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Iowa loses Running Back Coach Omar Young as Todd Brommelkamp Joins Trent, Matt Postins talks Big 12 Hoops & Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 welcome back. It's Miller and Condon on the
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network flagship right here in Des
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  Moines, One O 6.3 KX&O along with our affiliates across the
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  state, Sioux City, IA City, Cedar Rapids and the Quad
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  Cities. Glad to have you aboard with us
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  here today as we talk the world of sports.
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  Ken away for his final two days of his two week vacation, but
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  joining me today as he did last Thursday, he is Todd
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  Brommelkamp, as he says on his screen.
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  Here's he's broadcasting from the Eastern Iowa studios over
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  there at his house in Cedar Rapids.
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  Still not Ken Miller, but he is Todd Bromlichamp and we're happy
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  to have him. Todd, we are underway period #2
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  in the Olympic hockey. I'm sucked in.
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  No, not really. What?
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  I don't have it on here. Can I get a score update?
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  No score, No scores still all right.
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  Now I I took a peek at the money line there during the commercial
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  break. As you can imagine, plus 290 on
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  the Canadians. I know the US has been a lot
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  better. I've made Dumber bets.
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  Don't do it. Don't do it.
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  Don't do it. What do I, like USUS, will win
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  that game eventually. Don't do it, OK?
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  Don't do it all right? I know this is radio.
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  People can't see him. His eyes are lit up like a kid
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  in a candy store right now. I'm going to take your advice
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  and I'm going to stay off the apple.
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  Let's get into a couple of news items from the last 24 hours,
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  starting with something that just broke right as we were
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  exiting the area yesterday as Iowa is in the market for a new
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  running back coach once again after the departure, a season to
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  go, Liddell Betts moving on to the NFL.
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  Now, Omar Young, after one year on the job, he's off the NFL
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  also kinda. He's going to the Las Vegas
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  Raiders and he's going to be working for Clint Kubiak out
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  there. Omar Young.
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  It was so interesting because there was the quote that came
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  out from down to Tampa that we heard from Kumari Moulton.
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  And I know at times and Todd, as you know, in this business,
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  sometimes you you got to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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  But the quote that he had coming out and saying doesn't have the
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  same kind of connection. Just hearing from Bolton, it
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  sounded off. This is not conspiracy trend
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  here. This is not anything like that.
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  However, you do wonder, talking to some people that I know over
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  there, he coached differently certainly than Liddell Betts and
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  that's no knock. It's just different guys,
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  different personalities. But it does leave you wondering
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  a little bit because it's not very often that we see a one and
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  done scenario going to work for Kirk Ference.
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  Yeah, and I don't know Omar Young at all, but whoever's
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  giving him career advice, leaving for a job with the Las
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  Vegas Raiders is is not exactly something that I would would
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  have jumped at. But yeah, you know, you look at
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  at Liddell Bats who played for Kirk Ference early on when it
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  was really tough to be a Hawkeye football player and the the
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  bond, the connection there. You know, he understands that I
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  we talked too much in this business about the culture at
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  places and, and the history and all of that stuff.
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  But, you know, Liddell Betts embodied everything about being
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  an Iowa Hawkeye. And, and Omar Young was a guy
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  that, that didn't have a ton of connections to the program and,
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  and seemed to be just, you know, filling a role.
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  And so I, I don't know what to think here.
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  I, you know, like you after one year, was it a bad fit?
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  You know, you, you're going to have to work really hard to sell
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  me on someone dreaming about or wanting to go work for the
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  Raiders. So, you know, to me, the more
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  interesting thing is the amount of staff turnover that Kirk has
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  had the last couple years. You know, it.
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  I just think, you know, the longer the Kirk is around and
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  the, the retirement is looming, I just you, you don't have that
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  continuity that he had for the first, you know, 1520 years when
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  he was on the job. And, and the last thing you want
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  to do is start having a revolving door at different
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  positions. And you know, you know, go from
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  hearing from one coach one year to to a guy for, you know, the
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  some guys there will be on their third running back coach in
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  three years. It's it's not a recipe for
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  success long term. You know, a name that was
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  brought up right away and there was a couple of ones that I
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  found interesting that have Iowa connections and normally kind of
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  where these conversations starts as they go out there.
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  The first, though, maybe is the easiest.
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  And that's just Jason Manson, who was up and interviewed for
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  that running back job a year ago, former Hawkeye quarterback
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  and wide receiver. He's been around the program now
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  for what, the last 15 years? He was working in kind of the,
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  oh, the role What what did they call that role where you work
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  with the players and an informal basis?
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  It's more being that mentor type.
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  That was the role that he initially had with Iowa Player
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  development, I think is what it's called.
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  Then he moved up last year. He moved into an offensive role,
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  though not as a full time coach in that kind of role.
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  That'd be the easiest one with Jason Manson coupled with, of
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  course, his son Julian getting ready to begin his career.
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  So that would be probably the one that, at least on the
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  surface, would make the most sense and the easiest one if
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  you're looking to make a higher quickly, though we know Kirk
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  Ferris does not make hires quickly.
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  No, he does not he and, and nor should he.
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  I think it's important to be thorough and, and turn over
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  every rock. And, you know, he's got so many
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  connections. I'm sure there's a coach or two
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  out there that would be a great fit.
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  You know, I, I do think there's something to be said about
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  keeping guys or bringing guys in on board that, that no one
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  understand the program. And, and Jason Manson going back
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  to the days when he was at Iowa as a backup quarterback, you
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  know, he's a great dude. And I think he would be a, a
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  great, you know, addition as far as a promotion to the staff.
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  But I, I think, you know, the number one thing you want to
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  look for is fit. And, and maybe Omar Young just
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  at the end of the day wasn't a fit.
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  But like you said, you take somebody who says coaching is a
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  little different or, or something.
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  It doesn't take too much in this business to to take that nothing
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  burger and and run with it. There was one other name that is
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  out there and Todd, I get a kick out of it every single time.
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  I mean, there's a coaching opening and right away if it's
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  basketball, it's BJ Armstrong, right?
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  I mean, that comes up every single time.
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  It doesn't matter what the sport is, though, right away you go to
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  former players and I chuckle and I roll my eyes and let that guy
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  is not going to get the job. I I saw Akron Wadley.
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  We know he's not going to get the job in the Iowa football
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  department. But there is a former running
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  back that I said looking through his resume a little bit.
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  Speaking of good dudes, Albert Young, I think that would make a
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  ton of sense. And I had a couple of my friends
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  that were friends with Albert back at Iowa, had nothing but
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  great things to say about him as a person.
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  He was with the Washington Commander Commanders a couple of
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  years ago with the coaching fellowship program that they
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  had. They're working with their
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  running back. So he's got a connection back to
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  the league. I don't know if he has any want
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  to get back and and to get into collegiate coaching, but that
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  was when the former names come up.
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  It's good for a chuckle and that's usually it.
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  But Albert Young, at the least on the surface, didn't make a
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  little bit of sense. I, I thought for sure you were
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  going to say Marcus Schnorr there.
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  I would have lost that bet. Shout out to my buddy Marcus,
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  fellow Central Sabre Owen DeWitt.
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  He's been coaching. I believe in Solan.
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  His son's a heck of a football player.
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  But Albert would be a good addition.
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  I, I think it's fans lose sight of the fact that there's a huge
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  commitment to being a college coach.
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  Like it's not just as easy as being there on Sundays and at
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  practice. You've got to be on the road
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  recruiting and you know, it's about finding the right guy and,
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  and the family life balance and all of that stuff.
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  Coaching is not cut out for everybody and everybody's not
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  cut out for coaching. So, you know, we went through
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  that with, you know, Marv Cook, his name always comes up when
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  you know, for for how many years, you know, it was talk of
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  Marv Cook joining the state. His heart was never he never
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  wanted to be a college coach. You know, he he did what he did
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  at Regina and got to coach his kids.
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  And there's a huge commitment to being a college coach, even even
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  as an assistant. So, but I think Albert would he
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  would check a lot of boxes, you know, and and certainly tickle
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  that nostalgia funny bone as well.
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  Which we got with Liddell Betts and that obviously worked out
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  incredibly well. That running backroom, the
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  really tight over there and they got guys coming back.
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  I mean, you talk about the depth that they have at that position.
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  This is going to be one that I'm sure a lot of people are going
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  to look around and say you're looking for a good job and maybe
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  even somebody that wants to use it as a springboard.
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  That's a pretty good spot to go with the running backroom.
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  We're going to the transfer portal, getting Phillips out of
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  there from South Dakota after nearly 2000 yards.
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  McNeil back, we saw glimpses certainly at him this season.
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  Xavier Williams, same guy, saw glimpses out of him.
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  And then at the front of it with Kamari Bolton.
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  And if he can maybe add that extra gear, the running back
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  spot looks to be pretty good for next season.
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  And yes, they're going to need a coach, but maybe a different
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  kind of coach than what would they had here from Omar Young.
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  Well, we get a little football talk, which is always great to
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  talk about. Todd.
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  Let's get in to again some of the other talk that is out
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  there. It is state wrestling week and
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  for you guys over on the east side of the state now, you've
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  had some things recently. Volleyballs moved over to
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  Coralville. We've seen that the girls state
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  wrestling tournament, very successful.
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  Baseball was there a couple of years ago and that's going to be
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  coming back. Volleyball used to be in Cedar
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  Rapids. So you know about state
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  tournaments, but state wrestling is a different animal.
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  I grew up in a wrestling's town. I grew up in Osage.
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  Wrestling is a number one there. That's what it was all about.
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  And I had to be a wrestler, even though I was awful at it because
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  everybody has to be a wrestler when he grew up in a town like
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  that. State wrestling, though, for you
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  as somebody that has never lived in central Iowa, were you one of
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  those towns that you got state wrestling off?
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  That was our spring break. Every year we got Thursday and
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  Friday off of school for state wrestling.
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  No, I, I don't recall that, but you know, it's always, you get
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  the, the full truck in the local newspaper, the pictures of the
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  wrestlers that are going off the state.
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  And I I think, you know, it's a it's got to be a bucket list
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  item for sports fans in the state, even if you're not a huge
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  wrestling fan, to go to the state wrestling tournament now
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  it's different now that it's not at the barn, you know, at vets,
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  that was a completely different experience.
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  But it's still, you know, at the heart and soul of this state.
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  You know, this is a state that takes its wrestling really
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  seriously. And yeah, it's just one of those
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  things you kind of got to do just to experience it.
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  But no, I, I don't, I don't recall getting out of school for
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  state wrestling, but. We had things like we said.
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  Geography may have played into played a role in that more than
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  anything. We would have these two days off
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  of school. Sometimes we had one of them was
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  a snow day though, so if we had to make up a snow day, it'd be
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  on that Thursday. But every single year it was
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  that Friday was off, viewers off, and it'd be a caravan from
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  Osage all the way down to Deboyne.
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  We make the trip down here, get hotels, do stupid things, get in
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  trouble. My parents never went, so I was
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  always going with a friend and that meant even usually more
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  trouble as I was a troublemaker sometimes.
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  Believe it or not, back to here. No, I don't.
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  Hard to believe, hard to believe stories at hand.
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  Yesterday I'm calling with my buddy Blake Walker and Andy
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  Pollock, who helped me out with state wrestling.
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  We're calling the action. We got 8 mats going on.
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  We're trying to name all the central Iowa wrestlers, even if
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  they're out there very quickly. And all three of our eyes dart
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  over to Matt 7 and Drayshawn Ross.
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  Now, if you don't know Drayshawn Ross, he's going to Oklahoma
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  State. He is considered one of the best
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  wrestlers in the country. He could have been AD 1 football
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  player to a number of different programs, just an incredibly
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  high level athlete. And he bumped up to heavyweight
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  and he probably weighs 220-5230, maybe a little bit more than
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  that, but he's not as big as some of the guys wrestling up at
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  285. So he was wrestling kid
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  yesterday from Bettendorf, I believe it was, and he got a
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  technical fall in 55 seconds, 8 takedowns in 55 seconds.
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  At one point he chucked him into the chairs where the coaches
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  were sitting over the side. I mean, he's just a different
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  animal. And the kid that he's wrestled
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  afterwards, after 55 seconds, he comes over, he's just got a
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  smirk on his face. Like what the hell am I supposed
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  to do? This guy is at a completely
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  different level. He's going to be a four timer.
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  We got another one. Speaking of Osage, Blake Fox
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  from Osage, he's going to this week to become a four time state
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  champion as well. You talk about that environment
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  and there is nothing for me in this state more special than
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  that Saturday. I mean, at the high school
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  level, it's not even close. But just in general, you said it
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  earlier, you don't have to be a wrestling fan.
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  It is something that is a part, I think, of being an Iowa and to
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  be in that environment, to see it, to hear the cheers raining
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  down, all the guys are on the ward stands.
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  Then throughout the evening, the Grand March, all the place
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  winners coming in. They do it incredibly well.
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  It is well run. It'll be back on PBS this year,
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  which is, I know, huge for a lot of people in the community.
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  But if you haven't had the opportunity to experience, you
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  don't have to be a big wrestling person.
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  You don't have to be wrestling fan at all, it's just the
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  experience that goes along with it.
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  And this weekend on Saturday with potentially 2 four time
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  state champions each being crowned, it's going to be really
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  special there at now the Casey Center.
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  I had to write that down a couple of times in my notes this
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  week. How is how is this kid not going
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  to Iowa? That's my question.
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  Money, and not that Iowa wrestling is not doing well with
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  money in the wrestling program. They're fine there.
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  But Oklahoma State was a part of it.
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  And I do wonder too. I mean, just a chance to get out
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  that Iowa wrestling program right now.
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  You hear the rumblings over there.
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  Things are not all sunshine and rainbows in Iowa City with the
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  wrestling program. Yeah, they stink.
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  I mean I for their. Standard.
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  Yes, this. Is going to be a real
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  interesting conversation that Beth Goetz is going to have here
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  in a couple months. Absolutely.
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  David Taylor, who I know a lot of Hawkeye fans would have loved
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  to see come in and take over the Iowa program.
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  He went to Oklahoma State a couple years ago.
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  That fresh voice, new voice, new way of training, all the
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  successes that he had both on the national scene and the
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  international scene as a three time world champion.
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  David Taylor at Oklahoma State, I think that had a lot to do
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  also with Ross's decision that he was going to make his way to
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  down to Stillwater and do his wrestling down there.
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  It's gonna be fun. But Todd, I know Eastern Iowa
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  guy, don't do it. Very.
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  At some point you have to make your way over here.
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  And it doesn't even have to be for the finals, just it's an
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  experience. It's so different, so weird.
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  And maybe someday your son will be the one out there on the mat.
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  He has not gotten into wrestling yet.
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  We we tried to to keep him away from that because we were
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  worried about DDTS. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  You know, the razor's edge and all of that.
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  I don't think he quite understands the difference
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  between the wrestling we watch on TV and actually getting
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  getting him to wrestle. But his his PE teacher's been
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  trying to recruit him. OK, his PE teacher's got some
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  sons that wrestled and thinks it would be a good way to get some
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  of his aggression out. But so far we've kept him off
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  the mats. Not a bad thing.
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  Not a bad thing either. Got to have the right
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  temperament for it. My son has started, I don't know
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  if he's going to have the temperament to do very much, but
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  he's had a little success and has had a good time and he's got
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  his bracket from his first tournament hanging up in his
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  walls, though he likes it at this point.
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  Didn't like it too much though. When he got, he said choked, he
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  had his arm around his neck a little bit and pinned him.
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  Yeah, that changes the equation. Certainly.
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  Today we got more wrestling coming your way right here.
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  In fact, on KX and O, the next three nights will bring you
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  starting this evening. 7:00 We'll take the airwaves then as
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  it will be the quarterfinal round for Class 3A that comes up
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  this evening. 7:00 Right here on One O, 6.3, KX and O.
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  Then tomorrow night, Friday night, it is the semifinals.
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  That is my favorite round for the guys to get to that
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  championship match, to get to Saturday night.
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  Boy, that is as in intense of environment as you're going to
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  get. There's so many times you kind
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  of know the kids that are going to win at each weight class or
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  have a pretty good idea just getting to that Saturday night
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  though, I think you see some of the best wrestling and we'll
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  have that for you on Friday. Then the full championships on
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  Saturday 530 is when things will begin with the Grand March and
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  wrestling will begin at about 5:45.
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  All right here on one O 6.3 KXNO Todd, you gave me bad advice.
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  What? Nothing Canadians.
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  It's not over yet. OK.
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  All right, all right. I mean, I could have got that
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  good price though. I could have been, I could have
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  already locked in a profit is what I'm saying.
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  That plus 290. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  You could have flipped around and armed it or something, or
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  cashed out. Yeah, I look, there's no such
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  thing as an easy win, right? That's why they call it
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  gambling. That's right, We're going to get
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  some gambling picks a little bit later here in the program.
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  Coming up next, we got Matt Postings.
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  We're going to talk a lot of Big 12.
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  JT topping out for the year completely changes the chances
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  of Texas Tech of making a run. Darren Peterson, Bill Self,
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  Todd, have you seen a guy well, this side of maybe Mick Cronin
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  and how miserable he is? Bill Self has dealt with health
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  issues and now he's dealing with this Darren Peterson thing.
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  And for a guy that I've always respected, and Bill Self, a guy
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  that, yes, has he bent some corners, no doubt.
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  But still a guy that I respect what he has done in this game
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  and he just seems fed up with it.
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  He doesn't have an answer. He doesn't know what's going to
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  happen. I didn't think I'd ever feel bad
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  for Bill Self, but kind of I'm feeling bad for him right now.
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  You know, it's really weird in this area.
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  The guys that were rumored to have bent some corners back
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  before it was, you know, when it was the wild, Wild West.
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  Now that everybody's able to go out and get the players that
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  they want, suddenly some of those guys are struggling.
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  It's really weird. And I just, you know, I'm going
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  to mention that, but a. Little bit odd, yeah?
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  How could that possibly be? Why isn't Kansas nearly as good
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  as they were just a couple years ago?
• 18:00
  Same thing in the SEC for football.
• 18:04
  Doesn't, I think, take a whole lot of jumping to conclusions to
• 18:07
  understand what that's going to look like quickly before we
• 18:10
  bring in Matt Postings. Yesterday in college hoops, we
• 18:14
  talked to Force about the Iowa State women get the win in the
• 18:16
  return of Addie Brown. Over on the men's side last
• 18:19
  night, Drake, seventh loss in a row for the Bulldogs and year #1
• 18:23
  not going very well for Coach Henderson and the dogs.
• 18:26
  On the other side though, the you and I Panthers, the return
• 18:28
  of Tristan Smith, he's not a big scorer, but it's just an extra
• 18:31
  body out there. This team looks completely
• 18:34
  different on fire in the second-half.
• 18:36
  Wise. Rod and Schweiger both knocking
• 18:38
  down 3 pointers. They go on the road in Throttle.
• 18:40
  Indiana State and the Panthers, Ben Jacobson, I think he's got a
• 18:44
  team that has a shot down there in Saint Louis.
• 18:46
  Yeah, don't, don't sleep on you and I and Ben Jacobson in March.
• 18:50
  Absolutely. I, you know, they're, like I
• 18:52
  said, this is my favorite time of year because you start to see
• 18:55
  some teams that get a little momentum and coming on.
• 18:57
  And that's one time I never have had a chance to cover Arch
• 19:02
  madness. It's one of those tournaments
• 19:03
  that I would like to go and experience just because, you
• 19:06
  know, it's not a, it's not a major conference at all, but
• 19:09
  it's a hell of a basketball conference.
• 19:11
  And, and kudos to the Valley for, for finding a home and
• 19:15
  keeping it there and, and Saint Louis for embracing it.
• 19:18
  And I just think it's one of the best conference tournaments
• 19:21
  every March. Been there a couple of different
• 19:23
  times. Been there for you and I when
• 19:25
  they were riding high and and won a couple of conference
• 19:28
  tournaments since I've been down there, went down for a day one
• 19:30
  of their championship games. Been there when Drake's been
• 19:32
  good too. It's good to see that local
• 19:34
  contingent down there. What they're missing though, not
• 19:37
  just the Creightons that would bring 5000 themselves to Saint
• 19:40
  Louis and fill up that building every single time.
• 19:42
  Wichita definitely built themselves into that.
• 19:44
  But Southern Illinois, Southern Illinois is actually Carbondale
• 19:47
  is pretty close to Saint Louis. And when they were good, they
• 19:50
  used to be there. Well, they're not good anymore
• 19:52
  and they haven't been there for a really long time.
• 19:54
  To get back to those levels, you need a program like an Illinois
• 19:59
  State, a southern Illinois, one of these bigger programs from
• 20:02
  from the bigger state schools to really come back on, get those
• 20:05
  numbers back up. Because there's other times I've
• 20:07
  been there for one of those 830 tip offs in the quarter final
• 20:10
  round. And it is friends and family
• 20:12
  only. And the next time that I run
• 20:14
  into an Evansville fan will be the first.
• 20:15
  They're nowhere. I I don't even know if it's a
• 20:17
  real program even though I've seen lots of games over there
• 20:20
  that that's about as well. Fun tournament though in Saint
• 20:22
  Louis is fun. They had Todd Licklider coached
• 20:25
  him for a while. That's a real program, right?
• 20:27
  They also had back in our day, back in the 90s, they had the
• 20:30
  T-shirt jerseys. Remember those ugly things?
• 20:34
  They were polyester and no, they were not jerseys.
• 20:36
  They had actual sleeves that went down Evansville.
• 20:40
  That that is a one of one program, no doubt.
• 20:44
  Not exactly a college basketball Mecca, to say the least,
• 20:48
  although they do have a little bit of history there.
• 20:50
  And sometimes he got a root for the underdog sometimes.
• 20:53
  And there's no bigger underdog in the Valley than Evansville,
• 20:57
  year in and year out. The Purple Aces, yeah, I got to
• 20:59
  the championship game a couple years ago against you and I and
• 21:02
  I believe that was the season that ended up not having NCAA
• 21:05
  tournament. Is my memory right on that?
• 21:07
  Was that the Evansville home? Regardless we'll check it out
• 21:09
  during the break. Coming back talking Big 12, JT
• 21:11
  topping out for the year. He'll be we'll be joined, excuse
• 21:15
  me, by Matt Postings from Heartland College Sports.
• 21:18
  All things Big 12 next on Miller and Condon.
• 21:36
  Miller and Connor continues on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
• 21:39
  Trent Condon joined today by Todd Brommelkamp.
• 21:42
  Ken back on Monday as we talk everything college sports with
• 21:47
  you. Feels like today though a lot
• 21:48
  else going on. The Canadians still with the
• 21:50
  lead over the USA in the gold medal game.
• 21:53
  An Olympic hockey on the women's side, 1 nothing, 535 left in the
• 21:57
  second period there with the Canadians with the lead.
• 22:00
  Let's jump over to the Big 12. Matt Poston joins us as he does
• 22:04
  almost weekly here during college football and college
• 22:07
  basketball season. Matt, you're down though in
• 22:10
  Arizona watching some spring training.
• 22:12
  Got to feel good to get out there, get in the sunshine and
• 22:15
  watch a little baseball as you're keeping an eye on the
• 22:17
  Texas Rangers. How you doing today?
• 22:19
  Yeah, it's a great day to be out here.
• 22:21
  I mean, it's 60, sunny, little breezy.
• 22:24
  We got some rain yesterday. But yeah, I've been out here all
• 22:27
  week. We got spring training opener
• 22:30
  tomorrow with Kansas City on Friday, and then I'm going to go
• 22:33
  see the Cubs on Saturday. The Rangers are heading over to
• 22:35
  Mesa to check out the Cubs. So the great thing about this
• 22:38
  trip is I've been out here since Friday evening and I've been
• 22:41
  able to double up Big 12. So I was at the Arizona Tech
• 22:44
  game on Saturday, Arizona, Arizona State Women on Saturday,
• 22:47
  and then of course I was at the Tech Arizona State game on
• 22:49
  Tuesday night when JT Top and suffered that injury and an
• 22:53
  injury that really kind of changes the course of the Big 12
• 22:56
  right now. No doubt, and that is certainly
• 22:58
  one of the biggest things that we wanted to get into.
• 23:00
  So let's tackle that right now. What we've seen with that injury
• 23:04
  and and what that means for Texas Tech.
• 23:06
  I've been a big Texas Tech fan. I have put some of my money on
• 23:10
  them to make a Final four to win a national championship.
• 23:12
  That's off the table now. Just an absolute devastating
• 23:16
  blow and for a program and a program that's easy to root for
• 23:18
  too. I, I like Mccaslin a lot.
• 23:20
  I really do respect that guy and what he's done with that
• 23:23
  program. That is had some tumult.
• 23:25
  Obviously Chris Beard moving on and and so many different things
• 23:27
  that have happened there. It felt like they had a real
• 23:30
  chance. What is the best case scenario
• 23:32
  now? Anderson's a really nice player.
• 23:34
  They're not getting to that third weekend though, certainly
• 23:37
  with the squad they have at this point, right?
• 23:39
  Yeah, I mean, they might be, they might have a hard time
• 23:42
  getting out of the first weekend of the tournament, to be honest
• 23:45
  with you. I I think the biggest question
• 23:46
  mark with them is, you know, what are they going to do for
• 23:49
  height? I mean, Anderson, Atwell,
• 23:52
  they've got some really good 3 point shooters.
• 23:53
  I could see Mccaslin going to a different type of offense where
• 23:56
  they space the floor, let their guys shoot 2533 is a game and
• 24:01
  and see what happens. But I mean, I don't know where
• 24:03
  they're going to get the rebounding from.
• 24:05
  I don't know where they're going to get their interior scoring
• 24:07
  from. They didn't have a whole lot, a
• 24:09
  lot of functional depth in their front court to begin with.
• 24:12
  If you go back to 2019 when they made the Final Four, they lost
• 24:15
  Tariq Owens for a while. They had some good functional
• 24:18
  depth behind them that they could use to to play inside and
• 24:21
  outside. I don't see that on this roster
• 24:24
  right now. They haven't had their other
• 24:25
  guy, other big guys play a lot. So it's going to be really hard
• 24:29
  for them I think to get out of the first weekend of the NCAA
• 24:32
  Tournament. Unless Christian Anderson just
• 24:34
  goes on a complete here the next few weeks and and two of these
• 24:38
  other 3 point shooters can really help them out.
• 24:40
  It's going to be tough for them to get out of the first weekend,
• 24:42
  I think. We go to another big injury in
• 24:45
  the Big 12 and that is BYU as they have lost now for the
• 24:48
  season themselves. Richie Saunders is out, we know
• 24:51
  an incredible shooter, but he also had some versatility to his
• 24:54
  game. He was not strictly just a
• 24:55
  three-point shooter, though. That was definitely his calling
• 24:58
  card. He still got AJ Dabansta.
• 24:59
  That's a great place to start things and there are other
• 25:02
  pieces on this team. Kita, he could really, really at
• 25:05
  times with his physicality, he plays with inside.
• 25:08
  This is still a team, though, that has lost five of their last
• 25:11
  seven. Where do you look at now with
• 25:13
  BYU hitting the skids a little bit here in this back portion of
• 25:16
  the schedule? I think their big problem is
• 25:19
  depth outside of the Donsta and Robert Wright the third.
• 25:22
  I mean, if you look at their game last night with Arizona,
• 25:25
  they they dominated from the scoring standpoint and the rest
• 25:29
  of the roster I think had 10 points in that game.
• 25:31
  So they're part of their problem all season has been who's going
• 25:34
  to be their 4th and 5th option from an offensive standpoint.
• 25:37
  You don't need those guys to score 10 points a game for you,
• 25:39
  but you need them to chip in without Saunders.
• 25:42
  Now they have two really prominent scores, but they don't
• 25:46
  really have anybody else around them that contribute and be 1/3
• 25:49
  scorer. You saw they tried to junk up
• 25:51
  the defense last night with Arizona, played some 2332 zone
• 25:54
  and they tried to pack the paint.
• 25:56
  They can play some matchups and they they were kind of there.
• 25:59
  They almost made it A1 possession game at the end of
• 26:01
  the game. But again, like Texas Tech
• 26:03
  losing Saunders is such a big deal for them because he was
• 26:06
  their third scorer. Like you said, he wasn't just a
• 26:08
  three-point shooter. He could he could, you know,
• 26:11
  drive to the basket. He could get to the free throw
• 26:13
  line without him. You know, I think they're
• 26:17
  they're our first weekend and out team now.
• 26:20
  It's so funny. We we talked a couple weeks ago.
• 26:22
  We said, you know, there's five legitimate national championship
• 26:25
  contenders in this conference. There might only be 3 now, if
• 26:29
  you think about how you think about Kansas with Peterson kind
• 26:33
  of defines that. But now we're down to, I think,
• 26:34
  three true national title contenders in Houston, Arizona
• 26:38
  and Iowa State. I was just going to ask your
• 26:42
  thoughts on Iowa State there, but I think that kind of
• 26:44
  answers, it sounds like you're still a big believer in them.
• 26:48
  Yeah, I am. I think the them beating Kansas
• 26:51
  and then bouncing back and beating Houston the other night,
• 26:54
  the way they beat them, they kind of beat Houston at their
• 26:57
  own game. The way they played defense, the
• 26:59
  way they got off to a solid start offensively they seem to
• 27:02
  have they seem to have solved the slow start offensive issues
• 27:06
  they were having at the beginning of the year.
• 27:09
  Their big three have been healthy all year.
• 27:11
  They've been productive offensively.
• 27:14
  They're getting really good contributions from from Nate
• 27:16
  Heisey, from Torre, from some of the other guys in their roster.
• 27:21
  They're not quite as deep offensively as Arizona is, but
• 27:25
  you combine the way they play defense, the way they can
• 27:27
  rebound, the way they can really take important things away from
• 27:31
  their opponent defensively, they're the kind of team that I
• 27:33
  think can can excel in the tournament, get into the Sweet
• 27:36
  16, get into the Elite 8 and perhaps the Final Four.
• 27:39
  And I love the depth that they have and something that they
• 27:41
  haven't had the same kind of depth.
• 27:42
  And he continued to get big shots out of Bateman as he
• 27:45
  knocked a big one down. Obviously, what Heisey did in
• 27:47
  the corner there. And then just getting a big body
• 27:50
  at minimum that can help out with Plato, what he's been able
• 27:53
  to do for them. They got some pieces off the
• 27:55
  bench to go along with it. And maybe a healthier Cyclone
• 27:58
  team by the time the NCAA tournament comes around.
• 28:01
  We go to Kansas. Darren Peterson, I mentioned it
• 28:03
  earlier with Todd, who's hanging out with me today.
• 28:06
  You know, Matt, this Bill Self, just to see the frustration that
• 28:11
  is seems to be coming out of him, it's almost like he just
• 28:14
  throwing up his hands and saying, I don't know.
• 28:15
  And that's kind of the that is the tipping point that we've hit
• 28:18
  to this point now with Darren Peterson.
• 28:22
  Yeah, I mean, here's the thing about cramping.
• 28:24
  And I've, I've dealt with athletes for a long time.
• 28:27
  Cramping is typically something you can solve.
• 28:30
  You know, sometimes it's about nutrition, it's about hydration,
• 28:33
  it's about how you handle off days and things like that.
• 28:36
  But you know, by and large, the athletes that I have dealt with
• 28:39
  that have had cramping issues. They're usually temporary.
• 28:42
  They're not things that last 2-3 months into the season.
• 28:46
  And I know Peterson's had other injuries aside from cramping.
• 28:49
  But you know, again, last night, he's half that after about 20
• 28:51
  minutes with cramping. And it's one of those things
• 28:54
  where, you know, self can't just come right out and say, hey,
• 28:56
  what's up with this publicly? Because, you know, he is
• 29:00
  obviously frustrated, but he he kind of did it in a thinly
• 29:02
  veiled way after the Oklahoma State win.
• 29:05
  And I posted this on Twitter earlier today.
• 29:08
  You know, if for some reason they get into this chart, which
• 29:11
  they will, and Peterson starts playing 30 plus minutes a game
• 29:14
  and they get to the final four, the talking heads nationally are
• 29:17
  going to explode because all they were talking about on first
• 29:20
  take this morning was about Darren Peterson and whether you
• 29:22
  should take him with the number one overall pick and things like
• 29:25
  that. If we find out after the fact
• 29:27
  that, you know, he and his agents have essentially they've
• 29:29
  been load managing, that's going to be something that is going to
• 29:33
  hurt other recruits down the line at his level.
• 29:35
  Because now you've got to have that conversation with the kid,
• 29:38
  his agent and his parents about how committed they are to
• 29:41
  playing, how many minutes in the game you want to play.
• 29:43
  And that's not a conversation they were having with recruits
• 29:46
  five years ago. One to get a question in here
• 29:48
  about Arizona, of course does #1 until last week with the
• 29:51
  back-to-back losses to Kansas and Texas Tech.
• 29:54
  We know this is an incredibly talented team, but I guess the
• 29:56
  knock that has been out there more and more about this squad,
• 29:59
  today's environment where 3 point shooting is so important.
• 30:02
  They shoot it OK from out there. They're not awful by any means,
• 30:05
  they just don't take many of them and when you think of the
• 30:08
  tournament, you get into that take tight game and the Elite 8
• 30:11
  have to win two big ones in the Final Four, that kind of thing.
• 30:14
  When you look at their style of play coupled with Tommy Lloyd
• 30:16
  and some of the flame outs that he's had both as an assistant
• 30:19
  now as a head coach at Arizona and Gonzaga before that as an
• 30:22
  assistant. Arizona, you talk about winning
• 30:24
  a national championship. What does give you the biggest
• 30:27
  concern when you put him in that kind of realm?
• 30:31
  You know, I, I think the biggest concern is probably the
• 30:34
  three-point shooting. But you know, here's the thing.
• 30:35
  Last night against BYU, they packed the paint.
• 30:38
  One of the things that Arizona has that not a lot of teams have
• 30:42
  in this conference and in this tournament honestly, is they've
• 30:45
  got a lot of height, a lot of talented, skilled height inside
• 30:48
  that can rebound and score. So BYU last night, they packed
• 30:51
  the paint and tried to take the, the, the inside game away from
• 30:54
  it and they did a good job. Kribots awake waka excuse me
• 30:59
  they did not have good games inside, but guess what their
• 31:02
  three-point shooting stepped up. Maybe they didn't shoot a lot,
• 31:05
  but they'll also had a good game.
• 31:08
  Their other 3 point shooters had a really good game.
• 31:10
  They shot a high percentage and that's part of how they won that
• 31:13
  game. So you know Arizona, Tommy
• 31:17
  Lloyd's talked about this they they they like their style of
• 31:20
  play. They like their three-point
• 31:22
  shooters. They're not going to sell out
• 31:23
  the shooting 20253 pointers in the game, but if they can shoot
• 31:27
  the kind of percentage that they shot last night in, in games
• 31:30
  where teams are trying to take their inside game away from
• 31:33
  them, then they're going to be OK.
• 31:35
  Everything else they've got, They've got a 8-9 deep line up.
• 31:38
  They play great defense. The game against Texas Tech,
• 31:42
  they handled that environment. They handled Texas Tech very
• 31:45
  well. You know, just one of those one
• 31:47
  possession games where the last team that had the ball 1.
• 31:51
  I'm not really worried about them with Pete being out and
• 31:53
  Aristotle being out. They've got so much depth.
• 31:56
  The three-point shooting can be a problem in the NCAA
• 31:59
  Tournament, but they have so many other assets on the
• 32:01
  offensive end that I think they can navigate around it and get
• 32:04
  to the Final Four. One more on the Big 12 and we
• 32:08
  know the top level teams that we've talked about and that's
• 32:10
  really been all the conversation has been about the teams at the
• 32:13
  top. You look at a team like a TCU
• 32:16
  and how they sit at six and seven with some of the top level
• 32:18
  wins that they have, including being in Iowa State a week ago,
• 32:21
  UCUCF, you saw them against Texas Tech here a couple of
• 32:24
  Saturdays ago. They look like the best team in
• 32:26
  the country at that day and yet then they lose three in a row
• 32:29
  after that. This middle portion of the
• 32:32
  conference. Is anybody going to step up?
• 32:34
  West Virginia last night, What are they doing losing at home to
• 32:37
  Utah? That was an absolute head
• 32:39
  scratcher out there. Is there a real potential here
• 32:42
  where we're just talking about the six teams that we talked
• 32:44
  about the most and that's it coming out of the Big 12?
• 32:48
  Well, it's funny you should ask that because I have a piece
• 32:50
  coming up at Heartland later today and we're going to go
• 32:53
  through the four bubble teams, UCFTCU, West Virginia and
• 32:56
  Oklahoma State. I thought UCF didn't like cement
• 33:00
  themselves but I think they solidified themselves with that
• 33:03
  win over TCU last night. I go back to something I wrote
• 33:07
  in January. Teams that win 10 or more games
• 33:10
  in non conference and get to 20 wins by the Big 12 tournament in
• 33:13
  this conference in the last 8 non COVID years they get to the
• 33:18
  NCAA tournament 36 out of 37 times.
• 33:20
  The one team that didn't was Oklahoma a few years ago.
• 33:23
  UCFTCU and Oklahoma State are all three teams that won at
• 33:27
  least 10 games in non conference.
• 33:29
  I think UCF is going to get the 20 wins.
• 33:31
  I think TCU has to get the 20 wins.
• 33:33
  And TCU actually has the most navigable schedule of the four
• 33:37
  because they've got they only have one quad one game left.
• 33:40
  But that's Texas Tech and that's now a an interesting game with
• 33:44
  no topping in the lineup. The other four games, they're
• 33:46
  all quad two games and all winnable games and three of them
• 33:49
  were at home. They probably have the best path
• 33:52
  to getting the 20 wins and getting into the tournament
• 33:56
  along with UCFI think as long as UCF wins two or three more
• 33:59
  games, I think they're in. I think the question is whether
• 34:02
  or not TCU, Oklahoma State and West Virginia can find a way to
• 34:06
  be that eighth team that gets in.
• 34:08
  And the problem is because they've back loaded the schedule
• 34:10
  so much with the top teams, UCF, West Virginia, TCU and Oklahoma
• 34:15
  State are playing each other so much.
• 34:17
  Down the line they may cancel each other out.
• 34:20
  So what the league really needs is they need one or two teams to
• 34:22
  kind of dominate that little group down the stretch and get
• 34:25
  in. If it's a situation where they
• 34:27
  all just kind of beat up on one another, then yeah, the scenario
• 34:30
  you're throwing out where maybe UCF doesn't get in is a
• 34:33
  possibility. We're talking right now with
• 34:38
  Matt Postons from Heartland College Sports.
• 34:40
  Matt, you're in Arizona. One final thing, the Rangers now
• 34:43
  full caveat, as we've been talking to gambling a little bit
• 34:45
  earlier, I got sucked in a year ago because Ken and you I think
• 34:48
  talked me into the Rangers and talk about ripping up tickets.
• 34:51
  That was definitely a case for them a year ago and a very
• 34:54
  injury plagued team a season ago.
• 34:57
  Wyatt Lankford, I believe on his way to super stardom.
• 35:00
  What we're going to see out of him, a healthy Corey Seeger,
• 35:02
  what we know he can do. They're going to be able to
• 35:04
  swing it this year. They go out, they get Mackenzie
• 35:06
  Gore to help out in that rotation with degrom and a
• 35:09
  Valdi. It comes down to health.
• 35:11
  Is it as simple as that for the Texas Rangers?
• 35:13
  They'll be a contender if healthy.
• 35:15
  I think so. I mean this, this rotation has
• 35:18
  the potential to be one of the best in baseball as it was last
• 35:21
  year. They've been working a lot
• 35:24
  offensively on trying to get their holdover players to be
• 35:27
  able to do more things at the plate.
• 35:29
  I think they were very limited in certain parts of their
• 35:32
  lineup, guys that really only did one thing while at the
• 35:34
  plate. That's why their offensive
• 35:35
  members have, you know, tumbled the past two years.
• 35:38
  I think Brandon Nimmo is going to give them a lot from an on
• 35:41
  base percentage. He's probably going to hit lead
• 35:43
  off for them, which is going to give them a really good table
• 35:47
  setter. The question is, along with
• 35:49
  health, it's the bullpen. They're they're remaking the
• 35:52
  bullpen once again. They're they don't have a true
• 35:54
  closer and they were one of the worst teams in baseball last
• 35:58
  year in converting saves. Had they converted seven more
• 36:01
  saves last year, they would have actually made the playoffs.
• 36:03
  That that that's how thin the margin was for them.
• 36:05
  They're hoping that Alexis Diaz can can bounce back from a
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  horrible 2025. They're not going to put
• 36:11
  pressure on them. They're going to start with
• 36:13
  Robert Garcia and Chris Martin as their closers.
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  But that's going to be the question, can they put together
• 36:17
  a bullpen? And that can duplicate what that
• 36:19
  bullpen did last year, which was aside from saves, they were the
• 36:23
  best bullpen in baseball. The offense was what really held
• 36:26
  them back. So if they're offensive players
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  can stay healthy, if the rotation stays healthy and
• 36:30
  everybody performs the way they're expected to perform,
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  then yeah, they can absolutely be in contention to win the
• 36:35
  American League West and get in the playoffs.
• 36:37
  What was Josh Young's injury last year?
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  Wasn't a weird one. You know, Josh Young actually
• 36:42
  was pretty healthy last year, had back spasms to start the
• 36:45
  year and he was helping pretty much the rest of the year.
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  We were actually talking about him yesterday with the manager,
• 36:50
  Skip Schumacher. And yeah, we had the fractured
• 36:52
  wrist in 2024 season never really, never really got going.
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  He he actually got sent down for like 2 1/2 weeks last year
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  because he he was chasing too much and he was striking out too
• 37:03
  much as approach just wasn't where they wanted it.
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  Skip mentioned that, you know, he, you know, when you get an
• 37:08
  injury to your hands as a hitter, that can be the worst
• 37:11
  possible injury. Actually said I'd rather get hit
• 37:14
  in the face and get hit in the hands because, you know, the
• 37:16
  hands are what carry you with the plate.
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  And, you know, he said sometimes it takes longer to get over that
• 37:22
  injury, not necessarily to get healthy, but to get in a
• 37:24
  position where you can be, you know, productive off
• 37:27
  offensively. And Young really wasn't that
• 37:29
  productive offensively last year.
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  I, I can tell you this, I've watched his live VPS the last
• 37:33
  three days. That guy's raking.
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  I mean, he, he feels like he's in a position where he could
• 37:37
  have a really good offensive year for him like a lot of these
• 37:41
  other guys, because he's had health issues in the past.
• 37:43
  It's about staying healthy. You can tell I'm starting to
• 37:47
  prepare a little bit for my fantasy Baseball League with
• 37:49
  that line of questioning there, and I'll see where he is.
• 37:52
  On my list for Josh Young coming up this season as I put together
• 37:55
  by order at third base, Matt Post is Hartley College Sports.
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  Matt, as always, appreciate the time.
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  We'll talk again soon, all. Right.
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  Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.
• 38:02
  Enjoy Arizona, he has Matt Postons heartland college sports
• 38:06
  all things Big 12. You a fantasy baseball player,
• 38:09
  Todd? I am, as a matter of fact, I've
• 38:11
  got a dynasty league draft that's going on the last couple
• 38:15
  weeks. I'm in a really deep dynasty
• 38:18
  league. I'm talking drafting guys that
• 38:20
  are like 1718 years old, so. That is, I.
• 38:24
  Did not have, I did not have talking Texas Rangers baseball
• 38:26
  on my bingo card today. But I was just, it inspired.
• 38:29
  I was trying to find odds on American League Manager of the
• 38:32
  Year because I certainly would not sleep on Skip Schumacher.
• 38:35
  Well, I think. And I I took it a step further
• 38:38
  and I was looking to see find somebody maybe to pair up with
• 38:41
  the Dodgers in the World Series. I see Circus got some exactas on
• 38:44
  that front. Think it was plus 30, 550,
• 38:47
  something like that. A little bit better than 35 to 1
• 38:50
  because the Dodgers are going to win it again.
• 38:52
  It's inevitable, right? Oh absolutely.
• 38:55
  OK, so pick an American League team, pair them with the Dodgers
• 38:59
  and see whether or not you can be in a good position to hedge
• 39:04
  things in about 8 months. And we'll get into late October
• 39:08
  and I'll probably be losing all my football bets.
• 39:10
  So I'll be looking for something at least in that resume in My
• 39:12
  Portfolio that can help me out and maybe one of those future
• 39:15
  tickets can beat my lottery ticket to keep my head above
• 39:17
  water during football season. If it was as bad as November was
• 39:21
  last year, woof, it has been terrible.
• 39:23
  Speaking of terrible, it's time for picks of the day now.
• 39:25
  Todd gave us a winner last week. We'll see if he can go 2 for
• 39:29
  two. Pressure is odd.
• 39:31
  TNTS picks of the day presented by Circus Sports, that's next.
• 39:34
  Don Miller and Condon. One final time back with you on
• 39:50
  a Thursday. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
• 39:52
  Sports Radio Network, one O 6.3 KXO along with our fine
• 39:56
  affiliates in Sioux City, IA City, Cedar Rapids and the Quad
• 39:59
  Cities. Welcome aboard with us here
• 40:01
  today as Todd Bromlichamp joins us.
• 40:04
  Todd, you put on social media. This is it.
• 40:06
  Wait, nobody's ever going to be able to talk you back into
• 40:08
  radio. Is that what you're telling me?
• 40:10
  No, not full time. No, I think this is it.
• 40:13
  Yeah, I did you know, there were there were couple people that I
• 40:18
  would have liked to have worked with and and I got to do a
• 40:21
  couple shows with you, but I'm having fun selling cars.
• 40:25
  Yeah, it's AII feel like a completely new person so.
• 40:29
  Well, Speaking of that, Todd, and you mentioned it's different
• 40:32
  than our business and radio over there and what you're able to do
• 40:36
  free plug for you and what you're doing over there in Cedar
• 40:38
  Rapids. Yeah, I'm at I'm in the business
• 40:42
  development side of things at Castle Motors.
• 40:44
  Landon Castle, the former NASCAR driver is one of my bosses and
• 40:50
  outstanding used car selection at castlemotors.com.
• 40:54
  That's CASSILL Castle Motors. There it is, Todd Bromlichamp.
• 40:59
  Go see him over there in Cedar Rapids, or if you're making the
• 41:01
  drive over, see something online that you like.
• 41:03
  You can make the drive over to CR as well and see Todd and
• 41:06
  he'll hook you up with that. We'll try to hook you up with a
• 41:09
  couple of wins now. It is not exactly gone
• 41:12
  swimmingly for me again, though, things have been better over the
• 41:15
  last week. Let's see what what is.
• 41:16
  How about this 21 and 18 over the last seven days?
• 41:19
  That's winning. Even with the juice.
• 41:21
  We're up .9 units. We'll take that every single
• 41:24
  time. I have 3 plays for today.
• 41:27
  College basketball is light. I just got one.
• 41:29
  I got it. I had to dig into the Summit
• 41:30
  League. I like to dig into the Summit
• 41:32
  League from time to time. I'm taking the Coyotes tonight.
• 41:35
  They're getting 6 1/2. They're making their way out to
• 41:37
  Denver to take on The Pioneers. We're going to grab the 6 1/2
• 41:40
  with them in a very even matchup.
• 41:42
  So Denver tried to do what Drake did a year ago.
• 41:45
  They got a D2 coach. He brought a bunch of his guys
• 41:47
  with them. The problem, they're not nearly
• 41:49
  good as meanwhile, not nearly as good as Tapian Banks and Bennett
• 41:53
  Sturtz, but they tried the same thing.
• 41:55
  South Dakota, kind of a down year for them.
• 41:57
  Still big number there. I'm taking Purdue tonight
• 41:59
  against the Iowa women. 16 1/2 is too many on the road.
• 42:03
  back-to-back games here. Sleepy spot.
• 42:05
  Purdue not great. Better than they have been
• 42:07
  though recently a couple of different years.
• 42:09
  And then this is how bad it is. I'm playing an NBA game, given
• 42:12
  the Hornets plus the four and a half.
• 42:15
  All right, I like, I I didn't think my pick was looking good
• 42:18
  last week and then it came in Yeah, the.
• 42:20
  First half was a disaster. Yeah, the first half was bad,
• 42:23
  but NB as back in action tonight.
• 42:26
  I'm looking out to Golden State, Boston, Golden State, Steph
• 42:30
  Curry still out. Warriors have lost four or six
• 42:32
  going into the break, Still no Jason Tatum.
• 42:36
  I see value with Golden State getting 6 1/2 at home tonight.
• 42:40
  Kristaps Porzingis making his debut.
• 42:42
  I think the Warriors have a shot at winning that one. 9 O clock
• 42:45
  on Amazon prime. I watched a lot of prime as it
• 42:48
  comes to watching the NFL on Thursdays.
• 42:51
  I have still not flipped over for an NBA game for Amazon
• 42:54
  Prime. Have you that?
• 42:55
  Makes two of us. Yeah, and I'm going to guess
• 42:58
  football is one thing and, and certainly when it's one game a
• 43:00
  week, but I never, I seriously, I don't ever even think about
• 43:04
  it. And if it's not on my guide, I'm
• 43:06
  not going to get there unless it's a football game.
• 43:09
  And we can't be alone on that. Or are we just turning into the
• 43:11
  old guys now? I was going to say, we're
• 43:13
  turning into the old guys here talking about the old days of
• 43:15
  One Eyed Jakes. If it's not on my TV Guide, I'm
• 43:19
  not going out of my way to watch it.
• 43:21
  That's. Unfortunately, that is the new
• 43:23
  reality. But that's what happens, all of
• 43:26
  us. You keep getting older and those
• 43:28
  memories are in the rearview mirror.
• 43:30
  I told the story I never told on the air ever yesterday and there
• 43:33
  were so many parts that a guy that was a small part of the
• 43:35
  story was in the town that he was involved in.
• 43:37
  He knew details that I completely forgot about memory.
• 43:41
  Got to play those games, right? Aren't those games supposed to
• 43:43
  help you with your memory? I need some help.
• 43:45
  Yeah, this daily sudoku do some crosswords.
• 43:49
  Do that, we'll work on it. My wife does it.
• 43:51
  I I need to get into that as well.
• 43:52
  Hey Todd, it's been so much fun having you with us here on these
• 43:55
  last two Thursdays. Thank you so much for joining
• 43:57
  us. Absolutely.
• 43:59
  It's been great. Todd Brommelcamp joining us here
• 44:01
  today on the program, Miller and Condon.
• 44:05
  Ken back on Monday. Tomorrow, one more show minus
• 44:08
  him. But it is a football Friday
• 44:09
  minus the football. We'll talk Hawks, we'll talk
• 44:11
  clones. We got a whole lot more for you
• 44:13
  coming up next off the bench with Lucas and Connor.
• 44:16
  They'll take you home until 5. Thanks for being with us today.