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Friday Hour 1: Recapping Cy-Hawk basketball with Eugene Repay & Tom Kakert · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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over the weekend. All right, let's let's get into
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this. So we'll get our take on what we
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saw last night. Just a terrific 48 hours of
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basketball at Hilton Coliseum with the ladies on Wednesday
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dovetailing into the men's game last night.
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Trent, I thought that was the best I've seen.
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I will play all year. I think by by a long ways, yes,
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they lost the game. I know there's no such thing as
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moral victories. They have to feel somewhat good
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about the effort that they put up because this is a good Iowa
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State basketball game. I don't hear anything about let
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down after Purdue. I don't want to hear that.
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I won't. I won't entertain that one
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little bit. Iowa came to play.
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Iowa State, on the other hand, they had a phenomenal start to
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the second-half cut. The deficit took the lead and it
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was a a nail biter literally right until the bitter end.
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Opportunities and Iowa had a chance and they said, you know,
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how are they going to get there. It was the kind of game that
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they needed. They needed to be that rugged
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kind of affair. Didn't think that they could get
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involved in a shootout to have it happen.
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Getting down 10, get that 8 nothing run, get it back to A2
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point game and then you think of the end and so many things that
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woulda shoulda coulda from the Iowa perspective.
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He stripped the ball from behind.
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It goes between fool Garris's legs.
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I mean, you you have a steal with a chance to to take the
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lead. When that happens, the time out,
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three Iowa players are there for the jump ball.
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Yeah, one Cyclone player and Iowa without a time out.
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They get a time out and they get to keep possession.
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They're just Americans. Was it Turi?
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On the floor with I can't remember who it was, might have
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been Jefferson, but regardless, yeah, just so many different
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things that they were so close they were and this if.
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This one, if you can, was the was the cyclone.
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If this would have happened in Carver, I think we could have
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saw that, but I don't think anybody envisioned this
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happening. No, I'm with you.
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I'm. With you, that environment, that
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whistle, the foul disparity that's going to happen, all
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those things to do that in that building.
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I said yesterday I need to see proof of concept.
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I think we have the proof of concept now that this team, it
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has to be a certain way that they're gonna have to win
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against the elite teams, but it can happen.
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No, I'm with you. After the Michigan State game, I
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started to ask myself, I wonder if, because we're gonna try and
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sell that this is a tournament team, and I wasn't so sure after
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they got blown out in East Lansing.
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A lot of teams do. They are that this is a
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tournament team. If they played like that, I
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thought the Drake guys plays. Are you gonna watch off last
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night? I really did.
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How about Tate Sage? We talked about him yesterday as
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a guy whose arrow was pointing up, and if you didn't buy Stock
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and Tate Sage yesterday, I know there's no such thing.
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But it's too late because now the the country knows about him.
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He's a hell of a player and he was the last one, right?
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He was he. Was the one holdout, I don't
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know if it's a holdout, but he was the last one announced that
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he's going to join McCullum. But hell of a game.
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You know, there's times I don't want to be critical of
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Jefferson. He's the best player in floor.
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He was, yes. It does he try to do too much.
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I mean, early in the basketball game he's getting putting the
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ball on the floor. He was getting a stolen from
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behind. It just seemed like he was out
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of sorts early in the game. Missed a lot of bunnies inside
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he. Did it just like slow down, get
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your teammates involved and then your game is going to take off?
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And I I just thought he tried to do too much at times.
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I don't think so because he is their best player, he's the most
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complete player and certainly they're both best offensive
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player because Manchilovich. It's still that inconsistency
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and though it's better that it's been, you just are going to have
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those moments. They need Jeff and they need
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Jefferson. If you're going to win a game in
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the Sweet 16, you're going to win an Elite 8 game, you need
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Joshua Jefferson to be a star in that game.
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And because of that, I don't have a problem with it.
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I want him to be aggressive. I want him to take that shot.
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I want him to fire up the three early in the shot clock as he
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knocked one down as Nertz went under the screen.
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You want to see those kind of things for Jefferson.
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For me, because he is the difference maker.
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He is the guy that takes them. They're good enough to make the
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tournament into a Sweet 16, but that's it.
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You talk about elevating your program, taking that next step.
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I think Jefferson is the guy that can do that.
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I want him aggressive all the time.
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Yeah, he certainly was right off the jump.
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I thought he was a little out of sorts early, but he got it
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going. Killian Toure continues to just
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impress every time he takes the floor.
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Trent, I don't know what his ceiling is.
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Sadly, I don't know how much time he's going to be spending
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in Ames if he keeps playing like this.
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My God, he can flat out guard you.
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This guy, we we've seen TJ have some guys that excel on the
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defensive end of the floor. This guy might be at the head of
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the class. Yeah, he absolutely.
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He's quick. I haven't seen anybody embarrass
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him as far as, you know, breaking his ankles.
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I'm sure that'll happen at some point, yes.
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But my God, Toure is like he's just so much fun to watch at his
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craft. You know, looking at the numbers
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and all the guys on the players, when you look at defensive
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rating, they're all good. That's to play for TJ
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Otzenberger. You got to be done good on that
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head. In fact, the worst player on the
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team, quote UN quote worst a player on the team at this
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moment is Jamarian Bateman. He's a 97.
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So 100's a baseline. If you're under 100, that's
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good. Yeah, he's the worst at 97 on
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the whole team, which is just absolutely crazy.
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And out of the guards, Torrey's number.
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One. Yeah, it's amazing.
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He's in a back court with Taman Lipsey and he is rated a better
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defender than Taman Lipsey, who is physical and tough and rugged
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and everything that you want as a defender on the perimeter and
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now with two guys, and that's another thing we talked about
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yesterday, to have two guys like that, to have Lipsy.
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He didn't have to go out there and guard Bennett Sturtz for
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3032 minutes. You were able to put Toria, we
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were able to give him different looks.
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You were able to throw a bunch of different guys and most
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importantly, 2 elite, elite on ball defenders on whatever point
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guard, not just Bennett Sturtz, but everyone that they faced
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this year. That's another difference in
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this team you looked the last couple of years.
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They're good defensively because that's how they play.
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But they didn't have these kind of on ball defenders, not two of
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them, not an extra 1 to go with Lipsy and they have that now and
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that's another difference with this one.
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No, they really are. They're every bit as good as
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advertised. That was a good test for them
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last night. Challenged them faced some some
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circumstances that they really hadn't been in all year and they
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passed that test came back from big deficit took the lead out
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into the second-half opened up a lead and then here comes Iowa to
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their credit and this back and forth down the stretch just a
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hell of a game I don't man Cyhawk 2025 lived up to every
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single bit of the advance Billy and that was was that one of the
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only games last night Oh yeah there there was and there's none
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tonight it's. A very late slate, so.
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It's finals, right? It's got to be what's behind it,
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right? Yes, I mean, that's the excuse.
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Sure, and I mean there's a few games tomorrow and there's some
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decent games tomorrow. Let's get Eugene repay in here.
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desmoinesregister.com courtside last night watching that bad boy
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Eugene Trenton Kent, thanks for coming on.
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Good to speak with you Eugene Trenton.
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I just commenting what a terrific 2 nights of side Hawk
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basketball. The women getting things
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underway on Wednesday, followed up by this men's affair last
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night. Just a fantastic 48 hours of of
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basketball at Hilton Coliseum. Fantastic 48 hours for sure.
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I mean both games came down to the wire, both teams and both
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games never quit until the final buzzer.
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It was just an exciting 2/2 day stretch at at Hilton Coliseum
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for sure. You look at last night and the
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building when I would got out to that lead.
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Now one component I had one of my Cyclone friends that texted
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me last night and said this is as few of Iowa fans as I can
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ever remember. What was that a fact being in
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Hilton and when Iowa had that little run, it was a murmur.
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It certainly wasn't like the night before when we heard loud
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cheers when Iowa was making the runs and making plays.
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That was not the case. But that is about as quiet as I
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can remember. Hilton for a long stretch of
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time, Iowa in the first half of the game when they were taking
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it out of them and and really playing at that high level.
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Eugene, you've been in the environment now a couple of
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different times. Did did you notice that in your
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first side hop game, at least at Hilton, your experience there
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and what felt like a different kind of environment than we're
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used to? It felt like a different kind of
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environment for sure. It definitely seemed like it a
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majority leaned or were donned and and Cardinal and and Gold
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definitely outnumber the Iowa fans.
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But just the way that I will play it, especially through
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those first 12 minutes of the game, just took the crowd out of
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it for sure. Eugene Blake Buchanan left the
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game. I know he came back in.
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Any update on him? Any concern?
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I guess maybe on Blake Buchanan who had to leave.
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Does did DJ mention the injury at all following the game last
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night? He appeared to roll his right
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ankle but came back and and clearly finished out the game
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there. There didn't seem to be too much
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concern and once he got tended to, we saw him come back maybe 3
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or 4 minutes after he initially went down.
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But it was definitely a scary moment for sure for Cyclone
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fans. I mean, he'd been playing well
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throughout the season and seemed to be a perfect complimentary
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piece to Joshua Jefferson. And so when you see a guy like
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that go down after grabbing a rebound, definitely cruise
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disappointment from from the fans there, but total relief to
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see him finish out the game and and continue to operate and play
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at a a good level because he made some key plays down the
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stretch there. No, he really did.
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So Mulder has to come in. What?
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What do we know about Plea? Plea is day-to-day also with a
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right ankle sprain. It's not a groin injury, but he
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he is day-to-day and and he'll be closely monitored.
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We'll see how they handle the last few non conference games.
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But right now he's he's day-to-day with an ankle sprain.
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So I want to ask you about Manchilovich for the first time
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really this season. Was it Iowa took him out of the
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game? Was it back to what we saw
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really the last couple of years with him where he just wasn't
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overly aggressive? What did you see from Blonde in
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the game? And one of the games that he
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just didn't shoot it a whole lot.
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Yeah, he, he hit a couple of key threes, but for the most part it
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seemed like Iowa was keying in on him.
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I, I don't think it was truly a red flag or, or cause for
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concern. I think it was just the flow of
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the game itself. It was definitely a slower paced
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game. It was a physical 1.
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And it seemed like, you know, Milliman Tillovich tried to get
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his when he could, But, but for the most part, you know, if you
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didn't see him forced anything unnecessary, which, which if
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you're a psycho fan, you got to be happy about.
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But I, I think it was just more so just the flow of the game
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and, and how things were going at that point.
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Yeah, I think you're probably right.
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So now a couple of, I don't want to say laughers, lay UPS, but
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certainly the schedule softens up over the Christmas break
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before Big 12 plays, Big 12 play gets underway.
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What do you think? TJ's?
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What was his take away? What will he get the group
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together back at practice And they'll work on what they'll try
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and tweak what before the Big 12 gets here.
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Eugene. For him, it seems to be more of
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a mental mindset, more of a mental component.
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I think that there was a certain disappointment with how the team
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started the game and even just played throughout it because,
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yeah, they had that great second-half run there where they
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rattled off a 22 to 4 run coming out of the gates into the
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second-half and stormed ahead. But there was still this idea
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that TJ Altoberger wants to drone to his team, that you need
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to be consistent every night. You can't have these Lols.
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You can't have teams pushing you around.
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You can't assume that things are just guaranteed.
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And so you know when when you look at how they came out
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against Purdue, they're in a hostile environment, Number one
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team in the nation and they didn't play.
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They played very free out there. They played with no pressure.
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They played aggressively against Iowa at home.
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You're the number four team in the country.
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You're wildly favored to win by double digits.
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They look stiff. They look shell shocked.
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They look rattled in the beginning.
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And you saw TJ also Burger Show, there's lots of emotion and some
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of these timeouts ripping into his team, challenging them and
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ultimately they responded. But I you know, of all the
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teams, you look at their non conference schedule, I don't
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think anybody anticipated Iowa to be the team that had the
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cycles in our first halftime deficit.
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Eugene, take us into the under 4 timeout.
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Maybe what ignited the team was ATJ might have been the other
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coach and that was Jimmy Rogers dropping the F bomb on the Hawks
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and take us into that one a little bit in what was a
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memorable moment certainly. Jimmy Rogers definitely endeared
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himself to the cycle unfaithful it.
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You know, obviously he had no impact in the game on the box
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score, but I think you can credit him with an assist, maybe
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maybe an honorary one because you know, at that point I was
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state was down. TJ's ripping into his team and
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during the time out and then all of a sudden he makes his
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introductory speech and then drops the F bomb and you know
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what? But just a mic drop moment and
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that really reignited the crowd. Hilton Coliseum.
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So, you know, for Jimmy Rogers, it's been a very eventful week,
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first week in Ames. And what a way to introduce
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yourself to the public for the first time.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. Personally, I got on the phone
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this morning. I cancelled my grandchildren's
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membership to the Little Cyclone Club, but.
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Yeah, yeah, Billary, you're the ones that doesn't drop a deaf
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Bob. I don't have any grandkids
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either. That's true.
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Yeah. Anyways, So other than that,
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yeah, I'm indifferent. The fans love that.
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Ate it up. Look, and let's be honest, if
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this was done at at Carver Hawkeye and the black and gold
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fans, if whatever, whatever your colors, right, whether you liked
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it, whether you didn't like it, it goes with being and that's
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part of the rivalry. And thank God we have that here
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in the state of Iowa because we wouldn't have a job in a lot of
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ways. All right, Le more on Jimmy
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Rogers. What are your thoughts?
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You were there obviously when the announcement was made.
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You probably camped out or spent most of your weekend in Ames
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last week. But we're, you know, just So
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what, what you've seen from the new the new football coach.
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What one thing was seeking out for me about Jimmy Rodgers is
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that he's midwester and through just throughout his whole
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coaching career, even you look back at South Dakota State, he
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mentioned being very familiar with recruiting in the Midwest,
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knowing what players are looking for, knowing what families are
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looking for, just seeing the type of character and the type
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of vibe that there is. So he's very familiar with
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recruiting in Iowa, Minnesota, you name it.
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And I think that's something that's going to bode very well
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for him as he makes the jump over to the Big 12.
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Just being familiar with recruiting.
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Obviously when you're South Dakota State, you're going to
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lose a lot of those targets. And he mentioned guys like Bo
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Goodwin and, and being familiar with Cooper Evil and some of
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these guys already on the Iowa State team.
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So I think those ties will work well for him.
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For him, it just seems to be more of like another blue collar
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hard hat, hard working guy. He's won at South Dakota State,
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He's won a national title there at Washington State, even though
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he went six and six, people will look at that and go, oh, he went
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six and six and in his first season of FDS, but four of those
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losses were close ones. He pushed some TFT bound teams
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to the end and put them on upset alert.
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And and also just one thing that stood out to me was when he was
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at Washington State, he had to rebuild the roster from scratch.
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He had 70 new players. I think this is a guy that's
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really bought into the culture around at Iowa State already.
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I mean, obviously, you know, we need to see what his coaching
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staff is going to look like, what his team is going to look
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like. He's going to run a form down
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lineman front. So if you're someone who's
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taking up the three three stack, you're going to love to see a
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little more push up front. And I'm just curious right now.
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I mean, right now, you you want to hold some of the the
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judgments until we see the roster come together and the
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coaching staff come together. But I think he's aced his first
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press conference and now he aced it last night in front of the
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Hilton Coliseum crowd. Last thing for me, apparently
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Rocco Beck be found were reporting that Rocco Beck
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underwent successful labrum surgery on his non throwing
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shoulder which would take him out of spring practice, which to
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me makes it more likely that he stays in Ames because he's got
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one year left. If there was an opportunity for
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him to leave. I'm not saying he's damaged
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goods and I'm sure he'll be fine by the time we get to August and
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into September, but I think that this improves the chances of
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Rocco remaining a cyclone for his senior year.
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How about that, Eugene? Yeah, and I also want to add to
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that, the Iowa State confirmed that report to me.
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And they also disclosed that Roccobec had a a joint sprain in
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his throwing shoulder as well. So double prong there.
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Obviously, you know, you can read into the tea leaves how you
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want. You know, I'm sure Iowa State
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fans won't feel well, you know, maximum relief until they see
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him out there next year. But I, I do see the theory and
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I'd agree with that. But of course, you know, you
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never know what can, what can happen.
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But he's dealing with shoulder injuries in both shoulders.
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We'll see, hopefully a good recovery for him.
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But yeah, I I can see why that would lead to hopefully him
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staying. Good stuff.
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Eugene Repay, Des Moines Register covers Iowa stayed
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along with Travis Hines, Tommy Birch as well.
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Eugene repay joining Trenton I on Fridays.
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Eugene, thank you for doing this as always.
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We will reach out next week. Eugene, you have a good weekend.
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Thank you. Same.
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To you guys, thank you. Yeah, good to talk to you.
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Eugene. Repay, Des Moines Register.
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Alright, good stuff. Let's get Rachel character in
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here. Rachel, how are you?
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Mary Greeley. I'm doing very well, thank you
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for having me. So.
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It's an exciting night in Aims where you.
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At the game last night. I was not at the game.
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We were watching it very intently.
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For sure, you, you kind of raise your hand, raise your hands
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there when my theory about Rocco Beck may be coming back for
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another year because of his surgical procedure.
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Absolutely, I have a nine year old that absolutely loves him
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and all he's ever known is Campbell time and has met Rocco
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and it's fantastic. So we're we're, we're proling
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for him to stay. Absolutely.
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All right, we continue on here. It's the variety 2 Days of
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Compassion Radio on you with Mary Greeley.
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Obviously Trent and I have learned a whole lot about
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variety Club over well leading up doing our homework as to what
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we were going to be doing. But certainly the stories that
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we've told a they're sad a lot of times, unfortunate most of
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the time, but how would they helped you guys at Mary Greeley?
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You know, they have just been an incredible partner for the
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Medical Center and the 13 counties of families that we
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serve. Do you?
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Serve that many I would never know.
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Wow. Central Iowa.
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So it's really, they're helping us provide the best care for
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those children in central Iowa. Through their generosity, we've
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been able to purchase specialized equipment like these
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panda warmers and additional neonatal monitors that allow us
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to keep the babies with the mother.
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We don't have a, we don't have a separate NICU.
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And so even in times of more critical care, we can keep the
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babies with the mother in the room.
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And so it's huge. It's huge.
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And so our nurses, it links directly to their devices and
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they can come in if there's distress.
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And that's Variety Club that enabled that for you guys.
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That's awesome. Allowed us to purchase that
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equipment so that we can keep them with us.
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So yeah, in addition to that, just the import of programs like
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SIDS prevention. So they provide the sleep sacks
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for every patient and family that leaves the hospital.
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So the education really starts there and we can keep those
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babies safe even when they leave us.
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So, you know, I would like to say that they not only have
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helped us deliver babies, but also that Peace of Mind to
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parents when they leave. You know, one thing that
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continually jumps out to me is this compassion fund and you get
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to see first hand that quick turn around, which is so
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important, what variety does and, and opportunities for
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people to help out variety and, and help us with what we're
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doing with them today is that impact when people are looking
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around, not knowing how they're going to be able to make it to
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the next paycheck to to get to the hospital, fill up their gas
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and what the compassion fund does.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think when you have a child
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that's critically ill and looking at that hospital stay,
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the parents wanna put everything else on hold.
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They wanna be bedside with that child.
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And so the ability to have these funds to, it really empowers our
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nurses to be able to help. And I think that tangible impact
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that they can have to help them pay for gas to if they need to
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travel Tiowa City to the Children's Hospital or they've
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been in the hospital for a long time and need a meal, or we've
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simply even bought birthday cakes for a child that's in the
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hospital on their birthday. And, and the nurses through this
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compassion fund are empowered to do that.
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It's meaningful for them because they feel like they're making an
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impact right there. Such a great 'cause in our final
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minute, I'll just turn it over to you.
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It's what would you like to make sure that our listening audience
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is aware of the impact that Variety has here in the state of
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Iowa and in Central Iowa particular?
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Yeah, absolutely. I just on behalf of the Mary
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Graylic Medical Center, I just want to extend our heartfelt
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thanks to Variety for this effort.
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And all of you that do donate to the 'cause I would say to
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everyone listening, I encourage you to support their work.
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Every gift, every dollar really does make a difference for the
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children and families across our state.
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And every dollar that is donated during our two hour show today,
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So well done. Not surprised the good people at
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Rachel, good to meet you. Thank you.
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Thank you for having. Congratulations on your
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Cyclones. Well, back-to-back wins over
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Iowa Hilton Coliseum. Absolutely.
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After the week, we needed to end on a high note.
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You did. Thanks, Rachel.
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Good luck. We'll take your time out.
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Tom Caker will join us on the other side.
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We'll get Tom's perspective on what he saw.
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Last night's bowl prep continues for Iowa's.
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They will head to Tampa. Did you see the press conference
24:34
yesterday? Ference and Clark and Lee were
24:36
both in Tampa. I didn't.
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Yeah, they normally do those things, get the coaches there.
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And, I mean, I didn't learn anything out of the ordinary.
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He was a bunch of, you know, coach speak if you will.
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Glad to be here. Ference has been going to this
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bowl game for a long time. Yes, he has.
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I mean a long time. Couple of decades now over a
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couple of decades. Truly is unbelievable.
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So good stuff. All right, we'll take a time
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out. We'll come back.
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Tom Caker joins us. Miller and Condon, we're glad
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you're with us wherever you're listening.
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Let's get to our friend Tom Caker at hawkeyereport.com, part
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of on three Media. Tom joins Us Weekly. 99% of
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those says on Friday, but sometimes we have.
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We have to move around a little, but Tom is with us.
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Tom, thanks for doing this, as always.
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Appreciated. Tom Caker Yeah.
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Look, my take away of the game last night was I thought I would
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play their best game of the year.
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This is, as you know, is a really good Iowa State outfit
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and I thought I would did McCollum had a good game plan.
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Obviously the start of the second-half didn't go their way,
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but as as much as as much as anything, I was really impressed
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by Iowa last night. Yeah, I thought they played a
26:32
terrific game. I thought they really came out,
26:35
played strong. You know, the the Michigan State
26:38
game on the road in that first half, that's where things kind
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of went a little bit sideways for him, where Michigan State
26:46
went on a little bit of a run and opened up a lead that Iowa
26:48
could just never get close to. And this time it was Iowa
26:52
opening up that 13 point lead after Bennett Sturtz 3 and you
26:56
thought whether maybe something crazy is going to happen here.
27:00
And then Iowa State, just Jefferson was terrific and
27:05
Munchylovitch made some big plays and and Lipsy and they
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just they just did what really good teams do.
27:14
They they grounded grind away and built a 10 point leading to
27:18
Iowa's credit, they came right back at him and cut it down to
27:21
one on the last minute and and just couldn't get one of those
27:25
loose balls to go their way. And and that was the ball game,
27:29
but terrific basketball game. Terrific game.
27:33
Yep, love to hear from Ben McCullum.
27:35
Afterwards he said I'd like to win no moral victories.
27:39
It's something that probably this program needs the way they
27:41
competed in that kind of environment because boy, it felt
27:44
like if maybe the previous regime was in charge, that thing
27:47
would have turned into a 30 point blowout.
27:48
It went the other direction. They ain't nothing run to get
27:50
them back within two and opportunities a late.
27:53
You can see the DNA certainly changing this Iowa basketball
27:56
team. Do you feel that as well, Tom?
27:59
I do, but it's just, you know, totally different team, too.
28:03
So I do wonder one thing about Ben.
28:09
He's not as comfortable, or at least it doesn't seem like he's
28:13
as comfortable doing a little ref working.
28:16
He just kind of lets it go. And he might have to do some of
28:21
that because you look at the disparity in fouls last night
28:25
and even the Maryland game. I mean, the last two games,
28:29
Iowa's opponents are 41 for 61 from the foul line.
28:33
Iowa is 9 of 17. Geez, yeah, I didn't realize
28:38
that. And, and, and, and, and I'll say
28:42
this too, because then you can, you can kind of say, well, maybe
28:45
they just shot a bunch of threes.
28:46
Maybe they're taking bad shots or different shots that don't
28:50
create foul situations. Iowa and Iowa State both shot 15
28:54
threes last night. Iowa and Maryland shot 18 threes
28:59
last weekend. So it's not like Iowa was going
29:02
nuts from three. It's the the whistles not going.
29:07
I was way for whatever reason. Maybe they're not driving it and
29:11
creating enough contact? I don't know, but that's a
29:14
little weird to me. Yeah, no, I didn't realize when
29:19
you put the Maryland game in there just what those numbers
29:22
might add up to Tom Tate Sage looks as though he's arrived and
29:27
is going to be a major factor on this team if the game against
29:30
Maryland, which really to me, and I think I don't want to put
29:33
words and trench mouth, but we both felt maybe a coming out
29:35
party of sorts for Sage as a Hawkeye last night just took it
29:39
to a whole nother level. Tate Sage, who I think was
29:42
probably one of the latest to sign with McCollum and the last
29:46
to get there. He's certainly coming on as, as
29:50
we hit the, you know, toward the end of the non conference
29:52
season, Tate Sage going to be a problem.
29:55
Yeah, he is really good and he's really fearless and that he just
30:00
doesn't, you know, he doesn't care.
30:03
He said go keep going after guys.
30:06
Doesn't care about the reputation, anything like that.
30:09
They're going to say he can say the same thing about Isaiah
30:11
Howard, who just seems. Great.
30:14
They're just going to keep coming after people and playing
30:18
hard and and the arrows pointing up for both those guys.
30:22
So, you know, the good, good days are ahead for this Iowa
30:28
team, at least that those kind of that that wing guard wing
30:32
forward type position. One who go to Bennett Sturtz,
30:36
who was shaking his wrist around a little bit, looked like he
30:39
bothered him for a pretty long stretch there in the
30:41
second-half. He was sitting in the corner.
30:43
He was not heavily involved in the offense.
30:45
I thought that was certainly surprising with the usage.
30:49
McCollum was after asked after the game, you know the 40
30:51
minutes and said no and you want to tell him he's going to come
30:54
out Coach, you got to take him out.
30:56
You're not going to get through this grind of a 20 game Big 10
30:58
schedule and the way that he's going to be defended and get
31:01
through it healthy. It is time.
31:03
Couple minutes, a half, 36 minutes a game, 35 minutes a
31:06
game as opposed to 40. I think it's important.
31:09
Are we ever going to get Ben McCallum along in that line of
31:11
thinking, though? That's a great question because
31:15
I think at times Ben let's Bennett dictate how much time he
31:21
played. And he just unless Bennett wants
31:24
to come out, he doesn't take him out.
31:26
And I said something as a coach, you got to just dictate that and
31:30
you got to say, well, you know, and, and I know Ben will just
31:32
say, well, they got all these media timeouts.
31:35
He gets breaks, then we take him off the ball and we put him over
31:38
in the corner for possession. And he's, you know, he can, he
31:41
can stay away from things, but his presence out there still
31:45
draws attention to him. But sometimes you just got to
31:49
get him off his feet a little bit.
31:51
I will say this, Bennett is in incredible shape.
31:54
I mean, he told me before the season he'll go out his, I
31:57
didn't know this, his mom was a track athlete and he'll go out
32:02
on like 5 to 10 mile runs and just for conditioning sake.
32:07
So he's in incredibly good shape.
32:09
But it's still that's this is a grind.
32:12
This is a big time basketball that he's going to be playing
32:16
in. This is no disrespect to the
32:19
Missouri Valley. This ain't the Missouri Valley.
32:21
He's going to take a beat. And the physical toll, he said
32:26
his wrist is OK. He just kind of fell funny on
32:28
it, but he's going to be OK. But come February, how's he
32:34
going to feel And I, and I'm going to dive into this today
32:38
probably, but just his shooting percentages in the second-half
32:42
are are they seem like they're much less than they are in the
32:45
1st. Yeah, excellent point, Tom Cake
32:49
are part of on three Media. hawkeyereport.com joins us.
32:52
Tom, let's switch to football. I saw that both Ference and Lee,
32:56
who spent time in Tampa yesterday, as they normally do a
32:59
couple of weeks before the game, just meeting with some of the
33:02
local media, etcetera, starting to drum up some publicity for
33:06
the match up. You know, it's when you, when
33:08
you listen ferrets speak. It just, it just kind of dawned
33:11
on me, you know, how many times he's been there, you know, going
33:14
way back to the, I guess he called it the turn of the
33:17
century because that's what it is, right?
33:19
So the turn of the century when they first got there, when they
33:22
first started playing in Tampa, just how many times he's been
33:25
there. And, and it's not lost on him
33:28
what this bowl game has meant to, you know, the his, his
33:30
career at the University of Iowa and now where they're at.
33:34
Good to see. What are you hearing about bowl
33:35
prep? Yeah, and this, you think about
33:38
it, this was their first January 1 bowl win, that O 4 game
33:43
against Florida and Ron Zook. That was the first time they
33:45
want to January 1st bowl game in his in his tenure.
33:49
So it it has special meaning. There's three and three in that
33:53
game right now. They're just doing a lot of
33:58
developmental work until after finals week and then they'll
34:01
start buckling down and getting the guys back out there.
34:04
But right now they're letting some of those starters that
34:06
logged, you know, 6700 snaps this year.
34:10
They're going to get those guys off their feet and get them out
34:12
away from the the field a little bit and let them heal up and
34:16
going to get ready. But this would be a good match
34:19
up. Vanderbilt teams really good and
34:21
they're well coached. Clark Lee does a good job.
34:25
Pavi is obviously going to be a, you know, probably finished
34:29
second to the Heisman, I think, and and he's he's a certainly
34:35
going to be an interesting player to be around during the
34:38
bowl prep. He seems to seems to make a lot
34:41
of headlines, you know? Not just him, his whole family.
34:46
And his whole family, yeah, I mean, it'll be, it'll be fun.
34:50
And it's something different for Iowa.
34:52
I was worried they were going to get Tennessee again.
34:54
And I was like, I want to hear his Rocky Top 100 more times.
34:58
You know not. Really just.
34:59
Well, as we're about, oh, sorry, Todd, about 3 weeks away from
35:03
the portal opening up Asta, all of our hockey, I guess this
35:08
week. What do you anticipate?
35:09
What position groups do you think Iowa football is going to
35:12
be targeting? A good question.
35:16
I think some of it will depend on if guys hit the portal now.
35:19
I asked Kirk on Sunday when they did the full announcement thing.
35:22
I said you're going to have full roster and he was like, yeah, I
35:26
anticipate it and I think everybody's going to play.
35:28
I think that the new date for the portal opening probably
35:33
helps Iowa a little bit because I'm sure there's going to be
35:36
some guys going in into the portal.
35:39
I would expect defensive tackle to be a position of need.
35:43
I'd say maybe defensive backfield, they they might do a
35:47
little looking there. Tyler Barnes even mentioned like
35:50
defensive end wide receiver. You know, as as long as they
35:54
keep both Hank Brown and Eklinski, I think they'll be OK
36:00
at quarterback. And because I don't interpret
36:02
Jimmy Sullivan leaving, I don't know that they'll have to invest
36:07
a lot of resources into the quarterback position.
36:11
So perhaps they can go a little more big game hunting and get a
36:14
higher level wide receiver, but I think they probably have to
36:18
overpay to get a wide receiver. It's just how it is.
36:23
Tom, my last thing we we heard earlier in the week that that
36:26
Hank Brown's actually, you know, off to a pretty good start in
36:29
the bowl prep, but Kalinsky may be not able to to practice at
36:32
some point and maybe Brown's getting a little bit more, more
36:35
reps, whatever they're going through right now.
36:37
Are you hearing that at all, Tom?
36:39
Yeah, Hank's, Hank's done well. And and and Tim Lester has
36:44
always said those two are really, really tight with each
36:47
other. And it was just that that that
36:49
one bye week where where where Hecklinski just kind of went
36:56
nuts. He just caught on fire.
36:59
And so they just kind of kept him in that number two spot.
37:03
You wonder how life might have looked different had had Hank
37:07
Brown completed that screen pass to Kamari Molson.
37:10
I mean, it's the play that that could have changed the
37:13
trajectory of the entire college football season.
37:16
Really is. Like Tim, like Tim Lester said,
37:19
he goes, he goes, I didn't look at the all 20 twos and and he
37:22
would have scored a touchdown on that play if it was on target.
37:25
And and then maybe they beat Indiana and maybe that upsets
37:29
the apple cart. I mean, just think about all
37:32
those things. Mendoza maybe doesn't win the
37:33
Heisman. It's so wild how one play can
37:37
change the trajectory of of an entire season.
37:40
Yeah, and he would have had a couple of big old offensive
37:43
lineman in front of him too. That play was absolutely there.
37:47
Tom Kaikert hawkeyereport.com part of On Three Media.
37:49
Tom, as always, thanks for what you do for us.
37:52
Appreciate it. We will run you down next week.
37:54
Tom. Thank you.
37:54
Have a good weekend. Okay, thanks guys.
37:56
Bye bye. Yep, good to talk to you, Tom
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variety has so many different ways.
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And good to see you. How are you?
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I'm great. Thank you.
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Well, let's get into what how you see the impact and how
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Variety Club has helped you guys at Mary Greeley.
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Where do you want to start? There's so many ways you can go.
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I know so many, probably focusing on the Compassion Fund
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itself really allows us to support our families while
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either in the hospital or you know, those first few days out
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of the hospital. It just helps take take the
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stressful, stressful part when parents need some support and
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we're able to help them financially with that, whether
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it's a car seat or a pack and play for a safe sleep, some gas
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money, if they need to travel to Des Moines or Iowa City for a
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higher level of care for their babies.
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All of those things help support our families and we're very
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appreciative. Stacey, you mentioned there's a
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few of those personal stories. Can you have one of those?
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I think they're just so impactful when you find out
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about those real stories. Yeah, absolutely.
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So one of them that comes to mind was actually on our
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pediatric unit, Mary Greeley. It was a patient there that we
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saw, you know, a couple times throughout the year and she was
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there for her 1st birthday. Unfortunately, she didn't have a
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lot of family there with her. And so with the support of the
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Compassion Fund, the nurses were able to get her some things for
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her 1st birthday, some necessities, but also some toys.
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And then we also threw her her first birthday party in her room
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at the hospital. Still kind of gives me chills,
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but what a special moment to be able to support that family.
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Yeah, it gives me chills. It's first I've heard of it.
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It's just fascinating what they do and how needy and how
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impactful that it is. We are running out.
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We got 30 seconds left. You take the floor.
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What do you want to make sure people know as the music is
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playing? Yeah, just that the variety does
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Truly. They touched so many lives and
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