iowa and Nebraska to lose.
28:47
Is there a chance it wouldn't be?
28:49
Played on the final week of the regular season that was out
28:51
there. It feels like maybe there's been
28:53
some pushback of that, but there's also been talk, yeah,
28:55
that it's just going to become another game.
28:57
It'll just be. Part of It's not another game.
28:59
No, it's not another game. Well, and if you do that from
29:02
the Iowa perspective, if it just becomes another game in the part
29:05
of the conference, yes, it's protected, it's going to be
29:07
played every year. Who does?
29:09
I would play at the end of the season.
29:10
That's just it. It's not going to be Wisconsin.
29:12
No, it's not going to be Minnesota.
29:13
They're taken, they play each other.
29:15
You don't have a yearly rivalry against Illinois.
29:17
Is it just whoever? No, don't do that.
29:20
No, I agree. Push back, but it's Tony Petiti
29:22
who see, we'll see. We talked about him with Doc
29:25
earlier. Oh, come on.
29:28
I I had not heard that that, that that pisses me off, quite
29:30
frankly. That's a good spot on Friday.
29:33
So what time is this announcement?
29:34
Are we on the air by chance? No, it's like 430.
29:37
Oh, so it's going to. Be Big 10 Network, the refs and
29:39
special. Yep, that's the right way to do
29:41
it. Yes, absolutely it's the right
29:42
way to do it. So we'll know more.
29:44
We can opine on Wednesday and look at it.
29:47
Speaking of broadcasters, et cetera, did who do you think won
29:52
the day yesterday as far as the analysts, Roma or Brady, did you
29:55
have a preference to either of them?
29:56
One of them embarrassed themselves.
29:58
It was were okay. Brady, I thought, by a long
30:01
shot. Better.
30:02
I think he's had a much better year.
30:04
He's been. He has improved tremendously.
30:07
He has taken leaps and bounce forward from what he was in your
30:10
number one. They become at minimum now a guy
30:12
that doesn't annoy me. Yeah.
30:14
Isn't that kind of a part of it anymore?
30:16
Sure, as you get older. You know.
30:18
Just please don't annoy me and and Brady and you're number one.
30:22
There are times. He's kind of annoying.
30:24
He was. It was.
30:24
Like, yeah, we get it. Yeah, we understand.
30:26
Tom. He he has taken a step forward.
30:29
Romo is who he is. He's excitable.
30:31
He misses things. He repeats the same things over
30:34
and over and over that. Big play jab and you're gonna
30:36
come down to a player too. Really like most games.
30:40
You know, I've never been a huge gym Nance guy outside of when
30:42
he's at Augusta. Golf right that's.
30:45
Where he is at his best. I hated him as a basketball
30:47
broadcaster. Me too.
30:48
I think they're not hate. There's 200 play by play
30:51
broadcasters better in basketball than Gym Nance.
30:54
But that aside, I thought he's been good.
30:57
I I think he's even taken a step forward and maybe drug Romo back
31:01
up a rung. But overall, Burkhart is OK.
31:07
He's just that. Does it feel like a big game
31:10
with Kevin Burkhart still? He's been doing it now in the
31:12
number one slot for a while and I just don't get that feel with
31:16
him. Speaking of that, the guy who he
31:18
replaced, Joe Buck's doing baseball a little bit of a.
31:21
Little bit of baseball. He decided decided he's going to
31:23
be 1, middle of April I think, but he's going to do it.
31:27
And the rumors are out there that NBC for Sunday Night
31:30
Baseball, it's going to be Bonetti if he can get out of his
31:34
Fox. Right, which might be a big ass,
31:37
but he doesn't have a ton that's going on there, which would be
31:39
tremendous. That would be great, absolutely.
31:41
Bob Costas is going to be in studio and he's a great baseball
31:45
mind. I mean, the idea for us just as
31:48
sports fans, yeah, I like what NBC is doing.
31:51
Do you think, though, that this is something in today's
31:53
television environment where we know network shows, you know,
31:56
your normal half hour sitcom, your hour drama are not even
31:59
close to what they once were? Is this going to work where it's
32:02
not just football? Football, of course, works.
32:04
Wait, we get that. The basketball numbers, I think
32:06
have been better than anticipated for them on NBC.
32:10
And then you throw baseball into the mix.
32:12
Maybe NB CS kind of figured something out here.
32:14
Sports it's it's. Sports.
32:16
It's the only thing that works anymore.
32:18
Live broadcast television. That that's true.
32:21
How did you do betting wise? We're going to transition here
32:23
to your plays of the day sponsored by Circus Sports.
32:25
Did you do well yesterday? I did.
32:28
I I hit both the bets, as we both did, because we're on the
32:30
same side and I didn't know what you had.
32:32
Yeah, because I just texted it to Lucas.
32:33
Did you? Didn't ask.
32:34
Didn't ask you. Yeah.
32:36
So there was no chicanery, regardless of what the voice.
32:38
There was in the afternoon. By Oh, I'm not surprised.
32:41
Yeah, they're like they waited for our picks first.
32:43
And then picked the pick the other way and then it worked
32:46
because they took the lead for one week.
32:47
But in the end, the talent. Prevails and there's no doubt,
32:51
no doubt. And you locked up our head to
32:53
head, Yeah, from two weeks before as we went head to head
32:56
in all three, all four of the games that we had at that point
33:00
yesterday though, yeah, it was actually kind of a profitable
33:02
day. Had a hit, a wrestling hit on
33:04
the Circus Sports Iowa app with Nebraska keeping it close
33:07
against Ohio State and then had a couple of those touchdown
33:11
parlays that I put together over at DK.
33:13
So yeah, overall it was it was good to be back to the States to
33:16
be able to fire head a decent Saturday in basketball, at least
33:18
on the green side. So.
33:19
What can is does Mexico any do they have?
33:21
I tried to open up or anything. Well, we're just in the resort
33:25
so and some of them have it and ours did not so.
33:28
Probably a good thing. Yeah, it was.
33:29
Just keep it away. Stay away.
33:32
Fresh break, hit the ground running, get back to basketball
33:36
again. I am not a pro better.
33:38
I better every single day. I'm not very good at it in the
33:41
long run. I usually lose money over the
33:43
course of the year, maybe a couple 100 bucks a most, though
33:46
I don't bet a lot. I do it.
33:47
This is my vice, this is my go and have a beer, go have a pack
33:52
of smokes. The things that in the past were
33:54
the thing. This is what I do.
33:56
This is my fun and it is nothing that I ever think is going to be
33:59
profitable. There's times, yeah, I've had a
34:01
couple of decent hits throughout the years and and things that
34:03
have happened, but overall it is just if I lose 50 bucks over the
34:07
course of a. What do you call it?
34:08
Your entertainment. Tax my entertainment tax.
34:10
That's all that this is. I'm not a handicapper.
34:13
I don't have algorithms. I'm not out there that I have
34:16
the key. I do it.
34:17
For fun, I wish Sean Payton didn't have algorithms because
34:20
he would have kicked the field goal.
34:21
Maybe instead of going by the freaking analytics.
34:24
There's a massive game in college basketball tonight in
34:27
the Big 12, Arizona and BYU. Look, BYU's at home, but I'm
34:32
surprised the point spread is as tight as it is.
34:34
It opened at 2. It's 1 1/2 everywhere.
34:37
Arizona's really good. Really good.
34:40
We know that BYU environment is really good too.
34:42
One of the biggest buildings in college basketball.
34:45
It is going to be jam packed. There's two ways to look at it.
34:48
It is Arizona's kind of do just, you know, they they've been
34:52
clicking at such a level, but they haven't done it against
34:55
this kind of competition in such a long time.
34:56
It's going to be a step up. BYU schedule has been much more
34:59
difficult certainly to this point that in Arizona has been.
35:03
But you mentioned that I thought it was going to be a tick higher
35:06
and the betting public is all over Arizona.
35:08
Are they 72% of the money, 64% of the bets currently that's
35:13
from Action Network are on the Wildcats at this point.
35:16
I got to play on that game all right.
35:19
Michigan, Nebraska is tomorrow or Wednesday?
35:21
Is it tomorrow? Tomorrow and the look ahead line
35:24
is out. Is it Michigan?
35:25
By how many? Take a stab.
35:27
It's in the Ann Arbor that. Chrysler beaten 8. 10 1/2.
35:35
Is it really that big? DraftKings had it last night as
35:38
I was looking at the app and looking at the 10 and a.
35:41
Half unbeaten team in town. Brask is good.
35:45
Then if I keep finding ways to win.
35:48
They. I mean they.
35:49
Gave this year, aren't they in the tournament?
35:52
They better, I'm going to say. If they don't, it's going to be
35:54
right. It's going to be a. 15 / A ten
35:57
Iowa State Yes. It's not going to be fun when
35:59
Northwestern State over Iowa. It's going to be one of those,
36:03
if they don't do it now, boy wonder if it ever is going to
36:07
happen. The way they share the
36:08
basketball, they're fun to watch.
36:09
I thought they were like. Code breaks get a lot.
36:11
Yeah, he can get to the rim. Masters Mass since he's been
36:14
back after Miss Litmos the last year.
36:16
They're an entertaining team. Yeah, I agree.
36:18
I agree. Tres plays it today.
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I'm Miller Condon, final minute here on a Monday.
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Glad you've been with us. Wherever you're listening,
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however you're listening, grateful that you are off the
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Heather Burnside and Alec Bussey have got you until 9:00.
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All right, Trench plays of the day.
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Circus sports sponsor those. BYU and Arizona amongst the
37:32
games tonight. Not a ton of games tonight.
37:34
Where are you shopping? Going to play both Big Monday
37:36
games though. Going to play it and lay it with
37:39
the Dookies tonight -8 1/2 gets that Louisville outfit that's
37:42
just so inconsistent and I think could get away from them in a
37:45
hurry against the Dookies. I'll lay the 8 1/2 in that one.
37:49
Going to grab the points in the Big 10.
37:51
Give me Penn State getting 12 1/2 and they're playing
37:53
terrible. Probably, but they had those two
37:55
games that probably are sticking in my mind more than they
37:57
should. Of course, the Michigan game for
37:58
the first time, that Michigan looked actually, actually
38:01
pedestrian for the first time all season and then played well
38:03
game later against Purdue. They've been awful since then.
38:07
A tussle against an Ohio State team.
38:08
I just don't think it's very good.
38:09
I'll grab the 12 1/2 with Penn State in that one.
38:12
And then as I was shopping in the market right before we came
38:15
on the air, I was trying to find a 2 1/2 for BYU.
38:18
It's not available. No, they're gone.
38:20
It's all 1 1/2 everywhere, everywhere.
38:23
Just give me the money line. Arizona falls for the first time
38:27
to the Cougs plus 110, the best number that is out there
38:30
currently. BYU with pick number.
38:33
Three good stuff. Now will Schumann, Schulman and
38:36
Billis do the Duke game? Oh, I'm sure.
38:38
I'm guessing so too. And for Schiller with a big
38:40
12th, maybe him and Boog Shambi. It's not a bad it's.
38:43
Not a bad tandem and they'll be at 8:00, so probably 815.
38:48
All right, good stuff. Appreciate you being with us.
38:50
Good to have TC back as the show returns to normal.
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But coming up next off the bench, they'll take you in until
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