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The Purdue Report with Will Retherford, Mike Rich & Grant Shouse (Aug. 8, 2025; Podcast 348.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Why you are listening to now is the central Indian sports report podcast number three hundred and forty eight point one
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  [SPEAKER_02]: The Purdue Report this week with our IU Guy Grant Shouse.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our Pacer's Guide, my Gritch, and Will Ruffford of the Will Ruffford Show.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: We all talk a little Purdue basketball and football filling in for the Purdue Guide that we know that we're going to find pretty soon.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is our first of many Purdue reports coming up
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And the next year, season two of the Centaurina Sports Report gets underway a week from Monday.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: We are making history guys out here at L Wood Golf Course.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our first ever Purdue report.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We still don't have a Purdue guy or...
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  [SPEAKER_02]: gal.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We are looking for a Purdue guide to come and talk about Purdue sports every week.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And this is your invitation to text me at five zero two five three three three one six one and tell me that you are interested in think that you could perform at least as well just the bozos around me.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with our IU guy Grant Shals.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our Pacers guy, Mike Rich who is also a Purdue fan and our Will Rutherford guy from the Will Rutherford show here to talk a little bit of boiler makers.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: First, we're going to talk a little football and when I say a little bit of football, we're going to talk a very little bit of football and then we're going to talk a little bit of Purdue basketball because that's one of my obsessions of sports.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Five, zero, two, five, three, three, three, one, six, one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If you are interested, we will sit down and talk and see if you're the right fit.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome everybody.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: FD, a beautiful LED golf course.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I played here earlier today, played nine on the back nine, and it's beautiful back air.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a whole different course on the back than it is on the front.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So Michelle must just be walking the front along the road.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right guys, let's talk some boiler makers.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So the football team, all I'm going to say is I think they're going to win four games this year.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: The two obvious wins ball state, middle and noise state, and then they're going to win two other games.
• 2:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: Somebody tell me I'm wrong.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you're being generous.
• 2:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that ball state has a really good shot in going in there.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I believe in barrio to my think it's I think he's the right guy.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's I just I don't know.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if they might be once again one of the worst power for team probably the worst power for team in the entire country.
• 3:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they're winning a single big ten game.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're winning some games.
• 3:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I really like Odom.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think like a lot of the talent that he brought in that UNLV team was really good last year and he brought in thirty of those guys or whatever.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not that they're big tin players necessarily, but I would put the over under at three and a half, and I'd take the over.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_04]: They have one of my favorite names in all sports, Nitro Tuggle, on their team now.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: He might be their best player.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_04]: He could be from, he went to Northwood High School up in Napni, Indiana, one of my guys I know coached even basketball, so a little respect for him.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: But actually, I don't hate Lee.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: four win total, four total wins for Purdue this year.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_04]: But I think that I just don't think they'll be able to compete in a lot of those games.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think Ball State could have him.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think Will's got a point.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You guys are out of your mind.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Ball State is not beating them.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: And by the way, I love Ball State.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: But Ball State is definitely going to be better than they have been.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I have obviously a graduate of Ball State doing a master's degree there, but Ball State's not, it was not an awful football team.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they were absolute shootouts and those Matt games.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking at their schedule.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: There's no way in hell.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's a three game stretch Minnesota, North Western and Rutgers, and I think they went to it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: How about that?
• 4:35
  [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I don't think they're better in Minnesota, but this
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  [SPEAKER_03]: they're not beating a single big team not happening the uh... the stretch of u.s.c.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: no-terdam l.n.o.a.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and uh... there's some brutal stretches in there that's if that's not the toughest schedule in the country uh... there aren't really tougher well i mean i guess it's you're looking at
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  [SPEAKER_03]: How good is this Michigan to take the leap, Washington will probably be down.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'd have to look at the other big tin schedules, but this is definitely a tougher bit, probably a top four big tin schedule I would say with what they've got this year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Coach Odom, I'm calling it four wins for you.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: If you win four wins, you see the big tin coach of the year?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: No.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that sounds like you might want to give him the kiss on the lips, though.
• 5:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That is a tough schedule, man.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And again, not expected to be a very good team.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So let's talk about basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: which is one of my passions and is going to be a very good team.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, Mike Rich and I grew up with Troy Lewis.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: The Troy Lewis era, the Glen Robinson era, we've been through the best Purdue era.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: in the program's history, but we're probably actually in the best ever right now.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've been spoiled recently.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And Matt Painter is better than Gene Kady.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I cannot believe I ever thought that we would have a coach better than Gene Kady, much less the guy that I hated in college.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: We talked about last year, there's just those players.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: There's always at least one guy on your team that you're like, why is that guy playing?
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that guy was Matt.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: That was Matt Painter to us, the Purdue fans.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And now he's back.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And he is the best coach in the country.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And they have the best roster in the country.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: And we'll probably go into the season number one for the first time ever, Mike.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty exciting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't expecting him to be first, you know, preseason.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's super exciting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they got some good players returning.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's talk about that.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_04]: My thing is,
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they have all these great players and I'm not saying they're going to be back because I do think they are deserving of number one.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_04]: What I'll be interested to see how are all those guys going to jell together in that system and I think they most I think they will return.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: But a lot of this.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: A lot of one guy that I've heard as real potential is a guy named Omar Mayor.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: I believe his name and they're saying he's the next Braden Smith.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's the braid and smith and training and I saw Matt Painter say today that one guy that's going to have a huge season for them and it's going to play a lot.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's a guy named Jack Banner from Brownstone.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure you do and Jack was a great player in high school.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_04]: I watched that do drop thirty eight in the semi state championship as senior year.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_04]: And he sat out last year as a wretch or not because he was tired.
• 7:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: But if he gets in that guard rotation, he is really, really good because that is a really good guard rotation.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think he could be a right underneath flutter lawyer.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I know, you know, you talk about guys that you see on your own team that people hate, I know people hate flutter lawyer.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: For me as an eye, you guy, you want to hate Purdue, but it's so hard to hate him when they play it, they play the game the right way.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: and they've played the game the right way is compared to Indiana in the last.
• 7:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Decade the braiden Smith is really really easy to dislike if you're if he's not on your team Absolutely, but man, do I love having him on our team?
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: He is the best that was it.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: Well, that was my team Scott Skiles who when I was growing up was the winner You know, he's gonna do anything it takes and that's brave Well, that was the thing with Edie is that like you hate it He like I like I hate it Jackie, but man almost seems unfair when the guy's that good if he is on my team I hate like
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'd advocate like hell for him, you know what I mean?
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_04]: And so people are always going to complain, people are always going to hate.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_04]: And what I've been impressed with about Purdue is that they haven't let that affect them, you know what I mean?
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_04]: They still play the game the right way, they do things the right way.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to have a national championship level team this year.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: We'll see how they do in March.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_04]: But the only other team I think preseason going into the going into the season that could compete with him is Houston.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: And Houston's going to be good because they return a lot from that team that could have won the national championship last season.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: But it took a last second shot for Houston to be Purdue in the tournament this year and Purdue not only returns everybody.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: But also adds two great players.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and it's not like Purdue great players.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's not like he's great.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_04]: Purdue defended that last shot very well.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: They went to sleep.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was horrible.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I was at Mike Rich's house and we cried.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: The back court is just going to be phenomenal for Purdue.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's talk about the mentality of Purdue basketball fans right now because we have a unique situation as fans that
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: For our entire lifetime, they have been a contender to win a national championship.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Fifteen times maybe?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Fifteen times they've been a significant contender at least.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: and never won it all, but we are just two years out from a final four.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Did that final four run take away any of your passion for a Purdue championship?
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, not at all.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: No.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, ah, you know, at least they got to a final four.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a Cubs fan, a Colts fan, and I saw the Cubs win.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen the Colts win.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing for Purdue or the Pacers.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care which one gets it first.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But if there is a year, and since twenty eleven when Robbie Hummel tore his ACL, this is the most confident I've felt in a team.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not last, not twenty twenty four.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Only because you con was there as well, and you kept saying, but you con produced the best team.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: But you con.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: And there might be a butt Houston situation this year.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: It could be or a butt Duke, if or you know, for these other teams, it's going to be butt Purdue.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, let's hope that's right.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: And since we have our IU guy here, and we'll talk about this, Mike.
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: I have three significant sports, sports wishes before I die.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Number one is by far a Pacers Championship.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Number two is a boiler, micro championship.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And number three, I really, really, really want to see IU and Purdue good at the same time and college basketball.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It has literally been nineteen ninety three since both teams were good at the same time.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: that year with trace and I think what you as a one thing like top level good they were both top fifteen teams in the country I mean well how much better do you want to be uh... nineteen eighty eight they were number two and three in the country in the annus they were up in that year
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: They were, they were awfully good at the same time in twenty twenty.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, twenty three times.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've never played each other in the big ten tournament.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's right.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_04]: Like they were, they were both like because in Atlanta was a top five big ten team that year, but I get what you're saying and that you want to see them be in the top five every year.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I want you and Purdue to be the two teams to be in the big
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_04]: I get what you're saying, but they still have been good at the same time.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've been good at the same time.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: You guys won't remember this.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: Remember in nineteen eighty seven and nineteen eighty eight.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: How great were those two years as Purdue and I you fans?
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: How about the NCAA tournament when they played each other in the in the sweet sixteen by the way?
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, they're up.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Purdue won that one in nineteen eighty.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: what i what people and i'm not i'm not saying this i'm saying this is a fact i think some people think this is interesting but they played each other in the in i t championship right in nineteen eighty at Madison square garden and that's just something you don't see it was a nineteen seventy nine seventy nine and the animal in the united
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: NIT that year, and that wasn't like the NIT now, like the NIT now sucks.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: But that was the NIT when it kind of met something.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: The NCAA tournament was premier, but it wasn't as premier as it is now.
• 13:00
  [SPEAKER_04]: So you had the NCAA tournament in the NIT, and so for Purdue and Indiana to be there in a championship game setting was really big at that time.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: But Indiana ended up winning.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: This will probably not be the year, unfortunately.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: You might be pretty good.
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's the best I think you can hope for for I U basketball this year.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: And I think they'll be good too, but I don't know that there on that level is Purdue, man.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: I hate to say it and it kills me to say it, but that Purdue team is pretty damn good.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Last thing I want to say about Purdue football is they will, as always, they will have the coolest uniforms out on the field this year.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: All right, everybody, thanks so much.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And once again, if you're interested in talking Purdue sports and we don't have to have an IU guy fill in and talk Purdue sports.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: Trust me, I don't, I don't know.
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• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And thank you to the Elwood Golf Links for hosting us once again.
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• 14:32
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