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Bama Bob on College Football, Mike Palm from Circa Sports & Football Friday Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  football Friday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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  for the next couple of hours. Trent Condon, a location at the
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  Dome, myself. Ken Miller, we'll talk sports
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  with you for the next couple of hours on a busy program.
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  Here's what's coming up. In 20 minutes, we'll head to
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  O'Hare Airport. We'll would catch Tom Keikert
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  between flights as he heads out to Los Angeles for USC and Iowa.
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  Tom Keikert, hawkeyereport.com Latest on that perhaps quick
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  recap of last night, the Iowa women as they pasted the Drake
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  women last night. But regardless, we will talk
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  football with Tom coming up here at 12:20, flight permitting.
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  Eugene repay covers Iowa State. They've got the weekend off, but
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  they played some hoops and TJS met with the media and Audie
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  Crooks went crazy. So we'll get Eugene repay in
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  here at 12:40 to talk some Iowa State topics one O 2.
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  When we return in for our number two, our second hour BAMMA, Bob
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  Trent and I will toss around a handful of games.
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  Then finally we'll head out to Las Vegas.
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  Mike Palm from Circus Sports will join us.
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  We'll get the latest inside the numbers with Mike Palm, what he
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  sees, what he expects to see, et cetera.
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  Coming up, we'll make our picks in our head to head contest,
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  also sponsored by Circus Sports. I can hear the PA announcer in
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  the background. Let's go to the Unit Dome.
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  How are you, Trent? Doing well and we got a barn
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  burner here in the first semifinal of the day.
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  Grundy Center, who has a 150 consecutive games.
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  They're trying to chase down the all time record.
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  They got two more games obviously here to get to the
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  point and then go into next season.
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  They're trailing going into the fourth quarter here against Iowa
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  City Regina. Regina leads at 1712, so A50
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  game win streak on the line here with the Spartans of Grundy
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  Center. And I'll tell you, Ken, I barely
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  got connected because there are a a lot of Grundy Center fans
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  here. Coming up a little bit later on
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  the next game at 1:00 is South Hardin, who is just up the road
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  from the unidome. So parking was at a premium.
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  I had to hoof it and then hoof it up the stairs here to the top
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  level of the unidome. So a little huffing and puffing,
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  but we're ready to go. That's awesome.
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  Well, we'll keep everybody updated.
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  For those of you might be listening on KXIC, you'll get
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  your updates on these a semi final that's going on right now.
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  Good stuff, Trent. Well, I I, you know, I don't
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  know why this bothers me and I want to spend a minute at least
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  in the beginning of the show talking about it.
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  I'm not one to bitch about awards.
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  I'm not. But this one drives me nuts.
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  And the more that I guess when reality set in that Cal Raleigh
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  and I'm not a Mariners fan was was snubbed in my opinion, by
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  Aaron Judge. And here's why.
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  I mean, we're going to talk about Cal Raleigh's in historic
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  terms. Catchers switch, hitters are
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  going to be measured by Cal Raleigh.
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  No one's going to look back on Aaron Judge's 2025 campaign, you
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  know, 10 years from now and talk about the greatness of that.
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  Yes, it was great, I get it. But if you catch and he did 128
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  or whatever was games, 1075 innings behind the plate,
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  doesn't give up a pass ball hit sixty home runs.
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  I'm convinced if Cal Raleigh's a Yankee and Aaron Judge is a
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  Mariner, Cal Raleigh's taking home the hardware.
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  And it pains me to say that because I'm not a conspiracy
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  theorist. Usually, well, I'm not.
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  It's not necessarily true, but this might be my latest.
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  But this one, this one, it's got under my skin and now and
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  normally doesn't happen. Yeah, that's kind of interesting
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  to me because I, like you, wanted Raleigh to win the award.
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  You laid it out, I think, perfectly and the reasoning
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  behind it, but I just felt it was ineffable.
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  And maybe because of that, I think it has worked up. 6:00
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  last night when the announcement came, I just, I thought it was
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  coming. I knew it was coming and I guess
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  I had already set myself up to know that it was going to be
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  Aaron Judge. That gets it.
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  The other part that is so difficult, it's kind of
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  something you mentioned yesterday, we talked about the
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  Karl Malone MVP award. Aaron Judge should not be
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  knocked because he does it seemingly every single year,
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  right? He shouldn't.
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  He shouldn't have that dissipate and take away what he is and
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  what he's done for this season just because he's done it in the
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  past. And when you look at those
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  numbers, you look at a lot of the analytical numbers that go
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  into a 2, they do show that Aaron Judge was a more valuable
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  player to his team, to it. So that's where I just can't get
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  as frustrated. But I think you also said it
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  perfectly. If we flip flop these two guys
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  and Cal Raleigh was on the Yankees, there's not a doubt in
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  my mind and I hadn't even thought of that.
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  Absolutely, you are correct. Cal Raleigh would be our MVP.
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  Baseball, mind you, and I both respect just texted me the word
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  Preach. Tommy Birch and the Des Moines
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  Register is on our side of this as well.
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  Anyways, I don't want to linger on it, but it did bother me.
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  But I'm not sure, you know, I'll get over it.
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  I guess is where we're going to go.
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  All right, let's talk a little Iowa, USC before we get into
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  some NFL conversation because this weekend absolutely
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  fascinates me. There are three marquee games
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  and there are more than three, but there are three massive
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  games in the NFL. But USC and Iowa, they're going
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  to go at it. I don't think that there's been
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  a, a change in the forecast. It's still supposed to be, you
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  know, raining out there. I'm surprised the total isn't
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  dropping. I think you brought that up
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  yesterday that that's kind of the, the side that you're
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  leaning towards. Any anything, anything since we
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  got off the air yesterday at 2:00 that you know has moved you
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  in a different direction. So we had Mark on Mark Culkin
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  with Locked on Trojans earlier in the week and then I did my
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  crossover last night with him, you know, talking with him again
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  and we dove a little bit deeper into things after our
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  conversation. I think there is more of a path
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  for Iowa to win this game and it's everything that we talked
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  about. Obviously, the rain forecast and
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  the way that the likelihood that this game is going to be played
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  kind of in that just that sloppy kind of thing that I think that
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  helps out Iowa immensely. I kept bringing up the Michigan
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  game, but you know, Mark mentioned that was one.
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  That was one time that they were able to show up and play that
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  kind of bully ball and punch Michigan in the face.
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  That hasn't been the case. They're giving up 4.3 yards per
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  carry. That is 13th in the Big 10.
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  You can run the football against this team.
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  And I still think Gronowski, I said this to you yesterday, Ken,
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  I think he's going to have to have a pretty good game or at
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  least have the ability to show them that, yes, they can throw
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  the football even in rainy conditions like they didn't.
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  I think they kept Oregon at least a little bit off balance a
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  week ago. I think you're going to have to
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  have the same semblance there. But I'm coming, I'm coming full
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  circle now. I went from no chance during the
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  summer time. Then if they beat Oregon, no
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  chance. Well, they lose to Oregon kind
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  of a chance. Felt better Monday.
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  I've been back and forth all week long.
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  I'm back in. I think there are not just a
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  path to win. There's a couple of pass, I
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  think for Iowa to pull the upset.
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  I still not going to pick it, but I do do believe that there
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  is a higher likelihood say maybe, I don't know, during the
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  summertime I probably had it like 15%.
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  Maybe I got as high at one point as 30%.
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  I'm back in that range, you know, 31 in three shots,
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  something like that to win this game.
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  I think that's kind of how I'm looking at it now.
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  And the point spread really hasn't moved.
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  It's been 6 1/2 all week long. There might have been A7 pop
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  briefly, but it's not like a USC is getting hammered causing the
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  books to adjust their lines. So we'll see where it goes.
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  Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
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  There are there's a six in the market. the Super book has it as
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  a six. So we'll see how it goes.
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  Anyways, any else, anything else on college football?
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  Obviously some marquee matchups in the SEC, two really big
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  games. And the Notre Dame Pit is a
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  massive game as well. It's kind of elimination game
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  for Notre Dame. I don't think they don't think
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  there's any way in hell they can avoid being left out of the
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  playoffs should they lose to Pitt tomorrow.
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  I don't believe that they will. But Oklahoma, this looks like an
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  elimination game for them. Texas wants to keep winning.
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  They still got to play Texas A&M.
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  That comes up on Black Friday evening.
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  So some really good games in college football tomorrow,
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  Trent. You know, we've talked quite a
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  bit about Georgia, Texas this week.
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  I've given you my thoughts on that one.
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  I really like the Longhorns, certainly in the points, and I
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  think they can win that football game.
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  The other SEC game we haven't talked about nearly as much.
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  I'm intrigued because I love Alabama in this spot.
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  I just think they're a lot better team.
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  I don't believe in Oklahoma. I know the defense is good mater
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  though, coming off that injury. I just don't know against this
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  Alabama team how good he is. And yet there's people that I
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  respect in the gambling space that love the Sooners this week.
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  And I just, I can't wrap my mind around it.
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  Is there anything that makes you lean Oklahoma?
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  Anything that you see? I don't find the path.
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  This is just this is so different than a year ago when
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  they had to go to Norman. Alabama played by far their
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  worst game of the season and got blown out and LED them out of
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  the playoff. I think this Alabama team is
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  going to be ready to go. And I think they I think they
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  win this one by double digits. Yeah, I I have to appoint the
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  Oklahoma's schedule. They've played really.
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  And so is Alabama. Alabama's obviously played
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  Georgia. That's a really good win for
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  them. But Oklahomans played Old Miss
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  and they played Tennessee and they played Texas and they
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  played Auburn when Auburn was ranked.
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  I think this is a, this is a coin flip game for me.
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  I'm not going to pick this game as well.
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  Ty Simpsons having an unbelievable year.
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  So certainly for that aspect of things, you, you maybe give a
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  slight edge. But you mentioned Mater.
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  I don't know. I can't remember what week of
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  the season by the bitters. It was early Week 2 or week 3.
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  I remember having a conversation with you and Bama that this guy
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  might be the Heisman front runner at this point.
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  Now, admittedly we were still in the month of September, but he
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  got off to such a great start and then he got hurt and he
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  missed some games he missed about, oh, I don't know,
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  remember, he came back for the Texas game, did he not?
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  Yes, he came back for Texas and we were blown away because
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  because it was less than three weeks after he had surgery that
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  he was back out there and he's never really been the same.
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  He's still good, don't get me wrong, but he wasn't playing.
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  He's not, I don't think playing at that elite level.
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  So we'll see there. Let's go to the NFL trend and,
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  and in particular, I want to start with Kansas City and
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  Denver. And I, I, I think it's my
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  fandom. It, it's my, it's my and I'm a
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  Broncos fan, plain and simple. I'm a Broncos fan.
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  That's it. And for that reason, I think
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  it's clouding my judgement because I give Denver a chance
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  and I didn't earlier in the week.
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  I, I think I'm, I've come around maybe and I maybe it's Bo Nicks
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  1 is Bo Nicks. But maybe we get we, maybe we
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  get good Bo Nicks. What if that happens?
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  I mean, Kansas City's defense is OK, Denver's offense is not
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  elite by any means. But if Bo Nicks plays like we've
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  seen in the past and the defence of Denver continues to show up,
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  and I believe that they will, I think Denver's got a path to win
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  this football game. My nuts.
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  You're not nuts. I mean, it's in Denver.
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  It's a divisional game. You know, my thoughts just in
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  general about that. So no, you're not nuts.
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  This Kansas City teams lost four games this year.
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  I mean, they're they're not unbeatable.
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  This is not a team that's on their on the way to 15 and two
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  type of season. They're beatable and they've
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  shown it already this year. So don't when you look at in
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  that angle, I definitely understand.
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  Yeah, As we talk about pass to Victory, I think there are a lot
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  of paths here for Denver. I guess my question would be the
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  injuries. We talked a lot about Sir Tan
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  this week and and what he's going to be, but there's some
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  other ones also. Singleton.
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  Yeah, Singleton. They're starting inside
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  linebacker, he told his story that.
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  Go ahead. What?
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  What is it? I just saw he was listed as
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  illness. Well, he that's the guy.
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  Remember I told you that he had a random drug test 2 weeks ago?
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  After. Oh, that's right.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and in the drug test, they
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  found something that wasn't right.
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  It wasn't a aped, it was he had testicular cancer and and he's
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  had surgery and he's going to miss a couple of weeks,
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  understandably so. But yeah, just the fact, I mean,
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  if he wouldn't have had the random drug test, if the NFL
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  would have picked somebody else air quote randomly, you know, he
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  might not have, they might not have found this at this early.
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  And you know what happens, the early you find it, obviously the
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  better your chances are. So he's going to be out of the
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  game. JK Dobbins, who's off to a
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  phenomenal start at running back, he's not going to be able
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  to play at the game. But I see Xavier worthy is now
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  questionable. So I think it's going to be a
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  great game. I do.
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  It's unfortunate that it's going up against, you know, the some
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  of the other massive games rather with the Seahawks doing
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  battle against the Rams. That's a huge spot in the course
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  on Sunday Night Football Lions and the Eagles.
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  And if this Eagles team shows up, the struggle against the the
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  struggle against Green Bay earlier in the week, I give the
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  Lions a big shot on the road to Philly.
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  I I come back to that offensive line for the lions and that's
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  why I can't get there. You know, I've been slow to come
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  around on Philadelphia and maybe I'll win against Green Bay with
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  the all the issues we've seen out of them offensively this
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  year shouldn't have been enough to sway me.
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  I'm back on the eagles side of things.
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  I I think this team is really good mention the offensive line
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  for the lions and we've seen that throughout the years.
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  You know when they've been banged up.
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  That team is just not the same offensively going against this
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  defense in Philadelphia. I'm on the other side here.
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  I I think this is Philly all the way.
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  In fact, that might make the cut.
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  That might be on my list when we get to our picks later, yeah.
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  All right, I don't think it made mine.
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  In fact, I know it didn't. What about Vikings and Bears?
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  Obviously a lot of interest in that one amongst our audience.
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  How do you see? Do you have an opinion on the
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  Vikings and the Bears? I think it's almost a must win
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  game for the Vikings. I don't think that they can
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  afford another loss. I mean, I don't think they're a
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  playoff team as we sit here today in the 1st place.
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  They're four and five in that division, but this is a massive
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  spot for them if they they're to keep their playoff hopes alive.
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  Any opinion on this one? It's Minnesota at home.
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  Caleb Williams, you just go through and he's played
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  outstanding. And we talked BFF hasn't the
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  best quarterback over the last couple of weeks, but then you
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  dig a little bit deeper. Need a comeback victory to come
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  back to beat the Giants. You needed a miraculous play to
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  come back and beat the Bengals, though, you should have wrapped
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  that game up. You beat the Saints in cold
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  weather with Spencer Rattler. You beat the Commanders who we
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  see are sinking ship. You meet the Raiders, you're
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  lucky to win that. There's not a whole lot of depth
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  to this six and three record because of that.
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  I think Minnesota is a touch better.
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  It comes down to McCarthy. I it's not just that he is
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  missing. I mean, you go to completion
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  percentage. That doesn't happen in today's
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  NFL. You don't see guys that are
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  struggling to complete, you know, more than 52% of their
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  passes. That doesn't happen anymore.
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  And because of that, that's why I'm not, you know, diving head
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  first into, Oh, yeah, Vikings all day long.
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  Can the Bears keep doing this with a bad defense and
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  continuing to? And it's not locking your way to
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  turnovers, right? They're forcing turnovers.
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  They're playing aggressively in the defensive backfield.
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  But over the course of the year, does that start to dry up?
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  Because if it does and they're not forcing turnovers, this is a
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  brutal defense. And this might be the get right
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  game that Vikings fans are looking for for McCarthy.
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  Well, especially considering the next two weeks they go on the
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  road to Green Bay and then the following week, Thanksgiving
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  weekend, they will be in Seattle to take on a Seahawks group that
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  I think is as good as is anybody in the NFC.
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  We'll take a time out. We'll get to O'Hare airport.
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  Well, we'll find Tom Cacert. He must have landed.
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  He just retweeted that he's going to be on.
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  So that's good news for us. Cacert Coming up next, Eugene
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  repay on Iowa State. Trent will keep us updated on
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  the from the Dome rather as the semifinals unfold.
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  He's got both games tonight on the Bull.
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  The early game is Valley versus Dowling and then the Nightcap,
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  7:00 I think Trent said yesterday it is 7:00, Waukee,
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  northwest Iowa City, Liberty. If you want to listen to those
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  games, you're driving around on the FM dial at least here in
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  central Iowa on 96.9. The ball.
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  Miller and Condon underway on a football Friday.
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  Cake it next. It's the Iowa sports radio
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  network. Condon, welcome back Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network, wherever listening, grateful that you
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  are. Trench at the Dome will get to
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  him momentarily. Right now Tom Canker needs it.
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  O'Hare standing by for his next flood, not standing by waiting
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  to board his next flight off to LALAX.
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  Is that where you fly into for this one?
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  Yeah, yeah, flying into LAX for this one and yeah, it's pretty
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  seamless so far. I got 1 little bit of
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  interesting information today talking to somebody from USB.
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  Yes, that, you know, with all the rain coming, they cover the
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  field. So there'll be a tarp on the
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  field until about, you know, 9:00 AM or whatever, OK,
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  tomorrow morning and then they're going to take that off.
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  So that probably helps with the keeping the field in the grass a
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  little bit more palatable I guess for tomorrow.
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  That's unfortunate Tom, because I thought maybe I know gave a
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  bit of an edge in that one. I know, too bad we'll get to
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  Trent momentarily. He's at the Unit Dome watching
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  some semi finals. Just I'll just start if you
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  will. Trent and I talked about it
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  earlier. We've kind of been back and
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  forth. Iowa has no chance.
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  Well, if this goes their way, yeah, I could see this, blah,
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  blah, blah. Where are you, Tom?
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  Where are you on this football game?
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  I saw your your preview at hawkeyereport.com.
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  Just share some of that if you would.
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  How do you see USC and Iowa tomorrow?
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  Yeah, I think with this, the the weather situation, the way it's
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  going to be, if Iowa can get some turnovers, I'm just not
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  sure. You know, Oregon's kind of used
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  to that kind of weather guys who play at Oregon, They're kind of
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  used to the rainy weather and everything.
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  Sure. These SoCal guys are too used to
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  something like this. You know, we may have weather
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  delays, by the way. They're really talking about
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  like thunderstorms or talking about like small tornadoes.
• 18:07
  I mean, it is like wild what they were talking about.
• 18:10
  So anyway, it's going to just be something they're not used to
• 18:15
  and I was probably going to thrive in it.
• 18:17
  They're used to it. They played in it last week.
• 18:19
  So I, I think, I think it's kind of benefits Iowa in some ways.
• 18:26
  This has not been a great run defense for USC.
• 18:28
  They played well against Michigan, but they're 13th in
• 18:31
  the Big 10 in rush defense at this point in time.
• 18:34
  Is this the breakout game for Kumari Moulton and kind of A2
• 18:37
  parter at that running back spot?
• 18:39
  I'm a little bit surprised they've relied on him so heavily
• 18:42
  now over this last month. I thought we'd be seeing a more
• 18:45
  bigger rotation out of that running back, so Moulton and
• 18:48
  then just overall why they haven't been using the depth
• 18:50
  that we thought they had coming into the year?
• 18:53
  Yeah, it's interesting that they've really been living with
• 18:55
  Kumari and dying with Kumari. I think we'll see a lot more
• 18:59
  Jazz Patterson in this one. I I just think kind of that
• 19:03
  straight ahead back, that's just, you know, one cut and on
• 19:07
  the the wet field is probably going to be the the, the way to
• 19:11
  go for for Iowa in this game. So that's kind of what I look
• 19:15
  for is Kamari and Jazz to probably get most of the
• 19:18
  carries. If it does come down to a
• 19:20
  special team, let's say it's a kick, Tom, USC special teams.
• 19:25
  We know where I was at was pretty darn good.
• 19:28
  What about special teams? Does Iowa have an edge there
• 19:31
  overall? We know what Ouija can do, and
• 19:33
  he's a threat to break one at any time.
• 19:36
  Does does USC have a kicker and do they have a return man?
• 19:41
  We know lemons usually the guy, but so maybe it's maybe a wash
• 19:45
  here. Yeah, it might be.
• 19:47
  Lemon has not broken any big plays this year.
• 19:50
  So maybe slight edge to Wegian because he's proven.
• 19:54
  But their place kicker is really good.
• 19:56
  He's made 15 to 16, got a big leg.
• 19:58
  So I I think equal, maybe slight edge I see there.
• 20:03
  And their punter is very average.
• 20:05
  So, you know, maybe it's a teensy edge for Iowa, but boy,
• 20:10
  you know, it's going to be wet, wet conditions and the the
• 20:14
  snapping again for Iowa might be an issue.
• 20:17
  You know, I that's something I've thought about quite a bit.
• 20:19
  So just wonder how that's going to factor into this game.
• 20:23
  It's been an issue all season long.
• 20:25
  They brought in the kid from BCI.
• 20:26
  Think he was just a one year guy.
• 20:28
  I think he's a grad transverse or just a season going.
• 20:31
  Have they been looking? You do so much on recruiting and
• 20:33
  I know it's not going to get a bunch of headlines like a
• 20:35
  quarterback or wide receiver. Have they been looking though
• 20:38
  for an heir apparent? Is there a young guy because
• 20:41
  we're just so unused to Iowa struggling so much and and one
• 20:44
  of the parts of the I think. They need to know it.
• 20:49
  Yep. Yeah, I think we might have.
• 20:52
  Yeah, I think, I think they're, yeah, they're going to be
• 20:55
  looking for a long snapper. They've got Ike Speltz as a
• 20:57
  young guy. But I, I think they're going to
• 20:59
  be keep looking for for another young long snapper or somebody
• 21:03
  in the portal. You know, there's always going
• 21:05
  to be portal guys that are that'll be willing to to come in
• 21:07
  too. What is the going rate for a
• 21:09
  long snapper and in the NIL world?
• 21:13
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 21:14
  But though somebody will take some money to come in.
• 21:17
  That's. Funny, Tom.
• 21:19
  I know you got a plane to catch. One more minute.
• 21:21
  Just your thoughts. Xavier, Iowa tonight.
• 21:23
  Carver, Hawkeye, Rena, What do you what do you expect to see?
• 21:27
  Yeah, I, I think I was going to win this one pretty comfortably.
• 21:30
  That Xavier teams not very good, you know, just doesn't doesn't
• 21:34
  have it this year. They got They were down by 30 to
• 21:36
  Santa Clara at home. And.
• 21:39
  They barely beat Lemoyne and Marist, you know, so that they,
• 21:44
  I think I was going to win pretty comfortably.
• 21:45
  I was hoping they'd get a little bit more of a test in this one,
• 21:48
  but it's probably going to be a pretty easy one for the Hawks.
• 21:50
  Does Indiana, do they since they got pushed last week, do do we
• 21:54
  think that they'll that they'll open up a can on Wisconsin?
• 21:58
  Wisconsin defense is still pretty good.
• 22:00
  How do you see this one? It's a big number.
• 22:03
  Yeah, it is. But I think, I think they're
• 22:05
  trying to get Mendoza the Heisman Trophy.
• 22:08
  Excellent point. Yeah, excellent point.
• 22:10
  I think the last two, you know, I think they've got two games
• 22:13
  left and I think they're going to, Signetti's going to just let
• 22:17
  him let him have it. So that's my guess.
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  Go catch your plane, Tom. Safe flight.
• 22:21
  We'll talk to you next week. Thanks, buddy.
• 22:23
  Thank you. Yep.
• 22:23
  Good to talk to you. Yep.
• 22:24
  Take care. Tom Caker, hawkeyereport.com as
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• 23:42
  How about an update on that semi final?
• 23:45
  Yes, it is down to the final 90 seconds of the ball game and I
• 23:49
  was. He's got a bad one.
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  I hope it works out better for for your broadcast on the bull
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  because you've cutting in and out throughout throughout most
• 24:02
  of the morning here. Alright Eugene repay coming up
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  on Iowa State you're back. What were you were about to save
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  the score 90 seconds left and. 2412 is the score here.
• 24:11
  Regina with the lead over Grundy Center clock is running Savion
• 24:15
  Miller, the running back for Iowa City.
• 24:17
  Regina, this kid is outstanding. He's got offers from all across
• 24:20
  the upper Midwest. No, he is on a visit to Phil
• 24:23
  Fleck and company up in Minnesota a couple of weeks ago.
• 24:25
  I think he was in Iowa City at Kiddock last week.
• 24:28
  Well, he's always in Iowa City. He's a Regina kid.
• 24:29
  But Savion Miller, remember that name.
• 24:32
  He is maybe the next great running back to come out here in
• 24:35
  the state of Iowa. Interesting.
• 24:36
  So the winning streak is about to be snapped. 50 in a row down
• 24:42
  the tubes for Grundy Center. So Regina would play who next
• 24:46
  week Trent of that to be determined in the next game or
• 24:48
  dual. Do we know that opponent yet?
• 24:50
  Yeah, that will be the next game.
• 24:51
  That's the 1:00 game that will have Regina against the winner
• 24:55
  of that one. All right, good stuff, well
• 24:57
  done. Iowa City, Regina.
• 24:59
  It looks like they're on their way to the final.
• 25:02
  So anything that Tom said to pick up anything, obviously the
• 25:07
  weather, they're going to have the the grass covered special
• 25:10
  teams of push. I was hoping there'd be a bit of
• 25:12
  an edge there, but it sure doesn't sound like there's going
• 25:15
  to be. By the way, Trent, you are going
• 25:18
  to be out and about tomorrow to watch that game.
• 25:21
  You're going to be at Wild Rose Jefferson.
• 25:23
  What do you got going on there? Yeah, Wild Rose Jefferson is the
• 25:27
  spot. It is a big day at Wild Rose.
• 25:29
  They have a sports car to memorabilia show that'll be
• 25:32
  happening all throughout the day.
• 25:33
  Starts at 10 AM. That one goes until 4:00.
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  A meet and greet with Dallas Clark, the former All American
• 25:39
  and Mackie Award winner. He will be there from 11:00 to
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  So excited to hang out with Dallas for a while and you can
• 25:47
  go there, meet him, autographs, the whole thing with Dallas
• 25:50
  Clark from 11:00 to 1:00 at Wild Rose Jefferson and then 2:30
• 25:54
  kick off with USC and Iowa and we'll be hanging out watching
• 25:58
  the game there from Coach's Corner at the Sports Book.
• 26:02
  Looking forward to it. Should be a great time again.
• 26:04
  From 3:50 is a sports card at Memorabilia 11 to 1 Dallas Clark
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  and then game watch at 2:30 with Iowa and USC.
• 26:11
  All right, good stuff, Eugene Repay.
• 26:12
  Coming up next on Iowa State is Iowa State.
• 26:15
  Is this their third by I know they went to to Ireland and they
• 26:18
  deserve but this is #3 right? Yeah.
• 26:22
  Yeah, it's. An odd schedule when you start
• 26:24
  out early. It is, yeah.
• 26:25
  I guess you get rewarded with that extra buy.
• 26:27
  But anyways, they'll be back next week.
• 26:30
  They'll host Kansas and then hog the head on the road for the
• 26:33
  finale of the regular season take on a winless Oklahoma State
• 26:37
  team. By the way, who does Oklahoma
• 26:38
  State play before I was state comes to town.
• 26:41
  I know you don't know why would you let me see if.
• 26:45
  They got Kate. I know they got K State this
• 26:47
  week. I do know that one.
• 26:48
  OK, yeah. So it's Kansas State for the cow
• 26:51
  folks this week. Then next week they go to
• 26:53
  Orlando to take on Central Florida and then the finale
• 26:58
  against the clones and. So what I'm looking for is I'd
• 27:01
  sure like to get to put one in the win column before Iowa State
• 27:04
  pays a visit. Not I mean, I don't think that
• 27:06
  they're going to rally around the the interim coach by by any
• 27:09
  means. You know, look at those
• 27:10
  standings. Colorado at 1:00 and 6:00 there.
• 27:13
  Colorado's AD is stepping down. Is Dionne back considering his
• 27:18
  health problems, etcetera. They're three and seven.
• 27:21
  They're not going to the postseason, You know what best
• 27:25
  they can do is, you know, finish three and nine in in Big 12 play
• 27:28
  new AD Sure, he got the fan base all worked up and and Folsom
• 27:33
  Field was a place to go again, at least for a couple of years.
• 27:36
  I got to wonder if it's coming to an entrant.
• 27:40
  You know, one of the crazy things too, I was just reading
• 27:42
  an article at The Athletic yesterday and they were talking
• 27:45
  about bowl games and how bowl numbers were up.
• 27:47
  And remember the game a year ago with Dion and company as they
• 27:50
  took on BYU? Well, it's a conference game,
• 27:52
  but it's not really a conference game.
• 27:54
  At the Alamo Bowl, they got the highest TV ratings ever.
• 27:57
  And I mean, we think of some of those great Alamo games we've
• 27:59
  seen in the past with some big brands that have played in that
• 28:02
  game. That was the highest rated game
• 28:04
  they've ever had for an Alamo Bowl a season ago.
• 28:07
  He still brings viewers. It was different, I know, a
• 28:10
  season ago, but the health, you just don't know, right?
• 28:14
  And if you're looking to make a move, there's going to be so
• 28:17
  many openings. Is he willing to move?
• 28:19
  Is he happy? There's a lot of question marks
• 28:21
  there. I thought they were obviously
• 28:23
  going to take a step back this year, but this I didn't foresee
• 28:26
  this at. All and how did they beat Iowa
• 28:27
  State? I mean, their loss is beat with
• 28:30
  a good game against BYU 2421 TCU got him by 14, then they beat
• 28:36
  Iowa State, but since then, Utah 53 to 7, Arizona 52 to 17, go to
• 28:42
  West Virginia and lose by a touchdown.
• 28:44
  Unbelievable. All right, Eugene repay on Iowa
• 28:47
  State, he's next. Miller and Condon talking sports
• 28:49
  with you. Glad you're with us on the Iowa
• 28:51
  Sports Radio Network. I'm Hillary Condon.
• 29:13
  Welcome back. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network flag shipped out of Des Moines sports station 106.3
• 29:19
  KXNO, Iowa State football off for the weekend, Men's
• 29:23
  basketball off. Off for the weekend.
• 29:25
  They'll play Monday against Stone Hill and then the water
• 29:31
  gets a little bit deep, well, a whole lot deeper as they'll hit
• 29:33
  the Las Vegas take on Saint John's.
• 29:35
  Adam Creighton. But Eugene Repay joins us.
• 29:37
  He covers Iowa State. Eugene Trenton, thank you for
• 29:40
  coming on the Mississippi State, Iowa State game over in South
• 29:44
  Dakota. Terrific basketball game if
• 29:46
  you're an Iowa State fan is Taman Lipsy.
• 29:49
  Was Taman Lipsy and Buchanan looked as as good as he has
• 29:54
  since he's been a member of Iowa State.
• 29:56
  Let's start with Blake Buchanan. Eugene.
• 29:58
  When TJ talks about him, how does he speak of him?
• 30:02
  And I'm guessing that he's very high on Blake Buchanan, what he
• 30:05
  means to this basketball team. Super high on Blake Buchanan.
• 30:09
  He called that actually the best performance by a five man that
• 30:13
  he's ever seen since taking over as an Iowa State head coach.
• 30:18
  TJ Alsenberger obviously bring in Blake Buchanan from Virginia.
• 30:21
  Buchanan felt that he was mis utilized, underused when he was
• 30:25
  with the Cavaliers. CJ Alsoberger had a plan and a
• 30:28
  vision for him. He comes over to Ames and I
• 30:30
  think with each passing game he started and get more comfortable
• 30:34
  and show what kind of player he can be.
• 30:36
  And that Mississippi State game was just a beautiful all around
• 30:39
  performance by him. Just from offense to put back
• 30:42
  dunk to the finishing inside the defensive blocks and just his
• 30:46
  activity swarming around, switching on to guards and then
• 30:49
  of course his play making as well.
• 30:50
  Just a great all around to play for him.
• 30:53
  You know, we look at this squad, a lot of new faces, yet you got
• 30:56
  the tenant there and Tame and Lipsy.
• 30:58
  We've talked about Lipsy coming into the year a bunch with you,
• 31:00
  Eugene, keeping him healthy, keeping him outright.
• 31:03
  What you saw from his performance on Monday, does it
• 31:06
  feel like he is going up to that final level senior year last
• 31:10
  time around, that we're even seeing a better Tame and Lipsy
• 31:13
  this season? A better Tame and Lipsy, not
• 31:16
  only just mentally, but also just seeing what it's like when
• 31:20
  he's physically healthy and just physically able to go just his
• 31:23
  effort flashing to the basket, driving inside, it just looked
• 31:27
  easy for him and he he scored a career high 25 points, but he
• 31:31
  was still dishing out assists as well, just finishing with a team
• 31:35
  high 6th assists and he also had three steals, but just also an
• 31:39
  impressive all around game for him and and I think that this
• 31:42
  year is definitely seems to be the the best of Tame and Lipsy
• 31:44
  so far. Milan Manchilovich, he's had one
• 31:47
  really good shooting game. Other than that, he has
• 31:50
  struggled. Are we starting, are they
• 31:52
  starting to get concerned about Manchilovich?
• 31:54
  Obviously we we know he can do it, but they were looking for
• 31:58
  consistency this year, Eugene and so far that hasn't been the
• 32:02
  case. Yeah, TJ was actually asked
• 32:05
  about that in his recent media availability on Thursday
• 32:09
  morning. Obviously, Neil, I'm on televich
• 32:11
  only played, I want to say 12 or 17 minutes, not a lot and
• 32:15
  certainly a very quiet showing for him.
• 32:17
  When it in a game where it felt like everybody was putting
• 32:20
  together good performances, there's not too much concern.
• 32:23
  They felt that the overall pace of the game and just kind of the
• 32:26
  flow of the game, like when they went on that 26 to 6 run to end
• 32:29
  the first half, just the lineup that was in place there didn't
• 32:33
  have Neil Montelvich, but clearly things were clicking,
• 32:35
  things are working. So they just kind of rolled the
• 32:37
  momentum there. They're not overall concerned
• 32:40
  about Neil Montelich. I think he'll be fine and we'll
• 32:43
  see how he's able to respond here against Stone Hill, but
• 32:47
  just overall, just not not too much concern for him.
• 32:51
  I want to jump over to big man Dom Pleeta and we see him coming
• 32:55
  over from Germany. He's been playing about 8
• 32:57
  minutes a game. Is that likely his role for the
• 33:00
  rest of the season or as he gets more comfortable, obviously more
• 33:03
  acclimated to American life and being at a university and all
• 33:07
  the different things? Do you think that there is a
• 33:09
  potential that maybe the light bulb comes on, say in December,
• 33:12
  in January, and suddenly Pleeta is a guy that's giving him a
• 33:15
  good 15 minutes a game? Yeah, I think the hope for him
• 33:18
  is to just as he grows more acclimated to the physicality
• 33:21
  and the tempo, those are still the two big adjustments that
• 33:24
  he's trying to to make sense coming stateside.
• 33:27
  But I feel like if he's able to grow more comfortable and and as
• 33:30
  we saw that Mississippi State game is probably his best
• 33:32
  showing overall just on both ends of the court.
• 33:35
  He was finishing some put back dunks.
• 33:37
  He was crashing the glass and that was kind of the kind of
• 33:41
  player that they were hoping from him.
• 33:42
  His first couple of games. He looked a little lost on the
• 33:46
  defensive end and just kind of, But if he can continue this
• 33:49
  upward trajectory, I wouldn't be surprised if he starts getting
• 33:52
  more minutes. You look at that Mississippi
• 33:54
  State game, Eric Mulder was a guy who played a lot in the
• 33:56
  first two games. Don Pleader comes in and he's
• 33:59
  playing well to the point where it's like, oh man, we got we got
• 34:02
  to keep him on and then all of a sudden he's playing more minutes
• 34:05
  than Eric Mulder. So I think that just, you know,
• 34:08
  if he's able to continue to get more comfortable, don't be
• 34:11
  shocked if you see his role start to grow as the year goes
• 34:14
  on. And I'm going to ask you about
• 34:15
  another freshman. In Bateman, whose role seemingly
• 34:17
  is starting to grow. Eugene, would you, would you
• 34:21
  agree to that? I mean, the three-point shooting
• 34:23
  has been there. I'm not saying he's going to
• 34:25
  play 15 minutes once we get to the Big 12.
• 34:27
  But you know, there might be double digit, maybe 1213 minutes
• 34:30
  available for Bateman if he continues to shoot like he has
• 34:33
  shown that he has the ability to do.
• 34:35
  So yeah, it seems like this is another player.
• 34:38
  Who's starting to get more comfortable, getting a little
• 34:40
  more acclimated to the Vision One life and just playing at
• 34:44
  this high major level with Bateman?
• 34:46
  This was a guy that they were super high on over the summer
• 34:49
  and in preseason fall. Just going into the season
• 34:53
  thinking that this is a guy who contend for, you know, maybe
• 34:56
  starter or six man minutes. Obviously it it wasn't exactly
• 34:59
  the start that he wanted in the exhibition games.
• 35:02
  But as he's starting to see that 3 point shot go in or he's
• 35:06
  starting to make those energy plays where he's taking charges
• 35:08
  and and making some defensive stops.
• 35:10
  You can see his confidence starting to grow in these last
• 35:12
  couple of games. And I'm curious to see what he's
• 35:15
  able to do with his role and, and how he's able to own it.
• 35:17
  There's obviously a lot of guys on the bench who are chipping
• 35:19
  in, but I think he's a guy who can carve out a steady role for
• 35:23
  himself. As a freshman a year ago, we.
• 35:26
  Saw this team race. Out to the 15 and one start,
• 35:28
  they were 17 and two and then they just didn't play as good a
• 35:31
  basketball. Is there a part of your gene as
• 35:35
  a reporter that regardless what happens here in the early going,
• 35:38
  how great they look against Mississippi State?
• 35:40
  What happens when they go out to the players tournament in Vegas
• 35:43
  that you still want to maybe not get ahead of your skis?
• 35:46
  Cuz last year I thought that was a Final Four team.
• 35:49
  I mean they were playing at that kind of level.
• 35:51
  Is there a part of you that says this is great, even if it starts
• 35:55
  off great? This is a really long basketball
• 35:57
  season. It's a really long basketball
• 35:59
  season. And if you look at that
• 36:01
  second-half of the Big 12 Slade, when they get into February and
• 36:05
  it's just heavy hitter after heavy hitter, I think that eight
• 36:08
  or nine game threats to end the regular season.
• 36:10
  That in itself is probably tougher than 80% of the teams in
• 36:16
  Division One basketball, 363 teams.
• 36:19
  That eight game stretch is already tougher than probably
• 36:21
  the regular season for a lot of those guys.
• 36:24
  So right now, obviously you got to ride the wave.
• 36:27
  I'm curious to see how they respond to the Players Era
• 36:29
  tournament. I think that that tournament
• 36:31
  will also be very telling when they go up against St.
• 36:33
  John's, Creighton and that third team, who will also be a hammer
• 36:36
  just based on the tournament field there.
• 36:39
  But yeah, you can't get ahead of yourself.
• 36:42
  Obviously last year was also impacted by injuries, but it
• 36:45
  also just kind of showed how fragile everything is.
• 36:47
  But I agree with your assessment.
• 36:49
  I felt like after that beat down of Kansas at home when Curtis
• 36:53
  Jones went thermonuclear and they were 17 and two, it was
• 36:57
  like, oh man, book your ticket to the Final Four, at least an
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  Elite 8 and they came crashing down.
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  But I also think that that was also a cautionary tale for the
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  players now. So we'll see how things go.
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  Obviously it's one game, one week and one month at a time.
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  But right, so far, so good. One more on basketball you guys
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  brought. Up the players Era tournament is
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  that a guaranteed $1,000,000 to each term regardless of where
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  they each team gets a million for NIL funds.
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  Do you know the particulars on that, Eugene?
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  Yeah, I think it's every. Participating team gets a
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  million and then I think it can Max out to 2,000,000 if I
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  remember correctly. I remember doing the research
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  when this was first announced, but yeah, no, there there's an
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  opportunity to add to that bankroll.
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  So plenty of incentives for the players and the coaches and just
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  everyone all around. Why would you not want to play
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  every? Single year.
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  That's why it's only the best of the best.
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  There, Yeah, a lot of a lot of big names there.
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  Absolutely. Go ahead, Trent.
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  Yeah, that St. John's game is going to.
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  Open it up. And that's going to be
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  incredibly fun to watch in the way that that goes going
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  forward. Hey, I want to jump over to
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  football. And though it's away from Iowa
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  State, I'm sure you saw the news about Mark Harlan taking over a
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  role with the College Football Playoff committee.
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  Baylor their their AD stepped aside.
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  So you had what Big 12 representation?
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  I understand that. Did they really need to go the
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  direction though, with a team that is going to be maybe in the
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  conversation for a bid? Couldn't they found somebody
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  else to fill that role from the Big 12?
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  Yeah, no, I'm, I'm. Curious how exactly that that
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  process worked, but. You know.
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  I'm I, I'm not against anyone who also shares similar
• 38:35
  sentiments. I mean, I've seen things
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  floating around on social media. But I I do agree, yeah, it was
• 38:40
  definitely a very interesting choice on that front.
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  Yeah, it doesn't pass the smell test.
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  What do you? Expect to see or hear from from
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  Coach Campbell when you guys get him on Tuesday.
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  What's lingering out there from the last time the Cyclones took
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  the field? Eugene, what will we hear
• 38:53
  Tuesday? I I feel like for them it'll.
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  Just be obviously just how they respond or build off of that
• 39:00
  gutsy wind. Just Aiden floor in his heroic
• 39:02
  moment. Ben Bramer also having a
• 39:04
  Hollywood moment after that scary collapse the week before
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  comes in scores the first touchdown of the game and just
• 39:10
  how the team's able to kind of, you know, was that kick with.
• 39:15
  Or pum return touchdown. And that gutsy, when was that
• 39:17
  going to be a turning point for them?
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  Was that going to be a spark that helps salvage of the season
• 39:21
  or do they go back to the struggles?
• 39:23
  So it'll be interesting to see how I would say build off of it.
• 39:26
  Can they fix their offensive woes and can the the patchwork
• 39:30
  defense and just other guys continue to step up?
• 39:33
  Eugene Repay covers Iowa. State for the Des Moines
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  Register, desmoinesregister.com, Eugene.
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  Good stuff. Appreciate it as always.
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  We will track you down next week.
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  Thank you, Eugene. Thank you guys and have a good
• 39:44
  weekend. Yeah, you.
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  Do the same, Eugene. Repay covers Iowa State for the
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  register. Good stuff $1,000,000.
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  I mean, teams should be battling each other for the right to play
• 39:53
  in that tournament, Trent. And I think they are they.
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  Should be. I'm good, yes.
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  I'm going to guess that there. Is more requests for spots than
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  there are spots available when you're talking about that kind
• 40:02
  of money and what it does. And I'm just going out there and
• 40:06
  having the ability to recruit, saying that from freshman to
• 40:10
  guys that are veterans, hey. You come here, it's not only
• 40:13
  what we can pay you, but we're going to this tournament and
• 40:15
  there's going to be more cash coming that way too.
• 40:17
  So yeah, good sell job. And I'm going to guess
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  everybody's trying to get into it, but they they're just taking
• 40:22
  the who's who. I love it.
• 40:24
  Iowa State, they're one of those programs.
• 40:26
  Yeah, they are what? Absolutely, and well done.
• 40:28
  Glad that they're out there. Saint John's one day, Creighton
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  the next day. Eugene said.
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  If they win it, it can be upwards of $2,000,000.
• 40:35
  I think there's a trickle down. Yes, they're guaranteed
• 40:37
  1,000,000, but if they finished third, they got a couple of
• 40:40
  100,000. Heck, that's that that pays.
• 40:42
  I mean, that would have been a whole lot easier to pay
• 40:43
  Jefferson, you know, when the member when they were scrambling
• 40:46
  to come up with that money. My God, is there is there a
• 40:49
  women's equivalent? You know, maybe not yet.
• 40:51
  I don't know. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if
• 40:54
  down the road. Good stuff.
• 40:56
  All right, our number 2 Bama Bob is going to start with Trent and
• 40:59
  I we will go round college football, some of the bigger
• 41:03
  games in college football. Trent's doing his portion of the
• 41:07
  program from the Unidome today. We'll have the semifinals 5 by
• 41:12
  semifinals, Valley Dowling and Waukee Northwest and Iowa City
• 41:18
  Liberty, and that game's coming up at 7:00, both of those games
• 41:22
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