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Nebraska loses but impresses, Bill Belichick NOT a 1st Ballot HOFer, Matt Postins talks Big 12 Hoops · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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  Wednesday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Trent Condon, Ken Miller for the next couple of hours talking
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  sports with you. Thanks for starting your
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  afternoon here with us. We'll take you until 2 off the
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  bench at that time, 2 until 5 overtime Iowa, 5 to 6.
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  Here's what's coming up with a Trent and myself.
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  We'll take a a look at the Big 12 basketball wives with a
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  friend, Matt Postons, who covers it for Heartland College Sports.
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  Deep dive into a really fun conference to watch.
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  We will do that with Matt Postons at 12:25.
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  One O clock off to Chicago. We'll go.
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  And then Tommy Birch, our final guest, covers the Iowa State
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  women, covers the Drake women and of course the Iowa Cubs.
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  So we got a number of things to get to with Tommy and he will
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  join us coming up here at 1:30. Trent will make some plays
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  before we get out of here just before 2:00 and get home and get
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  everything set and turn on the TV, the Big 10 network for 6:00.
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  When off we go to Iowa's. They will host USC as the Hawks
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  back on the floor tonight. But as Big 10 play, I thought
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  the spotlight last night, Trent and I was thoroughly
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  entertained. I really was.
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  This Nebraska, Michigan game was was good.
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  I was pulling for, well, I'm a Husker, as you know.
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  He knows this. Every Oscar Miller, but I wanted
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  him to keep it going right and undermanned Mass, not playing
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  fragers. How do you say his name?
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  The second is the freshman's the third leading scorer.
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  He wasn't able to even make the trip so they were short handed
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  but man they fought their you know what's often if it would
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  have should have Michigan got him late and referees swallowing
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  a whistle when Hoiberg was clearly charged as what's his
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  name, Kenny comes charging down the lane right into him.
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  No call lay up good and that Michigan would go on to win the
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  game. But hell of a game nonetheless.
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  Referees calls, misses or not, 2 point game after the 1st 20
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  minutes and then the defenses on both sides really tightened up
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  but a hell of a game. Yeah, Frager and Mass being out
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  of this game, I think a couple of things are true out of this
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  one and I was so happy that I had it on the DVR and was able
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  to watch it when I got home. You.
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  Had you were basketball high school?
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  Last yeah, it was on the South side at the round.
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  I love it. I saw the picture.
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  That is such a cool building. Yes, it really is.
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  It is one of the jewels of high school athletics.
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  You know, one of the old school gyms that is still around and
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  they've done a nice job of making that a real fun
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  environment for the kids. But SL Roosevelt, so Roosevelt
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  just got about a couple weeks ago, a transfer eligible who was
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  at North Damir Coleman is his name.
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  He's 69. He came off the bench, he scored
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  16 and he what shots he's a junior.
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  He it's going to be a problem. So Roosevelt's 11 and three, but
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  their strength, the schedule is not towards the top of the
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  powers like Dubuque senior over on the east side and and Cedar
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  Rapids, Kennedy, Italy, what they've been able to do Cedar
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  Falls, who's the number one team in the state who beat Waukee
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  Northwest and of course all the suburban schools around here.
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  But if you get your sub state, that's going to be coming up
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  here in a couple of weeks and you see Rose not that soon.
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  It's coming up. If you see Roosevelt's the two
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  or three seed in your sub state. You're not liking that draw.
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  Start doing some homework because that Roosevelt team,
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  they got a bunch of. Different kids name again.
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  Coleman is the last name Demir Yep D apostrophe Mir Damir
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  Coleman. He is a difference maker.
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  They have the 8th leading scorer in the state and I'm not sure
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  but they have a Newman kid on the team.
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  I wonder if that's Newman, David Newman.
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  I wonder if that's his kid. He was a senior.
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  He had three, three pointers in the first quarter.
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  Not sure of the connection there.
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  I was up in the catbird way up there at the Roundhouse spot.
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  Didn't have a chance to talk to anybody.
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  But if that's the case, he can fill it up from the outside.
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  Still looking for maybe a dark horse candidate to punch their
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  ticket to state. I like the Rough Riders there.
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  You go good stuff. Well, I like the Huskers, and I
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  like them more after they got beat last night.
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  Trent, how about that? I wasn't sure.
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  Right? I mean, yeah, 20, you know, but
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  can is it fool's gold? Well, you can't win 20 games by
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  a fluke, but where do they fit? Is this a legitimate team?
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  And after they got beat last night, again short handed, I I
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  came with an entirely different opinion about Hoiberg Huskers.
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  I'm right there with you. I think we learned even more. 20
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  straight wins. We learn more in one loss than
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  we did in those twenty consecutive victories to begin
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  the season. And it goes from.
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  It's a nice story, but there's not sustainability.
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  It's Nebraska after all. They can't make a run.
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  They've never won an NCAA Tournament game ever.
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  They're the only power conference team to never win an
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  NCAA Tournament game. Northwestern finally won one a
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  couple years back. They are the only one that has
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  left that has never won a game, a single game in the NCAA
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  tournament at minimum as a team that's getting the second
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  weekend. But if Mass is back, Fraker's
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  going to come back and he'll be healthy.
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  He's just sick at this point in time.
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  This team learned a lot about them.
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  And it's not just three-point variants that they're going to
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  make a bunch of three pointers last night.
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  You know, they're 1132 good, but not great by any means.
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  That's not. Really good in the first half.
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  On the other side, Michigan, and after what they did earlier this
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  year when they beat San Diego State by 40, follow that up with
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  a 30 point win against Auburn and then culminating with a 40
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  point win against Gonzaga. That's all it took for me.
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  It wasn't just that it was this might be the best team we've
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  ever seen. I'm with you.
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  I remember having that conversation.
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  There is something to be said though about Dusty May, who I
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  think is a tremendous coach. And Indiana screwed the pooch on
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  this one. An Indiana guy that wanted to go
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  there. Instead, they gave Woodson
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  another year and now they got De Vries.
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  This is going to be something I think that Indiana fans are
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  going to ruin the day. But that aside, Dusty May is an
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  excellent coach, but remember excellent coaches when we're in
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  November, How many years over the last, I don't know, 30-5
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  years that Kay was there that they'd go to Maui and win.
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  They go to the San Juan Shootout and win.
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  They go to Alaska and win. When you have an elite level
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  coach, you can do that and especially in today's
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  environment at the beginning of the season, everybody's trying
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  to figure out line UPS out well. When you have somebody that's
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  elite, I think Dusty mate is elite.
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  So you think they were ahead of the curve as far as they were
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  OK? I think they they were ahead of
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  everybody else at that point and everybody else is gay.
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  How about this Michigan? They've been covered in seven
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  straight games, now 7. In a row?
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  Is that just Vegas overvaluing? Them, I think that's a part of
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  it. That's fair.
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  But also look at some of those games.
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  That Penn State team is terrible.
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  Bad, yes. They struggled one by two.
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  They lose at home, two way above average Wisconsin team at home.
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  You lose to a team like that. You struggle against Washington,
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  who's not even a tournament team.
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  You struggle against Oregon, who's maybe not even an NIT
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  team. They're going to the crown.
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  These are the kind of squads that we're talking about at this
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  point. I think Michigan and they play
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  dumb. How many careless turnovers did
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  they have last night? No, I was watching it.
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  Fast forward, you know, I was getting through it pretty
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  quickly. But I'm like, where was that?
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  Then I hit pause and I hit like, what?
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  What was that? 119 turnovers?
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  But it wasn't just the 19 turnovers.
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  It was the careless nature and they can't shoot.
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  And we're talking about a lot of things here.
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  To win a national championship. I know the Big 10 never wins
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  national championships. I mean, that's another thing
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  outside of football, they don't win national championships.
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  Certainly a men's basketball, it's been a quarter century.
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  However, this Michigan team, they're crossing.
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  So let me ask you this. Which of these these two teams
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  in the big tennis stock has fallen further in your mind,
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  Purdue or Michigan? There's another one right now.
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  Michigan is still 19 to 1. Purdue, on the other hand, has
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  lost three straight. And it's not just the losses
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  that they've had it. It's just the way that they've
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  been playing. There's an interesting number, a
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  new number over with my boy Ken Pomeroy, a new metric, a new
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  metric that he has been measuring starting in the new
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  year. And it is the distance of your
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  two point shots basically showing, are you guys getting to
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  the rim, they getting in the paint or are you settling for
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  those mid range jumpers that we know analytically are awful.
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  And Mccollum's talked about it. All kinds of coaches talk about
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  this. Long twos, brutal, never want to
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  do that. Even floaters not considered a
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  good shot in today's age of basketball.
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  Purdue, these last three losses, they have had a very high 2
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  point distance. They're settling.
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  They're not getting to the rim. And when you're not getting to
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  the rim, they're also not getting to the free throw line.
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  They kind of culminate together. A new metric that I'm going to
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  be keeping my eye on a little bit more.
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  Hopefully this is something that can unlock something for me in
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  college basketball. Why did you have a bad night
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  yesterday? One and two, yeah, yeah, after
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  2IN133 on the week. Trading water you.
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  Losing the juice. There's juice too, yeah.
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  No, I know, I know. Let's talk, I guess about the,
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  the, the national story that's going around just for a minute.
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  I don't want to spend a ton of time on it, but it is it is
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  somewhat look, I didn't know Jimmie Johnson was on Twitter
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  until yesterday. Full disclosure, And I'm
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  guessing most of the country feels the same way.
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  But when you've got a guy of that ilk in in Jimmie Johnson,
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  who obviously, you know, won Super Bowls as a as a head coach
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  and is in the Hall of Fame, The fact that Bill Belichick did not
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  get in on the 1st, I mean, what are we doing?
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  What are we doing? By what measure Is he not a
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  first ballot in Hall of Famer? Because they cheated?
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  Did they? I mean, they've retracted the
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  story on the spy gate during the Olympics or during the the
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  playoffs. The paper, the writer that put
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  it out there had to retract it because it wasn't just
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  Deflategate. Are we still upset about that?
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  That's going to keep. Belichick, who won 6 Super Bowls
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  as a head coach, 2 as an assistant coach, has been to
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  more Super Bowls than any coach we're going to keep.
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  I hate the guy I don't like. Him.
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  And I think I speak for most people, but how is this guy not
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  in the freaking Hall of Fame from the jump, please.
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  I think we found out that Tom Brady was more important than
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  Bill Belichick. When he went to Tampa, Yeah.
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  Well, if you don't have a quarterback, how many times you
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  said you have a quarterback, you don't have a chance.
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  That was, I think that pushed. Who is it?
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  Belichick, Brady, that conversation that was happening
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  for years and years. That pushed it I think, pretty
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  easily to that side of the equation.
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  You couple it with his persona, but I think there's something to
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  do with that. But to have a six time Super
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  Bowl champion, to have a guy that won two more as a defensive
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  coordinator with the Giants, to not have this guy, you wonder
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  what else is going on and maybe more importantly, going forward
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  in the NFL, are they voting on this correctly?
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  50 people coming together. Is this the way that we should
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  be doing it? Because I read, was it Mike
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  Sando? I think it was.
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  He was one of them. Yeah.
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  And he was talking about at least the theory that he had.
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  There was a group. Belichick's going to be fine.
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  Let's get together. We want to push this guy.
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  All these writers know each other, right?
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  And I'm sure they've had many talks, probably over a couple of
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  veils about guys we think should be Hall of Famers.
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  Let's all get together. We're going to be have this
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  betting block together. We'll leave Belichick off.
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  He's going to have enough votes. It's going to be fine.
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  We're going to push this guy, Player he.
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  Doesn't need mine because he's going to get in he's.
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  Going to get in and if you get all of a sudden it goes from two
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  of those guys, all of a sudden it's five of those guys and
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  there's a couple other that Belichick was mean to him at a
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  press conference. We had Bill Polling's running
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  around the room and saying, you know, and he's got Dungy because
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  Dungy hates him too. Doesn't like he's not a Belich
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  guy. There's another former coach on
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  that list of former GM, but I don't know, it just it just to
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  me, it kind of diminishes Canton.
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  Yes, it's a it's a black mark. It is.
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  There's no doubt you have candidates that should Rodger
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  Craig be in there, should Ken Anderson be in there, should
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  Elsie Greenwood. Those are some of the names that
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  try to push Robert Kraft. Is in there OK?
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  He spends money. He writes checks.
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  He's got a ton of money. He's the owner.
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  He sits in the freaking box, right?
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  And what did he change? He he kept football in Boston, I
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  guess because they were on their way to Saint Louis.
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  If if he didn't go or Hartford, that was another place that they
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  were talking about building a stadium.
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  OK, that's fine. He kept.
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  For the, for the, for the Massachusetts community.
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  Exactly that doesn't make you illuminate you into I need to be
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  in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  I I don't get that there. There's one guy that I think
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  owner that should be in there. It's not even the Rooney, Art
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  Rooney going back. So hang on a second, let me
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  there's one owner that you is he and he currently owns the team.
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  He does. All right, let me see if I can
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  figure this out. I So the first owner, whenever
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  you say owner, the first one that pops in your head is Jerry
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  Jones. And that's the guy and the only
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  reason. It's nothing about on the
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  football field, though The 90s dynasty was excellent.
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  It's what he did to make the NFL the financial bohemian that they
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  are. When he went out there and said
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  hell with you, I'm not doing a deal with a Reebok.
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  I'm bringing Nike in, you might say.
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  It was coke and. Pepsi, that was another one that
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  he had. That was another huge one.
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  Yeah, fine. Guess what?
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  My stadium. I'm getting more money from
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  Pepsi. That's who I'm going to go with.
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  You can have your deal here eventually.
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  Is that going to lead to the NFC East having their own television
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  package? That's a conversation for down
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  the road. However, Jerry Jones, when
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  you're talking about the finances and what he's actually
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  done for the betterment of the league, he is a guy that should
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  be in there, certainly before Bob Kraft.
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  Has his last a couple of decades as being the Quas?
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  No, he's not the Quas. No, he's the GM has that.
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  Does that diminish his chances? Kind of like Russell Wilson, who
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  was going to be a Hall of Famer until, you know, he fleece the
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  Broncos and then fleece the Steelers and then he fleece the
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  Giants and he's looking to fleece his next team because
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  this is what he does. He's an incredible salesman.
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  Well, he he doesn't have a gun to these people's heads either.
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  That's what I mean. He's an incredible salesman.
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  He fleece his teams. He's no good, probably his agent
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  bid. Well, whatever, you know, God, I
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  can't stand that guy. I I can tell.
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  Anyways, I was back on the floor tonight against USCI.
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  Have not seen, I'm not even sure I've seen USC play, so you're
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  going to have to help me out with this one.
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  If I did, they'd it. I certainly don't recall it.
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  I tried to go back in the memory bank this morning.
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  I don't recall. I looked at their schedule.
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  No, I can't remember that game. What did what did they do well?
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  What? Well, what Well, I will, by the
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  way, is a 9 1/2 point favorite. So is Drake.
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  You and I is on the road. They're a 1 1/2 point dog.
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  Hawks favored 9 1/2 over USC. Should they be?
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  And what did they do well? Well, just yesterday it was the
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  birthday of Chad Baker Bazaar, one of their best players.
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  Who? Turned.
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  Is he their leading scorer? Not turn He's he's up there.
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  He turned 26. No. 26 years old, what are we
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  doing here? He started at JUCO, then
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  Duquesne for a year, a year at San Diego State, then two years
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  at Auburn, and now this year in his I believe, 7th year of
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  college basketball. He had a COVID year, if he's
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  going back that. Far and the JUCO year, remember,
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  didn't count this year. So here we are with a 26 year
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  old out there now. He's good, really athletic and
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  that's as a whole, that's what this USC team is.
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  They're long, they're rugged in that fashion.
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  Doesn't feel like a great match up for Iowa.
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  So you're grabbing the 9 1/2? I think so, but they also stink
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  offensively and if they're not knocking down shots, it can go
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  the other way and it could get ugly in a hurry for them because
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  they are limited. Really good defensive team.
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  I would say probably the best thing about them.
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  They rebound well, which I was OK, but not a even.
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  I don't think a good rebounding team.
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  They're fine on the rebounding end.
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  That would be the path to victory for USC.
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  Back down 8 to 10 threes, dominate on the boards and
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  really make it difficult for Iowa to get anything going
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  outside of there. They're long, they're lanky,
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  they're athletic. They're going to make it very,
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  very difficult. And with Baker Mazzara at 6 foot
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  7 guarding Sturtz, not many guys that are taller than Bennett
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  Sturtz that he faces throughout the course of that one.
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  I don't think it's going to be Woods that's going to be on him
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  defensively. So that's what you're going to
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  have. They got a 7 five guy.
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  Does he play? Yeah, he plays, plays about half
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  the minutes. He'll be out there 2022 minutes,
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  something like that in Dines. It's just a weird match up.
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  I think more than anything for Iowa.
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  The other component I think is important about this game is I
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  believe they just stayed here in the Midwest.
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  They played Sunday, watched that game for a little bit on Peacock
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  during the AFC championship game, and they I would guess
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  either came right to Iowa City, right?
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  Yeah, where? Where did they play?
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  In Madison on Sunday Sunday, middle of the.
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  Afternoon. Probably at some point, yeah.
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  Probably it wouldn't make sense. Over.
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  No, I'm with you. I'm with.
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  You you get back, you get back Sunday night, then you're
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  getting back on a plane Tuesday. I I would anticipate, though I
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  haven't seen that. I wonder maybe a little bit
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  weary. They lost a home to Purdue,
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  tight one. Then they lost a home to
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  Northwestern. Beat Wisconsin on Sunday.
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  They're inconsistent. Inconsistent.
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  I was the better team, no doubt, but just a weird matchup overall
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  for Iowa. Yeah.
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  Well, we'll see 6:00 tip Big 10 network has that one and then it
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  goes into Minnesota and Wisconsin later on which should
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  be that follows that is the the follow up to the Hawks who get
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  the early window like that. That's awful.
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  I know I got wrestling practice Little ninja so.
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  You got the DVD. What do you call them?
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  DV. RDVR Yeah, I have the DVR I'll
• 17:11
  be watching on my phone, have the earbuds in during wrestling
• 17:13
  practice, trying to catch as much as I can during that point.
• 17:16
  Big 10 schedule came out, your thoughts on we whoever had that
• 17:20
  yeah leak. It was all right, too.
• 17:23
  It was the whole thing. The whole thing.
• 17:25
  I didn't see that. Yeah, all nine games were all
• 17:28
  right there. They had it correctly and as we
• 17:30
  talked about, and you couldn't draw up a more difficult
• 17:32
  schedule for Iowa. Not to start.
• 17:34
  And the way that the in the fashion that it plays out in the
• 17:36
  first three, I want to go this way.
• 17:38
  So if you missed it on the road in Ann Arbor, that's Big 10 game
• 17:43
  number one. You come home for most people's
• 17:45
  number one team preseason, the Ohio State Buckeyes, and then
• 17:49
  you go on the road to a place that Iowa historically struggled
• 17:53
  on the West Coast. This time it gets a washing
• 17:54
  team. That's going to be good.
• 17:56
  Of those three games, what's the most likely win?
• 17:59
  Oh my God, Michigan. That's exactly what I thought
• 18:04
  too. That's my thought exactly.
• 18:07
  It's because of the bugaboo. Out in the West Coast.
• 18:09
  You have USC down, you have USCP and he let him back in the game
• 18:12
  and Caden Weechen's wearing a 10 1/2 as opposed to an 11 by.
• 18:15
  The way I'm glad you brought his name up.
• 18:17
  Apparently he's had a hell of a week.
• 18:18
  Yes, he is going to be drafted. I think so.
• 18:21
  Think the Rams would have liked to have him back there Sunday?
• 18:23
  Yeah, might have been a different conversation we're
• 18:26
  having about Super Bowl 60. You have those three games,
• 18:30
  Washington, the struggles on the West Coast, it looking at that
• 18:33
  schedule, two overall in the Big 10 that day.
• 18:35
  It might be a late night game and coupled with Iowa also has a
• 18:39
  bye the following week. Lot of times if they're going to
• 18:41
  put you in that late night, 9:30 central window, if you have a
• 18:45
  bye week, it makes it at least a little bit more palpable.
• 18:48
  I think that's going to be a conversation.
• 18:49
  Let elite slip away against USC. Let elite slip away against US
• 18:53
  and Michigan. I think you'd rather get them
• 18:55
  early. I think so too.
• 18:56
  Yeah, I think so too. Winning.
• 18:57
  Ham's a good coach Underwood. I think we're going to see more
• 19:00
  growth. Well, you have to, right?
• 19:01
  They're going to be good. But can you go in there and win
• 19:05
  2017? I would.
• 19:07
  I'm not saying they're going to win.
• 19:08
  I'm no. You asked which is the more
• 19:10
  winnable of those three? Yes, it's Michigan.
• 19:12
  Michigan won. Washington too.
• 19:15
  Is it? I think so.
• 19:16
  I think Ohio State's really good.
• 19:17
  But it's a Kinnick. There's that, yeah.
• 19:21
  There's that now. You had two semi finalists on
• 19:23
  the ropes a year ago in Kinnick Stadium.
• 19:25
  You. Absolutely.
• 19:26
  Did you did? Charged up environment big dude.
• 19:32
  Probably, I would think. Coming down the heels of a win
• 19:34
  against Michigan. What else?
• 19:35
  What else is playing that day that would move the needle?
• 19:38
  Where's where's Indiana at? Nebraska.
• 19:42
  No. Home to Nebraska.
• 19:43
  What else is it? Oregon is where they UCLA.
• 19:46
  Penn State is where US. It's big.
• 19:48
  It's big. Noon.
• 19:49
  Kick off, you just lock that in right now, I think.
• 19:51
  You can. I think you can.
• 19:53
  I looked at Penn State's schedule just because I want to
• 19:55
  see for how Campbell does this. Year.
• 19:57
  What a joke. Really is.
• 19:58
  Home to Wisconsin at Northwestern and then USC at
• 20:02
  Michigan by home to Purdue at Washington?
• 20:05
  Home to Minnesota, Rutgers, Maryland.
• 20:07
  Jesus, Matt Campbell's going to win what, 9?
• 20:12
  That's it. Well I mean they should sweep to
• 20:15
  non con 10. Yeah.
• 20:20
  Is that it? What if he wins 10 games?
• 20:23
  He gets to the playoff. If he wins 10 game, probably
• 20:25
  going to get to. The playoff, we need to get in
• 20:26
  the playoff, yes, yeah, they're going to 10 and two, I think a
• 20:30
  minimum. And I open up my app.
• 20:33
  It's not. It's not available yet, is it?
• 20:35
  To make College Football Playoff already, it's not out there, but
• 20:39
  boy, I, I as soon as that schedule came out, that was the
• 20:42
  first thing that I did. Does anybody have anything a
• 20:46
  college football outside a national championship?
• 20:48
  There's the Heisman. Market is open to DraftKings.
• 20:51
  I saw that too, which let me just scratch my head a little
• 20:54
  bit. Here's another thing.
• 20:56
  There are three win totals already out for next season.
• 20:59
  Are they Big 10 or Big 12? No damn it. 2 SEC and an ACC
• 21:04
  regular season win totals. This is from FanDuel, Arkansas.
• 21:07
  Why would they put them up you? That's exactly my gamble.
• 21:10
  In Arkansas, you can't. That's what I thought.
• 21:14
  New coaching staff 4 1/2 OK, all right, I know nothing.
• 21:17
  OK, LSU, little bit more in. OK, Yeah. 9 1/2.
• 21:21
  Well, there's the lane factor. Absolutely.
• 21:23
  And the other Speaking of Penn State, their former coach James
• 21:26
  Franklin and Virginia Tech. Now this makes no sense to me
• 21:28
  whatsoever. Do the owners of that company,
• 21:31
  is that where they went to school or anything like that?
• 21:33
  The board of directors. Possibly 7 1/2 the number, by
• 21:36
  the way, for the Hokies in that one.
• 21:38
  Well, we should get those relatively soon I would think.
• 21:41
  Nebraska what do they get other other than the non con They
• 21:45
  start at Michigan State, then they host Maryland host Indiana
• 21:48
  at Oregon by host Washington at Illinois at Ruskers Rutgers.
• 21:54
  Their final home game will be at the They'll host the Buckeyes on
• 21:57
  Senior Day before they come. Over.
• 21:58
  They're going for an 8. And Matt rules going.
• 22:01
  Where into retirement he'll get one more year.
• 22:05
  You think one more year? Well they just gave him the huge
• 22:07
  ext 2 months ago. They did, right?
• 22:09
  Yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah.
• 22:10
  But if it goes poorly by the time Black Friday of 2027 comes
• 22:14
  around? That'll be that'll be the the
• 22:18
  swan. Sun.
• 22:18
  I don't even know if it'll be the Swan Sun.
• 22:20
  So, so you've got them. So they let's say this week, the
• 22:23
  big the non. Con What's the non con?
• 22:26
  I can't. I can't see.
• 22:27
  OK, It's Ohio Bowling Green, and that looks like North Texas.
• 22:33
  I see a loss in there. Maybe two and one.
• 22:36
  Michigan State. Stop me when you when you hear
• 22:39
  they'll beat Michigan State, will they?
• 22:40
  Yeah, I think so. Well, that's on the road.
• 22:42
  Yeah. OK.
• 22:44
  Let's say they're three and one at this point.
• 22:45
  OK, 3:00 and 1:00 and then Maryland. 4:00 and 1:00.
• 22:50
  Indiana. Four and two, Oregon, 4:00 and
• 22:53
  3:00. Washington at home?
• 22:55
  No. Yes.
• 22:56
  At home. Yep.
• 22:57
  Let's give it to him 5. At Illinois, loss at Rutgers. 6.
• 23:05
  Ohio State, Iowa. Six and six best case scenario.
• 23:08
  I could see it. All right, we'll take your time.
• 23:09
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  Third during football and into the basketball season.
• 25:00
  I got a tough one for you right off the bat.
• 25:03
  Now you have to vote today. Matt Postons, who's the Player
• 25:05
  of the year in the Big 12. A lot of really good candidates,
• 25:10
  but I think I'd have to lean toward JC top and at this point
• 25:13
  from Texas Tech. I mean the the the last two
• 25:16
  weeks he has been at another level where 25 and 10 looks like
• 25:21
  average for him. I mean he has just done some
• 25:24
  incredible things offensively. And when I was in Lubbock for
• 25:28
  their game with BYU 2 weekends ago, to hear Grant Mccaslin talk
• 25:32
  about how JT Toppen is not only, you know, leveled up his
• 25:37
  defense, which you can see on the floor, but also challenging
• 25:40
  his teammates to be better on the defensive end.
• 25:42
  And it's beginning to work as they played over the last couple
• 25:45
  of weeks. I think it all just puts
• 25:46
  together, you know, a guy who's having a season where he could
• 25:50
  end up averaging a double, double for the year.
• 25:53
  And just his leadership, the way he's played, the way he's, you
• 25:56
  know, lifted Texas Tech up the last couple of weeks.
• 25:59
  Right now, he would probably get my vote, but it's not easy.
• 26:02
  I mean, there's so much talent in this conference this year.
• 26:05
  I mean, Joshua Jefferson makes a good case.
• 26:08
  Jayden Bradley at Arizona makes a good case.
• 26:11
  You could make a case for Darren Peterson, even though he has
• 26:14
  only played roughly 10 games. He's had an incredible year.
• 26:17
  The league is loaded. Yeah, the league is loaded.
• 26:23
  And there are going to be some guys that in some leagues would
• 26:25
  probably be second team all conference that are going to be
• 26:27
  all real mentioned this year. Think about that.
• 26:30
  You're right though. Well, and I want to kind of go
• 26:31
  that direction with you Matt. As we look at Arizona and they
• 26:34
  win the regular season crown, you got to put somebody you
• 26:36
  would feel as a first team all conference guy.
• 26:40
  But but who is it? Is it Bradley, is it Buries?
• 26:43
  Is it Pete if he kind of re emerges like he did back early
• 26:46
  in the season? I mean, they have so many
• 26:47
  different guys that can beat you if you could only choose one.
• 26:50
  Or maybe, maybe a better way of phrasing it, who is the MVP of
• 26:54
  this Arizona team? Todd.
• 26:56
  Well, the, the great thing about their team is that they're so
• 26:59
  versatile and so diverse. They've got 9 different guys
• 27:01
  that can beat you. You know, one night one guy
• 27:03
  doesn't have it, another guy steps up.
• 27:05
  He saw that against the BYU Philip, he did not have a really
• 27:09
  good game, but Burris and and Bradley did.
• 27:12
  I think I've leaned toward Bradley at this point just
• 27:15
  because he's been so consistent throughout the year.
• 27:17
  He doesn't have to score a ton of points to be important to
• 27:20
  what you're trying to do on the floor.
• 27:22
  And you know, just his leadership throughout the year
• 27:25
  has just been astounding. But, but Burris, you know what,
• 27:28
  he's really come on the past 2-3 weeks, he's had that kind of
• 27:32
  trajectory that you would expect from a freshman, a guy who
• 27:35
  needed ten games to get used to the pace of the college game.
• 27:38
  And now he's 20 games in and you can see he's very comfortable
• 27:42
  with with the game. He's very comfortable with how
• 27:45
  they use them. He's now levelled up to being
• 27:48
  able to handle Big 12 defense and dish it out, too.
• 27:50
  So the great thing about that team is that Tommy Lloyd's got a
• 27:53
  great mix of veterans, young guys and freshmen, and all of
• 27:57
  them have bought into doing the same thing, which if you're
• 27:59
  going to win a championship, that's the kind of team you have
• 28:01
  to have. No, no question about it.
• 28:03
  Well, let's take this one step forward then.
• 28:06
  Newcomer of the year. I mean, the Bansa and Yesafu.
• 28:09
  It's just, there's just so many, Pete, there's so many incredible
• 28:13
  freshmen in this conference. Peterson I He might be.
• 28:16
  That might be the answer. Who's the freshman of the year
• 28:19
  when it's said and done? Yeah.
• 28:21
  I mean, that's the good. That's an interesting question
• 28:23
  because there's a newcomer of the year and as a freshman of
• 28:25
  the year, the newcomer of the year typically ends up being
• 28:28
  like transfer, a college age transfer who isn't the
• 28:31
  conference for the first year. If you're talking freshman of
• 28:35
  the year, I'm probably leaning toward the monster at this point
• 28:40
  just because he's played the whole year.
• 28:42
  He's played at a high level the whole year.
• 28:44
  He's had a couple of little hiccups here and there, which we
• 28:46
  you would expect from a freshman.
• 28:47
  But the nice thing about him is when he has a hiccup, he answers
• 28:51
  the next game. You know, we had 13 against
• 28:53
  Tech. The next game he blew up for 43
• 28:55
  against Utah. You know, he had a, he had a
• 28:58
  solid game against Arizona the other night, 24 points.
• 29:03
  You know, I suspect you'll have a big game the next game.
• 29:05
  So the great thing about him offensively is he answers the
• 29:07
  bell every time he's needed. Now, he needs a lot of work on
• 29:11
  the defensive end. A lot of these freshmen do.
• 29:13
  But, you know, you're asking him to score points.
• 29:15
  You're asking him to take clutch shots for you.
• 29:17
  And he's been doing that for BYU most of the year.
• 29:20
  Want to go to Houston. Lost last time out against Texas
• 29:23
  Tech on the road, had a lead in that game, gave up a big run and
• 29:26
  certainly had an opportunity. Mentioned Fleming's who just
• 29:29
  continues to emerge out of this group.
• 29:31
  We see Houston, obviously what Kelvin Sampson has done here
• 29:34
  historically since he's taken over the program, played for a
• 29:37
  national championship a year ago.
• 29:39
  It feels like there's more upside with Houston.
• 29:41
  Can they win a national championship?
• 29:44
  Yeah, I think so. There are five teams in this
• 29:46
  conference that can win a national championship
• 29:48
  legitimately, and Houston's one of them.
• 29:50
  The reason they can is number one, they still play defense at
• 29:52
  such a high level. It doesn't matter who's on the
• 29:55
  floor. They're going to get after you
• 29:57
  in a way that you know few other teams in this conference can do.
• 30:00
  Offensively, obviously, Fleming's had a huge game the
• 30:03
  other night against Texas Tech, really put that team on their
• 30:05
  back. But the other freshmen are
• 30:07
  starting to get their legs under them offensively.
• 30:10
  Cenac is starting to contribute more on that end of the floor.
• 30:14
  Sharp is kind of bounced back from the slump he had in early
• 30:17
  January. Same with who is on.
• 30:19
  So they've got everything they need, honestly.
• 30:21
  And Tuggler gives them just so many little things that nobody
• 30:24
  else can do that, you know, as long as he's on the floor,
• 30:26
  they're they're set from a defensive standpoint at the rim.
• 30:29
  So they've got everything they need.
• 30:31
  And as these freshmen get better over the course of the next six
• 30:34
  weeks, that's what's going to make them so dangerous in March.
• 30:36
  Because once you get into March, you know, if your guys have
• 30:39
  developed the way you hope they develop, they're not freshmen
• 30:41
  anymore. They're playing like sophomores
• 30:43
  and juniors. And that's where I expect
• 30:44
  Flemings and Cenac and these other freshmen to be when they
• 30:47
  get into March. You know, maybe unfair when we
• 30:49
  when we look at Pete because he he breaks in against the
• 30:52
  defending national champs. Florida had 30.
• 30:56
  So if you didn't know his name, if you watched, you know, Sports
• 30:59
  Center, whatever, very quickly you knew who this kid was and
• 31:01
  that Arizona's got an incredible talent.
• 31:04
  But as of late, what's going on here, do you think?
• 31:06
  Was it just an anomaly? The game bents BYU because he
• 31:10
  did not play very well on the road at Central Florida.
• 31:13
  I don't want to say a freshman wall, but is there something
• 31:15
  wrong with Pete? Do you think?
• 31:17
  Is there an injury maybe that they're not being forthcoming
• 31:19
  on? No, I mean, you have to be
• 31:22
  forthcoming with the injury report now because publish it
• 31:25
  every day. You're supposed to be.
• 31:27
  I don't see anybody who's, I don't see a guy who's injured by
• 31:30
  an injury or anything like that. I think he is just going through
• 31:32
  that inevitable valley that every freshman goes through,
• 31:36
  especially those freshmen that come out and just like, like you
• 31:39
  said, kill it that first, you know, first 5-10 games of the
• 31:42
  year, which he did. And now he's, you know, he's
• 31:44
  getting a lot of defensive attention from other teams
• 31:47
  because they've seen him on film, which is inevitably
• 31:50
  opening up spots for Burris and other players to help them.
• 31:53
  I think that will all balance out come February and March
• 31:57
  because Arizona's got a murderous schedule in February
• 32:00
  going into the Big 12 tournament.
• 32:02
  You have guys like Burris and Bradley and a Walker who are,
• 32:06
  you know, siphoning off attention from defenders.
• 32:10
  He's going to start getting a lot more, a lot more one-on-one
• 32:12
  attention in February, and I think his scoring will start
• 32:15
  going up at that point. But I don't see a guy who's
• 32:17
  injured. I just see a guy who's, you
• 32:18
  know, like you said, kind of hitting a freshman wall.
• 32:21
  Everybody hits it at some point. You'd rather hit it now than hit
• 32:25
  it in March. Yeah, I'll say good point.
• 32:27
  We've seen teams certainly do that in the rugged nature of the
• 32:30
  Big 12 back to 18 games though, and I think the coaches are
• 32:33
  going to be happy about that because saw a lot of tired teams
• 32:36
  here towards the end of the season last couple of years.
• 32:38
  One of those teams was I was stayed a year ago, look tired at
• 32:40
  different times when we got into February was the downturn what
• 32:44
  we saw blowout loss against Kansas, The hell that they took
• 32:47
  in Cincinnati, was that it or they turned around, did what
• 32:50
  they supposed to beat UCF, throttle them, beat up Oklahoma
• 32:53
  State. They got two more very winnable
• 32:55
  games in front of them, really three before they go to TCU.
• 32:58
  Just your overall view on the Cyclone team?
• 33:02
  I think they're in good shape. I think the one thing they've
• 33:04
  got to correct is the same thing we talked about a couple of
• 33:07
  weeks ago. They they seem to have trouble
• 33:08
  getting off to a good start in games consistently.
• 33:12
  You they they seem to have had this pattern of putting
• 33:15
  themselves in a bit of a hole in the first half and they have to,
• 33:18
  you know, build out of that. That's something they've got to
• 33:20
  get away from. I think they did a better job of
• 33:22
  that last week. I think, you know, that's
• 33:24
  something they can build on this week.
• 33:25
  But I mean, in terms of personnel, they've got
• 33:28
  everything they did. They're a great defensive team.
• 33:30
  They've got a big three offensively.
• 33:32
  They're starting to get guys like Turay and other players to
• 33:35
  really contribute more offensively on that side of the
• 33:37
  ball. I feel like they're one of those
• 33:40
  five teams that are legitimate contenders to get to the Final
• 33:42
  Four and be, you know, in the conversation for a national
• 33:44
  championship. I think they're getting a little
• 33:46
  less chatter now because of those two games.
• 33:49
  I think maybe people look at them and say, well, you know,
• 33:52
  maybe they're maybe they're not what we think they are.
• 33:55
  I think they are what we think they are.
• 33:57
  I think they just hit that inevitable part of their
• 33:59
  schedule where, you know, they go to Kansas, the place where
• 34:02
  they've had tough times winning games and got blown out.
• 34:06
  Then they had a hangover from that against Cincinnati, and
• 34:09
  this is an opportunity for them to get right, turn it around.
• 34:12
  I'm looking forward to their rank games in February because I
• 34:15
  don't think they're going to have another game like that like
• 34:17
  they had against Kansas. Anxious to bring up the piece
• 34:20
  that you wrote. I think it's today at Heartland
• 34:22
  College Sports on the Big 12 Network that apparently has been
• 34:27
  floated out there and was floated out by your market, Big
• 34:30
  12 Media Days, which you attended.
• 34:32
  And obviously, as you pointed out in your column, the driver
• 34:35
  would be at least at this point. I mean, the men are great, but
• 34:37
  the women people are turning in. I mean, Iowa State is the most
• 34:41
  watched women's basketball program.
• 34:42
  I think I was second Baylor's on that list.
• 34:45
  Oklahoma State brings a lot of eyeballs.
• 34:47
  Is there is is this something that is a realistic possibility
• 34:51
  of of happening? How much I guess emphasis is
• 34:54
  your mark putting on that? Is he really trying to get this
• 34:57
  done? I, I don't know if he's
• 35:00
  necessarily trying to get it done.
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  I talked to a couple of athletic directors that Big 12 media days
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  and, you know, kind of asked them the question, would a Big
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  12 network help the conference? And both of them said the same
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  thing. You know, if, if, if we were to
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  take a look at it and they were to help our league in some way
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  in terms of exposure, in terms of getting more attention for,
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  for our Olympic sports and things like that, it would be
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  something to consider. But I don't think it's on their
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  drawing board. The the real point of that
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  column, and I hope, I hope this didn't get lost, was really, you
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  know, women's basketball is better in this conference than
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  it was, you know, 3-4 years ago. And they've got 20 games on
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  national television when it comes to conference play, 27
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  overall. Three of the top ten teams in
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  terms of ratings for women's basketball are Iowa State,
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  Baylor and Oklahoma State. And I would imagine TCU will
• 35:48
  join them after their two national games this week.
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  This is an opportunity for your mark to leverage the viewership
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  and get more opportunities for his women's teams on national TV
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  on linear channels. Some of that could be on a
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  conference network because they feel that's the way they want to
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  go. But I think it's more likely
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  that he could apply the strategy they've used for the men, which
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  is the sub license strategy with CBS and NBC and TNT and and
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  leverage the sub license opportunity to get more of those
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  women's games on a linear channel.
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  I think that right now in the short term that's their better
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  Ave. to to get more attention for those teams.
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  Long term, I guess the network could be an opportunity.
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  I think the the bottom line is how much do the SECACC and Big
• 36:35
  10 networks help help their conferences?
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  I don't know if they're helping them necessarily from a
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  subscription standpoint or a rating standpoint because those
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  that top ten list I just mentioned doesn't include their
• 36:47
  networks. So it doesn't include ratings
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  from ACC Network, Big 10 Network or SEC Network.
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  So it's just linear channels that are non conference
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  specific. So it's an interesting question.
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  I don't think it's on the front burner on their drawing board.
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  I think it's one of those things where if they sat down and said,
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  you know what, the math works, let's give it a shot, they might
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  go for it. But remember, you have to have
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  your third party or your third tier sports rights to do that.
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  ESPN has those rights. All that stuff is on ESPN.
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  Plus, they'd have to talk ESPN into doing a network if they
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  wanted to before the TV contract ends in 203031.
• 37:25
  Interesting. Last 30 seconds, Matt, a little
• 37:27
  football question for you. The Big 12 championship game
• 37:30
  moving to Friday night. You like the move?
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  I do like the move. I think it gives them a nice
• 37:35
  spotlight. It gives them an opportunity to
• 37:39
  really kind of showcase the league in prime time.
• 37:42
  I don't think they'll have anything opposite it.
• 37:45
  There's no there's no baseball, there's no NFL.
• 37:48
  There might be a smattering of college basketball, but it's not
• 37:50
  going to be anything really big. The only question I have really
• 37:54
  is making sure that fans can get there on a Friday night, that
• 37:58
  that's the only real question in my mind because that makes it a
• 38:01
  long weekend as opposed to a trip Saturday and Sunday.
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  But the crowds have been very good for this conference
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  championship game the past few years and I wouldn't expect that
• 38:09
  to be any different with a Friday night game.
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  Matt Poston's Heartland College Sports.
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  Heartland College sports.com. Thank you, buddy.
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  Appreciate you. Coming on, Matt.
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  We'll talk to you in the weeks ahead.
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  Thank you. You bet.
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  Good to talk to you. Matt Poston's Heartland College
• 38:22
  Sports Time out. Come back, finish up the hour.
• 38:24
  Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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  Hi, Miller Compton, final couple of minutes, first hour of the
• 38:44
  program. Our number 2, David Kaplan kicks
• 38:47
  it off Tommy Burch will join us at 1:30 to a quick preview.
• 38:51
  Iowa State, Texas Tech today, they played Coach Fennelly's
• 38:55
  team on the road will do that. You know, we talked about Taylor
• 38:58
  McCabe tearing your ACL yesterday.
• 38:59
  I did not know the other angles of this story, the other layer
• 39:02
  of this. Story her sister, her.
• 39:04
  Sister Trent this is crazy within two hours and is Peyton
• 39:09
  her sister? Taylor's sister is Peyton.
• 39:11
  McCabe plays a Drake and Taylor McCabe gets hurt and then two
• 39:15
  hours later and is Peyton out for the years.
• 39:19
  It's a younger sister. I think I saw and I'm not
• 39:21
  positive. Dislocated ankle.
• 39:23
  She was. They had to carry her off the
• 39:25
  floor. That's a scary injury.
• 39:27
  Oh my God, no, we think about that.
• 39:29
  Fluke Yes. And I don't know, the parents.
• 39:32
  Do they split? You know, do they pick and
• 39:34
  choose? Does one go here, 1 go there?
• 39:37
  Were they both in the stands? Can you imagine one of them in
• 39:40
  Iowa City sends a text? Yes, Taylor told her ACL.
• 39:43
  Then you get a text from the other one.
• 39:45
  You're not going to believe this.
• 39:46
  And Peyton had an ankle injury just.
• 39:49
  That's bananas. So sad.
• 39:51
  The the mean the odds of this happening right to one family
• 39:55
  within two hours a you get 2 Division One basketball players.
• 39:58
  Right. Yes.
• 39:59
  To begin with. And then they're both playing
• 40:01
  and oh yo-yo, yo-yo. By the way, the Cyclone women
• 40:05
  tonight against Texas Tech on the road, 6 1/2 point underdogs
• 40:09
  in that. Getting 6 1/2 How's your women's
• 40:12
  basketball betting going for you?
• 40:14
  It's been a strength, one of the few strain.
• 40:16
  What are the few? OK, few are far between.
• 40:19
  Is anybody going to beat UConn? So I feel pretty good about that
• 40:23
  free square that we've I've been including on all my futures.
• 40:26
  I mean who If not UConn, who, Texas.
• 40:28
  I like Texas, yeah. I think they have the
• 40:30
  athleticism. South Carolina, maybe?
• 40:36
  Didn't they just get beat by something they did?
• 40:37
  Yeah. This weekend, upset.
• 40:39
  You know Vanderbilt's off to a nun.
• 40:41
  How about Vanderbilt, just in sports?
• 40:42
  Yeah, really. What a turn around.
• 40:44
  And you talk about by. The way Pavius 59 and three
• 40:47
  quarters, yes. So the six that they were
• 40:51
  harping, No, he's 6 foot, he's legit.
• 40:53
  No, he's not. He is not.
• 40:55
  When you actually measure him, yes, by people that don't work
• 40:58
  for Vanderbilt. Just like Jeremy Hecklinski.
• 41:00
  It's not 511. Yeah, it's not.
• 41:03
  Might be my height. He's going to have to be playing
• 41:05
  like he's 64 against that first three games of the Big Ten.
• 41:09
  My God. Vanderbilt's investment, though,
• 41:12
  we're waiting. You know, who are the programs
• 41:13
  could step up in this new era in a great city, a growing city in
• 41:17
  Nashville, a great academics to go along with it.
• 41:19
  It's Vanderbilt of power in everything.
• 41:22
  Starting to proof is in the pudding, right?
• 41:24
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