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Thanks for tuning into the Boiler Express Podcast.

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Join us each week as we dive into all things Purdue Sports.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Boiler Express Podcast.

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I'm your host, Alton Boiler.

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As always, we've got the crew with me.

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We've got Frank, Russ, Dylan.

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We're without Chris tonight.

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He's at a, what would you call it, Dylan?

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The NARC convention.

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He's at a NARC convention in Las Vegas.

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So Chris, we hope you're having a great time with all your NARC friends and stuff.

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Yeah, so yeah, just wanted to do a quick podcast tonight.

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Kind of talk about the, so last week we talked about weeks one and two.

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We're going to talk about weeks three and four.

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But before we get into anything, first I want to shout out our partnership, Big Van Tiers

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It's really fun.

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What'd you call it?

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Like a yard game almost, like something you would take to tailgates, a good tailgate game,

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something you would take to like a family cookout.

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Just a really good time.

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And so yeah, shout out to Sensei Blitz Boards.

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You can follow them at Blitz Boards on Twitter and DM them currently to get yours today.

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So yeah, let's get into it guys.

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First of all, how's everybody doing?

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How's your week spent?

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Fantastic.

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It's hot.

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It's too hot.

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I'm sweating too much.

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I'm not happy.

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It has been very, very hot.

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It's miserable.

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It's not big dude weather and it stinks.

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It's really not.

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No, you guys are slim.

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What are you talking about?

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Okay.

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Russ is a male model.

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What do we look at?

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Compliment Russ.

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Not a joke.

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Not a joke.

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You're talking to there.

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What's going on?

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We got to get Chris off the pod more.

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You're nicer to me now.

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Yeah, I know I have Chris to help me pick on you.

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I finally feel 100% because I was sick last week.

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It was terrible.

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Yeah, we thought we were going to find a new host there for a second.

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It wasn't going to be me.

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It wasn't going to be me.

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Really.

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It's one thing before you host a podcast and then the three, two, one and then you're just

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like, it's a deer in headlights, man.

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Oh, I don't know how you do it, but you do it.

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Especially when you don't have the intro ready.

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It's just.

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Oh God.

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I would have just, I would have turned it off.

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I would have been like, all right guys, have fun.

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I'm out of here.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what was going on.

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I got tested for all sorts of stuff.

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Flu, strep, COVID.

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It all came back negative.

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So just some really nasty sucky virus that I had for a week.

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So yeah, let's go ahead and kick it off.

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Like I said earlier, we are talking today about weeks three and four.

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So Russ, who are we playing?

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So week three, uh, Saturday, September 16th, we play our return game at home against the

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Syracuse orange.

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This one's actually the first night game of the year.

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So it'd be seven 30 kickoff is what it's set for.

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Um, Syracuse, uh, what seven and six last year, four and four in conference finished

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third in their Atlantic division, pulled out a controversial 33 to 29 victory at home against

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us last year with a 25 yard touchdown pass with just seven seconds left.

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The big storyline was the penalties in that game.

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I think, uh, pretty was called for 13 with 144 yards of, uh, penalty yardage, including

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the back to back penalties on our last, what was our go ahead score that had us kicking

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off at our own 10 yard line and set up that last drive for them.

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Um, Garrett Schrader, you know, was lowered as a, as a big time quarterback and, and was

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a threat.

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John Tucker was kind of neutralized by our defense, but Garrett Schrader didn't really

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have that great of a game against this.

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He was 13 of 29 for 181 yards, but did have three touchdowns and he led them with 83 yards

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on the ground.

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But it felt like we bottled them up and he just made the big play when he needed to.

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But for the majority of the game, I felt like 90% of the game we, we had our way with him

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bull and Yankee stadium, uh, 28 to 20, uh, they're kind of opposite of Fresno state,

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Like Fresno state, we talked about, they started one and four and they finished 10 and four.

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Well Syracuse started six and oh, and they finished seven and six.

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So wasn't there some, wasn't there some talk of like them being a, like a championship

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level team at some point?

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Cause uh, it was at one point Penn state and Syracuse were both undefeated and they were

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both kind of heartbreaking losses for us, but they were also both like top 10 or like

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top 12 teams, um, I think like five weeks in the season.

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So yeah, they were, they thought they were going to be great.

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And then they got smacked by Clemson and that just kind of started a run of, um, bad games

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for him.

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So in that game, I mean like two, two things stick out to me, just like in my immediate

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memory one was, uh, it was pain Durham, you know, getting that 15 yard unsportsmanlike

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penalty and then Brahm, uh, reacting to that resulting in another 15 yard penalty.

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Just want to share a little, little anecdote about that particular play.

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Um, so, uh, got, got this little, little autograph here from pain.

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Um, and, uh, when I got this, I actually asked him, so what did you say that warranted that

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15 yard penalty?

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He just kind of laughed and said, I don't remember and pain.

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I know you're listening.

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I think you do remember and I would love to know what that was.

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Tell the people we need to know.

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So whatever it was, the referee decided it was a 15 yard, a yard penalty.

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And Russ, you have a better memory than I do about the specifics of, of plays.

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Um, there was a play where, uh, we had stopped them on fourth down and someone got a late

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hit, uh, which led to a Syracuse score.

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Uh, that those are the two things that stick out to me about that game.

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Cause that was so fresh.

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That's what I was going to say.

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You, you mentioned the back to backs there, but the one that sit out to me was the one

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that set them up on the 25 yard line with seven seconds left.

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Cause even up to that point, it was like, we still got this in the bag.

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Like they, they might, they might be able to kick a long field goal, but then they had

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that late hit that took them from, you know, basically outside of field goal range.

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Cause you're talking about being on the, what the 40 or the 41 was it where they're at?

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So that's, you know, you're talking about a 56 yard, 57 yard field goal and college

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is not very makeable.

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Um, just ask Ohio state.

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I'm sorry.

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So, uh, uh, it was, it was still looking good for us.

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And then that penalty just kind of, you know, took the wind out our sails.

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And then I think the next player, like two plays later was that 25 yard touchdown pass.

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I still don't get why, because they were in man coverage on that final play too.

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Weren't they, they weren't in like any kind of a zone or cover or anything like that.

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I think we did.

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We didn't, I don't think we went full man without help of the top, but, um, yeah, the

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penalties were definitely controversial in that game.

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interference penalties when, you know, there was people, I think, posting on Twitter videos

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of our receivers, basically getting played the exact same way that their receivers got

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played, but they were calling defensive pass interference on us, but we weren't getting

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the calls when we were on offense.

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So it was one of those games that it felt like was getting kind of getting called two

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Um, and then I didn't Charlie Jones play like injured for a lot of that game or hurt or

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something.

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I thought he got pretty banged up.

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Yeah, like half the season, it felt like he was maybe not suiting up and then he'd suit

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up and get 120 yards and eight catches in a touchdown or something.

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So they're coming to town.

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Do they have a lot of, uh, do they have a lot of transfers?

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They hit the transport portal hard, or I know you said that was kind of the difference between

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them and like Fresno state.

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So are they pretty well the same team from last year?

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Uh, well at the top, as far as the quarterback goes, yes, Garrett Schrader is returning.

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Um, I think he's a senior this year, but Sean Tucker did graduate and they did lose three

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starters on the line.

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Um, but they returned seven starters on defense.

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Their defense is still going to be pretty similar to what we faced last year.

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Um, and they have their top receiver coming back, uh, or Rand, Randay around, oh, got

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Gatston.

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Sorry, if I butchered that name, um, he was the one that actually had the 25 year game

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winner against us too, but he had, uh, 61 catches for 969 yards and six touchdowns last

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year.

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And I think their third leading receiver returns as well.

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So they still got a decent pass game returning.

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It's kind of a question mark who's going to run the ball aside from Schrader.

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Of course Schrader Schrader might be their leading rusher this year.

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So, um, I think it's, it's going to be a little bit different for us defensively too, because

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we've got, you know, again, we talked about the rushing quarterbacks and the dual threat

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guys that we might face in the first two games, having Walters with a defensive front, that's

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kind of hard to guess and is kind of ready for anything.

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I think we're going to be a lot better equipped to face these dual threat guys than we have

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historically in the past.

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So I feel pretty good of these two games that we're going to talk about tonight.

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I feel a lot better about this one, obviously considering the historic background of the

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other game, but, um, yeah, I feel pretty good about this one.

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You know, get this one back.

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Do you guys have any score predictions?

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I know we didn't do that last week, but I just thought of it.

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Does anybody have a score prediction for, for this game?

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Boilers by a billion.

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I always liked that prediction.

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Boilers by a billion, when like it's, you know, I'm looking at, I'm looking at PFF and

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for anyone who doesn't know, PFF is the company owned by Chris Collins worth pro football

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focus.

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They, they do.

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Yeah, they, they do a lot of really cool, um, re really a lot of really cool analytics

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and data behind football.

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Um, so they, you know, they, um, let's say a quarterback throws a ball and it hits the

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receiver right in the hands and the receiver drops it.

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Um, you know, the receiver gets penalized.

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The quarterback doesn't, uh, so that's, so that is sort of factors things like that,

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uh, in, in, in the stats, but just looking at last year's game against Syracuse, you

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know, our best performing defender was Branson Dean, uh, who, uh, you know, unfortunately

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has gone now, but, uh, number two is actually Scotty humpish, uh, humpic.

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I've heard it pronounced both ways.

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So, uh, Scotty, I apologize.

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I know pronounce it incorrectly at least once, but you know, that's really encouraging to

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see, uh, Lawrence Johnson was up there.

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Um, cam Allen and Corey tries, uh, top five, uh, defensive players in that game.

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So what was the fourth name?

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What was that?

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Cam Allen, cam Allen.

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Um, it was one of, one, one of his better games and, uh, you know, he, uh, he, he, he

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showed up.

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So good for him.

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Uh, Jack Sullivan's also up there.

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Um, you know, and that's, that's interesting to have him up there.

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So high being that he was actually the one I did look it up.

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He was the one who had the late hit on fourth down, um, you know, to give him a first down,

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um, man, he's, he's, he's one guy I really, I will really miss.

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I wish he was in the black and gold again.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there's a couple of guys now that I totally like space, all these guys that

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have left, Jack Sullivan, Lawrence Johnson, Branson Dean, miss those guys.

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And then, and then on the O line too, uh, losing a Spencer hostage.

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He, I mean, I said it so many times last season, he was the unsung hero of the team, like hadn't

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given up a single sack all season.

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You know, losing him and Eric Miller is just, that's tough, but, uh, Walter's can recruit.

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I mean, uh, I, I, I've, I've said this, uh, I feel like some people maybe, maybe that

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I'm talking to right now will agree with me.

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I don't know how the rest of the Purdue fan base feels, but I feel like our floor for

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recruiting is gone up a notch.

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Yeah.

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I don't know about our ceiling still.

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I think we're just as high as maybe as it was under our previous coach.

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Uh, but the floor is definitely up though.

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I think now we, I think now we expect to get at least a couple of four stars every year.

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Yeah.

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The man once said the ceiling is indeed the roof.

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So you never know.

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Yeah.

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Shout out Michael Jordan.

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But I just, you know, under, under a coach, coach Jeff Brahm, I'll say his name.

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We, um, you know, we would like the floor was lower.

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Maybe the ceiling was a little bit higher.

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I mean, really like you take away Ron Delmore, you take away George Karloftis.

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The ceiling is, is one a hundred percent the same.

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And then like time will tell whether we get another George Karloftis or another, you know,

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Ron Delmore or the Hazel like the seller, like we see, we'll see the basement.

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See I don't think Hazel players were that bad.

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I think they really were.

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That's twice.

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That's twice.

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We just said his name.

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Come on guys.

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I'm sorry.

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I'll throw salt over my back later.

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This is something that always pains me to think about too.

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Um, two quarterbacks who played under Hazel both left and went and started in the sec.

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Yep.

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Etling and Appleby.

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Yeah.

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And they played each other and they played against each other too.

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And I'm like, like, what are we doing wrong?

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Like we had both of these guys on our roster and one of them still in the NFL at Ling's

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still in the NFL.

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It links, uh, fighting for Jordan Lowe's backup spot with the Packers.

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Yeah.

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He's actually, um, uh, I think, uh, Dylan's first draft pick in our fantasy football league.

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Probably.

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We'll see how that goes.

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Do we, we need more members for that.

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Don't we?

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We should, uh, pub.

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We should pub that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We should.

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Jawan Bentley as well.

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Uh, who's in the NFL and has had been having a very good NFL career by the way.

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Hey, we got a couple of boilers on my bangles.

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Chuck sizzle, Marcus Bailey.

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And I'm a, yeah, I'm a shameless Steelers fan.

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I'm really happy to have my favorite Purdue player in the black and gold, black and yellow,

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uh, in the NFL this season.

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Bryson comes to play.

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The Rams come to a Cincinnati this year.

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I may have to go to that game.

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Friend of the pod.

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Yeah.

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I'll meet you there.

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Yeah.

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Friend of the program.

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Yeah.

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It's a hop, skip and a jump.

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Yeah.

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Hour and a half drive for me.

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I'll meet, I'll meet you in Cincinnati to watch Bryson play.

315
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Yeah.

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Russ, you're even invited.

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I'm a Bengals fan now.

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I better be invited.

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I don't know.

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That star behind you says otherwise, sir.

321
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Well, I can't ever like if something's, if somebody's talking about something behind

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me and I try to point to it, I'm always wrong.

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It really messes you up.

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I was doing it before the podcast and I was like, yeah.

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Point to Mackie.

326
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Oh yeah.

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I mean, you're smart.

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Show off before we move on to our next opponent is one of my most hated opponents.

329
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Um, I do want to take, take this opportunity to shout out some of our listeners.

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Uh, I think it's fun from time to time to look, uh, on our RSS feed and see where people

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are listening to us that, uh, come to find out we're really popular in Belgium.

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Uh, so, um, I know all you, you Belgian, um, listeners out there.

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We really appreciate your support.

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I did purchase a Belgian flag.

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Forgot to put it up.

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That's all I need.

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Yeah.

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And, and it's, it's totally legitimate.

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It's totally not just, you know, people using a VPN.

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I'm sure very financially responsible.

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I am, but we're, you know, we, we have listeners all over the place where we're fairly popular

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in Nicaragua as a, as a country, France, Spain, Jamaica.

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I mean, just, uh, so, uh, really, I really appreciate the support internationally.

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An international program.

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I mean, you've been traveling all over the world.

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Big brain Bourdain over there.

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I've been spreading the word all over the, yeah.

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Spreading the gospel.

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The boy, like, so, uh, so yeah, we, we, we have had four listeners in Spain.

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Spain, Spain, Spain.

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Gracias.

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Gracias.

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Hey, uh, gracias.

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You sound like the guy that nobody likes that goes out to you to like a Mexican restaurant.

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Can I have the quatsa Dilla please?

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Gracias.

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Gracias.

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To our, to our Spanish listeners, I will be in Spain in October.

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Love to, love to meet up with you.

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Put a face to a, to a name or, you know.

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Oh, you are going to Spain?

362
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Yeah.

363
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Yeah.

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Going to Spain.

365
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Where have you been?

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Yeah.

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Of course.

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I've been somewhere other than the Midwest.

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Sorry.

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Went away in that joke.

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Went away in that joke.

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Good job.

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Well, no, you guys are technically in the South, aren't you?

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Technically.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I feel like he considered the South.

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It is.

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And like, I mean, uh, I'm right on the border.

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So I, I go, I go like two miles North and I'm in the Midwest and it's really strange.

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I will say it is funny that, you know, I'll like, we're really close.

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I'm really close to the border as well to Kentucky.

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And so like, I hire a lot of people that will come from Kentucky to work and literally a

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20 minute drive across the bridge and their accent is so different.

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It's how do y'all and deep, deep, deep.

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That's where my, my mom's side of the family's from me.

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I'm bilingual.

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I can speak whatever that is and regular English sometimes, not all the time.

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I can't type it.

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That's for sure.

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I don't do words.

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Good.

393
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So before we go to our next game though, I did write a couple of topics down that I wanted

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to get y'all slots on.

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So number one, Illinois hires Jim Leonard as a senior analyst for, I think senior defense

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analysts or just senior analysts in general.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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I'm kind of shocked to see him take a position that's not more like hands-on coaching.

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I was kind of shocked about that.

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What do you guys think about that?

401
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Yeah, that was my immediate reaction was like, Oh, Jim Leonard's fallen pretty hard.

402
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I mean, no disrespect to Jim Leonard, but like I, that's not what I expected to hear

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when I saw Illinois hired Jim Leonard.

404
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Right.

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Like not even as a defensive coordinator or anything, just as a, an analyst.

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Yeah, I was surprised he didn't take a, I wonder, I wonder if there's like a good reason

407
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like why Wisconsin didn't move forward with him and why he's not been hired somewhere

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else or if it's just, you know, bad luck.

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Well, Luke Fickle's a pretty big name.

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So I think if, if you can get a guy like that, you know, it does Trump some other candidates,

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but it might just be a feature where a situation where it was so late in the game that he just

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had to take some position to still be attached to football this year.

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And then he's gonna look for a position, you know, come October, November when their coaches

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are getting fired earlier before the end of the season.

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And then he can kind of pounce on one of those jobs.

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Because now it feels like the coaching shift and the coaching hiring is doing, is done

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more late November, early December now, whereas it used to be like in the off season, but

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now it's like, you know, you gotta, you gotta hire your guy the first week of December.

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As soon as you get done with your last game.

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And sometimes it's like before your last game, you've already interviewed the guy.

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And then as soon as the final whistle blows, you're announcing your new coach.

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So he might've just been, you know, behind the ball a little bit as far as getting into

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some of these, these job searches and putting his name in for some of these roles that were

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out there.

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So I remember he was on my shortlist for Purdue last year when they were looking for their

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coach in the off season.

427
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He, I think it was him.

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My dream list was like Garrett Riley, the offensive coordinator from TCU.

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I think he's now at Clemson.

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And honestly, I had no, I didn't know that would be Dylan.

431
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Dylan probably had it or on.

432
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Oh, absolutely.

433
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That he was like, Oh boy, I just want to hear him say, go boilers every five seconds.

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Like I just imagine every like five seconds, go boilers.

435
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And I'd be like, yes, yes.

436
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Oil gumbo.

437
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I don't know.

438
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Whatever.

439
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It's like, uh, who's that?

440
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Who's the celebrity that you retweeted their video of them swing saying boiler up.

441
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They're like some race car drivers, Tony can on really some race car driver.

442
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I don't watch racing, dude.

443
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I'm not, I don't watch cars go around in a circle for,

444
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Whoa.

445
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Whoa.

446
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Okay.

447
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We are most, our most watched city is the city of Indianapolis and you're going to down

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them on the Indy 500.

449
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You hate America.

450
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That's what that is.

451
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Sorry.

452
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I didn't know you were communist.

453
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Just kidding.

454
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David's not guy.

455
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He's very American.

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So I'm the subject of coaches and former coaches.

457
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What what happened with Jim Harbaugh?

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I caught headlines.

459
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I haven't looked into it, but he said some things that maybe are true.

460
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I don't know.

461
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Vacate last year's big dance championship and you know, all is well in my book.

462
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But it just like, what a, what a, what a stupid punishment.

463
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Like, like, so he, he misses the first four games.

464
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Who did they play in their first?

465
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He misses the preseason.

466
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That's what he misses.

467
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I may be mistaken, but I believe it has to do with something about like buying a meal

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for a incoming recruit.

469
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So yeah, it's especially lame when you consider that these guys are signed in six figures,

470
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sometimes seven figures and I L deals and you can't buy an incoming prospective recruiter.

471
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But a few years ago, didn't Harbaugh like, did he spend the night at a recruits house?

472
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Like that's fine.

473
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Okay.

474
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A grown man can spend the night in a kid's room, but he buys him a burger and all hell

475
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breaks loose.

476
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000
Like what do we, that doesn't make sense.

477
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,440
I don't know about Jim Harbaugh, not Pat's material.

478
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,440
I don't know.

479
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,400
I don't think he's staying in his room doing what?

480
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I don't think he's left in his room.

481
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:53,600
Yeah.

482
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No, no, right?

483
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,600
No, Frank.

484
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He had a sleeping bag.

485
00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:01,120
Hey, so I just, I just drew up this new play.

486
00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:02,120
What do you think?

487
00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:07,720
I think I'm going to have you slip slide right in here into the slot and I think, I think

488
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,720
you'd be great.

489
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,720
Whoa.

490
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,720
Whoa.

491
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:12,720
Wow.

492
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:13,720
Okay.

493
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:14,720
This is a failing.

494
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,000
Guys, this is all about football.

495
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000
Okay.

496
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,840
I was like, you could have picked, you know, we had a wide route.

497
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,200
Chris didn't even hear in this going off the rails.

498
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,280
Well, and looking at, looking at their schedule, they play East Carolina.

499
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,280
Okay.

500
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,760
They can win that game without Jim Harbaugh.

501
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,560
Then they play a winnable game.

502
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:34,560
NLV is winnable.

503
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,840
They can also beat without Jim Harbaugh.

504
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,640
Then they play, it gets crazy now.

505
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:39,840
Then they play bowling green.

506
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,840
Oh God.

507
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,760
They can be without and then Rutgers, mighty records.

508
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:46,760
Yep.

509
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,800
I actually tweeted out kind of another shot and we talked about it with, I think when

510
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:57,840
a Brent was on here about how weak Michigan schedule is, they basically schedule them

511
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:02,600
like the SEC does where outside of their conference games, they schedule nobodies.

512
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,000
So it's almost baked in that if they lose a guy for a suspension, the first four to

513
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,480
six games, it doesn't matter because their schedule is front loaded with cupcakes.

514
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,480
And so they're good.

515
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,160
They'll take the risk and go, Hey, if he gets suspended, he'll miss games that don't matter

516
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,160
anyways.

517
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,640
He's Carolina's a cupcake.

518
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,240
How dare you.

519
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,240
Mighty pirates.

520
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,560
You know, I'm not going to lie.

521
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,920
I sometimes I think about like, I know that was one of the big things that when Brom came

522
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,560
in, he was like, we're playing a tough schedule every year.

523
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,760
We're going to play the best of the best.

524
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,320
I'm always like, you know, I wouldn't mind just like getting some false hope one year,

525
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,520
just starting off four or five and oh, and just being like, wow, this is it.

526
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:40,680
We're changing times.

527
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,040
And then we just play some like play Ohio state and just get gobsmacked.

528
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,640
So the the IU plan.

529
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,200
Yeah, I was going to say the IU plan.

530
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,200
Yeah, just.

531
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,680
Hey, by the way, isn't Bloomington in our like top three of I thought that's where you

532
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,680
go with that.

533
00:23:55,680 --> 00:24:01,440
Bloomington is number three in our list of specific cities where we have listeners.

534
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,440
Yeah.

535
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,680
Shout out to often Donna and Elio podcast for tuning in.

536
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,760
Yeah, we very much appreciate that.

537
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,080
Bloomington loves us.

538
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,520
We'll go to tour.

539
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,720
It is it is the cycle of an IU football season with respect to how their fans act.

540
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,840
They go they go three and oh, because they play three, three cupcakes.

541
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,080
And then their fans say, you know, we should be ranked.

542
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,640
You know, we're going to win the big 10 and then they don't win another game.

543
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,640
I mean, it just like it happens every year.

544
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:33,720
I what was like five or six years ago, they barely beat a bad Michigan state team at home

545
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,000
and overtime and like their whole all 500 fans.

546
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,320
I were there freaked out.

547
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,360
You know, you football is back and all this back to what?

548
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,960
Yeah, there's more burp.

549
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,760
You have to have been somewhere to return there.

550
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,440
You know, you can't say like we're back when you like how how do they do whenever like

551
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:53,440
Antoine Randall?

552
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,200
I was there.

553
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,520
I mean, like that's really the only like kind of era of IU football that what they were

554
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,480
probably just like what Purdue was under like they were what were I mean, were they like

555
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,640
seven, eight win teams or did they win like nine, 10 games a season or whatever?

556
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:14,280
Well, he he I think they beat Purdue one year and I think it was because he played like

557
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,360
a year longer than Breeze did.

558
00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:20,920
So I think maybe like the year after Breeze left, they won't they beat us.

559
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:27,240
But another thing I want to talk about these Purdue, the Boilmaker Alliance subscription

560
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,240
service that they're coming out with now, what do you guys think about that?

561
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,240
Yeah.

562
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,000
Russ said he was signing up for the fifteen hundred dollar a month one.

563
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,880
So way to go, Russ.

564
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:37,880
That a boy.

565
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,400
As soon as Dylan sends me his credit card info.

566
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:41,400
Yeah.

567
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,400
And be signed up.

568
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,000
Well, yes, I'll I'll text that to you.

569
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,320
I'll pigeon it to you.

570
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,520
No, but it is I mean, like I'm all about supporting the NIL and all, but I just wonder what it's

571
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,520
going to be like, because I'm thinking of the way they're they're structuring this or

572
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,560
at least what it sounds like to me is like a like a Patreon.

573
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,880
If somebody has a Patreon, it's like if you're a love, if you pay five dollars a month, you

574
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,200
get access to this and this.

575
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,800
You pay ten dollars a month to get this, this and this.

576
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,640
It's like if you're paying fifteen hundred bucks a month, are you sitting in on coaches

577
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:10,640
meetings every week?

578
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,960
Buddy, I better have a spot on the team for fifteen hundred a month.

579
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,680
I mean, I just want to be the backup kicker.

580
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,480
I mean, that's you get to like fly the private jet whenever they.

581
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:19,960
Yeah, OK, that's exactly what I want.

582
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:24,480
I want the private jet and I want a headset on the sidelines for fifteen hundred, a hundred

583
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,800
dollars, fifteen hundred dollars a month.

584
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,520
You got me sold with the headset and the private jet.

585
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,280
I want the coach wall treatment.

586
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,960
I want to get picked up in.

587
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,680
I want to go from West Lafayette and fly the private jet just to Champaign.

588
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,440
Oh, that's all of an eight minute flight.

589
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:42,440
Yeah.

590
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,320
Oh, every away game I better be able to use.

591
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,320
That's a good point.

592
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,840
Every away game you use the private jet.

593
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,160
Bada bing, bada.

594
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,520
We'll take it to Virginia Tech.

595
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,160
It'll fit because it goes from twenty five dollars.

596
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,160
I think is the very first level all the way up to fifteen hundred for like the Founders

597
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,960
Club or something, which even twenty five is pretty steep.

598
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,440
I mean, when you're in the grand scheme of things, you know, Damon, is that the fifteen

599
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,440
hundred dollar one, the one that you can call a play on Saturdays or something that you

600
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,440
said?

601
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:08,440
Yeah, that's a terrible idea.

602
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,440
What do we want?

603
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,400
They did that such a bad age.

604
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,400
Oh, damn.

605
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,400
Hail Mary.

606
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:19,400
No, for for for ten thousand dollars a month, you can you can set the basketball starting

607
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,600
lineup for one game of the season.

608
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,320
Oh, can you imagine somebody would donate ten thousand dollars like we're playing zone

609
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,560
tonight, boys.

610
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,960
That one guy who called into the Matt Painter show is going to do that.

611
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,400
Hey, this would be the one year that I would I would be OK with any of the guys in a rotation

612
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,000
starting a game like seriously.

613
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,680
Yeah.

614
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,960
Everybody was crapping on that old man, but I'm you know, he kind of had a point at the

615
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,960
end of the year.

616
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,600
They kind of didn't do that great shooting threes.

617
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,840
Take more mid ranges not to get into that or anything, but not to open that can alarm

618
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,720
the dam damon to answer your previous question, Antoine Randall, 1998 first season.

619
00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,040
You went four and seven.

620
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,040
Perfect.

621
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,040
Nineteen ninety nine.

622
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,040
His second season.

623
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,560
Again, they go four and seven.

624
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:05,560
Fantastic.

625
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:06,560
Now we go to two thousand.

626
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:07,560
Why?

627
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,560
Two K. The world's going to end.

628
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,560
They go three and eight.

629
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,560
That was it.

630
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,560
Yeah.

631
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,560
Two thousand one his senior year.

632
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,560
Five and six.

633
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,560
They did be pretty that year, too.

634
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,680
It went five like they never he never had a winning season.

635
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,080
And that's crazy because I just remember like he was like the heralded.

636
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:32,680
Like God, he's like their Drew Brees for lack of a better term.

637
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,760
But even then, they don't talk about him a whole lot like you never like I feel like

638
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,880
the average college football follower wouldn't have realized that he attended IU or played

639
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:43,880
at IU.

640
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:44,880
Who was it that you said?

641
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,640
Well, wasn't there a recruit that was like I wouldn't have even known what pretty was

642
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,240
unless until like the it was like the Purdue, Ohio State 2018 game.

643
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,200
They were like, I would I didn't even know who pretty was until I like went for a visit

644
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,200
or something like that.

645
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,760
Wasn't like Sanusie Kane or something.

646
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,760
He like didn't know Purdue existed.

647
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:02,760
That's not great.

648
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,960
I hope not, because I love Sanusie and that would hurt in my soul if that was I could

649
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,800
have sworn you said something about like, I don't know, maybe I'm thinking of somebody

650
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,800
else or maybe he wasn't interested in Purdue until because he was like that.

651
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,280
Like that was the game he came on a visit on or something.

652
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,080
Oh, no, there was there was a recruit who said that like that was like he remembered

653
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,120
watching that game on TV and like that was like like a statement game for him.

654
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:30,200
It was like, oh, like this is a program that's that's on the rise right now.

655
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:35,280
I mean, because we like I mean, I remember like we were taking shots before that game.

656
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,040
It was like, oh, we have nothing to lose.

657
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Like we just if we lose, we lose if we win, great, but like no one thought we were going

658
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,280
to win, you know, like realistically.

659
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,480
So I wish I was on the podcast after that game.

660
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,920
Oh, man, I would have been talking also to smack.

661
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:55,280
Who is the transfer from Purdue that transfer to, I think, Miami and said, Branson Dean,

662
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,480
Branson Dean, and then he's like, the weather here is better in West Lafayette.

663
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,960
You're like, well, I would hope so.

664
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,320
I would wait till that hurricane rolls in.

665
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,680
Yeah, well, and not even that.

666
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,800
And he said he went as far as to say that the city of Miami is better than the city

667
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,000
of West Lafayette.

668
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,000
I sure hope so.

669
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,520
Yeah, I mean, I love West Lala, but I wouldn't argue like high crime rates and, you know,

670
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:20,520
what do you say?

671
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:26,240
West Lafayette's Mayberry, like one of the a lot of Purdue fans were offended by that.

672
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,440
And I'm like, I mean, no, like if you're if you're a college student, you would much rather

673
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,000
live in Miami than you would West Lafayette, Indiana.

674
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,600
Yeah, unless you're like a homegrown like one of us that just like and even then.

675
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,760
Yeah, I feel like unless you're one of those guys that's like homegrown, you're born and

676
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,000
bred to love Purdue.

677
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,400
I don't I think you would definitely pick Miami over Purdue every time.

678
00:30:49,400 --> 00:31:00,120
But for who comes to town, Russ, the team that has our number, Wisconsin Badgers, and

679
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,680
they actually come into town on a Friday night.

680
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:09,440
So it's a Friday night game, another prime time game, 7 p.m. was the following week.

681
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,360
There's not an off week between Syracuse and Wisconsin, but Wisconsin kind of underachieved

682
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,880
last year, seven and six as well, just like Syracuse, four and five.

683
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:24,120
They finished fifth in the Big Ten West beat Purdue 3524.

684
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:27,360
I won't get too much into the game because somebody in this chat and actually went to

685
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:28,360
that game.

686
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,960
But the controversial thing in that game for me was the terrible coverage by ESPN, how

687
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,040
they always stack their dang games.

688
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,720
And so if a game goes a little bit long, you're going to miss half the first quarter of the

689
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:42,720
game.

690
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,720
They're actually want to watch.

691
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:44,720
So by the time you turned on.

692
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:45,720
Yeah.

693
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,660
By the time you turn on the pretty Wisconsin game, it was 14, nothing Wisconsin.

694
00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:50,720
So then it's like, OK, well, I'm going to grab something to eat real quick because the

695
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:51,720
game's on.

696
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:52,720
Now you come back.

697
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,720
It's 21, nothing.

698
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,720
You're like, what the heck's going on?

699
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,540
OK, the second quarter, we'll turn it around a minute in the second quarter.

700
00:31:57,540 --> 00:31:58,540
It's twenty eight to three.

701
00:31:58,540 --> 00:32:00,480
And you're like, OK, well, game's already over.

702
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,480
This is great.

703
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,480
But.

704
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,480
So.

705
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,180
But from the time we were down 14, nothing.

706
00:32:07,180 --> 00:32:08,180
We actually outscored them.

707
00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:09,180
Yep.

708
00:32:09,180 --> 00:32:10,180
That's what I was going to say.

709
00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:13,500
So from and even from the time, twenty eight, three, we got to go to twenty one to seven

710
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:15,080
after it was twenty eight to three.

711
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,080
Good old moral victory.

712
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,080
Yeah.

713
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,080
Yeah.

714
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,080
Yeah.

715
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:24,360
That was just a game because I spoiler alert, I was the one at that game.

716
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,000
That was just a game where it was like, who like, who are we?

717
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,740
That's what we kept asking is like, like we just look like completely different team than

718
00:32:31,740 --> 00:32:37,920
we did the week before, which is lost on me who we played the week before the Minnesota

719
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,920
right that we.

720
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:39,920
Yeah.

721
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,600
Before we actually won four straight before before that game going into that game, we

722
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,200
had a four game win streak.

723
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,200
So like we had just beat Minnesota again, a team that I think that was undefeated and

724
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:55,440
a lot of people were saying should be, you know, should be in the in the talk for a potential,

725
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,120
you know, college football playoff team.

726
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,000
And then that, you know, that fell apart as it always does.

727
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,800
But it was just like, who are we?

728
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,960
I mean, like O'Connell through that, that pick six, the beginning, it just, it just

729
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,320
no one looked in sync.

730
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,880
But Mock Train had a really good game.

731
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:10,880
Mock Train.

732
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:11,880
Yeah.

733
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:12,880
He went for a hundred plus.

734
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:13,880
Yeah.

735
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,460
I think the story of that game was the big plays that we just gave up, you know, bad

736
00:33:17,460 --> 00:33:23,040
turnovers and then big plays because one of the telling stats from that game was Wisconsin

737
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,560
had only one trip to the red zone.

738
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,320
They put up 35 points with only one trip to the red zone.

739
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,680
They turned that one trip into a touchdown, but that's it was big plays, right?

740
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:36,520
The pick six and it had like a long return, I think, for a touchdown.

741
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:37,760
So yeah, it was just the big plays.

742
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:38,760
We played well.

743
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,800
Again, it was kind of like the Syracuse game.

744
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,840
It felt like, you know, we, we had control of most of the game.

745
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,860
It was just, we put ourselves in too big of a hole to start the game and then still gave

746
00:33:47,860 --> 00:33:51,680
up one or two big plays the rest of the way and just couldn't get back into it.

747
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:56,040
Another thing that, that I remember specifically about that game and being there, and I know

748
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:00,440
we talked about it on here was just how banged up the team was at that time.

749
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,880
I mean, the injury tent was up constantly.

750
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,200
And like, you know, you'd see guys hobble off the sidelines, like into the injury tent

751
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,360
and then they'd hobble back, you know, onto the field.

752
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,920
Then they are not clearly not a hundred percent think.

753
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,800
Jack Sullivan was in the tent like five or six times during that game.

754
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,880
Charlie Jones is in and out the entire time.

755
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,880
Literally the entire D line was in there.

756
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,360
Sid Nor was in and out several times.

757
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,440
Branson D was in and out.

758
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,440
So it was just very clear that we were very tired, very worn down, very beat up.

759
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,560
And I think that was the game before our bye weeks.

760
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,440
So we like desperately needed that finish line.

761
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:38,440
Yeah.

762
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:43,360
But it had, it had that same kind of storyline of every Purdue Wisconsin game that, you know,

763
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,160
Wisconsin is just going to run the ball.

764
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,960
And in the first quarter, it's going to look like, you know, we can stop them and then

765
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,320
come fourth quarter, they're getting four or five yards of carry and just marching their

766
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,320
way down the field.

767
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:58,040
And it's so frustrating because, you know, it, at the beginning of the game, it feels

768
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:02,200
like we have a chance and then they just, they just continue to cycle in O line.

769
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,160
And like, we just don't have the D line depth, even though I feel like we did have pretty

770
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,680
good D line depth last season.

771
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,360
We just don't have the depth to match up with their offensive line.

772
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,840
I really hope that's something that's different with coach Walters and can just strength and

773
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,740
conditioning.

774
00:35:18,740 --> 00:35:22,520
I know every team goes through, you know, you're playing football 12 weeks out of the

775
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,880
year, you're getting, you know, almost consecutively you're getting banged up, but it felt like

776
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,560
every year it was like, what was it?

777
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,840
2019 or 2018 where it was like half a roster was out down and out.

778
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:39,000
I mean, the Cinderlar and more, they were both down on the same.

779
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,440
I've never been in a stadium where it felt like everyone was like, at the same time.

780
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:44,440
You read that game too?

781
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:45,440
Yeah.

782
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,440
Yeah.

783
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,840
I mean, that's one of my favorite moments, I mean, I can't even identify his worst moments

784
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,800
of in Ross said, as those two getting injured at the same exact time.

785
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:55,800
Yeah.

786
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,800
So I'm hoping that Cinderlar was on a record tear to start that season, right?

787
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,760
Like he was leading the college football in passing yards at that point, I think.

788
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,840
One of my favorite Boilermakers, Jared Cinderlar.

789
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,840
Who?

790
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:09,840
Yep.

791
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,840
That's not his first name.

792
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,840
That is not his first name.

793
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,800
I can't remember his first name, but Elijah Jared.

794
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,200
He finished out a season with a torn ACL.

795
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,200
Where did I get Jared?

796
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,920
Jared Sparks, who was a quarterback who turned into a white.

797
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,920
That's exactly right.

798
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:29,920
Yeah.

799
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:30,920
That's exactly where I got.

800
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:31,920
But who's Wisconsin?

801
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,280
So, Breyvon Allen is coming back.

802
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,280
That's the big name.

803
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,520
So, I know we're big, big fans of Devin Malkybie.

804
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,680
And honestly, if I had my pick, I'd still take him just because he's our guy.

805
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:49,880
But there's controversy on, I think it was Big Banter put out a top returning running

806
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,680
backs and either didn't have Malkybie on there.

807
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,000
He was like eighth or something.

808
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,560
But, Breyvon Allen, he's projected to actually be a top first round pick in the NFL draft,

809
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:03,640
which if you follow NFL football, there's controversy right now over how devalued the

810
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,560
running back position is, how they're not getting paid.

811
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,840
So for a running back to be projected as a first round pick means that they're kind of

812
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,600
a generational talent.

813
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,040
You've also got Blake Corm at Michigan and Katron Allen.

814
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,840
So there's a lot of good running backs returning in this league.

815
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,480
But yeah, Wisconsin's definitely, it seems like they're still going to be that pound

816
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,480
the rock team.

817
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,600
But the biggest addition they have coming in this year is Luke Fickel.

818
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,800
Being the new head coach, new head man, that's almost a bigger impact than any one transfer

819
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:31,800
is going to have.

820
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,320
They got the quarterback too from.

821
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:36,320
From SMU.

822
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:37,320
Yeah.

823
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,480
And they're likely going to be their starter because Graham Mertz went off to Florida.

824
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:47,080
They also brought in Nick Evers from Oklahoma and Brayden Locke from Mississippi State.

825
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,840
But again, Tanner Mordechai is supposed to be the starter.

826
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,080
They bring back their top three receivers and they also brought in three pretty decent transfers.

827
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,000
So their passing weapons will be pretty stock full as well.

828
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:06,480
They did lose some defensive pieces, including two to Mr. Frank's favorite NFL team there,

829
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,480
which Pittsburgh Steelers, they're big fans of the Big Ten, apparently, because they every

830
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,200
draft pick other than two guys from some team down in Georgia, like the Bulldogs or something,

831
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,200
some team down there.

832
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,200
I never heard of them.

833
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,000
But every other pick was from the Big Ten.

834
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Yeah, it was like Joey Porter Jr. first.

835
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Yeah.

836
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Yeah.

837
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,840
One Penn State guy to Wisconsin, Trice, and then offensive lineman from like Maryland,

838
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:30,840
I think.

839
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,840
So, yeah.

840
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:32,840
Yeah.

841
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:38,440
And I mean, I'll still have nightmares about Joey Porter Jr. against Purdue.

842
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:39,440
Yeah.

843
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,000
We just kept throwing to him.

844
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
I didn't get it.

845
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000
I didn't get it.

846
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Just didn't make sense to me.

847
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,120
Just kept throwing his direction.

848
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,320
So one interesting thing, when I did some research, I looked up, I was looking at an

849
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,560
article on collegefootballnews.com about Wisconsin going into the season and just kind

850
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,640
of recapping what they've done last year and recently.

851
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,320
They had an interesting phrasing about Wisconsin and how they've done over the last decade

852
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:04,860
or close to decade.

853
00:39:04,860 --> 00:39:11,960
So they said Wisconsin has, quote, earned the distinction of being the winningest FBS

854
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:17,280
team in the last nine years to not make a college football playoff game.

855
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,360
I don't know if I'd ever describe that as a distinction, like, yeah, we're the best

856
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,760
team to not make the playoffs.

857
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:22,760
Like, oh, OK.

858
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:23,760
But.

859
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:30,920
I mean, well, it's just like Purdue always gets thrown into that lot of like best team,

860
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,920
best college basketball team to never win the national championship.

861
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,760
I think it's like them in Oklahoma right up there, maybe kind of going back and forth

862
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:42,880
for teams that have won the most tournament games without winning a championship.

863
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,880
So sorry, go ahead, Russ.

864
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,060
No, I was just going to say, I think, you know, Wisconsin is definitely of these first

865
00:39:49,060 --> 00:39:53,000
four games, the one that I'm most nervous about, not just because of the history, but,

866
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,200
you know, they are very talented.

867
00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:00,720
They bring in a pretty high profile head coach, Luke Fickle, you know, obviously a high state

868
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:06,960
to Cincinnati, had a lot of success in Cincinnati now, you know, in the Big Ten with Wisconsin

869
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,800
and brought in some some decent transfers.

870
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:14,160
I feel like it's kind of a situation that, you know, kind of no disrespect to our roster

871
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,720
because we did lose a lot of guys to the NFL.

872
00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:18,520
But Wisconsin's a little better stocked.

873
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,920
And then he also brought in some transfers that are pretty well known.

874
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,920
So I'm definitely nervous about the Wisconsin game.

875
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:30,040
But I just want to remind everybody of how last year started and how kind of gloom and

876
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,320
doom it was.

877
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,520
But we lost to both of these teams that we're talking about today, Syracuse and Wisconsin,

878
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,720
and we ended up in the Big Ten Championship game.

879
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,960
So just keep everything in perspective.

880
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,760
Yeah, just chill the hell out.

881
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,320
When Wisconsin finished six and six last season, too.

882
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,360
I mean, it just because I remember feeling really good about our chances of beating Wisconsin

883
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,200
because they they looked vulnerable.

884
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,480
But I really feel like Purdue beat Purdue in that game.

885
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,000
It wasn't Wisconsin beating Purdue.

886
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,960
And I mean, no disrespect to Wisconsin when I say that it just we made a bunch of sloppy

887
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,360
mistakes that we wouldn't normally make.

888
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,000
Yeah, yeah.

889
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000
You know, they lost.

890
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000
They got.

891
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Yeah, that's right.

892
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,000
They got just like blown out by Illinois.

893
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,560
Yeah, like I said, they had one red zone trip.

894
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,720
So it wasn't like they marched up and down the field on us and had their way with us.

895
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:21,640
Like we just didn't make the big plays when we needed to and made bad mistakes at bad

896
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:22,640
times.

897
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,640
So.

898
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:30,080
So while we were talking about the Wisconsin game, somebody did comment on our live post

899
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,720
here on Twitter and said this is from Alan Pogue.

900
00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,320
Alan says Purdue must beat Wisconsin in football.

901
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,280
The next game should be considered a must win in all caps.

902
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,600
He says it's equal to the I.U. game.

903
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:43,600
I agree.

904
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:44,960
I honestly agree.

905
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,080
Like the that's a lot of pressure to put on a first year coach.

906
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,600
Yeah, that's that's the one caveat I'd say is the first year coach.

907
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,160
It's a little tough to say must win.

908
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,480
But yeah, they're definitely I would almost rather beat them than I you right now for

909
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,480
sure.

910
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,480
Yeah.

911
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,580
And I definitely think from the players perspective to like that's a game you have to want.

912
00:42:02,580 --> 00:42:07,480
You know, I mean, like I'll never forget Ray Phil Davis, like hyping up the student section

913
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,040
before the 2016 Michigan State game, which I know says my favorite, like the best game

914
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,040
I've ever seen in Mackey.

915
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,000
But he was like, I've never been Michigan State.

916
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,440
You know, this is my last time playing them.

917
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,320
Like, let's do it tonight.

918
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:22,080
And like, the player should have that mentality.

919
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,280
Obviously, it takes a lot more than that to win.

920
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:28,000
But like I if I were a player, I would have that mentality.

921
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,640
I think that's what I'm what I'm meaning to say.

922
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,920
Not that I should not that the players should think anything about any specific game.

923
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,720
But if I were a player, I would have that mentality for sure.

924
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,360
Yeah, I mean, it's got to be a big game on the schedule.

925
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:44,720
I mean, having beat Wisconsin in 19 years, you know, they're always a thorn in our side.

926
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:48,080
I thought the first time we were going to beat him in a long time was what was that

927
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:49,080
a few years ago?

928
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:54,720
We went to like triple overtime with him at Ross said, Ron Delmore had the most beautiful

929
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:57,200
juke to them like the spin move.

930
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,000
He spun them out of their shoes.

931
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,720
Oh, my God.

932
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:04,000
I remember thinking I'm here like out loud saying, did I just what did it?

933
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,000
What was that?

934
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,000
What did I just see?

935
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,320
Like my eyes couldn't believe I was waiting for that day.

936
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,680
I was waiting for it.

937
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:15,680
And so I mean, again, like the one the one positive thing when I look at Wisconsin's

938
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,440
schedule from last year, again, it's college sports.

939
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,000
There's a lot of variance here.

940
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:25,080
But you know, they scored they scored only 10 points against Illinois, whose defensive

941
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,680
coordinator was our head coach now.

942
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:33,720
So you know, I know he did a lot of like creative creative things in the last couple of seasons

943
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:36,280
at Illinois, like putting five guys on the line.

944
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,800
I don't know if we see something like that again, you know, again, against Wisconsin.

945
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:48,560
But one thing I know is that Wisconsin's got not going to know what to expect necessarily.

946
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:49,560
And neither do I.

947
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,200
Well, I mean, by that time, though, that's already four games into the season.

948
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,560
They might have a little bit of an idea by then.

949
00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:00,320
But I almost said earlier when we're talking about Syracuse, and we're talking about the

950
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:07,400
pieces that we lost defensively, that I think having a defensive minded head coach that

951
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:11,200
is obviously bringing in a lot of transfers and trying to just kind of stock us with depth

952
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,480
that might not be the big four or five star guys.

953
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:21,280
But having this scheme is almost more important on defense than kind of who's in the game,

954
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:22,280
if that makes sense.

955
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,680
Yeah, you know, if you could if you could put together scheme to put the guys in the

956
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,880
right spot to make the plays, you know, and you don't get guys in one on one situations,

957
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,640
it seems like we've always had in years past, like, show them with man coverage, show them

958
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,280
with trying to make the open field tackle.

959
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,640
But it seemed like it Illinois, which is not a football juggernaut, you know, sorry, not

960
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:40,920
trying to be offensive there.

961
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:47,360
But you know, he Yeah, for him to turn that into a top five national defense and put guys

962
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,600
what he put four guys in the draft this year, including like three guys in the first three

963
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:51,600
rounds.

964
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:55,440
Yeah, that says a lot about how you can scheme defenses and how you put guys in the right

965
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:56,440
spot.

966
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,120
So I feel pretty confident about our defense.

967
00:44:58,120 --> 00:44:59,560
The offense is the big question mark.

968
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,480
I think witherspin was a top five pick and he came out of high school, I don't think

969
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,120
with any stars or just like one or two.

970
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:13,600
So yeah, I mean, honestly, this year is just so like, I'm excited.

971
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,520
I was looking over the roster, I forgot about a couple of the guys that he's brought in

972
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:17,840
because he's we brought in so many.

973
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,240
I mean, we've got the four star quarterback.

974
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:22,760
That was an Ole Miss commit Braxton Myers.

975
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:29,480
We've got the I think he was the safety in Arkansas, maybe he's going to be here.

976
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,400
I don't remember the safety of some defensive position guy from Arkansas.

977
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,080
We've got Jeffrey M.

978
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,440
Bof from Auburn.

979
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:38,440
We've got

980
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,960
Mark Wilson, he's from Arkansas.

981
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,240
Marcus Wilson, he Marquis Wilson, he was from Penn State.

982
00:45:44,240 --> 00:45:47,800
So I don't know.

983
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:51,200
I mean, yeah, this whole season is just I don't know.

984
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:56,400
I just hope that every Purdue fan has some sense in their brain to not freak out and

985
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,920
jump ship and say, I knew we shouldn't have hired this young fella if we're not beating

986
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,280
Fresno State 45 to nothing by half.

987
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:04,280
That's gonna happen.

988
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,880
So where do you guys think we're at?

989
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,680
Since we're a third away in the season, we're four games in.

990
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,140
I don't I don't necessarily think it's easy to make point predictions on games because

991
00:46:13,140 --> 00:46:16,240
we don't know what you know, not to get all frank on you all, but we don't know what the

992
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:17,320
pace of play is going to be like.

993
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,520
We don't want the run pass mix is going to be like.

994
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,920
We don't necessarily know what the offense is going to look like.

995
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:23,440
And, you know, are we sustaining drives?

996
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:24,760
Are we going through and out a lot?

997
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,840
So it's kind of hard to judge that.

998
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,760
But as far as wins and losses go, you know, where do you think we're going to be looking

999
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,120
at four games in?

1000
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,960
And what would you be like happy with?

1001
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:34,960
Like what would you be like?

1002
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,560
OK, you know, I can I can see the future is going to be good.

1003
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,800
Where do you guys think after four games?

1004
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,760
I would be content.

1005
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,040
I would think at honestly at worst, I would think it's like two and two.

1006
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,960
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

1007
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,400
So I am going to.

1008
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,920
I'm going to play devil's advocate here.

1009
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:05,440
I'm predicting two and two and at two and two, I'm still feeling good about the season

1010
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,440
and what we have.

1011
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,440
I mean, for sure.

1012
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:09,440
Absolutely.

1013
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,520
It just like like Syracuse.

1014
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,960
Syracuse is probably a 50-50 game.

1015
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,280
We have no idea what to expect from Virginia Tech.

1016
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,760
We have no idea what we're going to get from Fresno State, as we talked about last week.

1017
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:21,760
And we have no idea.

1018
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,400
I mean, there's so many unknowns about our own team.

1019
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,360
You know, what's the road defensive scheme are we going to see?

1020
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,360
Who's going to start?

1021
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,040
I mean, like we have had so many guys come in, so many guys leave.

1022
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,040
Like who's going to be on this?

1023
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,760
I mean, we just see there's.

1024
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:36,240
I will say that something that makes me feel really good about the team, and this could

1025
00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:44,320
totally just be for show and just a really good thing to say in front of a camera.

1026
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,320
But you watch that.

1027
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,220
I don't know if you guys watch that video of like episode one of like becoming a Boilermaker

1028
00:47:49,220 --> 00:47:52,680
that they just posted recently for the football program.

1029
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:59,800
And it was guys like Marcus and Bo and other guys talking to Jenkins.

1030
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:00,800
Yeah.

1031
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:05,880
Talking to these new transfers about like, hey, what made you want to come to Purdue?

1032
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:10,040
And I remember I don't remember who was it was like the very last line in one of the

1033
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:11,040
interviews.

1034
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,320
It was like if everybody's playing their best, who's to say, you know, who's you know, I

1035
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:15,680
can't remember what it was exactly.

1036
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,760
Some about like, how can I lose if everybody's playing at their best or something like that?

1037
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:19,760
I was.

1038
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,880
Yeah, I was ready to run through a brick wall already.

1039
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,600
So it seems like the team at least and again, that could just be here.

1040
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:31,520
You know, words being said, you know, it could just be, you know, for the camera.

1041
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:36,000
But it seems like the team and the new guys coming in, seeing this team for the first

1042
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,920
time, are seeing a team that is ready to go out there and play and kick some ass.

1043
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,960
So the one thing that the one thing that stuck out to me in that video was we went to the

1044
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,400
Big Ten Championship last year.

1045
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,060
We didn't come away with a win.

1046
00:48:48,060 --> 00:48:51,120
Now we're ready to go back and come away with a win.

1047
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:52,280
You guys are still my thunder.

1048
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,320
That's where I was going with this, man.

1049
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,520
OK, well, Russ, what's your prediction?

1050
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,400
We didn't we didn't hear from you.

1051
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:03,000
So I mean, I'm with you with you guys as far as what you said so far that I think, you

1052
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:09,160
know, two and two, I'd you know, I'd be OK with, you know, I can see, you know, Syracuse

1053
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:13,600
and Wisconsin being being struggling games and possibly losses.

1054
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,480
And then if you're talking about those being losses, you know, I could see Virginia Tech

1055
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,880
being a tough game and then Fresno State's the first game of the new era.

1056
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,800
So, you know, I don't know what our record is with new coaches and and they're, you know,

1057
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:26,840
opening their careers their first season with Purdue, what their record is.

1058
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:31,520
You know, worst case scenario, I could see a one and three, but still feel kind of good

1059
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,520
about the pieces we have.

1060
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:39,760
But yeah, like you guys said, that video was very motivational.

1061
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:45,860
It was so Marcus Ambo was interviewing defensive lineman Jeffrey Emba.

1062
00:49:45,860 --> 00:49:48,800
So Emba and Emba, that wasn't confusing at all.

1063
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:53,020
Tyrone Tracy was talking to incoming receiver Jamal Edreen.

1064
00:49:53,020 --> 00:49:58,760
And then Cordae Sidor was talking to Marquise Wilson.

1065
00:49:58,760 --> 00:49:59,760
And yeah, they got to that part.

1066
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,460
My favorite part was not the coach Walt nickname that I know Dylan liked.

1067
00:50:03,460 --> 00:50:08,400
But when they asked him, they asked all three of them, you know, what are your expectations?

1068
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:13,280
And you guys brought up earlier how big of a game that Ohio State game was and getting

1069
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,880
guys like Sunisi Kane to go, hey, like I want to go to Purdue because they're on my map

1070
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:17,880
now.

1071
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:23,880
But we I think we're in our minds separating last year from this year and kind of rightfully

1072
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,920
so because it's a new head, you know, head coach, new era.

1073
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,760
But you know, it's still connected.

1074
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,240
A lot of the same guys are coming back and these guys that are incoming are looking at

1075
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:37,780
that and going, hey, you went to the Big Ten Championship game last year.

1076
00:50:37,780 --> 00:50:40,720
We're going to go again this year and win it.

1077
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:43,320
And then whatever happens after that is going to take care of itself.

1078
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:44,800
So yeah, these guys want to win it all.

1079
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:47,480
You guys are not coming in as a rebuild.

1080
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:51,440
They're not coming in because it's a new head coach going, hey, the first year's a throwaway.

1081
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,340
They're coming in want to win it all.

1082
00:50:53,340 --> 00:50:56,600
They want to go back to Indy and take home the trophy this time.

1083
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:01,600
So yeah, I predict for no, I really am very optimistic.

1084
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,800
I think Syracuse was a fluke last year.

1085
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,200
I think Wisconsin was just a couple of bad big plays.

1086
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:12,280
And I think having a defensive minded head coach that they can hopefully put a stop to

1087
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,260
those big plays.

1088
00:51:14,260 --> 00:51:19,160
And we have a decently line, I think depth wise, we got Machabi coming in with a full

1089
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,840
off season knowing he's the RB one.

1090
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,960
I am very motivated for these first four games.

1091
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,120
I think it could work out well.

1092
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,000
But again, like I said, we lost to Syracuse in Wisconsin last year and we still went to

1093
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,080
the Big Ten Championship game.

1094
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,480
So don't freak out after four games again this year.

1095
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:37,040
Don't do it because we started two and two last year, got to Indy.

1096
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:42,480
Well, I think those are all really good points for us.

1097
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:46,320
I think two and two is the low end.

1098
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:53,320
And I want to be optimistic and say, you know, say four and oh, but I'll say I admire your

1099
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:54,480
optimism.

1100
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:59,400
We did get Pipe, you know, who chimed in and said we should be thrilled with two and

1101
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:00,400
two.

1102
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:05,440
So, I mean, I welcome all opinions, definitely.

1103
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,480
And Nick Burris said, what's up, Frank?

1104
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,960
Frank's fan club is here.

1105
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:11,960
Yeah, frankly.

1106
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,440
How do you know I love the big brain?

1107
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:15,440
Looking good, Nick.

1108
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,600
Looking real good, man.

1109
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,160
The big brain fan club, the Brainiacs.

1110
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:20,160
Oh, there you go.

1111
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:21,160
There you go.

1112
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,160
Look at you.

1113
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:28,480
They could all like, like in so not to show my nerd side here, but like in wrestling,

1114
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,080
like usually when a wrestler is kind of getting over whatever the fans in the crowd will have

1115
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:36,920
like a sign that'll be something that they say or something they're known for, whatever,

1116
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,760
except for this time, instead of it being a piece of paper, it'll just be people holding

1117
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,800
up like a picture of a brain and it'll just say like Brainiacs.

1118
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,720
If we ever do like a game day setup, there'd be a lot of those.

1119
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:47,720
I didn't know.

1120
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:51,760
I didn't know there was an association with nerds and wrestling.

1121
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,680
That's like, that's not the type of people who I associate with wrestling.

1122
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:55,680
Typically.

1123
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,840
I mess with wrestling.

1124
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,960
Little stone cold, Steve Austin.

1125
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:00,960
It's more of that flavor.

1126
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:01,960
Yeah.

1127
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,880
What Nick Nick Burris coming in with, with some, with some hot takes.

1128
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:06,880
Yeah.

1129
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,560
Nine games would be, I mean, I

1130
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:16,960
And Nick, Nick, I agree that that the beginning of the season is really the like really where

1131
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,280
it matters most.

1132
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,400
Like we don't, we don't have any easy games.

1133
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,160
I mean, we, we go right into Fresno state, which

1134
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:25,160
Northwestern might be easy.

1135
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:26,160
That is so loud.

1136
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:27,160
Holy crap.

1137
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:28,160
Yeah.

1138
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:29,160
I forgot about that one.

1139
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:30,160
Yeah.

1140
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:31,160
And I mean, home against Indiana.

1141
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:32,160
Come on now like this.

1142
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:33,160
Oh yeah.

1143
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:34,160
That's a win.

1144
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:35,160
That's going to be a win.

1145
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:40,160
That's going to come back and fight me in the ass.

1146
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:41,160
All right.

1147
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,280
I guess what I'm saying is that there are no like ramp up games.

1148
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,280
You know, you usually have like, like last year when we have Indiana state, right?

1149
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:52,600
So we don't, we don't have anything like that to like practice run.

1150
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:53,880
It was so hot there, dude.

1151
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,120
I was, you were at that game, right?

1152
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:56,120
Dylan.

1153
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:57,920
No, actually that was the one game I missed last year.

1154
00:53:57,920 --> 00:53:58,920
Dude.

1155
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:00,560
It was so hot that day.

1156
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:05,080
We took, I remember my, so my wife.

1157
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,160
When she was in high school, long story short, she became really good friends with one of

1158
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,600
the German foreign exchange students that her family hosted.

1159
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:15,400
And so she ended up coming back to visit last summer and we took her to a Purdue game.

1160
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,240
And what did she say?

1161
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:20,240
She was talking about how like hot it was.

1162
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:25,360
And it was so funny to like, she was so excited to watch Purdue play Indiana state and just

1163
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,680
beat the living crap out of them, which is like funny.

1164
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,840
Cause a lot of us, we probably were watching the game.

1165
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,760
We're like, you know, third quarter, halftime, we're like bored just because it's, you know,

1166
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:34,760
at that point.

1167
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,240
What could you be when shout was up?

1168
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:39,560
You know, when shot was going on, she loved shout too.

1169
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,480
I shouldn't say that out loud, but she did.

1170
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:42,480
She loved it.

1171
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,480
She was like, no, this is so fun.

1172
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:46,480
Yeah.

1173
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,160
That's exactly what she's like.

1174
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:51,160
This is a lot of it.

1175
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,600
And the crowd, they pretty much left.

1176
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:54,880
Everyone was like, all right, this game's over.

1177
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:55,880
Let's go drink.

1178
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:56,880
She is still loving shot.

1179
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:57,880
I love it.

1180
00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:58,880
Yeah.

1181
00:54:58,880 --> 00:54:59,880
Yeah.

1182
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:04,680
But enthusiasm was speaking of too, just we're talking about like, you know, this,

1183
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:09,800
the songs and things that stadiums are known for the followup on last episode, we're talking

1184
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:14,440
about Virginia tech and whether enter Sandman is going to be crazy or not.

1185
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,240
Look up their games last year.

1186
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:19,280
Like, cause most of the Virginia tech games, you can look up and go, Hey, Virginia tech,

1187
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,100
Boston college, 2022 enter Sandman.

1188
00:55:22,100 --> 00:55:25,820
And they had some noon games last year, especially late in the season where they were like two

1189
00:55:25,820 --> 00:55:30,080
and four, two and five and enter Sandman was still jumping.

1190
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,520
So I think it's going to be a great atmosphere.

1191
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:32,520
Still.

1192
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,800
It's going to be a lot of fun.

1193
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,920
It's going to be a ton of fun.

1194
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,480
I think this whole year is going to, going to be fun.

1195
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:46,200
I think that this is for anybody that's made a comparison to coach Walters and like Darryl

1196
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:47,200
Darryl Hazel.

1197
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:48,200
Cause I know that was a big thing.

1198
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,120
Like right when he was first hired, I think that's a, a total joke.

1199
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:56,400
I think that coach Walters is a totally different person than coach Hazel.

1200
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,560
Not because of the fact that he is, but just their philosophies, their styles are so different.

1201
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:07,120
I mean, remember when we talked to Markel Jones, when we talked to Markel Jones on the

1202
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:12,720
podcast last year, he talked about how, I don't know what other word to use besides

1203
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:16,040
boring coach Hazel was like no music in the locker rooms.

1204
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:17,520
No like chit chat.

1205
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:21,240
Just like very, like very serious, very get like locked in or whatever.

1206
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:26,320
He didn't want to go to music or any friend Chuck who brought the other was Chuck.

1207
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:27,320
Yeah.

1208
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:28,320
Yeah.

1209
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:29,320
What's that?

1210
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,800
Was he going relentless?

1211
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,200
Chuck who was talking about that be Hazel's was one brick higher.

1212
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,280
I could have sworn Markel talked about how like boring Hazel was.

1213
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:38,760
They probably both said it.

1214
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:39,760
Right.

1215
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:40,760
How boring the guy was.

1216
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,840
Chuck, our Chuck friend of the podcast talked about the, like kind of the dichotomy between

1217
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,680
Hazel and Hope and that, you know, Hazel was like, you know, music playing in the locker

1218
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,760
room, kind of, or I'm sorry, Hope was the music playing in the locker room guy, you

1219
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,560
know, would grab your helmet, yell in your face, get you hyped up.

1220
00:56:55,560 --> 00:57:01,200
And you know, Hazel comes in and it's like, no, yeah, he had a very business like approach.

1221
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,920
No music in the locker room, which call how, I mean, they really respond well to that.

1222
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:12,360
You know how I think one of coach bombs, most iconic, like pregame speech videos, probably

1223
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,840
the one where he threw the chair right before Michigan in like 2018 or something.

1224
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,040
They hammered down, they hammered down again.

1225
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,040
Yeah.

1226
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:21,040
Yeah.

1227
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,420
You probably could see, I hope coach Walters starts tradition of like, you know, Bill's

1228
00:57:24,420 --> 00:57:28,200
mafia style, where he just like jumps off of a chair on to like breaks a table before

1229
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:29,200
every game.

1230
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:30,200
Like a good blitz here.

1231
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,400
Did you not see his foot was already in like an air cast or something like that?

1232
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:37,440
Like he's already, he's already the table jumping to us.

1233
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:38,440
We will do that.

1234
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,800
Like get blitz asked if we have a tailgate location.

1235
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:41,800
Yeah.

1236
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,400
I'm in H lot.

1237
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,800
So I mean, meet us there.

1238
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:46,800
I don't know.

1239
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:47,800
Yeah.

1240
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:48,800
But you won't be in H lot.

1241
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:49,800
You'll be by the rowdy statue.

1242
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:50,800
You'll be fine.

1243
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:51,800
Yeah.

1244
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:52,800
Yeah.

1245
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:57,600
We need to get Dylan like a big magnifying glass and response to that officially get

1246
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:03,680
blitz is no Dylan's Dylan's at all the games, but definitely stay tuned here and we'll be,

1247
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:05,200
we'll be updating as those things.

1248
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:08,800
I'll hang out with these progress and yeah, Dylan will hang out with anybody.

1249
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,200
I just be you and me, you and me get blitz, but we'll do it.

1250
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaking of getting blitz, make sure to get your sense of blitz board.

1251
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:18,080
They're high quality, high quality blitz boards.

1252
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:23,520
You can DM them on Twitter, extremely responsive, extremely, extremely cool dudes.

1253
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,520
Well, they make her own.

1254
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:26,520
Yeah.

1255
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:27,520
Got to get your sense.

1256
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:28,520
He blitz board.

1257
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:29,520
They live close to me.

1258
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,040
So they're going to deliver mine.

1259
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,560
So the, the blitz board that I posted on Twitter, I thought it was the finished product.

1260
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:36,280
I was like, Oh my God, this is amazing.

1261
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:37,480
Apparently it wasn't.

1262
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:42,480
And they've got, they, they added a rail railroad tracks to gold railroad tracks.

1263
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:44,560
It looks amazing.

1264
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:49,880
So once we get another picture of that, or if I find that picture, I'll post it again,

1265
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,640
cause it looks awesome.

1266
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,900
It's like what everybody dreams Ross aid stadium would look like 24 seven.

1267
00:58:54,900 --> 00:59:00,280
Like when they put the train, the train tracks around the perimeter of the field, like that's

1268
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:01,520
that board looks amazing.

1269
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:02,520
It's so good.

1270
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:03,520
I'm so excited to get it.

1271
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:04,520
Get ready tomorrow.

1272
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:05,520
They're doing, yeah.

1273
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,040
Hopefully you're get your dice ready.

1274
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:09,040
Yeah.

1275
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,040
Yeah.

1276
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:11,040
I just, awesome.

1277
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,480
Well, I just noticed that was from blitz board.

1278
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,560
I'm such an idiot.

1279
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:20,000
I just realized that that's awesome.

1280
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:24,520
Actually because I use the name to segue into like, I still didn't get it.

1281
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,440
I still didn't realize that's who that was.

1282
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:29,440
Hashtag always blitzed.

1283
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,760
Dylan's always, I worked in the heat all day.

1284
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:32,760
All right.

1285
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:33,760
Leave me alone.

1286
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:37,440
I filled up propane tanks and I delivered them all day.

1287
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,000
Y'all we talked about this in our group thread.

1288
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:45,040
Actually I think Dylan just pushes his old insecurities onto me because he, I may be

1289
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,360
older but he's the one that acts way older.

1290
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,960
I spent too much time with Russ.

1291
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:49,960
That's what that is.

1292
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:50,960
Starting to get senile.

1293
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:55,040
Dylan's like, Hey, don't you guys think it's funny when you like forget stuff all the time

1294
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:56,040
and none of us say anything.

1295
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,040
And he's like, Hey, yeah, Russ.

1296
00:59:58,040 --> 00:59:59,800
That time I forgot.

1297
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,320
I forgot to even turn on my microphone for an entire podcast.

1298
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,240
That is true.

1299
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:06,560
He follows up like five times.

1300
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,200
I'll whether we have a certain guest on the show or not, even though he's already been

1301
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:10,200
on the show.

1302
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,360
And then I asked like, Hey, what's the topics for tomorrow?

1303
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:13,360
No day.

1304
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:18,040
I want to, I'm not going to prepare or like, or like tonight, like 20 minutes for the podcast.

1305
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:19,480
Hey, we're still going live tonight.

1306
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,920
Cause I just realized what time it was and I was like, Oh shoot.

1307
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,120
It's Tuesday or even yesterday.

1308
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:26,920
I messaged, I messaged group channels.

1309
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:27,920
I thought it was Tuesday.

1310
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:29,560
I thought we were doing a podcast tonight.

1311
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:30,560
It was Monday night.

1312
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,680
Yeah, maybe I mean, I retry, I apologize.

1313
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,000
And I retract that real joke I've made against Russ.

1314
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,000
No, you don't know.

1315
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,440
I'm not going to stop, but I was there.

1316
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,440
It is there.

1317
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:41,440
They're not.

1318
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:45,360
We found the reason, but anyway, guys, we'll go ahead and wrap it up here.

1319
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,600
Uh, cause we have hit that hour mark.

1320
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,120
So I just want to say a huge shout out to everybody that stayed tuned in.

1321
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:52,680
Listen, we really appreciate it.

1322
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,920
Um, big shout outs again to our partners at a big banter.

1323
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:01,480
Check them out for all your big 10 needs for every team, uh, this upcoming fall and into,

1324
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:05,080
uh, you know, other sports as well, basketball and everything else.

1325
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,120
Is that as time, uh, is that comes up?

1326
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:12,520
Um, so big shout out to big banner is also, and also a big shout out to since the blitz

1327
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,000
boards, uh, you can find them at blitz boards on Twitter.

1328
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:16,000
Uh, get yours today.

1329
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:17,000
Have a lot of fun.

1330
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,000
It's a great tailgate game.

1331
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,920
It's a great party game, um, that all your friends and family will love.

1332
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,960
And you can get any school.

1333
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,680
I don't know why you'd get any school other than pretty, but you can get any school, um,

1334
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:31,000
put on a blitz board, uh, and they do a fantastic job with it as well.

1335
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:36,080
So big shout out to our sponsors at blitz board and, um, thank you all for tuning in.

1336
01:01:36,080 --> 01:02:02,280
We'll see you next week and a boiler up hammer down.