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Purdue-Southern Illinois Preview with Jake Dunn (2.19.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we got a Purdue guy.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His name is Jake Dunn.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's from Tipton.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he and I are going to be talking a lot of Purdue football and basketball starting right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Midgales.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Finally, welcome to the podcast, Jake Dunn, our new Purdue Boilermaker contributor.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jake, we have like 15 contributors to the Central Indiana Sports Report and only one other contributor is a Purdue fan and he's an IU grad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So Finally, we have somebody here to talk some boiler makers 2022 Purdue grad and boiler maker fan Jake done.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for joining me, Jake, and we're going to talk a little football.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, appreciate me.
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tell me about your Purdue fandom, how far it goes back, and what your interest are as far as Purdue sports.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: From tips and originally, so about an hour away from campus, growing up, my aunt went to Purdue, but she wasn't really into sports or anything like that.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I knew about Purdue, but didn't really follow it until a different aunt actually took me
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: probably 2000, the late 2000s early, early 2010s.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're playing Minnesota.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And that was my first time ever on campus and I really enjoyed the game, really enjoyed the atmosphere.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought the campus was very beautiful.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So that kind of peeked my interest, the basketballs in my favorite sport.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think shortly after that, that was kind of the golden era, if you will, if you don't count and how the golden era,
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: been that was the golden area of, you know, Robbie Humble, which about some each one or, you know, that Connecticut will always have a national championship.
• 2:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've fit a bit of Purdue.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that's, we're watching them as a kid and kind of from tiptoon is, it's a rich, basketball history, so I'm gonna produce.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I got, you know, fairly rich one as well.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So growing up, they were really good and I really enjoyed watching them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of how I became a fan and through that fandom,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: pretty kind of became my dream school.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, proud to say graduated from there in May of 2022.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: My Purdue fandom goes back to 1980.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: My first game, Jake involved Rod Woodson and Jim Harlaw,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then for the basketball team and like you, basketball is my number one sport.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's the case with most Purdue fans, these days, especially, but always my entire life Purdue basketball has been good and Purdue football has been good for maybe seven, eight years, but we're going to talk about both.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And but we're going to really get into this basketball season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I am pumped up for that.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Is it the most pumped up I've been for a Purdue basketball season a long time because not only are they going to be good Jake, they are going to be fun to watch.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited definitely going to make sure to clear the calendar for those games.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before the season I predicted the Purdue was going to win four games this year.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're kind of spot on.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You look at the schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's a handful of games that frankly, producer says, and really have a shot in.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: You look at Notre Dame, and you know, Chigano, Ohio State, those games.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can just chalk up as a loss.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the spoiler maker magic will come back.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I mean, with this team, I just don't want to get my hopes up for things like that.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Look at some of the other opponents like you.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: USC at home, when a parent a couple weeks or Northwestern, Minnesota, some of those games, Rutgers at home, on Rutgers, those are some games that are definitely in reach in games that, if things go produce way, you can see that total reach for, climb up into five or, you know, if things get a little crazy, maybe even six, was that was really impressed with what I saw from Coach Odom, I and his debut with the Boilermakers.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: things that the social media teams put out about some of the kind of speeches he's given to the team and kind of just sort of his whole mantra.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's something that the team normally needed in stealing discipline and I just kind of having real coaching.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you will, some of the things I've read is this people in the team feel like they have real coaches now, but that's
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  [SPEAKER_02]: a good thing about Barry Odom, but maybe a little more of a slight of the previous regime that was in there.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I don't really impress with the game.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And so hopefully, uh, can keep the the moment I'm up here next weekend or like this week, really.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I can still no annoying.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: And uh, the week after I can see us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what I predicted coming into the season, Jake.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I predicted it went over ball
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I predicted a win over North Western, and I said they would either beat Minnesota or Rutgers, which would give you four, including this week against Southern Illinois, which is the most given win I believe, even over Ball State, even though Southern Illinois is a ranked FCS team, don't want to take them lightly, this should be a, this should be a win.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The head coach Nick Hill, and so no one on the team, they do have some FBS wins under their belt.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I look like they've beaten UMass, Northwestern and I use.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They do have some giant slayer capabilities.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If we kind of see what we saw against Ball State, then yeah, Purdue should be able to attain a listen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to say fairly easily because again, they're ranked FCS team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: They've beaten FBS teams before.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It'd be nice to see Ryan Brown,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, David Mockerby and those guys can take off their pads at a half time and then lick them off.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Salukis are ranked 15th in FCS this year and are coming off a 49 to 3 win over Thomas Moore.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they played down a division and this week play up a division.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So be interesting to see what happens with them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So in order to get to the 4 or 5 wins, obviously, going to have to win this week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and then we will just go from there.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk a little bit of basketball jake and a lot of awful lot of pre-season polls and we're not even to the pre-season yet, but the pre-season polls have Purdue number one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are you buying it?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm buying it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I really like what I see from some of the new additions to the team, Oscar Clefts from South Dakota.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: more mire over from Israel.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty crazy that college teams can bring in basically professional athletes to come and play.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I was very well, but that's for better or for worse, that's the the world that we live in, but really likes what I saw from him.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was able to to see a little bit of them play in the Fiba, like the U 18 U 19 U 20 games.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: So,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: popped off at had, you know, some 30 point games there.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it posts some really good stats and it seems like he created his own shot going to be a nice addition to the team as a ball handler going to be able to give Braden Smith some breaks, which is something he hasn't really been able to have over the past few years.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, kind of another strong primary ball handler guys like.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Fletcher lawyer CJ Cox to car hairs, they can kind of handle the ball, but it's a pretty steep drop off in terms of ball handling and passing when it comes to great and so I think the little definitely play alongside each other too.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of having the the best five out on the four sometimes you may see somebody get pushed to the bench.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're I saw stat that produce returning like you know almost 70% of their minutes from last year.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So obviously, that continuity is going to carry him a long way in March.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: So honestly, it would really get better after Zack ED left.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: I keep trying not to get my hopes up for this year.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to let be disappointed to be let down.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: But for us, Drew's looking really strong.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Find a force in the Minneapolis, too.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: It just kind of seems like the stars are kind of aligning there.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: So we get healthy, Daniel Jacobson.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: back as well.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's going to be a big difference maker in terms of defense.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Purdue, you know, didn't really have many block shots.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: The interior defense was was, you know, very weak in terms of compared to some of the other teams in the big tan and just professionally.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: And compared to Purdue traditionally.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think,
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's been at least before COVID where they found like a true and it may be like a 2021 team where they had a good day in 2015.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Produced kind of shifted from, you know, I want to say, at the events of my team, because I feel like they've always had good offensive teams, but the focus on defense is kind of lessen and kind of just need defense to be serviceable when you have guys like Zack,
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: and a coach like Matt Painner who exercises player movement ball movement.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's a beautiful thing to watch and here's the thing Jake.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think even if they didn't add the two newcomers who I think are both going to be tremendous additions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The roster that had Braden Smith and Tracoff been ran to potential all Americans.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fletcher lawyer the CJ Cox and Jacari Harris.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's also hard not to kind of think back to that Houston game and what if the push off at the end gets called you probably given course There's a lot of story plays a better to yeah yeah exactly exactly what if what if pretty plays a better that that's how we should think of it but you think about if you'd be if you'd be who's used and
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: you're back in the final four for a second straight year.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: After losing your best player, that speaks a lot about the guys on the team and Coach Painter and a staff.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I know PJ Thompson is a big piece of that from the offensive standpoint.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, at Purdue, they have kind of offensive coordinators, if you will, and even to coordinators for the basketball, it's a P.J.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thompson, it's kind of taken over the offense.
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's incorporated, you know, some NBA actions into the plays and the previous players, like the event Edward, it's talking about, like, how extensive the playbook is, it's a lot of a lot of different sets, but a lot of good sets for sure.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we just talked about basketball almost as much as football Jacob.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: We got to stop doing that until basketball this season.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Although I think for new fans, I might excuse this because I think this is excited about basketball as we are.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think going back to football, the biggest thing to make sure that you keep serving Illinois at a safe distance is keeping their quarterback DJ Williams, Illinois Mobile Guide,
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: pretty historically it's kind of struggle with noble quarterbacks like that so I think keeping him contained is going to be a really big key to winning the game and hopefully winning fairly easily.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well the next points they give up will be the first points they give up so far so good.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you so much for joining me it's been a lot of fun, I've been looking forward to having another Purdue guy with me because I've been itching to talk boil and make
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I definitely have run into some pretty fans, but not a ton.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I hear in the wild, always good to talk, to pretty sports, and especially pretty basketball with the fellow board makers.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: Really appreciate having me, and looking forward to doing this on a consistent basis here over the basketball and football seasons.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, wait, thanks so much.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Jake and to get more Jake and Purdue athletics please subscribe at YouTube Apple Amazon Spotify or SoundCloud or just all five of them that would help us so much Help spread the word that Central Indiana Sports Report is here talking about Central Indiana Sports every single day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you
• 13:53
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