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Weekend Recap with Iowa Hoops over UCLA & ISU over WV, transfer portal madness & Bill Seals talks Cyclones · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hi, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on a
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Monday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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back at you for the next block of 6 hour programming and we
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appreciate you starting your afternoon with Trent Condon and
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myself, Ken Miller. We will take you until 2O clock.
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Here's what's coming up on our program today.
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We will start guest list anyways at the bottom of the hour with
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Bill Seals. He had a men's college
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basketball press conference this morning as Iowa State will head
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on the road middle of the week. So we'll do that.
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Obviously, the comings and goings for Iowa State in the
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transfer portal. Lot of decisions being made,
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both coming and leaving aims. So we'll get into all of that
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with Bill Seals Coming up here at the bottom of our #1 Scott
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Dockerman was at the Rose Bowl. We'll do college football.
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We'll recap Iowa's season from his perspective coming up here
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at one O clock. Look forward to catching up with
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Doc. And then I thought we'd carve
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out the final half hour of the program to really delve into the
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NFL playoffs as the 14 teams have been decided.
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Everybody else is now on the clock.
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Coaches continue to be fired around the league.
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The latest of which was again, and I think it was maybe the
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latest of which I saw Pete Carroll is out, obviously,
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Stefanski is out, Raheem Morris yesterday.
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So a lot of a lot of vacancies in the NFL.
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So as those pop, obviously we will share that information as
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it comes across the X with us. Basketball to recap from over
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the weekend. Got to tell you, love those
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Friday night games. Wish there was more of them.
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I was just absolutely right in my absolute wheelhouse.
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It was terrific. You were Carver Hawkeye, with
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the exception of the students not being there.
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I thought it was great to see. I really did.
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Hadn't seen that many people, at least on television You were
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there. You can correct me if I'm wrong.
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It sounded loud. They didn't find too many empty
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seats when they were scanning the Was it Peacock?
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Yes. Peacock, it was Peacock, it was
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Burmeister and just settles. Pretty good, pretty good duo.
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They had the game, but you, you were there.
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So let's start there. I do want to get into Friday and
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I can't 'cause again, I loved it.
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I wish there was more great win. Frywood needed the win in the I.
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I thought they needed the win because when I saw how many
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people were in the building, Yep, I thought, you know what,
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boy, this would be great if they can put it in the win column.
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Who knows, maybe some of these people will come back.
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Opportunity, right, opportunity for the people that are maybe
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just dipping their toe in. Yep, let's see.
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All right, this team's got a good record and.
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I'll buy some. Haven't played a real gauntlet
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of a schedule by any means, but let's see what this team is
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about. You got a name brand program?
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A blue blood coming in, though they're not great still, it's a
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name. I mean, UCLA doesn't come to
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Iowa City very often. That will happen more often
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every other year going forward. But it was also a component
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there. Crowd was outstanding.
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And you're right, students weren't there.
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They filled in the new student section down below.
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Did they on the basket and they did that just I don't know if
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they just pick people, if those seats were available, what it
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was, but where? Were you in Jack City?
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We were opposite end from where that new set student section is,
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back behind that, sections where the students normally would be.
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Then the overflow and that was not filled in.
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But the rest of it, you know, almost 13,000 in the building.
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It was loud. We were in like row 20 in one of
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the corners. Pretty good spot.
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We got seats 1 and 2, so you got to have the aisle.
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There was like a six foot five guy in front of us.
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So yeah, Jack was able to duck out there and it was just a
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great time. It really was.
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Took Jack last year, just me and him to his first game.
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He went a couple times when he's younger, but just taking a boys
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trip over there. Left in the afternoon, got a
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little pizza at Wigginpen, walked up to the building and
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then seen it through his eyes and the excitement that
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continues to grow for him as he becomes a bigger sport fan.
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But I saw it around me. We had this group and I don't
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know if this came across on the broadcast, but it was in the
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middle of the second-half when I wasn't getting a real good
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whistle for probably 5 minute stretch and the refs you suck
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chant. Did that come across the
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broadcast? No, I didn't hear.
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No, I might, I might have missed it.
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Yeah, I don't know if it came across, but it was loud.
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It was five guys that were the row in front of us.
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These guys were into it throughout maybe mid to late
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20s. Looked like they were out of
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college, but still probably in their 20s, and they were into
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every single thing. Couple choice words for times,
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but Jack hears it at home. He's going to be fine.
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Nothing Jimmy Rogers had. No, exactly, exactly.
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Really enjoyed that. But the crowd, seeing some of
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the older people, how into it they were, it was a different
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kind of environment that we've grown accustomed to at Carver
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for men's basketball. It's something we know can
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happen. We've seen it in the past, we've
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seen it for other sports, but for the men's basketball crowd.
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For the women's game. To be that, and I think Ben
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McCollum is a huge part of that, his imploring the crowd when he
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tells everybody get up. We need you.
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And to see that. And then after the game, taking
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him and his team around the perimeter of Carver.
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At least that's what it looked like on TV.
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That's what it was. That they weren't going to miss
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anybody and slapping hands and he's he's got to sell his
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program and the the 40 minutes off the floor went a long way, I
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believe. I mean, the game looked to his
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go. The final was a minute of the
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first half, I think. You know what?
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I wonder. Hope this doesn't go back to
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bite him. Yeah, Yeah, right.
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It was like 40 to 17 or whatever.
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It was a 5 nothing run right at the end of the half.
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Right. Exactly.
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So I was right. Yeah, that's right.
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And then I thought, I don't think so.
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But the the fact that it got close, it got a little, you
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know, nail biting time there, but they were able to prevail
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and and pull it out and win comfortably in the end.
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It was a big win. Now, what does this mean at the
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end of the day? Who knows, who knows, but it's a
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great start because Minnesota tomorrow and then home to
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Illinois, we now know that's an 11:00 tip.
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Yep. We want speculated about that.
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And then at Indiana, those are the next three after Minnesota.
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It's Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, right?
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You sign for two and two right now.
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Oh God yeah, I think 1 and 3 is more likely, but yes, you'd sign
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for two and two and a heartbeat. Better.
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When? Tomorrow.
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Yes, that's that's the one that goes the furthest.
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And then you're talking about just when one of the next three,
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right? And then you're feeling like
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you're in good shape. But Minnesota is getting better.
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Still not good by any means. They're going to grind it.
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It's going to be ugly. I like Medved.
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I do. Yeah.
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And Nico, do you do I think a minimum a decent job out there,
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probably better than couple of his predecessors and certainly
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the previous one, hard to do much worse than what we saw up
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there. But even going back to little
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Ricky Petito, who is OK, I think he can do even better than that.
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But it's going to take a while and in this meat grinder.
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But these are the kind of games against another, at least right
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now, mid level Big 10 team at home.
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You gotta win. They won.
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A couple guys want to mention first just winning with Bennett
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Sturtz not playing 40 minutes. It's huge.
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Huge. Showing that they can do that I.
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Hope you're going to a bench player because if you're not, I
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am. What I want to mention because
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it doesn't show up in the box score Cooper Koch and his
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improvement on the defensive end of the floor the way that
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against Donovan dead who I told I told you back in the suburb I
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love Donovan Dennett New Mexico. He's a hell of a player.
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And he was tremendous. But when he got switched on him,
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a ball screen action, he got switched beginning of the year.
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Even Kripper Kotchola lost, but he had no clue what to do
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because he was taught a certain way.
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Good Wife. And now you see his ability to
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hedge, to step back, what he needs to do defensively.
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I thought he was absolutely outstanding on the defensive
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end. Look, he's shooting 45% from
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three and he missed a couple ones that he normally baits.
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Killcomb struggled. He was.
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He was bad. And I want to see when that
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happens, when you see Killcomb just doesn't have it.
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Even more Isaiah Howard. Now, I know Howard played a lot
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in this game, but I want to see that, a trigger, maybe even a
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little quicker. Fair because Isaiah Howard, not
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the greatest shooter, but he is so good off the bounce.
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He's so athletic. He gets in there and mixes it up
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defensively. He can get a rebound for you.
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He can do a myriad of different things, what he's playing with
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Sturtz most importantly. If if he struggles in Minnesota,
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do you think we'll see that switch?
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I don't think of the starting line up.
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I don't think it's going to go to that.
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I'm just waiting for fool Garris.
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That's my guy. Yeah, I, I.
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Figured you're going to go. That's right.
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I mean, the off the bench, those the first points that the first
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couple of buckets he had were just huge.
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I thought he had a terrific game and he you could really, because
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there was a point there, I don't know, mid November leading up to
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Thanksgiving, I'm not sure got what was advertised here right.
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But he's, he's, he's a good player and he's got a huge role
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on this basketball team. And I thought he had a great
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game on Saturday. I really did.
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He went a stretch of five straight games scoring in single
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figures scoring wise, starting with the Ole Miss game.
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Those are the ones where you're watching.
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Ole Miss, Grand Canyon, Iowa State.
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Those were the games where he didn't.
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Since then, he's put up 13171413.
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How about that? Need that guy.
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Need that guy. Here's another thing, when Sturz
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was out of the game, did you notice?
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No, he wasn't the point guard, but every time down the floor
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they ran the offense through fool Garris every single time.
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And it didn't matter if they gave it to him on the extended
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elbow, if they got him in the short block, wherever it was,
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they were going right away. All right, everything is going
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to start here with fool Garris. He can turn, he can back down,
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whatever it's going to be, but that's the way it's going to be.
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And then he kind of think about it and doing that a little bit
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more when starts his in the game, I think it'd be good.
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We know he can shoot the ball. We know that he's got a good
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skill set offensively, but that's another one like to see a
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little bit more even when starts is in the game.
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Hey, that's a couple possessions.
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Let's run the offense through fool Garris because we saw it.
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He's a good passer. He can see things and we know
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about just surprised he was only.
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Credited for two assists, there was one assist was worth 2.
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Felt like Gordon it did. Were you?
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Were you still there for Sturges?
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Three at the. End yes yeah, yeah, we we stuck
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around Jack tried to get down there to get the handshakes as
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the guys were getting by. We just missed getting a
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handshake from some of the players but yeah, so we were
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still there What a moment that was too as you see him looking
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over at McCullum. You want me to do fired up
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there? Go ahead.
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Shoot now, McCullum at his Zoom today said.
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Well, I was hoping he just hit it off the rim.
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Yeah, sure he were. Never crossed his mind.
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Absolutely. That was absolutely.
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I mean, just it absolutely blew up in the arena.
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It's been a long time coming. Again, I think my biggest take
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away from this game was I hope that Hawkeye fans who were on
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the fence will now give this a try.
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This is my this is Mccollum's biggest challenge.
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This is why he worked so hard this summer to sell his program.
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And boy, if Saturday's in the indicator and the time had to be
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perfect, right, 'cause if you wanted to go out after the game,
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you could be in Pet Mall in what, 15 minutes, right?
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You're there by 730 people. Filing into the buses.
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Had to have you know, you have a drink in front of your or you're
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eating dinner. You got your seat with your
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table and your menu would have been a great night.
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Friday night in a again, I get it.
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You've got to call college or high school basketball on
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Fridays. I wish there were more Friday
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games that involved, you know, the big 10 or the Big 12 instead
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of the MIAC and Jordan Burnfield calling games.
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This was really fun. I thought I wonder and it was an
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8 O clock tip. So I'm just wondering what if if
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Ames, you know, restaurants and bars got a bit of a bump after
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that game. But the that aside, Moncholovich
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is playing an incredibly high level triple double for
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Jefferson. You know, my affinity for
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Buchanan Toure didn't score in the game, which is rare that he
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couldn't find anything, couldn't get anything to fall.
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But this was a, you know, game that started out slow, seemingly
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kind of Iowa State has done over the last few games.
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That's that's. True.
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Yeah, 1918. It was, yeah.
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It was tight. West Virginia had to lead there
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about a little more than halfway through the first half of that
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one, and. Then just boom, just a blink of
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an eye, double digits. This team we saw a year ago, so
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that's still I know. Yep, it's about this time.
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There's plenty of people that are pump the brakes.
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Yep, bumped the brakes. Because the same thing last.
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Year we saw, we said it here, this is not just a final 14.
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This team can win a national championship.
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That was the level that they were playing with through most
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of January and then starting February that wasn't the case.
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We know the schedule is going to get much more arduous in
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February. Absolutely, it is going to wrap
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up in a big time level, but the myriad of different ways that
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they can beat you, that obviously they can beat you
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defensively because that's what TJ Otzenberger's teams are going
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to do every single time. But it's the diversified skill
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set offensively. Bateman Bateman on on Friday
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night. His role was huge.
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And if they get that, I mean, look out now you're adding, he
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started it. If you get that element from
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Bateman, who's going to come in there and consistently knock
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down 3 pointers at minimum, at minimum, just start with that.
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You feel like you're in really good shape.
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We don't. But we've talked about Tory a
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ton. Maybe we've talked about Tory
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more than anybody on this team. Yeah, because we knew Lipsy and
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we we knew Jefferson and we knew, I mean, he talked a lot
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about Monchilovich because we're the inconsistent thing.
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Consistency's there, by the way. Joshua Jefferson, second in the
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country right now, and Ken Palms Player of the Year rankings.
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Is he really behind only Kampuzer?
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Yeah, how about that? And you look at the guys in
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front of him that he's in front of Debancer at 3, Lenenburg in
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Michigan, he's at #4 Brady Smith.
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He's a hell of a player. This is what we're.
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And yet, Josh, just because Joshua Jefferson.
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Joshua Jefferson, right? But the we.
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Take him for granted. Yes, absolutely.
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But the way that they can beat you offensively and the number
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of guys now that can go off, the number of guys that can have
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that 26 point performance, not one or two.
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No. It's not just hoping those 3
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pointers fall from Gabe Kalcher, no.
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This is Sean Gilbert's got to be Keyshawn Gilbert.
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Curtis Jones got to make a shot. No, there's dudes.
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Dudes and dudes that can do it different.
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Ways. It just doesn't have to be a
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certain way. And with those guys, it was just
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there making shots, right? These guys, Joshua Jefferson's
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not knocking down the streets. That's OK.
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Let's back his way, bully his way into the post and he'll
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he'll go and get. 20 That way he was distributing the ball of
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triple double Trent 10 assists. This squad is different, Yeah, I
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believe. Doesn't mean it's automatic.
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Nope. Baylor give a run on Wednesday
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night. Oh yeah, that's would it be
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something if Baylor knocks off or stops the win streak for the
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women as we did yesterday and then does likewise on Wednesday
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night with the men? Not saying that's going to
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happen, but stranger things have happened.
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Yeah. Really fun weekend of college.
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Drake got a win. They did.
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Adam Emenecker scheduled to join us as we will begin our weekly
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look at the Valley Tuesdays at. I think I asked him to do 12:40
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to 12:55, so we'll do that. Doko Pizza, by the way, sponsors
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Adam Emenecker. He'll join us on Tuesdays and
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then he comes off the bench with the boys.
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I think Fridays with Lucas and Shawn.
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And you and I went on the road, got another win.
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They remain undefeated in the Missouri Valley.
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Who's the Are they the best team?
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Let me ask you that. I think Belmont is still
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probably the best team. Illinois State's also
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undefeated. I haven't seen the red Birds
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much outside of one of those, I think exempt tournaments.
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I saw a little bit of them in that one.
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So I haven't got a good look yet.
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But this you and I team Trey Campbell, who feels like he's
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been there. For no trend he has.
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He's been there a long time. Leo Bond, who was really banged
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up last season when they got him from Virginia, though, is like,
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oh, it's intriguing. He's got a good skill set.
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He's a guy that undersized playing, you know, the 3-4 at
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the ACC level at Virginia, but in the MVC this would do that
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goes. But maybe the the biggest
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surprise has been what they got out of Hornseth inside what he's
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been able to do now. He's still really undersized and
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when if they get to the tournament play center 68 going
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to be tough to do. But in the NBC you can get away
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with it. He's been really good this year
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and that's probably been the guy that's made I think the biggest
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ascension for this you and I team and kind of put them in the
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position that they are. And in fact, I think you and I,
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yes, Wednesday, you and I, Belmont at the McLeod.
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How about that? That'll be a big one. 6:00 Dip
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off there up in Cedar Falls. No, absolutely will be a big one
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that I mentioned Pete Carroll fired.
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He's he's also out in Las Vegas. All right, well, how how close
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you've been following the transfer portal.
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It's honest to God making my head hurt.
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It does is. It being, I feel like I'm
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watching tennis, you know, with your head going one court to the
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next, you know, one side of the net to the next.
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Somebody's leaving, somebody's coming.
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It's unbelievable just to watch a Jimmy Rogers built his team.
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I have no idea how these what these kids are going to be like,
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but they're they're committing and doing so very quickly.
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So we'll give them the benefit of the doubt and and just hope
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that, you know, he's able to fill the field a competitive
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bunch. It's been very quiet for the
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most part over in Ames. Would you agree to that?
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You know what are you in Iowa City, rather?
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Yeah, they got three guys now out of the portal, 3 FCS guys,
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probably the biggest kicker maybe.
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Yeah, the North Dakota State kid, Isaac, something like that.
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16 of 18 had a long of 53. Indoors though for some games.
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One thing I do like about that, bring it in a guy from that, all
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right? It's an FCS guy.
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At least he played in North Dakota State.
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He's been a big games, big games, playing big games, yeah.
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So that, that was 1 component I think is OK.
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On the Iowa State side, though, I think maybe the most
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interesting thing is you look at the guys now, Jalen Rayner, the
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quarterback from Arkansas State and we talked about last week,
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felt like maybe he was trying to in that direction.
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You look through the seven guys that they've got to this point,
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though, out of the real portal, if you will, not just Washington
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State decommitments and the like, Rainer for North Dakota,
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Proudfoot, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia,
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Texas. That's where these guys at least
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played high school ball. So it's not getting a bunch of,
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you know, upper Midwest guys that are coming back, right?
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Yeah, coming close to home, those kind of things.
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No, these are guys from all over the country.
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And I think it also shows you that these staff, and we've
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heard some good things about this staff and what Jimmy Rogers
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has put together a very wide net.
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Does it seem like there's more a bigger staff than what Campbell
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had? It's interesting.
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I know I hadn't thought of it. It just seems like there's, you
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know, 3 new additions to the stuff seeming the press releases
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that we're getting. Yeah, yeah.
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It's like, Oh yeah, eight guys. Maybe maybe I'm all wet, but but
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it just seems like that I learned something.
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I've never heard of this school before.
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Texas, Permian Basin, that's where they got a linebacker from
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Division two school. I mean, he's got one year left,
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but he was the player of the year.
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Who knows how he'll fit, who knows how he'll fit, but they
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need players and we'll see how it goes.
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Yeah, that's. Texas Permian Basin.
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What I think of Permian, I think of Friday Night Lights, that
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was. See, I never watched the show.
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Ken yeah, I never watched. There's something put on your
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list for retirement. They're.
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Going to be looking for things to do.
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Yeah, I wonder, I wonder. All right, we're going to get to
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Bill Seals. We'll get the latest on all of
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that coming up with Bill. Just real quick, I did not see
18:44
your Bears yesterday. I was watching, I was watching
18:46
Denver. The two seats still goes to
18:49
Chicago, which Philadelphia decided, and that was the
18:52
biggest head scratcher to me. Well, I got a bigger head
18:54
scratcher for. You.
18:55
What is it? And I know this is the rules of
18:57
the NFL, but as I'm sitting there watching the end of the
19:02
Bears game, all right, Al watching red zone for the
19:06
Washington Philadelphia, watching the updates there.
19:08
Well, oh, this is a CBS game. I'll flip over there, but I know
19:11
KCCI, this is not a problem with them.
19:13
They can't. They can't switch away when they
19:15
have a game and it's still going, but to continue to play
19:18
that Denver Chargers game on the TV.
19:20
It was, it was, it was tough to watch straight.
19:22
And so I had to find an illegal stream.
19:25
I did. I watched the end of the Eagles
19:27
of the commanders and finish it out that way.
19:28
But I know that's the rules of the NFL.
19:30
It's just it's baffling that that's the route that you have
19:33
to go. But alas, that was the case that
19:36
in that one, but still get the number two seed.
19:38
The biggest part, I think a out of the wild card teams, you
19:43
still want to play the Packers. Oh hell yes.
19:45
I mean, yes, they're going to be healthy, but what They lost four
19:47
straight now? Out of the floor.
19:49
If he doesn't win this game, he might be unemployed.
19:51
That's interesting. Isn't it?
19:53
That's the team you want to play without a dough.
19:55
But the biggest thing is then in the divisional round you get the
19:59
home. Game, right?
20:01
Philadelphia's got to come to your place.
20:02
Assuming they win, what was Philly doing?
20:06
I don't know. Why would you rest your guy?
20:09
I mean this is a dynamic offense is there as is there is in the
20:13
NFL. Don't you want them to get a
20:15
tune up before the play offs? I here's something I heard
20:19
during the broadcast of that game, too.
20:21
Philadelphia this year has lost the least amount of starters to
20:25
injury this season of anybody in the NFL, really.
20:27
So we're not talking about an incredibly banked up.
20:30
We're not talking about the Green Bay Packers, who, yes,
20:32
makes a lot of sense as you tried out.
20:34
That wasn't even the JVI mean. That was the 8th graders.
20:36
Clayton Tune. And he was bad.
20:39
That whole offense was bad. That makes sense for
20:43
Philadelphia now. Here's conspiracy theory.
20:47
They. Don't want to have that home
20:49
game because their fans hate them.
20:51
Their fans, they don't want to deal with the booze.
20:54
Let's just make it a business trip.
20:55
We'll go on the road. We'll have, yes, we got the win,
20:56
wild card game, we'll play there.
20:58
But after that, let's hit the road, guys.
21:00
Let's get out of here. Let's get out of the cesspool
21:01
that is Philadelphia in this awful, awful fan base.
21:04
Let's just get out of here. I don't think that's actually
21:06
the case, but I've seen crazier things happening.
21:10
Yeah, no, I I can't wait. Obviously, I will say this about
21:16
my team. I think that the most fraudulent
21:18
1 scene I've ever seen. I know Tennessee in 2020 or 2021
21:24
with Ryan Tannehill, but Derrick Henry's on that team.
21:27
He played half the year. Oh yeah.
21:29
Yeah, right. Denver had all their guys.
21:31
Denver does not look like a team is going to win a game, I don't
21:34
think. I think they're AI think they're
21:36
all one and done. Well, it's the defence, right?
21:38
It's the thank God. Well Bonex is awful.
21:40
And and the defence is taking a step back.
21:42
They have. They were good yesterday, but
21:43
they were good yesterday against right chargers who weren't
21:46
playing anybody. Trey Lance looked good.
21:49
You thought so. He.
21:50
Looked good running the ball, not throwing the ball.
21:53
OK, we're, we're talking completely different things
21:55
there. Throwing the ball?
21:56
No. Throwing the ball, No, he did
21:58
not look good. So a lot of people have brought
22:01
up when we look at this playoffs, the 2008 season, that
22:04
was another year that the Titans got the number one seed.
22:07
That was the year that we got the Cardinals winners of the
22:11
West at 9:00 and 7:00 that. Yeah, I remember I was at that
22:14
Super Bowl. It was Pittsburgh. 43 I brought
22:16
it up last. Week.
22:16
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of people are equating the
22:18
same kind of thing and just the the.
22:19
Cranks in the corner of the end zone, A perfectly thrown ball.
22:22
We had an AFC championship game with the two seed hosting the
22:26
six seed, the Steelers race that's.
22:28
What it was? On the other side, we had the
22:30
four seed the Cardinals hosting the six seed Eagles.
22:35
Are we trending to something that crazy?
22:39
Are we trending to? Well, there's no four seed
22:41
that's going to get that far because the Steelers don't have
22:43
a prayer. Neither do the.
22:44
Panthers don't have a prayer. No, none.
22:48
None, none, none. Don't have a prayer.
22:50
Neither of those teams. TJ Watts back.
22:53
I don't care. They're not.
22:54
They're not hosting an NF or an AFC Championship.
22:57
And the suspension is over. That's a good.
22:59
Point DK is coming. Back.
23:01
All right, I'll give you that. That's a that's a huge feather
23:03
in their cap. That's a huge feather.
23:04
Kenneth Gainwell looks outstanding played.
23:06
Well, yesterday, yeah. And that's a guy remembered him
23:10
at Philadelphia like. But see, I have the Texans
23:12
beating them. Trent, you do on on Monday
23:15
night. Yes, I think the Texans if I had
23:17
to rank the AFC right and I I can't believe I'm doing this.
23:20
I think Jacksonville might be the best team.
23:22
And if it's not them, it might be the Texans.
23:24
Yeah, Jacksonville has Buffalo and Josh Allen.
23:26
I know, but but they don't have a kicker.
23:28
Painter got hurt. Speaking of frauds, Josh Allen
23:31
taking a snap and then exiting the game.
23:32
And, well, you. Yeah, I know, I know.
23:34
Come on. Oh, God.
23:35
You know that's fair Bill Seals next.
23:37
You just want to keep that streak alive, I guess Tommy
23:40
Birch can't believe I didn't see that I didn't Friday Night
23:44
Lights. He's with you can't believe it's
23:46
a great it must be a good now you guys are both about the same
23:49
age. It's.
23:49
True, that was also probably my favorite book growing up was
23:54
Friday Night Lights. I didn't know it was a book.
23:56
Yes, Reddit. So it's about Texas football in
23:59
the 80s, late 80s, I think is when when the book was Buzz
24:02
Bizzinger was the author of that one.
24:04
Tremendous writer, and I'd probably read that book more
24:07
than any book, certainly. Seriously.
24:08
Oh yeah. So that was a part of it.
24:10
Then they made a movie out of it.
24:12
Did you see the movie? No.
24:14
Man. Good football, yeah, but it's
24:17
what was the the one football movie I what what's the guy's
24:20
name? And everybody thinks he's a good
24:21
guy. And it might, apparently, is the
24:23
the Washington. The football movie, yeah, he was
24:27
a quarterback. The replacements.
24:28
The replacements, Yeah. With Keanu, that's what I'm.
24:30
That's a great movie. Yeah.
24:32
That's the one movie I've football movie I've seen.
24:34
It's a guilty pleasure. Yeah.
24:35
Gene Hackman coming back in the coaching.
24:37
Role and the female lead was was, was I.
24:40
Don't know who she is. Yeah, she was good, I think.
24:43
So you liked it? No, I was.
24:45
That's kind of where I set the bar and the bar's really low.
24:48
So anyways. It's better than that.
24:51
OK, Bill Seals next on Iowa State.
24:54
He's got to be busy as all of the rivals and 24/7 guys and
24:59
gals have to be. Miller and Condon underway on a
25:01
Monday. Glad you're with us.
25:02
We'll do more on the NFL, by the way, coming up at 1:30.
25:05
We'll take a look at the wild card games, go a little in depth
25:08
on that. And we do have a football game
25:10
tonight. We do.
25:11
Montana State is a double digit favorite, 10 I think 1010 1/2
25:15
yes. Illinois State's the team that
25:18
you kind of thought backed into this thing and wasn't supposed
25:20
to be there. Well, they're down 13 with two
25:22
minutes left, and they're still alive in the Fargo.
25:24
Dome right and playing for a championship and then didn't
25:27
they do did they knock off a good no Montana, Montana.
25:30
State yes, that was on the other side of the bracket.
25:32
What's the name of that game? The The Brawl of the Wild, I
25:36
think. It's something like that, Yeah.
25:37
I thought it was pretty good anyways.
25:38
Miller and Condon on a Monday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
25:42
Network. I'm Hillary Condon, welcome
26:06
back. Let's talk to my with state,
26:07
shall we? Bill Seals, cyclonereport.com.
26:11
Not enough hours in the day, I'm guessing for you, Bill Seals,
26:14
right now with the football, basketball, men's and women's
26:17
both going on press conferences as you listen to TJ this
26:21
morning, portals going crazy. Guys, it's the day goes fast if
26:27
nothing else, right? Bill Seals, how are you?
26:29
I'm doing great, guys. Yeah, I've been on my wife's
26:32
list since about Friday, but we're we're navigating through
26:36
and we're, you know, we're keeping everybody happy over at
26:39
Cyclone Report with multiple updates throughout the day.
26:44
And it's already been a busy morning today with more transfer
26:48
portal activity. Absolutely.
26:50
The latest is at the Auburn. The Auburn offensive lineman big
26:54
dude 34564 in change. Is that the latest?
26:59
And I mean, anytime you get a guy who played every single game
27:01
in the SEC as a true freshman, that certainly gets your
27:04
attention. Yeah, I mean, he, he was
27:07
certainly a guy. I think that was was probably a
27:10
DeAndre Carter we're Speaking of.
27:11
Certainly a foundational piece if if you Freeze would have
27:16
continued forward at at Auburn. I I would have thought that
27:20
Carter could have ascended into perhaps a a starting role.
27:23
He he played a lot of special teams this past season playing
27:27
in every game. Usually that seems to be the
27:30
path to to maybe move into a starting tackle role moving
27:35
forward. So, yeah, I think this was a
27:36
great pick up for Iowa State played at modern day in in
27:41
California coming out of high school was a very heralded pick
27:46
up for the Tigers. So yeah, I think and plus
27:48
there's some familiarity as well.
27:50
Jake Thornton, the new offensive line coach at Iowa State at at
27:54
coached at Auburn the past few seasons.
27:57
They're very familiar with Carter, I would imagine probably
28:00
was involved in his recruitment as well.
28:02
So I I think that's a good probably one of the best You
28:06
look at the you look at the 8 so far.
28:09
I really like the Cody Jackson kid too out of Tarleton State.
28:13
I think he's even though just for one year, I think he's a big
28:17
time AD. And then Carter, I think he
28:19
comes in, probably starts a tackle from day one.
28:23
Headliner Jalen Rayner too. I should.
28:25
Say yeah, the quarterback I. Don't know why I I glossed over
28:28
that one, but yeah, certainly to Rayner over the weekend.
28:31
A big time ad as well. Probably going to be ISUSQ B1.
28:35
You look at Rayner, a guy that had a very successful career at
28:38
Arkansas State, know there are going to be other opportunities
28:40
for him. Do you know offhand who are some
28:43
of the other schools that were in for the services of Rayner?
28:46
You know, I, I didn't was never Privy to any of that
28:50
information. It, it sounds like Rayner
28:53
exclusively just worked through his agent throughout this whole
28:56
process. I wasn't able to ever get him on
28:58
the phone. And then, you know, his agent
29:01
fed the information that he had committed Iowa State.
29:03
I think this was a pretty seamless move though, Trent.
29:07
I mean, he is quarterbacks coach, his offensive coordinator
29:11
now the position coach at Iowa State under Jimmy Rod.
29:14
And I think this thing had probably been in the works for a
29:17
while and wouldn't even have surprised me if he entered the
29:20
the portal with a no contact tag as well because I think this was
29:25
this. This was going to be the move
29:27
for Rayner, I believe from the start.
29:29
Kid who? I'm sorry, the kid who I'm
29:31
anxious to see how his game translates to the Big 12 Tristan
29:36
X line from Texas Permian Basin. Now he arrives with all the
29:39
accolades. He's a one year guy and maybe
29:41
I've just got Ben McCall what he's and I know basketball and
29:45
football are different, but this guy, I mean, if he's half as
29:48
good as all the the awards that that come with him, they've been
29:52
bestowed upon him. And I think he's only a one year
29:55
guy, right, Bill, Correct me if I'm wrong there, but tell me
29:58
about X Line. Yeah, he he a ton of accolades,
30:04
I think 140 some tackles that he made this past season at at
30:09
Permian Basin and Iowa State needs to go after and really do
30:14
their homework. Well, the old staff did too when
30:17
they went into the portal, the little that they did, they did
30:20
their homework on guys and you've got to hit on these D
30:23
twos, these FCS guys, like some of them we've discussed here.
30:28
And I think X line, yeah, he's probably another well, he is.
30:31
I mean, he's a one year guy. He came in probably with the
30:34
understanding he's going to be a starting linebacker.
30:37
His loan season here at the Power 4 level, it was Iowa
30:41
State. Houston believe those were the
30:43
two power fours that that jumped into the mix with him.
30:46
There were several other group of fives out there.
30:50
But you know, props to Iowa State.
30:52
They get him in that first weekend.
30:54
The portal was open, got a commitment from him.
30:57
He's signed, sealed and delivered and, and ready to
31:00
roll. And I think he's, you look at
31:03
his tape and for a guy that what's I think 6-1, maybe 22225
31:12
and he, I mean, he hits like a freight train.
31:15
So he's going to be a nice addition in Jesse Bobbitt's
31:19
defense. We talked about this a little
31:21
bit earlier. One thing that just jumps off as
31:23
you look at the background of all these kids that they've got
31:25
so far, they're from all over the country.
31:27
This is a wide net that they throw it out there.
31:30
And certainly you got to do that in the portal and just finding
31:32
the different connections. Is that something you anticipate
31:34
when you look forward though? Yeah, they're going to still
31:37
recruit the state of Iowa in the upper Midwest and do those kind
31:39
of things. But maybe with this new staff
31:41
that we're going to see a bigger net that is cast out there.
31:44
And it's not, you know, just Iowa, Ohio, those kind of
31:46
things, but a lot more a lot different places perhaps with
31:49
this new staff recruiting wise. I think there's certainly that
31:52
the opportunity for them to go do that.
31:55
You look at the background of a number of the coaches that are
31:58
on this stuff, first year staff and then they got some roots
32:01
down there and in the state of Texas.
32:04
I think with Sherman from Houston coming on board.
32:07
Tyler Roll, I think he was one, the one year that he was at Iowa
32:11
State, he was a name that I heard a lot by recruits out of
32:15
that. And and I think he's going to
32:17
hit it hard probably within that old, you know, you heard the six
32:21
hour radius a lot with Matt Campbell.
32:23
And I think with Roll, he's going to be one of those guys,
32:26
even as the OC, I think he's going to be recruiting hard in
32:31
North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, those states,
32:35
even Wisconsin I believe as well.
32:37
So, yeah, I think they will probably cast a wider net.
32:41
I I think, but it when you're adding what they lost 5253 in
32:46
the portal or whatever and they're, they're going to have
32:49
to obviously cast a wide net with this first portal class
32:53
that they're going to bring in. They have already That'll
32:56
continue to be the case. But then I think once they lay
32:59
the foundation, then that they'll probably narrow the
33:02
focus a little bit more and and try to get a little closer, I
33:07
think, to the state of Iowa as they build the foundation.
33:10
Do you know if this is true, Bill?
33:11
I was told that that if if Rogers and and his staff have
33:15
gotten a guide to aim so far in this portal period that none of
33:20
them have left without saying yes to Iowa State.
33:23
Do you know if they're batting 1000 when it comes to that?
33:27
They are not actually I I had an update up this morning on Kyrie
33:32
Shoals. I think that's the pronoun
33:34
pronunciation of his last name. He was a San Jose Statewide
33:39
receiver transfer, kind of a slot guy.
33:42
He he visited Iowa State 1st and he's got about three or four
33:46
other P fours that he's looking at right now still kind of up in
33:50
the air. I think it's encouraging.
33:51
ISU got him on campus this weekend, but he did not commit.
33:55
I think there's some other, I think there's some others, too,
33:58
I just haven't gotten on the line yet.
34:00
But yeah, I mean, they're batting close to 1000.
34:04
You know what, what I mean? You, you can't, can't doubt.
34:08
I mean, the, the, the work that they've done so far that's
34:11
highly effective, very narrowly targeted on a specific group
34:16
that they wanted to get in that first weekend and they're
34:19
batting close to 1000. Let's jump over to basketball.
34:22
I'll start quickly on the women's side, take their first L
34:25
of the year against Baylor. Addie Brown struggled
34:28
offensively, at least shooting the basketball, though assist
34:30
numbers were very good in that one.
34:32
Baylor came in, played physical against so many.
34:35
Any kind of concern, indictment or well, they're going to lose
34:37
eventually. You had a feeling it was going
34:39
to happen at some point. Your take away from the L
34:41
against Baylor. Yeah, I think that you kind of
34:45
saw Baylor didn't shoot great. I think from three-point land
34:49
they did hit 7 from out there. And I think you've seen some
34:53
teams start to maybe exploit that in Iowa State's defense a
34:56
little bit. We saw in Kansas that Cyclones
35:00
were were fortunate enough to escape with a win against
35:04
Kansas. We're not as fortunate.
35:07
Addie Brown you mentioned, yeah, I think she's dealing with some
35:11
injury concerns right now, maybe that are lingering a little bit
35:15
with I believe it's a back injury with her.
35:18
But yeah, I mean, you see what, one of seven shooting from her.
35:22
She still did a great shot even on an off night.
35:25
I think offensively still had eight assists, still had six
35:29
rebounds. She was able to contribute.
35:32
But yeah, you see this Iowa State team very beatable when
35:35
they don't have that core 3 hitting on all cylinders.
35:39
And Jada Williams, credit to her though, she did go for over 28
35:43
points. Audie Crooks did what she does,
35:45
another double double 26 and 10. But yeah, I mean, they hopefully
35:50
they can get Addie as healthy as they can moving forward.
35:53
She did play 30 minutes though in that game yesterday.
35:56
So they could continue just to maybe be a day-to-day thing.
36:00
And you're going forward to Reese Beatty.
36:02
This is her first game back to the freshman.
36:05
Thinks she's going to lend this team a lot moving forward as
36:08
well. And think they've also they got
36:10
to get Sydney hair a little more involved too.
36:14
Talk about how it means she might be one of the top
36:17
three-point shooters on this team.
36:18
Well, only played 10 minutes yesterday in a game, you know,
36:22
they they struggled at times to score the ball.
36:25
And I think they got to get her into the plans maybe a little
36:28
bit more moving forward. The men on Friday night, kind of
36:32
a slow start, struggle a little bit, a little back and forth
36:35
early in the basketball game before I think it was Bateman
36:38
that kind of ignited that switch and off they go and it's a
36:41
double digit. They just continue to pour it on
36:44
from that point forward. Hey, I like the Friday night.
36:46
What was the crowd like being there, Bill, and watching it in
36:49
person? Then, you know, they were able
36:52
to knock off a West Virginia team that was, I don't know
36:55
where they're going to fit, probably towards the bottom, but
36:57
it was the convincing fashion that they did it in.
37:00
Yeah, I mean it, you never know this time of year, but I as far
37:05
as attendance, I should say and they they did that fans did a
37:08
great job as students aren't back yet.
37:11
They sold the place out, they packed it and yeah, it was an
37:15
incredible atmosphere at at Hilton and for the for this team
37:19
to get started in Big 12 place. So yeah, it's a great job just
37:24
out of the kind of the general fans to to come out and and
37:27
support the team without the students.
37:29
And I think they played a a big role too.
37:31
Obviously you mentioned Bateman kind of the igniter there in the
37:34
first half, but I think that the crowd played a big role in in
37:38
them getting over the hump from that slow start.
37:41
And then really, I mean, they just kind of put the pedal down
37:43
and and really finished strong in this game.
37:46
Bill, if we need you again during the week, we're not going
37:48
to hesitate to reach out as crazy time of year for you and
37:51
for everything that's going on. Thank you Bill Seal,
37:53
cyclereport.com. Bill, keep you up to date
37:56
comings and goings in the Portland course basketball as
37:58
well. Thank you, Bill.
37:59
Have a great week. Don't talk to you.
38:01
Sounds good guys, have a good one.
38:02
Appreciate it Bill Seals cyclone report real quick before we go
38:05
to break. I know we have to.
38:07
This was the first on Friday night for Iowa State.
38:09
You know, normally when they play a game at 8:00, it's 820.
38:11
It's you know, it's enough. Do you know what kept them off
38:13
the air? That God forsaken simulated golf
38:17
league. I hated it last year.
38:21
How did they get another year to do this?
38:22
It does, truly. Does anybody?
38:24
Watch this. It got ratings last year.
38:26
It really did. It did, yeah.
38:28
I think they were almost surprised at the rating that
38:30
they had to have been. Anyways, that was the first
38:33
Miller and Condon back to wrap up our number one, it's the Iowa
38:35
Sports Radio Network. I'm Millery Condon, welcome
38:42
back. Final couple of minutes here on
38:44
a Monday, hour number two. We'll start things off with
38:48
Scott Dockerman, who was at the Rose Bowl.
38:50
We'll do that with Doc, etcetera.
38:52
Some Hawkeye topics as well. Happy birthday to KXNO.
38:55
The flagship of the Iowa Sports Radio Network turned 25 years
38:59
old on January the first. Well done for KXNO, the survivor
39:04
when it comes to sports stations.
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They were #3 it was the jock, It was the big ticket, which was
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940 on the AM dial. And then KXNO saw the success of
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those 2 instead of those two Can do it, we can do it better.
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And 25 years later, here we are. So happy birthday cakes and a
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lot of stuff coming that I know that is being worked on as we
39:28
speak. A lot of opportunities for
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listeners trips, it's a cool thing, giveaways, etcetera.
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And we we're excited to pass those along once we cross TS and
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dot IS on those promotions. I remember the first time I
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heard KX&OI was on my way here to visit my sister who had just.
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Moved here. Why weren't you listening to the
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jock? Because I lived in North Iowa.
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Well, we were one O 7.1, right? We were a we were a blowtorch.
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Baby. And then there was in eastern
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Iowa. I didn't know you were a thing.
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I honestly, I mean, I didn't know.
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The only sports talk I knew until probably deep into college
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was Jim Roe. That was it.
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Remember hearing him for the first.
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Time maybe on the jock. No, would have been no, it was
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out of I think Costa, Minnesota. That's where I heard it.
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But the first time that I heard KX and O programming was days in
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the afternoon. Was it OK?
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Yeah. And that was the first time I
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heard it. And I saw on the message boards
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about this loudmouth and that I saw.
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Exactly that we took over. For that loud mouth, yeah, yeah.
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We did. We took his spot and he went
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down the down the hall here to, to WHO?
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But yeah, hats off KX and O, 25 years young.
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This week, Jeff Kahn and Van Harden came up with the name and
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the call letters and the logo and the the tagline, all the XS
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and OS. It's a good one.
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It was a good one. I'll tell.
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I'll tell you. It pissed me off.
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Oh, really? Yeah.
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Hell yeah, it did. Because I was, you know, because
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all of a sudden the station just started, you know, the month of
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December leading up to January 1st.
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It was. What the Hell's going on in
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1460? The cock was ticking to January
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the 1st and then away they went. And we will go to our number
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two. It's next.
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Scott Dogman kicks it off Trent and I'll get back in the NFL. 14
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teams remain. Who's going to win this
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tournament? We'll get into that at 1:30.
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Miller and Condon glad you're with us on Des Moines Sports
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Station One O 6.3 KXNO.