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Pacers ridiculous comeback, Iowa lands a portal guard, Bill Seals talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome.
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Miller and Condon here with you on a Thursday.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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It's Trent Condon and Ken Miller for the next two hours talking
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sports with you. Thanks for starting your
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afternoon here with us. Wherever you're listening in the
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state of I, we're out there on the I Heart app.
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We welcome you to the program. Here's what's coming up.
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We'll talk to Bill Seals. He covers Iowa State
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cyclonereport.com Cyclones made public their non conference
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men's basketball schedule earlier this morning.
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We'll dig into that with Bill. Certainly a lot juicier than
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most years. Credit to TJ and his staff and
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even like the exhibition games that are going to be a part of
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it in the next couple of years. So we'll get into that and other
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Cyclone topics with Bill Seals coming up here at the bottom of
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our number one, our number two, our old friend Stephen M Sipple.
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Sure. We'll talk Nebraska football.
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We'll talk Big 10 football with Sip, maybe a little basketball
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as well. Is there a hot seat when it
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comes to their head coach? We will see about that was
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simple. Championship coach.
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Championship coach? He did win a championship.
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Trent, I'm glad you reminded me that biggie in Vegas.
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What the hell was the name of that again?
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The crown. The Crown.
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We were excited for a couple days of that thing.
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Bought my plane tickets and actually was out there for the
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crown, but Iowa sadly wasn't part of it.
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Looked like they would be. But as we know what happened,
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Fran Mccaffrey's out. They declined the opportunity to
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participate. Ben McCollum is in and McCullum
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on. ERA is underway.
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So simple on Big 10 stuff to kick off our number 2.
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And then Bill Bender will join us.
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We'll talk college football with Bill, do some NBA Eastern
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Conference game one with Bill. He wrote about it in today's
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sportingnews.com. And I guess we should start
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there because the latest is always greatest.
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Oh boy, this one last night was something had a little bit of
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everything. I mean, both of the games, both
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of the winter sports games last night, epic collapses.
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Oilers just coughed it up. But that that is, you know, not
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even close to what we witnessed at Madison Square Garden last
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night. What a game.
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And what the this Nesmith kid 20 points.
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You have 10 of them in the final like 58 seconds.
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You're just knocking 3 pointer after three pointer in, but it
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didn't matter. Listen, well, it my thought
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that's a better well maybe I'll get a back door cover.
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Never that. Though never that it was, it was
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amazing. I mean, the Halliburton thinking
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the game is over and going to the Reggie Miller card, which
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was phenomenal television. Now after that part, I thought
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they were done. I did too.
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I thought they were the basketball gods were saying,
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young man, that's not how we do things.
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That's going to come back to bite you.
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But to their credit, they wouldn't let, they wouldn't let
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it die. So I'll be honest, I had to look
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up where Nesmith went to school. I do not remember him involved.
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Yes, he went to Vandy. They.
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Had, but they didn't. Play very much.
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Right, Scottie Pippen junior was on that team at That's Another
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NBA. Guy Pippen Junior was for sure.
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Yeah, didn't do a whole lot though.
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No, he only played fourteen games.
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Must have got hurt because his freshman year he was certainly
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more involved than that. But my God, what a game.
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And Halliburton just. But it wasn't that great of a
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game until the last. And but the clutch gene that
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apparently is is coming out, it was on display again last night.
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What a game just to the wherewithal to step back like he
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did and to to make that shot. And did you think it was all?
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I thought it was a three. I did too.
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Yeah. I mean, that's game over.
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Wow. So I got I was flipping back and
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forth because I was upstairs so I didn't have the multi TV
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process after getting the kids down and that and the Iowa
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baseball team trying to gag it up back and forth.
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But I left the basketball game not thinking I'm going to have
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to worry, right? It was a 12 point game.
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There's 3 minutes left, I think. And I'm like, all right, I'll
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just lock into the Iowa baseball game the rest of the way.
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And then I get a text from one of my text groups with my
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buddies saying this is an incredible.
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So got back over there and it was when I think it was down to
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five maybe at that point it. Was A5 pointer.
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Yep, and a couple of those. And that was the time where I
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think, well, maybe we're going to get back to recover out of
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this. And that's where my thought
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went. But then watching it in real
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time, 1st to get that deep into the lane and then just jet
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backwards, right? Where was somebody else
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defensively? You see him doing that.
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I I get you don't want to leave your guy open for a three
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pointer, but you see Halliburton hit reverse like that.
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Yeah. And no.
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And nobody stepped up to help. I know it's an incredibly weird
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basketball play, and that's probably a part of the reason
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for it, but that was incredibly odd.
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And then the touch, it dropping, for it to fall like that, it
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reminded me of a shot Wes Washburn in the NBC championship
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game, putting you and I in high off the back iron dropped in
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against Evansville. That's that was the only shot
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that I can remember like that. And that was a game winner.
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Thought this was a game winner. And then very quickly and you
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just see that toe. It's yeah, not so fast.
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We're going on. We've got 5 more minutes at
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least. The choke sign, it's.
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Phenomenal. Now, Knicks fans.
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Well, New Yorkers, not my cup of tea.
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They're different. We're wired much differently.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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In general here in the Midwest and certainly in the state of
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Iowa. No question.
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Than them out there. But the amount of vitriol, anger
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of Reggie Miller just calling the game, yeah, before the choke
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sound, right before that, even before it began.
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What do they want? Him not to be there.
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Why? Because he's conjures up bad
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memories. That is the.
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Stupidest thing, I get it. I totally agree.
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With you. So whenever we get to a
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championship event, the analysts couldn't have played Nope for
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the team before. Not not against your team.
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Yes, I understand Reggie Miller's history with New York,
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NY made Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller.
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With Spike Lee, yes, had a big hand.
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Without that, he is just known as a great basketball.
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That's what your sister was pretty good.
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Yes, that's what maybe not the best basketball player in the
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family. Right.
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That's how we'd remember Reggie Bill.
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But because of that, he turned into a star.
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He became nationally known. He became a guy that we see in
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Wendy's commercials. He doesn't have that without
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any. He doesn't have that without
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Spike. He doesn't.
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He doesn't have that without Michael Jordan.
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Yeah, absolutely. And the battles that were there,
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that was the period, and he was able to do that.
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But the dumbness of Knicks fans saying that he shouldn't be on
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the broadcast. Think about that just a little
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bit. Just use a little bit of common
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sense and think. So that has to go for everybody,
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right? Not just because you had a bad.
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No, if you beat them, it's OK. If the Knicks get have their way
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with them, it's just it's OK. Come on.
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But look at it if Jordan doesn't decide to play baseball.
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We don't have any of that. We don't have any of it.
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The way it was going. And maybe we got a couple of
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Rockets, Bulls, finals, which. Oh my God.
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What could have been that? But.
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Just a phenomenal game. I mean, there were there was so
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there was so much to this game. It it looked like even when when
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Brunson picked up his fifth foul, like early in the fourth
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quarter, you're thinking, oh boy, this is this is going to
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change the trajectory of this game.
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But they opened up 12, you know, with, with Brunson on the bench
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and then the 2 looks at the end of it.
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Brunson had a terrific look. Cat had a terrific look and he
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was phenomenal in the game last night.
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His over under threes was 1 1/2. He had two like in the first few
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minutes, you know, if you bet the under.
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That sounds like a Kale play. Did Kale tell you that one?
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No, somebody else that would be a Yeah, The son does like those,
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by the way, Speaking of Kale, and he works at Circa.
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Circa's going to make their big announcements today.
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The contest will be see the light of day what they're going
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to do. So we look forward to that.
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Mike Palm will join us with all the details on Survivor and
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millions from this year. And apparently there's another
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layer to this and nobody knows what it is.
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We'll find that out at about four O clock today.
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But the games themselves, just fascinating.
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Last night watching, watching it unfold.
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Namhart was good. I thought, of course,
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Halliburton was good. Nesmith Siakam's going to beat
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everybody down the floor when he's going to score.
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I mean, he's so fast. I'll be tapping.
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Another another guy. And he got fouled on that dunk
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in overtime that would have made it I think a four point play at
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the time made it 3 with that dunk.
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And you look, he had eight points, 10 that's.
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All he had but he. Was they were loud?
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They were loud points when he was in there.
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McConnell, he's just kind of a pest.
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It goes back to the conversation we had leading into this.
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I was surprised. Just in general.
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I thought there'd be a New York tax about it.
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Then there was. But the Pacers?
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I see this as an even series. I do too, and we were both
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shocked that the that the Knicks were as big of favorites as they
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were. Now I I keep hearing this as a
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team of destiny. This is a team of destiny.
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You know what you got to get by OKC at some point and and I hope
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that it's it's Minnesota that you have to get by at some point
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because who doesn't want to see that right?
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The guys traded for each other. I know I think there's OK C fans
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name is JoJo. If I if I miss that, apologize.
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I'm sure we'll hear from you as the series goes on, but just
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fascinating theatre. I, I can't wait.
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I hope this thing goes seven games.
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I want them both to go seven games.
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It is a phenomenal watch. NBA, which you know, kind of
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gets a while before their playoffs seemingly get going.
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I think the NHL goes zero to 100 in game one right in Series 1.
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And because, at least in my mind, everybody's so evenly
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matched. Yeah, we've seen so many ones
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fall in the opening round. You don't get that in the end.
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I think the 1-2, the 1-2 and four are all gone.
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And that happens a lot in hockey.
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Certainly in comparison, the gap between those elite level teams
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and playoff teams is not a significant accident in the NBA.
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Nope, I'll say call. Let's get Jim in here, then we
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will get back into it. Jim, how are you?
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Hey, pretty good guys. Got off the course before the
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rain hit. No, it's good.
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How you how'd you play? 7077.
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Show off you. Where did you?
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Where did you play at Jim? Toad Valley.
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Nice. Didn't get in the back 9 high
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with that 77. What's that?
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Didn't get that back. Night in with that 70.
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Seven, Yeah, I had four holes to go and then it started raining.
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I think the blueprint for the Pacers real quick, I think they
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like five guys guarded Brunson, maybe 6.
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I think they're just going to wear him out the whole series
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and the depth is going to show through.
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Then real quick, I think the Hawkeyes are missing Ben
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Wellness from that lead off spot because their offense has been
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buttering badly for the last two weekends.
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So to play this week either, so maybe if they can get get a
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break and get into the NCAA, which right now it's kind of a
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long shot to be honest, maybe he can come back then.
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But as Heller said yesterday, his quote was you got to respect
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the game. We're going to go out, we're
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going to play to win because that's what baseball is about.
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I appreciate that quote from him.
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I did. Jim, thanks for the call.
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Good to hear from you. You know what I was impressed
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with and you're going to have mail.
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You watch it way more than I do. Where's this Ober Miller Mueller
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bid all year long? Well, he's dead.
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He was unhittable. And he might be big.
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He'll probably finish second. Big 10 Pitcher of the year.
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He's been outstanding. So is was he drafted and didn't
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sign? Is he back into the draft?
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Yes. So he came back.
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He bet on himself for this year. 'Cause I saw he was the 16th
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round pick. And he's done enough, he's
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certainly. Holy mackerel, he did enough
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last night. And now the problem when you
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come back for your senior year is you don't have that same kind
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of incentive that you can use against teams, right?
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There's no leverage, yeah. That is completely out the
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window. That's a great point.
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But when you're looking at where he's going to be drafted, he has
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jumped up. He's going to be certainly in
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the top 10 rounds and top 5-6, something like that for a lefty
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that throws at that level last. Year 10 walked one.
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And it was the walks. It was him and Brett.
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Also, then that's a trouble with the strike.
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The new pitching coach, the new pitching coach has come in and
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has been absolutely out standard.
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You know, Beuter's a guy that was part of that bullpen that
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was so atrocious last year. He's been great.
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They they really got something here.
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Savory, who will probably start against UCLA and I guess the
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whole game. And when is that Saturday.
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That'll be Saturday night, the 6:00 game.
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He's probably one of the top five or six pitchers in the Big
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10. I mean, they they took their
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number three from last year. He's an ace, their number six
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from last year. He's one of the best twos in all
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of the Big 10. And their number 3 was a guy
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that couldn't get anybody out of the bullpen.
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And he's been one of the best number threes this year.
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The pitching staff is the reason that they're here, but he
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brought up a girl. A good point without will miss
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at the top of the lineup and the top lineup was good last night.
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Yeah, it just he is. And can he, will he play again?
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I don't know. I haven't heard anything to
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what. Year is he?
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I think he's that's good question.
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All those Johnston guys start to run together for me.
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I think he's in his last year. You called a lot of these.
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Games because hey, Evan Wristley's out there in center
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field and they got a couple out of the game.
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The team again this year, I think this is Willmus's last
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year at memory serves. But he's a tremendous base.
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He just he's a grinder. He's a Johnston baseball player.
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Has he got a pro career ahead of him?
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It's going to be tough. I mean, it really is.
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But Peyton Williams, he's hanging around in the minor
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leagues right now, I think. Is he in your Blue Jays
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organization? I think he might be big first
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baseman from the Dragons from years ago.
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It's tough though that and get into that next level, but now I
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want to see today so I was looking at all morning. 9:00
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tonight, 9:00. Tonight they move it up because
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of the weather. Iowa, Indiana, Iowa has nothing
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to play for. They're not getting in at large.
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Their RPI still today is 71. They're still O five and one
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against quad one. You're not getting in at large.
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Even if you win this one, Beat UCLA and losing the champ.
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No, you have to win it all tonight, Teller said.
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The right thing. He did.
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I applaud him. But he's not going to coach that
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way. No, I yeah, I would be
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surprised. You have to play for winning two
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games on the weekend, you have to beat UCLA and then whoever.
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Comes up. When is that game on the
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weekend? Do we know Saturday?
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What? 6:00 for the UCLA game and then.
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Big 10 Network has it. Yes, championship Sunday, 2:00.
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I want to say something like that.
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At least that's around the area that it's been.
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And we'll see who comes out of the top half.
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But Iowa, I see there's family line.
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I've been looking all morning long.
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I will. Plus 120 on the money line.
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Hoosiers -154 We'll talk more about that coming up at 1:50.
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I got a little opinion on that one.
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Since we're on baseball, let's talk about the news that broke
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yesterday late in the day that ESPN, we know that they're
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giving up Sunday Night Baseball and some of their other baseball
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properties. NBC Sunday Night Baseball.
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Now wait a second, what about September?
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When September rolls around and Sunday Night Football on NBC,
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Chris and Al are the best on TV. No, AL's no longer there.
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They'll they will switch then to one of their other properties.
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Is that how I read that? Peacock for sure.
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Peacock. Yes, absolutely.
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So what is NBC's other property? Well.
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It's not like it's not like USA Network.
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Well, that's a part of their big umbrella, but it's a separate
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umbrella. So I was reading that because
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USA Network and whatever channels are a part of that.
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Also we're interested in some type of baseball package
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perhaps. And so that's talk.
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But this the NBC component that you're talking about that is
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separate from that. I would anticipate that when we
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get to September, it would be Peacock exclusive.
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Peacock exclusive. That'll be Sunday Night Football
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starts. Those Sunday night games will be
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Peacock. Yeah, our NBC, rather, is also
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interested in obtaining the first round of the playoffs,
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like ESP. So where would that be?
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Home Run Derby? The other one?
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Yep. So that would probably, well, I
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don't know what's on network TV in the summer.
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It's not reruns. Don't they have summers?
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I have no idea. Yeah, I don't watch TV.
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Other than, well, right. But but look it, I love Sunday
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night baseball. I find it relaxing at the end of
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the weekend before you go back to work, right?
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Just put a ball game on and just kind of sink back into your
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chair and enjoy whether you have a rooting interest or I won't
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have a betting interest. My partner probably would, but
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that's why I just like it and I'm so I'm glad it's not going
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away. Now there's also, there was a
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part of, I think it was Marshawn had this.
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That said, ESPN and Major League Baseball are continuing their
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talks that those talks have not completely dried up the amount
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of money, so ESPN opted out. Right.
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And what was it, 500? Seven, $100 million?
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I think it was 550. If memory serves, that was a,
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yeah. It's a big nut.
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But they said they willing to continue, but not at that price,
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right? They went down to about 200.
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Apparently that's the same type of price.
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NBC and ESPN are in the same vault, OK.
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They're very close to it. If you're Major League Baseball,
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what makes more sense? Network television with NBC, but
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a place that baseball has not broadcast for a long time.
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Because for ESPN, it's not just about that game, it's about the
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highlights. So would they lose?
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That it's about being a partner. Well, that's a separate entity
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too. And that's why NBC says we're
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not paying that 5:50 because we don't need those highlight
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packages. We don't need what ESPN pays for
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for those because they don't have Sports Center, you know,
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they don't have 24/7. NBC doesn't.
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Need it, right? NBC doesn't need it, while ESPN
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does. So that's a different separate
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component to it. For Major League Baseball,
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though, I still think it makes sense.
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You still want to be in bed with baseball and ESPN because you
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saw it with your beloved hockey. I'm just going to say, but
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here's a perfect example. The NHL out of sight, out of
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mind. They couldn't wait to, you know,
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get beg for forgiveness and get back over there.
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Look and look at. It's worked in a lot of ways I.
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Think not. This year, though, you see those
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numbers are down big. Are they down big?
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Like 28%, really, yeah. Year to year.
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No kidding. Yeah, now.
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Your Jets are one of the reasons.
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Well, there's 5 Canadian teams out of the 16 that made it and
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that's one of the reasons. Yeah, it's going over pretty
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well up there though, at least till Toronto got knocked out
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over the weekend. All right, good stuff NBC, Well
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done. At least it sounds like there's
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going to be a landing spot for ESP or for a Sunday Night
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Baseball, whether it stays on the four letter network or NBC
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is able to pick it up. So we find out yesterday, last
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night, that Iowa Hoops gets a commitment from the Ashton
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Williams kid. You look at the numbers, look,
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he played at Florida internationally, averaged 7
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points. He's a backup point guard.
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And with Bennett Sturtz. But it's 38 minutes.
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Right. You really don't need a backup.
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No, I think this is more a developmental thing.
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So what year is he? He'll be a sophomore, so still
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three years of eligibility. What I wonder though, still, is
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that he's a GIF, a kid. What's going on there with him?
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He's the high point transfer. Visited a month ago.
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Apparently he was on Seton Hall's campus this week, but it
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was the first visit that he took when he visited Iowa and a
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couple other places. Does it seem like Iowa was high
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on his list that he wanted? Or this guy.
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Remember Echo told us yesterday this was the guy in GIFA.
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He had two different people said he was ready to commit, but they
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never could agree to the financials and it's the
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financial component. I don't know if he's going to
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find a better destination than Iowa he's a gift for.
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Might he find more money? Seton Hall is not the place.
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Almost every single year. They're the lowest in terms of
20:03
NIL the last couple of years in terms of Big East funding.
20:06
Even worse than the DePaul is Seton Hall.
20:08
And you may not know this what what's Seton Hall known for
20:11
academically? I have no idea.
20:13
Is is there is. There something, but there's
20:15
nothing to leave. So it's not a doctor school or
20:18
yeah, I have no idea. It's interesting that these guys
20:23
that are still out there, these guys that have taken their
20:25
visits that they're looking for that money and it's gone.
20:30
It's just not there. And if you.
20:32
Wait up in a lot of areas. And if you wait long enough,
20:35
what does that also mean, right? I mean, is there going to be a
20:38
spot for you? You're not going to get the
20:40
minutes that you probably want because I think of a guy like
20:42
Giza GIF. All right, nice player at high
20:44
point. He led the team in scoring,
20:45
averaged 14 points. Team that made the NCAA
20:48
tournament, 5 assists. Good player, right?
20:50
Well, the Iowa, is he a 15 minute a game guy?
20:55
You look at the guys they brought in from Drake, you look
20:57
at that backcourt, look at what they have and we know Bennett
21:00
starts is not going to leave the floor.
21:02
Where do those minutes come from here?
21:04
He's not going to come in here. Command 750,000.
21:07
Dollars. So is that the number you've
21:08
heard that's been floating out there?
21:10
He really wants that. Money I I told you the muddy
21:13
thing drives me crazy because it's all lies a.
21:15
Lot of times. Yes, it's 99, nine .9% of the
21:18
time it's a lie. It's either coming from an agent
21:20
or somebody that doesn't know. And, and is the lie usually that
21:23
they embellish what they're getting or they're
21:25
underestimated both ways? Both ways.
21:27
That's why I think it's all garbage.
21:29
Every single single thing I believe that you hear is
21:31
probably wrong. That's that's where we've got to
21:34
this point and it's gross. But it's also the reality for a
21:37
guy like that doesn't make sense for McComb.
21:39
Just say we're good. Let's just we got our guys, my
21:44
team's on the floor. Or or or.
21:45
If you're still looking for a spot in a couple of weeks, you
21:48
know what we've got. Give us a call.
21:50
If not, best of luck. But if he's looking for 30
21:52
minutes a game, he's not going to get it.
21:53
It's not happening to that. Not this year.
21:55
Yeah, might happen at Seton Hall, but you have to take a lot
21:58
less money. Oh boy, where it's gone, right,
22:03
We're going to talk about where it's gone for Iowa State and
22:05
their non conference schedule, which saw the light of day here
22:09
this morning. You know what we we kill it
22:11
every year, right? Seemingly, if it's not Fred
22:13
McCaffrey, non con TJ picked up on it.
22:17
And it's not that we don't understand why they're doing it.
22:20
It's better for them. But we would argue the point
22:23
that it's better to actually test yourself.
22:24
Yes, Although Iowa State's case they've come back with proof is
22:29
in the pudding that no, it's not because we're pretty good right
22:31
out of the chute this past year. I mean, look what they did going
22:35
out and taking and having the lead against Auburn coughing it
22:38
up And did that game go overtime?
22:40
It was a two point. I think it was 2 point but it
22:42
was hell of a game as we know. Iowa State was up 18 at 1.18.
22:45
Yeah, and then beat Colorado. With Colorado, everybody thought
22:48
they were going to be good and they were just God awful.
22:51
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23:48
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24:03
Right now, Bill Seals is with us, cyclonereport.com.
24:06
Bill, good to speak with you. I know that the tailgate tours
24:10
are ongoing as we speak, but the non conference portion of the
24:16
schedule, men's basketball, was released earlier this morning.
24:19
Just get your thoughts on that. Well, yeah, a lot of the dates
24:23
we already knew and and I think that the Purdue was obviously a
24:28
great addition. They'll travel out to West
24:30
Lafayette this season and then get them back at at home in in
24:35
2026. And also Mississippi State, a
24:38
neutral site game, I think it's designed to kind of complement
24:44
going down from a 20 game to an 18 game Big 12 schedule.
24:48
And gosh, I think that's that's going to be a good thing for
24:52
Iowa State too. And it just the way the non
24:56
conference season looks, December 29th is the finale.
25:00
They'll have Houston Christian and if I recall, I think a
25:04
couple days later, they opened against Colorado in the Big 12
25:09
season just this past year. So that leads me to believe
25:13
they'll open conference seat season play a little bit later
25:17
and then it, it's looking like there's going to be a bye bye
25:20
week in their worked and kind of like what they used to have.
25:23
So I think all, all things considered, it's a great, it's a
25:27
great schedule all around that the Big 12's going to help them
25:30
all. I should mention to the players
25:32
era festival. They'll have three games out in
25:35
Vegas as well. I'm I'm thinking about going out
25:37
there. So I think it's going to be a
25:39
tremendous field and and you want to talk about 3 games that
25:43
will really boost Iowa State's resume in March.
25:46
So that's going to be it out there at the end of November.
25:49
One thing I noticed again this year, the buy games are not just
25:52
buy games. They are the worst of the worst
25:55
fairly Dickinson three O 6 scrambling 319.
25:57
The high watermark out of the seven buy games is Houston
26:00
Christian at 272. But until the net changes, Bill,
26:05
this is the right way to do it. Play these awful teams because a
26:08
buy games kind of a buy game in the grand scheme of things, beat
26:11
them by 40. It's going to help your net
26:13
rating. Yeah, I think they they have
26:16
definitely adjusted accordingly. I think print on on that.
26:19
And you know, Micah, Micah Byers, he's been on the staff
26:23
for several years, goes back a few head coaches.
26:26
He he knows what he's doing and then he and TJ are on the same
26:30
page and and what they want to build out in a schedule.
26:32
So I think great job on on Micah's behalf as well.
26:36
He's kind of an unsung hero, a guy that doesn't get a whole lot
26:40
of. Credit bought TJ Altelberger's
26:42
house originally. I know that because it was right
26:44
across the street from where I live.
26:46
So, yeah, Byers, was he part of Hoiberg staff?
26:50
I know he's with prom. I think he might have been.
26:54
Yeah, I think he was, yeah. I think he was, he's been around
26:58
a while a guy, yeah. Again, I don't think he gets a
27:00
lot of credit. But with the the schedules that
27:04
he's built, it seems like they, they, they take into
27:07
consideration the team they've got coming back and they, they
27:12
schedule out. I think they're they're really
27:14
happy, happy with what guys they've got coming back.
27:17
I think this is a top 15, top 20 type of team.
27:21
We'll, we'll see how these transfers work.
27:23
I think some freshmen are going to come in and contribute.
27:26
So I think they scheduled accordingly here.
27:29
They're going to they're going to get tested early and often
27:32
and we'll see how how things shake out in the Big 12.
27:35
But I I don't like this team's chances.
27:38
I'm with you, so help me out. The exhibitions are going to go
27:41
to Creighton. A week later, Northwestern will
27:43
come to Ames and that is part of the ticket package.
27:46
Does do these exhibitions now, Bill, do they do away with those
27:50
top secret scrimmages that seemingly was all the rage there
27:55
for a couple of for a couple of years?
27:56
I mean that those got to be a thing of the past right now that
28:00
they're playing exhibition games.
28:02
I think the layout of that, the layout of the start of the
28:05
season, it's pretty similar to what they've been playing Now.
28:10
You, you replace the quote UN quote super secret scrimmage
28:14
with a couple of just exhibition games.
28:17
They were I think at like neutral sites.
28:20
I believe both of them before these secret scrimmages kind of
28:23
met at a halfway point, I think. But yeah, with Creighton,
28:28
they'll go out to Omaha and then host Northwestern.
28:31
I think that'll that'll flip the following year.
28:33
So yeah, great opportunity too. And I mean, it adds, you
28:37
mentioned Trent, like those the the Slappy games that they've
28:40
got to boost the net. Well, you're adding a lot of
28:43
value to I think season ticket packages as well.
28:47
The Iowa game at home, that's big certainly.
28:50
But included in that, now you get you get a game against
28:54
Northwestern in your package and exhibition in this season and
28:57
then you get to see Creighton in Ames next season.
29:00
And that's even bigger when you've got to this team goes to
29:04
Iowa City to play. With that, can't we just take
29:08
these exhibition games and just make them real games?
29:11
I mean, we've been begging for decades now to actually get back
29:15
to real home in homes for college basketball.
29:18
Why? Why the exhibition route?
29:19
I understand we've seen it the last couple of years, but
29:22
Arkansas played a big one. You see Kentucky do it a few
29:24
times. Can't we just make these?
29:26
Games Didn't McCollum take his team to Lubbock?
29:28
This this. Yeah, can't we just make these
29:30
regular season games? Drake Team.
29:33
Well, yeah, I, I, I see what you're getting at Trent.
29:38
I, I think that the timing of these October 17th, Creighton,
29:43
the 26th of October, Northwestern and as we've seen
29:47
out of these Iowa State teams, I don't think they're going to be
29:50
clicking on all cylinders. It's still going to be a feeling
29:53
out process. They've got all those transfers
29:56
coming in the freshman. I'm not sure maybe they, they
30:00
want these games to count though.
30:02
I, I think it's exhibition and is going to be the key, the
30:06
keyword there. They're going to try out all
30:08
kinds of rotations. It's going to be a a feeling out
30:11
process. They're going to get a lot of
30:13
guys a lot of minutes. So I think maybe that that that
30:16
in mind that they don't want these to maybe count towards an
30:20
NCAA tournament resume or RPI net, all of that.
30:24
Yeah, I, I think that's probably your spot.
30:26
And there's going to be apparently these are going to be
30:28
televised because. They were last year, yeah, last
30:30
couple of years. Were they does the releases says
30:33
that the television details to come so that's good and the fact
30:36
that right in the middle of Thanksgiving weekend and and
30:39
Trent you probably would know better than Bill Bill if you do
30:42
know I I think Thanksgiving is a pretty good weekend to go to
30:45
Vegas as far as room. Availability, absolutely, yeah.
30:48
Right. I mean, they're, they're the
30:50
the. That might be changing this
30:52
year. Though it might be with this
30:53
tournament going up. We have to see what kind of
30:55
circa, circa sports package we can can work into that deal,
31:00
right? Absolutely this.
31:03
We'll put that on the list and that that that's a good one.
31:06
All right, Bill, so that's that's the basketball.
31:08
Let's get back to football. I know that it's about to
31:10
ratchet up as far as your workload with all of these camps
31:15
etcetera that are coming up. Tell us what's on your docket as
31:17
far as prospective Cyclone football players.
31:22
At least at one point, they're going to be making their way to
31:24
Ames. Yeah.
31:26
Well, First off, not to change the subject, but you know, First
31:30
off is going to be a trip down to Kansas City tomorrow for that
31:33
Nike EYBL. That'll be the most pressing get
31:36
to watch for Iowa State prospects down there.
31:41
That's going to be big. But as far as football goes,
31:44
yeah, that will start to ratchet up.
31:47
The official visits will start. They've got one booked in for
31:50
that last weekend in May. Isaac Jensen, he's going to
31:55
borderline 4 star type of guy. He's a high, real high three
31:59
star on Rivals, about as high as you can go.
32:02
And he'll be in that 30th through June 1st.
32:06
But really, I, I think you look at June 6th through the 8th and
32:10
the 13th through the 15th, That's when this coaching
32:13
staff's going to try and make hay that that first big weekend,
32:17
the 6th through the 8th, They've got a lot of committed guys.
32:20
Typically what the, the approach has been in the past is try to
32:24
get as many of those committed guys in on one weekend and then
32:28
you bring in maybe 5 or 6 of your super high priority guys
32:32
that weekend and, and hope maybe the time around the commits will
32:37
get them to be a part of the fold.
32:38
So that's, I think that's playing out again this season
32:42
and or this year. And they'll bring in a pretty
32:45
good crop of guys about 8:00 or 9:00 on the 13th through the
32:50
15th altteenth. Also some some big guys.
32:53
But yeah, it's, it's going to be a lot of camp coverage as well.
32:58
Those start up. We've got the big man camp.
33:01
The morning is Sunday, June 1st. They'll get that started.
33:04
I'll be up there for that. And then they'll have like a
33:08
Sunday Night Lights camp kind of thing that they'll run later
33:11
that afternoon into the evening. So a lot of coverage coming up
33:15
on the 1st and then they'll have have that coming Tuesday and
33:18
Wednesday that week and then Tuesday, Wednesday the following
33:22
week. So typically a lot of a lot of
33:24
guys coming to Ames and Campbell really likes to recruit that 6
33:28
hour radius. Well, you're going to see a lot
33:31
of I think kids that are kind of in that well already have offers
33:35
or they'll come in and, and extend offers to a lot of kids
33:39
during that week and a half span.
33:41
So lots to lots to come on on cyclonereport.com and during
33:47
typically a slow time of the year with none of no teams
33:50
playing, it's a lot of news. So something that subscribers
33:54
can enjoy. Bill, with so many of those guys
33:56
and kind of that big weekend being early in June, do you
33:59
think that has something to do with the game over in Ireland
34:02
just kind of their calendar pushing everything up?
34:05
Yeah, moving up an extra week and getting it there and how
34:08
different when we get to camp, how different is their camp
34:11
going to look here this summer leading into that game?
34:13
Well, yeah, I think that the weekends in June seem to be
34:17
about the same. They've like to go the first two
34:21
weekends and in June with that, I think Iowa spread spreads them
34:26
out. I think the 20th even might be a
34:28
big the 20th through the 22nd. You'll have to ask your Iowa
34:32
guy. I think that's a big weekend for
34:34
the Hawks that following week. So but yeah, they'll, they'll
34:38
ramp things up by the report date I believe is June 12th, I
34:44
want to say I heard. So they'll ramp, they'll ramp
34:47
things up. And then media days a week
34:49
earlier this year, it's going to be that last, that last Friday
34:54
in the month of July. So really, yeah, from there you,
34:57
you start with media day a week earlier.
34:59
And I think from that point on it everything's about a week
35:03
ahead of time with the trip over to Ireland.
35:06
Fascinating stuff, Bill Seals, appreciate your contribution, as
35:10
we always do. Bill, thank you for doing this
35:14
summer camp for the basketball for the men start middle of
35:17
June. Is that what I saw?
35:18
15th or 16th? Yeah, TJ told us, I believe it
35:22
was the 16th. Told us that at the the the
35:26
tailgate tour stop on Monday. They'll report in on the 16th
35:31
and then I believe summer workouts will start on the 18th.
35:34
And we we all know what that involves.
35:37
So it'll be a ramping up of, of of sorts for those freshmen
35:42
coming in. It's it's going to be an
35:43
adjustment, even the transfers to coming from where they were
35:46
before to Iowa State. And I hope it entails time with
35:49
the media because that was a yeah, they're good about that.
35:52
Yeah, absolutely. I got to tip my cap to them for
35:55
for last year and they dominated the cycle because no one else,
35:58
no football program was talking. Maybe tell him, Will.
36:01
But TJ, well done. TJ Otzelberger and your staff.
36:05
Bill. Thank you, cyclonereport.com for
36:07
Bill cyclonereport.com and we'll speak within next week.
36:10
Thank you, Bill Seals. Appreciate it guys.
36:12
Have a good one. Yep, good to talk to you.
36:14
Bill Seals, we check in on Iowa State.
36:18
If you could have have a free trip to go see the game, K
36:23
State, Iowa State game, would you go?
36:25
You would. I'm not a weirdo that sits in my
36:29
basement. All the time.
36:29
It's just such a long flight, isn't it?
36:31
So I don't know if I could do. It it's a free trip.
36:34
Yeah, I get it if. If you would have said, I don't
36:38
even know what the price point would have been, but a free trip
36:40
to Ireland. I'm Irish.
36:42
Condon is an Irish name, yeah. Maybe visit some relatives.
36:45
Absolutely, they're over there. The Condon's the I believe if my
36:48
4th grade, the background lesson is correct.
36:51
The 1990 second most common is Condon.
36:56
Yes, I would. Do you like Guinness?
36:59
I don't. I like beer.
37:01
I do too, and I'm I'm with you. I'd find some, not Guinness so.
37:06
Black and tan, Have you ever had one of those?
37:08
Gross. You don't like them?
37:09
No. Doesn't do it.
37:11
It was it was better than just the Guinness, although I like
37:14
the I like to watch the Guinness when it's poured properly.
37:17
That looks beautiful. Absolutely right.
37:18
And then when it kind of comes to life and they take that
37:21
little thing over the top of the glass and level it out.
37:26
But black and tans are pretty good.
37:28
I'm not pretty good. They're OK.
37:29
They're OK. Stella's Really.
37:31
Good. That's your favorite?
37:32
That's my go to. Say #1.
37:34
No, it's all that's my only. One that's the only.
37:35
One, when I get to Circa, I walk across the street to get a beer
37:38
to bring back the Circa because there's no more Stella in Circa
37:42
with except the berries on tap. Yeah, bottle's garbage.
37:46
Bottle still is just it's. What a terrible Take a bottle,
37:49
pour it into a. Glass.
37:51
It's it's, it's the stuff that's in the bottle.
37:53
It's not good. It tastes like skunk.
37:55
It's not good. Well then maybe you have a
37:57
problem with your beer if it's that.
37:58
No, no, no. If the difference between the
38:00
two is that bad. Oh, it's it's night and day.
38:02
Out of the tap is best. Out of the can is an inch
38:05
behind, but out of the bottle, No way.
38:07
Not that I wouldn't. No, I'll pass.
38:09
I'd rather go without you. Can give me a Coors Light
38:11
anyway? You're into that, I know you
38:13
are, but you're not into the Guinness.
38:15
I'm a simple man. Yeah, we'll take your time out.
38:17
We'll come back and finish the hour.
38:20
Hour number two. We're going to head to you folks
38:22
listening in the western part of the state over in Sioux City.
38:25
And I met somebody, I forgot to tell you, it's the track that
38:27
listens to the station on the Is it 6/6?
38:31
Something out in Sioux City, 6/26/20 I listen to that one.
38:35
I'm up that way, including I think this weekend might be
38:37
making a trip. I thought that was pretty cool
38:40
that, you know, listening to me, it doesn't do anything for the
38:43
audience, but for you and I. Maybe I should have told you off
38:45
there. Miller and Con did.
38:46
Back to wrap up hour number one, it's the Iowa Sports Radio
38:49
Network. Hi, Miller Condon, welcome back.
38:55
Iowa Sports Radio Network with you here until 2O clock.
38:59
So yesterday NFL lost an owner and by all accounts, I mean, Jim
39:03
Erce had his demons clearly, but very philanthropic and did a lot
39:08
for the community of Indianapolis.
39:11
And boy, everybody that played for him, it's hard to find
39:14
someone, you know, that has that, that did not enjoy.
39:18
I mean, you're gonna get caught. That's part of it, right?
39:21
But by all accounts, Jim Ercey battled his demons, grant them
39:25
that, but and fought him hard. But listening to people that
39:30
were close to him, this is a big loss to them.
39:33
Led his life to the fullest. Yeah, 65 years and got a lot out
39:37
of it. But you're exactly right.
39:38
And that was something that was kind of my take away going
39:41
through and just all the positivity that came and not
39:43
just what he was as an owner and a guy with a lot of money, but
39:46
giving back and building up his community, which I think is
39:49
always an important thing. Yeah, no doubt.
39:51
Did he did get a Super Bowl? Obviously.
39:54
That's my bears. Against your bears, but 65 years
39:57
old apparently died in his sleep yesterday afternoon.
40:00
You never know. Hour 2 is coming up.
40:03
Stephen M Simple kicks it off having spoken with Simp in
40:06
months, so we'll do that. And then we're going to talk to
40:08
Bill Banner, more college sports, we'll mix in a little
40:11
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