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children's cherry, which is why we're here both today and
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tomorrow. But a lot to get to as Seihawk.
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Now the women they played last night.
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The men will take the floor tonight, the Hilton Coliseum and
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it would be banged out again tonight as it was last night.
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And last night, you know, in the third quarter, I thought, oh,
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gosh, I was, I was mouthing off that this got chance to be a
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pretty good basketball game and Iowa State starts to pull away.
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3 at the end of the third quarter was huge, huge.
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It was a three at the end of the first half that I thought was
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really big for Iowa as well. But it became a really close
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basketball game in the 4th. It really did.
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Iowa State prevails for, what did you say, the second time in
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the last now 10 years, Yes, that Iowa State has found the win
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column in the SEI Hawk battle, but a really entertaining night
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of women's hoops. It really was, you know, that
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first quarter, it was the pace I think that I would needed to
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play with. And Iowa State did a really good
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job of slowing things down in the 2nd and into that third
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quarter when they started to get a little bit of distance picked
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up in the fourth quarter. But I think that's kind of the
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one caveat for the Iowa side is the way those second and third
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quarters went and they just weren't able to keep the pace
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up. You have to give credit to Iowa
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State. I think Jada Williams was
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tremendous. It's not just the assist
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numbers, but controlling that pace, getting things slowed
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down, getting the game more comfortable for them because
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they weren't going to go win a game.
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I don't think in the 90s against Iowa, they had to have it the
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way that it was played there unless they were hitting a ton
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of three pointers and crooks went off like 45.
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You know, that's the that's kind of the path there.
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I thought they did a really good job of that, and Jada Williams
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was a big part of that. You know, one thing my big take
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away from this game on both sides is the upside of both of
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these teams. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
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Is really, we watched a lot more college basketball here these
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last couple years and you've watched just recently.
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I've been watching for longer but regardless of that.
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Women's college basketball, Yeah.
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We know that you have to have athletes to compete at the
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highest level. Unless you have a once in a
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generation talent, you have to have superior athletes to make
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that run, to get to a Sweet 16, to get to a Lead 8 and
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eventually get to a Final Four. You have to have high level
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athletes. And both these teams have those
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type of players, have the kind of people that can compete, that
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can go up against the behemoths of the sport, the Uconns, the
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South Carolinas, the UCLA, those kind of teams.
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These teams now are there where you remember Mega Gustans, and I
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think that was kind of your first, dipping your toe into the
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women's game. Greatest women's basketball
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player for a year. And you saw, though, when they
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ran into Baylor in that Elite Eight, it was just it was
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varsity against. You it was.
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It was varsity against 6th graders.
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I mean, it just that gap was so significant and we know how
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significant that gap is when the highest ends a basketball.
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And it's not that I'm anticipating that either.
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These teams are going to be Final Four teams, but they can
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get there. Get to a second weekend.
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Absolutely. And they with the right path,
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with the right match up, there is a real possibility.
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Let's be frank, outside of Caitlin Clark, that wasn't
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happening for the last 25 years in Iowa.
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Outside of no, not outside. Bill Finley's team has never had
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a team that has this kind of upside.
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No. It's it's it's I think they're
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looking for a Sweet 16 run before Finley calls it a career,
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which, you know, the way he's going.
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Who knows when's that gonna happen?
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Well, I kind of have an idea with Addie Brown and Addie
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Crooks. This is their junior year.
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Well, that that let's we're way ahead of ourselves on that one.
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But phenomenal game last night. Really enjoyed.
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I thought two things and one maybe in particular, more so, I
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thought Harris Block was just phenomenal, right?
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She got McCabe 2 1/2 minutes or so left in the basketball game.
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I thought that was critical. And Jackson for I would say
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chitchat, right, was unbelievable.
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She LED all scorers in the first half of that game.
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And then Jackson kind of took over and she, I don't want to
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say shut her down, but limited her as opposed to what 'cause
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she was getting whatever she wanted in the 1st house.
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She was it got. She's act of a player, she
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really is. Did you imagine if she was 5
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foot 8? No would.
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Not be something, yeah. She's not shy about shooting,
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no. She's not shy about anything.
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No, absolutely. She is a different kind of point
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guard than I was used to, but she is fun to watch.
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We talked about Jane Williams and that kind of coupled with
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what I mentioned earlier when he got those type of point guards,
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difference makers at that spot, just how good that team is.
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And you mentioned the defense for Iowa State and the way they
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ratcheted that up and they did it in a myriad of different
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ways. I thought you saw so many good
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things. And one thing, watching Audie
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Crooks for the first time for a full 40 minutes, watching her
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the full way through, Boy, she has added even more to her game.
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It's her footwork, I think. Yes, absolutely.
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I think it is. Boy, when she hit her head, I
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thought, oh, boy. Yeah.
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But stayed in the game and then thankfully, no, no, no issue
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there. Yeah, Fairbach was good.
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I mean, I I was thoroughly impressed with both of these
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teams. Yesterday, you know, Fairbach,
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she's a little bit limited offensively and she's not a
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great shooter. She's an OK shooter.
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She's a good on ball defender. Yeah, you do wonder, and
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certainly when Iowa gets Emily Rodgers.
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I think she's a smart player. Oh, absolutely, yeah.
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I mean, she's been around for six years.
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So yeah, you'd hope you got a little bit of that when you get
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Emily Rodriguez back. She is the kind of player now
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she plays out of control. I mentioned that tournament down
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in Florida. They're getting ready to put
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that game away against Baylor and two different times she's
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doing double spin moves and throwing the ball away and just
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out of control. She needs to learn how to play
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now on a good team because that wasn't the case.
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She could kind of do whatever she wanted at UCF last year.
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Now she's dealing with her injury at this point.
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But when they get her there, because she's another player, I
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think that can add to this team because there aren't a ton of
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players that can get their own. Chitchat can get her own.
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Who else on this team, though that can do that?
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McCabe's not that player. Fear Box, not that player.
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Obviously you got to get it inside to get the ball to hide.
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And so she's not that type of player.
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Stolke's the same way. I mean, they don't have those
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offensive parts that can go and get their own.
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Ebly Rodriguez can do that. I want to talk about the upside.
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I think that's another piece. There's still a lot of work to
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be done, a lot of bad habits that she needs to break when she
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gets healthy. Journey, Houston, she's got a
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spot with this team. She's a rotational piece and I
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think her upside too are coupled with what we've seen.
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It's really good. Iowa State is great for I would
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have come back though I think said a lot about them too, to
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come back down 17, everything going again.
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Did they get inside three? I don't think they did.
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They had opportunities, had opportunities.
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They got the ball back twice. Twice and opportunities couldn't
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get to fall to get that game within one or to tie it on a
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three. But they couldn't do it.
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Look, Iowa State, if they could make their free throws down the
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stretch this game, probably not as close as it turned out to be.
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They missed a bunch of free throws.
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Neither team shot the ball well. Neither team.
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You're 1000% right. What fun game now on?
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Williams missing those two. She was what, 20?
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Was it 26 out of 27? 6 out of 27, yes.
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I mean, I think I'm thinking, why would you say that, Ryan?
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How do you say his name? Rococo.
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Rococo. You know who's coming?
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It's the old announcer Jinx. But for her to miss them both
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after she started. But you've been 96.4 percent, 26
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out of 27 and then missed them both.
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You just didn't see that coming. And those are two big free
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throws. At least it felt like that at
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the time. But hell of an entertaining
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basketball game last night really was.
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The A-Team was in town to call the game big.
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ESPN had the game. I guess a lot.
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I'm guessing a lot of people saw that game last night.
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You would think so. I mean, there wasn't a whole lot
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up against it. No, there really wasn't.
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No, some some Big 10 games that turned into blowouts.
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Yeah, and how about Nebraska, by the way?
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What happened? I didn't see it.
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They. Throttled, Throttled Wisconsin.
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That was they. Did, yeah.
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It was 20. 5.30 Who had that big 10 network?
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I think so, yeah. I didn't realize so hybrids got
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a squad. I don't know, it was a home win.
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Well, look, Greg McDermott was, I heard his post game press
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conference when Nebraska beat Creighton over the weekend.
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You know, the first player he mentioned and I don't think it's
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because he's known him all of his life, well all of Sam's
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life. He mentioned Sam Hoybrick and
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just what how important he is to this Huskers outfit.
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We'll see as well. Good to good to know, but I did
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not see that last. Night What are the few
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undefeateds left in college? Basketball that. 90 to 60, the
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final over Buck. 90 to 6090 to 60 and we both thought Wisconsin
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was the middle of the pack Big 10 team team with the Jazz.
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NCAA Tournament team, yes, and it's not a game where Nebraska
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just shot lights out. They shot 11 and 30 from the
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three-point line, but absolutely put it to them.
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So 10 and O now for Hoiberg's group.
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Can they win their first ever NCAA Tournament?
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Game. Well, it'll be nice.
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We'll we'll see. Let's let's talk about the men's
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game tonight. The numbers 10 1/2 eleven as
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what? That was the point spread where
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it landed when we went on the air.
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I haven't checked it in the last 10 minutes, but I'm sure that
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hasn't changed that much. And if you were looking for that
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number, you can still get it somewhere.
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What do you anticipate tonight? I mean, as we said before the
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Michigan State game, and we're going to probably say this a lot
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before Iowa games, if your limit starts, right?
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If your limit starts, I was not able to do what they like to do.
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We know that Iowa State's going to play some defense.
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They're going to look if if you and I know what the game plans
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going to be, I've got a pretty good idea.
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TJ and his staff are loaded for bear.
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What do you anticipate tonight? It's difficult to envision,
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after what we saw in East Lansing, anything much different
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than that. I mean, we need some kind of
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proof of concept against a team like this on the road that
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they're going to be able to do it.
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Nobody else stepped up and starts at that early three.
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He was bad for his standards. He was bad against Michigan
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State and nobody else could help him out.
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And we know that this team lacks secondary scoring.
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Cooper Koch. He can knock down an open.
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Three, he needs to. Fool Garris.
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He's kind of hit the skids here the last.
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Three games or so. You know who is better against
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Maryland? I thought Tate Sage had a decent
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game. He's athletic.
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Isn't he? Yes, he is.
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He's got some. I noticed him, maybe for the
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first time, as a hawk. Yeah, against.
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Maryland, they like what he does on the defensive end.
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I still go back. If there was ever a time right
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in Hassan, you remember the game.
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What are we waiting? For this, he was injured during
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the summer. All right, late getting healthy.
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Maybe he's got a couple extra L BS that he needed to lose and
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get into playing shape. All right, The middle of
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December. Yep.
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I mean, the time is now. And after the performance he had
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a year ago in Hilton, they went to against Michigan State and he
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played well, you're right. And that game in Hilton?
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Yeah, he really was. In that game, yeah, he's done it
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in this building. He's a veteran.
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You need scoring. You're going to have to put
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points up here. I don't think you think you can
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grind out certainly the way this Iowa State team's shooting the
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ball, you can't grind out a 61 to 50 a win.
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You're going to have to get points up there.
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And because of that, I think that this needs to be the time.
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And if it doesn't happen, look, he didn't play against Maryland.
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That's weird. And I heard somebody mention
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might have been Tom Cacard on his podcast that overheard him
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saying to his girlfriend after the game, it's first time since
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middle school I didn't play in. A game no.
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I'm think about it. Yeah, yeah, you're in the Big 12
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now. You're in the Big 10.
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You're probably even the best player on your team, on every
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team you've been on or one of them, certainly till you got to
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this level. And for him not to see the
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flats, that is a rare. He's not a plus defender.
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I I get that. But but he's a shooter.
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Did he look out of sorts, though, against Michigan State?
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Did he look like, Oh yeah, you can see that's the black hole?
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Defensive over there, No. He worked I It's befuddling.
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It's one of the more confusing components because probably
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after Sturtz and fool Garris who also isn't starting, we had
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Brendan Hassan getting minimum of 2010.
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And McCullum went out of his way to to praise him after the game
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against Maryland when he didn't play.
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So we'll see. He's I, I wouldn't just, well, I
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would have thought he would have played against Maryland.
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So, So what? What do we know?
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It's going to be a fun game, fun atmosphere. 7:00 tip, You can
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listen to the Hot Guy broadcast on News Radio 1040, WHO if you
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can't be in front of your TV or likewise with the Iowa State
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broadcast 100.3, the bus on the Cyclone Radio Network.
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John and Eric will have the call of that one.
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So Jimmy Rogers comes out at halftime tonight.
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Yes, absolutely, don't you think?
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Oh yeah, I think. Has that been announced?
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No, I don't think it's just. Yeah, I would anticipate
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because. I've heard that from a bunch of.
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Different have you? And and he could absolutely blow
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the roof off Hilton if he does one, if it goes one step further
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right where he where Jimmy Rogers after he greets the
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crowns, gets them all fired up, blah, blah, blah.
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Let me introduce you to our starting quarterback.
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Oh. Right.
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You saw Rod Michael last night. Apparently he was mobbed by and
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then not. Not mobbed in a bad way, sure,
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but Cyclone fans were, you know, give me a picture.
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Everybody's got a phone on their camera type of thing.
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And, and Bramer was there and Bacon was there and Rocco was
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there. But I'm not saying that would
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heal the wound, but that would go a long way.
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So I want to take you back to two years ago.
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You remember Curtin Signetti? Yeah.
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And when he was introduced at the end of the game?
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Yep. And he's called out Ohio State,
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called out Michigan. And I think we said it.
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What is this idiot doing? You know it's.
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What else What he's doing. It's one thing to call him.
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It's one thing to call out Purdue.
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It's. Another thing to back him up.
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That's a great point. And he didn't he he called out
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the heavy heads. Is Jimmy Rogers got something
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like that? We'll see.
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Does he? It's not just it's a cyclone
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state. Get the applause.
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Is there going to be a little something extra for whoever's
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covering the game in the media? Make sure you got your camera
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out, because I'm going to guess the TV broadcast.
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Well, maybe just Oh. Sure, Yeah, they'll be.
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They'll be whoever's anchoring the studio at halftime for that.
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Go live. Let's let's see that thing.
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I want to see the whole thing and see if there's a little bit
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extra because Signeti got a little run and maybe it's not
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going to be the same because it's one thing calling out Iowa,
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right? But compared to calling out
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Michigan and Ohio State when you're in Indiana, the losingest
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program at FBS at the time. Didn't take long.
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We did it. Speaking of Big 10 teams, this
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Sharon Moore story, just unbelievable, right?
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It truly is the layers of this story and how many of them
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potentially that there are. And this he snapped, Trent, he
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snapped. He went off the deep end and
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went off the deep end quickly as his world was crumbling around
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him to nobody's fault but his own, right?
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Let's make that very clear. But you know, this was rumoured
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on. Somebody had this like a
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Thanksgiving that this is coming.
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Josh Pate apparently put something out that there's, I
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mean, he was kind of he didn't, he didn't mention Michigan, but
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there were people. Was it Deadspin maybe or one of
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those that actually said that this is happening, Sharon Moore
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is having an affair with one of his staff members and he's going
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to be fired because of it. And then 9 days late, 10 days
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later, boom, here we are. And my God for him to get.
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So the staff gets called into a meeting with the athletic
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department, his whole staff except him.
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He gets wind of this and realized that his writing is on
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the wall. And he then, I guess, went over
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to his mistress's apartment and it just went downhill from
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there. Absolutely.
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One of the more wild, crazy 3-4 hours it goes from Tromor's
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fired sounds like indiscretion. And then he's in jail and the
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stories that were coming out about that.
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And how much of this is reporting?
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How much is this real? Who knows, But this comes from
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ROM Reinhardt. The details of it.
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During an argument with his wife, Moore threatened to kill
18:00
himself. He then drove to and broke into
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the home of his assistant, where he held a knife to his own
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throat and threatened to kill both himself and the staffer.
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He was then intercepted at a local church after his wife
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provided his phone's location to the authorities.
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He's now in protective custody. That is from Rob Reinhart.
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I you run out of ways to describe just how wild we think.
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You'll never coach again. No.
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He'll never coach again. No should he?
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He was the no. He was the head coach of
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Michigan. You want this person in front of
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young people. No, absolutely not.
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You want this person after that, no around people.
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He had the job of his life. And if he saved that $12 million
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he made these last two years? Yeah, true.
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Unbelievable. Well, that's where it's at and
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we'll follow that for more details.
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Let's get to I believe Cindy Culbertson is with us.
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Cindy, can you hear us? My name is Ken Miller.
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My partner is Trent Condon. Cindy, can you hear us?
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I can thank you. Good to talk to you.
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Appreciate you calling in. Obviously, you're calling in on
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behalf of your granddaughter Lakeland, who has been a better
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factor, your whole family been a better factor of the good folks
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here at Variety Children's Charity.
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So I guess let's start with, you know, how your granddaughter,
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how Lakeland's doing, if you don't mind sharing that
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information. And then we'd like to get into
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just how Variety Club has impacted your family and how
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they impact so many families throughout Central Iowa.
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Absolutely. Yes.
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My granddaughter, Lakeland, she's actually going to be a
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Lakeland was diagnosed. Thank you.
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Lakeland was diagnosed with a ultra rare terminal condition
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with a life expectancy of one to five years.
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It's called RCDP and it's a terminal form of dwarfism.
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And they're they only have less than 100 documented cases in the
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entire world ever. They think she's roughly about
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71, like the 71 case ever. Lakeland will never walk, she'll
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never talk. She's blind, she's deaf with
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seizures. She's constantly in and out of
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the hospital. She just had a permanent feeding
20:20
tube inserted into her belly at the University of Iowa where she
20:24
gets all her care and but right now she's doing well.
20:30
I don't want to jinx it, but like I said, her birthday is
20:32
tomorrow like expectancy of one to five years and she she's
20:37
doing well. I'd love to hear that, Cindy, no
20:41
doubt about it. We're here with variety and one
20:43
of the things I absolutely love about this organization is the
20:46
Compassion Fund, what they do for families, and most
20:50
importantly, that direct but immediate support.
20:54
There's so many times we talk to people.
20:56
Red tape. Yes, absolutely.
20:57
Trying to get those funds and do it while families are really
21:00
struggling. Cindy, you can tell us just how
21:02
quickly that came together and how important that was for your
21:05
family. I sent an e-mail because I
21:09
wasn't sure how the process worked, and I sent an e-mail and
21:14
within two days, the variety dropped off the gift card for my
21:19
daughter. The gift card was given to
21:23
Sierra, My daughter, she's a single mom.
21:25
She had to, for the first three months, she had to resign from
21:30
her job to care for Lakeland and the NICU.
21:33
And like you'd mentioned, the best thing about it, it was
21:36
quick. There was no red tape.
21:37
My daughter, I got the card to my daughter.
21:39
She used it for gas. She lives in Altoona and food
21:44
and supplies for Lakeland that say the insurance doesn't cover
21:48
and it was quick, it was painless.
21:51
And I do have to say from my perspective, there's not a lot
21:55
of organizations that are direct and quick like the variety.
21:59
That's why I always want to give back, give my time and and and
22:03
hopefully raise as much money. And the other thing I want to
22:06
say, I never thought this would happen to me.
22:09
It happens to other people, happens to your neighbors, your
22:12
coworkers. I have healthy grandkids.
22:15
If this was just an ultra rare condition and I never thought I
22:20
would have a terminal child with our granddaughter with dwarfism.
22:24
So you don't think it's ever going to happen to you, but it
22:27
did to me and my family and my daughter.
22:29
Again, she's single, single mom taking care of three kids.
22:33
And this gift card was a huge help to her and, and she's just
22:39
so thankful for Variety for reaching out so quickly to her.
22:45
Cindy, we appreciate you sharing your story, very personal story
22:49
of what your family is going through.
22:51
As you said, you never think it's going to happen to you,
22:54
right? It happens to some other people,
22:56
but then it does and it's grateful that you were able to
22:59
get in touch with Variety and they responded as quickly as
23:02
they do local of the helping over 100,000 children each and
23:08
every year. Cindy, on behalf of us here at
23:11
Variety and of course the I heart stations WHO and KX and O
23:16
happy 1st birthday to Lakeland. Cindy.
23:18
Happy holidays to you and your family and we're certainly
23:21
hoping for all of the best. All right.
23:23
Thank you, Cindy for coming on and sharing your story.
23:27
Thank you so much. Good to talk to you.
23:30
Thank you very much. Wow.
23:31
Bye, bye, that tugs that you're right, Jesus.
23:35
Unthinkable. It's unfathomable, It truly is.
23:38
And you can help out these families, these people with
23:41
variety. I'll give them a call right now
23:43
as the phone lines are open 515-276-6669, 276-6669.
23:51
You can also donate online Variety iowa.com/compassion or
23:55
on Venmo at Variety Iowa. There make sure you hit the last
23:58
four digits 8097 on that front. And right now during our show,
24:03
merchants bonding company is matching all the donations
24:07
during Miller and Condon. So the time is now to jump
24:09
aboard one more time. The phone number 515-276-6669.
24:15
All right, we are live on the lower level at Jordan Creek Mall
24:18
where it's center court will be here until 2.
24:21
The boys come off the bench at that time until 6:00 as we move
24:25
on and continue here with Variety 2 Days of Compassion
24:28
Radiothon presented by the good folks at the Hyvee.
24:31
All the local programs today and tomorrow will be at Jordan
24:35
Creek. We'll come back.
24:36
We'll get back into into the sports world.
24:39
Bill Bender covers college football, will get his take on
24:42
Sharon Moore as well as the College Football Playoff.
24:45
Miller and Condon live at Jordan Creek Mall at the Variety 2 Days
24:49
of Compassion Radiothon. You're listening to the Iowa
24:51
Sports Radio Network. Hi Millory cod and welcome back.
25:08
We broadcast live from the Jordan Creek Town Center.
25:11
It is the variety children's charity, the variety 2 gay days
25:15
of compassion Radiothon presented by Hy Vee.
25:18
Let's get to Bill Bendry covers college football amongst other
25:21
things. sportingnews.com sportingnews.com for Bill Bill
25:26
Trenton Kent. Thank you for coming on.
25:27
Appreciate there'll be a little bit of a delay as we are on
25:30
location here the this afternoon.
25:33
I thought we'd come on and talk about the College Football
25:35
Playoff. I'm assuming we'll get there at
25:37
some point, but boy, oh boy, the news about, so just before 5:00
25:42
yesterday, the Michigan news, Sharon Moore, that hit like a
25:46
ton of bricks. Bill Bender, how are you?
25:49
Busy. Yeah, definitely been busy the
25:51
last couple days and with with good reason.
25:54
You know, we we've got to the playoffs and go right into a
25:57
playoff into a major scandal that, you know, they're going to
26:00
shake up Michigan and the Big 10.
26:02
And no, I'm not going to speculate on the Sharon Moore
26:05
detainment and where that leads. I mean, it's obviously not a fun
26:09
story for that family. But as far as the football
26:12
program goes, it just turns into they better fire, better hire
26:17
and find the right guy for the next.
26:19
You know, because we saw what happened when they let go of
26:22
Lloyd Carr. Yeah, give us a couple of names,
26:26
Bill. Any names that come to the top
26:28
of mind for you? Man, two home run swings to me
26:31
are Caitlin de Boer and Brian Kelly.
26:35
Brian Kelly, you know, people make fun of him all they want,
26:38
but he's run two major programs. He's won a lot of football
26:40
games. He'd be an ideal candidate here.
26:43
It'd be kind of funny to see a, you know, how Notre Dame fans
26:46
would react to that. And then Caitlin de Boer, if
26:49
they can get him, I think that's the best fit, the best hire, the
26:51
best move. They should have hired him two
26:53
years ago after the championship game.
26:56
And you know, that would have been an easy one.
26:57
Then you get into not one of those guys it, it could be Jed
27:02
Fish, Dan Mullen, PJ Fleck, you know, that kind of tier of
27:06
candidate, honestly. And the guy that would have been
27:09
perfect just got hired by Penn State.
27:12
You. Know and that was one that we
27:15
always heard here in the state of Iowa that Matt Campbell, one
27:18
of the jobs that he certainly would be entertaining, certainly
27:21
would be that Michigan job. Taking that a step further, is
27:25
there anything else from the mission Michigan perspective
27:28
that's going to come out of this?
27:29
Obviously the tumult of Conor Stallions and what happened
27:31
there. Now you got this part of that.
27:33
I mean, you talk about lack of institutional control.
27:36
Boy, it feels like there's a whole lot of lack of things and,
27:38
and maybe that goes hand in hand with Ward Manuel, the athletic
27:40
director. Yeah, I think he's going to.
27:43
I don't think you can penalize an NCA program for having a
27:47
inappropriate relationship. I don't think, I don't know.
27:50
Maybe there is something in the bylaws.
27:52
I don't know. But I mean, it's obviously just
27:55
another black eye for the program's reputation.
27:57
And then whoever they hire is going to face that challenge,
28:02
restoring A reputation. I mean, the three of us grew up
28:05
with that program and, you know, they had that reputation of
28:08
being above board and leaders invest and all that stuff.
28:11
And, you know, now it just looks like they sold their soul for a
28:14
national championship. And that's something they're
28:15
going to have to contend with probably for the foreseeable
28:19
future. Let's go back to last Sunday.
28:22
Bill Bennett from the Sporting News is joining us.
28:24
Bill, obviously when Notre Dame was left off, that was probably
28:28
the big story. What did this come down to a
28:31
Miami Notre Dame or was this more but maybe so Alabama Notre
28:35
Dame connection that Alabama got in did not get punished.
28:38
BYU did for losing in their game.
28:42
Should the arrows be pointed, maybe more so at Alabama than
28:44
they are being at the at Miami getting in?
28:48
That's what I think. I mean, to me, the debate was
28:51
Alabama and Miami. Like I didn't fathom Notre Dame
28:55
being left out. And I understand all the
28:57
mechanics of how they can justify that.
28:59
But it's just, I mean, you can't tell me objectively, I've been
29:03
saying this all week that Alabama, they played better than
29:07
Notre Dame in the last month of the season.
29:09
If those two teams head to head, I would be picking Notre Dame to
29:12
win that game, you know, But they took the path of let's
29:15
protect the conference championship games.
29:18
Something was going to be sacrificed, whether it was head
29:21
to head conference championship game value or the idea of the
29:26
Irish, you know, being maybe the best team of the three.
29:32
I test all that stuff and they chose Notre Dame.
29:35
And I just don't, you know, I'm not like mad about it.
29:38
I just, I just don't understand why you would tease Notre Dame
29:41
and and have them ranked ahead of Miami by that much and then
29:45
switch it around on the following Sunday when the data
29:48
point that actually helped Notre Dame, in my opinion, and it's a
29:50
weird one, but Boise State won the Mountain West Conference
29:54
championship. That was the only result that
29:55
directly impacted those two. But we're also told the
30:00
conference championship games don't matter unless you win
30:03
them. It just it's on and on and on.
30:06
It's time. I've been saying it since it
30:07
started. The stupid TV show needs to go
30:09
away. Is it going to go away?
30:10
I know ESPN still has a contract, but can you do it in a
30:14
different way? Because year after year it
30:16
paints them into a corner. They look idiotic.
30:18
It doesn't matter who the chair is.
30:19
And and they had an awful one again this year.
30:22
Is it time for this TV show, at least how it's currently set up,
30:25
to go a different direction? No, because we won't have
30:28
content to complain about. I mean, I, I, I, I empathize
30:32
with them because no matter what justification they give in a
30:36
situation like that, they're going to get roasted.
30:39
So I, I get less and, and people say, well, they change the value
30:42
of what they we all do that we all change our minds every week.
30:46
I change my mind, but I, I've been pretty consistent about I'm
30:50
the way I order it is who you play, who you beat, who you lose
30:53
to. Some people value different
30:57
things. Like Trent, if you and I made a
30:59
top 25, we might have different things.
31:01
And but why? You're right about the TV show
31:05
portion from the standpoint of why do it for four weeks and box
31:08
yourself in a corner when you don't have to?
31:10
And I think that could come next.
31:13
Yeah, I like it. I'm sure you Phil's column
31:15
interest for you. It fills segments for Trent and
31:17
I so selfishly, I I love it for that reason.
31:21
Bill, is there a team outside the top five seeds that that you
31:25
think that, you know, it might be a surprise, but they could
31:29
win? A national champion is the one
31:31
outside the top five, Bill. I only think 5 teams can win it.
31:35
The only five teams I can win it are the the top five, you know,
31:39
is probably the most exciting excited I am to see a team
31:43
because I want to be around that team.
31:45
And when I was around Jacob Rodriguez a little bit Monday at
31:48
the and he is an impressive human.
31:51
His parents are impressive people.
31:53
And I want to see what this Texas Tech team does in the
31:57
College Football Playoff. I mean, the potential matchup
32:00
I'm probably most excited for should be Georgia, Ohio State,
32:04
but I've seen that one. I want to see Oregon, Texas
32:06
Tech. And then I think, you know, I
32:09
think those two are capable of winning it.
32:11
And I think Indiana, Georgia and Ohio State are playing around.
32:14
I can leave whatever Alabama, they'll possibly get GM Miller
32:19
back. They couldn't run the ball
32:20
against Georgia. But very few teams.
32:22
If you're looking for a dark horse A-Team to come a little
32:24
bit deeper down into the bracket, Is it the Crimson Tide
32:27
or is it somebody else that can win the four games that can do
32:30
that? And, and when you get kind of
32:31
through those top heavy heads, is it the Crimson Tide or
32:34
somebody else? I think they're going to win
32:36
their first round game. I think they're going to beat
32:38
Oklahoma, fight us all. You know, like we'd sit here say
32:42
you shouldn't be in. I think they're going to win an
32:45
ugly game against Alabama and that they are the team with the
32:47
talent that could make that run. Now, Caitlin, first question,
32:51
he's going to take in the press conference.
32:52
What's it going to be about? Yep, it's going to be about
32:54
Michigan. So you know, that's something
32:58
he's going to have to contend with.
32:59
So but I like their chances. I also like Miami.
33:03
I picked Texas and M, but I kind of like Miami in that matchup
33:06
and and you know, a drama piece we could get there is Miami
33:10
playing Texas or Georgia in the second round and then you get
33:13
Carson back against his former team.
33:15
So they're. Oh, lovely.
33:17
How fun would that be? Yeah, no.
33:21
Hey, my last thing for you mentioned Jacob Rodriguez.
33:23
You you saw him at the Nagurski. Were you surprised that he
33:27
didn't get enough votes even to get a invite?
33:30
Invite to New York in the Heisman ceremony?
33:32
I was Bill. I think he should have been in
33:35
the top five and and you get a defensive player there.
33:39
It's really hard for defensive players to win the Heisman.
33:41
Like I said, the kind of for that.
33:43
And then, you know, I was fortunate enough to it was
33:47
really fun to present that award.
33:48
I can't thank you guys enough because I wouldn't have been
33:51
able to do something like that if I'm not on the radio with
33:53
guys like you and all over the country.
33:55
So thank you. And I still can't tie a bow tie,
33:59
by the way. But he was he was very deserving
34:04
of that award. And he's cleaning up on the
34:06
circuit. When you clean up like that,
34:07
that is a defensive player. We're all the other awards.
34:10
It probably says, yeah, he should have been in New York as
34:12
a finalist. Bill Bender from The Sporting
34:15
News sportingnews.com For all of Bill Bender's great work,
34:18
sportingnews.com Bill, enjoy the rest of the week.
34:21
Thank you, brother. We'll talk to you down the road.
34:23
Many times. Kent, you guys do well.
34:25
Talk to you soon. Thank you.
34:26
Good to talk to you Bill Bender as we check in on in college
34:29
football with Bill Bender. We are live Trent Condon myself,
34:33
Ken Miller live is also our sister station News 401040 our
34:38
News Radio rather 1040 WHO it's the variety 2 days of Compassion
34:42
Radiothon as we broadcast live from Jordan Creek Town Center.
34:46
We are on the lower level and center court just down by the
34:50
escalators. And why are we here?
34:52
Well, we'd love for you to to pick up the phone if you have an
34:55
opportunity to do so. I'll call 515-2766, 6669 Variety
35:02
Children's charity. They do such great work.
35:05
Over 100,000 kids touched by Variety here in central Iowa
35:11
over the last year alone, which in and of itself is alarming.
35:14
It's shocking just how many people, how many kids do need,
35:17
the families do need this type of of hope and of help.
35:22
But Variety Club certainly checks that box.
35:24
We'll take a time out. We'll come back.
35:26
More on the the reason we are here, the Variety Children's
35:29
charity. We come back Miller and Condon
35:31
Till, 2, on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
35:45
Hi welcome back Miller and Condon live on the Iowa Sports
35:48
Radio network wherever you're listening grateful that you are
35:50
the variety 2 days of compassion Radiothon continues on both
35:54
today and tomorrow. We're broadcasting live along
35:57
with our sister station News Radio 1040 WHO we're Jordan
36:02
Creek Town Center. We are on the lower level at
36:04
center core. Well Ryan Douglas joins us.
36:07
He is the charitable giving advisor at Community Foundation
36:10
Des Moines. So first of all, before we get
36:13
into that, Ryan, good to meet you.
36:14
Appreciate that. What does, what does your title
36:17
mean? What do you do?
36:18
Yeah, thank you for having me, Senior charitable giving
36:20
advisor. I work with donors and really at
36:23
the end of the day I'm looking to help connect them with causes
36:25
they care about and do that in effective giving ways.
36:27
Well, this is a wonderful, wonderful charity.
36:30
We just talked to a grandmother of a little girl with terminal.
36:33
Sadly, I mean, it's just, it's just the heartstrings, right?
36:36
Just pulls at them. And I and I can't imagine what
36:38
these families are going through, what she mentioned to
36:41
us. And I think it's probably as
36:43
critical a talking point as we have.
36:45
There was no red tape. They reached out for help for
36:48
their family. Within two days, they had it.
36:51
They weren't bounced around from, you know, phone number to
36:53
phone number, desk to desk. Two days, bang, They had the
36:56
help and they continue to get it.
36:57
Yeah, they great organization, statewide reach and you know,
37:01
Wendy and her team do such a nice job and and you like you
37:03
said those stories, that's what we're here for, right?
37:07
I know, Ryan, when you go through and you look at variety,
37:10
keeping it in state, you know, we hear so many of these big
37:13
organizations and then kind of dig under the hood and you find
37:16
out that a lot of that money that our local people are giving
37:19
doesn't stay local. That's something that I
37:21
absolutely love. Learning more about Variety is
37:24
the money that is spent by Iowans is staying and helping
37:27
out Iowans. Yeah, yeah.
37:28
Keeping things local and you know, representing the Community
37:31
Foundation today, that's, that's what we're about, right?
37:33
There's a lot of giving options out there, sending money
37:35
nationally and then like you said, may or may not see all of
37:38
it in return. So Community Foundation, really
37:40
we're here to educate people. And you know, I was just on a
37:42
different show talking about helping donors think outside
37:45
their checkbook. You know, 80% of all charitable
37:48
giving happens via cash, check, savings, credit card, 90 plus
37:52
percent of people's wealth, non cash, Yeah, about their house
37:55
investments, all of that. So when we work with
37:58
organizations like Variety, it's really helping be that partner
38:02
to say how can we help your donors give more strategically
38:06
tax effective and keep that money supporting 'cause?
38:10
You know, and we should also say that every donation that's made
38:12
during our show, it's matched, 100% matched by merchants
38:16
bonding company. I mean, what a what a great
38:18
gesture. Yeah, yes, we love the community
38:21
here and all the corporate partners and all the people that
38:23
do these matching gifts to leverage, right?
38:26
I mean, donors want to give, and all the more reason to if you
38:29
know people are going to help support and make those gifts
38:31
even bigger. When you look at what you do,
38:34
taking it away, just a moment for variety.
38:35
And I know there's a lot of business people out there that
38:38
listen to our program, you know, the people that want to get
38:40
connected, they want to find maybe different ways to be
38:42
charitable and again, keep it here on the local level.
38:45
What's the best way for people to get in contact with you and
38:48
maybe set something up for the future?
38:49
Yeah, Thank you. So that's really what our team's
38:52
about on the charitable giving team.
38:53
We're meeting with individuals and families, their professional
38:56
advisor team. A lot of times they're the ones
38:58
that reach out and say, hey, we have someone that really wants
39:00
to do something significant, let's get something set up.
39:03
So you know, we help families with donor advised funds, which
39:05
are becoming more popular with things like variety.
39:08
We support nonprofits in their endowments, those long term
39:11
funds. And then specifically to your
39:13
business owner question, we can do unique things like take gifts
39:17
of business shares. So people that have S Corp, they
39:20
can carve out some of those S Corp shares and give them.
39:22
And that's a very strategic way to give.
39:24
So unique ways it. Really is.
39:26
Let's give that phone number, Trent.
39:27
Give out the very important details as to why we are here.
39:30
The phone number is 515-276-6669, 515-276-6669
39:38
Online variety, iowa.com. Back slash compassion Ryan 5
39:42
minutes or So, what would you The floor is yours.
39:45
Yeah, appreciate it. So really just talking about how
39:49
we come alongside nonprofit organizations, that's really our
39:52
role. We're a nonprofit entity.
39:54
We're here to promote philanthropy.
39:55
We know that when everyone gives better and smarter, that
39:58
benefits everyone in communities.
40:00
So being with organizations like Variety and supporting their
40:03
great mission and there's 1000 great missions across the state.
40:07
It brings us a lot of joy and really trying to transfer that
40:10
knowledge to make everyone better givers is what gets us up
40:14
in the morning so. Great stuff, well done.
40:16
Congratulations on what you do Congratulations, variety and
40:19
let's get those phones ringing. 515-276-6669, 515-276-6669.
40:27
I read a stats just real quick like 10 seconds. 100,000
40:30
children per year to help 5 variety Iowa.
40:33
Oh my goodness. It's sad that there's that many,
40:35
but it just goes to show you the need that's out there.
40:37
Hour 2 coming up next, Miller and Condon live at Jordan Creek
40:40
town centre. You're listening to Des Moines
40:41
sports station 106.3 KXNO on the Iowa Sports Radio Network,
40:45
right? Thank you, gentlemen.