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Iowa State over St. John's, NFL Thoughts, Lee Sterling's Weekly Picks & Eliot Clough talks Hawkeyes · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  All right, good afternoon. Welcome, Miller and Condon On a
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  Tuesday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network. Trent Condon and Ken Miller for
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  the next couple of hours to talk sports with you.
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  And thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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  Here's what's coming up on our program, Lee Sterling from
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  paramountsports.com. With the abbreviated week, we're
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  going to try and squeeze as many of our guests as we possibly can
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  into this next couple of days. Today being no different.
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  Lee Sterling will kick things off.
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  He'll join us at 12:30, then off to Iowa City where we'll catch
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  up with Elliott Clough as he takes in some of the press
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  conferences from football press conferences from earlier in the
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  day. Of course, Iowa and Nebraska
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  winner gets Florida, loser gets their vacation bowl, vacation
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  trip to Las Vegas seemingly on the table, but you never know.
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  So we'll talk to Elliott Clef on Iowa coming up here at 12:45.
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  David Kaplan will kick off our number 2.
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  Those bears, they won again. Somehow, some way, they're on
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  top of the division. We'll talk to Cappy about that.
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  They have a date the bears do with the Eagles on Black Friday.
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  Is it Netflix? No, I think it's one of the on
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  the streamer. It's a streaming company.
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  I think Netflix, but could be mistaken, has that one in the
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  middle of the afternoon. Amazon Prime.
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  Amazon Prime middle of the afternoon on Friday.
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  And then our final guest will be Steven M Simple.
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  It covers Nebraska, of course, Nebraska and Iowa on Friday
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  morning at 11:00. And what used to be kind of they
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  had that window to themselves is no longer the case.
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  There's a whole bunch more game, many more games, including the
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  Egg Bowl, which will kick off at the same time.
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  But I want to start with what we saw yesterday in in Las Vegas at
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  the Mandalay Bay. We watched Iowa State and St.
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  John's. That was a hell of a basketball
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  game, Trent. It really did have a, I don't
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  know if it was quite till the level of March, but it had a
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  different feel, certainly in in in a good way.
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  Definitely feels like a decided Iowa State advantage in terms of
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  fan base. Yeah, that's for sure.
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  Cyclone fans showed up, Yep. Johnny fans, not so much.
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  No, no, it. Was a very cardinal and gold
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  clad contingent out there for that one and they needed every
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  single ounce of it, including the play with the balls
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  deflected out of bounds. You got the two Cyclone fans
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  behind the basket pointing, leading to TJ challenging the
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  play. And it worked.
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  I, I, I don't still think it was definitive, though.
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  Was there anything definitive you know?
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  Watching it and listening to the announcers kind of say the exact
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  same thing that you're saying. I didn't think that they were
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  going to change it either, but they did and worked out in Iowa
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  State's favor. And that hasn't already been the
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  case. But it was you're, you're 1000%
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  right. I'm not sure if that influenced
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  DJ or not, but that was a hell of a game.
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  Buchanan in his final 4 1/2, maybe 5 minutes of that game,
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  He's in foul trouble. They thought there's no way in
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  hell he's going to finish the game.
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  He's back out there with four. He picks him up like nobody's
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  business. This has always been at least
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  he's got to Iowa State. He's been his biggest problem.
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  Jefferson is a beast. Manchilovich there it was there
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  it was. You know, he's got it in him.
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  He did. He was unbelievable in that game
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  yesterday. I loved his interview post game
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  where he says that little hook shot or whatever it was that
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  that he made the game-winning show.
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  He's never made one of those his life and he was forthcoming
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  there. But of course, you know, as good
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  as all that it was and it was phenomenal really was it was a
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  hell of a game because edge of four is a phenomenal player.
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  Sellers every time the the Red Storm needed a basket, there he
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  was to make it. The story of the game Stamen
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  Lipsy for me. And sadly, unfortunately, he's
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  down again. Now.
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  He's a game time decision. Game times in an hour, right?
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  Right. We should find out here pretty
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  quickly. Yeah, what this is going to be
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  for him. If it's not out there already,
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  we'll keep searching. The good news is Torre can
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  handle it. He was good, Trent.
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  Yep. You can handle that and what
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  they got out of the bench, it wasn't scoring punch, but I
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  thought all those guys off the bench, every single one of them
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  had a moment. Yeah, Bateman.
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  Yes, absolutely. Bateman did, but played it came
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  in there. He played good defense.
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  He did. How about Heise?
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  He had a couple of monster rebounds, just rebounds when
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  they it wasn't the scoring punch.
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  You're going to have to have Manchelevich again, probably
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  have that kind of performance with no Lipsy out there.
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  This feels like a game, though. You might need Jefferson to go
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  off or like 25 to. 12 and he's capable.
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  Oh, no doubt. He's capable, as many Cyclone
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  fans have said when they realized watching that game
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  yesterday, that whoever wrote the final check to get him back
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  thank you. And that's what they're grateful
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  for as we embark on Thanksgiving weekend.
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  It was a great game because I think Saint John's is a good
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  team. Yes, they are talented team and
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  they will be I think better as they start to come together more
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  and more. A lot of new pieces, new faces
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  there. And it's Patino and it's Patino
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  that that dude can coach. It is official.
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  This is from the Des Moines Register.
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  Tame and Lipsy is out today with that groin injury.
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  It is a different injury than he sustained a year ago.
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  That outcomes from the Des Moines registered text group.
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  Not sure if it was Eugene, he's out there, he's out there, or if
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  it was Travis. But yeah, both those guys doing
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  great work and Eugene on the ground down there in Vegas as we
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  await this one in less than an hour.
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  You know, so when the injury happened, it looked like he
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  collided. His knee collided with one of
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  the Saint John's players. Now I'm starting to think it's
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  groin. Has there been any clarity?
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  Does it say out with what or just?
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  Yeah, with groin injury. It is a groin.
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  Yes, and a different groin injury than he sustained last.
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  Different groin injury well we'll see obviously they played
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  today, they'll play tomorrow. We don't know what time they're
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  going to play tomorrow. We do know that the despite the
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  fact that they knocked off a a Top 14 team and they got a good
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  Creighton team coming up, the likelihood of them playing for a
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  championship Trenton in this format, it's slim to none.
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  But the good news is, is I think that the powers that be have
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  realized we got a Tiger by the tail here that this players are
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  a tournament is a is going to take the play, sadly of a, of a
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  lot of those, you know, Thanksgiving type tournaments.
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  And I mean, it's already expanded to 32.
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  Brett, your mark apparently was on some podcast, some show, I'm
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  not sure which one it was. And he said that they will, they
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  have 8 invites to this tournament next year.
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  And those 8 invites will go based on your standings in
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  conference play. So we'll know in March if Iowa
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  State's going back there to Las Vegas in 2026.
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  Yeah, the so if it is a 32 team endeavour like they're working
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  to do. Yep.
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  You have 8 teams? Yep, you're going to have four
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  separate brackets. Yes, I think that's the way it
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  is. So here's how was it was
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  explained to me second hand. It's going to take place over 2
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  weeks yes. Then the one pod or the two
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  teams, whatever one group or or 16 of the teams would play one
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  week, then the following 16 would play the next week and
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  then a number of those teams would come back for whatever
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  Black Friday what at some point to decide the champion.
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  So. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  So you're going to you got to help me out with this.
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  So you're going to go out to Vegas for two games, not going
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  to play the championship? Nope.
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  Well, that's. It's over 2.
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  I hate this idea again, I I. 16 teams will go the first week
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  just like just play 4 brackets. I'm with you, I'm with you.
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  Good God. Why do they have to know why I
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  think it is difficult. I think I know the answer to
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  this question because as of last night into today, there's a
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  whole bunch of television networks that are competing for
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  this event now they they tru TV and TBS, whoever's got it now.
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  No, they don't have guarantees on ESPN wants it, Fox wants it.
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  There's a whole bunch of entities that want to get
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  involved because look, I, I think that they've proven that
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  this has got a chance to be a major success.
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  So you're going to fly out to Vegas for two games, then you're
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  going to come back out a week later to play a game.
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  You're O and two, we got to fly out to Vegas to play the 17th
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  place game. Well, I don't think it would go
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  that far. Well, you have to though,
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  because you're going to guarantee teams three games.
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  That's why you play an exempt. Have you seen that yet?
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  No, but I don't. Need I'm just living in that's
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  that's the justification. That's why we have these events.
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  These events are they only count against one game on your resume
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  and you're able to play three games about them.
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  You're not going to. See, I don't think honestly.
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  Think I think you want the guaranteed 3 games.
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  I'm with you. But I think that they're doing
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  this. I think they're doing this
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  year's tournament kind of on the fly.
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  Oh, absolutely. I don't think that they, you
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  know, when the planes landed on Sunday, they were certain how
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  this thing is going to work. Oh, by the way, it starts
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  tomorrow, this being yesterday and and Tuesday.
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  So it's it's a work in progress. I think they're making this much
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  more difficult than it needs. And, and maybe they'll come
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  together and get it right because I'm with you there were.
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  Games where there was no fans in the stands.
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  None. Very few.
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  And now you're going to ask fan base to travel for two games.
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  And you know, some of the talking heads in college
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  basketball, like a Mike Decorsi who doesn't want this to succeed
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  for whatever reason. Maybe he's got stock in the
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  Rainbow Classic or whatever it is.
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  I don't know why, but he's Pooh poohing it.
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  He's Pooh poohing this tournament because no one's
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  showing up to what? Well, if it's that big of a
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  deal, look at the stands. How come they're empty?
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  Well, it's Thanksgiving week. It's Monday morning.
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  I, I don't know the answer to that, but turn on your TV and
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  watch the damn game. You tell me you weren't
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  entertained by I was state in Saint John's yesterday.
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  You went. I thought he liked college
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  basketball. If he didn't like that
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  yesterday, he's been lying. That was phenomenal hoops.
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  It was phenomenal Hoops. I think he wasn't talking about
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  just the. Basketball, all he was talking
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  about was the lack of fans and, and, and for that reason, look
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  at his tweet. For that reason, you're trying
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  to tell me this is a big event. It's not.
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  But we see Maui filled up. Well, so why?
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  But we've also seen other quote UN quote big tournaments.
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  That isn't the case. People used to go to Alaska.
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  Yeah, absolutely. They did right and showed up in
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  a big time way for that. I think that there, if that's
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  the thought process, we're gonna go back to this two team pod and
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  we're gonna figure it out. And he got 32 teams.
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  How many of those teams finished two and 8/10/12?
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  15 chance, certainly. So it's a bunch and then you're
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  sorry you're you're relegated to the 7th place game because you
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  didn't win by enough. No, and knock it.
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  Off That's what's going to happen to Iowa State if they be
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  praying today. Yeah, they might not even be in
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  the third place. There's a pretty good chance,
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  like the odds came out going into today, the favourites to
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  win this thing. Gonzaga's 2 to one Iowa State
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  beat #14 Saint John. They're 25 to one, right?
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  Because they know they can't get in.
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  They only won by one. That's not good enough.
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  And even if they win by the Max is 20, that is when it's capped.
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  You mentioned that before we went on the air today.
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  So even that plus 21, I don't know if that's going to be
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  enough to get up. There.
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  So it's a quad one victory. But one victory.
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  That may that may be as big of a incentive as anything.
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  Well, of course, yeah. I mean, you're getting great
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  games out of it, right? But for the players that thought
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  maybe you've got a chance that whatever the money is, sorry,
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  didn't win by enough, it's not a good luck.
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  I think there's more issues with this tournament and I think
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  they're creating more obstacles if they go back.
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  I agree with you. I do think though, that based on
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  what we've seen amongst the level of play in these
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  tournaments, that I would hope that they do whatever it takes
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  to make this thing kind of seamless, run smoothly because
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  this has a chance, I think to be a like we're talking about
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  college basketball and rivalry week of college football.
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  Nothing beats King football. This is this is cutting into it.
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  But if Iowa State wasn't there, would you be?
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  I know I would be because I'm a huge college basketball
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  fairpoint. Because I get excited every year
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  about FEAST. Week I'll give you that point.
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  Fair, fair, because we've got one of no, it's not just an
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  state thing if Iowa. Was there?
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  Sure, but yeah. But yes, it clearly helps that
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  that one of our needle movers is out there and is off to a pretty
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  good start. Fair Fairpoint.
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  I don't want all the tournaments to go away.
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  I don't want it to just be this. Does that mean the other
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  tournaments need to change? Well, they have you know what
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  you know sadly, what changed these things COVID, I mean
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  COVID, COVID changed brought some of these tournaments back
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  onto the quote mainland, right Hawaii.
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  Why would you, if you've got a chance to be 1 of 32 in this and
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  and guarantee $1,000,000 and knowing that the out the outlier
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  when it when it comes to writing that check to to chartering that
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  plane. You can charter a plane to
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  Vegas, you're flying commercial to Hawaii, right?
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  And that adds up. And I don't know the hotel
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  arrangements in Hawaii or here, but it's significantly cheaper,
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  I would assume to go to Vegas for your team as opposed to go
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  to Hawaii, right? I don't know.
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  I just think it's got a great chance.
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  I've enjoyed it. Yes, that's a great point.
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  That's a fairpoint. Am I paying more attention to
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  this because one of our two needle movers is in it?
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  Without a doubt, Yeah, without a doubt.
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  Would I be going out of my weight at at 1:00 here this
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  afternoon to watch? I don't know.
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  Houston Creighton. Houston Creighton or Illinois
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  Creighton or whatever? Probably not, but if it was Iowa
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  and you know, Saint John's or whoever, you know, there's,
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  there's a whole bunch of them I can put in there.
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  But it was fun yesterday, no doubt about that.
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  All right, we're going to be joined by Lee Sterling coming up
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  on the other side. We will get into football with
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  Lee. Look forward to doing that.
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  He's got a 5 pack of games that he will opine on.
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  We'll recap the weekend in the NFL because we really never
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  touched on that yesterday. Spent a lot of time obviously on
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  the on Iowa and Iowa State and their wins over the weekend.
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  So we'll get into a little NFL as the Niners, despite the fact
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  their quarterback Brock Purdy being picked off 3 times in
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  Monday Night Football last night, they were able to prevail
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  and beat Carolina and and Carolina looked their their
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  record said that they were getting back towards a playoff
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  run. But that's there's no way in
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  hell that team's a playoff that that that team is worthy of a
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  playoff. I don't know about the Niners.
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  I think they got a lot of warts and I think they got two teams
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  in their own division that are significantly better than them.
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  Your thoughts on last night? 49ers.
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  Yeah, playoff team, maybe a seven seed.
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  No, that's it. Well, four are taken.
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  One's going to Seattle or Los Angeles, so you're down to 6/7.
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  I Packers who else? Cowboys are starting to move in
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  that direction. Still got a lot of work but I I
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  mean. They're also, what, three games
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  back are they of the 49ers? Yeah, 5, five and one and eight
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  and four. 2 1/2, I guess. 3 in the win column.
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  Yeah, they're a playoff team. They're getting in.
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  They're getting in at 6. 30 is not winning a playoff game
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  playing like he did last night. No, he was bad.
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  He was bad last night. Here's Todd.
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  Todd, welcome to the show. How are you?
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  Dude, how are you guys doing today?
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  What's on your mind, Sir? Well, you know, we're talking
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  about all these preseason tournaments.
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  Did you guys happen to catch or cover at all the NCAA national
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  duels that had the $1,000,000 purse?
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  I did, yeah. So I I did.
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  Ken did not. He's not the wrestling guy.
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  But yes, I absolutely did. Iowa got trounced in the
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  championship by Ohio State and looked awful in the process.
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  But if they can put together for college wrestling, get national
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  duels back, it's been away for a number of years.
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  Getting it back and putting $1,000,000 prize pool for
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  wrestling. I can't Maui, why can't some of
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  the ESPN events at Disney? Why can't the battle for
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  Atlantis and I think because of that the players era is not
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  going to take over. It's just the other tournaments
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  have to evolve to turn into what they're having there.
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  They. Need the money to evolve?
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  Right. But if if wrestling could do it,
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  if wrestling could put together $1,000,000 prize pool, then Maui
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  certainly can with the money that they get from ESPN, That
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  absolutely can happen. I think it kind of goes hand in
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  hand, Todd. I, I will say that it was a
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  private donor that was a, a former NCAA wrestler that put up
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  all the money for it. So, you know, I all the
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  preliminary rounds were covered on flow wrestling.
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  So I'm sure, you know, their subscription shot through the
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  roof and they made a ton of money and then only the finals
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  were televised. I think ESPN needs to do a
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  better job of covering more of this.
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  There was some really special moments, you know, watching the
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  Ferrari brothers, you know, because Nebraska was there
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  watching the older brother sit there in his full Nebraska gear
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  rooting on his brother who's wrestling at Iowa, you know, was
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  just insane to see. I mean, there were so many good
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  images. You and I went down there, I
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  think they came home with 50 grand.
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  You know, Iowa, Iowa came home with over 200 grand because you
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  got you got money for winning around.
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  You got money for having the most takedowns, you know, and I
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  think Ohio State got 250,000 for winning the thing.
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  So the the $1,000,000 got spread out and everybody that went down
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  there got a little bit of money. I think it's only going to get
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  bigger next year. Well, who's going to, who's
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  going to, is the, is the donor going to pony up again next
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  year? Todd, you know.
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  Yeah, he's already. He's already in interviewed.
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  Him, he's already in for a couple more years and you know
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  he's going to keep it in Tulsa. I will tell you I was extremely
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  disappointed about the attendance, you know, and Iowa
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  Duel me had better attendance than that had.
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  Yeah, Where are you, Mike De Corsi?
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  Where are you beefing about that, Todd?
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  Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for the call.
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  I appreciate it. Have a good one.
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  Yeah, you do the same. Good song.
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  I did not know about it. I did not, to be perfectly
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  honest with you, that that Trent was able to take a peek at that
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  because it did not appear on my radar.
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  All right, we'll get a couple more calls in here before we
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  take a break and make way for Lee Sterling from
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  paramountsportsparamountsports.com for Lee Elliot Cleft still to
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  come this hour as well as he will talk about the Hawks.
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  They have a little couple of media availabilities.
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  Let's get Taylor first of all. Hello, Taylor.
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  Welcome to the program. How are you?
• 18:28
  Good, can't complain on this. Dreary day, yeah.
• 18:31
  Well, the sun was a little bit ago anyways.
• 18:33
  Yep, go ahead. San Francisco Not a huge fan,
• 18:37
  but I I like the way the coach coaches.
• 18:41
  I'm a big fan. Played the Rams twice and they
• 18:44
  split. They played Seattle at Seattle
• 18:48
  and beat them and they beat Phoenix both times.
• 18:53
  Arizona. Yep.
• 18:56
  If they, if they split with or if they beat Seattle at home.
• 19:01
  They have a lot of. If if they match, they'll have.
• 19:05
  The. The division, second place.
• 19:09
  So I just, everybody keeps saying it's a long shot, but
• 19:12
  they played it within their division.
• 19:14
  What have they got? And their schedule is not their.
• 19:15
  Schedule is easy. It is easy.
• 19:18
  Yes, very easy. At Browns, home to Titans.
• 19:21
  At Colts, home to Bears at Seahawks.
• 19:24
  Sam Franz getting in. You're right.
• 19:26
  Sam Franz getting in just and. They're not dead for the
• 19:29
  division. Probably not.
• 19:31
  I still think the other two teams are better.
• 19:36
  Who do you trust more, Darnold or Purdy?
• 19:38
  Trent Purdy? You have to pick one.
• 19:40
  Purdy, I don't think it's close. Anything else, Taylor?
• 19:45
  Nope, that's. It thank you.
• 19:46
  Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate the call.
• 19:48
  Yeah, look at you trying to take out the red pen and cross off
• 19:51
  the Niners. Niners are in the play offs, I
• 19:53
  said. Seventh seed.
• 19:54
  They're not dead for the division.
• 19:56
  You would you bet your money on it at the condo, casino or
• 19:59
  anywhere else? What kind of price you get, I'll
• 20:01
  give you 20 to 1. Yes, absolutely, 20 to 1.
• 20:05
  They're not winning the division.
• 20:06
  The Rams are. The Rams are the best team in
• 20:08
  the NFC. They might be.
• 20:10
  Doesn't mean they can't lose. It's the NFL.
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  Hello, Mike, How are you? Let's go to Mike in Waterloo.
• 20:14
  What's up? Hey, what's going on, you guys,
• 20:16
  you know, you know who's going to lead Iowa State and dunk this
• 20:20
  year? This might be a far fetched
• 20:21
  idea. I think that point guard.
• 20:23
  Point guard, Yeah. Don't you think you know?
• 20:28
  He's got some athleticism. Yeah, Last week they said when
• 20:31
  he was in grade school he was 5 foot 5 1/2 and he was dunking
• 20:35
  the basketball. Then I I thought I heard that.
• 20:39
  That's amazing. Is it?
• 20:40
  Is well, I'm not sure I'd go that far to buy that one.
• 20:43
  I don't think Jordan was in that age, but you mean, who knows,
• 20:47
  maybe juries the second coming. Well, you see him take off
• 20:51
  about. From the free field, he's a heck
• 20:52
  of a. Player, he's a.
• 20:53
  Great. He's got a player, they've got a
• 20:55
  player in two. Yeah, my boy just got back from
• 20:58
  North Carolina. He watched two of the North
• 21:00
  Carolina hockey games. So he's been getting, he's about
• 21:04
  hit every arena except for Canada now.
• 21:08
  You mean the Caroline Hurricanes?
• 21:10
  Yeah, he went. To the How about that?
• 21:12
  Good for him, That's a good team.
• 21:15
  What's that? That's a good team.
• 21:16
  That's a good hockey team. Hey, my sister was bragging
• 21:19
  about the Minnesota team because that that Russians really doing
• 21:24
  good up there. Caprisoff is a superstar.
• 21:27
  Yes, he is. Well, have a good Thanksgiving.
• 21:29
  Yeah, you too. MM, good to hear from you.
• 21:31
  Good to hear from you. Yeah, I mean, Tory's a hell of a
• 21:35
  player. Yes, he is.
• 21:36
  He's a hell of a player. And gives them a shot today.
• 21:38
  That point spread. There were some 9 and a halfs in
• 21:40
  the market yesterday. Went to 9 1/2 at one point.
• 21:43
  Well, when it reopened then this morning, yeah, 7 1/2 some
• 21:48
  sevens. It's down to 5 1/2 after.
• 21:50
  There's news now that lifts. It out and again, we tried to
• 21:53
  watch the Creighton Iowa State exhibition game that I'm not
• 21:56
  sure what you can draw for it other than the fact that
• 21:59
  Creighton was seemingly at least in that game.
• 22:04
  Now they looked like they were significantly better than I was
• 22:08
  staying at that point of the season.
• 22:09
  But it's an exhibition game and TJ was, you know, he was trying
• 22:13
  to figure out what he had. I'm sure we'll get a good we'll
• 22:16
  get a good look here coming up in less than an hour as I was
• 22:19
  state and Creighton Kalida strength said that number is now
• 22:21
  down to 5 1/2. Speaking of numbers, we'll get
• 22:24
  to Lee Sterling coming up on the other side, paramountsports.com
• 22:28
  Elliot Cleft still to come Cappy on the bears.
• 22:30
  So what about your bears? What did you want?
• 22:33
  What did you think watching the Steeler game?
• 22:36
  It was who was going to out bear, out stealer each other and
• 22:40
  the Bears were able to do it. There's still those long
• 22:43
  stretches of inconsistency from Caleb.
• 22:45
  You watch a 1/2 quarter to possession, like how's this guy
• 22:48
  going to stick in the league? Then you watch him in the fourth
• 22:51
  quarter, he looks like a different guy.
• 22:54
  He is inconsistent, but he's incredibly talented.
• 22:58
  His team believes the defense stinks, yet they're forcing
• 23:01
  these turnovers. I know.
• 23:02
  Can he sustain that? No, you don't think so.
• 23:04
  I wouldn't think. So.
• 23:05
  But we have so many examples. I love the story.
• 23:07
  It's better for business when the bears are good.
• 23:09
  Absolutely. They keep finding ways.
• 23:13
  The schedule obviously is going to ramp up.
• 23:16
  There's still not a win that you look at and say, oh boy, that's
• 23:19
  a good win. There's still not one.
• 23:21
  OK, is is O'Connell lying about the concussion?
• 23:26
  Yes. And do we do we think we'll see
• 23:28
  McCarthy again this year? Yes.
• 23:31
  You think he does play again? Because Max Brosnor will
• 23:33
  probably stink and then they'll go back to him and give him the
• 23:37
  final five games or whatever it is.
• 23:39
  I think you have to play him if you possibly can.
• 23:42
  You know what, it would have been maybe made more sense
• 23:44
  because we, you know, he needs to get more reps.
• 23:46
  I don't know, maybe play him during the preseason.
• 23:48
  Yeah. Probably wouldn't have been a
• 23:50
  bad idea. Were they hiding that far back
• 23:54
  though? I mean, could that be part of
• 23:55
  it? They knew that this guy's going
• 23:57
  to fall on his face. The numbers we mentioned one of
• 24:01
  them yesterday, they're, they're just damning coming back from
• 24:04
  this. It's a near impossibility.
• 24:07
  And what can you point to to say, yeah, this guy's going to
• 24:10
  figure? There's hope there.
• 24:11
  No, there's no hope. There's no hope there's not when
• 24:14
  I not, but that I have seen. He can't go through his
• 24:16
  progressions. No, absolutely no touch on his
• 24:18
  passes. It is over for JJ McCarthy.
• 24:22
  I hate to say it. It's done.
• 24:27
  I hate to say it. All right, we'll take a time
• 24:29
  out. Lee Sterling next.
• 24:30
  Paramount Sports, Miller and Condon underway into Tuesday.
• 24:33
  Glad you're with us on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 24:39
  Hi, Miller and Condon, welcome back.
• 24:40
  Iowa Sports Radio Network. Still to come this hour, Elliot
• 24:43
  Kleffel, head to iowacityhawkeyeinsider.com.
• 24:46
  Latest on the Hawks as they get set to travel to Nebraska.
• 24:49
  Black Friday at 11:00 kick. You can hear the game down the
• 24:52
  hall on News Radio 1040. WHO?
• 24:56
  If you can't be in front of a television where you can watch
• 25:00
  it, CBS have the game. I believe it's a It is
• 25:02
  absolutely. All right, let's get Lee
• 25:04
  Sterling in here. paramountsports.com.
• 25:06
  Happy Thanksgiving. Lee Sterling, how are you?
• 25:09
  I can't complain except for I was talking to trend off the
• 25:15
  fair. My Twitter got hacked.
• 25:18
  Or should I say hi? To.
• 25:20
  Other than that, yeah, everything's good other than
• 25:22
  that. So real quick on that 'cause I
• 25:24
  know it's happened to a lot of people.
• 25:25
  How long are you without your account?
• 25:28
  Does it vary or did you get yours back right away?
• 25:33
  I could spend 5 days and I've heard you can get it back in a
• 25:36
  day. The common time is usually a
• 25:40
  week to 10 days and I've heard a couple people a week a month to
• 25:44
  a month to to a couple months. So problem is you can't contact
• 25:48
  anyone. You you send emails, you can't
• 25:50
  talk. You can't talk to a live person.
• 25:53
  Brutal, brutal. Well, let's get into what's on
• 25:55
  the slate this week. Let's get to rivalry week and
• 25:58
  some of the games. How about this intriguing 1
• 25:59
  Tennessee, Vanderbilt, An opportunity for Diego and
• 26:03
  company to get to 10 and two on the air.
• 26:05
  Maybe still a path to the College Football Playoff.
• 26:07
  Even a Heisman moment maybe for Diego here. 2 1/2 Tennessee the
• 26:11
  favorite in this one. Oh, if he pulls off the upset
• 26:15
  here, he certainly should be in the top three, no doubt about
• 26:18
  it, because last year they were dominated.
• 26:20
  I mean, wasn't just a score 3623.
• 26:23
  They were at home and they only had 212 total yards, whereas
• 26:27
  Tennessee put up 528 in that game.
• 26:31
  So I think that that Vanderbilt, I don't they're built to play
• 26:36
  this type of game. They like to slow it down.
• 26:38
  There are 126 out of 136 teams as far as to play only 61 plays
• 26:44
  per game. Tennessee likes to go quick, and
• 26:46
  Vanderbilt doesn't have that great depth on the defense.
• 26:50
  Tennessee gets off over 73 plays per game #13 in the country.
• 26:55
  Both teams played super well last week.
• 26:58
  I mean, really well. I mean, Vanderbilt dominated
• 27:01
  from the word go. 43 interceptions from the Kentucky
• 27:05
  quarterback. Tennessee's up 31.
• 27:06
  Nothing at the half here. I'm just not so sure that
• 27:10
  Vanderbilt has closed. Who's the gap enough to win
• 27:14
  here? I'm going to go with Joey
• 27:15
  Swaggilar, Tennessee 3520. Eight.
• 27:18
  I like it. All right, here's the game.
• 27:20
  And it's Ohio State who has not won the game in the last four
• 27:24
  times they've taken the field. They're a big favorite.
• 27:26
  The game is Ann Arbor. I'm anxious to hear your
• 27:29
  thoughts on this one, Lee. All right, one, we can look at
• 27:34
  their games here this week because the home teams are
• 27:40
  playing for for a College Football Playoff.
• 27:42
  But these two teams are, and Michigan is going to have to
• 27:46
  win, win pretty big here to make a case Ohio State could have
• 27:50
  some trouble because Michigan style is one that is fully
• 27:55
  capable of giving Ohio State some problems.
• 27:57
  So Ohio State last year, 2.6 yards per carry allowed.
• 28:01
  This year, the same, although I think they're a little bit
• 28:04
  better. Last year's game, Michigan 42
• 28:06
  rushes for 172 yards over 4 yards to carry.
• 28:10
  Now this year, Justice Haynes, her top running back, is out
• 28:13
  there. Running backs are really banged
• 28:15
  up here, second and third guys, but they will play.
• 28:18
  It looks like Michigan really hasn't faced any great offense.
• 28:21
  There's only one good defense in Oklahoma and lost 2413 on the
• 28:26
  road where they were outstated four O 8 to 288 and they were
• 28:30
  even plus 2IN turnovers. I just think that these three
• 28:33
  receivers, I mean Brent Brandon Ennis, Cornell paid and Jeremiah
• 28:39
  Smith are just too much here. Even their tight end Max fire
• 28:43
  just incredible here. Michigan's past defense only
• 28:46
  ranked 44th and I think they're susceptible to passes down the
• 28:52
  field. I like Ohio State, they pull
• 28:54
  away 3116. Heroes trophy on the line in
• 28:57
  Lincoln, a place where Iowa has a loss since 2011.
• 29:01
  Number is 5 1/2 in the battle that Scott Van Pelt calls corn
• 29:04
  versus crops. Iowa, Nebraska.
• 29:06
  But he got in this one. Hawkeyes lay in five and a half.
• 29:10
  You know what, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a big enough believer
• 29:14
  here in TJ Latif. I mean, he played fine against
• 29:17
  UCLA, but that's a really bad defense here.
• 29:21
  So if you watch, they just can't push the ball down the field.
• 29:24
  If I'm if I'm Iowa, I beg them, beg them to throw the ball deep.
• 29:28
  He'll throw into coverage. Not real accurate throwing the
• 29:31
  ball down the field. And I don't think he's going to
• 29:33
  have time. You can, I think you can blitz
• 29:34
  him to death too. So I just look out for the
• 29:37
  screens here. I think Iowa has it covered.
• 29:39
  I'm going with a Hawk guys here 31 to 17.
• 29:43
  All right, let's go to Thanksgiving.
• 29:44
  It's the midday game where the television networks are already
• 29:48
  forecasting that this will set a record for the highest viewed
• 29:51
  regular season game in history. Why wouldn't?
• 29:54
  It's Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
• 29:55
  It's the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.
• 29:57
  Chiefs who found a way to beat the Colts last week or 3 1/2
• 30:00
  Point Rd. favorite. They did.
• 30:02
  It didn't look good. They kept having to settle for
• 30:05
  field goals and even had to settle for a field goal at the
• 30:08
  end of regulation when they get to the one yard line.
• 30:11
  I mean, bottom line is I think people are starting to figure
• 30:13
  out Kansas City, give their defense credit, make the last
• 30:16
  four or five series on defense. They got a three and out every
• 30:20
  single time. But that was Indianapolis.
• 30:22
  Now they have to play a Dallas team that is on an absolute role
• 30:27
  right now. They have weapons galore.
• 30:30
  And if you're thinking, oh, CD Lamb, well, CD Lamb right now,
• 30:35
  not even the best receiver on the team.
• 30:37
  I mean look at picking George Pickens, 67 catches, 100,054
• 30:44
  yards, 8 touchdowns. They got two number ones.
• 30:48
  Ferguson a tight end, he's tough to guard.
• 30:51
  Williams they got from Denver for some reason Denver let him
• 30:53
  go. 2 years removed from that ACL injury here.
• 30:57
  Dallas. What kind of confidence they
• 30:59
  have after coming back from down 21 to nothing here.
• 31:02
  This line should be close. He'll pick them here.
• 31:04
  Give me the Cowboys. I want them Cowboys.
• 31:07
  Dallas here, 31 to 26. The wrong team is favored
• 31:11
  wrapping. Things up at the Sunday night
• 31:13
  affair. Jaden Daniels is back of
• 31:15
  practice but unlikely to play this week against the Broncos.
• 31:19
  Just short of a touchdown. 6 1/2 The Broncos favored.
• 31:23
  And and you know what, the Broncos just aren't winning by
• 31:26
  enough of a margin. But you're going to go on the
• 31:27
  road. I know the Commanders are beaten
• 31:29
  up. Might get back a couple of their
• 31:32
  receivers here. Look what they've done the last
• 31:34
  couple weeks. This is a team that just
• 31:36
  absolutely can't score. And when you can't score, do you
• 31:40
  want to be laying close to a touchdown or more?
• 31:43
  I don't last three weeks. Well played Houston on the road,
• 31:47
  18 home against Las Vegas, who is dreadful right now.
• 31:53
  There's receivers running wild. They could run the 5th and 6th
• 31:57
  Stringers, guys from the practice squad, other teams and
• 31:59
  get open and they only scored 22 at home against Kansas City.
• 32:04
  Played a little bit better in the fourth quarter.
• 32:05
  So I played that many points on the road here.
• 32:08
  Another wrong team favorite. I'm going to say the Commanders
• 32:11
  will knock off the Broncos here. Good spot for him.
• 32:15
  Commanders 24230. Yo-yo, yo-yo, I'm a Broncos
• 32:20
  family. I didn't like to hear that.
• 32:21
  I know, I know. Your game of the week and it
• 32:25
  involves Iowa State. They're on the road.
• 32:27
  Oklahoma State yet to win a conference game again this year.
• 32:31
  If the audience wants more information on your game of the
• 32:33
  week, Iowa State at Oklahoma State, what should they do?
• 32:36
  Lee Sterling. Just call right now.
• 32:39
  First five callers, I'm gonna give this game for free.
• 32:42
  Think there's a clear right side of this game?
• 32:44
  Is it going to be a blowout or maybe an upset or at least
• 32:49
  close? And Oklahoma State covers like
• 32:51
  the last couple weeks. 1st 10 callers, 800-400-9741 Get Iowa
• 32:57
  State and Oklahoma State on me, 800-400-9741.
• 33:01
  And this weekend is it shoot out 15 games from Thanksgiving Day
• 33:10
  all the way through Sunday. So if you're headed out, you
• 33:13
  want to get the games now ready to go.
• 33:16
  You put all back Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 15 games, just
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• 33:31
  All you need to do is go to the website paramountsports.com.
• 33:34
  We'll say this Turkey student, we've had some 13 and 2:12 and
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• 33:43
  Happy Thanksgiving, Lee. You too guys.
• 33:46
  Take care. Thank you, Lee Sterling,
• 33:48
  paramountsports.com. All right, there you have it.
• 33:50
  Let's get a break. We'll head to Iowa City when we
• 33:52
  come back. Elliot Cleft joins Miller and
• 33:54
  Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 34:07
  Hi, Miller Conven, Welcome back. Iowa Sports Radio Network coming
• 34:10
  up in the second hour of our program.
• 34:12
  David Kaplan will join us. KAPI, I'll join us.
• 34:15
  Kick off the hour. And then Stephen M Simple covers
• 34:18
  Nebraska, Elliott Clef covers Iowa, hawkeyeinsider.com and he
• 34:22
  joins the program. Good to speak with you, Elliott.
• 34:25
  How are you? Happy Thanksgiving.
• 34:27
  Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving, guys. Good.
• 34:29
  I'm hanging in there before quite a bit of travel this
• 34:32
  weekend and yeah, doing doing the job and then heading to the
• 34:36
  Quad Cities and then Ida Grove and then Lincoln and Council
• 34:39
  Bluffs for a prep red zone event and then back Cedar Rapids.
• 34:42
  So quite a weekend ahead. A lot of windshield time, no
• 34:46
  doubt about it. You know, I thought that I
• 34:49
  didn't hear the whole press conference, postgame press
• 34:51
  conference. I heard obviously Kirk
• 34:53
  recognizing Michael Oz, which wasn't a surprise.
• 34:55
  Knowing Kirk, he's classy dude and not surprised that he, you
• 34:59
  know, called out one of the old timers on the beat that
• 35:02
  unfortunately is going to lose gig.
• 35:04
  So, but that aside, I thought your question about the 2002
• 35:08
  Purdue Iowa game certainly drew some laughs in the room and and
• 35:13
  caused the head coach to have a chuckle in his own right.
• 35:15
  Why don't you reset that scene if you would.
• 35:17
  I thought that was really good. Sure.
• 35:20
  So throughout the the whole game, and you guys might have
• 35:23
  seen some of my tweets or something in a story, but that
• 35:26
  game felt like 2023 Iowa in the worst way without elite punning.
• 35:31
  And I had mentioned that to David Eichel, who was sitting
• 35:35
  next to me on Twitter, all that. But Kirk had said that Raymond
• 35:40
  Braithwaite mentioned it on the sideline and said, man, that
• 35:43
  felt like 2002. I, I just popped it up by
• 35:47
  saying, you know, I know you mentioned 2002.
• 35:50
  I was 6 at the time. So I, I would say it reminded me
• 35:53
  of 2023. What do you think about that?
• 35:55
  That was pretty much that. And Kirk.
• 35:58
  Kirk always appreciates being reminded how old he.
• 36:01
  You know what he's got, though. He's got a remarkable memory.
• 36:03
  It just, it never ceases to amaze me, his recall of games,
• 36:07
  of circumstances. I'm sure he doesn't get them all
• 36:10
  right and something might slip by him, but boy, not very many,
• 36:13
  Elliot. No, no, he'll, I, I mean, we
• 36:17
  have, we have basically a running bit within the media
• 36:21
  that there's at least one or two 1980s references per Kirk
• 36:25
  Ference press conference. So yeah, his, his recall, he's
• 36:28
  clearly been working on it for a while.
• 36:30
  He, he remembers stuff like that just about every week.
• 36:34
  So yeah, that's that's his shtick for sure.
• 36:37
  Quick turn around, obviously with the Black Friday game.
• 36:39
  Iowa has been normally pretty good in these spots
• 36:42
  historically, not just against the press.
• 36:45
  Yeah, Haven't lost in Lincoln since 2011.
• 36:48
  I mean, they kind of have this down.
• 36:50
  I think it shows you a lot about Kirk.
• 36:53
  Same thing this week for you guys.
• 36:54
  Everything the same. Everything going to be the same
• 36:56
  inside the locker room and and coming on the heels of, I think
• 36:59
  overall a disappointing effort against Michigan State.
• 37:02
  You think we're going to see a different team out there on
• 37:04
  Friday? That's a good.
• 37:07
  Question, you know, from everything that I've learned in,
• 37:10
  you know, the short amount of time about Nebraska is that they
• 37:13
  don't have a particularly good run defense.
• 37:16
  Obviously JT Latif is or is it TJ Latif, their quarterback?
• 37:21
  Yeah, is in a different sort of situation and in that he's young
• 37:26
  and taking over for Dylan Rayola.
• 37:27
  But yeah, you know, I'm not sure.
• 37:30
  This game is always weird, right?
• 37:32
  I mean, something happened, something's weird, somebody
• 37:35
  forces a turnover, somebody can't score.
• 37:38
  It's really cold. There's a possibility of snow
• 37:40
  this weekend. And so I size 40% on the Apple
• 37:45
  with weather app. So that might not be fully
• 37:47
  accurate and we're obviously a few days out, but I mean,
• 37:50
  there's always something crazy that happens in this game.
• 37:53
  Do I, do I think that we'll see a different team?
• 37:57
  That's that's there's a few days different ways to take that, I
• 38:01
  suppose. I don't think that effort will
• 38:04
  be in question. Obviously it's going to be
• 38:07
  different because this game is just intense in terms of the
• 38:10
  rivalry. So I, I, I would say the game
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  might be different. Do we see a different team?
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  I I don't know about that. Yeah, look, you're right.
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  They, Nebraska's got they still. And we've been talking to Simple
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  for years about this. When they first came into the
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  Big 10, Simple's main concern was, are they ready for the
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  physicality in the trenches, both lines?
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  Is Nebraska prepared for that? And to this day, I don't think
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  that they've caught up. They've got a really good
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  running back. I'm sure you've seen Emma
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  Johnson. You've seen, you know what he's
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  done this year? Latif's first game was OK
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  against the, you know, mediocre UCLA team and then Penn State
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  exposed them. But as you said, Elliott and
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  Trent said repeatedly throw, this is a field goal game every
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  time, every, every time. This game comes down to A to a
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  field goal. So we shall see when the depth
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  chart came out yesterday, Elliott, anything that caught
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  your attention that was different that that maybe you
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  weren't expecting? Maybe not that I wasn't
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  expecting, but not seeing TJ Hall again on there was probably
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  a little concerning. Obviously, again, Latif not the
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  greatest passer in the world, but I would love to pronounce
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  the Michigan State's last name. The quarterback's last name.
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  It was, I don't even say it, but he wasn't known to be this great
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  passer either, and he looked pretty damn good against the
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  Hawkeyes and certain certain plays.
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  So that's something that definitely caught my eye.
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  We'll ask about Kirk about that. We got the presser actually
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  moved up to 130. So it's a good thing we're
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  talking at 12:45 here. But we'll we'll we'll see on on
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  that. Obviously Hayden large not on
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  the depth chart as well. So we'll see.
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  You know, and I don't know that that Hayden will have, you know,
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  a massive impact on the game. He is a walk on tight end, of
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  course, but he did jump into that starting lineup, especially
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  without the Addison Ospranga for the majority of the season.
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  So he's kind of your energy guy too, right?
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  I mean we've seen the videos of him hyping up the team before
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  the the game and and he's a pretty good blocker for the most
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  part and he's got a few passes this year.
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  So those are the two things that that stood out the most.
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  Other than that, you know, 5 running backs on the depth chart
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  again, which that that happened a little while ago.
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  All offensive lineman. The starters are available, it
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  seems. So that's good.
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  Obviously none of them went out last week against Michigan
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  State, but they've all a lot of them have been dealing with
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  injuries throughout the year. So availability that's that's.
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  That's the number one thing. Quick hit tonight men's
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  basketball team their first major test against Old Miss
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  about 20 seconds left with you. Elliot Quick thought on that
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  one. It'll be interesting.
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  I mean I think you got 2 certified basketball psychos and
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  Ben McCullum and Chris Beard. It'll be the first Test of the
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  season for the Hawks against, you know, they they played
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  Xavier, of course, a power forward or excuse me, a high
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  major team, but Ole Miss, there's some talent there.
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  Kez a GIF a guy that I will want it out of the portal at least
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  for a brief time. And and now he's with the
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  rebels. So yeah, interesting game
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  tonight. Elliot Cliff hawkeyeinsider.com
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  Elliot, the drive safe throughout your journey and we
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  will talk to you next week. Thanks for jumping on Elliot.
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  Appreciate it. Yep.
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  Thanks guys. Good.
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  To talk to you, hawkeyeinsider.com for Elliot
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  Cleft as we talk Hawkeyes, our number 2, we'll head to Chicago
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  with Kathy and then we'll Criss cross, go back to Nebraska,
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  catch up with Simple Miller and Condon.
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