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House vs. NCAA settlement, a growing Big East in Hoops? US Open preview with Matt Rudy · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon.
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On a Wednesday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon and
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Ken Miller kick things off for the next 6 hour block of
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programming. We appreciate you starting your
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afternoon with us. Wherever you are listening in
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the state of Iowa, we are great world anywhere for that matter.
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Grateful that you are. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. the US Open begins tomorrow at Oakmont.
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I cannot wait. Matt Rudy, formerly of Golf
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Digest, he's covered multiple majors in his career, still
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writing golf, but he will join us at 12:30.
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We'll get his thoughts on what we can expect.
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Carnage. That's what we're hoping for.
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We'll talk to Matt Rudy on the US Open coming up at 12:30.
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Cappy normally Wednesday, but his station has their golf event
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today, so Cappy will push back to tomorrow in his place.
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David Eichelt is going to join us.
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The latest on Iowa. How I was going about the house
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ruling, by the way, saw the first lawsuit fell.
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It was filed this morning. Title 9 is the first one to hit
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the books, first one that we've seen publicly.
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Anyways, a group of female athletes is banding together as
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they don't want to be left behind or they're not happy the
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way it's going. So the first lawsuit against the
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house settlement is officially in the books.
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They will do that and then we're going to talk to our old friend.
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For those of you new to the station or listening throughout
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the state of Iowa, Jim Brinson, who who has been in media for.
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A long time a. Long time he called Michael
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Jordan's first game as a bull as as it was with the Wizards in
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the 70s. Did the IT is old, Princeton's
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old. And he doesn't look it 'cause I
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just saw a picture not too long ago out in Arizona where he's
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work. Working still.
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Yeah. And he looks great.
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No, he does. And he was my partner for a long
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time here, around four years or so here on kicks.
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You know, did afternoon drive from 2000 and I want to say 11
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to 2014. Still the greatest walk off
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ever. He's up on Friday, he said.
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I can't remember what the Cyclone kicker was.
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Cole Netten. Might be Cole Netten going to
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hit a, a field goal last second field goal to win it for Iowa
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State and then he never came back to work on Monday and
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didn't tell a soul that he wasn't coming back to work.
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Speaking of last second, and this just dawned on me.
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So there was a there's a betting market out there and I don't
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want to linger on this because it was game one of the NBA
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Finals, but there was a market a buzzer beater.
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I think it was DraftKings to put up maybe DraftKings or FanDuel a
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buzzer beater. You could bet someone to make a
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buzzer beater in this series. Henry Halliburton was 41 to 1
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shot, went in with .3 seconds left.
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Not a buzzer beater. Not a buzzer beater, but don't
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you? I mean, there's bad beats and
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we've all have experienced them. If we bet on sports, this one
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might have been enough to say, you know what, enough is enough.
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I'm going to find another hobby. No they won't.
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No, of course they won't. But but Can you imagine 41 to
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one? You've got Halliburton to hit a
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buzzer beater, .3 of a second left and not a buzzy beater.
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Just needed it to hit the back iron, go 20 feet in the air and
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then drop in. Really, or take an extra half a
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step or whatever it was. But anyways, so that's what's
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coming up on our program. We look forward to that.
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We look forward to a game #3 tonight.
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Indianapolis is the scene. It's a great little downtown
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area the the square in Indianapolis with game bridge
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and with the the home of the Colts.
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What's it called again? Changes arts What's the RCA?
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Lucas Oil. Lucas Oil.
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Thank you. You know, within spinning
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distance of one another. And Game 3 will be played
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tonight. The road team is favoured.
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The series is 1 apiece. And is it just the fact that
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Oklahoma City was such a dominating performance in game
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#2 that we just assumed that, you know, there's just March
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into victory? It's inevitable.
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Is that part of it? Or that it's just, you know,
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we've seen enough. They're just better.
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Kind of both I I think in a way because even with the win by the
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Pacers in game one, there's another one of those fluky
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natures as it sat between 8 and 13 points.
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It felt like for like an hour it was just in that range.
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And from my perspective, I was just waiting for the Thunder to
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hit that accelerator and stretch it out to 20 instead of went the
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other way. But the Thunder for those first
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what, 363840 minutes we're keeping them arms distance.
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Then what we saw in Game 2, they are just better now.
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What Carlisle did right away in his post game press conference,
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saying we need you to the fans, they're already going to be
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charged up. First game in 21st finals and
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what, 20? 525 years basketball crazy.
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As great of a basketball building as there is, the
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proximity, everything that is involved, this is as good of an
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environment as you're going to find in the NBA.
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Truly is. And they need it.
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I mean, they need it to be special.
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They need every single little edge that they can get.
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They have to have it tonight, probably just to hang around.
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That's that's where it is. I mean, that's what it is to.
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Be kind of feel you're right. Trent, I'm with you.
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What's more likely, this thing ends in five or we even get to a
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Game 6 and you're talking about 3 consecutive victories from the
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Thunder or one win from Indiana? I say the latter, yeah.
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Or the the forward. Excuse me, the the three with
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Thunder I think is more likely than the Pacers just getting one
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of the next three. That's how I.
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When would Game 5 would be when for them?
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It's Monday. It's Monday.
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It's. Scheduled.
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Yes. OK, so at least it gets us into
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next week a little bit of a, a dip, a toe.
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In and we will be there. We have That one's locked in, so
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it's. Hockey.
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And yes. But it'll be Saturday because
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Game 3 is to game 4 is tomorrow and it's quick turn around.
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They fly across the they fly across two countries and play on
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Saturday nights. So back in Edmonton.
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So for that one. But that's what's coming up as
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far as the winter sports as that we are seemingly into our
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precious final days of both of those sports.
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So basketball, college basketball has made some news
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with some rule changes. One of the rule changes is
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apparently it's kind of buried in the in the release is the
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fact that if the men's game is on the cusp of going to quarters
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and will join, well, everybody else with their exception, they
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play 220 minute halves. Everybody else breaks it down
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into quarters. Are you for this?
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Do you like the fact that it's kind of a stand alone two 20s?
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What does this do? I guess it's the the sense of
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urgency the two for one at the end of the first quarter instead
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of just having a once in 20 minutes, you would have that
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scenario potentially a couple of times times.
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Is that the big push behind this or what do you what do you see
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as as it's gaining momentum? Well, it's just everybody else
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does it. I mean, it's the way that the
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game is played everywhere else, every other level, and probably
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the way that it should be. Why men's basketball was the
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last holdout, I have no idea. The justification out.
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Because I don't remember the NBA being without quarters.
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No, not at all. And I'm guessing the women's
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game was without quarter. I mean Went was good.
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Quarters, I think it's about 10 years ago that they changed.
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Oh, so it's been recently, relatively recently.
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To the game, sorry. That they changed it and went
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into it, but it's just it's cleaner the more opportunity for
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end game situations and coaches. And I remember when it changed
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in the women's side, and that was one thing I think maybe it
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might have been Bluter mentioned is they had to work on end of
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game situations a lot more. But it helped them for real end
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of game situations because you work on it because now instead
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of 1/2 and equal weight, you're doubling the amount of time that
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you have to do it with it. You're practicing it more.
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And then she said that felt like they were more equipped at end
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game situations that they felt better at least going into it
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doesn't mean you're going to make every shot, things like
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that, but you just work out it more because they're going to be
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playing it a whole lot more. It's a welcome change.
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It needs to happen. But I have one thing for you,
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and it goes back to the beginning of the week
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conversation as it pertains to college athletics.
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And it's almost always football that we're talking about, right?
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Football, football, football as football, football, however,
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basketball. So I'm going to paint this
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scenario for you. University of Alabama, they got
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their, to make it easy. They're $20 million and 7580% of
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that is going to go to the football program.
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Basketball program's pretty good.
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Nade Oates has done a hell of a job.
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He's going to have, of that 20, about 3 to 4 million that he'll
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be able to play around with and the less the rest goes to and
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baseball and whatever else they want to invest in.
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Well, women's, yeah. So Nade Oates, he's got a guy he
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absolutely loves and out of what we have, we can offer you
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$750,000. And here he is, battling against
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the Creighton Blue Jays. Who have no football.
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There you go. They still get $20.5 million.
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So you're looking at Big E schools to make a resurgence
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against? Is is that where we're trending
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that the Big East is suddenly a number one in college basketball
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because. That's a layer that I don't
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think has been looked at enough. And suddenly Creighton and
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Xavier and Seton Hall and Villanova and on and on and on,
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they have a huge leg up both on the men's side and if they want
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to, on the women's side. Maybe just something to filter
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away into the back of your mind as it pertains to the basket.
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Yeah, and it's going to be fascinating to see how the
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monies get gets divvied up. What's Kentucky going to do?
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Kentucky is a basketball school, right?
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And we love Stoops, but we like the football program.
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But it's a basketball school. Are they going to cut it?
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And, well, we're only going to give 10 to football.
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You just wonder. How far behind are you going to
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fall in football in the SEC when you're not equipping yourself at
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the fullest extent? Duke What are they going to do
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right? It's been a decent football
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program now for 20 years. Yeah, What's Belichick going to
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do? Well, we can turn to Jordan.
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You're going to get her thoughts before anything.
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But North Carolina's pretty good or used to be basketball.
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These basketball schools. Oh, it's going to be something
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to watch. Trent.
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That's an excellent point. And 1 I had not even popped into
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my head. I hadn't read that anywhere.
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If you came up with this, full marks to you.
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But this is brilliant. Big East is about to take its
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place in the Upper if you don't play football.
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St. John's.
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Well, St. John's a good spot booster wise.
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Now with what's the name, Mike Ropoli, Who invented vitamin
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water and what's the other one, protein.
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I don't know what it's called, but anyways, he's beyond
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wealthy. And he invested this year and.
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He invested this. Year and had one of the most
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successful years in the last quarter or century.
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Basketball schools without football.
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Basketball. All the.
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Money. They don't have to divvy it up
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to the football program that's normally going to, you know damn
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well it's going to take the majority of it.
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I don't know the answer, but it's certainly be something to
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watch. And I'm guessing that the sports
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books will adjust accordingly, right?
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Because all of a sudden these Big East teams with all this
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money, Big East, you're going to the Big E schools are going to
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be able to pick and choose the talent.
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Absolutely. Right.
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I mean, if it plays out in this fashion and they're able now,
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again, collectives are still going to be a thing.
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I just can't wait to also see when that first NILL deal goes
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in. And here's another part of it.
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And certainly with basketball. So JT topping, the reports are
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$4 million. Yep.
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Well, you put that in your bill Jankowich Ford.
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Yeah. And Dankowich, Sorry.
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And you put in that $4 million figure and it comes back red.
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No, that's not happening. Right.
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Well, what's going to happen, we're going to go right back to
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what it was. That's.
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What my fear is. Under the.
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Table unless the unless it's somehow they police it.
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Are they going to? So we're just going back to the
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old era. I think we are where the.
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Shadiness will this is gonna be under the this.
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Is what it was it Bloom we had, I don't know who we were talking
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to, might have been Brent Bloom at the time we're talking, maybe
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not. But regardless, the, the SEC is
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not as dominant as it once was since everybody can pay now,
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right? If the SEC once again starts to
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climb up that ladder and we're seeing dominance, well, how are
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they doing it, right? It's back to the good old days,
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if you will, in the it's that golden handshake.
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It's that bag man that's going to make an appearance.
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It's got to be police, Trent. But who's going to police it?
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Well, it's not the NCAA. That's one thing that we.
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Do I guess that's good? But who's going to I mean, and
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then who's going to tattle on who, right, right.
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Schools are going to be, you know, ratting on each other.
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God, the era that we're in, this was a good idea.
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I don't think anybody foresaw it getting to the level that it is.
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I mean, some of the basketball players, they're nice players,
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but they're not multi million dollar players.
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JT Toppen, if he was a free agent in the NBA, yeah, he
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wouldn't get $4 million. He wouldn't get 2, right?
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He'd be a minimum salary guy, yet he's going to get that.
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At Texas Tech, Yeah. How much money Hunter Dixon
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made, right. Dickinson made millions of
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dollars. And it just keeps increasing,
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increasing. And suddenly and now that guy
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this year, that kid that is making $1,000,000 and next year
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with the new rim of you know what?
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You got to take cut and pay dude, sorry.
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We, we can only, you can only get 250.
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Think that's going to work out well because all of a sudden
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he's going to be calling around and saying, hey, how can I get
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that $1,000,000 again here? Well, I know.
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What's your first call? I would make Big E school.
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Right, St. John's.
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Whoever doesn't have football, right?
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You know, Villanova, you want to get back to the top of the heap
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under the table right back. Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
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Fascinating stuff. We'll see how it plays out, but
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it's certainly something to watch.
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All right, have you have you zeroed in on the US Open?
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Matt Rudy coming up at the bottom of the hour?
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Obviously a lot of golf conversation in that period of
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time, but have you zeroed in on the golf?
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Who's the player that every Harris?
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What's Harris's? Harris English.
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Harris English. Yeah, if you consider yourself a
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golf sharp, if you don't have anybody Harris English this
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week, you are not. Then I got him at 78 to 1.
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He was 100 to one at some places, 125 to one.
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Somebody's claiming they have. A so circa was the best that it
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was as of about 8:00 this morning.
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That was at 78 to 1. So why is he?
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Why is he the steam this week? He is a guy that hits a lot of
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the metrics that we talked about earlier in the week.
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Very good. Getting up and down has a
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necessary part. I wouldn't say that he's an
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elite level guy, but he's fine in that.
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It's it's the up and down nature, it's the accuracy and
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the distance with drives. Those are kind of the metrics
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put together. That is a reason for it.
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The putting of this is going to be interesting because we don't
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know speed wise what it's going to be.
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Did they get rain? Did you see there was talk?
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No, the rain is apparently going to be Saturday's the weather
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day, but apparently they have some kind of drying system.
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They don't think this is going to be a major issue if and do
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they, if indeed they do get weather.
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Trent, I know that you're not on Twitter as much as I am and I
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wish I was in your shoes, but I can't help but I I saw
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throughout the day yesterday, guys 130 yards off the green,
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rolling the ball underhanded or putting the ball and it goes.
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That's the way you have to attack.
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It's going to be the British Open plate over here in a lot of
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ways. Without the wind, without having
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to hit those kind of punch shots in there, but the ability to
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stop the ball to hit a high and it just stop and it's not
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happening. It's not happening on this
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course. Coupled with the way that these
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greens have been reconfigured now and they're the table tops
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and they're going to fall off and you're going to see those
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balls that are there. It's.
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Punishing. And you hit it at the pin, well,
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it's going to go by 20-30 forty feet and then it's going to hit
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the backside of that green and that's going to jet down the
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backside and you're going to have a full pitch coming back
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the other way. Not a little chip to get back up
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there, a full pitch to get up there.
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Going to be those kind of I can't wait for it.
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There's going to be some unfair guys.
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One thing that I have my concern with Scotty Shuffler, I do want
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to put this because Scotty's part of my card.
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I think he has to be. However, one thing with him is
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if you go back in the past and when he has taking a downturn,
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when he's had those tournaments where it just doesn't click, you
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could a lot of times point back to him not getting a good he get
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getting a bad break. I should say when something
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negative something. That gets in his head.
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Is that what you're saying? Unfair really happens.
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Okay, unfair. There are a couple of.
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Times that is. I can't believe this happened to
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me. What are the odds this happened?
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Right? Not unfair that I they OK
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there's something somebody. Didn't hit a sprinkler head.
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Yeah, you're, it's an unbelievable, you hit a great
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shot, but you're in somebody's divot, those kind of things.
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And in the past, a few times that is.
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But it's not to say that he's mentally weak 'cause he's not.
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I mean, the guy was arrested and he went out there and fired at
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the PGA a year ago in Louisville.
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It's it's not that, but there have been times when it's not
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clicking and there's some things that just aren't going his way
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that it can crater, that it can happen to him a little.
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So just one thing to put in your back of your mind, because this
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course is unforgiving. This course, there are going to
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be great shots that you hit and you are not going to be
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rewarded. And if that happens with
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Scheffler, don't be surprised if he turns in a bad round.
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Now, he can still turn in a bad round and still be fine too.
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What's it going to be closer to last 2 * 4 under or five over
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the winning score? Closer to I, I, I'm going to go
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even par, so I'm going to I think.
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The winner's over par, over par. I think so like not just
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significantly over, maybe even one over something like that I
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think could win the golf tournament.
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I listen to I think they've interviewed 5 five players that
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are playing this weekend and the question they were asked is if
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your handicap is is 18, so essentially play bogey golf,
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what would what, what is what somebody that the, the the 18
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handicap, what would they shooter don't want?
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And the answers were unbelievable. 14150.
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That was out there, yeah, 12140. Oh, there's I I'm about that.
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I'm not quite a boogie golfer 'cause I don't play as much
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anymore. My short game's terrible.
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Got to play with my stepbrother last night.
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That was fun. And the short game.
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Where'd you play TCI? That my my game was not about
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you. He's at a golf league out there
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and needed to fill it. So I got to fill it for my
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definite last night. But I'm about a bogey golfer,
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probably more like a 22 handicap if you put me on that course.
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Not even playing from the tips, playing from up tease, though,
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There's no way I could play break 150 there.
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There's not a way, because that's not.
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Fun to me. The, the short game part of it,
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I just think of when I go out and play, yeah, I'll hit a good
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pitch. I'll I can't put on greens like
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that. I've never, none of us, no
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amateur golfer has put it on anything close to this.
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And think of the amount of times that there's no picking it up at
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4 foot and your buddy now you got to finish everything because
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these ones out. In fact, 150 for a bogey golfer
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that might be a little bit too low.
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This number finishing everything out even from up Tees where
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you're at another 25 yards per tee.
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I don't see it. I and I would love to see what
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it actually was, everything playing all the way through.
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Oh, it's going to be a fascinating tournament.
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So I don't know the answer to this.
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I'm going to ask you because you bet golf every week and and I
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seldom do. There, there's a there.
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It's certainly becoming more popular than ever and maybe it
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was around for a period of time. I don't recall it because again,
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I don't get into it like you do, but there's every single
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tournament this year that Scheffler is in.
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There's a without Scotty market, you can bet the tournament and
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that's and Scotty's not part of it.
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Is this new? Not new, it's been around for
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quite a while. But who was it before?
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Did Tiger have this? A lot of times you would see
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these markets and he just take out like maybe the top five
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guys. Either five of them you can do
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single but. There was also that it would be
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everybody but Scotty, everybody but Rory, everybody but and like
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five guys that they kind of make that market, OK, that'd be there
20:48
or take all five of the top guys out, right and then everybody
20:51
after that. So those markets so?
20:53
This isn't just a Scotty special.
20:55
No, it's not, but I think it's become more prevalent because of
20:59
his domination. There's more money at ESPN bet
21:01
been wagered on Scotty Scheffler to win than every other golfer
21:04
combines. There's been more money.
21:07
I think it's DraftKings bet on Rory McIlroy to miss the cut
21:12
than anybody else, really. Yes, Rory McIlroy is the steam
21:16
to miss the cut. Jeff called us yesterday, glued
21:19
us in about, you know, his lack of preparation.
21:22
It does seem he's a different cat since he got the master.
21:25
Everybody loved him when he finally we were rooting for him.
21:29
We're living through living vicariously through him, right?
21:32
We were on the edge of our seat and and owing and eyeing and
21:35
damaging every time he just a putt or looked as though he's
21:38
going to give the golf tournament away to Justin Rose.
21:41
But he's kind of, I don't know, become somewhat of a villain.
21:45
Yeah, he kind of has his short answers yesterday with the
21:48
press. Not answering questions.
21:50
Not answering questions about his driver Show up at my
21:53
practice tee if you want to see well, what brand of tailor made
21:55
is it? Show up at my at my practice tee
21:58
if you want to. Well, why can't you just say it?
22:00
You know it's an XYZ. You're being difficult to do
22:03
that. Come down and pay because I
22:06
thought he was kind of the A. Brother of the Fray?
22:09
Yeah, I think that maybe and maybe this is nothing more.
22:12
I don't want to be the face of golf.
22:13
Yeah, maybe that's what I'd. Like to take a step back?
22:15
Now, yeah, yeah, I wonder. Right, and this is the way to do
22:17
it. Piss people off, right?
22:19
People won't be following me. Right.
22:21
Everybody that hates Bryce or hated Bryson Dechambeau, I love
22:24
him. Most of them.
22:25
Yeah, you. Can go the other way.
22:27
I love the way but Bryson is doing with kids what Bryson is
22:31
doing with videos How to. Explaining, explaining it, yeah.
22:35
I mean, he is night and day from the person we thought he is.
22:40
And Rory, since the second Sunday in April, he's kind of
22:44
going down that path too, but in the opposite direction.
22:47
Fair. Yeah, absolutely.
22:48
We'll take a time out. So we'll join be joined by Matt
22:51
Rudy. He for decades wrote for Golf
22:54
Digest, now writing on his own, but still following the game and
22:57
covering the game and writing about the game.
22:58
And he'll join us next. Get his thoughts on Oakmont,
23:01
David Icolt and Jimmy B #2. Have you noticed Brinson?
23:08
Has there been a a tweet about the best NBA player ever that's
23:14
gone unanswered by Brinson? No, no, and it's always wilt.
23:17
It's always wilt. What is it about Wilt?
23:20
Well, we got to get the story again 'cause I haven't heard it
23:22
in a long time. The wilt, the bathroom story
23:25
with Wilt. No, no, no, we, we have for our
23:28
new audience. And as we continue to see our
23:31
continuing to grow audience, we need to let all of them in.
23:36
And one of the great stories ever told on these airwaves?
23:39
Lock in 125, Jimmy B and the Wilt bathroom Story.
23:44
He loves Wilt Chamberlain. He does.
23:47
He looked up to him. Everybody did.
23:49
Jimmy B looks up to a lot of people, myself included.
23:52
Really you could post them. Up I tower over Jimmy B.
23:56
He's a good dude. Wait till he wait till he hears
23:58
radio voice Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network Hi
24:04
Miller and Condon. Welcome back Iowa sports radio
24:06
network with you until 2:00 Let's get to our guy Matt Rudy.
24:12
He's joined me for only eight years or so, talking golf,
24:16
previewing and recapping. It's the US Open.
24:19
It's at Oakmont. Matt Rudy joins us.
24:22
Matt Trenton. Ken, thank you as always for
24:23
doing this. So tell me about this course.
24:26
I know you've walked it in your decades of covering golf.
24:30
What what are the pros up to this week Matt are up against
24:34
rather this week? It's just such an interesting
24:37
place because it's had tons of big tournaments since the 20s,
24:42
but it's functionally a completely different course than
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the one you might have seen in 1960 or 1980.
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The trees are all gone. So they took all the trees out
24:52
and even the graduated rough that was in place when Dustin
24:55
Johnson won here is now it's you get to the edge of the fairway
24:59
and all of a sudden you're in the jungle.
25:01
So there's there's all kinds of familiarity.
25:06
I think when you see the holes, you're going to kind of remember
25:09
some of the shots that DJ hit or some of the shots that Cabrera
25:12
hit. But the you know, the sort of
25:15
the functionality or the way the golf course plays, I think it's
25:19
going to be a little bit different.
25:20
There's been an incredible amount of rain here in the in
25:23
our neck of the woods and over the last two or three weeks.
25:26
And so I think it's made everything pretty juicy.
25:29
So when you combine all of that, if you get a few days of sun, I
25:34
mean, you know how it goes there.
25:35
I mean, I'm a Midwest guy just like you guys are when you get a
25:38
bunch of rain and then you get a bunch of sun, you get a bunch of
25:42
grass. So it's going to be a pretty
25:44
interesting, I think over the next over the next few days.
25:47
Matt, we've heard different tracks of the US Open.
25:50
Unfair, not a true test, those kind of things.
25:53
Tricked up. Is that going to be the case
25:55
here, or is this just going to be an incredibly difficult golf
25:59
course set up in as fair as a way as you can do with the way
26:02
that the USGA wants to set up a course?
26:05
Well, I mean, we've, I think we've had this discussion for
26:09
years and probably 20 years on your show that, that I don't
26:14
think personally that the US J has always done the great, the
26:17
best job setting courses up to identify the best players.
26:21
And that being said, over the last few years, I mean, if you
26:24
look at what we got last year at Pioneers, for example, you
26:26
couldn't ask for a better finish.
26:28
And so I think what they've done a good job doing, you know,
26:33
doing the last few years is giving a mixture of different
26:36
venues that play different ways. This this place is going to play
26:40
different than Pioneers did last year and it's going to play
26:43
different than LA Country Club did two years ago.
26:46
This is going to be a much more, you know, if you don't hit it
26:50
straight off the tee, you might not ever finish.
26:53
I mean, that's I mean, that's just reality.
26:55
And what I don't like is that there's really no option if you
26:59
hit it out, if you miss the fairway, you're punching out.
27:03
And I like it when you're presented with some some
27:06
interesting options that could really get you in trouble if you
27:09
make a another bad choice. So if I'm picking here, I'm
27:14
picking the people. I'm just going to scroll my
27:17
finger down the strokes gained off the T list and pick players
27:22
that have the best combination of length and accuracy.
27:25
And of course, it's no big shock that Scott, he's got like a 15%
27:29
lead over anybody else on tour in that stat.
27:32
So I mean, that's why he's as good as he is.
27:33
So if you needed any more reason to think he was the betting
27:36
favorite, you got another one right there.
27:39
So I have a theory about Rory McIlroy.
27:41
Ran it by Trenton in our opening segment.
27:43
I mean, if you weren't a family or friend of Justin Rose, the
27:47
world was rooting for Rory on the second Sunday in April.
27:50
Rather, we all lived that, lived and died through every shot
27:53
since that time. Matt, I see a different Rory
27:56
McIlroy not not reaching out to Jack Nicholas and saying I'm not
28:00
coming. I mean, most tournaments, yeah,
28:02
you can get away with it. But this is Jack Nicklaus
28:04
yesterday. He's asked about his driver.
28:06
And you make any changes? Yes, what do you get?
28:08
What kind of driver? Tailor made.
28:10
Well, what model is it? Well, show up at my practice, my
28:14
practice on the practice range and you can see for yourself.
28:17
I'm wondering if he's just I've had enough to be in the face of
28:20
golf. Leave me alone.
28:21
If I have to become somewhat of a jerk, I'll do that until I get
28:25
my space. This is a different cat since he
28:27
got the career Grand Slam. You know, it is and and and this
28:32
will sound like heresy, but, but I do think that you can even
28:35
make some parallels here to, you know, say when John ROM left the
28:40
tour to join live, right? So, so when the oxygen in the
28:44
room changes so dramatically, it takes time to to adjust to that.
28:49
And, you know, if you look at ROM and, and how he's had to try
28:53
to manage getting ready for majors now that his schedule is
28:57
completely different, I think that Grand Slam and the Masters
29:01
was the Mount Everest for Rory. And when you get to the top of
29:05
Mount Everest, I think it's natural to look around and go,
29:08
OK, now what? You know, what am I climbing
29:10
next? And it can take some time, I'm
29:13
sure, to figure out what that looks like.
29:16
This is some money you could ever spend.
29:19
He's got the career he's got, you know, all these things that
29:23
you can, you know, all the boxes that you can check.
29:26
And so I'm sure there's somewhat of a re evaluation that's going
29:31
on now. And you know, what does that
29:32
look like? How do you how do you drive
29:34
yourself in the morning on a Tuesday at A at a non major, you
29:37
know, to get ready for something?
29:39
I mean, I think that's real. And now how that, you know,
29:43
manifest long term, I think it's going to be OK.
29:46
But how that manifests this week, if I were putting money
29:50
down, that's probably not where I would put it.
29:52
You're not alone. I mean, there's nobody that's
29:54
taken more bets to miss the cut than Rory McIlroy.
29:57
It's just wild going. To get a good number.
30:00
This is the hardest, Yeah. This is the hardest driving week
30:03
that tour players are going to have in the next five years.
30:07
And he's traditionally been one of the one or two best drivers
30:10
of the ball on the planet. So if you're if you're going
30:12
into your major and that's your superpower and your and your
30:17
super weapon either isn't present or isn't working, that's
30:21
a big problem. John Rom's part of my card this
30:24
week. I got to bet on him to win it.
30:27
Think that the game has continued to improve.
30:29
Though he hasn't won on Liv. He's been contending seemingly
30:31
every week, top 10 after top ten.
30:33
We saw the performance last time out of the PGA until the final
30:37
couple of holes as he was going for it.
30:39
Do you see ROM in a place right now that he can get back to the
30:42
Top End and win AUS Open? I do because I mean #1 he's got
30:48
major championship pedigree that doesn't vanish overnight.
30:51
And #2 I think what happened at the PGA is a is a good thing.
30:56
You know, I mean, I'm sure it didn't feel good at the time,
30:58
but I think you need to go through that kind of stuff and
31:01
you need to, you need to take a dent and take a Ding and, you
31:06
know, and come back. I mean, just look at some of the
31:08
experiences that Bryson has had the last few years in majors.
31:12
You know, the close calls and you know the thing, you know,
31:14
the last couple years in the PGA, I think all those things
31:17
for super competitive athletes are things that, you know, kind
31:22
of sharpen the knife, so to speak.
31:25
So I don't think that's a terrible wager at all.
31:28
And I think the other benefit is that Scotty is sucking up so
31:32
much of the money that you're getting some pretty incredible
31:35
values on some really good players.
31:38
I mean, like I said, I'm not betting on on Rory, but to be
31:42
able to get defending Masters champion at 14 to 1, I mean,
31:46
that's that's pretty good. And I mean, you can even you can
31:49
even go down to Ben Griffin, who's won two times in the last
31:53
month and he's 70 to 1. So I mean the there are some
31:56
values there, I think, if you're willing to look past the
31:59
favorite. All right, so one guy, the
32:02
whoever I listen to that bets on golf, whoever I read that writes
32:05
about betting on golf this Harris English.
32:07
I have not read a piece. I've not heard to anybody that
32:10
bets on golf not bring up his name as a guy with a legitimate
32:14
shot and he's 70 to 180 to one depending on where you shot.
32:18
Was it? What is it about Harris English
32:21
that has attracted so many, so many of these quote sharps to to
32:26
be opining his name as a guy that can legitimately win this
32:30
thing? So I mean, my flip answer is
32:33
that you know somebody who does these, you know, these kinds of
32:37
shows the Scotty Scheffler answer is is tiresome now, just
32:41
like the Tiger, the Tiger Woods answer was tiresome for for so
32:45
long. So I think after that and you
32:47
get past that sort of first tier of usual suspects, then you have
32:51
to start kind of doing some back bends and other contortions to
32:53
figure out, you know what, what a U.S.
32:56
Open pattern player would look like.
32:59
You know what is you know what, who is the future Lucas Glover?
33:02
You know who's the future? I don't want to say journeyman,
33:05
but you know, somebody who doesn't necessarily have a star
33:08
profile like Ludwig Oberg, you know, who's going to win one of
33:11
these. And you know, I think that you
33:14
got to start looking at, like I was saying before, you look at
33:16
the strokes gained off the T stats.
33:19
I think in a tournament like this, the way this golf course
33:23
is set up, you're looking for, you know, people who are ball
33:26
striking machines and who are excellent drivers of the ball.
33:30
And I don't know that I would pick Harris English before I
33:33
would pick someone like step Straka, say, you know, just just
33:37
based on, you know, current stats.
33:40
But but if if I'm trying to pick a stat that's going to, you
33:44
know, sort of give you a hint about what might happen, it's
33:49
the ball striking stats like that.
33:51
But but that does leave a whole lot of the being ready to win a
33:55
major and dealing with the adversity that's coming.
33:59
There's going to be a time when someone is leading this
34:01
tournament, fits it into the complete junk and can't find the
34:05
ball and they've got to deal with a potential double bogey or
34:09
triple bogey. I want people that are
34:11
resilient, who can deal with that stuff and don't, you know,
34:15
fall off a Cliff when it happens because that's the reality of
34:17
this week. Morikawa this week along with
34:21
Xander Shafley. We joke seemingly every major.
34:23
I have these guys, always a part of it.
34:26
Two guys that obviously have had a ton of success yet not great.
34:29
2020 fives for both of them. Of the two, Morikawa and Xander,
34:34
who has the best shot of winning this week?
34:37
That's a good question. I mean, the, the, I mean, if you
34:40
look at what Xander did last year, I mean, winning two majors
34:42
is a big deal and try he, he drives the ball incredibly well.
34:46
He's a he's a really good putter.
34:49
If you contrast that with Morakawa, Morakawa is a ball
34:51
striking machine is potting is kind of suspect.
34:55
But I actually think that at a venue like this where the greens
35:00
are so crazy, I think that putting skill is relatively
35:05
minimized. I mean, if you're hitting, you
35:09
know, Looney Tunes pots that have 17 feet of break, I think
35:14
that that sort of brings the field closer together and
35:17
putting rather than pushing them farther out.
35:20
So I mean, I mean, the one thing that does work and shop these
35:25
favour is he's a substantially longer hitter than Morikawa is.
35:30
And this is a full grown adult sized golf course.
35:34
But the ability to precision strike iron and to hit it
35:39
straight off the tee probably, you know, minimally favors
35:45
Morikawa right now. Give me in our final minute,
35:48
give me a player or two that you would bet on this week.
35:52
Well, I mean, I I love it goes back to my stroke schemed off
35:56
the Oberg is in the top ten this season and stroke. 22 to one and
36:01
and he's. 22 to one, I think that's a a fantastic bat.
36:05
I think, you know, Victor Hovland is, I can't ever decide
36:08
if he's going to shoot 85 or 65, but that's another guy when
36:12
things are going right is a is an amazing.
36:15
But I'm going to go with what I was saying a little bit earlier.
36:17
Ben Griffin has won twice this year in the last month and and
36:21
he's 70 to 1. I mean, I'm not I'm not.
36:25
I mean, that'd be a heck of a breakthrough year to win your
36:28
first two events and then turn around and win your first major.
36:31
Didn't you put him as your debutante in this statement?
36:34
Ben Griffin. Ben Griffin?
36:35
Yeah. Unbelievable.
36:36
Matt. Rudy, thank you, buddy.
36:37
I enjoyed the tournament. I'll reach out over the weekend
36:40
and line up a time for Monday or to recap it with you.
36:42
OK. You back to you guys.
36:44
Thanks, pal. Matt Rudy, formerly of Golf
36:46
Digest, now writing golf. He's a ghostwriter, lessons,
36:50
etcetera. He's done it all and covered it
36:52
all and been to all of those majors and all those most famous
36:55
courses in the world. Boys can be a blast.
36:58
Rent it really isn't it? I'm as excited for this U.S.
37:02
Open as I have been a while. Last year, getting back to #2
37:06
that was good. But there's something about
37:09
Oakmont, the difficult nature, something about, you know, that
37:12
Pittsburgh crowd. I, I think that has something to
37:15
do with it. You get aggressive at times, you
37:18
know, you can see there's some rough edges from time to time.
37:20
I just, I love this setup this week and I want to see it be
37:25
tough. I want to see it be difficult.
37:27
I want to have the unfair once a year.
37:29
Yeah, give me unfair. I think we're going to get it.
37:31
Miller and Condon back to wrap up our number one.
37:33
It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
37:46
Very timely. Trent Condon, a little Indiana
37:48
boy, John Cougar Mellencamp brings us back for our final
37:52
couple of minutes. Speaking of musicians, Beach
37:55
Boys don't die, but Brian Wilson just did.
37:58
Yeah. I saw that.
37:59
Good. My gosh, he was the Beach Boy,
38:02
right? I mean, he was the guy in the
38:04
Beach Boy. What was their first?
38:05
Hit Oh, I don't know, I just know a lot of the songs.
38:10
But again. He's been gone snow.
38:11
Everybody's gone surfing. Surfing USA.
38:13
Yeah. That was the first one, yeah,
38:14
that's the. First one that comes into my
38:15
mind. Yeah.
38:18
And then did they later on do sail on sailor?
38:20
I don't remember. I like that tune.
38:21
Anyways, couple of basketball notes starting to trickle out
38:26
regarding scheduling. John Rothstein from
38:28
CBSSports.com. He tweeted that a home and home
38:32
between the Clones and The Jayhawks that's been missed.
38:36
It absolutely, you know, that should be locked in.
38:38
I understand with Kansas also as Kansas State.
38:41
No, I get it. That, but it does feel like, at
38:44
least here and now, that needs to be locked into the big tents.
38:47
And you want to play Kansas twice?
38:49
The way they're going, I know. Care for what you wish for, Yes,
38:53
right. Well, you know, we're going back
38:54
the other way as we started the conversation today.
38:56
They're going to be able to cheat again.
38:58
They're going to have to do things under the table and
39:00
they'll thought about them. They'll move right back up to
39:02
the top right. Cheating Jayhawks?
39:04
Yeah, for sure. Never put them in the mix as
39:06
well. Double plays for Kansas,
39:08
Arizona, Iowa State and K State. Who gets double plays against
39:13
Houston? Is that out yet?
39:15
Houston has their double plays that has been released by
39:18
Rothstein. Houston will play Tech twice.
39:21
Yeah, that's appointment TV. Baylor.
39:24
Good. And Cincinnati.
39:27
And have I was states. Been released not that's what I
39:29
was waiting and I so we're just. Picking from other schools?
39:32
Yes. Come on, Rothstein, get with it.
39:34
Yeah, come on, give us the clothes, give us a little.
39:36
Got everything else. Rothstein also released
39:38
something that we had a week ago, well you had a week ago,
39:41
that Drake will take on LSU and the Emerald Coast.
39:45
Classic CBS Sports Network will televise.
39:47
I think it's an 8:00 tip. Georgia Tech and DePaul on the
39:50
other side of that bracket down in the Emerald Coast.
39:53
Beautiful place to go, the white sand beaches of Emerald Coast.
39:58
And didn't you go there recently, Couple years ago?
40:01
Yeah, that was our summer trip that we went down to Gulf
40:03
Shores. Yeah, that was a fun trip.
40:05
Yeah, well, we're starting to see some of these trickle up
40:07
potentially during our next hour.
40:10
We'll get the double plays for Iowa State as Big 12 as I don't
40:14
know who's releasing them or right feeding them to Rothstein,
40:20
but we're grateful that they are and we're going to kill you to
40:22
get Iowa State's out there. Please.
40:24
Hour number two, David Icolt will kick things off.
40:27
Speak with David on on Hawkeye related topics, house settlement
40:32
related topics, etcetera with Mr. Icolt.
40:35
And then Jimmy B, formerly of KX&O, now doing something in
40:39
Arizona, long time at Buffalo on the Empire Sports Network, going
40:43
back into the 90s. But he's doing a lot of stuff
40:46
before then. And he'll tell us all about it,
40:48
I'm sure, even if we don't ask him.
40:49
Jimmy B at 125. Miller in Condon.