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Incoming! (The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, 2.282.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, and it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome, boy, there are microphones to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn here on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of good stuff here in the off-season Jake particularly with the
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: Football team, so much recruiting success in the last few weeks, particularly Indiana kids, Caleb Elkins from Warren Central, Nicholas Sherman from Westfield and my favorite Zaymore from Lawrence North all added to the Purdue roster in the last week.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of positive momentum for the Purdue Football program.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I fully produce seems to be on a little bit of a year right now, netting now nine commitments in the last five or six days, bringing the total tally up to 13 in the class.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think we could see a few more names fall here over the next week or so.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I produce seemingly climbing up the ranking, see our recruiting wise and I barriot them from from day one is kind of preach that their main focus in recruiting.
• 1:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: would be and you're kind of drawing a circle around West Lafayette and trying to recruit a net circle within four hour radius or something.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so certainly make a matter of priority and certainly pay an off and we've seen some from some big names like Trent Yancy from Texas.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a four-star guy, Purdue beat out schools like Texas, Texas saying him, Oklahoma, Ford, and Texas Tech all-for Trent Yancy is a four-star wide receiver.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: and some people were calling them a potential program changer.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, top rated die in the Bayerio de Mera and the highest rated Purdue commitment since Terry on Grant back in 2024 who didn't really do much for Purdue, transferred to Texas Tech and didn't really do much there either.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully this is exactly what I was gonna say hopefully turning can be a little bit better but it's nice that Purdue can kind of see that Purdue fans can see that Purdue can win.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, procuring battles like this against blue bloods and against taking guys out of the football state of Texas, taking some some guys out of there, out of their own backyard.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: In some of the school says it's pretty cool to see and I think something that obviously fans will take note of, hopefully, other recruits that produce going after and we'll go after hopefully that turns their heads a little bit to it and makes him think a little bit harder about coming to Purdue and helping turn this thing around.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Same thing with Caleb Elkins, someone we've been following here at the Central Indian Esports Report from Warren Central Who.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: committed to Purdue this week and by the way, this is the 27 class in case I didn't mention that.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he same thing over Alabama, Tennessee, and programs like that.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So really good to see them keep some, as you said, in state talent, also Patrick O'Brien from Cincinnati, Roman Combs, a corner back from Westchester, Ohio, and Owen Roberts and Edge from Elmer, so I'll only talk about the four-hour radius.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Most of those are within it.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that grabbed for the new offensive line coach for Purdue.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's certain to deserve some attention to young, young guy rising coach and his investment in the program is certainly sort of to pay some dividends here.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I was getting guys like Sherman and Patrick O'Brien.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the guys I think we could see falling here soon towards Purdue.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, him do a young four star offensive lineman from Michigan.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: up and that would be another really good gift for this offensive line.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it really kind of preaches to very autumn and a philosophy of being a hard nose football team and you're getting guys who can win win battles and the trenches and that will certainly help out your Ryan Brown and all these future pretty quarterbacks if they can have a strong offensive line in front of them.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Jake, I watched a lot of Lawrence North football last year.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think like you whenever there's a superstar, I have to check them out on YouTube or whatever.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I tuned into Lawrence North for their big wide receiver, recruit who we won't mention where he's going.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But what kept me coming back for Lawrence North football was a young man named Zaymoor, a running back from Lawrence North who is just spectacular to watch.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Very undersized, which is why he was committed to Miami, Ohio, but has now switched his commitment to Purdue.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: At 30 touchdowns last year again, 5, 675 pounds is
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: very small for a college running back, but this guy has I'm talking elite balance and vision hard to get to the ground if you get if you can get a hold of him elite speed and has really good abilities as a running back just hopefully grows a little more and will be I believe even at his size is going to be a great running back at Purdue.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I love him.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope so.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if he's not a traditional running back being able to use him and maybe like to kick off game or get sweeps and things like that, I'm sure Purdue can find a way for him.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Guy with the same last name, we're on deal more.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rest in peace.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: He was an
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: at a great, at least freshman year at Purdue, pretty solid career overall.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Certainly hope you can make an impact here at Purdue and Purdue fans will enjoy assi and him in the black and gold.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake and I talk a little more football here.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Gonna talk about the schedule.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: We have some times for the first three games of the season and another one in October.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: But before we get to that, do want to let people know that we are going to be talking some basketball coming up to watch the Indian All-Star games, watch Luke Herdle play against all stars, which we'd seen him plunny in a high school game, seen him against all stars.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have kind of an analysis of him.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: And also we're going to talk a little bit about Braden Smith and what to expect of him in the NBA draft that's coming up here.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: a couple of weeks.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: June 22nd or 23rd is rough.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've kind of tried to forget about it that's even happening.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, let's talk about the football schedule and it starts the season starts with three games September 4th at say Friday.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I hate that for high school football against Indiana State seven o'clock on the big 10 network.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then the second game of the season, the first big test
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: at home against Wake Forest as you call them kind of a peer.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Wake Forest, you hope that they're not.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: But kind of a peer group team, again, that you really need to win if you want to continue to see positive momentum and then at UCLA, 11 p.m. on Saturday, September 19th, on the big 10 network, we will have a late night that night and then
• 7:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Notre Dame a home at Illinois, Minnesota home, and then we know Washington, a nationally televised game on Fox Friday, October 16th, 8 o'clock, the Nat Penn State Maryland at Iowa Wisconsin at home at Indiana.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely an easier schedule than last year, but still a tough one as they always will be in the big 10.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I eat to really kind of say it, but I feel like the season comes down to that second game of the year, Saturday, September 12th.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess Wake Forest at home, noon kick off.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you can win that game, that gives you hope and momentum for the rest of the season.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll say this if they don't, Purdue fans are out in the season.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fans have been very loyal in the past few years with like the Ryan Walters era, you know, not winning a whole lot of games there.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then last year, obviously with with the first year of Barry Odom, very showed up, supported through the tough tough season that it was.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: If we start out slow out of the gate, I think it's going to be tough to kind of keep that momentum, not even even though as we know, Purdue fans are our very,
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've got any in a state that should be a win.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you can win, they can tweak force, get to a lot of momentum going there into UCLA.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: And certainly those are three win-able games there.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not saying pretty will win them, but just right, they certainly have the ability to win those.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: If they start three and oh, then you start to get excited.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then you start to get into kind of the meat of the big 10 schedule there.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be tough.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely some win-able conference games, like Maryland.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and Wisconsin both at home.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if you can can knock off, you know, you see a way and maybe get get a win against, uh, Minnesota.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe at Illinois, which is, those games have been fairly close.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you know, past few years, certainly have the potential to be, to be bowl eligible, but I will, uh, I will wait to, uh, to see that from this team up before I, uh, make any predictions for for bowl eligibility.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Start 3-0 heading into the Notre Dame game, and then you're talking about people will definitely be there.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Notre Dame at home on September 26th, if you're 3-0 and you can get past UCLA at UCLA and League Force, that would definitely turn things around, is it what?
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake, let's talk some Purdue basketball.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I watched the Indian All-Star games over the weekend, and as you know, and I've said on this podcast, I have resisted the urge to compare Luke Irville to Braiden Smith, but watching those games, I couldn't help it.
• 9:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: So similar in so many different ways.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: There are some differences for sure, but the vision, the playmaking, the shooting ability, the having the ball on the string, kind of thing, so many.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: comparable skills that it jumps off the screen a little different builds but about the same size and I probably shouldn't say this Jake, but I'm going to.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a chance Lucurtle's even better.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: That'd be a pretty amazing feat.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it'd be hard to top brain Smith, but if Lucurtle can do that, I think it'd be pretty awesome.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say for Purdue excited to see him in the kind of a new
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: shade of black and gold.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess from Mount Vernon here to here to Purdue, but excited for him and in the rest of the newcomers here who started practice this week.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, so they're getting their first practices in with Matt Painter and the coaching staff and excited for this foundation that they are laying here for this upcoming 2026, 2027 season.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think one thing that'll be interesting is when the season starts whether he's in the starting lineup like Braden Smith was as a freshman because breaking into that starting lineup is gonna be very difficult with those guards that they have.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I doubt that he does.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: If he's in the starting lineup though, we have something special for sure.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't absolutely sure until I saw him against all stars, because we've seen him before he's playing against a bunch of high school kids.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it sometimes is hard to tell.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's easier to tell when
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: in an all-star game when you got kids of similar type skill and it's real.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: His passing is magic.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: His passing is better than Braden Smith, the all-time assistant leader.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't necessarily mean he's going to have that many assists, but the no look, the fitting the ball between guys, it's a rare skill that he has.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he's got to be watching some film.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would think on Braden Smith and Descalde, you know, how Purdue is kind of used to him.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure he watched Purdue Games throughout the year.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I imagine he's probably gotten some things from Braden Smith.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: If Luke were, it'll be half of what Braden Smith was like, Purdue's in and pretty enhanced.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: These kinds of comparisons are always dangerous because high school to college, you just never know.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: There've been players in my lifetime that we were super excited to be Purdue basketball players
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: lots of guys who we weren't excited about coming to Purdue who ended up being stars Carson Edwards comes to mind off the top of my head but so it's really tough to do this but I was watching the Indiana Kentucky all-star games by the way the crowds just super disappointing I don't think that things last and much longer really disappointed there weren't a thousand people
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: at the game and Kentucky for sure.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I digress.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but pretty exciting.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you were going to guess right now as of today, what do you think the starting line up's going to be in October, November?
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say, Kaden Pierce is probably going to start us as probably about a guarantee.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he'd come here to sit on the bench or anything.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Kaden Pierce at the fore, Daniel Jacobson at the five, I read some stuff online.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's really putting in a lot of work trying to enhance his skills.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then for the, for the guard, lots of options.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I could definitely see Luke Earl starting people last season were
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty much a walk to start.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be the the brain smith of of last year.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's weather fence.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's weather.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's at the point or the two.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's got to start.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's the most talented player I think on the team.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that leaves one spot, I guess, for what I guess, um, if you have over at the, at the one that leaves the two and three spot for Luke Earl, Antoine West, CJ Cox, Ricardo Harris, any of other than Cox and Harris would be in the lead.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would think so too.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, we, we sold, Ricardo off the bench last year.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, uh, I know, with the transfer portal error now, nowadays you gotta kind of,
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: manage expectations and he goes and all that for just playing time and everything like that.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Matt Painter doesn't do that though.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: The best five play that's his rule.
• 13:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't he's not going to be massaging he goes.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you can't take that you're in the best five get, but yeah, as my old golf coach, Kenny Day once said, get better, get used to it.
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, Matt Painter's got that same mantra.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: But if you know,
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, my head had to pick, I'd say, Dan Jick was in at the five, King Pierce at the four, I'm going to go Chikara Harris at the three.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it's got to be CJ Cox at the two and then Omar Meyer at the one at the one.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's my starting five prediction for this upcoming year, but certainly like we talked about, Luke Earl could start Antoine West could start Jack Banner was a big part of the team last year still be shocked at all of Jack Banner's in the starting one.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 14:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So this is kind of the, as we've talked about for them, the most going to the season, the most question Mark's produce had.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think puts a good question marks.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, a good question marks dad.
• 14:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Who's good enough to get in the starting lineup is, oh, is better than, uh, who can we find to be the other starter?
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, sure.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: Definitely a fun year.
• 15:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I hope so.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we've got, um, so far, you know, most of the non-conference schedule all kind of ironed out and everything and got some pretty exciting matchups that'll that'll really test the team.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: nice to have a year once in a while where you know expect expectations are sky high play a little more freeway and I think that's when Purdue teams are most dangerous.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Seems like a lot like most teams these days it's kind of every other year at this point.
• 15:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's one year there continuing for national championship the next year you're hoping for a sweet 16 if you get lucky get only data or final for that kind of thing and I think that's what we're looking at like two years ago.
• 15:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: This year obviously King Pierce will be a senior, but now the same king is a former walk on he's a senior.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So not really losing a ton assuming everybody returns and doesn't go in the portal and leaves should be getting just by everybody back from from this year for next year.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: So should be losing a whole lot and we could be looking at 2027, 2028 season being right back up there near the the top of the the teams to country.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: and we started with incoming freshmen from Indianapolis on the football team and of course next year they will have an incoming freshman from Indianapolis on the basketball team as well to add to all that time.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, I love that Matt Paine are really tries to emphasize the recruiting here in state but also isn't afraid just like we talked about the football team, not afraid to go out there and get guys from all across the country to come in and really help the team.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, Jake, we went over some of the football schedule.
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: We now also know pretty much the complete basketball schedule, the non-conference schedule and the big 10 opponents.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: They know who all of their opponents are going to be for next year.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: We think starting with a couple of interesting exhibitions against Yukon and Purdue Fort Wayne.
• 17:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and both states also in that group as well, they'll be playing ball state in an exhibition.
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, ball state playing at Purdue Fort Wayne, which will be a pretty cool thing in the Thursday, October 22nd at the Allen County War Memorial Colosseum.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then five days later, Tuesday, October 27th.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: traveling to at Yukon for an exhibition, which I'll be a really tough test against a really good team.
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen some projections.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: They might be number three, four in the country.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Certainly in that top group in the top five I would think.
• 17:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So another chance for Braille and Mullins in the girdle to go at it one more time.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that'll be cool to see for for us.
• 17:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: And do you think about that?
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I said Indian High School Basketball fans will want to tune in for that.
• 17:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then in the Hall of Fame opening night, it's not really a tournament, but it's a event going on in Las Vegas on Monday, November 2nd, Purdue takes on Gonzaga, the play Val Parizo, Illinois State, Lipscomb Oakland, and then we'll speak it into the holiday tournament here.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: They are purringing the Fort Myers tip off against the Paul, and then the second game will be against Oklahoma, and that is in Fort Myers, Florida.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: and then I was and one thing we know is that Purdue wins holiday tournament just they do never win one they were always second to a team ranked in the top five and now they seem to win them all the time and then I guess what pretty important matchups here against Iowa State on Saturday December 5th and then Friday and December 11th gets Tennessee so it'll be two really good games and then they finish off the non-conference season against Cal Baptist on Monday December 21st maybe a program on the rise in this new
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely so nice little mix there of non-conference teams that kind of range from all sorts of power and it's datgers and there's also some rumors out there that Purdue will be playing Colorado in the end of classic so I think they're trying to get some other maybe more notable teams Colorado still pretty decent program one that Purdue didn't really play a whole lot get them a nice look at a different team than what they'll face in the big 10.
• 19:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can't think of many sports produce ever played Colorado.
• 19:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's interesting.
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 19:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Same colors.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think Vanderbilt was like another team.
• 19:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: They were trying to play with any classic, but obviously I didn't just get a together.
• 19:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: A tournament of teams with black and gold.
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I mean gold, not yellow.
• 19:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It should be a good, a good game for them to classic and rounds out the the non-conference schedule pretty, pretty nicely.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: got to say I think Matt Painter does a really good job of making schedules for the team that he has currently and of course these schedules are made years in advance so he's really gotten pretty good at figuring out what he's what opponents he needs in what years.
• 19:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: This one, not as tough as the past ones have been, but after your two point, gotten really good at making those schedules.
• 20:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they've proven to work out pretty well for these early season tests to pay off when it comes term time here in March.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Jake, it's been a couple of weeks, but we have not talked about the conference opponents, the big 10 also announced conference opponents for 26 27 the home and away series are against Illinois and Indiana as we expect most years and also against Rutgers home in a way.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Home only is Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State UCLA and USC, I think even though it does your seem to be favored in every single one of those games, here's worth stuff.
• 20:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: The road opponents in the Big Ten, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, Washington, and Wisconsin, a lot of tough places to play, so interesting mix of scheduler.
• 20:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Last year, Purdue got kind of gifted with a very favorable schedule getting like Michigan State Michigan Illinois all at home.
• 21:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, did not take advantage of it.
• 21:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully this year's team can can take better advantage of this schedule.
• 21:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty favorable homestand home and away games will be will be great but that that away that you know playing only away at those teams you mentioned really tough place to play so it'll be the interesting to see how this this kind of younger and experienced team will respond.
• 21:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought we were done but you mentioned a an injury.
• 21:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, uh, so nothing too serious, uh, but Chikari Harris does have a broken nose, um, so you use plan, uh, uh, use training in Miami, uh, plan to pick up game, you was trying to go for steel and, uh, said that somebody had accidentally elbowed him in the nose, so he, uh, will undergo surgery for repair.
• 21:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I shouldn't miss significant times should be back next week for full contact work, but a little bit of an adjustment you'll have to wear a protective mask for the next couple months.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we will be seeing him in a mask, but you'll still be able to play and practice and all that.
• 22:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: So shouldn't miss a ton of of time, but hopefully that won't deter him from his defensive pressure and.
• 22:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mindset being aggressive in that that sense here next season because that'll be obviously even more important as the season comes goes along here You know pick I'm like we're just gonna go back to picking guys up full court again I like the use to gonna be maybe hopefully a little bit sharper on the defensive end, so I'll be good defensive team.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll up so so
• 22:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: really need guys like to carry in CJ Cox to be those defensive tone setters for this team.
• 22:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: But happy to this happened earlier in the off season I guess than it did.
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So shouldn't be too much of a factor here but once the season starts.
• 22:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: A couple of weeks from now we will be back and hope you'll join us.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: by the way, flex your lawyer, Braden Smith, and Trake Offman ran with great players, none of them known for their defense.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think it's gonna be a better defense.
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I hope so.
• 23:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I wanna wish them the best of luck and their draft coming up here on here and what two weeks, so Braden Smith probably get drafted.
• 23:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: The other two, maybe looking at two A contracts or playing overseas.
• 23:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think Braden probably
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: doesn't end up with the Pacers, but he did work out for him, they don't have a second round pick, but you know, a second round pick, anybody can trade in for pretty much anything they can give cash for a second round draft picks sometimes.
• 23:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: So if they really want him, they'll go get him, and I think if he trained under TJ McConnell, that would be a great thing for him.
• 23:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he's worked out with her head meetings with the Pacers, the Grizzlies, which would be cool to see him back with Zack Yede, the Celtics, and I'm sure there's some other teams out there, but all those I think would be pretty decent fits, especially a place like Boston or Indiana playing, getting to play on her some guys like TJ McConnell or Peyton Pretcher, I think would be pretty cool for him and his development there in the NBA.
• 24:16
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• 24:18
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• 24:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Always if there's breaking news will be here.
• 24:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: But two weeks if there's not, Jake, thank you so much.
• 24:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: And there's a lot of fun doing it in person.
• 24:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 24:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was.
• 24:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was.
• 24:30
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• 24:31
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• 24:46
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• 24:47
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• 24:49
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• 24:53
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• 24:56
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