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Weekend Recap, Alec Busse talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome to Miller and Condon,
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the Iowa Sports Radio Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller at
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it until 2:00 here this afternoon.
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That time we'll turn things over the drive to drive 2 to 5.
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Heather and Lucas take you home overtime, Iowa.
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After that, five until 6. Trenton, I've got this lined up
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throughout our program. At the bottom of our number one
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till 12:30. We will talk to Alec Bussey
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Cyclone News I will get the latest on what's going on at
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Iowa State will pick his brain on college football from Big 12
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perspective as I get the sense that the war drums are sounding
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more about that coming up here in the next few minutes.
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In the second hour of the show, Matt Snyder CBSSports.com will
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join us is our in our his normal spot.
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We begin our week, our second hour, with a baseball
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conversation with our friend Matt Snyder from CBSSports.com
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and then Scott Dockerman from The Athletic.
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And Doc will be all over this these meetings going on in
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Destin as well as he wrote a piece today speculating the
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first three weeks of the television schedule when it
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comes to college football. I like that article better
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because that's a fun article as opposed to what we're reading
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about the SEC and the Big 10 getting set to flex their
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muscles. So we'll get into that.
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Caitlin Clark is going to miss some time.
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We'll talk about that for a couple of moments.
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What that means is the CBS has scheduled a nationally televised
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game a week from Saturday night and she will not participate.
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Some of those folks that believe it's about the league and not
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about her. Here's your opportunity to prove
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us wrong and you and I don't think that is going to happen
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anyways. TC good to see you good long
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weekend. How are you I'm.
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Doing well yeah back at it and are rolling into a new week
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excited to talk a little sports not so excited to talk about
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those Timberwolves last night they won every.
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Category on the scores you accept the one that matters.
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And the better team still won. They had an answer every single
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time. And I was more impressed walking
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away from that than anything. But a lot going on.
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Of course, baseball we kind of hit at that first checkpoint.
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We'll be digging into that a little bit.
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How about? Scuba the other day.
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Yes, my gosh. And that Tigers team, the way
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that they have figured it out and pulling Baez off the scrap
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heap and turn him into the center fielder that he has and
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it's just not that. He got tossed.
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Was it yesterday or the day before he got tossed.
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It was a bad strike three call being missed by 6 inches, maybe
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more than that and he was just at the end of his rope.
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Can't wait till the robo up. Screw it up and you'll be
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yelling about them maybe. Maybe I will.
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Yes you will. That would That was an egregious
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one, but he got his money's worth on his way out anyways.
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And football. Can you hear it?
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Yeah, it's getting close, isn't it?
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Well, I was working through a few things last week and I put
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together my preliminary high school schedule.
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Oh, you did. Or 2025, Yeah.
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So that that made it. Feel.
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Where are you going to be opening week?
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Ankeny, Ankeny. That's not Week 10.
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It's not, no. And that was something that was
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different this year, I believe. Let me pull it up here.
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And when's Valley Dowling? That is not week Week 1.
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It is. So Ankeny and Centennial, I want
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to say play like Week 4, something like that.
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Waukee against Waukee. Northwest is also later in the
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season. So moving them around a little
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bit with the new districts and the new look at things, which is
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OK. Yeah, I'm with you.
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I'm with you. You know, for a long time we
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had, it was Week 2 where we had all these rivalry games.
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Well, I can only be at one place now.
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It's great for football. Friday night here on KX and O
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that that was a great thing. But yeah, trying to be a bunch
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of different places, a little bit difficult when you're doing
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play by play. But yeah, we're starting to to
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feel it a little bit. Magazines are out.
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Athlon comes out with their fun article every year.
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The coach is talking about the other coaches and he tried to
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figure out where it comes from. And then we realized, well, it's
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not head coaches, right? These are assistant coaches and
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how much? What's the?
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Word. Put your name to it.
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Nobody's going to. I understand, but then I
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understand. I'm just not as excited to click
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on it if it's just anonymous. But you're right.
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Nobody's going to do it. That's.
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True, I understand, but it's just I guess it whets the
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appetite will be to teach their own.
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I like Doc's piece today in the In the Athletic where he
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speculated the TV assignment. Something that's not true,
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that's not true, it's not real. Right.
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But it's teach their own, right? It's something.
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It is, it is something. So let's get what I think I
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think is the biggest story currently going on and that's
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Greg Sankey and the SEC are starting to, and I really do, I
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believe they're pounding the war Trump's.
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We are getting close to, I don't want to say Armageddon because I
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believe that the SEC in the Big 10 to an extent need the ACC in
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the Big 12. They need the power for us, I
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believe. That why?
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Because they're going to need more inventory.
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I think you're just not going to want to play those two
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conferences. Now, I'll say this about those
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two conferences that I think that they need, to an extent, go
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sit in the corner, speak when spoken to.
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We're going to decide like it or leave it.
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And that's the way it's going to be.
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And that's the way it seems like Sankey is saying.
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Because I don't think that I hate when the government gets
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involved and this is just fresh take, but I don't I, I think
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that there will be some insertion of some of some
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political persuasion that that does not let it totally come
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apart that the ACC and the Big 12 will survive for the time
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being in a limited role. But then when we get to a point
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where Florida State can leave and.
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Maybe. Clemson can leave and it's not
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such a punitive punishment to leave.
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Now, whether that's 2030, then I think all bets are off.
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But I think for the time being, it's going to be Sankey and it
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it's going to be the Big 10. And they're going to say here's
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the way it's going, here's what we're going to get and we'd like
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you to come along, but here's what we're going to give you.
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Like you're leaving. I like this part of it from Greg
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Sankey because we continue to hear this rallying cry, right?
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Well, what's what about the good of the game?
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You hear from ACC people, we hear from Big 12 people, the
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good of the game. Greg Sankey's done a lot for the
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good of the game. Greg Sankey has done things they
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didn't need to do. Including expand for four teams.
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Going from 4:00 to 12:00, that is not something in the grand
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scheme of things that actually worked out for them with the
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conference champions getting the automatic bid one for the Group
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of five, that is something that did not suddenly change the lot
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in life for the SEC. In fact, maybe it made it worse
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for them. Then you look at the 16 team
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model and it's the same kind of thing.
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All right, We're getting 4 automatic bids.
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If you just went at large with 16, we have 7 teams, 8 teams, a
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lot of years, maybe even more than that.
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If you just went strictly without any automatic bids, just
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take the top 16 teams. So I can understand from his
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perspective enough. You want to put out press
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releases, You want to talk behind our back, You want to
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speak to these hushed tones about the good of the game.
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This is good again. And they don't need you in the
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grand scheme of things. They don't need the ACC with
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their veiled attempts in the Big 12.
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They just don't. And we can hate it and we do,
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obviously from our perspective in the state native Iowa, but
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that is the reality it. Is you're 100%?
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Right, they can go off and do their own thing.
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Take the Big 10 with them and they will be completely fine.
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As it pertains to football, other sports, well, we know
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other sports outside of men's basketball doesn't make money.
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Iowa women's basketball sold out their building for a full
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season. 2 Didn't they? And lost money.
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They lost money in a year where they sold every ticket
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available. That shows you what makes money.
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It's football. That's all this conversation is.
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Wine, complain, bitch about it, but this is the reality.
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And if the SEC and Greg Seinke want to take their ball and go,
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they absolutely. Can and the Big 10 will join
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them absolutely, you know, and they should look at the
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difference in the in the revenue at this point.
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It's just going to get, it's just going to, the gap is just
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going to widen in the years to come.
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So look, and you're 100% right and you're a big 10 fan, you're
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for school in the big 10, but you hate it because of the fact
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where we live, it's not good for the sport.
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It's not. But this is the way it's going.
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And I, I mean, I just hate I, I don't want to wish my life away,
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but I kind of want to, you know, Fast forward in 5-6 years.
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What, where's it at? What's called the sports look
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like, you know, oh, it's bananas.
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It truly is. Consolidation is not a great
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thing for anybody. No, it's not what you want to
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see, but it is the reality of the situation.
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Look at. The packed wolf ask them how
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they like. It yes.
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And there's a great example of the changing environment that is
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upon us. And if you're the ACC and the
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Big 12 and you got this from Sankey, is it time to back down
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now? Yes, say yes, you're right.
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We'll take our two and we're going to shut up about it.
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Absolutely, because this is good.
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Is that 2 only? That's the other part.
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You could still get a 13, even a fourteen in a year.
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Those things still can happen with three at larges that are
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still out there after all the bids are handed out, there's
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still 3 opportunities to get in there.
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There's a chance for three, even four teams to get in from the
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Big 12 from the ACC. Notre Dame has a bunch of of
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down years. Yes, absolutely.
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There's another spot that opens up.
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Those are things that obviously in the grand scheme of things,
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you look at that and say, all right, this is going to be OK.
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You have that gap. You can try to do whatever it
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is, but it is so significant with the SEC, the Big 10 and
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everybody else. You just have to find a way to
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be able to compete in your league because bids are still
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available in your league. 100 percent, 100%.
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Do you know what? Your mark, you got a pretty good
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basketball conference. Maybe that's something?
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Continue to lean into that. Absolutely.
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And he's been that's been kind of his rallying cry since he got
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the job that he thinks that they're leaving money on the
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table. The Big 12 is by not packaging
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their conference, their college basketball, men's college
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basketball separately. So anyways, we'll watch it.
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It's a big story. Sankey continues.
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And I know he's not thought of very glowing terms by fans of,
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you know, teams in those two conferences.
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But at at this point, you're almost you're almost forced to
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open up and swallow hard because that's what you're going to get.
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Take it or leave it. Like, like it or lump it.
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So we'll see where it goes. Anyways, basketball from over
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the weekend, it was really good. It really was.
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I think the these conference finals have been I, I think
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pretty entertaining. Indiana had a hugely just gave
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that away. Credit to the Knicks.
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Credit to the Knicks for making this a series.
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I hope the T Wolves can win tomorrow night.
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Do I expect them to? Not really.
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I don't. It does bother me.
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And then we, this has kind of been a theme of our show the
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last few weeks. The SGA, yeah, you know, the,
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the, the everybody else on the floor is just kicking the ever
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loving crap out of each other. But if you kind of brush up
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against SGA when there goes the whistle and he's marching to the
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free throw and he's a hell of a player.
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Yeah, he's a. Great player, hell of a player.
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But he's a Canadian cheater. I thought you Canadians were
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above this. Can you talk to your?
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Canadians a lot to claim them. It drives me nuts.
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They're with you, you know he doesn't have to.
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Do this I I understand this is part of the fan perspective and
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and that's I know a piece of it when I just get it's irritating
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to watch so many different parts of it yes, my fandom is a part
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of it and I get that, but taking that away, we were talking about
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this last series We were talking about this the series before
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against the Nuggets that's. And probably would have all
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season long if we watched the Thunder.
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Absolutely. He is such a talented player.
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He can get to a spot whenever he wants.
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He can get to the rim. He's not a great shooter.
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But then you couple it with an 85% free throw shooter and you
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get that and you get so many calls and.
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So many times Williams. He just falls over and there's
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the whistle. But you said, I think the most
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pertinent point about this, that game last night was physical.
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Everywhere except for him. Except for him.
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Yep, Chad Holm can get in the crap beat of it.
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Williams. These are two good players.
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You know what? It's kind of been exposed and I
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hate it because I really like the guy and I want him to be the
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face of the NBA because I like Ant a lot.
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The face of the league doesn't take two shots in the first
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half. Two shots. 13 in a game that you
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have to win at home. Right to even it up.
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I know that they were incredibly physical with.
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The defense was unbelievable. And that's this Thunder team.
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That was the calling cord coming in.
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I mean, Lou Dort is as good an on ball defender as you're going
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to find in the league. We talked about Caruso, what he
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is, and then just the mob of guys that they bring in.
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Ken Rich Williams, Remember him from TCU?
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No, I don't. I mean, I know he went there,
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but I don't remember much about him.
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I mean. Long arms.
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It just they got so many of these guys that just throw
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Wallace. They're probably going to trade
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Lou Dort and then Wallace is going to come in.
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He's going to be that guy next year.
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This team is incredibly deep, physical and when they're
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allowed to play that way, it's not going to get shots.
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Sure seems like they're destined that there's going to be a
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parade. Yeah, it sure seems like it.
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Updated numbers I saw this morning take a stab them to win
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the NBA Finals. Oh, there, how much money did
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you have to lay? You got to lay. 280.
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More. Really. 360 more?
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Wow. 4 to 1 is what I saw this morning -400 currently at circa
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-460 Holy geez is the number you could get the next at 12 to one,
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Pacers plus 640 and the Timberwolves 40 to 1.
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Now, that 40 to 1 number is better than another shop that I
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saw that was 25 to 1. Because you look at this is the
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math we talked about from time to time for people that are new.
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We talked about rolling over bets.
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This would be you take the Timberwolves, they have to win
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three in a row. So this is very simple.
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So say you're a $20 player, you put 20 bucks down on it.
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You're going to put 20 bucks on them at 25 to 1 to win the whole
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thing. Let's just take a flyer or you
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take that $25, you get them in game five at 3:00 to 1:00.
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Then you take those winnings along with your initial $20 you
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rolled over in game six. You do the same thing in Game 7
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and then you can just take a serious price with all that
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money you've built. You're going to get paid a lot
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more than 25 to 1 if you do it in that fashion.
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That's the way that. You roll 40 to one, but 25 to 1
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you would. Yeah, Look, I don't give them
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much of a chance. I don't.
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I think they've probably played the last game in the Twin Cities
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this year. It sure seems like that the fans
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will be going crazy at OK at at where do they play?
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What's the name of the building in Oklahoma State, do you know?
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The old corral. The old corral.
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The old corral it is. The the Thunder shoot.
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The Thunderdome. Thunderdome.
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There you go. Whatever it's called.
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What I just I'm going. To guess it's named after a
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company. You think now I get a kick every
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time there was jerseys. I I like the color scheme.
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I like the blue and the orange. I do too, but that stupid Lowe's
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logo on there. Lowe's the truck stop or loves,
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Loves. That's what it loves.
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It's the truck stop there's. One in Altoona.
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Loves. Yes there is.
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It just looks so odd with that colour combination of that
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bright whatever colour that it is that they play.
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I'm trying to figure. Out who's got?
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The Paycom Centre. That's what it's called.
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Who's got milk on their jerseys that's still alive?
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There's a team still playing that has milk.
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Milk. Yeah, I can see the I can.
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It's just the word milk. Somebody's got milk.
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Somebody's got. Milk still alive.
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Still alive. NBANHL Team.
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I'm not seeing any milk that it went.
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No, no, no, no. There's one out there.
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OK, There's one out there. Please be on out there.
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Is it it's going to be something that smoke goes to milk?
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Is it like got milk like the old milk milk?
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Is is it the Lakers? They're not alive.
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They're not alive. Anyway, I don't know what it is.
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Help us out it tweet us what's what's our at Miller and Condon.
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Somebody'd got milk. No, not a big deal.
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The other series tonight, the Knicks, as we mentioned, that
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was a huge comeback for the Knicks as they fell behind 20.
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It looked like it was over that they were going to get swept.
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But to their credit, to the to the Knicks credit and to one
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player in particular, too much cat, too much Karl Anthony
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Towns. My God, he was good down the
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stretch. Karl Anthony Towns just would
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not not let that team. I know it's cliche, but it's
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true in this case that whether he was rebounding the ball,
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whether he was scoring the ball, he was, he was the best player
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on the floor at the end, at the end to to prevail that game, to
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make this at least a series game 4 tonight in Indianapolis.
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Let's get Joe in here. He is the Thunder fan.
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Good to hear from you, Joe. You're on your way.
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You're up three one and seemingly headed to a parade.
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How are you? Well, we've been up three one in
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this position before, so let's not talk about it yet.
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Against the Warriors. Yeah, against the Warriors,
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yeah, they're that those of their 74 win season, whatever it
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was. But First off, the funniest is
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Lakers is wish their advertisement is.
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Wish, wish. OK.
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All right. You know the old joke got it
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off, wish I'm not. Honestly, last night's game from
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top to bottom is probably the best game of the series.
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I mean, yeah, you can't touch glass, man.
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I get it. And you know, you talk about Lou
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Dort. Lou Dort was undrafted and we
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got to do something. We've got six first round draft
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picks coming up from the STA trade.
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So I don't The thing is like, I don't know what this team needs
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to do or what they. Need to do.
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I think they'll make trades just to make trades.
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I mean, I hated to see. I hated to see him trade.
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Giddy got Caruso. Caruso.
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Was was a. Part of the Thunder organization
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and you know, you talk about an Ant, Ants great, but he's got to
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get off the snide a lot earlier than one minute. 11 first, I
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mean this team like they split this, they split this season.
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Now granted, either team was at full health when they split.
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Right. But something's got to
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something's got to help Minnesota out, and it's got to
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start with him. You got to get a bucket before
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one minute left in the first. Yeah, you're 1000% right Joe.
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Congrats to your squad being up long.
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Lots to do, lots to play for yet.
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But I got a feeling we'll be hearing a lot more from you Joe.
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Your team seems to be destined. Don't jinx again you.
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Know congratulations, Joe. See you, Joe Champions.
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Good to hear from you, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Thank you to Drew and to Benny. OK, so I was looking at NBA
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ones. No, it's the Toronto Maple.
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Leafs. But I got the list here of
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current jersey sponsors for the whole NBA and I'm like oh man,
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no, no. Did the old man have another
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one? No, no, no.
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No, it's it's the Toronto. It's the Toronto Maple.
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Yeah. So now that.
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It's when they're wearing their way, it's in blue.
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When it's the blue home sweaters, it's in white.
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It's the Toronto Maple Leafs. Good, good.
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Yeah, good. Because I didn't want the old
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man to be having a spell. But.
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But anyways, when it comes to the NHL, well, well done.
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Hurricanes, I guess, avoided the sweep there.
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You're not going to get past Florida.
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Florida's going to represent the East and probably clinch that
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thing. Who knows, maybe as early as
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tomorrow. I hope it's not not the case
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because then it would be I think it's 9 if they if the series
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ends tomorrow. Florida has nine days off.
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'Cause they, they've locked it in.
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They've locked it in, yeah. They've locked it in.
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Is that a bad thing in hockey? Yes, it depends on who you ask.
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It's good that you can get maybe some of your guys back.
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That would be obviously a positive.
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If you're playing well. Do you want to, do you want to
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take a you want to go on a break at that point?
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Probably not, I wouldn't think. It depends on who you ask.
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All right, let's get one more call in here then.
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I want to talk about Caitlin Clark for a moment.
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Jack is with Miller and Condon. Hi, Jack.
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Hey boys, how are you? Hey, listen, if you don't like
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SGA, you couldn't have liked James Harden either.
20:06
I hated him. That's what he played like,
20:08
yeah. Oh, it's just God awful watching
20:11
guys. I mean, I, I'm sure him for the
20:13
Wolves, but I probably got to side with you, Kenny.
20:18
They ain't going to play too many more games up there in
20:20
Minneapolis. Hate to say, Jack, Hey guys,
20:22
keep. Keep up the good work.
20:23
You're the only reason why I'm still listening boys.
20:25
Have a great week. Thank you.
20:27
Jack, appreciate you listening. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's not fun
20:31
to watch. And he's a phenomenal player and
20:33
he's on a phenomenal team. They're great.
20:34
Yep. It's a great team, but Ant you
20:36
need to get. You need to insert yourself and
20:40
take over these games the final. Play the official.
20:46
The officials put .3 on the clock.
20:48
Yep. OK, you can get a shot off.
20:50
Right. Yep, just.
20:51
Just. But I mean, it's got to be a
20:53
flick. Of risk, right, Right.
20:55
Why wasn't a .6? I don't know.
20:58
It was out of bounds that fan grabbed the ball.
21:01
I don't know what the official rule is, but how did it come up
21:03
with .3? Either?
21:05
Your timing was correct and it should have been .1.
21:07
That's what it was at first. And Chris Finch, I, I don't
21:13
understand the play call there. Well, I don't understand why
21:15
he's not playing Terence Shannon.
21:17
Until what game? Till they got back to the Twin
21:19
Cities, he's been good. I She was three there for the
21:24
win and that lob it up to they got big guys too and he saw
21:29
underneath. They're trying to just clear out
21:30
space for Rudy to go up and tap it in.
21:33
If there was .1, well, that's your only recourse.
21:35
You have to do that. You have to do it.
21:36
But there was .3 you can technically get a shot off and
21:40
he got a pretty group of pretty good shooters.
21:43
Well. Yeah, I mean, David Chancel was
21:45
on fire from behind the arc last.
21:46
Night. Well, and that's to me, this
21:49
showed so much about the Thunder, the response every
21:52
single time, because every time, Trent, there were those moments
21:54
where they're. Going to get this and then it's
21:56
back to seven and then it's down to 2 and it's back to five.
21:59
But you have a game where you mentioned D Vincenzo outstanding
22:02
Alexander Walker. Terrific.
22:04
Nazreed and as he mentioned, Terry.
22:07
Julius Randall, feel free to show up.
22:09
Mcdaniel's had 22. You get that kind of performance
22:12
with met many guys and you can't win at home, right?
22:15
It's over. Randall and Edwards, what did
22:17
they have in the 1st 24 minutes? Not much, not much.
22:22
I mean, and I think it was one for two.
22:24
Maybe they had five points. Just you need more.
22:27
These are your guys are real quick on the Caitlin Clark
22:29
thing. You know what, I feel bad for
22:30
Trent as much as anything I feel bad for like it happens in every
22:34
sport, right? It's not just little girls, it's
22:37
dads and it's moms and it's dads and it's you got want to see
22:41
Michael Jordan back in the day and something happens to Michael
22:43
Jordan or you or and now it's load management.
22:46
Back then it wasn't you were legitimately hurt and Caitlin
22:49
Clark is legitimately hurt. But all of these families that
22:52
have, you know, scraped their their money together to take
22:56
their daughter or their young children to see their hero.
23:00
Or just go themselves. Or go themselves that feel worse
23:03
for the kids, right. But it's just it's going to
23:07
happen as part of sports and it was going to happen at some
23:10
point in her career. I'm dying to see what these
23:13
ratings are like a week from Saturday.
23:15
It's it's it's Chicago. It's Angel Reese versus Caitlin
23:19
Clark. Except Caitlin Clark's not going
23:21
to be there. OK, Angel.
23:23
Now it's up to you to hold that on and to bring those millions
23:27
of people that would have watched that game on a Saturday
23:30
night not on the ION network, not on the NBATV, not on local
23:34
TV, on CBS national TV. Did you see what kind of number
23:40
they got on Saturday afternoon? I did not.
23:42
I watched the game. Yeah, yeah, outstanding.
23:44
It really was great third quarter.
23:46
Boy, they guarded her. Liberty are really good.
23:48
Liberty are really. Good.
23:50
They got a ton of different ways to get the FIFA were there.
23:53
Yeah, the Fever were there. And came back from big deficits.
23:56
And you shot saw that gap is closed.
23:58
For sure. There's still a gap, Yep, the
24:00
Liberty are still the gold standard, but that gap has
24:03
certainly closed. And that final play.
24:07
Yeah, yeah. We never got a great.
24:09
Angle either No, I don't think she was filed.
24:11
I don't think so. I don't think she was filed,
24:12
yeah. But she this was the same entry
24:15
she had that she sat in the preseason.
24:17
Preseason, you're 100% right. Should she have played in Iowa
24:19
City? I mean, if we want to get out
24:22
the tinfoil hats, I mean, they're handy.
24:24
I got them in the closet here. I never even thought of the
24:28
answer. Should she?
24:29
Maybe she, I mean, she played 20 minutes, 22 minutes, didn't
24:32
play, didn't play much. I think she played 22 minutes.
24:34
Rest and recovery as opposed to playing at an exhibition game.
24:38
I wonder, you know, what else? I think it's kind of unfortunate
24:43
that that that her franchise, the Fever are going to find out
24:48
that maybe they wouldn't be Fever fans if it wasn't for 22O.
24:51
Absolutely right. Oh, we're more than Caitlin
24:54
Clark. We love the whole team.
24:56
OK, here's your chance to prove it.
24:58
We'll see. But I do feel bad for the for
25:00
the families that we're going to and it's not I think there's
25:03
only two or three, three maybe at tops that they're going she's
25:07
going to miss on the road, assuming she's able to come back
25:11
at the earliest, which is 2 weeks apparently anyways.
25:14
All right, we'll take a time out.
25:16
The bonus Bucks contest is over. It'll come back at some point,
25:19
but it is over for the time being.
25:22
So we'll head to break. We'll come back.
25:23
Alec Bussy will join us. We'll pick Bussy's brain on what
25:26
he thinks is happening when it comes to the Big 10, the SEC and
25:30
what what does this mean for the Big 12?
25:33
He's got some good pieces out as well, as he always does at
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How are you good? Guy, thanks for having me on.
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Appreciate, appreciate it as always and looking forward to a
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fun conversation after a good long weekend.
26:31
Yeah, it really was. They all are.
26:34
Could be 4 days but can have everything.
26:37
Hey, the Big 12 basketball wise, I guess I want to start there.
26:40
Got keeps getting better water deeper.
26:42
BJ Haggerty, he's not going to K stand.
26:45
I'm not sure with Tang they're ever going to reach that level
26:48
that I thought they were headed towards a couple of years.
26:51
Maybe elite 8? I know but but haven't got back
26:54
there since then. But use and back to Houston.
26:58
That reverberates to me because Houston is is if they're not on
27:02
top, Texas Tech is there with them.
27:04
BYU is making some noise. Obviously, TJ squad, this, this
27:09
conference, it's not going to be any any worse this year, this
27:14
coming year than it was this past year.
27:16
It's just so deep, is it not? No, it's going to be really
27:20
good. And obviously you mentioned
27:21
Milos Usan coming back to Houston.
27:23
That's one of the big draft day announcements that's come out
27:26
here in relation to college basketball with players like
27:30
Usan, Yaxel, London Borg, you know, Alex Condon at Florida,
27:34
both announcing that they're coming back.
27:35
The three of them are to their respective programs and Usan to
27:39
me is probably the biggest headliner of them, especially
27:42
for Big 12 kind of news cycles. I think Usain's return probably
27:45
cements Houston as a preseason's top three team in the country,
27:48
even though his return does lead to Pop Isaac's leaving Houston's
27:52
roster and then eventually signing with Texas A&M here this
27:55
morning. But Houston now has two All Big
27:59
12 players returning with Usain and JoJo Tuggler in the front
28:02
court. They also return Emmanuel Sharp,
28:04
who was their best shooter a year ago on the wing even though
28:08
he struggled in the national championship game over the last
28:10
five minutes in particular. To me, Houston is probably the
28:13
best team that they 12 on paper because they also bring in the
28:16
number one recruiting class, which includes 3 top 20 national
28:19
recruits headlined by Chris Phanek junior.
28:22
He's a front court contributor. We'll give them some depth along
28:26
with Toddler. We know how tough Houston always
28:28
is. We know how good their defense
28:29
is going to be. And now Usain is the head of the
28:32
snake for a Kelvin Samson program that in my opinion has
28:35
been one of the best in college basketball over the last seven
28:38
years. And you got a factor in BYU,
28:40
their top talent with Rob Wright from Baylor.
28:44
You have to think about Richie Saunders coming back as an All
28:46
Big 12 first team or AJ Debansa comes in as a #2 or #3 overall
28:50
prospect in the country and according to 24/7 Sports, you
28:54
mentioned Texas Tech, JT Topic comes back as the reigning Big
28:57
12 player of the year. Christian Anderson greatly
29:00
exceeded expectations as a freshman.
29:02
He was awesome for them a year ago.
29:04
They do lose Darion Williams to NC State via the transfer
29:07
portal. He's also coming back to school
29:09
after withdrawing from the NBA draft.
29:11
But to bring in with John Watts junior, he's a transfer from
29:14
Washington State who gives them some depth and some ability on
29:17
the wing or at the four. Then you mentioned Iowa State.
29:20
They also return a couple of the 12 players and Tayman Livesey
29:24
and and Joshua Jefferson. Kansas, they miss out on Darian
29:28
Williams, they miss out on Dame SAR.
29:30
But right now I think that they probably look like the top 25
29:33
team here again, as always in the preseason, Darren Peterson
29:36
being the potential number one draft pick in 2026.
29:40
Lori Vedunga comes back, Melvin Council Junior transfers in from
29:43
Saint Bonaventure I believe, and they also bring in Jaden Dawson
29:47
from Loyola Chicago. So K you had some inspiring
29:50
pieces as well. They just need one more star to
29:52
really kind of round it out and the team, I didn't mention
29:54
Arizona, I think it's going to be really good as well.
29:56
They bring in Gina Bradley returns at guard, they bring in
30:00
Coy Pete Bradenberry's 2 five star freshman who I think will
30:04
contribute well along with Henry Basar.
30:07
He transfers to North Carolina, but they bring back.
30:10
Monte has Crevas to start at the five after he missed much of
30:13
last season because of injury. So it's deep at the top, it's
30:15
talented at the top, much like we thought at this point a year
30:18
ago. You wrote a week ago about the
30:21
schedule non conference that was released by Iowa State.
30:24
But also in there something that I forgot.
30:25
It happened during the Big 12 tournament, the announcement
30:28
that they were going from 20 back to 18 games.
30:31
Now for us to just love watching basketball, that's not a great
30:33
thing. But we see what happened to this
30:35
non conference scheduling going to Purdue, getting a neutral
30:38
site against Mississippi State, 20 games slight not sure if
30:41
those games or certainly both of them would have happened.
30:44
Are your thoughts though in the Big 12 as a whole making that
30:47
step back and and with all the travel in this conference again,
30:51
would like to see more games. Completely understand it though
30:53
with all the travel that's happening.
30:56
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm frustrated and disappointed that
30:59
they're going back to an 18 game league schedule.
31:01
The ACC is also doing it. I think the SEC also plays 18
31:05
games the the Big East. They don't play 20 games either,
31:09
I don't believe. I think they played.
31:10
They do, I guess. I think another Big 10.
31:14
They obviously play 20, so the big time kind of an exclusive at
31:17
20 now potentially. They used to, I'd have to double
31:19
check on how many they play. But the Big 12 going back to 18,
31:22
I think it's disappointing just from a conference perspective.
31:26
They said in March that it was a decision kind of made in terms
31:29
of competitiveness. The trying to find a buy type of
31:32
week in the schedule wasn't possible.
31:35
Playing 20 games post Christmas. I think that's one of the
31:38
reasons why you see the Big 10 play those two games in early
31:41
December or late November that a lot of fans have become
31:44
accustomed to. The Big 12 wasn't going to do
31:47
that. They decide not to do that for
31:49
this upcoming season, so they go back to 18 games.
31:52
I think it's frustrating, but I respect TJ Alsenberger and I
31:54
certainly respect his staff for not replacing those games with
31:59
SWAC opponents or MIAC opponents or some team that they're going
32:03
to bring into Hilton Coliseum and blast by 45 points.
32:06
To me, they kind of replace them with, you know, a marquee Rd.
32:10
game at Purdue. That's a home and home Purdue
32:13
will come to Hilton Coliseum and 2627.
32:15
You also get a high major opponent in Mississippi State.
32:19
They've been in the NCA tournament the last three years
32:22
as an 8 or 9 seed roughly in South Dakota.
32:25
You kind of replaced those two games that you lost in my
32:28
opinion. So I commend I would say for
32:30
doing that. And I think it's something that
32:32
the league, when they announced they were going back to an 18
32:35
game league schedule, they said it's important for us to play
32:39
games against marquee opponents in the non con.
32:41
And I'm happy to see that Iowa State has held up their end of
32:44
the bargain. Now I need to kind of look and
32:45
see how the rest of the league is doing it because obviously
32:49
two seasons ago, three seasons ago, the whole gaming the net
32:53
discussion became quite popular in the Big 12.
32:56
That's for sure. And I even like the fact that
32:57
they're holding those exhibitions and they're against
33:00
great and they're against Northwestern.
33:01
I know they don't mean anything, but it's better than playing
33:03
athletes in action. You know, you at least you get a
33:06
little something from it. So I, I applaud them for that.
33:09
I enjoyed your piece about the five most important games,
33:11
football games of the upcoming 2025 season.
33:16
I think they jump off the page. I, I, I can't find fault in
33:19
anyone that you've selected. They're, they're all meaningful
33:23
in their own right. And specifically, I think I mean
33:26
this I, I don't think we can underestimate how, just how
33:31
important this K state game is in Ireland week 0 on August
33:37
23rd. And the fact you absolutely have
33:39
to be ready to play, if not your best football as as well as you
33:44
can. And we've seen Iowa State
33:45
struggle early in in previous years, get gotten a little
33:48
better the last couple years. But man, oh man, the importance
33:51
of getting off on the right foot against K state in a league
33:54
that's going to have seemingly as much parity as it did last
33:58
year. They've got to win this one.
34:01
Yeah, I think it's paramount and I think the impact of the
34:03
Sidehawk game grows depending on the results of the game against
34:07
K State either way. Because if you win, you should
34:10
have an opportunity to get to 3 and O and that's obviously
34:14
something that they would be accomplishing for back-to-back
34:16
years. And that's a big deal.
34:18
If you lose, you're potentially staring down the barrel of a one
34:22
and two or an O and three start, depending on the result of the
34:26
South Dakota game at Jack Trice, which I would say should be
34:29
fully expected to win. But I think that the case a game
34:33
is immensely important because not only if you lose, not only
34:37
if you win it or you want to know on the season or if you
34:39
lose it, are you all in one on the season.
34:42
But you're also in that spot in the Big 12 standings against
34:44
another team that you think is going to be at the top of the
34:47
league and has enough pedigree to kind of assume that they'll
34:50
be there. Considering Chris Kleinman has
34:52
won eight games in every year that he's been at K State except
34:55
the COVID year in 2020. So if you lose, you're already a
34:59
game back in the Big 12 race. And I think that this Big 12
35:02
schedule for Iowa State projects to be more difficult.
35:05
So stacking wins early in the league I think is really
35:08
valuable for them because in late October, early November,
35:12
you get games against quality opponents like BYU and Arizona
35:16
State, back-to-back games at Jack Tri Stadium.
35:19
You get KU around that time of the year as well, and they lost
35:22
three straight to Kansas dating back to 2022.
35:25
You have to go on the road to Colorado this year as well.
35:28
And I think Colorado is a big mystery.
35:30
But I do think that you look at the way they built their roster
35:33
this upcoming year, just about 20 incoming transfers, including
35:36
quarterback Kitten Salter from Liberty.
35:39
I don't think that they're going to be a laughing stock.
35:41
Like I think that they should be a pretty respectable opponent at
35:46
the very least. So I think all of those factors
35:48
contribute to the K state game being increasingly important.
35:52
And if you want to make a run back to Arlington and play for
35:55
third Big 12 championship under Matt Campbell, you probably need
35:59
to beat some of the other teams at the top of the league, or at
36:01
least teams that we think are going to be there.
36:03
And certainly K State, Arizona State and BYU are all in that
36:07
group and all three of them are mentioned and the story along
36:09
with along with Iowa. Ted mentioned slow starts and
36:14
last year obviously was not the case as they raced out to six
36:16
and O got Iowa and and got off to that good start.
36:20
Do they think they found found something something that works
36:22
early in the season? Because as paramount as it was a
36:25
year ago, it goes up a degree this year with what they have
36:27
with that K State game. Do you think they they figured
36:30
out maybe what they needed to change to play better early in
36:33
the year? Yeah.
36:35
I mean, I, I think it's something that you would
36:37
certainly want to hope that they they start well again this
36:41
upcoming year. The schedule is certainly more
36:43
difficult at the beginning of the season than it was a year
36:45
ago because you also have the road game at Arkansas State and
36:48
playing AG5 school on the road is never fun.
36:51
I would also say that I think it's important for them to start
36:54
fast just because you have new pieces at various positions.
36:59
You got a couple new starters on the offensive line, you've got a
37:01
couple of starters in the secondary and on the defensive
37:03
line and obviously at wide receiver as well.
37:06
In terms of finding the secret for it, I think one year, one
37:09
thing they did last year in training camp and throughout the
37:11
offseason was really physical practices.
37:14
I know that's something that they've done in the past, but it
37:16
seems like they ramped it up a bit a year ago.
37:19
I think it's something they were comfortable doing a year ago
37:20
because they had so much returning production and they
37:22
knew what they had from those guys.
37:25
So if they could challenge them a little bit more, I think this
37:28
year you're going to see them continue to practice hard.
37:31
And it's something that I think that they made a priority of
37:35
doing in the spring that Campbell has talked about that.
37:37
I think you want to see that carry over to the training,
37:39
training camp months in late July and and throughout August
37:43
as they prepare to play K State in Dublin.
37:45
But after that it's it's continuing to sustained
37:48
certainly from a health perspective and obviously from a
37:50
production standpoint early in the year to to play at a high
37:53
level. Seconds left.
37:56
The Iowa State announced their additions to the roster, one
37:59
that didn't make the list that you followed up on.
38:02
Tamatoa McDonough, transfer from Yale.
38:04
Defensive. An edge rusher, which they
38:06
certainly need. What are the chances that he's a
38:08
factor? 20 seconds Tamatoa McDonough
38:11
from Yale. Yeah, he's my favorite edge
38:14
rusher that they brought in this year. 6 1/2 stacks last year at
38:17
Yale. He factors in along with Canon
38:19
Butler and Von Trey Malone as address transfers.
38:23
I like McDonough, the Melt 2's most productive a year ago.
38:25
Good stuff, Alec Bussey, cyclonealert.com,
38:28
cyclonealert.com. Appreciate you joining us.
38:30
We'll talk to you next Monday. Thanks bud.
38:33
Thanks guys. Looking forward to it.
38:34
Have a great. Day you too Alec Bussey as we
38:35
take a look at I was stating the Big 12 time out come back finish
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Matt Snyder A lot of baseball talk to get to with Matt Snyder
38:53
at some point we've got to look back at just how bad we are with
38:56
making our picks. Oh no, I look forward to that
38:58
already. Blue Jays win the World Series.
39:00
Oh. Yeah, that's I don't think.
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That's going to happen. So will this factor in?
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I'm anxious to see this once we get to your plays of the day,
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Big. Basically a coin flip.
39:42
Yeah, point spread shouldn't matter.
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But Cat was unbelievable down the stretch.
39:46
The other night he can't do that twice.
39:48
No. Well, no, he can't.
39:51
We've seen enough cat. What they did the other night,
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he was unbelievable, unstoppable.
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40:07
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