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Sports Quick Hits, Super Bowl Props, John Bohnenkamp talks Hawkeye Hoops · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, Good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon On a
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Wednesday, the Iowa Sports Radio Network, Trent Condon, Ken
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Miller for the next two hours to talk sports with you.
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Thanks for starting your afternoon here with us.
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Wherever you're listening in the state of Iowa or anywhere,
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certainly grateful that you are. Here's what's coming up on our
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coming up about, oh, 10 minutes or so before 2:00 before we turn
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things over to the drive. Well, the Hawks take the floor
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hopefully tonight. Yeah, right.
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They've got a pretty good, pretty good idea that it will
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start and, you know, at some point in the 10:00 hour, but
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it's going to be a late 1. Trent, I'm surprised that I
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looked at the I looked at wager talk today at the point spread.
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I was surprised that I was not more of a favorite, really,
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honestly. Yeah, this I don't think this
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Washington team based on their resumes that good.
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I mean, Colorado beat them. Beat them.
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Manly, Nebraska, Michigan, Michigan State, I'll give you
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those three. And Purdue, 4 good Big 10 teams
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have got past them. They beat Ohio State, they've
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beaten Northwestern. Do they have another Big 10 win?
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I don't think that they do. They lost to Seattle.
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Seattle any good? Seattle good.
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Are they good? Yeah.
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They gave Ganzaga push in. They really did.
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Kennel, Yeah. OK, well maybe that loss isn't
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as bad as I made it out to be, but nonetheless, if I will,
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plays like they did against Oregon and Oregon and Washington
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did play and Washington beat Oregon pretty convincingly, so
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well, maybe it's accurate that point spread.
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I think more than anything, analytically, they're still fine
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during 46 in the country at Ken Palm.
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So this is not a drag like Oregon was.
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That's a part of it. Secondly, the importance of this
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game for Washington, I think that needs to be factored in.
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They have very few opportunities, though.
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They have a lot of chances of wins, not many for Quad One
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victory. And that's something that they
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need. The resume I think are reading a
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few Washington things this week. This one's kind of circled for
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them. Is it?
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They know the importance of what this is for them to get a
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victory at home against a Quad One team like Iowa is.
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You know, Trent, that's a great point because I'm looking at the
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rest of their schedule after this game.
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UCLA, Penn State, Minnesota, Maryland, Rutgers, Wisconsin,
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USC, Oregon. Yeah, not a whole lot there, not
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in terms of quality. And at the end, Wisconsin and
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USC, those would be good wins. Yep, good wins, but this is
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going to be up there and maybe their best win of the season if
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they can pull it off against Iowa.
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You couple that with the match up and this is a big team.
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Yeah, a couple of 611 dudes. Steinbach is a stunt.
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He's really, really freshman. Yes, Yeah, though I mean, a
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freshman in name only, but he's really, really talented and they
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play two big guys together at 6 foot 11.
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Then you throw into the fact we'll see about Tavion Banks or
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whatever this injury is, has to be at minimum concerning.
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He's been their second best player through the course of
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most of this season and even as good as fool Garris has been the
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last couple of times out and what we saw from Hassan and some
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of the other bench options that they have, Tavion Banks is an
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incredibly important part. Not just knocking down an open
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three. It is free throws as we know
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about, we talked about, but a versatile defender.
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He can guard some big guys, he can go the other way and he can
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guard some guys on the wing. So you take that kind of part of
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it out of the equation. Sounds like he's going to try to
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make it a goal. We'll see what he looks like and
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what just how effective he's going to be.
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But I think there's a lot of factors here.
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This. I have the same feeling that I
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did in the matchup on the women's side Thursday against
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USC. Just have a feeling things are
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not going to go well for Iowa in this one.
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How? Important is Fulgaris being that
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you know, he's the guy that has the height on the roster.
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Yeah, he's gonna have to probably play a ton.
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And will that hurt him? Will that hurt his offensive
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production, do you think? Well, if it's down a little bit,
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could you not make the excuse? But can you, you know, connect
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the dots? The reason why?
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Perhaps 'cause you're gonna have to focus on those two bigs.
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Well, and I think you're gonna need more, man.
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Wow. I mean, you're gonna need to use
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him more than the limited minutes that we saw.
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What's? Behind that, 'cause he's limited
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most, most games, he's limited it.
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Comes out as a starter, right And then?
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Certainly doesn't play starter minutes.
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But that was the same thing last year, Drake.
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I mean, you look at the back half of the season and he played
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in the NCAA tournament, 18 minutes against Tech, 19 minutes
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against Missouri, played eleven in a game towards the end of the
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season against Missouri State and ten against Evansville.
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So that's been, I don't know if it's just McComb kind of
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seasonality. He doesn't have it tonight.
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We're going to go a different direction.
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What it is, Obviously he knows him incredibly well, but I think
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they're going to need him tonight.
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They might need Trevor Dirac tonight, you know, for a 4
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minute stretch might need to get him out there and foul trouble
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starts to hit whatever it is. Or just the two big guys are
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dominate and need more size. I wouldn't be shocked to see
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your rock out there under a time out, something like that in the
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first half. He gets a little bit of run.
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It just has that weird, odd feeling to me that this one,
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after how good it looked on Sunday night, not going to go
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the same direction. Well, they're they certainly
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protect the rim. Washington does say a lot of
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blocks between those two bigs. We'll we'll see where it goes as
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I was somewhat, you know, size challenge in the basketball
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game. Don Mcclaney was the color guy
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on Sunday night. He's back again.
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Oh, is he? Yeah, I know he's doing the
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color. I saw he was doing the play by
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play. I don't remember the dude's
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name. But regardless of that.
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And then they got one other guy, right.
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Zoom, zoom. Yeah, Zoom Scooter.
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I knew it was a name that was like fast.
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Zoom, zoom, yeah, zoom Diallo he he's a nice player.
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Also look at a couple of things that they do well.
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They don't force a ton of turnovers.
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Iowa can't afford to be in that, you know, 13 to 15 range that
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they've been a couple of times. I think that's a one that you
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look at. They don't shoot it very well,
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shoot it much better though at home.
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So a lot of different factors here.
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We'll see on this one. Late night tip absolutely love
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getting this one just like I love when the twins go out to
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the West Coast, you know, for their tripper a couple of times
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and. 31st pitch. Yes, those are good ones for me.
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And this is 1. I know a lot of people don't
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like it for me. You always talk about what it's
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good for you. This one's good.
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For me, no, it is. It's your turn, your turn.
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I've had more than my more than my share.
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No doubt about that. You mentioned your twins.
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Your twins are joining as well as a number of teams.
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What's going on with the television rights when it when
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it comes to the NBA, it's all going to are the NBA the the
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MLB. It sounds like MLBTV is going to
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be home for a lot of these. So what does that mean for
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DIRECTV? It's a great question and I
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don't know the answer. And I will be completely honest,
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I've had DIRECTV for the better part of, well, 20 years just on
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my own. I think we'll go away from
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DIRECTV if the twins are not. Available.
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You know what, Trent? I hate to say it but I'm
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starting to feel the same way you are and I never.
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Thought I never did either. I never thought that was going
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to be the case. Being if if I buy the baseball
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package, I gotta have it. I love it, but if I'm going to
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be able to watch, you know, them all on the Internet anyways, if
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I'm going to have to go there, I mean as well get used to it
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swallow hard. Look, that's where I watch all
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my hockey now, because I want to watch the Canadian broadcast of
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whatever game, right. If they're if The Jets are
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playing, obviously, or if it's a Canadian team, I got nothing
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else to watch. I'm going to go to ESPN plus
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because DIRECTV does not offer those feeds anymore.
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So I think I'm headed in that direction.
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And where do where do we get the N?
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Where do we get the NFL? The Internet on the Internet,
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right, YouTube TV, and I think that's probably where we'll end
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up if that's the case and you have to get a different
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direction. Now there's been talk about ESPN
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buying these rights to all these different teams, the Padres, the
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Rangers, the Twins, the Cardinals, Cardinals, yes, the
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Bally's that once was and the Fox Sports before that and now
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FanDuel TV, and that looks to be going away.
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So with all these different components, I think it's just
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kind of a wait and see process and how this plays out.
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But if it's not on DIRECTV? I know.
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It's why are we paying the hundreds of dollars a.
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Month I don't get it and I'm. Over 3 bills.
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I don't watch movie channels. I don't either pay for them, not
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sure why. Right.
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If I do, it's something on HBO Max that you pay for.
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Now you got Netflix, now you got Peacock and Hulu.
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We got Hulu and all these different components.
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In fact, since we have Hulu, it's part of our package.
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I think we get through our cable or our phone bill through
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Verizon. It's all packaged together for
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like 9 bucks a month and we get Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu,
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but not Hulu with live TV. Maybe we can just add the live
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TV component to it and we'd be good on that front, but it's a
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changing market. Oh.
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My God. And you're not kidding.
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I mean, look at the newspaper business.
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Did Washington Post just closed through sports section?
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Awful. I mean, unbelievable, right?
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But we're seeing it everywhere. Major, major newspapers.
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We just consume the media different ways.
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Speaking of that, we got cameras being installed in studio here.
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How about? That yes, yes, we're evolving as
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well. We are so, so within, I don't
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know, couple of weeks, a month, yeah.
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Oh yeah, it won't even be that long.
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I hope it have. I have it up and running by
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Monday. By Monday, yes.
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So you will be able to. We will.
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I mean, if the audience is so inclined, if they're sitting at
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their desk listening, whatever. You can actually watch the show
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now. Yeah.
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Watch all the shows now. Yeah, just.
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YouTube, KX&O Radio is where you can find it.
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You can find the YouTube page that's up there.
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We don't have any content yet because we haven't started yet,
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right? Have some testing still to go
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through and figure out but. I do see two cameras, yes, Yeah,
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we're one on my position, one on The Who sits over there.
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I think Alec is over there. Alec's over there.
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Lucas is over. Lucas is over.
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There, yes, I believe so. I'm never up in the morning,
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though. I might have to come in that
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first day and get the ball going on that one.
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But yeah, we'll have the video component to it as well.
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So you'll be able to see our ugly mugs as we're talking about
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things. And you can see Ken as he hoots
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and hollers. But during the commercial
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breaks, don't worry, you won't be on camera.
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You'll be good. Yes.
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Good, so you need to pick your nose.
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You'll be all right. Well, yeah.
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Do I do that? No.
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OK, good. Good.
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I want to ask you about another topic that's certainly getting
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and I'm in the minority. I understand it before I put
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that out there. I don't understand why I'm in
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the minority, but I am in the minority.
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Have you seen the college football schedule for the next
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two years? With the calendar, have I seen
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the calendar? The calendar?
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I have not. Where?
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Where did this come across? This was.
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This was released yesterday and again I don't understand why but
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here we are. The championship game will be
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played the week of the the NFL Championship games.
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The final college football game of the year is January the 25th.
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Good God. See, I I told you I'm in the
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minority. I don't understand why there's
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such pushback on this. There's.
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Pushback because people. Are out, ready to move on from
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from. Football.
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No. They're ready to move on from
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college football. The NFL takes so much oxygen.
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It takes everything did. It this year you think it did?
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For, but it was also the. Miami, Indiana championship game
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numbers. Were good.
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Numbers were good, but you put that thing a little bit earlier.
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We saw it a year ago in Ohio State Notre Dame Game A.
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Year ago I agree with. You and it was pushed back just
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like it will be in the next calendar year for 20/26/27.
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It's going to be pushed back. And because of that, I don't
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agree with it. Obviously we're going to be
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watching. But when you have two blue
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bloods facing off in the national championship game and
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you get disappointing numbers, I think that tells you all you
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need to know. People have checked out.
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They are NFL only at that point. I'm fine with it.
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We're fine with it and I'm sure in this market it's going to be
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OK. And selfishly, that's how I look
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at it because it's content for us.
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And he keeps talking college football till the end of July.
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Here's the crazy thing. Well, one of the many crazy
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things about it, the mathematical halfway point from
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the from the start of college football to the national
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championship game is Week 11. Week 11 We're at the halfway
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point of college football. So we're going to have the
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quarterfinals on January 1st, the semi finals and the.
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Rose Bowl does not and and wanted to stay as a
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quarterfinal. They did not want to give up
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January 1st. Good for them.
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Yep, dig in your heels. They are and.
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Then the semi finals. And if the change needs to
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happen, kick them to the curb. I agree there too.
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The semi finals would be the Thursday and Friday 14th and
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15th. That's wild card weekend which
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was late this year. This coming year and then the
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championship game will be played on January the 25th at Allegiant
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Stadium. So that is a Monday for the
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championship. Yep.
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Interesting. We're going to have this for the
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next year. And the following year, the next
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two. Well, are we sure?
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Yes, they've they've apparently locked in the next two years
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because the championship game the next year will be played on
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the 24th as the calendar moves. Same kind of same kind of of
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spot weeks wise in January. It's still going to go late.
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But I don't know. I'm always for more.
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Football's good for business and that's how I've always looked at
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it. But you know, anyways, I know
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I'm in the minority. People are pissed off at this.
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Like really disappointed. They can be pissed.
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I'm going to watch of. Course we are, and I think most
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people would too. But I guess it is what it is.
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And our audience is different, too.
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I mean, you're huge sports fans. You're right.
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Sports Radio. But the but the blowback I'm
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hearing of people that are in this business.
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Well, then they're just looking for something to complain.
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About I, I guess, right. I mean, what, what do they want
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to do? One other thing I want to take a
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minute here because this was this was my favorite baseball
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player as a kid. I think I've said the name
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Mickey Lolich. Before.
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He died today at 85 years of age, back in 1968.
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I'm nine years old. Right.
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And And I'd like Koufax. He retired.
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He was about to retire. My guys were Sandy Koufax, Carl
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Yastremsky and. And Mickey Lolich.
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And Mickey Lolich was a Detroit Tiger, and they played the
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Cardinals in the World Series. That was the year Danny McLain
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won 31 games. And Danny Mclain's getting all
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the accolades, as you should, won 31 games.
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But the number 2 in that rotation was a guy by the name
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of Mickey Lolich. A kind of built like you.
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OK. Kind of built like you.
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Squatty. Yeah.
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Squatty. Some people say fat, but they're
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me. No, no, no, that's me.
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He was a Mickey Lowlich was squatty and Mickey Lowlich did
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what I don't think will ever be broken, a record that'll ever be
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broken again in baseball. He threw, he pitched complete
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games, winning efforts in games 25 and seven of the World Series
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to beat Bob Gibson in Game 7 and the Saint Louis, the vaunted
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Saint Louis Cardinals. But Can you imagine that?
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Complete games in game two, game five and Game 7.
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And he died today at 85 years of age.
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But he was one of my favorites as a kid and just goes to show
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you, right, that everybody's got an expiration date.
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And today's was Mickey Lolich. Mickey Lolich, one of your
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favorite? He was as a kid, yeah, as a kid,
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Mickey Lola. And I don't know why, just maybe
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because his look, because he didn't look like a like an
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athlete. Yep.
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But I love the guy. I love the guy.
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Anyways, he is gone last night. As I was watching some games, I
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was also calling a couple. Of oh, you had a dinger, you had
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a court. Rush we did yes, it it was a
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really fun scene. So walkie against Walkie
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Northwest last night at the old field house, the original
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school, if you will, for walkie and they call.
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They call it the Old Field House now.
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Probably, Yeah, it's probably trending that direction.
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Big Jim, really, I love the vantage point there.
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It's one of my favorite environments for basketball.
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And it was. Regardless of opponent.
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Yeah, jam packed, I mean just absolutely filled to the gills,
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standing room only there was people and see people coming up
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the aisle looking for seats. I mean it was absolutely packed
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on both sides as you'd imagine as the schools are 5 miles away
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from each other. It was an incredible
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environment, as good as a high school environment.
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I think as you're going to find is what we saw last night in
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Waukee #2 verse #3. So you got the top five billing
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that also went along with it when they played earlier this
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season back in December. Northwest just blew him out of
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the gym, ran away and hid in that one.
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Waukee last night played incredibly well.
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Evan Jacobson in the future Texas A&M Aggie, he was
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tremendous in a three pointer that tied it up late in
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regulations. Is he?
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Having a good year. He is, yeah.
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He's playing really well, battling inside against a guy on
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his way over to Illinois and Landon Davis.
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I mean, you think of this walkie Northwest team, Landon Davis,
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Illinois, Colin Rice, Nebraska. Then you have Mack Heitlin, who
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very well could be AD One quarterback on that squad.
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Is that? Good, yeah.
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Isaiah Oliver, he's small. That's going to be the knock
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against him and I don't know if he'll get to that level, but in
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terms of our arm talent, he definitely has that.
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Isaiah Oliver, the son of Dean Oliver, he's gone on on to the
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University of Iowa as a walk on wide receiver.
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They're absolutely loaded, but walk, he was right there and my
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favorite player out there, he was the littlest guy on the
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floor. He's listened to 510 and he's
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510, not 510, was Max Roach. He was tremendous getting to the
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rim going up against a couple of those behemas.
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He was really, really fun to watch.
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He is so Walkie's got 4 seniors in the starting lineup in a
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sophomore on the other side, 3 senior starters for Walkie
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Northwest. But that environment, absolutely
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amazing. Walkie gets it done in OTA.
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Fun one. And those are the ones that you
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just hope you get, you know, from time to time throughout the
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course of the year, something like that.
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Want to give a shout out to everybody out there at Walkie.
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I think we're going to see both of those teams in the state
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tournament. You do good.
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Yeah, that'd be that'd be great. So so help me with at the
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calendar here. Where are we as far as.
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We are winding down the regular season so.
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So the girls will be done first on this, yes.
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They they end a week before all the boys do.
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So in terms of the regular season there is 2 weeks left
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week and 1/2 or 2 1/2 weeks left right in that range.
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End of the regular season is February 17th for the boys side.
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Before we get into sub state play at the 4A level you have
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the what is it? They match up, the top six teams
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go up, so you have the match ups there and move on.
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Top 2 seeds in each of the sub states get a buy into the semi
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final round, but we'll get to that state tournament one final
18:49
time this year at Wells Fargo Arena before it makes its way to
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Ames next season. And the breaks for a second
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rewind, Yeah, Where's it going to be played?
18:58
Oh dude, I said. Jack Trice medal.
19:00
No, no, no, you said for one last time at Wells Fargo.
19:03
Oh yes, the Casey Center. Yes.
19:06
Yeah, it still. Yeah.
19:07
Still takes a while, doesn't it? Old habits.
19:10
I drive by it every day so I OK so maybe.
19:12
That it really sticks in. Yeah, yeah.
19:14
When you're making your way down to Ankeny.
19:16
So I'll be there three times over the next month or so.
19:18
State wrestling coming up here in a couple of weeks.
19:20
After that, girls state basketball and then wrapping
19:23
things up with a boys state basketball tournament.
19:26
Unbelievable. Just goes so fast that does.
19:28
And then a couple of would take, what, about six weeks off and
19:31
you're back to call in baseball? Yes.
19:33
Which would be here before we know it as well.
19:35
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the Sporting News. How about props wise Have you
20:19
have you delve into it? Have you, have you found some
20:22
you're going to play? Yeah.
20:24
So we started, we had our television show earlier today.
20:26
So that was really my first deep dive into the prop market.
20:30
And it's deep. It's crazy.
20:33
I think it's there's more every year.
20:34
Yes, it just keeps stacking on top of each other.
20:37
One that I found that I was really surprised by the coin
20:40
toss you can find -101 on either side.
20:43
I'd play tails seemingly every single time.
20:46
But there's one the Seahawks, they're the visitor.
20:48
So they get to call heads or tails, right?
20:51
Will, what will the Seahawks call during the coin toss?
20:54
We think it'd be, what, 5050, right?
20:55
Right. It'd be the same thing.
20:57
Not the case. The heads is -500 that's crazy.
21:01
Now, I haven't seen anything or found anything.
21:03
If they've just called heads, maybe every time.
21:05
Historical numbers? You mean like the trends?
21:07
Or even just what it is this season or the.
21:09
Seahawks. Or under McDonald if if that's
21:12
the reason that they have called heads every time this year if
21:15
that's the reason behind it. But regardless, 3 to one on them
21:19
calling tails, it's like I'll gamble at the very least think I
21:23
need to do a little bit more investigative.
21:25
Work doesn't have to come tails. It's whatever the Seahawks call.
21:28
They're, yeah, they're. Not that they have to win by
21:30
calling tails. I mean like a two team parlay to
21:33
make that happen. That's not the case in that one.
21:36
Another one that I really like that I already got in the back
21:38
pocket. Well, two player props first.
21:41
DeMarco Lawrence. DeMarcus Lawrence over .25
21:45
sacks. So if he just gets 1/2. 1/2 a
21:47
sack. Half a sack and that is plus
21:49
140. OK.
21:50
Like that one. The other one that I really,
21:53
really liked is cross sport. There's not a ton of them out
21:56
there yet, really, but we'll get closer to this.
21:59
Anthony Edwards for the Timberwolves.
22:01
Points, rebounds and assists combined against Drake May's
22:04
rushing yards. Drake May, best case is 50.
22:08
I mean, I'd be shocked to see anything about more than that on
22:12
the other side, and that's top level stuff if the Edwards can
22:16
do that. Well, who's going to be his
22:17
teammates? But but in that's another
22:19
question. But in general, when you go
22:21
through and you kind of look at the way that this is set up, I
22:24
think that's really, really good on Edward.
22:26
So I jumped aboard. Those are the two player props I
22:28
got in the back pocket already. Yeah, I think the only one that
22:30
I've considered, and I probably won't play because I don't like
22:32
playing those things. Trayvion Henderson, if he
22:35
catches a pass, he goes over it because it's it's it's a half a
22:39
pass is the over under and the yardage is 2 1/2 yards.
22:43
So. He catches a pass.
22:44
You got to think he's going to pick up three, wouldn't you
22:46
think? What?
22:47
Wouldn't it be awful? One catch, 1 catch for one yard.
22:50
2nd and eight. And that's all he gets, and
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that's all he gets. Split the wager and you lose
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23:45
Hello, John Bowenkamp, Trenton, Ken, how are you?
23:49
I'm doing good, how you doing? You sounds like you're driving.
23:51
Where are you? Well, I'm actually sitting in my
23:55
car by the Fort Madison Amtrak depot, so we may get a train go
24:00
by. Here, if we're if we're lucky.
24:02
If we're lucky. Right, Good stuff anyway.
24:06
Well, did you? Are you going to get a nap this
24:08
afternoon? Do you have the AP recap for The
24:12
Associated Press tonight? The Washington, IA game.
24:16
No, but I will stay up. I always stay up till midnight
24:19
anyway, so it gives it gives a nice I I was laughing when I saw
24:23
that the game starts at 10:00 our time on that.
24:27
But welcome to the big. Ten yeah, welcome to the Big 10
24:30
indeed. So let's go back to the Oregon
24:32
game before we kind of take a sneak peek to tonight.
24:35
So many positive John that I took away from that game what
24:38
was I don't have any concern with Banks and and his health
24:42
going forward. But your thoughts as you look
24:44
back to what happened on Sunday night?
24:47
I just thought they just ran their offense very well the
24:50
other night and, you know, you could go, you've been kind of
24:54
seeing it, you know, at different times.
24:55
But I thought from beginning to end, I thought that was a very
24:58
good offensive game. And obviously defensively, too,
25:01
I mean, I thought they were really good.
25:03
Got good minutes out of Brandon Hostin, which they haven't, you
25:06
know, been able to use him, you know, at times this year.
25:08
But I thought he played well. Bennett Sturtz, Bennett Sturt
25:12
and I I just thought it was a really good Rd.
25:15
Win for this point of the Big 10 season because these are the
25:19
games you know that you want to win if you want to be in that
25:22
upper part of that league and and play on Thursday in the in
25:25
the Big 10 tournament got to win these games.
25:27
So yeah, I I really like how they started this little 2 game
25:32
swing without they played Sunday night.
25:34
This is the easy part of the Big 10 schedule, the most difficult
25:38
of the next three tonight against Washington.
25:40
We'll get to that game momentarily.
25:42
But after Washington back home for Northwestern, road trip out
25:45
to Maryland, who's just awful, and then your closing stretch,
25:48
final seven games, six of them are going to be incredibly
25:51
difficult games. You think this team's ready for
25:53
that closing stretch starting on Valentine's against Purdue?
25:57
To. You all signs say this Iowa
25:59
team, they're ready for this, this closing stretch.
26:03
I think so, you know, and I mean, I, I, I think, you know,
26:06
you want to get tonight and, you know, Sunday could be
26:09
interesting because they're not going to get back from, from
26:12
Washington till, you know, early tomorrow morning at some point.
26:16
And, you know, so I mean, he was, we talked about that with
26:18
Ben McCollum the other day and he's like probably won't
26:21
practice Thursday, will on Friday and Saturday.
26:23
You know, if they can get their legs back, that should be no
26:26
problem on Sunday. You know, But yeah, these are,
26:30
again, you can't afford to dump one of these because that puts a
26:33
lot of pressure on that last part of the schedule.
26:35
But I do think they're ready. I do like how they're playing.
26:38
You know, other than the Tavian Banks injury.
26:40
I don't, I don't, I mean, for the most part, they're healthy.
26:44
You know, they kind of got through that that stomach flu
26:46
stretch here from a couple weeks ago, which thank God I didn't
26:49
catch it, but but anyway, no, I I do like where this team is at
26:55
right now on the way they're playing.
26:56
Did McCullum He says banks is be able to play tonight after the
27:01
game I I thought that I saw a quote that he mentioned that it
27:04
goes back. It's the same injury and I'm
27:06
paraphrasing it's the same thing that bugged or plagued him when
27:10
he was at drink. What we look you only missed one
27:12
game last year. Do you know what the injury that
27:15
that Banks apparently is dealing with?
27:17
You know, John? It's, it's something, I'll use
27:21
the, the phrase lower body. But I, I do think I, I just, I
27:26
don't know, but I, I, I do think they would, they would be wise
27:29
to kind of take it easy with him tonight.
27:31
And, and you know, if, if he can go maybe 8 or 9 minutes,
27:36
something like that, because you've got other guys you can
27:38
use and you've got you, you can kind of space those minutes out,
27:42
I think. But just be wise with him.
27:44
Kind of, kind of take it easy with him here because you're
27:47
going to need him down the stretch.
27:48
I mean, because he has been it's so good for them this year.
27:50
You want him better for, you know, the end of February and
27:54
March. They kind of take it easy on
27:56
him. And that's why Brendan Hostas
27:57
played is not so important because because you're going to
28:00
need him a little bit more than what you've been using them.
28:03
So get him those minutes, get him at, you know, get him used
28:07
to those kind of minutes and and use him here in the next couple
28:10
of games and then get ready for, you know, as we talked about the
28:14
final stretch. Big final stretch for them.
28:16
Washington, this would be a nice win.
28:18
Possibility of a quad 2, maybe even a quad win because
28:21
Washington's schedule gets much easier in the back half of the
28:24
Big 10 slate. 2611 guys for the Huskies.
28:27
Is this trapping your rocks? Going to have to help out a
28:30
little bit. You need more out of Cam Manwa
28:32
going up against a couple of behemoths like that.
28:35
This is not a big Iowa team, certainly as we know, concern
28:38
level there. And do you think we're going to
28:39
see your rock? I do because I mean, I, I think
28:43
he's, he's, you know, again, I he's just kind of caught in the
28:46
numbers game right now in terms of minutes available.
28:50
But with this, with his size and the way he plays, I think you
28:55
have to get him in a little bit tonight and, and use him to take
28:58
some of the pressure off some of the other guys.
29:01
If you get into foul trouble, you're really going to need him.
29:04
So yeah, I do think we see him tonight.
29:06
I do think he and I do think he'll give him good minutes when
29:09
he's in there. I mean, he's never really hurt
29:12
them when he's been in this year.
29:13
I mean, I think he's played well when he's had his opportunities.
29:16
So why not give him a little run tonight and let him see what he
29:20
can do, because again, it's going to be all hands on deck as
29:24
you get into the month of March. Let's ask the Tavian Banks
29:27
question regarding free throws. How will he handle it, if indeed
29:31
he does get within one or tied with Chris St. and Jordan
29:34
Bohannon? What's going to happen I.
29:39
I think he'll, I think he'll go for it, you know, And I mean, I
29:43
I don't have a problem if he does.
29:45
Yeah, I don't have a problem if he does.
29:47
And because I mean, again, this is, it was, it was cool when,
29:51
when Jordan Bohan did that, you know, a few years ago, you know,
29:55
it, he doesn't have, you know, this is quite the same thing,
29:59
you know, But so I do think you have to go for it.
30:02
I mean, I, I think because I mean, at this point in the
30:04
season, you got to get wins and you got to get points and you
30:07
got to do these things. I think you got to do it.
30:09
And no one will blame him if he does.
30:12
I, I really think, and I, and I think it'll be cool if he can
30:15
break the record. And and I don't think anybody, I
30:18
don't think anybody should have a problem with it.
30:20
I'm. With you.
30:21
Let's jump over to the women. They had their own West Coast
30:24
trip didn't go as well as it has so far for the Iowa men, falling
30:27
to USC. Now the UCLA game, not a
30:29
surprise. That is an elite level team.
30:31
But losing to USC in that fashion, I think I overlooked to
30:35
the importance of Taylor McCabe, just how important she is to
30:37
this team. It's not just a three-point
30:39
shooting. It's the other things Jan Jensen
30:41
mentioned that after the game, every time you're supposed to
30:44
switch, she switches, makes the right plays, the senior
30:48
leadership. And this is a young team for all
30:51
John. I think I overlooked at the
30:52
importance of McCabe just thinking, oh, they can replace
30:54
her with Addie deal, they'll be fine.
30:56
There's more to it than just what she does shooting the
30:58
basketball. I think anytime you lose a
31:01
starter 18 lose start, especially at this point of the
31:03
season, it takes you a little while to react and it takes you
31:07
a while to accept the fact she's not going to be there.
31:11
So I do think those two games. I think you kind of saw that by
31:15
the way train is rolling by. But but yes, it is yeah, it's we
31:20
got an eastbound stack train anyway.
31:23
No, I do think I do think that that that that teams have to
31:27
learn sometimes to play without somebody who I mean, you know,
31:30
she was a 30 minute game player. So those are minutes that are
31:34
going to go to somebody else. So they have to get used to the
31:37
more playing time and more responsibility.
31:39
And it came at a bad time for them.
31:42
I mean, it's never a good time to lose somebody for the season,
31:44
but it came, you know, as they're heading West.
31:47
You know, my thought was go West and get a split and you're okay,
31:52
you know, losing both kind of, you know, 9.
31:54
Now you're back in the pack a little bit.
31:56
Now you got to kind of start to, you know, you're now going to
31:59
have to kind of contend with everybody around you.
32:01
So yeah, it was a little disappointing if it was.
32:05
They'll figure it out. I mean, there's enough time to
32:07
figure it out. There's enough talent there to
32:09
figure it out, but there's still that adjustment period of being
32:12
without a player. Yeah, Speaking of figuring it
32:14
out, how he deal figures out home and away her home numbers
32:18
at home outstanding the Ohio State game.
32:20
She had 20. She was one for 9 combined on
32:23
the West Coast trip. Is that just being a freshman
32:25
and life on the road and learning how to deal with it?
32:28
All of that, I mean, it's, I mean, when you're a freshman,
32:31
you know, there, there are certain freshmen that have never
32:34
had a problem, see Caitlin Clark, but a lot of freshmen,
32:39
there's an adjustment. And, and so this was this thing.
32:42
I mean, she was going home, you know, and, and it's I, I don't,
32:47
I don't want to put a lot on what happened because it is
32:51
you're a freshman, you're in a nuke situation.
32:53
You know, there's a lot going on.
32:55
Let's see what she looks like tomorrow night against
32:57
Minnesota. And let's see what she kind of
32:59
looks like down the stretch here.
33:02
Tomorrow night they get Minnesota.
33:03
And in the past, these have been laughers.
33:05
I was dominated here. It's taken maybe a little bit
33:08
longer than people thought, but Don Blitzoite, she's done a
33:11
really nice job with this team. And though they're 16 and six on
33:14
the year, the advance metrics absolutely love this Minnesota
33:17
team. Have you taken a look at the
33:18
Gophers? I know they got a 65 girl in the
33:20
middle. It definitely helps things out
33:22
in a really good shooter on the outside.
33:24
What do you know about the Gophers?
33:26
And maybe certainly a tougher tussle than we've seen recently
33:28
when these two teams have got together.
33:31
Don's an old Summit League coach.
33:33
Yeah, South Dakota. And and yeah, and when she was
33:36
there and, and, you know, they played Western Illinois and
33:38
she's really good coach. You know, I, I, I think she's
33:42
been really good for that program.
33:44
And I mean, think about where it was, you know, a couple of years
33:46
ago. And, and, and, and I think she's
33:49
done a really good job. I really haven't dug into much
33:51
on them yet, but I do think that that it is going to challenge.
33:55
You look down the stretch with this team, with this Iowa team,
33:58
and you look at some of the games on here, there's there's
34:00
going to be some interesting games that if you want to be a
34:03
serious in that Friday round of the Big 10 tournament, you want
34:08
or whatever it is now. I'm not, I don't even know the
34:11
schedules sometimes anymore these conference tournaments.
34:14
But if you want to be in that, in that double by or triple by,
34:17
I guess you, you don't want, you don't want to be messing around
34:20
with games like this. You want to win these games.
34:22
They're at home. So it's going to be really
34:25
important to kind of bounce back from from this trip to come out,
34:28
play well on Thursday night and then do some things, get back to
34:32
what you were before you left. John, I want to ask you this
34:36
just from your experience. Obviously you're a newspaper
34:38
guy. We're a newspaper guy,
34:40
Burlington B now the Washington Post.
34:43
I know I said those two papers in the same sentence, but you
34:45
get my point. It, it it's it's starting to
34:49
affect media in a whole lot of different places.
34:53
I mean, we certainly didn't think we'd see the end of the
34:55
Washington Post sports section, but but here we are.
34:58
Here we are. And it's not coming back, Is it,
35:00
John? It it's, we're consuming media
35:02
differently now. And newspapers, sadly, if it can
35:07
happen in the Washington Post, big paper like that, big sports
35:10
action, nobody's safe. Yeah.
35:12
I mean, think about the names that have come.
35:14
Through Oh my God. You know, I remember when I was
35:17
a kid and we would get the state edition of the Des Moines
35:20
Register, and occasionally there would be a Thomas Boswell all
35:24
story in there and Oh my God, you know, he's so good.
35:26
And I've got all of John Feinstein's books and you know,
35:30
Sally Jenkins, Kornheiser, Wilbos, all those guys and all
35:35
those. And so I was, it was really sad
35:37
today because, you know, it was this, this was, I mean, like I
35:42
said, this was like you said, this is a big city sports
35:46
section. And I think about, you know, I
35:48
grew up reading the Chicago Tribune and I think what that's
35:50
become now and, you know, and the things they don't cover
35:54
anymore and you see this somewhere.
35:58
And I was really sad today. I mean, I know it's common.
36:01
You just you can see the handwriting in the wall in the
36:03
last couple weeks. It was really sad and it's, you
36:05
know, somebody who loved the print product and, and grew up
36:10
in that era and seeing what the business has become.
36:14
It's it gets sadder all the time I guess.
36:16
Yeah, 4 All four major sports, too.
36:19
Yes, in Washington, they won't have anybody on the beat.
36:22
Unbelievable. Exactly.
36:24
Yeah, brutal. One final thing, Yeah, just kind
36:29
of on that side. I'm always interested in in your
36:31
business and the writing side. So you're putting a story for
36:34
The Associated Press on, say, an Iowa game.
36:37
Has the writing changed? I mean, what they also asked for
36:40
you. Has that changed and evolved
36:41
throughout the years? Oh yeah, I mean, right now if,
36:45
if, if they're ranked and it's top 25 for men, top 10 for
36:49
women. Don't ask.
36:50
I don't make that decision. It's 300 words and that's it.
36:55
Now, if something newsworthy happens, like if a coach goes
36:59
off after the press conference, you get another story.
37:02
But but now for football, it's a little different.
37:04
Football is 300 words at the buzzer, and then you take that
37:09
story and add quotes to it after the press conference.
37:12
Basketball, it's just 300 words and that's different, you know,
37:17
and, and I mean, and I think back to when I was, you know, I
37:20
think back to when I was putting together a sports section and
37:22
you got these AP story, you had quotes and I think Super Bowl
37:26
weekend coming up reminds me of that.
37:29
I always love to work Super Bowl Sunday night, you know, because
37:32
that Monday paper boy, you know, you could do a lot of things,
37:34
graphics and stuff like that. So yeah, I mean, it's it is
37:38
different. It is a lot different.
37:40
And that's why with my site, that doesn't make me any money.
37:43
I try to be the old school, I try to be the old school 25 inch
37:48
story, you know, 1000 word story that kind of, you know, delves
37:52
into the game and and does two different things.
37:55
That's why I love the Athletic because The Athletic done some
37:58
of those things, you know, So, yeah, so but again, it is just
38:03
really the business is so much different.
38:06
So sadly, so sadly. So it's a good thing the AP is
38:09
paying 10 bucks a word for you. So good stuff.
38:14
There it is. There it is.
38:15
There's a train, whistle. Train, Kevin by now.
38:19
Americana. Good stuff.
38:21
Jumbo and camp. Love it.
38:23
Love it. Thanks, John.
38:25
Don't get hippo and camp. See you buddy, Jumbo and camp.
38:28
Good to talk to you man. He loves his trains.
38:30
And that thing sounded close. He did.
38:32
Well, he covers the was the Burlington the baseball team,
38:36
the Bees? Yeah, Burlington Bees.
38:39
And he's always the train going by, right?
38:41
It's always part of his tweet. He's an old school dude.
38:44
I like John a lot. Quarter before 1 and Miller and
38:47
Condon back. To wrap up our one, it's the
38:50
Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller and Condon.
38:54
Welcome back Iowa Sports Radio Network, wherever you're
38:58
listening. Grateful that you are Trent.
39:00
This would have been a day back in the day.
39:02
Just that 25 year anniversary commercial reminded me of some
39:04
of the things I didn't even know.
39:07
You said something during the break.
39:08
Totally caught me off guard. Today's signing day.
39:11
Yeah, huge day for us. Used to be.
39:13
Used to be, used to be. I, you know, I saw Twitter, all
39:17
these Washington state flips. That's why another one we're
39:20
stacking up on today of all days.
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They're becoming public. I did not realize it.
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So 12 new signees for Iowa State, 10 of them flips from
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Washington State at the high school ranks.
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Couple of pretty decent names. I got a top 300 kid, a four-star
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offensive lineman, Benjamin Mechakayla, who was committed to
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Washington State. Some other programs were
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involved trying to get him to flip, but he's going to go with
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Rogers to Iowa State. So you kind of go through, you
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just look at this list and you look at the wide range also of
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the way that it's set up out of this group.
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I think 10 different states are represented.
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Texas, Arizona, South Dakota, Washington, Colorado, North
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Dakota, Oregon, on and on and on.
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And get these guys from all over the place.
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Yep, talk about a great unknown that is Iowa State football
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coming. Up this show, it really is,
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really is I talk to people, high school coaches.
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Well, I, I don't talk to them. I listen to people that are
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close to them. They say that it's entirely
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different from what count. This guy's just a football
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junkie, right? He's not going to do that when
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in the dark BS. It's his.
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Well, did you see his his team at the Wild game the other
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night? No.
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Shirts off, not sure they were swilling beer.
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I'm, I'm guessing was the offensive lineman just out there
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having a ball, right? Campbell's guys, you don't see
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that, right? Because 2 button up, these guys
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are just dudes. I think this is going to be it's
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going to be fun to watch. If nothing else.
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I'm anxious to see how it, you know, how it goes forward.
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I really am. Tough job.
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It is not going to be easy. Obviously, Campbell set the bar
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really high and did things they'd never done before.
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Leading to Big 12 championship games, competing, playing in a
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Fiesta Bowl, beating Oregon in that game.
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I mean, think of the teams that they played recently, Oregon,
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Notre Dame, Clemson in bulk. Unthinkable for this program.
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It really is. All right, hour number two
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coming up next, we'll catch up with Cappy wherever he may be.
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It's sunny. It's palm trees we'll catch up
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with. Sounds like the South side of
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Chicago might. Be That's probably where he is.
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Cappy will join us, then Vinny I recovers the NFL for the
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Sporting News Miller in Condon hour to go.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.