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The 10-Minute Report with Greg Mengelt (Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, 3.91) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Central Indiana Sports Fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for today's 10-minute report.
• 0:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Your daily 10-minute update on the Sports Dematter to Central Indiana Sports Fans.
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• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mingell, and I love Central Indiana Sports.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coming up on today's 10-minute report, Chris Ballard is out.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll hear from our cold skies, Will and Dave Rutherford.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I will give my opinion on the situation plus, the paceers open their season Wednesday, cannot wait.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: NBA tips off tonight.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Big game for I.U.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: soccer and coming off their first Mac win all state quarterback Kendrick Luster was honored.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Plus three high school notes in our did you know segment today.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Our pace of season preview arrives at one p.m. today on podcast.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be a little later on YouTube and at the end of the 10 minute report today in bonus time you'll hear the first segment of our
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Your 10-minute report begins now.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I'm sure everyone listening to this is heard by now the Colts fired Chris Ballard just a few minutes after we posted our Colts report yesterday where we were kind of hinting that we would like to see that done and we're speculating that it just wouldn't happen.
• 1:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: But after the Colts fell to two and four on Sunday, with a 26-20 lost to the winless titans, owner and CEO Carly Ursa Gordon said it was time.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: She said the firing here early in the season was deliberate, so the team could work toward the organization's future immediately.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ownership plans to go through a search for its next general manager and expects to compete in win this season.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ballard was fired after his 10th season as General Manager and Assistant General Manager Ed Dodd will fill in as General Manager for now.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's hear from Will and Dave Rutherford on their thoughts on Ballard's firing.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good day for colds fans.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this has kind of been brewing for the better part of the last three years and finally, Carly, or say, I had the gumption to do it.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I applaud her for it.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the right move.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that there is some reason to believe that the reason Steiken was kept was because she's heard in internal communications for him during the season on the sideline.
• 2:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that he has a chance to keep his job.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: is a good chance, probably not, but I think there is a chance.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Coltafsum will it would, and they have some serious discussions to be had in terms of roster management where they go and this trade deadline with Thayer.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: assets that they have currently, especially the age of most of them, it's not like this is some young rebuilding team.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: This team is filled, littered with guys over 28 who are impact players, but you don't see them probably being in their prime or even, you know, their twilight prime.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: The next time this cold team is probably going to be competitive, I would imagine we're looking at
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: twenty twenty nine before this team is fully ready to compete again.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: The roster is going to look entirely different at that point.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I expect the phone to light up for a guy like Jonathan Taylor, Quentin Nelson, DeForce Buckner, Grover Stewart, and I think the cults with their lack of capital in the first round are going to have to properly be ready to answer some of those calls, especially if they go in and get embarrassed to Minnesota.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they go to their house, a horse, and devolve county, and get beat by Jacksonville, which that game looks like it might be on Sunday night football now.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, if we think it's bad, but they could be two and six, it could be a lot worse.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think the coach needed to go.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the general manager did.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I did not think that there was any way that's what would happen.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought if it was going to happen, it would be both.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's typically what you do when you clean house.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've said all year, I think Shane Stycken is an NFL head coach.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Chris Ballard is an NFL GM.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think she made the right choice.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And today, and I had very little faith in Carly Ursay before today, and today she gained a little back by just doing what she needed to do, and I'm glad she did.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: and sorry to Chris Ballard and his family and he's a human being and all that, but this is sports and it's just kind of the way things are.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Good luck somewhere else, Chris Ballard.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Dave.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, I agree, Greg.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, I think today was just step one of that process.
• 5:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: You know, she's gonna be obviously looking now for a new general manager.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm sure we're gonna talk a little bit about that here coming up here,
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: She's going to be looking for a new general manager, and I think it's right to go ahead and keep striking in place for now.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_03]: This team is put together, we'll brought up a lot of things even yesterday, in our recap, regarding, you know, he's the play caller, you know, they really don't have a defensive coordinator that is suited to be a head coach, you know, their offensive coordinator
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_03]: Special team's coach is not really prepared to be a head coach, so I think You know, it's for today.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: She had to keep striking in place and let the new general manager decide whether it's Tykins the right guy for the job or whether, you know, they're gonna clean house and move on from him at the end of the season So be interesting to see now You know, kind of what happens You know obviously bringing in a new GM
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: And who's going to make some of these decisions at Trade Deadline assuming we don't have a new GM and place yet?
• 6:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: So, I'm going to be interesting, but this had to happen, you know, this just had to happen.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: It probably should have happened long before now.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_03]: We finally got there and this is step one, maybe in the process of the colds being legitimate again, some day in the future.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shane Steiken acknowledged his responsibility in the recent losing, I think it's probably a good thing that he is staying, and he's a quality head coach.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Probably not great, but a quality head football coach.
• 6:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as Will said, it's a happy day for Colts fans.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were tired of the meat, edit, oyster.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were tired of the mediocrity and worse.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not forget there are human beings involved in these firings, and by all indications Chris Ballard is a good person.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: the best of luck to him and his family, somewhere else.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: All we really had to look forward to was a reset and now we get it.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it starts when the colds visit unbeaten Minnesota on Sunday.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as I record this, we are about 38 hours from tip off for the Indiana Pacer's 2026-27 season opener which is at New Orleans on Wednesday the 21st to 8 o'clock at the Smoothie King Center, the Pacer's of course will face former teammate Benedict Madarin in the season opener.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Pacer's are three and a half point favorites to win again.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Pacers finished the preseason 1 and 3, those 3 losses came by a combined 5 points, but the starters looked fantastic.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: The 1 injury concern TJ McConnell missed the entire preseason, Quentin Jackson, has reportedly been filling in for McConnell at practice as the third team point guard.
• 8:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: He looked good in the preseason as well.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: The bases first five games after New Orleans on Wednesday, they play every other day.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Dallas is their home opener on Friday and at Brooklyn Sunday at Milwaukee Monday.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then on Wednesday, October 28th, LeBron James, Jalen Brown and the Philadelphia 76ers come to Indianapolis.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The NBA season begins three o'clock today, Boston at Detroit on NBC.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then at seven o'clock, it is though seventy-six years against the defending champion, Nick's at seven o'clock.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oklahoma City again, San Antonio at nine thirty three really good ones.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Paces report season preview is released at 1 o'clock today, a little bit later on YouTube.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's with me and my courage, and our guest, John Robertson, and Will, Brotherford, and I'll play the first segment of that for you on this podcast in bonus time right after your 10 minute report.
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: IU men soccer visits Ohio State tonight, seven o'clock on the Big Ten Network in a big, Big Ten Showdown.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Hoosiers are 11-1 and 2 overall, 4-1 and 1 in the Big Ten after their first conference loss Friday at Rutgers.
• 9:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: IU currently tied for 2nd, 3 points behind Michigan State, in the conference standings.
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Ball State quarterback Keldrick Luster has been named Mac Offensive Player of the Week.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: After he led the Cardinals to a 32-31 overtime win over Bowling Green for their first Mac win of the year, he threw for 195 yards and ran for 125, through for the game winning 2-point conversion, Ball State's first Mac road win since 2024.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I need to get Star Press sports that are Kate Hampton on this show to talk a little Ball State football.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And finally, and did you know Hamilton's out these terms boys tennis team won their first ever state championship, defeating Delta 4 to 1 on Saturday 4 of the title.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hamilton's out these turn finish 22 and 1 winning their last 22 matches.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're starting lineup features two freshmen and a sophomore.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: and Franklin Central Unified Flag Football captured their first state championship meeting Elkark 57-41, finished the season 13-0, the flashes stopped a potential game tying possession before Charles Rigdon scored the game clinching touchdown.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And a couple of weeks ago, Zion's Village Girls Golf captured its third consecutive state championship Taylor Snively, a junior, her third individual state championship, and I'm just going to say it.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Zion's Village Golf may be the best high school sports team in Indiana.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And now you know everything I know about Central Indiana sports.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for listening.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will be back tomorrow.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: We will have a Purdue report talking in some basketball early Wednesday.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Plus IU football and IU basketball podcast coming very soon with Grant Shows and my cuddle.
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please stay tuned for bonus time with Mike Rich, John Robertson.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Will Rutherford and myself are preview of the Indiana Pacers 2026, 2027 season.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, guys, it's here.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: NBA season starts the day.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Pacer start tomorrow.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I eat a lot.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: I say this every year.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I've ever been this excited about a pacer's team, but yeah, I think it's really true this year.
• 11:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I really believe this is going to be not only a contender, a true true NBA Championship contender.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the five teams I believe will be there at the end.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I also believe this team is going to be so much fun to watch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As I said on the last page of the report, my critch, I think this team is significantly better than the team that came one game away from one in the NBA championship two years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Ty Reese's back, what are your expectations?
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's turned conference finals, at least.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would love to see him make it to the finals.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I agree, I think, on paper and began the season.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the best lineup that we've had to start with.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: probably ever.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's, there's just so much potential for this team.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: And again, if injuries are not an issue, I think this team is definitely in top 40 into the season.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the over under is on the lens.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was somewhere in the 40s or something like that, but I would definitely be betting on the over on that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, John.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I said the Pacers record for wins and it's been with 61 and I fully expect that to be something that they approach, if not surpassed.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I would completely put them over 50.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that they are going to struggle initially out the game.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I do think there is some level of in-season acclamation that has to happen.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as good as they've looked in the preseason, I do question Tyreys' ability to play full minutes right away.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I do think that they will be...
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Smart about the way they deploy the rotation and the early going.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that this is probably a 54-winting or so I would expect them to be the three-seed probably in a dangerous three-seed at that I think they're gonna host the round one and then we'll see where we go from there But this is has all the makings to be a really good team on both sides of the ball if they can stay healthy and Deploy grit-carlyle system is best as possible
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: So I think the starters look really good from all the pre-season games.
• 14:15
  [SPEAKER_04]: They were being very dominant when they were playing.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, when we lost to the bucks the other night it because it was like the second and third teams.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_04]: So I'm really not too concerned about the starters as long as we stay healthy, which is always a concern with the Pacers, right?
• 14:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: Health is always a concern always.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm not too high on this 76er's team.
• 14:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: I know that everybody is like thinking to lebron and just everybody in Jol and B.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: This is going to be the son stopable force, but like, I don't think they're going to be able to hang with the speed of the Pacers.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_04]: Like, they're just old.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: They're all old.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: Like, they're almost my age.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's old.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: So, I don't, I think, I think expecting 6 and 2 is setting yourself up for a little bit of disemployment.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's possible.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's, I'm not even going to say it's unlikely, but I just think I would temper expectations just because it's the Pacers, right?
• 15:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's Indiana sports.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: I went to the colds game yesterday, so no matter what the Pacers do, it can't be the worst of what I've witnessed in person yesterday.
• 15:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's the colds game.
• 15:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: So, like,
• 15:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just, I watch them in the preseason and I am blown away by how good they are.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the thing.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: The starting line up when they went to the finals two years ago had a center that didn't fit.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: It had a young Andrew Nimhard who wasn't a very good defender who was starting to become a young Aaron Neesmith who went from a pretty good defender to a very, very good defender.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: and they brought in Kelly Ubrae, who that's his specialty.
• 15:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Zubotzness isn't necessarily a great defensive player, but he's an upgrade from Miles Turner in every way except for shooting, and my crutches we've been talking about forever would love have in a center who just will not take a three point or at all this year, that's love it.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, love it.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: We still have a center that's going to take three pointers.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're coming off the bench and that's hopefully where he comes off the entire season is off the bench.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I love what the paces are doing.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like the pick and roll.
• 16:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: I like Zubot's out there satin picks going right to the basket.
• 16:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just a true center.
• 16:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean it's fantastic to see and I mean
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: a system with that type of center and the pieces around Zubats is just going to, it's going to make them better.
• 16:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're going to get more opportunities, they're going to generate more defensive rebounds.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Offensive rebounds, I just super excited.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was pretty hurt last year when we were waiting on the draft and everything.
• 17:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think, you know, but would we have gotten better in the draft and we got right now?
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: to start this season.
• 17:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't probably if they'd got to top four of those guys are all I don't know.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if those top four would fit as good as what we got right now Well, they wouldn't be on the starting lineup.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
• 17:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's starting one.
• 17:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that's what I'm worried about.
• 17:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's what the starting lineup looks like.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's what's kind of when the championship.
• 17:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, yeah, maybe three, four years down the road.
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of those players would've been a great asset, but
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm, I'm thinking now, I don't have many more seasons left to see the, the pastures with a championship.
• 17:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't need to be like, I'm a Cub Spanett too, and you know, what was a 108 years took for them to win a championship.
• 17:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I won't make it that long with the pastures.
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be a 108 before the colds win one.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh God, at least at least I saw the championship for them.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot more where that came from.
• 18:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wanna clock today on podcast a little later in the day.
• 18:08
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• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks again.
• 20:18
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