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Indiana-Rutgers Preview with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (The IU Report, 3.58) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU report with Grand Shows and my cuddle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their preview of Indiana's game begins Rutgers on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
0:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Indiana goes to Rutgers on Saturday night, second game with Big 10th play, Indiana 4 and out of Rutgers 1 and 3.
0:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, this game here, it's a game that I feel like we can pretty confidently say off the bat, like Indiana can win this game on Saturday, but
0:43
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have, and it seems like they've just been inconsistent to start the year here.
0:48
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to have to put 60 minutes of really good football together, and in my opinion, they need nothing more than they go out there and just boat race rockers on Saturday.
0:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I want to start out grand by asking, do you have any eligibility because the running by-croom is decimated, apparently, at this point?
1:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So are you are you available for maybe a few snaps?
1:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Can we handle us from Hoover?
1:16
[SPEAKER_02]: They'd have to get me on a plane like right now.
1:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd have to learn the playbook.
1:20
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean unless we're running counter Where, you know, they fake the hand off the lead BB and then they give it to me.
1:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I should be fine, but You know, I've watched the wing T and high school my whole life.
1:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's about that's about the extent what I could do
1:35
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, Green I think it's funny that you think the only thing holding you back from a D1 running back position is not knowing the playbook, but it's a legitimate maybe concern for Indiana going into this game.
1:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you saw the injury report that was updated on Thursday night, but Indiana's top four running backs are now listed as questionable or.
1:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, or out, uh, will Richard is listed as as probable Lee, BB was just added as questionable.
2:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
2:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, we all know Kobe Martin is still out with his broken arm and then, um,
2:13
[SPEAKER_01]: the fourth string guy who's Cosmo, I'm horrible at names, especially when you start getting down the depth chart.
2:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, our listed as questionable, so potentially some real problems for that position going into the game I've seen people suggest, well let's put Grant Wilson back
2:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a great deal of concern for Rutgers going into the game, but the one thing that does concern me is that this team so banged up that maybe it reflects the play on the field.
2:54
[SPEAKER_01]: AJ Harris still listed his questionable few guys that listed his out along with Kobe.
3:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, injuries can derail a season.
3:07
[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen it far too often with the basketball team.
3:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Last year's team had some serious injuries along the way, but it felt like guys came back.
3:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Driven's, I know, missed some time.
3:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Last year, he ended up coming back.
3:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Elijah Sarat had us hamstring that ended up helping out because it developed Charlie Becker.
3:36
[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably going to be walk going into a ranked game a week from now against Nebraska unless Nebraska absolute trips on it's you know what this week so you would like to see some guys get some reps
4:05
[SPEAKER_01]: but a lot of injuries going into this thing.
4:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that's a huge key.
4:12
[SPEAKER_02]: And like he said, Turbo Richard listed as probable, that doesn't mean he's good to go, you know?
4:19
[SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully we get more news on Friday or Saturday, Saturday morning at least, games, like you said, at eight o'clock Eastern.
4:28
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got to sit around all day and kind of be nervous about it.
4:33
[SPEAKER_02]: And a great day at college football coming up on Saturday, but
4:36
[SPEAKER_01]: probable is likely to play, but having watched him in that injury a week ago, you fear re-aggravation, perhaps it was almost like, man, it would be nice to maybe get him a week to just sit on the sidelines and rest it a little bit, but that might not be an option, so that's a concern going into that.
4:58
[SPEAKER_02]: And you fear re-aggravation, but also you kind of fear
5:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Is he really good to go or are we asking him because he feels like he's got to put himself in a position to be good to go because of how depleted the running back room is I didn't know about Lee Bv till he just brought it up I just it just came out this evening with the updated injury report.
5:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he hasn't been on it all week.
5:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they didn't list what the injury was it just had an as questionable.
5:28
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's a back or he rolled an ankle and worked out.
5:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
5:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, and, and it's one of those things, it feels like Indy and even was signetti like sometimes keeps those injury secret till about game time.
5:43
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you don't even know about, like last year, DeAngelo Ponds didn't play in the Iowa game and we didn't know until like they're getting right to kick the ball off.
5:50
[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't know like till an hour before the game that he was questionable coming in.
5:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And he didn't play that game and it showed defensively.
5:57
[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't even really know about Steven daily getting her.
6:02
[SPEAKER_02]: until we saw the video, but you didn't really know what it was or anything until that came out later on after the big 10 championship.
6:09
[SPEAKER_02]: We knew Serat was kind of questionable going into that Penn State game, at least I think it seems like forever ago now.
6:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Good news is, realize your hearty also listed as probable, probably you're best linebacker.
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[SPEAKER_02]: lot of credit to bones, Jones, though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's pretty good, but Hardy, one of your top two linebackers there got to have him go to go and he went out.
6:32
[SPEAKER_02]: We never really got an explanation of what happened.
6:35
[SPEAKER_02]: And so hopefully he's good to go Saturday, but injuries are a huge key coming in here.
6:41
[SPEAKER_02]: good news is his knock on wood you still got your quarterback still got your your main receivers just a running back room this running game is such a huge part of what they do offensively and we've seen Hoover kind of I don't want to say it's back because it hasn't been bad it has been
6:59
[SPEAKER_02]: just a little stagnant compared to the few two week, the first two weeks compared to the last two weeks against Western Kentucky and Northwestern is a little stagnant like great and second app against the Northwestern.
7:10
[SPEAKER_02]: It just wasn't where it was week one and week two, I think.
7:14
[SPEAKER_02]: And you don't want this to be a game where you don't have the running game really because you're running your running backs or hurt.
7:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And you're in a position here where you got to try to throw the ballings out having a good game.
7:24
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're kind of walking in almost a nightmare scenario and away at Rutgers.
7:30
[SPEAKER_02]: Good news is with Rutgers is kind of what I just said.
7:35
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Rutgers.
7:37
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a team in a big tent and you don't want to overlook them.
7:40
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the last bad team, really bad bad team you're going to play until right after Thanksgiving.
7:46
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been objectively terrible this year,
7:51
[SPEAKER_01]: They also played USC within a seven-point game at home just took a couple of weeks ago.
7:56
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, they beat Howard.
8:01
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a common opponent.
8:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Both of us put 50 something on Howard.
8:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they played the full 15 minute fourth quarter Indiana obviously didn't.
8:11
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had those comparisons, but they've obviously playing better than they did in that opener where
8:18
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know if Chihano was going to actually get off the field before we got fired when they got blown out by UMass.
8:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Rutgers should be a win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Should be an easy win.
8:29
[SPEAKER_01]: You would think 24 point spread.
8:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's before all the latest injury news.
8:36
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's hard to, I don't know if shake the cobwebs of the past, a road game and night game in the big 10.
8:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And but I feel like if Indiana has to get in a position where they need to just go air raid and put the ball in the air, they're equipped to do so with this receiving core with Josh Hoover, Indiana prides itself on being a team that's physical and runs the heck out of the ball.
9:04
[SPEAKER_01]: But if they have to just go fling in the ball around, I feel like they've got a team that can do it.
9:11
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you.
9:13
[SPEAKER_02]: The one thing that concerns me about
9:17
[SPEAKER_02]: like what we saw last week in the second half with Northwestern where they got things figured out they were getting chunked place 25, 30 yards down the field and they look good and and Indiana had no answer for what Northwestern did offensively in the second half last Friday and now you're going into into a position here where rockers that's almost what they have to do offensively to even keep themselves in the game.
9:42
[SPEAKER_02]: They have an NFL wide receiver in kjda if he's got to be drafted.
9:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably the first round got on if we're being honest.
9:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's a top five receiver in America.
9:54
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it gives you a little bit of a preview of what you can try to do and work on when you play Jeremiah Smith in a few weeks.
10:02
[SPEAKER_02]: And I get to get preview to see maybe where your defense is at trying to hold down a receiver like that.
10:08
[SPEAKER_02]: that that really concerns me the passing game because they they've got they've got a couple good receivers particularly kj dot that can keep them in this game and again we saw what northwestern was able to do
10:22
[SPEAKER_02]: and get those huge yards and take me here out of the ball and and kind of dominate the game in the second half and if Indiana doesn't have an answer this Saturday compared to what they did last Friday they're going to be in trouble again defensively and again like we said they need nothing more than to come out and try and boat race this team.
10:47
[SPEAKER_02]: it in the first half.
10:48
[SPEAKER_02]: You should feel good about that you won the game by half time.
10:52
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what they got to do.
10:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And that concerns me.
10:55
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want it to be a game going into the second half.
10:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this is where a game where you would like to just start seeing them build.
11:02
[SPEAKER_01]: momentum, and getting some of that mojo from a year ago back, because like we said, there's not really an easy game from here on out, you're going to Nebraska in a week.
11:13
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got Ohio State coming after that.
11:15
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got Matt Michigan, Minnesota's this month, they're a little better than I think.
11:20
[SPEAKER_01]: People thought they were one on the road at Washington last week.
11:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Washington road trip in November.
11:28
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not fun.
11:29
[SPEAKER_01]: USC coming to town.
11:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the teeth of the schedule is about to arrive.
11:37
[SPEAKER_01]: You would like to see some momentum because I don't really feel like Indian is built up a lot of that momentum that they were building last year when they started to get into their tougher games.
11:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So hopefully they can get some of that back this week,
11:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with you 100%.
12:05
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12:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Rutgers is one of those historical teams with this program like we talk about last week with North Western.
12:32
[SPEAKER_02]: When you saw him on the schedule, you're like, that's when you try and get to try and get to six.
12:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Indiana's had some success against Rutgers over the years.
12:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember it's 2023, they played him on home coming.
12:45
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to the game.
12:46
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a last game I went to in the Tom Allen era.
12:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember they threw in, I think they threw in theirception, and I got returned for a touchdown.
12:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw the guy cross the 50 and I turned around and walked out of the stadium.
13:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't come back to Kurt Signetti was the coach, I swear to God, and it'd be nice.
13:07
[SPEAKER_02]: I know it's Rutgers, and if Indiana does come out and boat race them and the games over by the second half,
13:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's just going to say, Oh, well, it's rockers, you know, so you haven't played anybody, it's it's the it's a tail as old as time with this program seems like.
13:25
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like you said play anybody just beat rockers.
13:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't really care because I think what people want to see and I think what the staff and this team wants to feel right now is just.
13:35
[SPEAKER_02]: you walk off the field feeling good about it.
13:38
[SPEAKER_02]: And Kurt Sigmetti said last week, they should have win in a half time against North West you're not by three or four scores.
13:45
[SPEAKER_02]: It should have been a four possession game in a half time and they left too many points out on the field.
13:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Can't do that Saturday night.
13:51
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want to create this separation and turn the page and kind of shake the hangover of the national championship off, you have got to come out and beat this team's ass.
14:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
14:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a team that's likely not getting ready to fire their coach.
14:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been really bad this year.
14:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this needs to be an easy to, this needs to be a 30 something point win.
14:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And Indiana's got to get some currency back with these voters, with these pollsters, with these people who are paying attention to these games,
14:32
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they pretty much just been off the grid.
14:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's paying attention to them.
14:36
[SPEAKER_01]: People aren't really talking about them when they are talking about them.
14:38
[SPEAKER_01]: They're talking about, well, they're not nearly as good as last year.
14:42
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to start building that momentum.
14:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to that.
14:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just start to say, hey, we're still here.
14:49
[SPEAKER_01]: We're, you know, if they need a wins this game, they become they're already at 20 straight wins.
14:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And the teams they're trying to tie with 21 straight is like Texas with 21 straight wins this back in the Vinci on there.
15:10
[SPEAKER_01]: You can start putting yourself among some pretty historic programs if you keep this win pace that you're on.
15:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the all time this century is Miami, I think had 34 straight wins at what point.
15:23
[SPEAKER_01]: So they got a ways to go to get there, but.
15:29
[SPEAKER_01]: And he has putting itself into some some pretty elite company and all we have to do is thank Purdue for not hiring, signate and going with Ryan Walters instead.
15:41
[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost, I don't even know what to say.
15:47
[SPEAKER_02]: There, there was rumors floating around about this around the National Championship last
15:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And we need to we need to introduce what we're talking about if it's some stuff that came out online was revisited today about how Kurt Signetti was perhaps actively seeking the Purdue job once Jeff Brom left to go to Louisville because Signetti was at James Madison.
16:20
[SPEAKER_01]: but he was just itching to get a bigger job.
16:23
[SPEAKER_01]: We've heard him link to Cincinnati when they hired Scott Satterfield, who ironically was the hire that led to Jeff Brahm going to Louisville, the Purdue job opening up.
16:34
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was trying.
16:35
[SPEAKER_01]: He was actively like, look, I'm here.
16:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty damn good.
16:39
[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody give me a chance.
16:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody did, Indiana finally did.
16:44
[SPEAKER_01]: People are like, well, he's 61 years old.
16:46
[SPEAKER_01]: He's only coached.
16:47
[SPEAKER_01]: James Madison.
16:48
[SPEAKER_01]: They've only been a program at this level for a year.
16:51
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, really there was all the excuses in the world not to hire the guy.
16:56
[SPEAKER_01]: And Indiana, fortunately, was the one that took the chance.
17:14
[SPEAKER_02]: And I kind of remember seeing stuff about it.
17:17
[SPEAKER_02]: And I kind of thought it was fat tire, honestly, at first.
17:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to believe it, but I was like, there's no way.
17:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I'll just call it again and more people talking about it, it's like, you know what?
17:29
[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that Mike Babinski, the AD, it produced, turned it down.
17:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, what an even interview the guy.
17:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's one thing if you interview for the job like Signetti, we know interviewed for the job at Cincinnati.
17:41
[SPEAKER_02]: That same cycle, that same offseason that he was quote unquote interested in the purview job.
17:48
[SPEAKER_02]: And they actually gave him an interview, purview wouldn't even give the guy an interview.
17:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, but it all worked out in the end for Purdue, because they ended up with Barry Odom.
17:58
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
17:58
[SPEAKER_02]: Are the only person that's ever said that, Greg?
18:04
[SPEAKER_01]: They got, they got not one, but two Kevin Kane defensive coordinator 10 years by not hiring Kurt Signetti.
18:15
[SPEAKER_02]: I just, it's, it keeps being funny as Indiana fans.
18:21
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like that program over there is just still in hell.
18:24
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, as a Purdue fan, like, like, genuinely, what do you even think at that point?
18:35
[SPEAKER_01]: has that one coaching story where you're just like, man, we, we could have had this guy.
18:40
[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't hire him and look what happened.
18:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, Indiana's was always going to be dusty May and basketball.
18:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
18:48
[SPEAKER_01]: We held on to Mike Woodson for that one extra year.
18:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Look what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue now.
18:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we know what produces.
18:58
[SPEAKER_01]: We could have maybe had Kurt Signee.
19:01
[SPEAKER_01]: We went with
19:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine Matt Painter and Kirk Signetti, brush and shoulders in the hallway.
19:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, with Matt Painter being the absolute glorification of the coaching industry that he is, it's probably a good thing because you couldn't put all that into one city.
19:26
[SPEAKER_02]: It might explode, it might explode.
19:30
[SPEAKER_02]: But a tradition unlike any other is when Purdue, basketball gets on a swamp like they do every year.
19:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Even when they went to the National Championship, like they lost the game, they probably shouldn't have.
19:40
[SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, my favorite tradition is when Matt Painter tries to tell us how much he knows more about basketball than we do in the post game press conference.
19:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we all know in Lafayette, Matt Painter takes his morning jog on the tip of canoe river.
19:53
[SPEAKER_01]: The guy just absolutely walks on water.
19:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, yes.
20:00
[SPEAKER_02]: If we had him at Indiana in the success he said, I mean, it'd be tough not to love the guy.
20:10
[SPEAKER_01]: But all the bomb nights fall, we're just gonna make fun of him though.
20:14
[SPEAKER_02]: All that is Bob Knight's fault.
20:16
[SPEAKER_02]: So the guy went and recruited him as a kid, guy was best friends with Pat, lived with Pat for a summer, played AAU, a theme was around night, grew up at IU fan, he goes to Purdue, they're in the golden era of their program.
20:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Or at least they were on of the sillary, I guess we'll see you, but yeah.
20:41
[SPEAKER_02]: talking about Matt Payner on a rockers week.
20:43
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it is Rutgers football.
20:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And pretty sure, James Gandalfini was like a huge Rutgers fan.
20:52
[SPEAKER_01]: He was.
20:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
20:54
[SPEAKER_01]: He was.
20:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And we all know Rutgers invented the game.
20:57
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
20:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
20:59
[SPEAKER_01]: They've been really pissed off at themselves for making that decision ever since.
21:02
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know if we have anybody
21:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I do, it's what I want to happen.
21:16
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give you two, it's what I want to happen.
21:19
[SPEAKER_02]: It's also what I think will happen.
21:21
[SPEAKER_02]: What I want to happen is that the win the game 55 to three, or 55 to 10.
21:27
[SPEAKER_02]: What I think will end up really happening, I think they'll really only win the game, maybe 35, 17.
21:34
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, again, we talked about how we wanted to come out and vote racism, how they need to do nothing more
21:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't necessarily think they will.
21:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they'll create enough separation to where they'll win comfortably, but it's, I don't think the win by as wide of a margin as we'd hope.
21:53
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll say Indiana 35, record 17.
21:58
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, last year, and I know I got a stop thinking about last year in terms of this year's team, but October was really when last year's team kicked it
22:10
[SPEAKER_01]: kicked off October last year.
22:13
[SPEAKER_01]: And they crews there.
22:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was just a site to behold the rest of the way.
22:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to believe this week serves a sort of the kickoff for yeah, we still here in Indiana, 2026.
22:32
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think they're going to
22:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they got some business to take care of this weekend.
22:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's probably a good to get away from Bloomington.
22:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe just not hearing that they're just terrible because they're not beating teams by 50 every week is maybe a good thing.
22:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And I still think that there's going to be a healthy IU fan base there.
23:04
[SPEAKER_01]: between and between the alumni connections in New York City and just IU fans in general who want to travel to again, this is kind of the easy one to go to.
23:15
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's going to be a road environment that might be a little friendlier than we see the rest of the year.
23:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go Indiana 49 to 13.
23:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be good with 49 13 honestly.
23:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree, and that's something I feel like we didn't touch on, getting away from home.
23:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it'll be nice for the next two weeks.
23:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I see you're going to rockers, it's not the most intimidating environment, but getting away from Bloomington's probably nice.
23:49
[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned the fans traveling the games next year.
23:53
[SPEAKER_02]: They play, I think it's five row games.
23:56
[SPEAKER_02]: They actually have it alternates.
23:58
[SPEAKER_02]: It alternates eight home games one year seven games the next year.
24:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so they'll have five row games that you're trying to remember where they go out west.
24:07
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they go to like they go to USC next year.
24:11
[SPEAKER_02]: But and then they also go to Minnesota, but then they have three driveable in one day road games next season.
24:19
[SPEAKER_02]: They're at Illinois.
24:20
[SPEAKER_02]: They're at Michigan State in their at Purdue.
24:22
[SPEAKER_02]: That's been 2027.
24:24
[SPEAKER_02]: So you got that to look forward to.
24:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I think for next year, but I don't know.
24:30
[SPEAKER_02]: going on the road will be nice to get into an environment, even if it is Rutgers, I'm through there will be juice.
24:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's their homecoming.
24:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I heard they're doing some kind of fireworks show.
24:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it's like at like before the game or something.
24:42
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a black out game.
24:44
[SPEAKER_02]: So that means Kurt Signetti's got to stop wearing black.
24:47
[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like they suck when he's worn black this year.
24:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
24:52
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if maybe he retired like that one.
24:55
[SPEAKER_02]: like quarters that polo the short sleeve i think it's become kind of his bob night red sweater in a way like during games obviously like there's the joke about the the twenty four twenty five uh... playoff quarters it that you seem wearing when he's not couch in a game uh... heat he literally worked to drive the pace car for the indy five hundred tells you how much that that guy loves that thing
25:25
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, I kind of would be stops wearing the, uh, the black, I'm kind of over it.
25:31
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, it's bad mode Joe, and I'm really superstitious.
25:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Forty, fourteen is my prediction, by the way, 41 to 14.
25:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be good with that, too.
25:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Gevusures.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we back soon, I guess.
25:54
[SPEAKER_02]: We haven't really decided on whether or not we're planning on reacting to the game or if we're just going to do an IU report and kind of combine it all.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not against the just combining it all on the IU report.
26:07
[SPEAKER_02]: We end up talking about a bunch of other stuff, anyway.
26:09
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm looking forward to it.
26:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Hope they get a win and it's going to be a long day Saturday, wait for that game, you'll get to enjoy all the ball
26:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And don't forget, we're about a week away from Indiana basketball.
26:27
[SPEAKER_01]: It's right.
26:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
26:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Exhibition with Butler is next Sunday, right?
26:33
[SPEAKER_00]: The 11th, yes.
26:35
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26:39
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26:45
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26:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, guys.
26:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Got a few episodes of the mental list I got to go catch up on.
26:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no kidding.
26:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I got some modern family to catch up on.
26:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's one of my all-time favorites, too.
27:00
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27:05
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