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Hawkeye talk with Tom Kakert, Cyclones with Eugene Rapay & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two, Miller and Condon welcome back.
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Transplays of the day still to come.
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So is Eugene Repay covers Iowa State for the Des Moines
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Register, Eugene, bottom of the hour circus, sports trends,
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plays of the pick about 10 minutes or pick of the week
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rather or the day coming up here at 10 minutes before 2.
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Let's go to Indiana just out South South Bend.
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Tom, that's where I understand you are.
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Good to talk to you. What are you covering over
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there? An AAU basketball event, is that
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it? Yeah, Adidas has their one of
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their their events and this is a live weekend for coaches, the
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only live weekend of May that they can be out watching these
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things. So it's it's been kind of wild
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because I walk in and I see Matt Gaitan and then I see Tristan
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Spurlock. I see Andrew Francis, I see all
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these guys look hosted Iowa over the years wandering around so
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and Connor Wheeler from from Ben McCollum staff is here watching
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and just got done watching a four-star point guard that likes
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Ben McCollum. Good.
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Tell us a little bit about this four-star because I was been
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heavily involved with a couple of them, the Doherty kid maybe
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at the top of the list, Kaden Doherty.
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But tell us about the recent one that you've seen and just
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overall where Iowa is in that point guard recruit for the
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class of 27. Yeah, I think there's like three
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of them that they're really in pretty good shape with.
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And the one that I talked to is, is Antonio Pemberton.
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And he is, he's a really talented kid from the East Coast
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area. And he really, he's about 6 foot
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explosive as heck. So I'm trying to dunk on like a
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610 guy today. And I was like, what is this,
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you know, and he can jump out of the gym and he plays with, I
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could see him playing for Ben completely and talked to him
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just after the game that just got done.
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And he said, So what do you think of their lead run?
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And he goes, I was texting with Coach McCollum through the whole
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thing and just talking about how he sees his vision for me in the
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in the program. And he's planning on hopefully
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making an official visit to Iowa this fall.
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So I think they're they're definitely in the running with
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with him along with Marquette. Shaka Smart was sitting
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courtside watching this game. So I think those are maybe it's
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two of his top top schools off the Boston College in the mix
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now too with with Luke Murray in charge of that program.
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But before we go on, I got a couple other things.
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I wonder whether coaches are there.
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Just got this note from from Sam Burnaby.
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Iowa is in town, the baseball team down at the principal park
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to play Purdue. With the pending weather
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tonight, the game is moved up 90 minutes.
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First pitch was scheduled for 6:30.
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First pitch is now going to be, let me get this right, moving
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from to 5:00 from 6:30. Gates will open at 4:30.
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There's no pregame signing tonight because of the fact that
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they're moving everything up. So if you're got a ticket to go
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to Principal Park to see the Hawkeyes and Purdue do battle.
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First pitch is now 5:00 at Principal Park because of
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pending weather. MM Tom, how about some other
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guys, coaches wise, any big names that that have passed by
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you? Anybody you've noticed it's that
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has happens to be 10 attending the event.
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I haven't really noticed. A lot of the head coaches are.
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It seems like everybody's done at Nike in Memphis today.
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So that's where Ben's at, Ben Mccollum's down there, T JS down
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there. I would assume new assistant for
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Iowa State, Tim Buckley, who was an Iowa assistant for a year
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under Steve Alford, he's here today too.
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So a lot of the assistant coaches are here today, not as
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many of the head coaches. Interesting.
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So basketball recruiting this offseason, a lot of talk about
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the non conference scheduling. Of course, the Big 10 schedule
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came out this week. The three double plays for Iowa,
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Wisconsin, Ohio State and the traditional one now with
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Nebraska. The road slate looks incredibly
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difficult. What about non conference
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scheduling? What could you tell us on that
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front? Because there's been a lot of
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rumblings about a potential, maybe even a home and home with
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an SEC team. Yeah, there's been some of those
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rumblings. I don't think anything's been
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finalized yet from what I understand, but just some some
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talk. But they're probably going to
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play, you know, one of those type of games along with the the
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Iowa State game and you've got still get the Xavier return date
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too that they've got to do. And, and then the Creighton game
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at Casey Center and I think that would probably be close to about
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it. I from what I understand,
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they're not going to do it sounds like Thanksgiving
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tournament possibilities are on life support.
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So doesn't seem doesn't seem like that's I don't know if I
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told you the guys a story like last last November when they
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were down out in Palm Springs for the event that they played
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in last year there. I asked Ben McCollum.
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They said, do you have a plan for next year where you want to
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play for a Thanksgiving tournament And asked him about
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did you inquire about maybe getting involved with players
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era, thinking that would be like something that they might want
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to get into? And he goes, yeah, they weren't
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interested in US really. I think that I think that, yeah,
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last year in November, of course, they weren't interested.
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But now, now they're probably like what?
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We'd love to have Iowa instead of having Rutgers or whoever
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else in this tournament. Relegate.
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Relegate Rutgers. Let's do it.
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Yeah, they, I, I know that's something that they wanted to
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get into, but you know, it looks like the field's kind of set and
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I think they've allocated like like 8 of the slots or
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something, the Big 12 teams or something.
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So it's, you know, it's hard to get into it.
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Maybe they will, but it's just hard to Maui.
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You can't go to Maui anymore because it's a loss leader.
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You just lose money going to Maui.
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You just can't do it. Is is McCollum finding finding
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difficulty finding buy games because of the fact that I was
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success last year? Is he having trouble getting
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opponents? I don't think so.
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I think they'll fill out their schedule pretty easily.
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I think he wants to fill out the tough games before he fills out
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his entire by slate. You know, just to kind of you
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can fill it out. He loves taking his time with
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the schedule stuff. I mean, I don't think they
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finalized stuff until like September last year with some of
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those games. Todd, I got to tell you because
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you know my thoughts on scheduling and I yelled about
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the RPI for years and the way free and scheduled, and that
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changed with the net system. So last year about this time, I
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had an interview with McCullum. And after we wrapped up the 1520
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minutes on my podcast, we just started, you know, talking and
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he found out how big of a scheduling nerd I am.
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And we sat there and we talked for 20 minutes off the record
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just about scheduling and about manipulation of the net, what
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you could do, just different things.
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There is going to be, I will tell everybody out there.
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Any angst for Hawkeye fans? He knows tuity exactly what he's
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doing, what the schedule is. And it goes back to last year.
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You mentioned being there in Palm Springs.
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He demanded that they play Ole Miss in that first game and if
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they did not get to play a power conference team in that first
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round, because that's not how they want it set up, they wanted
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Ole Miss. I win the championship.
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He said we need the guarantee of a power team or we're going to
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pull out. This was not my contract and
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we're going to pull out. He is point to have this thing
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figured out and it's probably not going to be shiny, but those
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buy games, even the ones that you look at, you kind of roll
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your eyes. There's going to be a method to
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the madness here with McCullum. Yeah, absolutely.
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He is. He understands how to manipulate
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that that that net ranking and and to get it up higher.
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And that's how he's going to schedule his teams out.
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I was talking to somebody about that staff the other day and
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there's like, yeah, it didn't work out for us because old Miss
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was terrible. And.
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Yeah, until the SEC Tournament, they, they were like what they
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finished like 13th, 12th or 13th in the, in the FCC last year was
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bad. And then they, you know, caught
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fire late, but, and Grand Canyon was always going to be like a 22
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at best win just because of the conference.
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So they've got to, he's got to figure it out.
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He knows what he's doing. When it comes to the Creighton
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game in Des Moines, do you know who's going to get the TV rights
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for that one? Is that going to be?
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Great question. I don't know.
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I would. I would guess Ty, it's going to
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be on the Big 10 Network. But maybe, maybe Creighton has
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the TV rights. Is it an Iowa home game?
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It might be an Iowa home game. I I don't know.
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They may be designated as the home team just but I'm not sure.
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And it could be a return trip over to Omaha, maybe in the
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future that could be potentially and.
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Then they get the TV. Right.
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Well, that's the thing though, and that's where the slippery
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slope is, as we found out with Duke trying to sell off their
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neutral games. It's not like it once was.
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And yes, this is both considered Iowa and Creighton territory.
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Do you make it that direction? What that's going to be and
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don't be surprised down the road if Iowa and Creighton want to
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play a game and they play outside the area they play in a
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Las Vegas and then you can sell it to an Amazon.
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If this all goes through for Duke, the way we know com non
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conference scheduling, not just for basketball but football's
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going to be changing Tom and for.
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That because the conference then doesn't have their hand in the
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pie. Absolutely.
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You play like we heard for years I would Notre Dame, they tried
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to get that game, Jamie Pollard said.
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We're not going to take a one year hiatus for the Sei Hawk
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game. So it never came to fruition.
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Good for. Jamie Pollard.
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Soldier Field, awful lot of Jamie Pollard, different
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conversation. We'll argue about that another
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time is. I've never said good for Jamie
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Pollard. Very seldom.
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Let me have this one. Soldier Field?
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Well, of course, that's still considered Big 10 territory.
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You put that game in Las Vegas, though.
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You can sell it to a Netflix. I think the way Tom that we see
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we talk so much about basketball scheduling, the way that we know
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football scheduling, though, I think we're going to be going
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back to the days like in the early 2000s with all those
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neutrals neutral site games. I think we're going to be seeing
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a whole lot more of that. You, you feel the.
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Same classic like this kick off classic Iowa, Tennessee, 1987.
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East Rutherford, a pitch that gets taken back the other way.
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I remember it vividly. 1980. Seven.
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Wow. Yeah, 1987.
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Later that East Rutherford. And who had the TV for that one?
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It had to be C Had to have been. CBS It was a big one, yeah.
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Oh, that, that's absolutely. I think it was CBS.
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It wasn't Raycom. It wasn't Raycom Jefferson
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Pilot. Back in the day, good stuff.
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Speaking of football, Tom, any news coming out of the football
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program you can share? Nothing really.
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It's been pretty quiet. You know, they're wrapping up
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things and the guys will get to go home and then they'll come
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back for workouts. You know, coming up, one thing I
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have heard on the basketball front that might be interesting
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for for your local listeners is Trump Nurak is really been
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impressive since they got back to workouts and they really
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think that something's brewing with him that he can really,
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really help them this coming season.
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So it'd be cool to see something really go.
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Maybe I, I jokingly said, maybe they'll go with the, the, the,
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the true twin towers. Maybe they'll go 737 foot.
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Wouldn't that be up front? He's got an offensive skill set
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that'll work. Can he get there defensively?
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That's still the question. What is your feet work with a?
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Foot, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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Just getting quicker. That's going to be the big part
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of it. But his offensive skill set,
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he'll have Valley senior year and assists.
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You don't see that at the high school level for a team
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certainly that good as Valley was during those seasons that
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has guys like Zay Robinson in the backcourt and some of the
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guys that were played alongside of them.
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You know, I asked McCullum about him last week because he was in
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West Des Moines for the Polk County I club.
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He said at the time, Trevin's different right now.
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You could tell the excitement that he was hearing out of him.
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And, and I heard another clip with him earlier this week, I
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think at another I club event saying just that.
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The skill set is definitely there.
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The question for me about this team going into the year, what
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does that backcourt look like? Is it handing the keys off to
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Kale Combs and we'll bring Coleman after the transfer from
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the NVC along a little bit slowly because they're going to
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be good up front. They got dudes, they got power
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forwards, they got a bunch of pieces there.
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How does the backcourt shake out your mind?
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Yeah, that's going to be the interesting thing.
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And I would not put it past Tate Sage to play some point guard
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this year because he can play that.
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He thinks he's a point guard too.
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And the other thing with McCollum, you notice this and
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he's going to continue to do this.
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He's going to keep collecting guys that are like 6-6 to 69610
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that can do different things and all of them can maybe do a
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little bit of a different thing. One guy might be more defensive
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specialist that can get you stopped.
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Another guy might be like a Cooper Koch who can just shoot
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it and then, you know, do all those things.
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So he's going to keep collecting these guys with links that he
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can plug and play and kind of that two through 4 spot that you
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can just kind of rotate all these different pieces in there
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and and do different things. Any news on banks?
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Nothing yet. I just don't think that thing's
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going to happen. And I think he, I even think if
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it does, I'm not sure that he'd even do that.
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OK, You know, he might find someplace else to go even if it
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does happen. So that's just my gut feeling
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right now. I don't, I don't think there's
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going to be anything that happens though.
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And. When does McKeever get here, do
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you know? I would guess early June, yeah,
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I talked to, I went to the NBA combine this week and talked to
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Bennett and asked Bennett about McKeever and he goes, he's got
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the biggest hands I've ever seen in my entire life.
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He's like he swallowed me up. Big old mess that is exciting.
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Well, not a big player, but maybe a helpful player for Jan
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Jensen squad. And that is Bria Medina, who
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comes in the all time leading scorer at Knox College over in
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Galesburg. But it's a jump from the D3
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level, not just AD one to big 10 D one.
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What have you heard about Medina?
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At minimum, can she be at peace for six to 10 minutes a game?
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And then also the Swedish freshman that's coming over.
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I'll help it. Strom Doll.
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My Swedish is not very good. It's a jangle.
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We're there to get that seal, that deal.
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Do you know? I don't know if she sent
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somebody over there, she sent Lasandra over there because
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Lasandra is the one that's kind of talked about recruiting that
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area. So but the other part of the
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world. So I think maybe that's her work
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more than it was Jans. But I think both of them are
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just kind of reserved pieces that they're going to need to
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give them 5 to 7 minutes a game and hopefully help him out get,
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you know, with Medina, maybe as a shooter that can come in and
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make a couple shots and, and do some things offensively and not
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hurt you defensively. But that's, that's a pretty good
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story. Knox College.
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Oh, I drive by there on my way down to Saint Louis to see my in
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laws all the time. And and you never thought you'd
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find a future Iowa player at Knox College?
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And yet here we are, the all time leading scorer after just
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three years at Knox College. So Jan Dunn.
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Yeah, I think she's done. I think she is.
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I think, I think they've got their roster now, unless
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something falls out of the sky that you just can't, you can't
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turn away from. Yeah, I think she's probably, I
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think they've got the roster. Good stuff Tom Keikart, enjoy
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Indiana and we will talk with you next Friday.
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Appreciate we'll read the all all your works as we always do
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at hawkeyereport.com. Thank you, Tom.
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OK. Thanks guys.
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Yep, good to talk to you, Tom Keikart, hawkeyereport.com.
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All right in case you missed it at the top of the hour the if
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you're a baseball fan and we're going to see the Hawkeyes
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downtown Des Moines tonight I take on Purdue.
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The game time has been moved up due to potential weather that's
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coming into the area this from San Burnaby moving up to 5:00
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PM. The original time was 6:30
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because of the chance of weather later in the evening gates will
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open at 4:30. There was to be a pregame
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signing opportunity autographed signing.
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Unfortunately, that will have to be scrapped due to moving the
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game up. So Iowa Purdue scheduled 630
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moved up until 5:00. So bust your your tails to get
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down there if you're headed to that game here tonight, pending
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weather moving into the market. Are you going to how many more
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they got tonight and is that done or is there one more?
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And then there's one more. Yeah, it's a three-game series
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started last night, a nice comeback victory from the
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Hawkeyes to get the Purdue team that came in #4 in the Big 10.
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How was the crowd? Did you see that?
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I didn't see no, didn't see attendance or anything like
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that. But yeah, good crowds I I've
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heard that are anticipated Weather always throws a wrench
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into things though. And you just never here in the
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middle of May in Iowa. But I was going to be back in
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the Big 10 tournament. They are not well funded for
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baseball. And what Rick Heller does year
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after year, like one of their top pitchers they anticipated
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was going to help this year is out for the year, the loss
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before the season started and kind of duct tape kind of season
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at times with that pitching staff, the rotation, the
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bullpen. But to get them back once again
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to the Big 10 tournament, it doesn't happen for Iowa
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baseball. The consistency that he is able
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to employ. Where is that tournament, you
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know? Omaha, yeah, they've, they've
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had it in Omaha for I think basically since.
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So they don't move that around either, no.
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No softball moves around, but no baseball has been year after
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year over there in Omaha. Who supports it well.
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the championship after making a deep run.
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Was it Rosenblatt back when you went the last time?
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Rosenblatt hasn't been around, but.
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It's been on for a. While 25 years.
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No, it hasn't been that long, has it?
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It's been a long time. I mean, the ballpark's been
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downtown for a while. That's true, yes.
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Eugene Trenton can How are you? I'm great, I'm great.
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Always a good time chopping up with you guys.
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How you guys? Doing doing well.
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Appreciate you coming on to do just that.
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Not a ton of news coming out, I guess, but but the maybe the the
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news that some cyclone fans are waiting for, it's just to see
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where one of their guys from last year Manchilovich is a, if
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he ends up in college or B gets to live out his dream and hear
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his name called in the NBA draft.
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I think he's going to and again, I swing and miss it.
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NBA drafts worse than any of them.
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I I think he's I think he's going to get drafted.
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I'm not sure where, but I don't think he's going back to
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college. Is that kind of the feel you
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get, Eugene? That's definitely the feel, I
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guess it also seems to be the intent.
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Just from Milan and his camp. It seems like he wants to GoPro
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he's no, I don't want to say done with college, but he feels
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ready for the next step. I feel like he comes back.
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There's not really much to do to improve his stock.
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There's probably more to lose. I'm sure the NIL payday from
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whoever school will be approaching him or knocking on
20:57
his door will be pretty good. But at the same time I think
21:00
he's ready to go to the NBA. And I do agree with you, I think
21:02
he will be drafted probably somewhere in the second round,
21:06
maybe late 1st depending on how he interviews and how the
21:09
combine went for him. But for the most part, I really
21:12
do think he's gone. That conversation from Iowa
21:17
State camps, and I know you can go to dangerous parts of the
21:19
Internet and message boards and social media.
21:22
I mean, do we put it at a 0% chance that Milan is back in an
21:26
Iowa State uniform? Is it even a 1% chance?
21:29
Somewhere between those. Yeah, I mean, I know everybody
21:34
wants to hold out hope. There can't be any hope, can
21:36
there be, Eugene? Yeah, it feels like that both
21:39
sides have moved on. Looking at Iowa State with Ryan
21:42
Prather being the last transfer, it seemed like that they waited
21:45
to till like the 11th hour or until Milam until which made his
21:48
declaration to go to the NBA draft and enter the transfer
21:51
portal. Unfortunately.
21:52
It would be great to see it like if he were to return to college,
21:55
you would love to see him finish it out at Iowa State.
21:57
But it does feel like I wouldn't even say 0%.
22:00
I would probably even say negative.
22:02
Whatever percent chance that he'll come back.
22:04
And then Iowa State uniform, it feels like it's really going to
22:07
be the pro. And you know, I'd probably put
22:09
that at like 95%. But if he does come back, it'll
22:12
be elsewhere in a different college where he'll finish it
22:15
out. Since we're using math and
22:17
numbers and percentages and everything, what if you were to
22:20
pull Cyclone fans? Do you think that they would say
22:22
they're a basketball school or a football school?
22:26
And I'm guessing it's probably changed since December as far as
22:29
those numbers and a the success TJ has year after year.
22:32
Is Iowa State a basketball school?
22:35
It feels like it has changed since December.
22:37
Like you mentioned, it feels like it's starting to shift
22:40
towards that way where it probably is a basketball school
22:43
now. And just looking at TJ also
22:44
burgers, big payday and his big increase, he's now the highest
22:48
paid coach. It feels like even the school is
22:50
starting to put some of those resources or move some of those
22:52
chips over into the basketball program.
22:55
It doesn't mean that no one cares about football.
22:57
It's still obviously a big brand, but I do think that the
23:01
argument has become more and more for a basketball school
23:04
rather than in the past where you could probably say it's a
23:06
football school that is also pretty good at basketball.
23:09
But now it feels like that dynamic, that argument has
23:12
changed. We look at this basketball team
23:15
and I really like Prather, the class that they brought in out
23:19
of the portal. I guess my question is where
23:22
does the scoring come from? I mean, he will lose three guys
23:25
that could fill it up in different ways.
23:26
And obviously for a lot of time it was Lipsy putting his head
23:28
down and get into the rim. But obviously the offensive
23:31
skill set of Milan that we saw and then Jefferson, that was
23:34
just that Swiss RV knife and could be inside and out.
23:36
Where does the scoring come from in this group?
23:38
We know they're going to play D Who's going to put the points
23:40
up? This June and this summer
23:44
session and the summer workouts will be very, very telling.
23:47
I do think that individually the pieces look great on paper.
23:50
You look at the guys that they're bringing in, like you
23:52
mentioned, like Pray there, Jaquan Johnson, Trey Singleton,
23:57
you know, those guys all succeeded at their last stops,
23:59
but how much of it will translate to the Big 12?
24:02
But then also you look at the returners.
24:03
Is this where Jamari and Bateman takes a big step up?
24:06
Does Killian Turay become more consistent on the offensive end
24:09
and helps out there? I I really think it's still a
24:12
little too early to say where exactly the scoring is coming
24:15
from, but that is definitely my biggest question for this team
24:17
going into the summer, going into the offseason, Who's it
24:20
going to be? Who's going to be the guy that
24:21
you can go to for those buckets when you need it most?
24:24
But also, is it going to be by committee?
24:26
Is one guy going to take over? Are we going to see a big leap
24:28
from somebody or is it going to be an immediate splash right
24:31
away from some of these transfers coming in?
24:33
I do think it's the pieces look great on paper.
24:36
I think that there's definitely a recipe here, but how it all
24:39
actually works out, what'll what the actual product will be?
24:42
There are things that are still up in the air that need to be
24:44
answered this offseason, but also the regular season once it
24:47
tips off. Eugene, Des Moines registers
24:50
with us. Eugene, the tailgate tours that
24:52
start this coming week, because we usually get some information
24:55
out of that as it travels around the state.
24:57
Is that this week or next? Do you know?
24:59
Yes, it is this week. It's starting on Monday and in
25:02
Des Moines in these village that curate looking forward to going
25:05
to that. I'm sure I'll see a lot of my
25:06
Iowa State media cohorts there as well, but they'll be turning
25:10
across the state of Iowa throughout the week, so there's
25:13
going to be lots of different stops here and there.
25:15
I know I'm personally looking at that Waterloo stop and
25:17
potentially Cedar Rapids, but I'll be delegating as well with
25:20
Travis Hines and a couple of other people as well.
25:23
That's awesome. You know, back to the scoring
25:24
question, and just as I'm looking at the roster now where
25:27
they're going to get scoring, but two guys, obviously Lipsy
25:30
Heisey had had his moments as well.
25:32
Have you heard any? They're not going to get
25:33
drafted. Have you heard anything as far
25:36
as their potential landing spots?
25:39
Is there? Is there a your possibility for
25:41
both? Either one of them?
25:43
What are you hearing about Heisey and Lipsy as far as their
25:46
immediate future? Anything along those lines?
25:50
Came to Lipsy's name show up in a second round mock draft.
25:53
I believe it was the athletic. To me that seemed a little bit
25:56
surprising. It was the only mock draft that
25:58
I'd seen that had mentioned Lipsy.
26:00
But I feel like for the both of them overseas, Europe, wherever
26:03
it may be, there's definitely a pro career for both of them
26:05
somewhere. I do feel like it'll be
26:08
elsewhere. It won't be in the NBA, but
26:09
it'll be great to see Lipsy get a shot or or high Z sneak up on
26:13
people and and make the most out of like a canned invite or
26:16
whatever it may be or summer league.
26:18
So, but ultimately I think when it's all said and done, when we
26:21
see those guys, I think they're going to have a great careers
26:23
elsewhere overseas, whether it's in Europe or or whatever it may
26:26
be. Credit where credit is due.
26:28
Let me Pat the afternoon show on the back.
26:30
I saw a clip of with TJ yesterday and he was asked about
26:33
his all time starting five. That was a great question.
26:36
And he did mention when it comes to the the five man, he he
26:41
mentioned Blake Buchanan and one year for sure, but potentially 2
26:45
should they get that fifth year of eligibility?
26:48
Is that feasibility do you think that Buchanan might have?
26:51
TJ obviously thinks it is because he put that out there.
26:55
What are you hearing as far as you know, five years to play
26:59
college, Will that change and potentially would that be
27:02
beneficial to Blake Buchanan and Iowa State as far as getting
27:05
another year? Are you hearing that?
27:06
That's a distinct possibility? It's still a long shot.
27:10
Yeah, I've heard it being talked about a little bit more as a
27:13
possibility. It seems like coaches seem to be
27:15
somewhat optimistic or even if it's not optimistic, at least
27:18
preparing for the possibility of having guys for five years.
27:21
And for a guy like Blake Buchanan, that would be huge for
27:24
him. I know TJ also Burger even
27:26
before that all time or his all time starting five for his
27:30
tenure came out, he was very high on Buchanan.
27:33
And it seems like just from what do you said about him in the
27:36
past and also just catching up with new Northern Iowa head
27:40
coach Kyle Green, it seems like that they feel like this could
27:43
be a a pretty big year for Buchanan overall.
27:45
So if he's able to build off of last year where we saw him more
27:49
utilized in a way that he felt more comfortable in, he's got an
27:52
added year of familiarity in the system.
27:54
We saw what he did on the defensive end and on the glass.
27:57
But if he can really build on that and and have a good year
27:59
this year, I I think Iowa State fans would love to have him for
28:02
five years and have him for an additional year beyond 2627.
28:06
Yes, he does. He.
28:07
Looks good out there. Hey, Eugene, I want to jump over
28:11
to some football with you and start on this front.
28:14
And I know there's nothing reported because you would
28:16
report it if that was the case. But after the departure of
28:19
Jackson, even before that, we heard from the new running's
28:22
back coach and then we have a whole lot of depth at the
28:24
running back spot. Do you know, are they still
28:26
sniffing around? Not just a running back, but
28:28
just in general, They're still D2 guys that are in the portal
28:32
seeing if there's anything still out there to augment that
28:34
roster. Do you know if they're still
28:36
sniffing around and and trying to fill maybe the summer out?
28:38
A couple more guys are going into next season.
28:41
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to to make a late
28:44
addition or, or something like that right now.
28:46
They've been keeping their cars close to their chest.
28:48
That is definitely an area that I've been looking at.
28:51
I know they've been highlighting as well.
28:52
Once you lose Jackson and you have a lot out for an
28:56
undetermined amount of time, but it looks pretty long term for
28:59
what it what it may be. I wouldn't be surprised if they
29:01
make a move, but as of right now that I haven't heard of anything
29:04
official or or anything substantial that that may
29:07
warrant that rumor or whatever that may be.
29:09
Good stuff. So Des Moines on Monday for the
29:12
tour and then you go into Waterloo.
29:13
You said when when those all this coming week or they spread
29:18
it all over Coming is 1. Yeah, all.
29:20
This coming week, Yeah, last year they they condensed it to
29:22
one year and I think they had good, I mean one week and I
29:25
think they got good feedback from that.
29:26
So they're running it back again, a lot of the same stops.
29:30
But yeah, it'll be one week this year, one stop during the day
29:34
and then one stop at night. So they'll be very busy and be
29:36
racking up those RV miles. I hope the coaches love each
29:39
other. Yeah, Last thing last week you
29:41
mentioned yourself Travis Hines on behalf of The Register.
29:44
The Register filed A FOIA regarding attendance numbers.
29:48
Did you get anything back from Iowa State for this upcoming
29:51
football season? Nothing yet.
29:53
Nothing yet. Good stuff.
29:55
We'll watch for that. Eugene Repay, I look forward to
29:57
recapping what you find out. Ask TJ where that scoring is
30:01
coming from. Love to know and I'll read about
30:04
it at the register and we'll talk about it with you on
30:06
Friday. Eugene Repay, enjoy your
30:08
weekend. Thank you very much, my friend.
30:09
Appreciate it. Thank you guys so much.
30:11
Same to you. Enjoy it.
30:12
Thank you. Good to talk to Eugene Repay on
30:16
on Iowa State. I love this rivalry.
30:18
So David Eichel just reported this that the Iowa Flags
30:22
department has purchased the official court that the from the
30:25
Houston regional the eight game yes.
30:27
So that's going to be the floor Carver, Hawkeye.
30:29
Got that Press release, a little bit of press release, OK.
30:32
So this was very quickly on the heels of that post got by the
30:36
name of Felts. Do you know Felts?
30:37
I have no idea who Felts is. Big Iowa basketball fan?
30:39
Apparently so, yes. I was staying finally get to
30:42
play on an elite elite 8 court. There's nothing like it.
30:47
Man. I love it so much the.
30:48
Back and forth. I love it.
30:50
I'm going to miss Iowa State back and forth.
30:52
It never takes a week. Off.
30:53
It doesn't. It's a great thing.
30:55
It truly is. Sometimes it gets a little ugly.
30:57
Yeah, yeah, it goes a little too far.
31:00
It does, It does. But it's just great.
31:03
We'll take a time out, come back and finish our program again.
31:07
The Purdue, Iowa baseball game has been moved up.
31:09
It's 5:00 first pitch due to pending weather in the area.
31:14
What phone do you have? Do you have the same another app
31:16
on your phone as I do? You have an iPhone, correct?
31:19
Yes, I have a Galaxy, so I'm going to guess not.
31:21
So when does rain show up on your 8:00?
31:25
Well, it does show up at 8:00. Yes.
31:26
Shows up at 11:00 on this piece of.
31:28
Crap, that's when thunderstorms go.
31:30
You don't like your phone? Well, I like it, but I like it
31:32
to be right. Well, how do you know it's not?
31:35
Well, how do you know? Well, I guess that's fair.
31:38
Maybe yours is the bad phone. Could be.
31:41
When does it got hourly? Here let's see the.
31:43
Hourly. Hourly.
31:44
That's what I'm looking at. Well, and even then it has the
31:46
rain showers, but just a 33% chance at 8:00.
31:49
Yeah, the storms are 11. Right.
31:51
Yeah, That's when the thunderstorms will be rolling
31:53
in. And if you got leaks, call Wolf
31:56
Roofing. Well done.
31:58
Well done. So by the looks of things, we're
32:00
in for like a week of rain, is that right?
32:04
Today, Saturday, Sunday. Monday, Tuesday.
32:06
And when you have 310 you softball games scheduled for
32:10
Saturday? What are you hoping for?
32:11
Rain like a lot of rain or no? Not want to get them in.
32:14
Yes, absolutely. It's the West Des Moines
32:16
Invitational. There's a big week.
32:18
It's a big week. It's a big week for the Tigers.
32:20
And how are they playing going into it We're.
32:22
Playing all right, Okay, yeah, got upset.
32:25
Any injuries that they used, no weekend off.
32:27
Maybe we're good, we're good there.
32:28
We haven't played in two weeks, got upset in the bracket, we're
32:31
the number one seed, won our pool and got knocked off in the
32:33
first round so girls need to bounce back.
32:35
Yeah, the girls need an opponent by the sounds things.
32:37
It's been a while since they played a little.
32:38
Rust maybe or should be OK. They're, they're also, this is
32:42
rec season, so they've been seeing a lot of pitches.
32:44
OK played in a lot of rec games, which is always fun.
32:46
We had a rec game last night. I just, I enjoy it 'cause he had
32:49
the girls that have been playing tournament ball for now four or
32:51
five years. And we got a couple girls on our
32:53
team that never played softball before.
32:56
Love it. And my favorite part is seeing
32:59
the veterans helping out those girls.
33:01
Oh, they do. Yes, we had a girl that I was
33:04
very nervous getting into the batter's box the first time
33:06
because we're talking about some big 5th and 6th grade girls now
33:09
and they throw some smoke. And I can understand that if
33:11
you've never seen a live pitch before and that's what you're
33:13
jumping into and everybody jumping away from helping out.
33:18
She made a foul bald at her second at bat.
33:19
And just keep building. It's it's really a fun time
33:23
because it is a lot different tournament ball.
33:25
Even at the sea level people get kind of hardcore.
33:28
I'm not exactly hardcore about things I'm a little more lazy
33:31
for. That would you sign for two and
33:33
one with this three-game set? It depends on what time our
33:37
bracket game is. We're really shooting for that
33:39
one seed because that means you get to play late, don't have to
33:41
play Sunday till 11:00 AM. As opposed to what?
33:44
Could be as early as 8, which means 7:00 batting practice.
33:47
Getting warmed up. We like those. 11:00 on Sunday.
33:51
By the way, how do you not root for this guy that got penalized
33:54
yesterday? What's his name?
33:55
Hippa. The kid that was 30 seconds late
33:58
for his tee time? They gave him a 2 stroke.
34:00
Penalty. Oh yeah.
34:01
He's actually playing well. Garrett Higgo, well, he's not
34:05
playing well today. Oh, it's falling apart.
34:07
Yeah, well, he was started his day one under.
34:09
I think he's three over for the day.
34:11
He's still on the cut line. He should be getting there late.
34:14
Apparently that helps his game. Garrett Higgo I.
34:19
Ever heard of him before yesterday?
34:21
I'd seen the name. Had you?
34:22
Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen him
34:23
take a shot, actually, at a tournament.
34:26
I think this goes hand in hand with what I said.
34:28
I told you I missed the PGA in August.
34:31
Yeah, we talked about it for three minutes yesterday.
34:34
And we? Haven't talked about it at all.
34:35
Not following up, not giving read, not giving updates.
34:38
No chef you normally. Forgot to ask Mike, and I meant
34:40
to do it too, just how big of a discrepancy between masters
34:44
handled? Well, The thing is it's not fair
34:46
because they bet on the masters all year round.
34:48
They got that up. But I mean it's got to be
34:51
significant, right? Of the four, this has got to be
34:53
the right wise. The smallest handle?
34:56
Yes, wouldn't you think? There is no doubt you have.
34:59
Yeah, because the British is just, it's at a funky time and
35:01
you've got it's different. But it's also the oldest
35:04
tournament, U.S. Open, Father's Day weekend,
35:06
right? Yeah.
35:07
I would anticipate Masters own tier.
35:10
I mean probably triple what you get even in the second one, then
35:14
U.S. Open, then British and and
35:16
certainly the PGA. We saw a slow start today from
35:18
Scheffler. He was able to battle his way
35:21
back, but he bought me three of his first four.
35:23
I can't remember ever see that. Certainly on a Friday from
35:26
Scotty, Maybe on a Thursday. Yeah, three of us because he
35:28
started on the back nine. He started on 10 today, Bogey,
35:31
bogey, par, bogey and battled back just one over, but not a
35:37
star-studded. Alex Smalley, Aldrich Pogueider,
35:41
Min Wu Lee, Chris Gottrup, Hideki Matsuyama.
35:45
There's a name. There's a name and gatherup's
35:46
going to be good. Easy guy.
35:48
Jason Day. There's a name?
35:50
Yeah, from 10. Years ago, from a long time ago.
35:52
Remember, he had the Vertigo. Yes, absolutely.
35:55
Steven Yeager, There's an old name, Man I just, well, finally,
35:59
when you get down tied for ninth.
36:00
Cameron Young, Justin Thomas. Scotty Scheffler.
36:03
Here comes Cam Young. Yeah.
36:04
How do people like Tim Hoggard? There's another young name.
36:07
Where's our guy, by the way? Where's?
36:09
Bobby Mack. Bobby Mack was like 82nd when I
36:11
checked right before the show began.
36:13
He's down to 93rd. It's over.
36:14
So he's not going to make the cut.
36:16
No. That's now we got 2 left.
36:19
But got 2. Left.
36:20
We got 2 left. Come on Bobby Mack.
36:21
We bet Bobby Mack every major just sight unseen, blindly.
36:25
Yep, this is going to be the year.
36:27
It's going to breakthrough for Robert McIntyre.
36:30
He's yelling at people at Augusta.
36:32
He's playing like crap at the PGA.
36:34
Two years ago, Justin Thomas was my guy.
36:37
He had his worst major run over the four majors during a season.
36:41
I put the stink on guys. Who should I put the stink on
36:43
next winter? Who's somebody you don't like on
36:46
the tour? Who's someone I don't like?
36:48
Dude, I I don't think I I don't follow it like I used to have a
36:52
a don't like I yeah, I just don't.
36:56
Should should I put it on like D shambo?
36:58
See, I kind of like him. I like his.
36:59
I like his teaching videos. I can't.
37:03
I'm not on. I'm not down on Jon ROM Brooks,
37:05
Kepka. No, I like Kepka you.
37:07
Like them all look at you softening.
37:09
In your oh, I really have really have We'll take the time out
37:12
come back. We will hear Trent's plays of
37:15
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I'm Millery Condon, the final couple of minutes of our week.
37:28
When does your week continue on with baseball?
37:31
Are you doing that this year? Absolutely be back out there.
37:33
Season starts, scheduling has become a little bit more
37:37
difficult with all the kids things.
37:39
Monday there is a great battle as a Stedman.
37:43
The young man from West Des Moines Valley is going up
37:46
against a kid from Ottumwa Long as his last name, that's going
37:48
to Ole Miss. So Stedman going to Iowa, he
37:50
throws 95. The Long kid is considered a top
37:53
50 type of prospect going to Old Miss, and those two guys are
37:56
going to be facing off at 5:00 in the first game of the
37:59
doubleheader. Apparently the coaches have
38:01
agreed that yes, we'll both throw our races first game.
38:03
And on your first game? Yes, so at Tumbo Valley, but
38:06
can't make it happen. We got piano lessons, we got
38:08
wrestling practice. So I will find more, but I'm
38:12
I've been building the schedule and also building it while my
38:15
wife is going back to school for a doctorate so she is not around
38:19
nearly as much. Maybe the kids will be helping
38:22
me out in the booth a little bit more.
38:23
This. Year never heard.
38:24
Absolutely. They've had fun couple of times
38:26
that they've come out there and they always enjoy it and they
38:28
get to run around of course and watch a ball game.
38:30
Not bad hanging up the. Concession stand.
38:33
It happens quite a bit, yes. You get that one in the back
38:35
pocket. The kids definitely enjoy that
38:37
part too. All.
38:37
Right. So we've got basketball, WNBA
38:41
and NBA playoffs, a full slate of MLB.
38:45
Are you going to get involved in any live bets in the PGA or you
38:48
kind of sit? Tight there.
38:49
That's kind of going to be part of my afternoon to kind of
38:52
digging into a couple of numbers that I have.
38:54
I'm sure I will potential some hedging opportunities.
38:57
Is there somebody that I like that leaderboard, it's just so
38:59
odd. So going to take maybe a little
39:01
bit more work than normal to get through those because normally
39:04
you got a feel for a lot of the guys that is not the case.
39:06
By the way, I got 2 suggestions who to hate.
39:10
Those are two easy ones. Absolutely is.
39:14
Rain delay, right? Absolutely.
39:15
And Patrick Reed's a cheater. Yeah.
39:18
Allegedly. Right.
39:19
Allegedly A cheater. All right, 7 plays for tonight.
39:23
We are going to go with the Cincinnati Reds plus 130 now.
39:26
Where are they? They're in Cleveland against the
39:29
Guardians. Abbott gets the ball against
39:31
Bobby. Slight edge for me on the Abbott
39:33
side of things, and the money at plus 130 pushes it over.
39:37
We're also going to play the Cubs tonight -125 we're going
39:39
right back to the well after they got us a victory last
39:42
night. Cabrera V Burke.
39:44
I like the pitching advantage there for the Cubs on the road.
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Taking the Royals tonight plus one O 4 against the Cardinals.
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Waka will get the ball going up against his old squad and 1
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baseball prop for you. Actually got 22 pitching props.
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Spencer Strider tonight for the Braves, over 6 1/2 strikeouts at
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plus 110 and Blake Snell over 15 1/2 outs.
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Against the Angels this evening, plus 1:20 on that one.
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For the Battle of LA this weekend.
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Absolutely, yeah. A lot of rivalry games got
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Minnesota, Milwaukee. I'm guessing Yanks Mets go this
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weekend. Yep, it is that series going on
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this week. And then to the NBA emotional
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hedge. Give me the spurs -5 1/2.
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Do you like, do you think the T wolves have a chance?
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Not really. Yeah.
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I don't know. I just think they're beat down.
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Yeah. Nothing left in the tank.
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Can Detroit extend the series? Yes.
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Would you take the Pistons? What's the number you get?
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4 1/2. I have no feel.
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For that's that series is it's been close games for most of the
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game and then seemingly one team just.
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That's kind of what Buffalo, Montreal has been in the NHL and
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I saw the environment. I just.
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Goal, goal, goal. There was five goals scored in
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the 1st 10 minutes. It was crazy.
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It was like game one of Colorado, Minnesota.
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You know what the bad part is? I feel for Buffalo fans.
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Montreal fans just took over. Yeah, it's like a six hour drive
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and they just took over. One more for you.
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We're going local, OK? Harrison Barnes, he's going over
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how many points for the Spurs? Not points, rebounds.
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The line is set at. .5 it is. Is it really and?
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We're taking the over. So if Barnes gets a gets a
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rebound, TC gets a cash. That's a fun one for late in the
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game. You know what?
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That's that's something I'm going to watch.
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Awesome. That's awesome.
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And that game starts at what, 830?
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Yes. Races end about 8:45.
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Yeah, yeah, that's oh, it's Prime Video.
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I get it. It's such a pain in the ass.
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I just clicked off our Anyways, we're done.
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