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Speaker 2: I win Google my sentence.

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Speaker 3: We won the national championship at Indiana University.

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Speaker 4: It can be done.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy for our fans. I can't words, can't

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Speaker 5: Touchsund On what.

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Speaker 6: Oh, that's duets picked up, TuS f Jones, tous up.

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Speaker 1: By and those are ready to take the staff. And

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Speaker 1: when he runs it, he.

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Speaker 2: Runs it and he ties for the end zone?

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Speaker 4: Does he get it out?

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Speaker 1: Touch Brittany, No, that does. Fernando looks gonna.

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Speaker 7: Throw it down the field for Charlie Becker and does

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Speaker 7: he make the catch? He made the catch Charlie Becker Again,

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Speaker 7: this guy is phenomenal. Beck looks, throws it down the

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Speaker 2: By Indiana one on a puy and it is Jabari

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Speaker 2: The richest story for Indiana football. Comes the conclusion and

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Speaker 2: they are the national champions of two thousand and twenty six.

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Speaker 8: Lot of football team.

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Speaker 1: Did I ever think something like this was possible?

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Speaker 9: Propably not.

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Speaker 10: But if you keep your nose down life and keep working,

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Speaker 2: Posts them obsponsible my life sins in the great group

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Speaker 2: of guys.

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Speaker 1: I love you guys.

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Speaker 11: Great dollard go one three one two three, whoo whoo who.

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Speaker 1: The Indiana Hoosier are the twenty twenty five season and

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Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty six national champions in college football.

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Speaker 1: The Indiana Hoosiers are the national champions in college football.

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Speaker 1: And I will admit I grew up the biggest Indiana

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Speaker 1: And I got to thinking about all of it last night.

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Speaker 1: And I'll start simply by saying this. For years, when

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Speaker 1: And yet what do we love about being Hoosiers? What

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Speaker 1: I think it just wasn't in vogue to give credit

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Speaker 1: eight picked Miami. And yes, isn't that fitting? Is it's

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Speaker 1: fitting because when you live in Indiana, you just understand

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Speaker 1: that people are always going to kind of roll their eyes.

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Speaker 1: Keith joins us next at two nine ten seventy. Hi, Keith, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing?

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Speaker 8: Jake?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, good, I'm tired. Keith Truth, I'm a little tired.

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00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep well last night. How about you.

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Speaker 13: I went to bed at twelve thirty fellas I got

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Speaker 13: back up to watch more of the post games. Okay,

442
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 13: I went to bed at two o'clock and I got

443
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 13: up at six. Anyway, first off, that game was for

444
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 13: my dad two thousand and nine. He passed away. He

445
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 13: was a huge IU fan. I actually went to Purdue.

446
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 13: I'm a Purdue guy. I was smart enough to get

447
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 13: married in college. My wife was older, moved down to Dinnapolis,

448
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 13: got an IU degree, which has been a fantastic degree.

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Speaker 13: But I am a Purdue guy.

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Speaker 14: But I've always said who's.

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Speaker 13: Your by birth? Boiler Maker, by the grace of God,

452
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Speaker 13: And last night I even texted I'm changing that who's

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Speaker 13: your by birth who by the grace of God, I was.

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Speaker 13: I was so excited. And this is for the state

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Speaker 13: of Indiana's to me. It's not just about you, which

456
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 13: obviously they deserve everything. This is Indiana. And I just

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Speaker 13: I just was sitting there that I was I've been

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00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 13: so used to watching Colts stand that last drive. I

459
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Speaker 13: thought I was going to score because I'm so used

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Speaker 13: to watching the stupid Colts blow at every single fourth quarter, right,

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Speaker 13: And I was nervous as hell. I'm like, wait, this

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Speaker 13: isn't The cults are red. But I am I am

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Speaker 13: a I am a crowd hoosier. And again I am

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Speaker 13: I am I am always.

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Speaker 1: A Purdue guy.

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Speaker 13: But I tell you what, I am so damn proud

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Speaker 13: of you.

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Speaker 1: Who's your name, Keith? What is your dad's name? My

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Speaker 1: dad is ed last name. You don't have to give

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Speaker 1: it if you don't one.

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Speaker 13: No, Ed Terrell, I'm sorry with the c R T

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Speaker 13: teas and Tom ed Arreley died December seventh, two thousand

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Speaker 13: and nine.

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Speaker 1: Ed Terarrell, And you said he was an EU football fan.

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Speaker 13: Oh, especially Bobby Knight. I mean, Bobby Knight was his man.

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Speaker 15: But I I you threw it through, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, so Ed ed Arrell, ed taror We're all for you, baby,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're doing today. We're dedicating it to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Ed Tarrell's one of them. Jake is up next, two

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Speaker 1: nine seventy, Jake, what's going on?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

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Speaker 16: Hey, Jake, Hey, As a man of great analogies as

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Speaker 16: such as you are, I have one for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 16: So the pinnacle last night was reach.

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Speaker 8: It was the moon landing.

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00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 16: We discovered flight sixty years later.

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Speaker 8: We went to the moon.

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Speaker 16: We went from play thirteen in two thousand and seven

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Speaker 16: to landing on the national championship the moon surface. That

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00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 16: to me is talk about the greatest turnaround in sports.

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Speaker 16: You're looking at something that is so unprecedented. And for

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Speaker 16: me talking to my then girlfriend and wife beating the

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Speaker 16: top ten ranked IOWA in two thousand and six, saying

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Speaker 16: this is the biggest win they've ever had. This is amazing,

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Speaker 16: just hoping to be on the field to literally watching

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Speaker 16: a national title last night and the surreal that's real?

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Speaker 16: That whoever said that, that man that said that earlier?

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Speaker 1: Wow, And yeah, I mean listen validation. I mean, Jake,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. Brian Jacobson is the guy's name. So

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Speaker 1: I guess he's got He's also got a Jake in

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Speaker 1: his name, so that makes him cool with you and I. Right, so,

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Speaker 1: Brian Jacobson is the one that said it. It's to

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Speaker 1: me that is the perfect encapsulation. It's surreal. And then

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Speaker 1: he paused and said, but it's real. It's like it

506
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: hit him right then, right, it hit him in that

507
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: moment right there, as it did for all of us,

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Speaker 1: right as it did for all of us, like you said, Jake,

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Speaker 1: and I love it. I mean, yeah, there was a

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Speaker 1: time where beating a top ten team was the pinnacle

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Speaker 1: and they just they absolutely worked their way through all

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 14: Jim, Lee Corso, I'm dedicating it to Lee Corso.

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Speaker 8: I like it. I grew up.

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Speaker 14: I grew up watching him and his show on the

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Speaker 14: old Channel four, and uh, he was a lot of

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00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,239
Speaker 14: fun and you could tell that he actually believed his

518
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 14: own you know. I guess you could call his stick.

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Speaker 14: I don't know, but I thought he was a good coach.

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Speaker 14: She was just sad to see him going to Ohio

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Speaker 14: State Michigan. But this is different and I like it.

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Speaker 1: I like it a lot, Lee Corso. Jim, who, by

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Speaker 1: the way, was fired while speaking to the IYO alumni

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Speaker 1: group in Fort Wayne, and was in the middle of

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00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: up there speaking and they came up there, like, by

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Speaker 1: the way, coach, and he basically had to say to

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Speaker 1: the alumni group right there, like, oh okay, well it

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Speaker 1: appears as though I'm fired and Lee Corso yes brought

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Speaker 1: color and personality to Indiana football at a time when

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Speaker 1: it desperately needed both. Mike on the air, what's up, Mike, Mike,

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Speaker 1: you there, it's actually macho match YMCA. Macho Mike, buddy.

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Speaker 1: Were you thinking about Teresa last night watching that game?

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Speaker 17: Yeah?

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Speaker 18: Angels say.

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Speaker 1: So Mike. Listen, you are who's your through and through? Mike.

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Speaker 1: Could you believe what you were witnessing last night?

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Speaker 19: No?

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Speaker 20: That was then.

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Speaker 18: That was really really something really happy about, really happy

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Speaker 18: about and everything.

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Speaker 1: Mike. When I think you know what, Macho Mike, this

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Speaker 1: is Macho Mike Sullivan, by the way, the pride of

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Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Indians and the YMCA, Macho Mike. And when

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Speaker 1: I think about and I mean this sincerely, Mike. I've

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Speaker 1: said this before. What I love about Macho Mike is this.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid at North Central Adam Alexander

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Speaker 1: and I did basketball together, and mac Englan and I

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00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: did football together. But Adam and I did basketball at

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Speaker 1: Nickelfield House for the North Central radio broadcast on w

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Speaker 1: j e L, and all I wanted was to be

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Speaker 1: someday a radio, you know, broadcaster, save with Adam and

552
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: we would go to those games at Hinkle and call

553
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: the games on the high school station, and we stuck

554
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: around to call the regionals and the semi state all

555
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: the way through, and Macho Mike and his wife Teresa worked.

556
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: They ran the box scores along to the press the

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Speaker 1: media that was there, and Adam and I would sit

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Speaker 1: there and when they would hand out the stats and

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Speaker 1: the box scores and Michael, hope you're still listening here,

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Speaker 1: they would hand them to all the newspaper and television

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Speaker 1: people that were there, and they always came down and

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Speaker 1: made it a point to also hand the box scores

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Speaker 1: to Adam and I. And they never once mentioned that

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Speaker 1: they were doing it, probably just because they wanted to

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Speaker 1: help out the young high school kids. They did it

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Speaker 1: in such a way that made me feel like I belonged.

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Speaker 1: They made Adam and I and Adam and I both

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Speaker 1: commented on it. We felt like we belonged, We felt

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Speaker 1: like broadcasters. We were student broadcasters, but we felt official.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I mean. And I've always appreciated that,

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Speaker 1: and I've never forgotten it that Macho Mike was one

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Speaker 1: of those when I was a young buck that needed it,

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Speaker 1: that was in my corner to make me feel official.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I mean when I say that's how

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Speaker 1: Indiana people are. That's what it is to be a Hoosier.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean a Hoosier in the sense of

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Speaker 1: attached to Indiana University. I mean a Hoosier meaning native

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Speaker 1: to Indiana or part of the culture here. And that's

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Speaker 1: why last night, when they want it, I thought, this

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00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: is for all of the state of Indiana, because that

581
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: win was about teamwork and that win was about togetherness

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Speaker 1: and that's what Indiana is. Well, continue to celebrate it.

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Speaker 1: Two thir nine, ten seventy including the text number as well.

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Speaker 1: You can also text me at three one seven five

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Speaker 1: to two three ninety two eighty eight three one seven

586
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: five to two three ninety two eighty eight what this

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00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: means for Indiana moving forward as well. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: that next query.

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Speaker 11: In company on ninety three five and one oh seven five.

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Speaker 1: The fan Nathaniel laughs when he hears this song, which

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Speaker 1: I understand because it's incredibly cheesy and it sounds very dated.

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Speaker 1: But this was kind of the theme song of the

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Speaker 1: Indiana nineteen eighty seven national championship run in basketball. And

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Speaker 1: the reason I played it is because and Keith Smart

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Speaker 1: sent a post showing his ring and he basically said, like,

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Speaker 1: it feels great to be a champion, and that's a

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Speaker 1: reminder of how long it's been. It is surreal to

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Speaker 1: me to think that in forty seven years, Indiana won

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: five national championships in college basketball and we've been waiting

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Speaker 1: in this year thirty nine since the last one. It's

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Speaker 1: been that long, and no one thought that the next

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Speaker 1: one was going to be courtesy of the football program.

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Speaker 1: And I know soccers want it. There have been other teams.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I can. This is probably

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00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: like again some sort of rule. I'm not getting anything

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Speaker 1: free out of it, so it's not a pale to plugola.

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Speaker 1: But I did notice that I happened to have and

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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure where in the where I got

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00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: it in the stacks, but I've got a who's your

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00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: game Day logger hat, and I noticed that Kurt Signetti

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Speaker 1: had said that he was going to have not one,

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Speaker 1: but two. Who's your loggers? He said, who's your beer?

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Speaker 1: I think he referenced it, and I thought, well, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm his style. Us is Kurt Signetti little? Who's your game? Day?

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00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: Louder baby celebrations on? And you have no idea what

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Speaker 1: it meant to me to have all of you out

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00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 1: there message me, tweet me. My phone blew up. When

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00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: Reese Davis said it, I don't think we have that

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Speaker 1: audio yet, do we, Nathaniel? Not yet? When Reyese Davis

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Speaker 1: brought Kurt Signetti up on the stage and said, why

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Speaker 1: not Indiana? Why not Indiana? Don't buy that merchandise from impostors.

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Speaker 1: There is trademark legality involved. Sam joins us, Sam, what's up? Hey?

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Speaker 8: Jake? Hey, what's going on? Sam?

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Speaker 20: Rogan and Greenwood?

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Speaker 8: How you been?

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Speaker 1: Sam? I'm well, man yourself, I'm great.

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Speaker 8: Hey.

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Speaker 10: I just want to dedicate this one to Terry Hutchins.

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Speaker 15: You know I got my.

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Speaker 10: Master's in sports journalism at IU.

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Speaker 8: He was a.

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Speaker 10: Professor in sports writing for me and a mentor, and

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Speaker 10: I remember in his class he got the whole class

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Speaker 10: credential to cover an IU game back and I want

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Speaker 10: to say twenty ten and it was, you know, not

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Speaker 10: very many people there, not very exciting. But Jake, you know,

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00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 10: Terry covered the Hoosiers for Andy Starr for years.

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00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 8: He also did statistics for.

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Speaker 10: You know, Don Fisher in the booth watched years and

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00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 10: years are just horrible.

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00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: I you football and had to cover that.

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Speaker 21: And he passed away probably five years ago.

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Speaker 1: But I love the man dearly and I know that.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, he's looking dow from having just decide himself with

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Speaker 10: these Hoooters, but Sam dedicated to him.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you real quick, Sam, because I and

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Speaker 1: I apologize for asking this. I'm embarrassed to ask this

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Speaker 1: because you went back to school recently. Correct. Yeah, well I've.

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Speaker 10: Got a crazy Yeah I got that, and then I

650
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 10: got my NBA at Butler. I guess I wasn't much

651
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 10: of a sports writer because now I own a heating

652
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 10: and cooin company.

653
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 8: Well, I learned a lot of lessons there.

654
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Speaker 1: But here's my point. If I and you correct me

655
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong here, and I don't want to get

656
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, you had to reinvent yourself

657
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: a little bit and and kind of pick the pieces

658
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: up after you know, a couple of periods where life

659
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: it wouldn't go on the way you wanted. Is that correct?

660
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Speaker 8: For sure? For sure?

661
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Speaker 19: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: I made a lot of bad decisions in life and

663
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Speaker 10: I recovered from them.

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Speaker 1: Well, and here's the thing, Sam, and I didn't mean

665
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: that to to bring that up, right, except for this,

666
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: Like like so many people that listened to this station,

667
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: that I've gotten the pleasure to know in my journeys

668
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: in doing this, and Sam, you're one of them. You know,

669
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: we we actually cross paths originally because I was a

670
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: jackass to you and and then we became buddies. But

671
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: I think that you're the reason why last night was

672
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: so special is because Sam's story is one that, just

673
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: like you said, made some bad decisions life wouldn't go

674
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Speaker 1: in the right way, and just woke up one day

675
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: and said, I got to turn this thing around. And

676
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: now is you know, on the straight and narrow, killing it,

677
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, making the most out of life and happy

678
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: as as can be and riding his bike in the

679
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: whole deal, right, And that's what last night was about.

680
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: It was about seeing the fact that, like Kurt Signetti said,

681
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: if you believe it can happen. And like I said,

682
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: impossible is an apostrophe away from I'm possible, and it's

683
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: possible to turn it around, and it's possible to become

684
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: a champion, and it's possible to win. And Sam, you

685
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: probably had that within you from the get go. But

686
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: my point being, for each and every one of us,

687
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: there are ways that that win last night represented our

688
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: own personal journey. And Sam, I think you absolutely typify

689
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: what exactly that was of turning around now at the

690
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: top of the mountain, at a point where maybe you

691
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 1: didn't think that was possible. So I hope you enjoyed

692
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: it last night.

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Speaker 22: Appreciate the kind words.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Sam. On the program at two through nineteen

695
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: and seventy, Casey is up next, Casey? What's up? Casey?

696
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: It's your turn the bat.

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Speaker 23: You know what I like it.

698
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: I bet nobody's ever said that to you before.

699
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Speaker 23: Have they unpopped the first time? It's it's probably an

700
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 23: unpopular view to understand the seven out of eight so

701
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 23: called experts that are picking against Indiana. But as a fan,

702
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 23: my whole life two degrees from IU, great buddies, great friends,

703
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 23: and family all gone there. Then hooteris forever didn't do

704
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 23: the we're notre Dame football fans and IU basketball, we

705
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,919
Speaker 23: didn't do that, just straight up by you whole time through.

706
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 23: I can understand, you know, even with a century and

707
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 23: a half of failure, to still have that disbelief because

708
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 23: I was pretty star nervous in that game, watching it

709
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 23: doing nothing so on the couch of a dog or

710
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 23: listening to it went to don fusher out and right

711
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 23: up till that interception, I was nervous as could be

712
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 23: right there at the end of the game.

713
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Speaker 1: See, I thought, here's the thing, Casey, what's interesting to me?

714
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: And I did have a little bit of nerve about me, right,

715
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Speaker 1: And I don't usually get that way with sports, you know,

716
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 1: I'm a little antiseptic towards sports. But the one thing

717
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: that last night, for whatever reason, I just really did

718
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: not think that Carson Beck and Miami were going to

719
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: deliver because no knock on him at all or Miami.

720
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: I thought Miami was outstanding. I thought their defensive front

721
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: four was as nasty as we thought it was going

722
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: to be. You know, I mean, listen two Live Crew,

723
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: who is the face of Miami to a great extent.

724
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: Their album was called nasty as we want to be.

725
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: That defense was as nasty as they wanted to be.

726
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: It was, But Indiana has won all year long because

727
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 1: they wait till you make a mistake, and they don't

728
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: make any of them. They had the block punt, they

729
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: scored on that, and then in the end when they

730
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: needed it, they forced Miami into a mistake. And that's

731
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Speaker 1: the Indiana recipe. Eric, Hi, Eric in you hey, uh?

732
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Speaker 24: I mean, I'm I'm an ipuy alum. I know I

733
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 24: didn't go to Bloomington, but you know, waking up today

734
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 24: just being the Indiana lum, just a little bit more

735
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 24: pride in you. And you know, six months ago, I

736
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 24: thought I was gonna wake up and I was gonna

737
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 24: feel the same, and the Pacers had done it, and

738
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Speaker 24: I'm just happy that, you know, finally a team from

739
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 24: Indiana was able to get over the line, bring a

740
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 24: title back here, and you know, bring some pride back

741
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Speaker 24: to the state that you know, we all love sports

742
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 24: so much. And I was out in Arizona when Purdue

743
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 24: played Yukon. I wanted them to win so bad and

744
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 24: they were so close and their name last year. So

745
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Speaker 24: it's a great day to be a from Indiana and

746
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 24: in Indiana fan man.

747
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Speaker 1: So, Eric, will you be rooting for Purdue when they're

748
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: in the final four here? Then safe to say? Right?

749
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Speaker 25: Oh?

750
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Speaker 8: Absolutely?

751
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Speaker 24: I mean I mean I don't like Purdue, don't get

752
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 24: me wrong, but you know, I just I'm at the

753
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 24: point now like I want these Indiana teams to do

754
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 24: well and you know, bring pride back to the state.

755
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: And let's face it, I mean, I mean I was

756
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: awesome man and produce you know, three of produced cornerstone

757
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: players or Indiana guys, right, you know so, And I'm

758
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: not saying Indiana football didn't have that, but like I

759
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 1: said earlier, you know, I explained that. I mean, there

760
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: was there was a small part of me in resentment

761
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: that was like, man, you know, I wish these guys

762
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: would have been like homegrown Indiana. And then I'm like,

763
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: come on, man, it's twenty twenty five. AJ, what's Jake?

764
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Speaker 25: Thanks for taking my call. Of course, I got two

765
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 25: people that I wish were here. I just wanted to

766
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 25: mention real quickly. One is, my father moved us to

767
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 25: Indiana in nineteen eighty two and we became IU fans

768
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 25: through and through and after he retired in his late seventies,

769
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 25: he started driving the golf cart at Memorial Stadium up

770
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 25: the ramps, taking people up to their seat. It's the elderly,

771
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 25: et cetera. Wish he was here. And the other person

772
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,919
Speaker 25: I wish was here was my best friend's dad, who

773
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 25: without him, the tailgates back in the late eighties when

774
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 25: I was at IU wouldn't have been as awesome as

775
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 25: they were with their motor home and cooler's full of

776
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 25: beer and big pots of chili, great memories and two

777
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 25: men who should be here to enjoy this moment.

778
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Speaker 1: Their names Bob Johnson is.

779
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 25: My dad and Earl Metzker is my buddy's dad. Earl

780
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 25: Mensker was from Jasper and my dad was from Beckley,

781
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 25: West Virginia.

782
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: There we go, all right, So we got Earl Metzger

783
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: Bob Johnson. Like I said, Indiana, we're all for you,

784
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: and we're all for them. We come back. What this

785
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: means moving forward for Indiana, We'll get into that next.

786
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: Eddie Garrison putting it together, reflecting on last night, Indiana

787
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: the national champions of college football. And I'm going to

788
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: repeat what I said off the top of the show,

789
00:46:54,960 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: maybe in a more succinct fashion, and we will bring

790
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: those of you on as well. But I'm going to

791
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: be honest I mentioned earlier, and I mentioned it many

792
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: many times on this program. I grew up a massive

793
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: Indiana fan. I had an almost unhealthy obsession over being

794
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: from Indiana. I loved everything about it. I felt like

795
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: everywhere I went I needed to represent Indiana. I don't

796
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: know why I was that way. I just was. I

797
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: had a lot of pride about where I was from,

798
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: maybe even so much so that as a young person,

799
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: I was almost naive to the fact that I wasn't

800
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: supposed to feel that way. I didn't know because I

801
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 1: hadn't been a lot of places as a young kid.

802
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know that people from California thought Indiana was

803
00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: sleepy or geographically starved. I didn't know that some people

804
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: from New York thought it was a place that you

805
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: fly over to get to Los Angeles. I didn't know

806
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: that people from Chicago thought of it as their little brother.

807
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,760
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of those things. I just knew

808
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: that when I was a kid, I had a sweatshirt

809
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: that said Indiana, and that's where I was from. And

810
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: then I learned that there was a sports team in

811
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: town or in the area called the Indiana Hoosiers, and

812
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: I knew that my dad liked to watch them, and

813
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: then my uncle liked to watch them, and my grandfather

814
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: liked to watch them, and so I liked to watch

815
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: them too, And I loved being from Indiana, and so

816
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: I became a fan of Indiana basketball, and I also

817
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: liked Indiana football, and I went to Indiana football games.

818
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: I remember vividly Andy Burt. Andy Burt was my buddy

819
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: in all Well still is but all through elementary school,

820
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: and his grandfather was on the board of trustees. And

821
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: Andy Burt took me to a football game and we

822
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: sat on the fifty yard line in like the fifth

823
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: row and watched Indiana get absolutely annihilated by Michigan or

824
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 1: Michigan State or named the Big Ten school. And Andy

825
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: Bird at one point said, I'll probably take you to

826
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: every game because we have season tickets and no one

827
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: else wants to go. And at the time I didn't

828
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: even take it as a backhand a compliment, but rather

829
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: I was thrilled because I got to go to Indiana

830
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: football games. But I learned then these guys are terrible.

831
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: I didn't care. I was a kid. Then I went

832
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: to school at IU and I went to the football games.

833
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: You've heard me tell that whole story. I never thought

834
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: in any of those times that Indiana was ever going

835
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: to have a football program. Never thought it. I thought

836
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: Indiana provided a service that allowed for the other Big

837
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: Ten schools to have a homecoming opponent. And Indiana waited

838
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: for Ohio State to come to town, and they booked

839
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: that game in early October so they could get a

840
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: nice aerial shot at Memorial Stadium with plenty of Cremson

841
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: in the stands. But what I knew was I was

842
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: proud to be from Indiana. And yes, as a kid,

843
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: I had my rivalries where I didn't like Purdue and

844
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: I didn't like Notre Dame, I didn't like Butler. My

845
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: sister went to Evansville, and I tried to like them,

846
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: but I couldn't because I was an Indiana fan. But

847
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: I got older and I matured, and I realized that

848
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 1: being from Indiana is a little bit different when you're

849
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: from the state of Indiana. We have in the state

850
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: of Indiana an understanding amongst one another that the one

851
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: thing that we all have in common, we might go

852
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: to different churches we might speak different languages, we may

853
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: have different gods, we may have different beliefs, we may

854
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: have different politics. The one thing that we all have

855
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: in common in this state, regardless of who you root

856
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: for in sports, is that we are from a state

857
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: that we understand. We've got to work a little bit

858
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: harder to let people know that we're okay, And in

859
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: doing that, we feel a camaraderie, in a chemistry amongst

860
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: all of us. We feel a brotherhood and a sisterhood

861
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: amongst all of us, because the one thing that combines

862
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 1: us all, the one tie that binds us, is the

863
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: fact that we're all all from a place that we

864
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: know we can be proud of. But Indiana has not

865
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 1: put out a football team in its existence. For the

866
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: most part, that routinely we were proud of, at least

867
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: in the result. And last night I sat there and

868
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: I watched the game, and I'll mention it again. I

869
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: thought to myself, I don't know how you explain to

870
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: anybody from any other state in this union, how this

871
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: is so surreal, how this was the impossible. Because for

872
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: something to be deemed or thought of as impossible, you

873
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: have to at first even fathom or grasp what it

874
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: is that you're discussing, And the thought of Indiana and

875
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: a national championship in football were never even thought of

876
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: or discussed. It was never even a barometer or a

877
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: bar by which Indiana was even measured, because it was

878
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: so off base. Two and thirty eight career games and

879
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 1: they'd won forty one percent of them. There ain't a

880
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,760
Speaker 1: single place in the world other than Major League Baseball

881
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: where four or eleven gets you anything but failure. And

882
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: yet two years ago they made a concerted effort in

883
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:20,760
Speaker 1: Indiana and its football program, and Scott Dolson, the athletic director,

884
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: and Pam Witten, the president, went out and they got

885
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti. And Kurt Signetti came in and immediately recognized

886
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: that he was surrounded by a culture that only believed

887
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: in the impossible, being the fact that something was exactly that.

888
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 1: And it was last night. For the very first time

889
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: in my life. I'm fifty three years old and like

890
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: four months now, and for the very first time in

891
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: my life, I had the epiphany that impossible is an

892
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: apostrophe away from I'm possible. I have possibility about me

893
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: and that football team last night is what made me

894
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: have that epiphany because as they were sitting there and

895
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,959
Speaker 1: Reese Davis right after he said to Kurt Signetti, why

896
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: not Indiana, Reese Davis eventually said, I think these guys

897
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: want to sing that song, and I think that for

898
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: some reason, they played we are the champions, and I'm thinking, no, Ree,

899
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: what they meant was they want to sing the fight song,

900
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: and eventually they did. And that's again when it hit me.

901
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: The fight song for Indiana University says Indiana, Indiana, Indiana,

902
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: We're all for you. And as those players were singing it,

903
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: and yes, there is a part of me deep down

904
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: that was like, yeah, I've done a little bit of

905
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 1: resentment because Fernanda Mendoza, who's been here for nine months,

906
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: and DiAngelo Pons who's a transfer for Florida, and Charlie

907
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: Becker who grew up in Tennessee, they can't really know

908
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: everything what it means to be from Indiana. But then

909
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: they were singing that song, and when they were singing

910
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: that song, they were saying, Indiana, We're all for you.

911
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: And that's when it dawned on me that team was

912
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: for all of us. That team was for all of us,

913
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: and that team is all of us. Because the Indiana

914
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: football program adopted the mentality of the rest of the state.

915
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: We got to push the chest out a little more.

916
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: We've got to collectively come together and rely on the

917
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: thing that ties the binds of this state. A belief

918
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: in one another, a culture of being from Indiana, a

919
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 1: pride about being from Indiana, and a way of saying

920
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: to the rest of the world, I don't care if

921
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: you're from Oregon, Alabama, Miami, Ohio, state, wherever it may be.

922
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: We're going to come in and kick you in the

923
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: teeth and show you We've worked pretty damn hard for

924
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: this moment. And in the end, we don't have the mountains,

925
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: we don't have the oceans, we don't have the sky's,

926
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,439
Speaker 1: we don't have the tons of restaurants and live music

927
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: you get in New York City. But we are the heartland.

928
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: And in the heartland, we have heart and we have

929
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: care and we have culture about one another. And that's

930
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: what that football team was, and that's why today I

931
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: am proud to say that I'm from Indiana and Indiana University,

932
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: and I've always been proud of that. But I never

933
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: thought it would be the football team that would give

934
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: me some of the epiphanies and the fields that I got.

935
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: But that's what it was, and I loved it. I

936
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: loved seeing the number of people that went down to

937
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: South Beach and went down to Miami and went down

938
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: to Miami Gardens and turned hard Rock Stadium into heps

939
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. And as I mentioned earlier, hard knock of

940
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 1: Indiana to hard Rock of that stadium and winning it.

941
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: And there's no coincidence about the fact that along the

942
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: way Indiana on this jersey, on this journey, they beat

943
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 1: Oregon soundly twice. They beat Ohio State, they beat Alabama,

944
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: they beat Penn State, they beat Miami, they beat the

945
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: blue Bloods. They beat the team that for years have

946
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: thought of Indiana, if they even thought of Indiana football,

947
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 1: they thought of it as a punchline. And Indiana beat

948
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:13,240
Speaker 1: all of them. And think about this. They beat Oregon

949
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: and Oregon, they beat Miami in Miami, they beat Penn

950
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: State and Penn State, and they beat Alabama in Los Angeles.

951
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: They beat blue bloods in every corner of this country.

952
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: Indiana football beat blue bloods in every corner of this country.

953
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: And myself JMV. James Boyd, Kevin Bowen, Jeff Rickard, Greg Reigstraw,

954
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: who's going to be on later because John's in the

955
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: air right now, coming back from Miami. All of us,

956
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 1: all of us get paid and make our living trying

957
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: to find the right words to say. All of us

958
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 1: try to find the right words to say. And yet

959
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:10,280
Speaker 1: sometimes it happens through spontaneity and energy, like what happened

960
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: last night when I'm flipping the channels. I'm flipping the

961
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: channels after the game, soaking it in, listening and watching

962
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: everybody celebrate, and I love it. And I mentioned earlier,

963
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there trying to think of what to say,

964
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: how to encapsulate it, how to let people outside of it.

965
00:57:30,360 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: He had to know what this means to all of us,

966
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: this improbability, this impossibility that Indiana and that football team

967
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: saw as probable impossible, And I'm trying to come up

968
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: with the right words, and then boom, I'm watching Channel

969
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 1: thirteen and I see Brian Jacobson, dudes a year older

970
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: than I am at North Central class ahead of me.

971
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: He's actually younger than me, but he was probably one

972
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: of those boy wonders that skipped a grade, as proven

973
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: by the point he made last night. Brian Jacobson's being

974
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: interviewed on Channel thirteen by Dustin Groves down there in Miami,

975
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: and he's trying to explain what this means in this

976
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: moment of epiphany, this moment of exultation, this moment of

977
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 1: energy just comes to him. And I say, that's the

978
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: perfect synopsis of what happened last night, the perfect synopsis

979
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: right here.

980
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 2: It's a sun. It's surreal, but it's real.

981
00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. That was I took that off television,

982
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: so bear with the sound quality there. It's surreal and

983
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: then he pauses, but it's real and we're all waking

984
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: up to that still today. And yes, my buddy Larry

985
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: at Keystone Sports Review, another one of those, another one

986
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: of those at Keystone's Sports Review Indiana threw and through

987
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: and what did he say to me? He said, today's

988
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: like a hangover day. Everybody is literally in a fifty

989
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: percent hayes because they haven't slept, and a fifty percent

990
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: hayes because you're looking outside and you're saying, I know

991
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: the rest of the world thought that living in Indiana

992
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: would be hell, but I must be because hell's frozen

993
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: over and it's seven degrees outside and Indiana's the national champion,

994
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's heaven here. It's heaven because our

995
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: culture was on display for everyone to see. And that

996
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: football team, led by a guy from Pittsburgh whose father

997
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: had coached his team to a national championship opportunity at

998
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, had a chance and had a belief,

999
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: and Indiana went to the ranks of James Madison, where

1000
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 1: Kurtz Signetty was coaching at that point after being in Indiana,

1001
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: and brought him to Indiana University of Bloomington. And yes,

1002
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: the transfer portal helps, and yes nil helps, understood. But

1003
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: you know what, those guys that won that game last

1004
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: night know every word to that fight song because they

1005
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: exuded it. Indiana, Oh, Indiana, Indiana, We're all for you,

1006
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: and that victory last night is for all of us

1007
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: and all of you who listened to this show, all

1008
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: of you who listened to this program. It gives me

1009
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: all the fields to be able to sit here and celebrate.

1010
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: I only dreamed as a kid that I would be

1011
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: able to have this opportunity to celebrate these moments, and

1012
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: that's what we do today. Collectively to the text line

1013
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: I go this from Kurt from Florida. I was born

1014
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: in Elkhart, raised in Indiana, raised on IU basketball. My

1015
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: dad graduated in nineteen sixty seven. He was shedding a

1016
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: few tears of happiness as the game ended. My brother

1017
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: in California was over the moon. Friends of mine who

1018
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: went to IU were crying. This IU team will go

1019
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: down as one of the greatest teams to ever play

1020
01:00:55,720 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: the game. Final note. As a Florida State fan, I

1021
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: want to extend usonce here. Thank you to IU for

1022
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: beating the Hurricanes. Their fans here in central Florida were

1023
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: extremely confident. Congratulations to the twenty twenty five national champion

1024
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: Indiana Hoosiers. Yes, hey, Jake, I'll take my flat land

1025
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: over the mountains any day. Driving in the hills of

1026
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: southern Indiana is enough of a pain in the crotch.

1027
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Jake, I'm a huge IU fan. The IU

1028
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: story is so good. Even my non sports minded wife

1029
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: watched the game and was screaming at the refs. That

1030
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,120
Speaker 1: captures the appeal of I you perfectly. If it was

1031
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:47,120
Speaker 1: a movie, no one would believe it. I agree, I agree,

1032
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: but you know what it did happen. It was surreal,

1033
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: but it's real. And yes, Rhys Davis did say on television,

1034
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: why not Indiana? Said it last night? My phone blew

1035
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: up at this exact moment, the.

1036
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 3: First in the modern era sixteen to zero team in

1037
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 3: the National champions Turk You said, why not Indiana? Why

1038
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 3: can't we do it here? Now it's become reality. You

1039
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 3: heard the cash register going right.

1040
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: I've only trademarked it, by the way, in terms of

1041
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 1: commerce for hats, t shirts, magnets, billboards and keychains and sweatshirts.

1042
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: You can say it on the air as much as

1043
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: you'd like, and you owe me no royalties. But we

1044
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: also asked earlier about those that you were thinking about,

1045
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: those that you were reflecting upon, those that you wished

1046
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: you could share it with, And some of you have

1047
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: called in to share exactly that. Terry Hutchins a great

1048
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: name to remember, the longtime writer that covered Indiana. Earl

1049
01:02:55,800 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: Metzger ed Terrell, so true, all of them right, turnbuckle

1050
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 1: bill that listens to the show and said, yesterday Fernanda

1051
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: Mendoza with his legs would make a play that would

1052
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: win the game. How brilliant was that Bob Johnson, my

1053
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: late friend Bob Jenkins, Bill Benner, who's on his way back,

1054
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: David Benner, so many. John joins us on the program

1055
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 1: at two thir nine, ten seventy, John Happy. Who's your

1056
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: national champion day?

1057
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 17: Oh, it's a wonderful day. Wonderful day. I've got to say,

1058
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 17: when I was watching that play at the thirteen yard line,

1059
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 17: fourth and five, when Signetti called that quarterback draw, I

1060
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 17: did not see that coming at all. I don't think

1061
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 17: anyone saw it coming.

1062
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 22: I was not.

1063
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 17: Hopeful about what was about to happen. Unbelievable call about Signetti.

1064
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 17: And then I wanted to calling that. Two other quick

1065
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 17: things after Kumara blocked that punt, the cell with ratclift,

1066
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 17: a ratlift, and I think it was Tyresse Tucker. Those

1067
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 17: guys were on the moon on the field just after

1068
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 17: he blocked it. They were so jubilant, it was fantastic.

1069
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 17: The other thing is after Mendoza did that quarterback draw,

1070
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 17: he was walking over to the sideline and I watched

1071
01:04:17,760 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 17: it several times.

1072
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,280
Speaker 8: Aidan Fisher greeted him.

1073
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 17: And before he got to Aidan Fisher, Fisher just flexed

1074
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 17: both of his arms, indicating to him, what an incredible

1075
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 17: beast play you've just committed.

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Speaker 8: It was awesome.

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Speaker 1: John. You know one thing. Let me tell you two things,

1078
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: and I agree with all that. Let me give you

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01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: two things that I noticed last night, Okay, the first

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01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 1: being you know, when you were talking about that play

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01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: with Mendoza when we had Jeremy Gray on earlier this

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01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: week and or last week? Was it last week? Yeah?

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01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: It was last week. And Jeremy Gray said when I

1084
01:04:57,040 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: was asking him, you know, give me a story about

1085
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 1: Signetti and he said that he went in in May

1086
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: because he had to film something. Jeremy the associate athletic

1087
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: director at IU and they had to film something with

1088
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti. And he walked in and Kurt Signetti was

1089
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: watching film of a game and Jeremy looked down and

1090
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: it was like Illinois and Northern Illinois from two thousand

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01:05:16,560 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: and seven. And Jeremy said, why are you watching a

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01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: twenty year old game of two teams that, like, you know,

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01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 1: only one of which you play. And he said, well,

1094
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm watching Red Zone film. And Jeremy said red Zone

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01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: film that's twenty years ago. And Kurt Signetti said, we

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01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: were number one in the country last year. In red

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01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: zone efficiency and that's not by mistake. And he set

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01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: after the game last night that when he called that

1099
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 1: play for Fernanda Mendoza, it's because they he saw a

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01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 1: formation and the way they lined up, and he knew

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01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 1: that if they ran a certain direction, that it was

1102
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 1: a misdirection from the way Miami had presented its hand

1103
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 1: from earlier. Now, that is savant level depth preparation. Luck

1104
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: is when skill meets opportunity and preparation and skill and

1105
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:04,440
Speaker 1: opportunity all come together. And that's what you had in

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01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: that play. That was not a lucky play. That was

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01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: a by design play. The other thing that I noticed

1108
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: is when Mendoza scored that touchdown and they showed his

1109
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: parents in the crowd and his mother is stricken with

1110
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: MS and his mother's in a wheelchair. And you know what,

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01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: I never saw the entire postseason run for the countless

1112
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: times they showed the Mendoza's in the crowd, and it

1113
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,600
Speaker 1: was a lot. They became the face of this run.

1114
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: His parents did. The one thing that I never saw

1115
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 1: was his father stand up to cheer. Now, think about that.

1116
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: I never saw Fernanda Mendoza's father stand up to cheer.

1117
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: Because his mother can't do that, and he wanted his

1118
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: wife to be alongside him as they celebrated their son.

1119
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:12,360
Speaker 1: That's presence of mind, which very clearly is genetic, and

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01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 1: that's leadership from both his mother and his father. And

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: that is something that you see in a guy that's

1122
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: a Heisman Trophy winner, that wins a national championship. Rick

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01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: is up next, Hello, Hi Rick, Hi Jake.

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01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 15: That was an awesome monologue to brought tears in my eyes.

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01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:39,959
Speaker 15: I moved to Indiana in seventy nine from Chicago via Pennsylvania,

1126
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 15: and I'm a big penn State fanned, obviously a Hoosier.

1127
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 15: And when I got here as a senior high school,

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01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 15: I looked at my sister, who will also graduated. I said,

1129
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 15: these people here, I know, as soon as I graduate

1130
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 15: high school, I'm out of here. Forty seven years later,

1131
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 15: I'm still here. I ran, I ran, I ran the mile,

1132
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 15: I ran a mile for the Great Sam Bella Iu,

1133
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 15: my niece, moved here about I went to dental school

1134
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,479
Speaker 15: from Philadelphia ten years ago, and I looked at Sam

1135
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 15: and I said, Sam, what do you think of Indiana?

1136
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 15: As soon as I graduate dental school, I'm.

1137
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:14,560
Speaker 8: Out of here.

1138
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,320
Speaker 15: Ten years later, he's still here and she just said

1139
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 15: a baby race. They live in broad Ripples. So that's

1140
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 15: what it means to be a Hoosiah. I don't know

1141
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 15: why we stay. Like you said, there's no mountains, there's nothing.

1142
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 15: We got the five hundred.

1143
01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 9: Though that it was just awesome, you and I. You

1144
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 9: grad I got to go to the Rose Bowl, the

1145
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 9: Peach Bowl. I don't have your money, so I couldn't

1146
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,639
Speaker 9: afford to go to the Orange Bowl.

1147
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:41,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't there either, brother. Come on, now, I mean,

1148
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: let's you know, hey, now, let me ask you this rick,

1149
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: just to show that now you are from Chicago, so

1150
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,840
Speaker 1: you guys are a little tougher. But it sounds like

1151
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: you're outside right now and it's a windshill of negative too.

1152
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: Does this mean also that Indiana's warmed your heart to

1153
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 1: the point where you're even warm outside?

1154
01:08:56,120 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 15: Oh heck yeah? And actually I was born and raised

1155
01:08:58,360 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 15: in Pennsylvania.

1156
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: Moved Oh all right, fair enough?

1157
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 15: Yeah, Like when the Steelers played the Ravens in the

1158
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 15: championship game twelve years ago, in the snowe outside, I

1159
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,679
Speaker 15: got on my deck at my pond and I built

1160
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 15: a fire and listened.

1161
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: To well there you go in this Rick. Listen, we

1162
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: are happy to have you as a Hoosier. Rick, happy

1163
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: to have you as a Hoosier. And if you're gonna

1164
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 1: run that mile, don't do it outside anytime in the

1165
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: next couple of months. I can assure you that, no

1166
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: matter how tough that Pennsylvania, Illinois background made you. Daniel's

1167
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: up next.

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Speaker 16: Hey, Jake, Daniel, how are you?

1169
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 25: Can you hear me?

1170
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: I can hear you loud and clear right on.

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01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,639
Speaker 26: Hey, I just wanted to shout out to like whole

1172
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 26: hoo's your nation, just a sincere thank you, the traveled,

1173
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 26: the percentages of the fans, the ninety percent at the

1174
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 26: Rose Bowl, at the Peace Bowl, and really representing us well.

1175
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 26: I've heard nothing but glorifying.

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01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 25: You know how nice they were, Midwestern nice. It's just

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01:09:58,000 --> 01:09:58,879
Speaker 25: being from Indiana.

1178
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:03,799
Speaker 26: It's a you know, when you get your representation, it matters.

1179
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 26: And I felt like this team, this culture, these fans really.

1180
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 8: Really represented us well.

1181
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 26: And I just want to say thank you to Fernando,

1182
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 26: to his family, to the fans. Just sincerely, thank you.

1183
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 26: This has been so much fun.

1184
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: Daniel. I thought I appreciate it last night. It was

1185
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 1: remarkable that and you heard Kirk kerb Street mention it,

1186
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 1: and you heard Chris Fowler mention it. They were in

1187
01:10:31,680 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 1: virtually disbelief over the fact that Miami had a final

1188
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: drive for a national championship in their own home stadium.

1189
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: And basically I had to go to a silent count

1190
01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: so I couldn't hear anything. It's remarkable they didn't get penalties. Now,

1191
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: winning it's one thing, sustaining it another. We'll get into

1192
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,360
Speaker 1: that in a bit, but Jim and Pete stick around.

1193
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to get to you. I'll read more texts

1194
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:05,880
Speaker 1: and will continue to take phone calls at two three

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01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: nine ten seventy because this day again, Indiana, Oh, Indiana,

1196
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,600
Speaker 1: Indiana were all for us. That's what that team was

1197
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: last night. That's what we continued to do today. I'd

1198
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 1: like to know who it was that you thought about

1199
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: that made you emotional or the reason why it's simply

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01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 1: special to you. At two three nine ten seventy. We

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01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: continue and carry on with our PEP rally after this.

1202
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: Don Fischer has been on the microphone now for four

1203
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: national championships in Indiana University Athletics. The first three that

1204
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: you heard there, the eighty six to sixty eight victory

1205
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:44,520
Speaker 1: over Michigan in nineteen seventy six, capping the last undefeated

1206
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: season in college basketball history, the nineteen eighty one victory

1207
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:51,679
Speaker 1: at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, sixty three to fifty over

1208
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: North Carolina in nineteen eighty seven, the seventy four to

1209
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:59,480
Speaker 1: seventy three victory over Syracuse for the National Championship in basketball,

1210
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: and then the most recent college football team to go

1211
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 1: undefeated and untouched sixteen and oh, the Indiana Hoosiers last night,

1212
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: Don Fischer on the call. Certainly you have to wonder

1213
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: what happens with Indiana moving forward. There is no reason

1214
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: to believe that they are now not just crashed through

1215
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: the door into college football's elite status, but also are

1216
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: there to stay. When you consider the nil the transfer portal,

1217
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:32,719
Speaker 1: the question is simply going to be in today's culture

1218
01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: of college football, how long do you maintain a group together?

1219
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: Alberta Mendoza, it is already reported out into the transfer portal.

1220
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: At least we will see whether or not he returns.

1221
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,560
Speaker 1: But keep in mind Hoover, the quarterback from TCU, the

1222
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 1: nation's leading pass are coming into Indiana next year in

1223
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: the transfer portal, and so We'll see whether or not,

1224
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: but that is one of the names that I know

1225
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 1: people looked at and liked. Alberta Mendoza, who, by the way,

1226
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: were Jersey number sixteen, the number of wins that Indiana

1227
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: got this year, after having only what four times in

1228
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: school history had a nine win season. It was a

1229
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,799
Speaker 1: time where eight wins and simply going over five hundred

1230
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: was the goal that was acceptable. Beyond acceptable, almost infathomable.

1231
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: It is so surreal, but it's real. Bob joins us

1232
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: at two nine, ten seventy. Hi, Bob, how are you?

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01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:39,679
Speaker 8: I'm good, Jake.

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01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 27: I just wanted to say, you know, a blank statement

1235
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 27: to that this win was for all Hoosiers worldwide. I mean,

1236
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,760
Speaker 27: the alumni association I had seen on the news had

1237
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 27: put together watch parties all over the United States. I

1238
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,560
Speaker 27: think it was Fox fifty nine that actually put a

1239
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,320
Speaker 27: map up and they were helping, you know, I get

1240
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:06,480
Speaker 27: them rally cowels and everything. And the amount of places

1241
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 27: that were doing this was incredible, just incredible.

1242
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: Bob, did you get it? Go ahead?

1243
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,839
Speaker 27: I just wanted to take a minute to thank you personally.

1244
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 27: On another side, note, Jake, I've been trying to get a.

1245
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 5: Hold of you through the holiday season.

1246
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 27: Because I wanted to thank you for my family and

1247
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 27: my daughter personally, because my daughter works for Firefly and

1248
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 27: you gave them so much credit and so many kudos.

1249
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 27: Like I said, I've been trying to get a hold

1250
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 27: of you for a while and I just wanted to

1251
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 27: thank you in the station personally.

1252
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:50,080
Speaker 1: Well, Bob, I mentioned earlier, and I appreciate that. You know,

1253
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: maybe I belabor the point, but in Indiana, one of

1254
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:01,400
Speaker 1: the things we have that makes us unique, whether we're

1255
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: born here, raised here, is we have camaraderie and appreciation

1256
01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:13,600
Speaker 1: for one another. We have community here. I've lived other places,

1257
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: you know. I've lived in New York City. I've lived

1258
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: in Lawrence, Kansas. I've lived in Saint Louis. And this

1259
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: isn't too you know. All of those places are part

1260
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:26,800
Speaker 1: of my journey, and there are things about all of

1261
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 1: them that I liked. And maybe I'm biased because I

1262
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 1: grew up here, Bob, but I've always felt like in

1263
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: Indiana we have a camaraderie and an understanding and an

1264
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: appreciation and a respect for one another because we have

1265
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: to just try a little harder, because we are the

1266
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: one that on the pregame show. Seven of the eight

1267
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: analysts picked the other team and the one that picks Indiana.

1268
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: It happens to live here and gets it right. But

1269
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 1: a community truly is defined not by its upper echelon,

1270
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: but rather how it treats and tries to uplift those

1271
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: that are struggling, which is what Firefly does and why

1272
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: I believe in it. And it does so with our

1273
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:26,200
Speaker 1: most precious resource, which is the youth of Indianapolis. So

1274
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything, Bob, your sister or your daughter,

1275
01:16:29,479 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: excuse me. And the heroes that work there are the

1276
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 1: ones that do all that. My job is the easy part,

1277
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: and that is simply letting people know the great work

1278
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:41,480
Speaker 1: that they do. Bud is up next by Jake, Bud.

1279
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 18: Bunch of castles who are doing great. How are you doing?

1280
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 1: I am well, thank you well, I'm.

1281
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 18: Doing great today. I want to thank you for taking

1282
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 18: a call and I wanted to dedicate this. I talked

1283
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 18: to you once before, actually called me off off the

1284
01:16:55,200 --> 01:17:01,759
Speaker 18: air one night. Very very nice gesture. Terry Brother of mine,

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01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 18: high school friend. I went to hight to Martinsville High

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Speaker 18: School with Terry Brother and I you. We graduated seventy six,

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01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 18: and of course the youngest name is Tim Ray. We

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01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 18: used to call him Timbo. And if you break, he's,

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,560
Speaker 18: like many fans have already spoken, you like yourself and

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01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:29,719
Speaker 18: die hard, who's your fan? Having graduated from seventy six

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01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 18: for fifty years later, having this occur for the National

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01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 18: Championship in football is truly unbelievable. But then what definitely

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01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 18: would have loved for him to see the game. He

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01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 18: passed away unfortunately until the thirtieth. He actually went to

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01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 18: a flood of Oregon retired. Obviously, he flew to Oregon

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01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 18: for the first the first game, and he's just will

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01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 18: be really very pleased.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, but I appreciate that. And

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01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: if Tim was there at Austin Stadium in Oregon and

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01:18:04,320 --> 01:18:10,240
Speaker 1: saw that performance, then he knew. Because after that game,

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01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:13,760
Speaker 1: I think everybody had an indication that, you know what,

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01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:19,760
Speaker 1: this was a possibility, And yeah, they had to come

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01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: back and they had to overcome the Iowa game. After that,

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01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, the hangover from the Oregon game. Maybe in

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01:18:25,040 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 1: then Iowa they struggled a little bit and they found

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01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 1: a way and Penn State they found a way. So

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01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: bud My condolences to you that Tim wasn't there to

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01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,200
Speaker 1: be able to watch it with you, at least in

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01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: the physical sense. But of course we take a comfort,

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01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: I guess in the fact that he was there in

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01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 1: the spiritual sense, and Indiana got it done for him, because,

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01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: like I said, Indiana, Oh, Indiana, Indiana were all for

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01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: you and all for us in this. Jim is up next, Hi,

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 1: Jim hey hey?

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01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 22: Has anyone mentioned the fact that Indiana's normally college to

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01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 22: have undefeated basketball and football seasons.

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01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 1: They're they're the most recent to do it. Ucla has

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01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,760
Speaker 1: also accomplished defeat by the way, Oh, I did not

1319
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, Ucla a little bit different though, Jim,

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01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Ucla in nineteen fifty four

1321
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: was nine zero and one. They had a tie in there,

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01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:17,600
Speaker 1: and that tie included they also tied for the national championship,

1323
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: because back in those days, it was simply who was

1324
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: number one at the top of the AP and the

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01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: United Press International poll, and they split that year. I

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01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: think it was Notre Dame that won the other, but

1327
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:29,719
Speaker 1: they technically were, by at least one of the polls,

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01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: the national champion and they were unbeaten and then of

1329
01:19:32,320 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: course John Wooden won like, you know, eighty three straight

1330
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: games or whatever it was, so they had two undefeated

1331
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 1: seasons in there as well. But yes, I mean it's

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01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: remarkable that Indiana right now currently holds the most recent

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01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 1: undefeated team in both sports. Well, thank you, appreciate it, Jim.

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01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,599
Speaker 1: Pete is up next, Pete? What's up?

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01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 8: Pete?

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01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 22: Thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to share

1337
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 22: this with you. My cousin, who I'm in business with,

1338
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 22: was a freshman on the sixty seven Rose Bowl team.

1339
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 22: Was very close with a lot of the players, like

1340
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 22: Terry Cole, who's passed away, and he's always said, if

1341
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 22: they make it to the Rose Bowl, I'm going.

1342
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 8: So we got to go to the Rose Bowl see

1343
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 8: a lot of his old.

1344
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 22: Teammates who are still around but not in great health.

1345
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 22: Had a wonderful trip, sent me lots of pictures, uh

1346
01:20:26,200 --> 01:20:31,200
Speaker 22: and uh. This morning, his only text was I'm glad

1347
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 22: I'm alive to see it.

1348
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty unbelievable, isn't it. Pete. What's what's

1349
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 1: your cousin's name, Hank. What's Hank's last name, Hank Pogue

1350
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 1: Pogue Pogue, Yes, sir, Hank Pogue. I got him on

1351
01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: the list. And you know what, Hank, I'm glad you're

1352
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: alive as well to see it, right. And you know, look, Pete,

1353
01:20:55,040 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier the it's difficult to illustrate. It's difficult

1354
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: to annunciate to people how impossible it was because it

1355
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 1: was never fathomable. If you were to ask me, what's

1356
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 1: the level of like stunned of the state of Indiana

1357
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 1: that Indiana won the football National Championship college football, my

1358
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 1: answer would be I don't know, because there was no

1359
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 1: other alternative. It was never even thought about. You know,

1360
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: somebody just sent me a text and this is think

1361
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: about this for a second, Hey, Jake, what would the

1362
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: odds have been in nineteen ninety one that in my

1363
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: lifetime Indiana would win a college football national championship before

1364
01:21:54,560 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: Notre Dame? Great? Great question. I mean, who possibly could

1365
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: have thought that Indiana before any program? I honestly, I

1366
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: mean I who would have thought that Indiana would win

1367
01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: one before Minnesota? The only thing I can compare it

1368
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,920
Speaker 1: to there is one team. There's one team. One thing

1369
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,080
Speaker 1: that I thought about. I mentioned it the other day

1370
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: and I'll get back into that and I want your

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01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 1: continued calls on it. I love, love, love days like

1372
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: this where literally I'm just a town crier and you

1373
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 1: folks carry the show, not because I don't want to

1374
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: carry the show, not because I was up late, but

1375
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: because this is a celebration statewide and where the flagship

1376
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:43,599
Speaker 1: of all of it, and I'm here for it.

1377
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 11: You're listening to Query and Company on nuinety three five

1378
01:22:46,920 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 11: and one oh seven five the Fans.

1379
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:52,719
Speaker 1: Another song that was big for Indiana's last national championship.

1380
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: That's how long it's been, two through nine, ten seventy

1381
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:59,679
Speaker 1: the telephone number, Hey Jake. The profundity about Mendoza's father

1382
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: never standing to cheer resonated with me to my core.

1383
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: I was watching the game at KSR with Larry and

1384
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,720
Speaker 1: Paula Kramer, and when the game was over, Paula was

1385
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: gushing about Mendoza, but not his sports skills, but his

1386
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 1: strength of character and depth of faith. It is refreshing

1387
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 1: to be in the presence of someone who is a

1388
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:17,680
Speaker 1: passion for not only his sport and his gift, but

1389
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: also his human connection goodness. To his core, I said

1390
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: so many times that good kids are no accident. His

1391
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: parents at a home run. They instilled that goodness to

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01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: the core. And again, if you're just joining us, I

1393
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:33,840
Speaker 1: had mentioned earlier two things that jumped out at me

1394
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: in that game. One was that Kurt Signetti after the

1395
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:45,479
Speaker 1: game was asked about the decision on the Mendoza run

1396
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: and he said, well, they showed a formation that I

1397
01:23:53,479 --> 01:23:56,320
Speaker 1: knew that if we showed it again and went that way,

1398
01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:58,800
Speaker 1: we could run to the left side. Because of the

1399
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: way they stacked it earlier. We're going to anticipate something different.

1400
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,760
Speaker 1: He went into this ex's and o's thing, and I

1401
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 1: was taken back to when we had Jeremy Gray on

1402
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: last week, the associate athletic director at Indiana, and he

1403
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: mentioned a story where he had to go to Curt

1404
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: Signette's office in the middle of May and Kurt Signetti

1405
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 1: was watching game film of a game from twenty years

1406
01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: ago of two teams that Indiana didn't face that year,

1407
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 1: and they were in the red zone and he said,

1408
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 1: what are you watching and Signette said, I'm watching red

1409
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 1: zone film and Jeremy said, of a game from twenty

1410
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:31,280
Speaker 1: years ago, and he said, we were number one in

1411
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: red zone efficiency. Jeremy, it's not by accident. It's called

1412
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:42,639
Speaker 1: preparation and the understanding of the moment, and you can

1413
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: learn preparation and understanding of the moment from your coach.

1414
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: But then I also mentioned the other thing that I observed,

1415
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: and that is that when Fernanda Mendoza scored that touchdown,

1416
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: they showed his parents in the crowd, and I realized,

1417
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 1: every time they've shown his parents, which has been a

1418
01:25:02,240 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 1: lot during the playoff run, every time they showed the

1419
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: Mendoza's his father never once stood up to cheer. Never

1420
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 1: one stood up to cheer, because his mother is suffering,

1421
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: not sufferings maybe the wrong word, but his mother has MS.

1422
01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: It's not my place to say whether or not she's

1423
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: suffering from that, but she's stricken with MS. And so

1424
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:34,240
Speaker 1: his father had the presence of mind to know that

1425
01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:40,680
Speaker 1: to celebrate his son's accomplishments is to make sure that

1426
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 1: he's doing so with his wife in Fernando's mother. And

1427
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: that's presence of mind in the moment. That's understanding of

1428
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 1: the moment. And you can learn presence of mind in

1429
01:25:56,360 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: the moment from your coach, but you can also learn

1430
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 1: it from example or inheritance from your parents. Doug, what's up? Doug,

1431
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:19,360
Speaker 1: you can turn down the radio, Doug. I'm good, Thanks, good, Hey,

1432
01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: how you doing, Doug? You gotta turn on the radio.

1433
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:25,759
Speaker 1: There you go for Don Fisher.

1434
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 8: How about that.

1435
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: Don Fisher on the call man. We played it earlier, Doug.

1436
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:35,839
Speaker 1: Four national championships. Now he's called, and you can only

1437
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,679
Speaker 1: imagine how many bad football games he's sat through, right.

1438
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:41,440
Speaker 15: Oh, exactly, exactly, Yes.

1439
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:45,120
Speaker 1: I mean the number of times, Doug, that he sat

1440
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,680
Speaker 1: in sleet storms watching Indiana get beat by Rutgers and

1441
01:26:48,840 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 1: five overtime games against Akron and kicking over trash cans

1442
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: after beating Virginia on a hail Mary, and sitting through

1443
01:26:56,800 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 1: all of that. And you could tell Don Fisher at

1444
01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: the end of the game, Doug, I didn't know whether

1445
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: or not he was going to be emotional or not,

1446
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: and he did not tear up, but you could. I

1447
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 1: could tell it was there, and I could tell yesterday

1448
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: and talking to him it was there. And that's a

1449
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:18,919
Speaker 1: good call. So I appreciate it, Doug. Molly. Now Molly's

1450
01:27:18,920 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: a female listener. Molly, have you been are you a

1451
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 1: part of our tally I thirty five female listeners or

1452
01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:27,639
Speaker 1: are you a new female listener? I'm a new female listener.

1453
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: If you could, please, Nathaniel, do you happen to have

1454
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 1: the breaking news sounder? If you could play, please play,

1455
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 1: Molly stick with us. We're going to play the breaking

1456
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: news sounder. Thank you, Nathaniel. This just end. We now

1457
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:42,599
Speaker 1: have thirty six female callers in the history of this program.

1458
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:46,639
Speaker 1: Third listeners. Thirty six female listeners. Molly, you're number thirty six.

1459
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: What's up?

1460
01:27:48,040 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 2: All right? And I love that?

1461
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 18: Hey, Jake, I just wanted to let you.

1462
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:55,960
Speaker 28: Know that I really appreciate your broadcast.

1463
01:27:57,280 --> 01:28:02,200
Speaker 18: It was unbelievable last night watching you win the national championship.

1464
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 17: So fired up.

1465
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:09,719
Speaker 18: I have one one small thing I have to tell you.

1466
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: Okay, is this gonna make me mad?

1467
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 28: I'm probably yeah, Okay, you gotta get it right. If

1468
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 28: you're going to be broadcasting out here.

1469
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: So it's Indiana Our Indiana, Indiana World for you. Okay.

1470
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:33,200
Speaker 1: So I left out the hours what you're getting at right, Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay.

1471
01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:34,760
Speaker 1: I can live with that. I can live with that

1472
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:37,639
Speaker 1: because it's the second part of it, right, Indiana Our.

1473
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 1: I guess you're right. I always you know, what's kind

1474
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,720
Speaker 1: of like, Molly. I'll be honest with you. Did you

1475
01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: ever listen to the national anthem, the Star Spangled banner? Yeah,

1476
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 1: you know the most common miss like miss done word

1477
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 1: in that right because it's supposed to be uh, it's

1478
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:02,719
Speaker 1: or like over the land or the free, and everybody

1479
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 1: says land for the free or whatever it is. Right,

1480
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 1: everybody gets it wrong. So I probably have said Indiana, Oh, Indiana,

1481
01:29:08,200 --> 01:29:11,879
Speaker 1: my entire life. So I will I will gladly accept

1482
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: your correction on.

1483
01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:13,200
Speaker 8: That, Molly.

1484
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 6: Alright, we gotta get it right.

1485
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:18,320
Speaker 1: Come on, Molly, how long How long have you listened

1486
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 1: to this program? Molly?

1487
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 18: Only for about tutes, No, the last couple of years,

1488
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,520
Speaker 18: he said, my fiance is ubsess.

1489
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. If that's the only if that's

1490
01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,200
Speaker 1: the only time I need correct it, I'll take it, right, Molly,

1491
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 1: I'll take it. And if you were a guy, I

1492
01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,559
Speaker 1: probably would have pushed back. But I know my place

1493
01:29:39,680 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 1: that you know. Listen a female listener thirty six. I've

1494
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 1: got it. I need as many of you female listeners

1495
01:29:45,080 --> 01:29:49,439
Speaker 1: as possible, Molly, So I will gladly, gladly accept your

1496
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: critique and improve upond call in correct anytime that's right,

1497
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 1: that is correct. That's a side business you could do.

1498
01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:59,559
Speaker 1: All right, we'll squeeze in justin real quick, Justin.

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01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,280
Speaker 29: Hey man, a long time listener, first time caller. Okay,

1500
01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:06,679
Speaker 29: just got a couple of things I wanted to say

1501
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:11,719
Speaker 29: real quick. First off, go Hoosier's historical year. I actually

1502
01:30:11,760 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 29: am a singer songwriter. I wrote a song called can

1503
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 29: I Get a Sig? For the IU football team this year.

1504
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 29: Would love if everybody checked that song out. I'm not

1505
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 29: a great singer, but.

1506
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:23,120
Speaker 19: I think everyone I think, hey, I think who's your.

1507
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:24,599
Speaker 20: Nation would appreciate the lyrics.

1508
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 29: It's called can I Get a Sig?

1509
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 1: All right?

1510
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:29,360
Speaker 29: One thing I wanted to point out that I haven't

1511
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 29: heard anybody mention that I think is just a cool

1512
01:30:31,280 --> 01:30:34,840
Speaker 29: little fact is uh, obviously Miami is a lucky place

1513
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:37,639
Speaker 29: for Indiana championships, seeing as how the Colts won their

1514
01:30:38,200 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 29: won their Super Bowl there years ago.

1515
01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing, justin Indiana has now a tone

1516
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: for it too, because they've gotten they've they've allowed us

1517
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 1: to get the taste out. Because that's also the place

1518
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:51,120
Speaker 1: that the last time the Colts were there they lost

1519
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: a Hank Basket game. I shouldn't say that about Hank Basket,

1520
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: but the onside kick game, Pierre Gar's song, just as

1521
01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 1: guilty in that game, I dropping the ball. But yes,

1522
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:01,320
Speaker 1: same state of where the Colts won it, no question.

1523
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:03,640
Speaker 1: I'll take a quick recess. We'll come back, Jerry, you

1524
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:06,040
Speaker 1: were up next to two three nine ten seventy. I'll

1525
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:08,639
Speaker 1: read some tweets and texts as well as we celebrate

1526
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: Indiana as national champions here on ninety three five one

1527
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:17,280
Speaker 1: oh seventy five. The fan. I just don't know that

1528
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:21,360
Speaker 1: even twenty years from now we will fully like grasp

1529
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 1: what it was that we witnessed. You know, we talk

1530
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 1: in this town. We still talk about spin to win,

1531
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:36,559
Speaker 1: Danny Sullivan, the key smart shot, the watch shot from

1532
01:31:36,600 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 1: Christian Watford. You know, the the do everything performance of

1533
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:48,680
Speaker 1: Rod Woodson in the bucket game, Rick Mounts shot to

1534
01:31:48,760 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: lift Purdue into the final four. We talk about the

1535
01:31:57,200 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 1: big win in the snow of Catholics versus Convicts of

1536
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in Miami in nineteen eighty eight. We go

1537
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:10,519
Speaker 1: on and on and on. You know, the big win

1538
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: in ninety three in Notre Dame over Florida State, the

1539
01:32:16,880 --> 01:32:20,040
Speaker 1: incredible run that Butler had and Matt Howard putting it

1540
01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: back in to knockoff. I think it was Pitt and

1541
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:26,439
Speaker 1: then the Gordon Hayward shot of what could have been.

1542
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:29,559
Speaker 1: But we talk about and you know, obviously it goes

1543
01:32:29,560 --> 01:32:35,200
Speaker 1: without saying the Colts winning in the rain, the Haliburton moments,

1544
01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:42,960
Speaker 1: the Reggie in New York high school basketball, Stacy Turan shot,

1545
01:32:43,120 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 1: Bobby Plump shot. We talk in Indiana about great sports

1546
01:32:49,479 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 1: moments and great sports memories for years and for so long,

1547
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 1: For so long, it was a foregone conclusion, it was

1548
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:06,680
Speaker 1: an understanding, It was an acceptance of our sport reality

1549
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: that Indiana football just was never going to be a

1550
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:20,360
Speaker 1: part of that just wasn't you know. I vividly recall

1551
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:23,160
Speaker 1: being in one of the first years that we did

1552
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: fantasy football and there was a guy that drafted Trent

1553
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:38,920
Speaker 1: Green because the guy that drafted him Joel Johnson's his name,

1554
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,960
Speaker 1: the late Joel Johnson. Great dude, and he was a

1555
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:44,840
Speaker 1: Butler guy. But he's like, oh, Trent Green, you know,

1556
01:33:44,880 --> 01:33:47,439
Speaker 1: he played in Indiana and the Rams just signed into

1557
01:33:47,439 --> 01:33:51,120
Speaker 1: a big contract and he's going to be great. And literally,

1558
01:33:51,160 --> 01:33:55,840
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes later, they were watching ESPN or whatever,

1559
01:33:55,840 --> 01:33:57,400
Speaker 1: they come in and they say, Trent Green has been

1560
01:33:57,400 --> 01:33:59,720
Speaker 1: diagnosed with a torn knee. Like his knees out for

1561
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 1: the year, and as a joke, Joels is fine. So

1562
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 1: his next draft pick, He's like, I'll take the guy

1563
01:34:05,600 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 1: that's backing up trinkering, Kurt Warner. We're like the guy

1564
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,840
Speaker 1: from the running back from the Seahawks. No, Kurt Warner

1565
01:34:10,880 --> 01:34:15,800
Speaker 1: was a k okay. And the Saint Louis Rams, who

1566
01:34:15,840 --> 01:34:18,759
Speaker 1: had not won more than six games in a decade,

1567
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 1: went on to barnstorm their way to a Super Bowl.

1568
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: And you know, the Rams had been in Super Bowls

1569
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:28,960
Speaker 1: before as the Los Angeles Rams. And when you're the

1570
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:31,600
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams and you had Deacon Jones and the

1571
01:34:31,640 --> 01:34:34,960
Speaker 1: fearsome forceom and Merlin Olsen and then later had the

1572
01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:37,640
Speaker 1: running prowess of Eric Dickerson, you know, it's not like

1573
01:34:37,680 --> 01:34:40,799
Speaker 1: the Rams were a nothing franchise. So even that doesn't compare,

1574
01:34:42,439 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: but it kind of does because it was just out

1575
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 1: of nowhere. Hey, Jake, my teenage sons will be talking

1576
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: to about the Mendoza run when they're my age in

1577
01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:57,120
Speaker 1: the same way I talk about the Keith smart shot.

1578
01:34:57,160 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. This from Gary. The main person I

1579
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:05,160
Speaker 1: was thinking about last night was my dad, he's still alive,

1580
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: who was able to enjoy the game on TV. He

1581
01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:09,479
Speaker 1: used to drive me to AU games from Southern Indiana

1582
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,920
Speaker 1: and we would listen to Leonard's Losers, where we would

1583
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 1: always say Leonard's Losers the Hoosiers. We sat through a

1584
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: lot of terrible football games, but I didn't know any better.

1585
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:23,160
Speaker 1: Last night was for him, Guys like him, the people

1586
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: that really love it. Hey, listen, when your team wins.

1587
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:30,280
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Finiana had lost? How bad that

1588
01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:34,920
Speaker 1: would be? Jake, who do you think was more excited

1589
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:38,599
Speaker 1: about I used win last night? Are you grad Kevin Bowen?

1590
01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:41,479
Speaker 1: Are you grad Derek Schultz or Illinois grad James Boyd?

1591
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm going with James Boyd. They said, Nah, Derek was,

1592
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:52,800
Speaker 1: so was Kevin. But I know Kevin's a Notre Dame fan. Hey, Jake,

1593
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:55,200
Speaker 1: I'll bet you Signetti and Mendoza will be involved in

1594
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 1: this year's Indianapolis five hundred. Signetti drives the pace car,

1595
01:35:58,640 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 1: Mendoza waves the green flat. I would not rule that out. Hey, Jake,

1596
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 1: your monologue to start your show is what made me emotional.

1597
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more proud to be a Hoosier after

1598
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: hearing that. I appreciate that. Definitely appreciate it. Dave from

1599
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:20,439
Speaker 1: Beech Grove, Jake, the game last night was wonderful. It's

1600
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: a shame the referees took the game off. Did you

1601
01:36:23,160 --> 01:36:25,280
Speaker 1: know that players who play in the National Championship Game

1602
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 1: can enter the portal January twenty to twenty fourth. The

1603
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 1: regular portal closed January sixteenth. Yes, Alberta Mendoza has entered

1604
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:41,200
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. Fernando's little brother has entered the transfer portal. Jake.

1605
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: This from Vicky Rice. I was thinking about being your

1606
01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 1: thirty seventh female caller today, but I think I'll wait

1607
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:49,600
Speaker 1: for a later date. But I'm so proud to be

1608
01:36:49,600 --> 01:36:54,680
Speaker 1: a Hoosier, she says. And the Dogs of Mussman, By

1609
01:36:54,720 --> 01:37:01,160
Speaker 1: the way, the Dogs of Mustman are her late husband

1610
01:37:01,720 --> 01:37:03,760
Speaker 1: Dick and his brother Doug, and a group of people

1611
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:07,640
Speaker 1: that used to all get together and basically crash the

1612
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,400
Speaker 1: gates of the northeast end of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

1613
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:13,439
Speaker 1: to get their front row parking spot to watch the

1614
01:37:13,439 --> 01:37:17,920
Speaker 1: Indy five hundred from the infield. I'm so glad that

1615
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: it happened and the Dogs of Musman would be watching it.

1616
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,639
Speaker 1: Can we count her as listener number thirty seven? Yeah,

1617
01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:28,920
Speaker 1: we can. I think I think we can count VICKI.

1618
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:35,760
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that she texted in right, Jake,

1619
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:38,280
Speaker 1: what about the fever winning in twenty twelve? Absolutely? And

1620
01:37:40,200 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 1: but you know it's funny when the Fever won in

1621
01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, it almost didn't have the same oomph as

1622
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: if they like what they're run that they just had,

1623
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 1: because you know, the profile of the WNBA has obviously

1624
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:54,200
Speaker 1: increased two through nine, ten seventy. The telephone number Jerry

1625
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:55,360
Speaker 1: is up next.

1626
01:37:56,400 --> 01:38:00,160
Speaker 8: Hi, Jerry, Hey, how are you doing today?

1627
01:38:00,479 --> 01:38:03,479
Speaker 1: I'm good? Hopefully hopefully you can tell him good right?

1628
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:06,679
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, sir, it's a great day to be a Hoosier.

1629
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:07,759
Speaker 1: It is that Jerry.

1630
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 8: Well, my name's actually Carry with a cave.

1631
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:12,200
Speaker 1: My policy father.

1632
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,280
Speaker 5: My father was named Jerry and drove me to HIGU

1633
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 5: football games. Hey, I'm calling in regards to my aunt Jane.

1634
01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:23,680
Speaker 5: I grew up in Wisconsin, I'm sorry, grew up in

1635
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:27,599
Speaker 5: Rensealal here went to IU. Her husband graduate of IU

1636
01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:32,839
Speaker 5: as well. True Hoosiers, And last night she was so excited.

1637
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 5: And she's ninety one years old and she's a bualifier.

1638
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 5: The only thing she said to was you wish they

1639
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 5: would have played the Indiana Alamatter song? And I thought, well,

1640
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:47,719
Speaker 5: that's great. Maybe Jake's got it and you can play

1641
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:48,759
Speaker 5: that sometime today.

1642
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,639
Speaker 1: Tell me Jane's last name.

1643
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 8: Okay, the bendon Z e B E N d O

1644
01:38:57,240 --> 01:38:59,840
Speaker 8: N and she is a sweetheart.

1645
01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:02,800
Speaker 1: Jane Z better known as Jane's abandon Right, I will

1646
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:07,880
Speaker 1: cueue up. I will find the Indiana Alma Mater song. Right,

1647
01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:10,680
Speaker 1: was it Gloriani Franzepani?

1648
01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 8: You got it?

1649
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:15,719
Speaker 1: They got that Franzupani room up there in the Union.

1650
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 1: I know that much. We will try to find it

1651
01:39:19,400 --> 01:39:23,280
Speaker 1: for you. Carry and I'll get it played. We have

1652
01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: yet another. Teresa joins the program. Hi Teresa, how are you?

1653
01:39:27,280 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 17: I'm fine?

1654
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:28,400
Speaker 28: Thanks?

1655
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,759
Speaker 1: How are you good? Have you called the show before? Teresa?

1656
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 28: No, but I listened to you now?

1657
01:39:34,120 --> 01:39:36,040
Speaker 1: Be honest with me. Is your radio broken? Or do

1658
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:37,560
Speaker 1: you really listen to this program?

1659
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:38,320
Speaker 6: Oh?

1660
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:38,760
Speaker 26: I do?

1661
01:39:38,920 --> 01:39:40,000
Speaker 8: Fullay me because.

1662
01:39:41,280 --> 01:39:41,559
Speaker 22: I do.

1663
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 28: I am a Notre Dame fan. I'm fans since I

1664
01:39:48,880 --> 01:39:53,080
Speaker 28: was born, but I always support in Indiana school.

1665
01:39:53,160 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 1: Now, Teresa sarcastically, you know what I usually asked the

1666
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: most Notre name fans when I first meet him. What

1667
01:39:59,200 --> 01:40:02,679
Speaker 1: year do you graduate from Dayton? That's usually my first question.

1668
01:40:05,280 --> 01:40:06,760
Speaker 1: You can at least get a chuckle out of that,

1669
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 1: can't you?

1670
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:09,679
Speaker 28: Yes, I can't. I can't.

1671
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 1: So what year did you go to Xavier? I'm just kidding, Okay, Teresa,

1672
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:14,360
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today?

1673
01:40:15,400 --> 01:40:17,360
Speaker 28: I just wanted to do a shout out to Don

1674
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 28: because it's long over due. He has been the voice

1675
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:24,639
Speaker 28: of the Hoosiers for I think what fifty three years now,

1676
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 28: and I was just so happy for him, you know,

1677
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 28: and his wife, Susie and I have been friends since

1678
01:40:31,439 --> 01:40:34,679
Speaker 28: grade school and I know that she has been wanting

1679
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:36,960
Speaker 28: this for him, as well as far as all Hoosiers

1680
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,559
Speaker 28: for that matter. But I'm just so proud to be

1681
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 28: a who's your fan? And like I said, even though

1682
01:40:41,760 --> 01:40:44,240
Speaker 28: Notre Dame did not win it last year and I

1683
01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:46,680
Speaker 28: you won it this year, I will always read for

1684
01:40:46,680 --> 01:40:47,679
Speaker 28: an Indiana school.

1685
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:50,240
Speaker 1: You know what, I know Don and Susie both well.

1686
01:40:50,320 --> 01:40:52,519
Speaker 1: I mean I probably know Susie better than Don actually,

1687
01:40:53,680 --> 01:41:01,439
Speaker 1: And yes, Don Fisher the consummate Teresa professional, because to

1688
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:03,960
Speaker 1: be able to listen to be the voice of Indiana

1689
01:41:04,000 --> 01:41:07,599
Speaker 1: basketball for so long, it's a privilege to be able

1690
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 1: to be the voice of either, but you got to

1691
01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:14,080
Speaker 1: call great games over the years. As a matter of fact, Nathaniel,

1692
01:41:14,120 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 1: cue this up. We put this together. This is Don

1693
01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 1: Fisher's four national championship calls that he's had now. The

1694
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: first you will hear is nineteen seventy six when Indiana

1695
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:26,040
Speaker 1: went undefeated. They defeated Michigan eighty six sixty eight at

1696
01:41:26,080 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Again in eighty one under

1697
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,679
Speaker 1: Bob Knight, they won sixty three to fifty. They obviously

1698
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 1: had won it in forty and fifty three, but this

1699
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:35,800
Speaker 1: is when Don Fisher was on the call eighty one.

1700
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:37,599
Speaker 1: You will hear the end of the eighty one game,

1701
01:41:37,800 --> 01:41:40,720
Speaker 1: then the eighty seven game, the Keith smart shot, and

1702
01:41:40,760 --> 01:41:45,080
Speaker 1: then last night. Whoever would have guessed that National Championship

1703
01:41:45,120 --> 01:41:47,639
Speaker 1: number four for Don Fisher would be on the football

1704
01:41:47,720 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: side of things. But after all of those years, and

1705
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:57,040
Speaker 1: never wavering from his loyalty towards the football program, he

1706
01:41:57,160 --> 01:42:00,360
Speaker 1: was able to call it for football as well, all

1707
01:42:00,400 --> 01:42:03,559
Speaker 1: four of them as they sounded from Don Fisher and.

1708
01:42:03,560 --> 01:42:07,240
Speaker 4: I'm like a four manlements to come down, Toddy nine

1709
01:42:07,600 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 4: cutting up the downs name in Mike down in rooms

1710
01:42:10,880 --> 01:42:14,880
Speaker 4: and Bobby Night there comes trust me fencing now coming

1711
01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:15,559
Speaker 4: up the gown.

1712
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 3: Fight tis in the air.

1713
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:19,080
Speaker 15: Not blievable this.

1714
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:22,920
Speaker 1: Predial and union bosos wund there now they won the

1715
01:42:23,040 --> 01:42:24,080
Speaker 1: national chaptership.

1716
01:42:25,560 --> 01:42:31,519
Speaker 8: We're down to nine seconds ago. Now Whitman, that's clowns in.

1717
01:42:33,040 --> 01:42:36,439
Speaker 4: The other way the national champions come for I see

1718
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:37,080
Speaker 4: that he was.

1719
01:42:38,760 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 1: One the ladle Borat.

1720
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 2: Is the third out of the flour or coumping up

1721
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:43,759
Speaker 2: and down fucking one another.

1722
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:45,639
Speaker 1: Whitman does possed the ball.

1723
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:47,599
Speaker 3: Up in the air after we got in anything out

1724
01:42:47,640 --> 01:42:48,519
Speaker 3: of mountains one of.

1725
01:42:48,479 --> 01:42:51,320
Speaker 4: The national champions up for the second time under Bobby

1726
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:53,000
Speaker 4: Knight and the fourth time of.

1727
01:42:53,040 --> 01:42:57,720
Speaker 8: The school's diffrut half fright a one and suffering fright

1728
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:00,800
Speaker 8: down on a Narrol Simon eight second go, I'm the.

1729
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:03,160
Speaker 20: Fine, make fine jumps out of the aircut.

1730
01:43:12,400 --> 01:43:14,519
Speaker 2: God no good?

1731
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 6: But what for got further is pomonium turn The other.

1732
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 7: Boy looks, throws it down the field and it is

1733
01:43:24,120 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 7: intercepting by Indiana Wa what a bye?

1734
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:29,400
Speaker 5: And it is.

1735
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 2: Jifory Shirt who comes up with the fig and the wrecks.

1736
01:43:33,400 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 2: The richest story for Indiana football comes to the conclusion

1737
01:43:38,640 --> 01:43:41,840
Speaker 2: and they are the national champions of two thousand and

1738
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 2: twenty six.

1739
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:49,720
Speaker 1: What a football team. How it sounded last night? Don

1740
01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 1: Fisher on the call, speaking of calls a guy that

1741
01:43:53,400 --> 01:43:55,880
Speaker 1: had an epic one yesterday, and I thought about him

1742
01:43:55,920 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: last night and I even posted it. Turnbuckle. Bill joins

1743
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 1: us on the show, Bill, I got to tell you,

1744
01:44:04,439 --> 01:44:06,160
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to give you credit for here,

1745
01:44:06,280 --> 01:44:11,759
Speaker 1: right you said yesterday?

1746
01:44:12,439 --> 01:44:14,640
Speaker 21: Well what the same you know they say? Man, you

1747
01:44:14,680 --> 01:44:18,360
Speaker 21: know the about the sun shining our dogs behind. That's

1748
01:44:18,400 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 21: pretty much that sums up for me pretty much.

1749
01:44:20,640 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: But well listen, it's on you and the Hoosiers, right,

1750
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:25,120
Speaker 1: you bet you?

1751
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:25,960
Speaker 8: Hey man.

1752
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 21: The one thing about the nineteen eighty one championship is

1753
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:35,080
Speaker 21: earlier that day, President Reagan got shot correct, and there

1754
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:37,720
Speaker 21: was some I remember, there was some talk as to

1755
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 21: whether or not they were going to even play the game.

1756
01:44:40,720 --> 01:44:42,679
Speaker 21: Of course, I was back in nineteen eighty one before

1757
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:46,680
Speaker 21: sports became as big as it is now, and you

1758
01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:47,960
Speaker 21: wouldn't consider doing it now.

1759
01:44:48,040 --> 01:44:49,879
Speaker 8: But yeah, that was kind of well.

1760
01:44:49,720 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: Do you remember his statement, Ronald Reagan's statement to announce

1761
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 1: that he, you know, the White House statement to say

1762
01:44:58,400 --> 01:45:00,639
Speaker 1: that the president was okay and that he he had survived,

1763
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, the shooting from John Hinckley. It had a

1764
01:45:03,280 --> 01:45:05,559
Speaker 1: quote or a statement and I'm paraphrasing it from Ronald

1765
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 1: Reagan where he said, you know, I'm thankful to the

1766
01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:10,599
Speaker 1: Secret Service yaha yah. Yeah, and then he said all

1767
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:14,200
Speaker 1: in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia and to quote

1768
01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 1: a phrase from that and meaning that he would rather

1769
01:45:16,600 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: be at the national title game. And yes, I remember

1770
01:45:18,560 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: that that delay, not delay, but the thought that there

1771
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:24,200
Speaker 1: could be a delay, right, But then they ended up

1772
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,680
Speaker 1: playing the game. But Bill, you also said yesterday that

1773
01:45:28,560 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 1: you believed that Mendoza would be the difference in the

1774
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:35,000
Speaker 1: game with his legs, and that was a play that

1775
01:45:35,040 --> 01:45:36,719
Speaker 1: will live in Indiana Lore forever.

1776
01:45:38,439 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was.

1777
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 21: I got lucky on that one. And I just wanted

1778
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,400
Speaker 21: to say, as far as Alberto goes and everything, he's

1779
01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:48,679
Speaker 21: gonna end up going to Georgia Tech. That's the place

1780
01:45:48,800 --> 01:45:50,320
Speaker 21: was going to pay be able to pay him the

1781
01:45:50,439 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 21: kind of money that he deserves. But I wouldn't want

1782
01:45:53,479 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 21: to come back to the university where my older brother

1783
01:45:56,520 --> 01:45:59,280
Speaker 21: just won a national championship, because that's I mean, how

1784
01:45:59,320 --> 01:45:59,840
Speaker 21: do you follow that.

1785
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. There's a lot of pressure there,

1786
01:46:02,600 --> 01:46:05,360
Speaker 1: right for sure. But Bill Listen, I wanted to tell

1787
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 1: you this, okay, and I said this to you yesterday,

1788
01:46:07,479 --> 01:46:12,439
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say it again, Okay. You know, in

1789
01:46:12,560 --> 01:46:15,519
Speaker 1: the times that I have done sports talk radio, whichs

1790
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:19,680
Speaker 1: been longer now than I can imagine, when I was

1791
01:46:19,760 --> 01:46:23,640
Speaker 1: doing the show with Derek when virtually any time, and

1792
01:46:23,720 --> 01:46:26,080
Speaker 1: there were there were plenty of times that we did

1793
01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:29,120
Speaker 1: that show, or that I've done shows where we did remote.

1794
01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:31,519
Speaker 1: So we went to you know, weird areas and there

1795
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 1: were six people that showed up, and you know, Derek

1796
01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:35,439
Speaker 1: and I were like, man, there are more than ten

1797
01:46:35,479 --> 01:46:40,920
Speaker 1: people listening to this deal. And you personified loyalty to

1798
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: the core because you came and supported us and have

1799
01:46:43,960 --> 01:46:47,080
Speaker 1: done so from day one and never wavered in it,

1800
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 1: never wavered in it, And there was never able, you know,

1801
01:46:50,040 --> 01:46:53,240
Speaker 1: for me a way to repay you properly or let

1802
01:46:53,280 --> 01:46:56,160
Speaker 1: you know how much I appreciated it. And so that's

1803
01:46:56,200 --> 01:46:58,360
Speaker 1: why last night I thought of you, because as I

1804
01:46:58,520 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 1: watched that game, I know your loyalty, I know your

1805
01:47:01,640 --> 01:47:05,080
Speaker 1: unwavering support, and I know you're never cracked belief in

1806
01:47:05,240 --> 01:47:08,280
Speaker 1: Indiana football and to see you be one of those

1807
01:47:08,360 --> 01:47:11,320
Speaker 1: that was represented by what they did to pay off

1808
01:47:11,400 --> 01:47:14,200
Speaker 1: your belief in them and give you that joy. There

1809
01:47:14,280 --> 01:47:15,960
Speaker 1: are many that I thought of, but you were right

1810
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:17,640
Speaker 1: at the top of that list, because I felt like

1811
01:47:17,800 --> 01:47:22,639
Speaker 1: I shared in Indiana football and understanding and being rewarded

1812
01:47:22,720 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 1: by your loyalty.

1813
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:28,960
Speaker 21: Well, I appreciate that. That's very kind of saying. And

1814
01:47:29,400 --> 01:47:33,880
Speaker 21: the old KSR days man was that those are just

1815
01:47:34,040 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 21: really really special.

1816
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: I mean it's awesome, right, oh.

1817
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:43,479
Speaker 21: Absolutely, But I kind of wanted to say something about Miami,

1818
01:47:44,560 --> 01:47:45,120
Speaker 21: and this is.

1819
01:47:46,880 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 8: Something that I noticed.

1820
01:47:49,120 --> 01:47:53,839
Speaker 21: Miami, although they're obviously a very talented team and great defense,

1821
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:57,880
Speaker 21: but what a classless group. I mean the quarterback when

1822
01:47:57,920 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 21: he Mendoza was looking for him to shake his hand

1823
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:04,240
Speaker 21: and their quarterback walked off the field and refused to

1824
01:48:04,720 --> 01:48:07,760
Speaker 21: shake his hand. And then and then Fletcher who broke

1825
01:48:07,840 --> 01:48:11,240
Speaker 21: that fifty seven yard run to the swing at it

1826
01:48:11,360 --> 01:48:11,839
Speaker 21: was Taylor.

1827
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:14,479
Speaker 1: I saw that you And I don't know what precipitated that,

1828
01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 1: because Fletcher also went out of his way to go

1829
01:48:16,479 --> 01:48:18,920
Speaker 1: congratulate Mendoza, which was the weird part of it, right,

1830
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:20,760
Speaker 1: And I don't remember I don't know when what order

1831
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 1: those two things took place, and I have not heard Bill,

1832
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:30,000
Speaker 1: and you know, I listen the and defensively, you know,

1833
01:48:30,120 --> 01:48:32,880
Speaker 1: Mendoza was very complimentary of their defense after the game,

1834
01:48:34,439 --> 01:48:38,200
Speaker 1: and I don't know what precipitated that stuff at the end.

1835
01:48:38,240 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: And I did see Carson Beck, Yeah, that was that

1836
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:43,400
Speaker 1: was not a good look to leave the game. You

1837
01:48:43,479 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: never know what goes into those things, whether or not

1838
01:48:45,680 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 1: they you know, sometimes I noticed, like an NBA games,

1839
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 1: a lot of times the coaches will just look at

1840
01:48:49,600 --> 01:48:51,720
Speaker 1: each other and kind of wave and that that suffices,

1841
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:53,200
Speaker 1: if you will, because I got stuff to get to.

1842
01:48:53,400 --> 01:48:55,800
Speaker 1: But I don't know what the origin of a lot

1843
01:48:55,880 --> 01:48:59,240
Speaker 1: of that stuff was, and I have not heard if

1844
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:01,479
Speaker 1: because obviously most people that went to the game are

1845
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 1: on their way back now, so I haven't heard from

1846
01:49:03,520 --> 01:49:05,160
Speaker 1: people down there, just how the fans that were in

1847
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:08,920
Speaker 1: the stadium were, whether because I know Oregon fans and

1848
01:49:09,040 --> 01:49:13,639
Speaker 1: I saw Oregon last night. Oregon sent a post congratulating Indiana,

1849
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:16,240
Speaker 1: and I heard from Indiana fans that were at the

1850
01:49:16,320 --> 01:49:18,680
Speaker 1: Peach Bowl that Oregon fans were fabulous. And I've heard

1851
01:49:18,720 --> 01:49:21,200
Speaker 1: from Indiana fans that went to Audson Stadium, that the

1852
01:49:21,280 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: Oregon fans were just absolutely fantastic, great people sportsmanlike you

1853
01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:30,040
Speaker 1: know all of that, but I I yeah, the Miami thing,

1854
01:49:30,280 --> 01:49:32,679
Speaker 1: no coret and they they were some cheating. Look Kurt

1855
01:49:32,760 --> 01:49:36,280
Speaker 1: Signetti at halftime calling out what he thought were the

1856
01:49:36,840 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 1: pass interference calls that went overlooked and the excessive plays.

1857
01:49:40,800 --> 01:49:44,000
Speaker 1: You know that that was uncharacteristic from Signetti. Even so

1858
01:49:44,120 --> 01:49:46,519
Speaker 1: that shows you just how chippy things might have been.

1859
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 1: Paul is up next at two three, nine, ten seventy.

1860
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 8: Hi, Paul, Hey, what's up? Jake?

1861
01:49:53,320 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: Not much?

1862
01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:57,760
Speaker 30: Uh Man, I just want to start with never thought

1863
01:49:57,760 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 30: i'd see this, obviously none of us be but uh Man,

1864
01:50:02,160 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 30: been thinking, you know, how I'm to describe what's going

1865
01:50:05,479 --> 01:50:08,560
Speaker 30: on here? And I mean, so you know, like you

1866
01:50:08,680 --> 01:50:10,720
Speaker 30: got BC before christ And I don't know what a

1867
01:50:10,880 --> 01:50:14,200
Speaker 30: D stands for, but if we start saying before Signetti

1868
01:50:14,560 --> 01:50:17,400
Speaker 30: for IU and then after Dolson for the timeline, man,

1869
01:50:17,479 --> 01:50:18,200
Speaker 30: I mean, come.

1870
01:50:18,040 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: On, before Signetti and after Dolson, right, isn't it like antidemini?

1871
01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:24,880
Speaker 1: I think it's antidemity. Is that what it stands for?

1872
01:50:25,600 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 1: But yes, something like that, man, yeah, yep, before yeah,

1873
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:32,719
Speaker 1: four sigamore this whole run. I just want to before

1874
01:50:32,720 --> 01:50:35,520
Speaker 1: you know me. So what you're getting at is Indiana's

1875
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:41,200
Speaker 1: last national championship in basketball That was nineteen eighty seven BC, right,

1876
01:50:42,040 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 1: and then and then this one is their their national

1877
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,920
Speaker 1: championship in football? Is for a D? Is that how

1878
01:50:47,960 --> 01:50:48,400
Speaker 1: this works?

1879
01:50:50,439 --> 01:50:51,000
Speaker 8: After a D?

1880
01:50:52,040 --> 01:50:52,200
Speaker 15: Well?

1881
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for after Dolson? Right, for a D or whatever?

1882
01:50:56,439 --> 01:50:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean. Dolson's been there in you know, in capacity

1883
01:50:59,479 --> 01:51:02,640
Speaker 1: forever in terms of as athletic director. Paul, I love it.

1884
01:51:02,720 --> 01:51:06,599
Speaker 1: Good call for certain. That's we're going to call him Timeline.

1885
01:51:06,680 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 3: Paul.

1886
01:51:07,720 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 1: You're the director of timekeeping for the company. Paul, you

1887
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 1: have a new you have a new assignment. Ralph is

1888
01:51:13,800 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 1: up next, Ralph? You're up, Hi, Jake, how are you?

1889
01:51:20,400 --> 01:51:20,800
Speaker 1: I'm well.

1890
01:51:21,800 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 6: This one's for Ralph Fry Senior, who drug me down

1891
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:27,040
Speaker 6: to Bloomington when I was eight years old and would

1892
01:51:27,080 --> 01:51:29,439
Speaker 6: go once or twice a year, and then I moved around,

1893
01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:31,760
Speaker 6: but I'd always come back for a tailgate every year,

1894
01:51:32,439 --> 01:51:35,559
Speaker 6: and I remember Dad hitting the staring wheel one time

1895
01:51:35,640 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 6: and saying, I've seen a lot of lousy football. I

1896
01:51:38,400 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 6: wish dad could have seen some real good Indiana football

1897
01:51:41,680 --> 01:51:44,600
Speaker 6: and I'll leave you with one of my favorite, my

1898
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:47,040
Speaker 6: favorite Hoo's your fan and the most loyal hoo'sir fan.

1899
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:48,000
Speaker 8: I know Bill Benner.

1900
01:51:48,479 --> 01:51:50,320
Speaker 6: I was up at the Star one time and he

1901
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:55,559
Speaker 6: had his transistor radio was listing TIEU football and they scored,

1902
01:51:55,800 --> 01:51:57,400
Speaker 6: and I don't know who they were playing, but I

1903
01:51:57,479 --> 01:52:01,520
Speaker 6: remember they were getting beat fifty six, like fourteen or seventeen.

1904
01:52:02,120 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 6: And Robin made the comment, Hey, Bill, at least they

1905
01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:08,800
Speaker 6: scored again, and Bill took the transits for radio and

1906
01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:10,519
Speaker 6: threw it against the wall and broken.

1907
01:52:11,160 --> 01:52:16,559
Speaker 1: Now hold on, Ralph, Now, so, Ralph, here's another thing. Okay, okay,

1908
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,720
Speaker 1: I know you're friends with Robin Miller, right, Yes, he

1909
01:52:20,920 --> 01:52:24,280
Speaker 1: was my best friend. Yeah, and I understand that he

1910
01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:26,640
Speaker 1: was your best friend and you were his, no question, right.

1911
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:28,519
Speaker 1: I know you know I don't know Robin the way

1912
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: you did, right, But I knew the I knew the

1913
01:52:31,600 --> 01:52:33,479
Speaker 1: love and the respect that he had for you and

1914
01:52:33,560 --> 01:52:36,880
Speaker 1: vice versa. Right, And yes, and you know Robin was

1915
01:52:36,880 --> 01:52:39,840
Speaker 1: a ball state guy. I know that, and Robin was

1916
01:52:39,880 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 1: a cynic. But I would have loved to have seen

1917
01:52:42,400 --> 01:52:44,360
Speaker 1: what Robin had to say about it, because you know,

1918
01:52:44,960 --> 01:52:48,160
Speaker 1: Robin would have masterfully put into word what the rest

1919
01:52:48,200 --> 01:52:51,880
Speaker 1: of us could not in terms of trying to describe it. Right, well,

1920
01:52:52,160 --> 01:52:52,840
Speaker 1: no doubt about it.

1921
01:52:52,920 --> 01:52:56,040
Speaker 6: But the one thing is, unfortunately Robin probably would have

1922
01:52:56,120 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 6: lost a lot of money betting against.

1923
01:53:00,280 --> 01:53:04,240
Speaker 1: That's my true Robin would be hitchhiking somewhere around Valdosta

1924
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:07,120
Speaker 1: right now, trying to get back home. Right. Yes, he

1925
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:11,400
Speaker 1: would believe me because he tried to call Bill better,

1926
01:53:11,479 --> 01:53:13,960
Speaker 1: but Bill had already broke it his cell phone from earlier. Yes,

1927
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 1: no question about Ralph. I appreciate it. Man, be good

1928
01:53:16,160 --> 01:53:19,200
Speaker 1: as always, okay, and go loose hurts. There you go.

1929
01:53:19,439 --> 01:53:21,840
Speaker 1: That is Ralph on the line. All right, we'll come back,

1930
01:53:22,120 --> 01:53:25,040
Speaker 1: will continue the conversation. I will read the texts. I

1931
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 1: will read the tweets as well. A couple more to

1932
01:53:27,200 --> 01:53:30,200
Speaker 1: get to from that, and we might as well round

1933
01:53:30,240 --> 01:53:33,639
Speaker 1: it out in this day long edition of Celebrating Indiana

1934
01:53:33,680 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 1: at two thir nine, ten seventy, I would love to

1935
01:53:35,880 --> 01:53:37,720
Speaker 1: hear from the rest of you as well. It's how

1936
01:53:37,760 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 1: it sounded last night, Indiana winning the national championship in

1937
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:43,599
Speaker 1: college football. I've had to say that about seven times

1938
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:50,280
Speaker 1: so far today. It still seems surreal, you know. Jokingly,

1939
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:55,120
Speaker 1: I uttered the phrase when we were talking about free

1940
01:53:55,200 --> 01:53:57,599
Speaker 1: agency a couple of years ago on the Morning show,

1941
01:53:57,600 --> 01:53:58,880
Speaker 1: when I was on the show and we were talking

1942
01:53:58,920 --> 01:54:02,479
Speaker 1: about whether or not the Pacers could lure someone to

1943
01:54:02,600 --> 01:54:05,240
Speaker 1: come here, and I uttered the phrase for the first time.

1944
01:54:05,520 --> 01:54:06,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, they could sign with a

1945
01:54:06,880 --> 01:54:08,719
Speaker 1: couple of four teens, but you know, why not Indiana?

1946
01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:12,400
Speaker 1: And I stopped myself and said, it's kind of catchy,

1947
01:54:12,680 --> 01:54:15,720
Speaker 1: why not Indiana? And it really was just kind of

1948
01:54:15,760 --> 01:54:19,840
Speaker 1: a fun, flippant phrase at first. Last night, you can

1949
01:54:19,920 --> 01:54:22,840
Speaker 1: imagine my surprise when my phone blew up because during

1950
01:54:22,880 --> 01:54:25,840
Speaker 1: the trophy presentation, I actually heard this from Rhese Davis, the.

1951
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:29,720
Speaker 3: First in the modern era sixteen and ozer team in

1952
01:54:29,800 --> 01:54:34,560
Speaker 3: the National champions Urt you said, why not Indiana?

1953
01:54:34,880 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 1: Why can't we do it here? Now it's become reality.

1954
01:54:39,520 --> 01:54:44,480
Speaker 1: Why not Indiana? Why can't we do it here? And

1955
01:54:44,560 --> 01:54:49,720
Speaker 1: That's what I've been talking about all day. Last night

1956
01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:52,040
Speaker 1: as I was watching it, and I was thinking to myself,

1957
01:54:52,120 --> 01:54:58,240
Speaker 1: and literally I was laying in bed actually, and I

1958
01:54:58,360 --> 01:55:02,920
Speaker 1: thought to myself, I always thought it was impossible. And

1959
01:55:03,040 --> 01:55:06,520
Speaker 1: I know that I am probably melodramatic when I say it.

1960
01:55:08,280 --> 01:55:15,080
Speaker 1: I know It probably sounds overly, you know, dramatic when

1961
01:55:15,160 --> 01:55:20,160
Speaker 1: I say it, but I had never thought about this.

1962
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:29,080
Speaker 1: I never realized that the word impossible features I'm possible,

1963
01:55:31,400 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 1: meaning I'm a possibility to do something. It is possible,

1964
01:55:35,480 --> 01:55:42,040
Speaker 1: I can and forever. When it came to Indiana football,

1965
01:55:42,200 --> 01:55:46,520
Speaker 1: we never even thought of that as the possibility because

1966
01:55:46,560 --> 01:55:51,640
Speaker 1: that's a program that has been stuck in beyond mediocrity,

1967
01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel, the laughing stock. Everyone's homecoming game.

1968
01:55:59,440 --> 01:56:03,440
Speaker 1: Got to play Ohio State in the aesthetic time of

1969
01:56:03,520 --> 01:56:06,760
Speaker 1: the year. Let's do it in October so that we

1970
01:56:06,800 --> 01:56:08,840
Speaker 1: can get an aerial shot at Memorial Stadium with the

1971
01:56:08,880 --> 01:56:14,640
Speaker 1: beautiful leaves and a Crimson Pact crowd. That's what Indiana

1972
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 1: football was and that group. Last night, I had mixed

1973
01:56:21,280 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 1: feelings and emotions about Indiana suddenly getting good in football

1974
01:56:24,360 --> 01:56:28,720
Speaker 1: because part of me felt like it was compromised. I'm

1975
01:56:28,800 --> 01:56:32,120
Speaker 1: just being honest part of me and I wish I

1976
01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:37,400
Speaker 1: wasn't wired this way. But part of me looked at

1977
01:56:37,440 --> 01:56:41,879
Speaker 1: it and thought, I'm from Indiana. I grew up in Indiana.

1978
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:45,960
Speaker 1: I've tried to represent Indiana well. I've tried to let

1979
01:56:46,040 --> 01:56:48,480
Speaker 1: people know when I go places that I'm from Indiana,

1980
01:56:48,560 --> 01:56:50,200
Speaker 1: and that we're a really good place, that we have

1981
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:53,840
Speaker 1: good people, that we have good values, that it's pretty here,

1982
01:56:54,120 --> 01:56:55,920
Speaker 1: that it's a bigger city than you think. We have

1983
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:59,360
Speaker 1: better sports teams than we're giving credit. We've produced a

1984
01:56:59,400 --> 01:57:02,360
Speaker 1: lot of talented people. I always try to do that.

1985
01:57:02,560 --> 01:57:06,839
Speaker 1: I try to be Indiana's biggest cheerleader. And so therefore

1986
01:57:07,200 --> 01:57:09,000
Speaker 1: there was a small part of me because I grew

1987
01:57:09,120 --> 01:57:13,680
Speaker 1: up wanting to represent Indiana on any stage that I had,

1988
01:57:14,680 --> 01:57:18,480
Speaker 1: which were not a lot, and so there was part

1989
01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:22,280
Speaker 1: of me that kind of resented that this representation from

1990
01:57:22,360 --> 01:57:26,920
Speaker 1: Indiana was actually coming by way of players that were

1991
01:57:27,200 --> 01:57:35,440
Speaker 1: on loan from Miami, or purchased from Nashville, or brought

1992
01:57:35,520 --> 01:57:40,080
Speaker 1: in from James Madison, whatever it might be. But as

1993
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:44,320
Speaker 1: they were celebrating, and each time they scored, you could

1994
01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 1: see them celebrating their teammates. You could see them arm

1995
01:57:48,520 --> 01:57:53,960
Speaker 1: in arm, the chemistry, the camaraderie of that team. And

1996
01:57:54,080 --> 01:57:58,960
Speaker 1: again I mentioned I thought of the fight song, and

1997
01:57:59,240 --> 01:58:02,920
Speaker 1: thank you, by by the way, for the correction when

1998
01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:05,920
Speaker 1: I said Indiana or Indiana. It's Indiana, our Indiana. But

1999
01:58:06,080 --> 01:58:09,040
Speaker 1: the most important part of that fight song we're all

2000
01:58:09,160 --> 01:58:15,320
Speaker 1: for you, We're all for you. But that football team

2001
01:58:16,240 --> 01:58:20,440
Speaker 1: was all for us, the US of this state collectively

2002
01:58:20,760 --> 01:58:23,160
Speaker 1: and what it is that we represent and the us

2003
01:58:23,320 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 1: that they felt because they were not about individuals. Kurt

2004
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 1: Signetti said it, we are the sum of our parts

2005
01:58:35,480 --> 01:58:39,160
Speaker 1: and that's how they came across. That was a group

2006
01:58:39,240 --> 01:58:41,720
Speaker 1: that was selfless. That was a group that represented what

2007
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:44,320
Speaker 1: it is and what it means to be from Indiana.

2008
01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:49,280
Speaker 1: And you can be from Notre Dame or Butler or

2009
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:53,560
Speaker 1: Evansville or Indiana State or Ball State or Southern Indiana

2010
01:58:55,800 --> 01:59:01,440
Speaker 1: or Franklin or Trine or Huntington or Goshen or Earlham

2011
01:59:01,840 --> 01:59:06,040
Speaker 1: or Hanover or you Indy. You can be from those

2012
01:59:06,040 --> 01:59:10,120
Speaker 1: schools and still feel the pride that Indiana was represented

2013
01:59:10,320 --> 01:59:14,800
Speaker 1: culturally speaking on the biggest stage. And yes, to most

2014
01:59:14,840 --> 01:59:19,800
Speaker 1: of us, it was thought to be impossible, but that

2015
01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:22,680
Speaker 1: was a group of players that found possibility within I

2016
01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:27,000
Speaker 1: so long as they collectively did it as we and

2017
01:59:27,160 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 1: that's what was awesome about it. Chris joins us, what's up, Chris.

2018
01:59:35,200 --> 01:59:36,480
Speaker 14: Hi jacing, Good afternoon.

2019
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:40,200
Speaker 19: Today is my fifty sixth birthday, and what a fantastic

2020
01:59:40,280 --> 01:59:43,960
Speaker 19: gift this team brought to me last night and all

2021
01:59:44,160 --> 01:59:47,400
Speaker 19: of Who's Your Nation? And I think back to when

2022
01:59:47,440 --> 01:59:50,480
Speaker 19: I was eleven years old and first got a taste

2023
01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:53,920
Speaker 19: of IU sports when I listened to Don Fisher called

2024
01:59:53,960 --> 01:59:57,560
Speaker 19: the national championship game for our basketball team, and it

2025
01:59:57,640 --> 02:00:00,160
Speaker 19: got me thinking, And I'd like your perspective as a

2026
02:00:00,240 --> 02:00:03,440
Speaker 19: member of the broadcast community, what it might be like

2027
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:10,560
Speaker 19: to call two national championships for two undefeated teams after

2028
02:00:10,760 --> 02:00:14,360
Speaker 19: fifty years of broadcasting for a school. And I know

2029
02:00:14,560 --> 02:00:16,280
Speaker 19: I'm not going to ask you to talk for Fish,

2030
02:00:17,000 --> 02:00:19,960
Speaker 19: but would you give me your perspective as a member

2031
02:00:20,000 --> 02:00:23,600
Speaker 19: of a broadcaster and the impact that your voice has

2032
02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:26,920
Speaker 19: on this great city and state, what that might mean

2033
02:00:27,000 --> 02:00:27,120
Speaker 19: to you.

2034
02:00:28,840 --> 02:00:32,160
Speaker 1: Well, it's a great question. I actually asked Don that

2035
02:00:32,320 --> 02:00:34,680
Speaker 1: the other day when we had him on Chris you

2036
02:00:34,720 --> 02:00:36,840
Speaker 1: know about it and what he said in his answer,

2037
02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:40,200
Speaker 1: So I'm i'll paraphrase what he said. But what Don

2038
02:00:40,280 --> 02:00:43,120
Speaker 1: said was simply that it was a privilege to be

2039
02:00:44,040 --> 02:00:46,360
Speaker 1: part of a school that he loved in Indiana and

2040
02:00:46,440 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 1: an athletic program that gave him an opportunity, and that

2041
02:00:49,760 --> 02:00:53,520
Speaker 1: he was grateful to continue with that opportunity. Now, you know,

2042
02:00:53,760 --> 02:00:56,120
Speaker 1: I would hope that he also understands that you're not

2043
02:00:56,320 --> 02:01:00,480
Speaker 1: given that opportunity without showing you know. It's one thing

2044
02:01:01,120 --> 02:01:03,280
Speaker 1: to be given a chance, it's another thing to then

2045
02:01:03,400 --> 02:01:08,040
Speaker 1: prove that you were deservant of that opportunity. And for him,

2046
02:01:08,320 --> 02:01:10,320
Speaker 1: he has to know in the back of his mind

2047
02:01:11,120 --> 02:01:13,400
Speaker 1: that over the course of fifty years, for him to

2048
02:01:13,440 --> 02:01:15,040
Speaker 1: do it for that long and to still have his

2049
02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:18,640
Speaker 1: fastball without him, it's a testament to his craft, right.

2050
02:01:20,000 --> 02:01:22,880
Speaker 1: But I think that part of when you do what

2051
02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:25,680
Speaker 1: we do for a living, there's like a little journalistic

2052
02:01:25,720 --> 02:01:28,320
Speaker 1: piece of you where you realize that you're not the story,

2053
02:01:28,400 --> 02:01:31,960
Speaker 1: you're simply the illustrator of what the story is. And

2054
02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:37,240
Speaker 1: so I think that that understanding is probably partially how

2055
02:01:37,320 --> 02:01:40,440
Speaker 1: professionally speaking, he has been so good and so perfect

2056
02:01:40,520 --> 02:01:44,240
Speaker 1: for so long. Does that make sense, Chris, Yeah, sure does.

2057
02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:48,640
Speaker 19: I just know that you know, yes, it's it's not

2058
02:01:48,720 --> 02:01:51,080
Speaker 19: about him. But I'm going to tell you that his voice,

2059
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:54,480
Speaker 19: much like the voices of Jack Buck in Saint Louis,

2060
02:01:55,040 --> 02:01:57,560
Speaker 19: much like the voice of Harry Carey, much like the

2061
02:01:57,640 --> 02:02:00,520
Speaker 19: voice of even yours that people listen to on a

2062
02:02:00,600 --> 02:02:04,600
Speaker 19: day to day basis, they're very impactful and I'm gonna

2063
02:02:04,680 --> 02:02:07,160
Speaker 19: I'm gonna shed a lot of tears when Don decides

2064
02:02:07,240 --> 02:02:11,120
Speaker 19: to retire because I just have so many great IU

2065
02:02:11,240 --> 02:02:14,320
Speaker 19: memories that all surrounded the voice of Don Fick.

2066
02:02:14,680 --> 02:02:16,840
Speaker 1: Chris. It's undoubtedly the tapestry of art.

2067
02:02:17,040 --> 02:02:17,560
Speaker 6: It's all of you.

2068
02:02:17,800 --> 02:02:20,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and I appreciate it, Chris very much. It's

2069
02:02:20,360 --> 02:02:26,800
Speaker 1: undoubtedly the tapestry of Undoubtedly the soundtrack of being from

2070
02:02:26,840 --> 02:02:29,880
Speaker 1: Indiana is Don Fisher's voice. I mean, that's it's just

2071
02:02:30,000 --> 02:02:31,560
Speaker 1: the way it is. By the way, speaking of that,

2072
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:33,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should say this or not,

2073
02:02:33,720 --> 02:02:38,400
Speaker 1: but I'm going to My understanding is Don Indiana game

2074
02:02:38,440 --> 02:02:42,560
Speaker 1: tonight taking on Michigan, and Don Fisher is on his

2075
02:02:42,720 --> 02:02:45,080
Speaker 1: way back from the game but has a flight delay,

2076
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:46,840
Speaker 1: so we'll see whether or not he's doing the game tonight.

2077
02:02:46,840 --> 02:02:48,800
Speaker 1: I would assume John Herrick would be doing it if

2078
02:02:48,880 --> 02:02:51,280
Speaker 1: Fish is not. I don't know if I'm privy to

2079
02:02:51,320 --> 02:02:53,640
Speaker 1: give that out, but I just did. Uh, But Chris,

2080
02:02:53,720 --> 02:02:55,440
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. In turn. You know, the only

2081
02:02:55,480 --> 02:02:57,800
Speaker 1: thing that now that I do games for regularly or

2082
02:02:57,840 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 1: sporting off its regularly would be the Indie five hundred.

2083
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:04,960
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean I have, Yes, I have

2084
02:03:05,080 --> 02:03:09,720
Speaker 1: called like winning passes for the race, and I will

2085
02:03:09,760 --> 02:03:12,040
Speaker 1: simply say I can't speak for Don, but for me personally,

2086
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't remember calls that I make, and if people

2087
02:03:15,160 --> 02:03:16,720
Speaker 1: reference it, I'm like, I don't remember that that's how

2088
02:03:16,760 --> 02:03:18,320
Speaker 1: I said it, And if I hear it, I hate

2089
02:03:18,360 --> 02:03:21,000
Speaker 1: my voice so much that it's hard to hear. But

2090
02:03:21,120 --> 02:03:24,360
Speaker 1: it is very flattering, albeit surreal, to think that people

2091
02:03:24,440 --> 02:03:27,200
Speaker 1: may listen to that years later, if they're watching a

2092
02:03:27,280 --> 02:03:31,200
Speaker 1: video or something about the five hundred Jim joins us

2093
02:03:31,480 --> 02:03:32,120
Speaker 1: Hi Jim.

2094
02:03:33,200 --> 02:03:37,640
Speaker 20: Hi Jake as per usual great show. I would like

2095
02:03:37,800 --> 02:03:43,120
Speaker 20: to think we should pause and remember all those fans

2096
02:03:43,160 --> 02:03:47,760
Speaker 20: who attended games for years, bought season tickets and are

2097
02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:50,800
Speaker 20: no longer with us. And I think there's an awful

2098
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:54,080
Speaker 20: lot of happy people looking down and smiling today.

2099
02:03:55,080 --> 02:03:56,880
Speaker 1: Is there anybody, Jim that comes to mind for you

2100
02:03:56,960 --> 02:03:59,360
Speaker 1: when you think of that, Oh.

2101
02:03:59,360 --> 02:04:01,320
Speaker 8: You've led right, didn't do it? Yes?

2102
02:04:01,560 --> 02:04:06,200
Speaker 20: Two of them, my father Hearssel Disney and doctor Robert Curtly.

2103
02:04:07,400 --> 02:04:08,760
Speaker 1: Okay give me those names again.

2104
02:04:10,480 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 8: Hersl h U R S C. L.

2105
02:04:12,440 --> 02:04:15,800
Speaker 20: Disney, d is n E Y my father who was

2106
02:04:15,880 --> 02:04:19,120
Speaker 20: a member of the Who's your hundred club, and I

2107
02:04:19,280 --> 02:04:21,480
Speaker 20: used to laugh and say, Dad, you know that's that's

2108
02:04:21,560 --> 02:04:22,360
Speaker 20: my inheritance.

2109
02:04:22,400 --> 02:04:23,080
Speaker 8: You're donating.

2110
02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:29,080
Speaker 20: And longtime season ticket holder for both basketball and football.

2111
02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:35,160
Speaker 20: And doctor Robert Curtly, a family physician who was a ardent.

2112
02:04:36,200 --> 02:04:37,240
Speaker 20: I you football fan.

2113
02:04:37,480 --> 02:04:40,080
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Jim, along with that list that you

2114
02:04:40,240 --> 02:04:45,240
Speaker 1: just mentioned, Okay. Bob Jenkins, who we talked about radio

2115
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:48,600
Speaker 1: voices that did the ND five hundred for years, of course,

2116
02:04:48,720 --> 02:04:51,240
Speaker 1: was the chief announcer and did television as well. And

2117
02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:52,840
Speaker 1: every year at the end of the year they're in

2118
02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:55,880
Speaker 1: the racing season, Bob would say, Jake, I just want

2119
02:04:55,960 --> 02:04:58,360
Speaker 1: to know how I use football teams going to be

2120
02:04:59,320 --> 02:05:04,200
Speaker 1: He loved I football. David Benner, the late David Benner.

2121
02:05:05,840 --> 02:05:07,480
Speaker 1: Some of the other names that were brought up today

2122
02:05:07,560 --> 02:05:11,080
Speaker 1: from callers Bob Johnson, Terry Hutchins, which is a great

2123
02:05:11,440 --> 02:05:15,120
Speaker 1: call born in California, but understood the passion of Indiana

2124
02:05:15,160 --> 02:05:19,080
Speaker 1: football when he began covering the program. Eric Metz excuse me,

2125
02:05:19,160 --> 02:05:26,880
Speaker 1: Earl metzger Ed Terrell or Terrell some of the names

2126
02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:29,600
Speaker 1: I wrote down here and I hope I'm pronouncing them correctly.

2127
02:05:29,800 --> 02:05:42,160
Speaker 1: Tim Bragg, Terry Cole, Hank Pogue, Ralph Rice Senior, Jane Zebrendan.

2128
02:05:42,640 --> 02:05:46,560
Speaker 1: I hope I'm pronouncing these correctly. But for those that

2129
02:05:46,760 --> 02:05:49,080
Speaker 1: called in and I appreciate it, those are among the

2130
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:55,720
Speaker 1: names that we discussed and what it means. You don't

2131
02:05:55,760 --> 02:06:01,640
Speaker 1: have to be a diehard football fan. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to be like my buddy Brian that said it so

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Speaker 1: perfectly on television, it's surreal, and then he paused and said,

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Speaker 1: but it's real, and it is. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: be somebody that was there for every game of the

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Speaker 1: Doldrooms to understand the beauty of it. And there's a

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Speaker 1: beauty of it, everything from the character with which they

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Speaker 1: did it, which is probably by no surprise, but it

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Speaker 1: represented everything that we are as a people in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: We just have to work a little harder and we

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Speaker 1: want people to know that we're proud of who we

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Speaker 1: are and where we're from, and that's what made it special.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely what made it special. I'll read a few texts,

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Speaker 1: read a few tweets, and we may do a crossover next.

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Speaker 11: Pleace is Query in Company on ninety three five and

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Speaker 11: one oh seven five.

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Speaker 1: The Fan, the Indiana Hoosiers, the National Champions, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of about it that you wonder where

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Speaker 1: you go from here. And I don't think Indiana's going away.

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Speaker 1: I mean it would be foolish to think that. I

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Speaker 1: do think that we could now see kind of this

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Speaker 1: Many dynasty, if you will, And by that I mean

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Speaker 1: I don't mean Indiana Many Dynasty. I mean I think

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Speaker 1: you're going to have turn of rotation of teams Indiana

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. You know, Texas Tech is

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Speaker 1: loading up in the portal because they've got all kinds

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Speaker 1: of money, and I think you're going to have kind

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Speaker 1: of this cycle, if you will, of money coming through

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Speaker 1: from different programs. One team's going to load all in

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Speaker 1: one year, than the next year, another team's going to

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Speaker 1: load all in, and you're going to get you know,

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Speaker 1: Indiana right now is cleaning up in the portal, and

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Speaker 1: then other teams will do so and you'll kind of

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Speaker 1: have a rotation. But as long as Kurt Signetti is

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Speaker 1: in Bloomington, and I don't see any reason at this

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Speaker 1: point why he wouldn't, because yes, you know, there were

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Speaker 1: people like he could leave for Alibi, he could leave whatever.

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Speaker 1: And what did he say, We're building a superpower here,

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Speaker 1: and it's here. They're not building it. It's built. This

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Speaker 1: wasn't out of nowhere. I mean I saw people saying,

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Speaker 1: like comparing it to other things, and I'm thinking, no,

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Speaker 1: it this started last year. And I think that Indiana

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Speaker 1: might have kind of learned a little bit their lesson

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Speaker 1: from last year. In terms of the way that they

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Speaker 1: played against Notre Dame. They were a little conservative and

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Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, last night, you think

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Speaker 1: about it, they went they were not conservative on that.

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Speaker 1: That was a fourth and five, They go forward and

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Speaker 1: they score, and for all intent and purposes, that was

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Speaker 1: game over. But I'll be honest with you when and

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Speaker 1: I know Miami had a shot back, I never I

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Speaker 1: did not think that Miami was going to go out

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Speaker 1: and scoo. I've watched plenty football games wrong, like this

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Speaker 1: team's going to go on score. I did not think

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Speaker 1: that about Miami. I truly felt Indiana was going to

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Speaker 1: keep them out of the end zone, because that's what

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Speaker 1: they've done all year, and Indiana has won games by

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Speaker 1: forcing teams to make a mistake when they most need

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Speaker 1: the team to make a mistake. And it was perfectly

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Speaker 1: symbolic that that's how they won yesterday, Greg regsdraw is

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Speaker 1: in for JMV. My understanding is JV circling somewhere over

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati and again. Don Fisher apparently also delayed on his

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Speaker 1: way back from Miami. But the crossover brought to you

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Speaker 1: by the good guys that love heating and air lovedash

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Speaker 1: HBAC dot com. The website three one seven three one

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Speaker 1: is the telephone number. And Rake, I know I saw

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Speaker 1: you earlier this morning. You're probably still in the same

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Speaker 1: disbelief as I correct. Correct.

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Speaker 31: The line I keep coming back to is the UH

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Speaker 31: Live movie Hoosiers UH and Norman Dale asked about going

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Speaker 31: to the state finals, and it's kind of like me

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Speaker 31: and you going to the moon.

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Speaker 1: Yep that it was never something I thought about. With

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Speaker 1: IU football.

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Speaker 31: The goal was always hey, maybe you might look into

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Speaker 31: a Rose Bowl again at some point and time, and

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Speaker 31: national championship was never a thought, never a goal. Yet

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Speaker 31: here we are twenty five months after Kurtzignetti walked into

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Speaker 31: assembly hall and said produce sucks, but so does Ohio

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Speaker 31: State in Michigan, And twenty five months later, Indiana University

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Speaker 31: owns a national championship in football.

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Speaker 1: That's remarkable. Insane. And I think that you know he

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Speaker 1: knew when he said that that he had to He

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Speaker 1: walked in and looked around and basically said, somebody's got

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Speaker 1: to redo the wallpapering in this place, right, And I

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Speaker 1: think you know he had mentioned did Kurtz Signetti that

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Speaker 1: at one point he gambled on himself when he left

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Speaker 1: a high paying job at Alabama to go become a

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Speaker 1: head coach at a lesser spot. He took a gamble

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Speaker 1: on himself. He gambled on himself again when he made

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Speaker 1: that statement, because he put the heat on himself. But

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Speaker 1: he had to let Indiana fans know if I I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that, no one's gonna believe.

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Speaker 31: There's different markers you can use to talk about this

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Speaker 31: wild turnaround in one of the greatest turnaround stories in

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Speaker 31: the history of North American sports. I could even shrink

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Speaker 31: that field even more. What Big Ten media days are

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Speaker 31: in July? Right, July of twenty twenty four, Indiana was

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Speaker 31: picked to finish seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: That's right in the Big Ten. That's right, and their

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Speaker 1: national champs eighteen months later. That's crazy. Rake will carry

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Speaker 1: you home. He will be taking over here in just

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes and we will be back with

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Speaker 1: you at noon tomorrow. As always, I thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to Query and Company, and I will set the

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Speaker 1: professionalism aside. Hoo Hoo's yours. We'll talk to you and

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Speaker 1: Moon tomorrow