Speaker 1: The ride with JMV. I'm gonnaway ninety three five and
Speaker 1: one oh seven five the fan.
Speaker 2: Hey, Caleb, look behind me right here. This is what
Speaker 2: happens when somebody turns the TV off in here. I
Speaker 2: told you to probably I don't care. Look no, I'm
Speaker 2: making light of it. Right here. This is what happens
Speaker 2: when you jack with stuff in here. All right, at
Speaker 2: the very least, tell one of us you have jacked
Speaker 2: with it. I should have done it. Don't jack with
Speaker 2: it at all. There you go. It is off officially now,
Speaker 2: So what happens? No, I've ripped. I have ripped. I
Speaker 2: have sent out a scathing text of rippage. Andy Moore
Speaker 2: Automotive Group hotline. Greg Rakestraw joins us right now, Gregor,
Speaker 2: are you going to be in for me this week?
Speaker 2: Can you wait until I have a decision a little
Speaker 2: bit later on? Are you want to came on Friday?
Speaker 3: My agent has gotten a hold of me and said
Speaker 3: that your agent is working on a day off for you,
Speaker 3: but nothing has been confirmed at this time.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll get back with you. I've got to ask
Speaker 2: the my eighty year old agent, if this is going
Speaker 2: to work, If that makes sense to you.
Speaker 3: And if and if if, if you want to work
Speaker 3: on Aldi or or you can't go check on mog live.
Speaker 3: But that's okay. I'll take the time with with with
Speaker 3: my occagenarian mom and in laws as well. That's perfectly.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that man. Eddie Garrison just came in and
Speaker 2: fixed the TV right behind me, the scathing Hey Greg,
Speaker 2: look the scathing email. Got the job done? Wuld you
Speaker 2: do do that? That was you? Oh boy?
Speaker 3: In the zoom, I can see myself. I can't see
Speaker 3: you the way that it's worked.
Speaker 4: Right, So what was I missing? Since I can see you?
Speaker 4: Just make me making fun of a situation. That's it,
Speaker 4: which as usual around here. I do that all the time, correct, yea,
Speaker 4: hey yeah. A couple of things too. Colts met with
Speaker 4: the media.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're going to be doing a lot of Colts
Speaker 2: work the preseason games, the postgame shows, which you're going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of added flair on all this too,
Speaker 2: and I think everybody's going to absolutely love it. But
Speaker 2: what did you think about the report? I mean, DeForest
Speaker 2: Buckner was the good. We still kind of wonder about
Speaker 2: the CJ. Allen situation. I don't know how many South
Speaker 2: nerves Colts fans have regarding that Alec Pearce as well,
Speaker 2: and then the words of Chris Ballad anything stand out to.
Speaker 3: You, you know, to be honest with you, I've not
Speaker 3: had a chance to hear Chris. I was not there today.
Speaker 3: I kind of start tomorrow. Normally, move in day is
Speaker 3: the day that I can kind of skip and then
Speaker 3: kind of show up for first day of practice and
Speaker 3: watch it from there. Obviously, I know the transactions that
Speaker 3: took place in terms of pup yesterday, and know about
Speaker 3: the Forest Buckner news. Obviously the buck news is good.
Speaker 3: Ryan learning about Buckner in the course of the preseason.
Speaker 3: We'll know more about that when we see him on
Speaker 3: September thirteenth. As far as CJ and Alec are concerned,
Speaker 3: you know, we kind of knew that Alec Pierce is
Speaker 3: probably up against the time wise in terms of being
Speaker 3: ready for the start of the preseason. To be honest
Speaker 3: with you, as long as he's ready for September the thirteenth,
Speaker 3: you know that he is going to be fine. CJ.
Speaker 3: Allen is one you get nervous just because he needs
Speaker 3: every rep possible. You know, when you're asking a rookie
Speaker 3: to be the leader of your defense and be the
Speaker 3: green dot guy, be the communications guy. Whatever time he
Speaker 3: misses is a problem and sets him behind the eight ball.
Speaker 3: So the Butler news is great, the Pierce news is expected,
Speaker 3: the Allen news, even if it's not long term, that's
Speaker 3: still a setback for him.
Speaker 2: So Greg great Strass on the Andy Moore Auto Motive
Speaker 2: Group potline, he is with us. So there's a lot
Speaker 2: of conversation out there on and Chris Beller was asked
Speaker 2: this question and said he didn't want an extension because
Speaker 2: he has to win this year. I don't think there
Speaker 2: was one offered to him because I would question the
Speaker 2: decision not wanting to sign an extension if it will
Speaker 2: offer to you, regardless of you know where you are
Speaker 2: ten years in and the lack of results. But what
Speaker 2: do you think, Mark wise, this team has to hit
Speaker 2: to justify Chris Ballard's return or this organizational return in general.
Speaker 3: Greg right, I mean again, this needs to be a
Speaker 3: playoff team. That's a side of progress. And I understand
Speaker 3: that they are younger on defense. I understand you don't
Speaker 3: have a Michael Pittman junior of Braden Smith on offense,
Speaker 3: but when again, you've not been a playoff team since
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. It's kind of a past fail class. Are
Speaker 3: you going to make the playoffs or not? I don't
Speaker 3: think it asked to me a division championship. He's certainly
Speaker 3: nice to have the first one of those since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: But I think everything with this Colts organization is are
Speaker 3: you a playoff team this year? I think it's I
Speaker 3: think it's that cut and dry, simple right now, Well, I'll.
Speaker 2: Make it even more cut and dry. Does it not
Speaker 2: depend on again, how you get there? We're about yesterday.
Speaker 2: The optics of the break yard four hundred. The optics
Speaker 2: on TV look terrible. Yet for a NASCAR ray seventy
Speaker 2: k is normally pretty good.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: What about the optics or the way things look? The
Speaker 2: way the Colts get to the postseason and what they
Speaker 2: do if they do make it once they get there.
Speaker 3: We can judge that as we get to it. But
Speaker 3: I still think it is simple. When you have not
Speaker 3: made the playoffs in six years, it is simple did
Speaker 3: you get there or not? Now again, we're talking about
Speaker 3: being there at eight, nine, nine, and eight, whatever the
Speaker 3: case may be, back in your way in I don't know,
Speaker 3: but if you accomplish something in a positive light that
Speaker 3: you haven't done in six years, to me, that tends
Speaker 3: to check enough of a box for me. But I'm
Speaker 3: not the one making the ultimate call. But again, I
Speaker 3: think it's pretty did you make it or not? I
Speaker 3: think that's where the conversation starts.
Speaker 2: As Greg Greg Straw, he's on the Andy More out of
Speaker 2: Montive Group pibline Big Ten media Days going on in
Speaker 2: Chicago right now, and I know that they're touting what
Speaker 2: three consecutive national titles and loving every second of that
Speaker 2: and probably putting that right to the SEC. But there
Speaker 2: has been some significant landscape changing in head coaches in
Speaker 2: the Big Ten. How do you think that ultimately has
Speaker 2: an effect on the league this season?
Speaker 3: You know, it's a good question. And obviously major turnover
Speaker 3: and major question marks at Michigan and how that plays out,
Speaker 3: we'll see. You know, Penn State cratered last year, so
Speaker 3: they made their change in terms of during the course
Speaker 3: of the season and going out and getting somebody you
Speaker 3: know after that. You know, I think obviously Indiana and
Speaker 3: rightfully so they're concern right now is Ohio State, and
Speaker 3: that is the top of the league and Oregon right
Speaker 3: behind that. So do I see anybody that make a
Speaker 3: coaching change kind of affecting those Big three this year?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 3: Probably not. I think for Indiana it's more of all right,
Speaker 3: you know now that the James Madison guys are not
Speaker 3: completely but largely gone. You hit a home run, you
Speaker 3: hit a basis empty grand slam on Mendoza. Frankly, can
Speaker 3: you do it again with Hoover? You know, last year
Speaker 3: we almost thought there was gonna be a regression because
Speaker 3: in our minds we couldn't wrap around the fact Indiana
Speaker 3: can't be that good again for a second year, right,
Speaker 3: and they are actually better. So remember now, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is seemingly pretty legit. This is what we expect
Speaker 3: from Indiana as long as Kurt Signetti is there. So
Speaker 3: if that's the case, and you really think that you're
Speaker 3: a top strata team, then you're concerning yourself with the
Speaker 3: other teams that seemingly are of a similar ilk, and
Speaker 3: that would be Ohio State and Oregon. So our coaching
Speaker 3: change is gonna happen every year. Yes, Are they gonna
Speaker 3: affect the league? Yes, I'm not sure they get to
Speaker 3: a point of effecting the Indiana Hoosiers at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I'm really interested to see, you know, obviously
Speaker 2: the change that mission at a Penn State, the effect
Speaker 2: they have. I think IU has what a stretch of
Speaker 2: I know Nebraska and Michigan right in there too. That's
Speaker 2: going to be a tough one for them. But we
Speaker 2: know what the Hoosias are all about. But what about
Speaker 2: Barry Otam and the boiler Makers? What would be the
Speaker 2: expectations for you? And then what do they need to
Speaker 2: do up there to solidify the choice they made a
Speaker 2: head coach and try to do something about their chief
Speaker 2: rival having all this success, and then everything else positively
Speaker 2: that's going on around them, just not necessarily football wise,
Speaker 2: happening in West Lafayette.
Speaker 3: You used to get the gift of time. You don't
Speaker 3: have that now anymore period, let alone when Signette does
Speaker 3: what he has done in Bloomington. I think going from
Speaker 3: two wins to six is a heck of an ask
Speaker 3: for Purdue. If maybe they just get to four or five,
Speaker 3: I think you also, okay, that is progress made. Getting
Speaker 3: the six wins and getting to a potential bowl game
Speaker 3: would be phenomenal for Purdue. I do think that Barry
Speaker 3: Odam's pretty solid coach. I do think you saw some progress,
Speaker 3: not as much would have wanted to last year with
Speaker 3: that football team. So six might be a stretch. Four
Speaker 3: or five wins you say, okay, progress made, then be
Speaker 3: a bowl team in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: It's a great, great straw with us. Before I'll let
Speaker 2: you go, I'm curious your thoughts on the Big Ten.
Speaker 2: You know I mentioned they touted the three straight national
Speaker 2: titles and then also in the last two years in
Speaker 2: the bowl season eight and two against the SEC. Is
Speaker 2: this a legitimate right now? The Big Ten has just
Speaker 2: simply put a better league football wise than the SEC.
Speaker 3: Absolutely it is now. Is it going to stay that
Speaker 3: way this year or in the future Time will tell,
Speaker 3: But clearly in the age of NIL, I think the
Speaker 3: Big Ten was better position was better prepared for that transition.
Speaker 3: That or it has leveled the playing field and allow
Speaker 3: the Big Ten to catch up and or rocket forward.
Speaker 3: There is too much passion, there is too much money,
Speaker 3: and there is too much talent available to SEC schools
Speaker 3: for this to be a death knell of that league
Speaker 3: and stay behind the Big Ten forever and clearly, to
Speaker 3: paraphrase this show as we saw from SEC media days
Speaker 3: there is a butt herdedness, yes about where they stand
Speaker 3: in comparison to the Big ten right now. So if
Speaker 3: I'm the Big ten, I'm flaunting that too. But SEC
Speaker 3: will have their day. They're going to bounce back at
Speaker 3: some point in time, and clearly because of our conference
Speaker 3: schedules and head to head matchups play, we probably won't
Speaker 3: have a better idea as to exactly how those two
Speaker 3: leagues stack up against each other until we get to
Speaker 3: the middle or end of December.
Speaker 2: By the way, well done with the brickyard work this weekend,
Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. So let's see three and a half
Speaker 3: hours on Saturday and three hours on Sunday, So a
Speaker 3: full week for me at the brickyard. Thanks for hanging
Speaker 3: me for about ninety of.
Speaker 2: Those minutes, yeah, and talking even less, which was a
Speaker 2: beautiful thing. I couldn't. I could not thank you the hard.
Speaker 3: Work on Tuesday, the tape as many interviews as possible
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: Absolutely I get to ask you because you've been a
Speaker 2: long time administrator if you will, or boss in either
Speaker 2: radio or now TV, and what you do so here
Speaker 2: in the building, Ryan Hedrick and Matt Behar. They've been
Speaker 2: nominated for a Marconi for supporting sobriety, which is awesome.
Speaker 2: B one oh five point seven, they've been nominated for
Speaker 2: a Marconi. Now I say they am I also now
Speaker 2: officially nominated for a Marconi. If B one oh five
Speaker 2: point seven, am I on that team?
Speaker 3: John? There is a B one o five seven event
Speaker 3: coming up in matd Hatter in Greenwood on September the twelve.
Speaker 3: Are you or are you not on the marquee for
Speaker 3: that event? Oh?
Speaker 2: My goodness. So now I can put in my profile
Speaker 2: Marconi Award winning or check that nominated Marconi Award nominated award, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nominated broadcaster JMV.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. And to think that happened before that
Speaker 2: ridiculous Spectrum award, Greg, how does that work? That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I've got one of those from twenty years ago, having
Speaker 3: won one cent.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, John, they don't know I existed
Speaker 2: around here. I'd use it as a doorstop, though I
Speaker 2: wish I would win one. No, seriously, though, Marconi Award nominated.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put that in my profile stat but that.
Speaker 3: I think, I think legitimately, So you're on the staff. Now,
Speaker 3: even if it's only six hours a week, Yes, it's
Speaker 3: clearly a very important six hours.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. Thanks Greg, I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Pal see Bud Yeah, b one oh five point sevenminated
Speaker 2: for a Marconi. I believe that to be the highest
Speaker 2: tip of the cap in the industry, the Marconi. And
Speaker 2: then we love both Ryan and Matt. Matt Bear is
Speaker 2: one of my closest dudes aroud here. I absolutely love
Speaker 2: Matt Bear and supporting Sobriety that podcast. Shout out to
Speaker 2: those guys October and New York City. Will I get
Speaker 2: the invite to go? That's the next question. Oh, we
Speaker 2: need to make that happen. So I just want to
Speaker 2: be like all the TV people that say Emmy nominated locally.
Speaker 2: Do you ever see what entails there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they send off tapes to like Cleveland,
Speaker 2: for example, and then in the middle of the night
Speaker 2: people watching go oh yeah. I think that's good enough,
Speaker 2: and that's how you win. Pretty stringent situation of work. Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to turn down the spectrum. I don't
Speaker 2: care the Marconi. I'll be a part of that. Shout
Speaker 2: out to Greg Raystraw for placing my name on the Marquis.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break are the Andy Moore Automotive Group Potline.
Speaker 2: I remember, once upon a time in the summer, so
Speaker 2: much like Caleb Zuver, my producer was Matt Taylor, and
Speaker 2: I go off on a vacation and the Gore Man,
Speaker 2: a mutual friend of ours. He was hosting for me
Speaker 2: that entire week. And then I come back and my
Speaker 2: producer poof, Just like magic, he has gone and since
Speaker 2: that point in time he has been with the Colts organization.
Speaker 2: I believe Matt Taylor, who is now the incredible voice
Speaker 2: of the Colts. Is this year fifteen for you?
Speaker 5: Season fifteen?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: Hard to believe.
Speaker 7: Hard to believe that the week that you were mentioning
Speaker 7: was July fourth of twenty twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is there a reason why I shouldn't hate the
Speaker 2: Gore Man? I like the gor Man. You know this
Speaker 2: a great deal. I should hate him for that. I
Speaker 2: come back and he said, well I knew that Matt
Speaker 2: was going to do what I needed him to do. Well, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: that's a lot. You're gone, Poof, and you were up
Speaker 2: and gone, is it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Just I guess it's just a classic case of uh,
Speaker 7: always always try to be on you know, always put
Speaker 7: your best foot forward, tree everything like it's uh.
Speaker 5: The super Bowl, because it might be your super Bowl,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: And uh, you know, I I don't know if I've
Speaker 7: got some great prophetic story to tell to youngsters, but uh,
Speaker 7: I do mention that, like you never know who's watching,
Speaker 7: you never know who's listening, so always put your best
Speaker 7: foot forward and got me uh got me a gig
Speaker 7: across town if you will. And I do miss you though,
Speaker 7: I mean I miss our. I miss our pre show
Speaker 7: pow wows, our post shows.
Speaker 2: Well, we still talk to one another all the time too,
Speaker 2: I will. Yeah, I'm glad it's like twofold here. I'm
Speaker 2: glad that people aren't privy to our private conversations, but
Speaker 2: sometimes I wish they were.
Speaker 7: You know, yeah, yeah, I mean there were a lot
Speaker 7: like the you know, back in the day, like you know,
Speaker 7: the show rundown stuff at the cubicle. Like I didn't
Speaker 7: I didn't really know.
Speaker 5: Your style.
Speaker 7: I don't know if like that's the right word style
Speaker 7: or you know, you know, getting getting to know your
Speaker 7: personality a little bit. But I just remember like just
Speaker 7: doing what I was doing, you know, like try to
Speaker 7: build a bunch of stuff up for the show and
Speaker 7: book guests and you, I don't know if we're like
Speaker 7: a month and you're like, I don't want to talk
Speaker 7: to these clowns, Like I don't want to talk to
Speaker 7: these guys because I.
Speaker 2: Think I mentioned you're booking too many guests. Good night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to talk to these guys, like,
Speaker 5: get about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah I did say that. Yeah, and they probably felt
Speaker 2: the same way about me, Matt, which is interesting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well no, I mean it's just I mean it's
Speaker 7: it's you. You've got command, man, you don't need any help.
Speaker 7: And I was just trying to feel you out and
Speaker 7: do my part, but you know, just trying to to
Speaker 7: scale it back on on your strengths and what your
Speaker 7: personality is.
Speaker 5: Man, it's great.
Speaker 2: Caleb is a real and then Matt, Caleb also gets
Speaker 2: to play basketball with me all the time. So because
Speaker 2: I gets you like it, I'm I I come in
Speaker 2: here and I go for it, and I read lined here,
Speaker 2: I really read lining and hoop, I'm a complete idiot,
Speaker 2: but it's mostly to me. But yeah, complete idiot out there.
Speaker 2: So he sees it all.
Speaker 5: Well, listen.
Speaker 7: I mean you you've had a you've had a bunch
Speaker 7: of them, uh you know myself and uh, you know
Speaker 7: cast of characters that have gone on to do great things.
Speaker 7: But uh, you know, Caleb's gonna do a great job.
Speaker 7: I can already sense that. You know, he's got a
Speaker 7: good head on his shoulders. But uh, there's there's only
Speaker 7: one person. Let's keep this in mind. There's only one
Speaker 7: person that ever got you, Adam Sandler, and it was
Speaker 7: the it was the very first.
Speaker 5: Time you talked to Adam Sandler. Right, so there will
Speaker 5: only be one radio row.
Speaker 7: At the super Bowl where we knocked it out of
Speaker 7: the park. So just keep that in mind. Caleb, you
Speaker 7: got big shoes.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to find a contact right now. Matt
Speaker 2: so well, Madigan. Matt also had to do that because
Speaker 2: I got this black bald from ESPN Personalities. If you
Speaker 2: remember on radio.
Speaker 5: That made it really easy. I'm not gonna lie. That
Speaker 5: made it great. That was really easy to do that
Speaker 5: for two and a half years.
Speaker 2: I remember, man, this is a true story. We had
Speaker 2: promotions people and they were helping out ESPN in what
Speaker 2: was Pan am Plaza back then, and they were in
Speaker 2: line and they were in front of Scott Van Pelt
Speaker 2: and he was talking to Ryan Rossillo and Rosillo said, Hey,
Speaker 2: are you going to go on with the local show
Speaker 2: JMV this afternoon, And Van Pelt said, we had to
Speaker 2: direct it for management. We're not allowed to go on
Speaker 2: with him this week. Yeah, So it was all about
Speaker 2: the Adam Schefter thing. So you had to navigate through
Speaker 2: the waters of me being black baled from ESPN because
Speaker 2: of what I said about Adam Schefter. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 7: Pretty sure, like you know, that same week where we're
Speaker 7: trying to get guests on, I think it was Radio
Speaker 7: Row the Super Bowl, like you know, Greenberg and Golik.
Speaker 5: They were doing their car washing and going on all.
Speaker 7: Of the ESPN affiliates that were on Radio Row across
Speaker 7: the country, and they would walk by us and I
Speaker 7: think I overheard one of them say, yet, we're not
Speaker 7: allowed to do that one.
Speaker 5: Keep moving, that's what we don't have to We don't
Speaker 5: have to do that one.
Speaker 7: So we'll just go from our three o'clock straight to
Speaker 7: the three thirty and skip to three fifteen because we're
Speaker 7: not doing that one anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I had to do a do a lot of
Speaker 2: meetings leading up to that, and I don't like a
Speaker 2: lot of meetings that was Yeah, I did that all
Speaker 2: to myself right there, but you and you did get
Speaker 2: me Adam Sandler, and if you remember, he was awesome.
Speaker 2: He was absolutely awesome on.
Speaker 7: The show and we still I mean, I think he
Speaker 7: was saying it in jest, but with him, you never
Speaker 7: really know for sure, like is he being serious or not,
Speaker 7: Like there was like a shadow of a doubt because
Speaker 7: remember he invited us. He probably invited more so you
Speaker 7: than me, But I think I was kind of lumped
Speaker 7: in there because I was standing right there when he
Speaker 7: did it.
Speaker 5: But remember he invited us.
Speaker 7: With his cast or crew, like you know, his guys,
Speaker 7: if you will, to play basketball ball the next day
Speaker 7: at well back then it was Conseco. And I remember
Speaker 7: like you called me or I called you the next day,
Speaker 7: which was a Saturday and whatever time, like they were
Speaker 7: going to get together at noon, and you're calling me
Speaker 7: like at eleven, like have you heard anything?
Speaker 5: I haven't heard anything?
Speaker 7: Like, man, how like how sweet would that be to
Speaker 7: play play basketball with?
Speaker 5: Like the cast of where was that show?
Speaker 2: Well, it was mom, it was Mama's Boy. It wasn't.
Speaker 2: I don't it wasn't. It was Mama's Boy. I think
Speaker 2: it is what he was from Ode he and Andy Samberg,
Speaker 2: I think in the film together is what?
Speaker 5: What was the movie where like they all went on
Speaker 5: like summer.
Speaker 2: And I love that one. I love the original of
Speaker 2: that one too.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think he was coming off of that one. But
Speaker 2: the Mama's Boy was the film. And and quick we'll
Speaker 2: get to the cults of the second, but a quick
Speaker 2: side note to that. I was hurt. I got hurt
Speaker 2: that week playing over at what now was Greenwood Christian,
Speaker 2: I think, and I accepted, I said yeah, and his
Speaker 2: handler took my number down.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I took so many drugs that morning. I was so numb.
Speaker 2: My body was so numb because I wanted to play.
Speaker 2: I was hurting and I wanted to play so bad.
Speaker 2: I was so numb, and I sat on the edge
Speaker 2: of my bed for the better part of four and
Speaker 2: a half hours waiting for a call that never came.
Speaker 2: And then the Pacers sent out socials of these guys
Speaker 2: playing right right inside of the field house, and stinking
Speaker 2: Casey Kane's ass was down there from NASCAR. He was
Speaker 2: out there playing like he had all these other guys
Speaker 2: and he did not I didn't get the call. I
Speaker 2: was so bummed by that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I do remember that, Yes, yeah, they sent out
Speaker 7: pictures and videos and I just felt like you were
Speaker 7: You were like the loser kid in high school, sit
Speaker 7: at the table and the cafeteria all by yourself.
Speaker 5: I think the movie I'm thinking of was.
Speaker 2: Grown Ups, Grown Ups and the film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all of.
Speaker 7: His boys were in that movie. But yeah, I think, yeah,
Speaker 7: it was. It's hard to believe that was twenty twelve.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 5: Lots happened then.
Speaker 2: I wish one of these days because that Super Bowl
Speaker 2: most couple of weeks went over so fantastically. You and
Speaker 2: I got to hang out so much. I'd always hope
Speaker 2: that they would get a chance to even do better
Speaker 2: than what took place then. Unfortunately, with all the new
Speaker 2: stadiums popping up and the landscape that is right now, Matt,
Speaker 2: I don't ever see them being able to do that.
Speaker 2: Outside of building another stadium. I think that is going
Speaker 2: to be the next opportunity, which is unfortunate because this
Speaker 2: host market we know it to be great, was so
Speaker 2: damn good over those two weeks. The weather was awesome,
Speaker 2: there is literally no reason not to, other than you're
Speaker 2: going to have to massage those that are all building
Speaker 2: new stadiums, and then that new one in Nashville is
Speaker 2: going to pop and it's going to be in the
Speaker 2: rotation now for the foreseeable future. I just don't see
Speaker 2: there any way outside of a new stadium, that Indy
Speaker 2: gets a Super Bowl again anytime soon.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was actually talking over this maybe back in April
Speaker 7: and May, about this topic specifically with Chris gall you know,
Speaker 7: from visit Indy, and it is a shame that that's
Speaker 7: sort of what it takes now. And you know, I
Speaker 7: think there's some people that say Indianapolis got pretty lucky
Speaker 7: with the weather, which, okay, we did it right, whatever,
Speaker 7: we still from a logistics standpoint, we still kind of
Speaker 7: reset the bar in terms of expectations on what it
Speaker 7: takes to host a big time event like the super Bowl.
Speaker 7: And we we tend to do that with everything anything
Speaker 7: big that comes to town, whether it be Super Bowls
Speaker 7: or All Star Games or Big Ten Championship games.
Speaker 5: Or the College Football Playoff Championship.
Speaker 7: We just sort of reinvent or take the hospitality levels
Speaker 7: to new heights. And so you might be right about
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl, hopefully hopefully we're not right about it, and.
Speaker 5: Then Indianapolis will one day get another shot at it.
Speaker 7: But listen, I think I think the combine is going
Speaker 7: to stay here forever. And I really do think that
Speaker 7: within the next three or four years, we are going
Speaker 7: to get the NFL Draft and that's going to just
Speaker 7: absolutely take over the town.
Speaker 2: So do you have an idea where that would be
Speaker 2: held at all? Would you have any idea, because I
Speaker 2: think we're going to get that as well. Do you
Speaker 2: have any idea where that would be held?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think it'll sort of just be
Speaker 7: spread out between activation sites.
Speaker 5: I mean obviously that the stadium will be heavily involved.
Speaker 5: I think Military Park, the.
Speaker 7: Circle, Downtown, Monument Circle, maybe some stuff going on at
Speaker 7: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It's not just the draft, as
Speaker 7: you know, right, It's not just people sitting around watching
Speaker 7: a screen, you know, and looking for or you know,
Speaker 7: watching people walk across the stage to announce you know,
Speaker 7: draft picks and things like that. It's interactive zones, it's concerts,
Speaker 7: it's it's tons of things to do to make it
Speaker 7: truly an event in the NFL calendar, and I do
Speaker 7: think it's coming to town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too. I'm right there with you on that,
Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, who is the voice of the Colts, and
Speaker 2: you're number fifteen with the Colts organization over there. It's
Speaker 2: kind of enough to join us on the anymore Automotive
Speaker 2: group potline. You've been to so many of these in
Speaker 2: the past, now fifteen years. Did anything stand out to you?
Speaker 2: I think, simply put, there's just going to be a
Speaker 2: prove it mentality once again, and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: conversation and a lot of dialogue that goes on because
Speaker 2: these guys all have to talk to the media here locally,
Speaker 2: but we're really not going to learn or glean anything
Speaker 2: until we actually see this group play together. Because you
Speaker 2: do have a variety of questions without a lot of
Speaker 2: answers right now, but you can still go on the
Speaker 2: first eight plus weeks of the season and kind of
Speaker 2: wonder had that been sustainable, what could have happened a
Speaker 2: year ago.
Speaker 7: No, that's exactly right, and what you just mentioned is
Speaker 7: that's the foundation for all of the decisions the Colts
Speaker 7: front office, you know, ownership made in the off season
Speaker 7: trying to prove or having more confidence that the Colts
Speaker 7: are more like the eight and two Colts from last
Speaker 7: year instead of the zero to seven team that finished
Speaker 7: out the season. And you know, training camp is a
Speaker 7: good stepping stone towards finding out some of these answers
Speaker 7: to a lot of questions that the team has going
Speaker 7: into the season. But you're exactly right, we are just
Speaker 7: definitively not gonna know what, you know, what the answers
Speaker 7: are to some of these big questions before or I
Speaker 7: should say, until you start playing regular season games. You know,
Speaker 7: the questions on Daniel Jones is full health and mobility
Speaker 7: and his ability to put all of the threats or
Speaker 7: the same amount of threats into opposing defenses this year
Speaker 7: that he did all of last year when he was
Speaker 7: healthy those first ten weeks of the season or so.
Speaker 5: Same thing on the defense.
Speaker 7: Questions on Buckner, questions on the viability and the consistency
Speaker 7: of this pass rush.
Speaker 5: At the beginning of the season.
Speaker 7: So it's it's just, I hate to say, it's just
Speaker 7: sort of like wait and see and just get a
Speaker 7: lot of like glimpses along.
Speaker 5: The road here in the month of August as you.
Speaker 7: Progress towards joint practices and preseason games. I mean, all
Speaker 7: that's going to give you indicators, but you're just not
Speaker 7: going to know definitively until that first game of the
Speaker 7: regular season. And not to steal a line from the
Speaker 7: great Rick Venturi, but I love what he says. Week
Speaker 7: one is either a combination of Christmas or Halloween. Right,
Speaker 7: Christmas and that hey, we got all these new toys
Speaker 7: and we're going to see just like how happy all
Speaker 7: of these new gifts make us, or it could be Halloween.
Speaker 5: We're like, oh my god, this could be a.
Speaker 7: Nightmare considering all the questions and just the unknowns you
Speaker 7: have going into every season with roster turnover in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And honestly, Matt, you're going to be at the forefront
Speaker 2: of this. You got the first month of the season,
Speaker 2: first four to five weeks of the season where there
Speaker 2: could be a lot of determination on what this team
Speaker 2: is and what this team is about. By a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks pre Halloween.
Speaker 7: If you will here, Yeah, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 7: those first five games of the season, specifically opponents, you're
Speaker 7: playing a lot of established quarterbacks and a lot of
Speaker 7: good offenses, and these quarterbacks are a mixture of experienced, savvy,
Speaker 7: can get the ball out fast, can read defenses really well,
Speaker 7: they've got mobility, or they're just a combination of all of.
Speaker 5: Those things, right, I mean c J.
Speaker 7: Stroud and Jaydon Daniels, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7: So that's why I said, I mean that pass rush
Speaker 7: inevitably for the Colts. It's got a lot of questions
Speaker 7: on it, but inevitably it's going to get better as
Speaker 7: the season goes on. But to get off to a
Speaker 7: good start and to win some important games early on
Speaker 7: in the season, that's going to help you out in
Speaker 7: terms of the ledger towards making the playoffs and snapping
Speaker 7: this postseason drought. It's got to be able to produce
Speaker 7: at a pretty consistent clip, a viable clip early on
Speaker 7: in the season to affect some of these games and
Speaker 7: try to get off to a good start. And again
Speaker 7: last year, getting off to a good start for the Colts,
Speaker 7: both in terms of the season and also getting off
Speaker 7: to good start within games specifically individually, that wasn't a problem.
Speaker 5: It was just finding ways.
Speaker 7: Down the stretch of games and down the stretch of
Speaker 7: the season to close it out. And Chris Ballard ironically
Speaker 7: closed out his press conference today with talking about closing
Speaker 7: out games and the season. Colts were two and eight
Speaker 7: last year in games against teams that finished over five
Speaker 7: hundred and they were three and seven in games that
Speaker 7: were decided by one score and since twenty twenty three,
Speaker 7: like this is probably the most maybe one of the
Speaker 7: biggest indicators in terms of why the Colts have missed
Speaker 7: the playoffs the last five years, but the last three years, specifically,
Speaker 7: since twenty twenty three, the Colts are combined two to
Speaker 7: ten against the Jaguars and Texans.
Speaker 5: You got to start beating good.
Speaker 7: Teams and you got to start winning closer games, and
Speaker 7: no excuses, right, I mean every team deals with personnel losses,
Speaker 7: key personnel losses down the stretch of the season, just
Speaker 7: because of the War of attrition. But you've got to
Speaker 7: find ways to close games out in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 7: and inevitably that's what the NFL is.
Speaker 2: Matt Taylor, you're number fifteen with the Colts play by
Speaker 2: play voice. He's kind of enough to join us on
Speaker 2: the Andy Morrill Automotive Group pile line. You did reference
Speaker 2: the Ravens that is week number one They've had a
Speaker 2: significant change at head coach, so out is John Harball.
Speaker 2: He is now going to the New York Giants. Jesse
Speaker 2: Mentor is in How much do you you feel that
Speaker 2: he can add to the offense with his defensive background?
Speaker 2: I think mostly with Lamar Jackson, But also does it
Speaker 2: concern you that he has a history a resume that
Speaker 2: included Tera Hooade Indiana and Indiana State University as an
Speaker 2: assistant coach. That's quality right there, pal, Let me tell
Speaker 2: you you know what else?
Speaker 7: You know what else is funny about jesse Mentor. I
Speaker 7: don't mean to hijack your show, but I was actually
Speaker 7: looking this up doing some preseason prep on the Ravens
Speaker 7: believe it or not already. But I also did not
Speaker 7: realize that he went to Mount Saint Joe College in Cincinnati,
Speaker 7: so he and I actually played against one another in college.
Speaker 2: You did not he was Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah he was.
Speaker 7: He was a He was a wide receiver at Mount
Speaker 7: Saint Joseph's and I was a outside linebacker at Franklin College.
Speaker 7: They're in the same conference, and we actually shared the
Speaker 7: field together for two games.
Speaker 5: And look at him now, he's.
Speaker 7: The freaking head coach of the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL.
Speaker 5: And but but but did.
Speaker 2: You look what did he do in that game? Was
Speaker 2: it like mark ingele King where he was a wide
Speaker 2: receiver and nobody ever threw the football time?
Speaker 7: It's you know, it's funny you say that, because in
Speaker 7: typical me fashion, I did go down a wormhole of curiosity.
Speaker 7: So I tried to you know, dark web the box
Speaker 7: score from those games and couldn't find him. So I
Speaker 7: actually called the Heartland Conference office to see if I could,
Speaker 7: you know, find fine record of of of those games.
Speaker 7: And the only thing I could find was a old
Speaker 7: Daily Journal right up in small box score from the
Speaker 7: from the two games. And it doesn't make mention of
Speaker 7: him registering catches in those games. So I'm not sure
Speaker 7: if he was a starter or what. But your old
Speaker 7: boy here, your old boy in one of those games
Speaker 7: had a scoop and score now defense defensive touchdown.
Speaker 5: Now we still we got our ass kicked in one
Speaker 5: of those games. But uh I did.
Speaker 7: I did register a big moment, a highlight play if
Speaker 7: you will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, right there, Jesse. We're just going to play
Speaker 2: this out as that was a scoop and score off
Speaker 2: of a catch and fumble and a for jesse mentor
Speaker 2: right there, that's the case, you know what.
Speaker 7: But to answer your question, I really don't think and
Speaker 7: I I kind of see the same same thing or
Speaker 7: say the same thing about the the Houston Texans. I
Speaker 7: don't see much need for a lot of tweaks within
Speaker 7: their offense. Obviously, they just kind of got bad luck
Speaker 7: for most of last year with injuries, and they dropped
Speaker 7: a lot of key games in close games, just like
Speaker 7: the Colts. And you know, I think the Texans are
Speaker 7: right there offensively. You know, the Texans offense for most
Speaker 7: of last year was kind of classified as more clutch
Speaker 7: than prolific because their defense, you know, kind of afforded
Speaker 7: them that ability. But I think, you know, they they've
Speaker 7: addressed their offensive line. They got some key weapons returning.
Speaker 7: They also have some key weapons coming back from injury
Speaker 7: and Tank Dell specifically. And I say the same thing
Speaker 7: about the Ravens. I don't think you need to really
Speaker 7: tweak much in terms of what they got going on.
Speaker 7: They just need to kind of find better luck across
Speaker 7: the board for next season. And that sort of describes
Speaker 7: the Colts schedule for the upcoming years. If you have
Speaker 7: one word, if you're asking me one word described the
Speaker 7: Colt schedule for twenty twenty six, It's deceptive because the
Speaker 7: Cults are playing a lot of teams on their schedule
Speaker 7: that didn't make the playoffs last year that are going
Speaker 7: to be There's no reason to think they won't be
Speaker 7: right there, you know this upcoming season and the Ravens,
Speaker 7: the Bengals, the Chiefs, and the Cowboys. They are solidified
Speaker 7: from the franchise quarterback standpoint, So I think all of
Speaker 7: those teams are very capable of rebounding this year after
Speaker 7: missing the playoffs last year.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm curious about this. So jesse Mentor was
Speaker 2: three years in terre Hote. I think with Trent Miles.
Speaker 2: Was he on the staff with Mike Sandford while in
Speaker 2: terre Hote? Do you know this? Here's the reason why,
Speaker 2: Because Mike Sandford was with Shane Stikin at you on LV?
Speaker 2: Was he not? Is that a dynamic at work here?
Speaker 2: Do we know? I was just kind of looking at
Speaker 2: it at face value, and it looks like maybe there's
Speaker 2: some paths that have been crossed here.
Speaker 5: Probably.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's a really good observation on
Speaker 7: your part. I don't know, I have to go back
Speaker 7: and cross reference the timelines and the resumes there, but
Speaker 7: you've got it pulled up. I think what was was
Speaker 7: Jesse Mentor's first coaching gig right out of school, and
Speaker 7: he would.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. He was the defensive intern in Notre
Speaker 2: Dame in two thousand and six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's a big jump. You know,
Speaker 7: you've you've never coached before ever. Yeah, and then you
Speaker 7: go to Notre I mean, he I'm sure he had
Speaker 7: to have known somebody, but listen, I mean you got
Speaker 7: to play the game, you know what I mean, get
Speaker 7: your foot in the door no matter what, and apologize
Speaker 7: for nothing.
Speaker 5: And then after that you just.
Speaker 2: Well, his dad was his dad was Rick Mentor, who
Speaker 2: was the head coach, And I mean, I'm gonna shure
Speaker 2: that probably carried a little bit of weight as well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I'm not I would things. Absolutely, I
Speaker 2: would like to know, and I probably could get more
Speaker 2: than three words out of Shane's sich And if I
Speaker 2: asked him about that, maybe there's some connection there. I
Speaker 2: just it just occurred to me because you know, I
Speaker 2: know that I've had i'd had, you know, Sandford on
Speaker 2: when when she first got the gig here and we
Speaker 2: talked about him, I kind of wondered if I think
Speaker 2: he was on the staff. He is with Sandford while
Speaker 2: in teryror hold, but interesting to see the least right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's one thing I'm sure you know.
Speaker 6: I mean, the.
Speaker 7: Football, the coaching football profession. Man, it's just one big web.
Speaker 7: It's food, do you know, and right place, right time,
Speaker 7: and then take full advantage of it like he's done
Speaker 7: here now, parlay all of that success now into his
Speaker 7: first head coaching opportunity in the NFL.
Speaker 2: You're number fifteen with the Colts in another year played
Speaker 2: by play voice with the Colts. He's our friend, Matt Taylor.
Speaker 2: How much how much Intel? How much content are you
Speaker 2: going to produce you in Casey value from camp as
Speaker 2: we enter this now for real coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all day, every day, man, anytime there's camp up there,
Speaker 7: we're going to be doing shows, and we're going to
Speaker 7: be doing player interviews and putting that out on video
Speaker 7: and podcast form. And all of our radio shows originate
Speaker 7: from up there.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's uh, summer is over, brother, Summer is over.
Speaker 7: It's it's full speed ahead seven days a week now
Speaker 7: and for the next seven months, and you're just buckling
Speaker 7: up along for the ride. It's no matter what good
Speaker 7: bad are indifferent. It's always interesting. There's always a lot
Speaker 7: of storylines. And you know, doubling back to your tarat
Speaker 7: Hat thing. I was down to your neck of the
Speaker 7: woods last week. Turn out downtown tarot Hate. It's really
Speaker 7: really nice, man, I know, really really nice, pleasant area.
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed being.
Speaker 2: Down my U my daughter is over there. I think
Speaker 2: both Laney and Blake are over there today at MS.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been to Mauger's over there?
Speaker 5: You know what that is.
Speaker 2: It is kind of an Irish bar that if you
Speaker 2: remember the Irish line in Bloomington, very reminiscent of the
Speaker 2: Irish line in Bloomington. H you know, Ol' Riley's a
Speaker 2: little bit old Riley's flavor if you want to mix
Speaker 2: all those together. But it's it's old school and it's
Speaker 2: pretty cool, cool place. It's called m mauger. I believe
Speaker 2: that they are over there in the thch right now.
Speaker 2: How's Tara Hate Radio going? They need to put the
Speaker 2: JMV takeover the Marconi Award, nominated along with B one
Speaker 2: oh five point seven JMV Takeover on on a Saturday
Speaker 2: night over there somewhere on the thch.
Speaker 7: Well, I was actually I was testing it on the
Speaker 7: way home, so you know, driving over on seventy from
Speaker 7: tarat Hoe back to Indy, I was testing it.
Speaker 5: So we're talking about ninety eight five the river. Yes,
Speaker 5: in tara Hote. Great station.
Speaker 7: I think that they play classic rock and some alternative stuff.
Speaker 7: But I mean I got that thing well past the
Speaker 7: Greencastle exit.
Speaker 2: Man, beautiful.
Speaker 7: It's it's almost it's almost a Monrovi in terms of reach.
Speaker 5: So I like that great. I like that a great.
Speaker 2: Deal, great affiliate in Western Indiana for real, right there?
Speaker 2: Love me some thh All right, Matt, we'll stay in touch.
Speaker 2: I'm not up there until the nineteenth and the twentieth
Speaker 2: back to but what are you doing, man? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll just schedule the practices. You know. I don't want
Speaker 2: to sit up there in an empty parking lot or anything.
Speaker 7: So yeah, you don't want to sit there by yourself
Speaker 7: for three hours?
Speaker 2: Really rather not? No, So nineteenth and the twentieth I
Speaker 2: shall be up.
Speaker 7: There well when the joint practices start the big guns
Speaker 7: come out, So just take that as a sign of respect.
Speaker 2: Proud of you, my brother, stay at it.
Speaker 5: I know you will, all right, Man, Good to be
Speaker 5: with you anytime.
Speaker 2: Matt Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colds. You're number fifteen
Speaker 2: with the organization, Matt Man. A lot of good stories
Speaker 2: right there, the mentor stiching dynamic. I may have to
Speaker 2: have Caleb do a little research on that right there,
Speaker 2: especially with Indiana state of mind. I'm curious about that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was super interesting to hear about.
Speaker 2: Was it because I just thought I half asked that
Speaker 2: I never lie meantime of the Andymore Automotive Group potline,
Speaker 2: first time I'm a s show with on three covers
Speaker 2: college football, really athletics in general. Great perspective, and Pete
Speaker 2: Nakos joins us. Now, Hey, Pete, thank you for the time.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 6: I'm good? Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Guys, let's dial in to the Big ten. There's been
Speaker 2: a lot so touting three straight titles and recent dominance,
Speaker 2: if you will, over the SEC. It seems like that
Speaker 2: if you've done it, you might as well talk it up,
Speaker 2: which is exactly what's taking place in Chicago. So far.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, Tony Tatiti get up there today standing
Speaker 9: next to the three consecutive national championship trophies, and the
Speaker 9: Big Ten heard everything the SEC had to say last
Speaker 9: week about how the SE still ce top the down
Speaker 9: is just as good as any conference in the country,
Speaker 9: And yeah, you know, the Big Ten. I don't know
Speaker 9: if they took offense to it, but I'll sell you
Speaker 9: one thing.
Speaker 6: They're going to stand by.
Speaker 9: The fact that they won three consecutive national championships and
Speaker 9: they're going to boast that plenty this week at their
Speaker 9: media days in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Is this going to rally the SEC troops you think
Speaker 2: within that conference even more so? Motivation wise?
Speaker 6: I don't know about that. I don't know.
Speaker 9: I think Indiana's national title probably he's all the motivation
Speaker 9: they need.
Speaker 6: But we'll see. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 9: You would have thought they would rallied go between the
Speaker 9: Ohio State and Michigan with national titles and an Indiana
Speaker 9: the hood and next seat of the year after and
Speaker 9: SEC didn't even make the national title game.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 2: Pete Dakos joins US on three Covers College Football Covers
Speaker 2: The Big Ten. You mentioned IU, the defending national champions
Speaker 2: and they did reload and the transfer portal and NIL
Speaker 2: when you have that allows you, if you're Kurt Signetti,
Speaker 2: to reload. Now a part of the process, Pete is
Speaker 2: also selecting at a high level, which I think Kurt
Speaker 2: Signetti has been fantastic at doing, selecting guys that fit
Speaker 2: within the program. Now in the past he's gone with
Speaker 2: guys that he's known and guys that are a little
Speaker 2: bit more veteran. How does this group coming in you think,
Speaker 2: by example, relate to the past and are they capable
Speaker 2: of getting to the point in which we saw them
Speaker 2: get to maybe not win it all once again? The
Speaker 2: playoff wise? Is that a playoff team from what you
Speaker 2: see on paper?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I love this how the Kurt signality
Speaker 9: brings back. You add Josh Suger, the TCU quarterback, there's
Speaker 9: definitely any some questions about him. We'll see how the
Speaker 9: season opens up and how he looks. You know, we
Speaker 9: can debate this another day, but I think there's plenty
Speaker 9: people out there who say that Nana Mendoza was a
Speaker 9: more highly teted quarterback out in the portal. But there's
Speaker 9: no doubt in the experience that Josh Houger has. I
Speaker 9: love what they do. Bringing in Nick Marsh at wide receiver.
Speaker 9: I think that he can be a lecturer, can probably
Speaker 9: add a layer to the receiver room that maybe wasn't
Speaker 9: even there last year. And that's saying something. With everything
Speaker 9: that Elijah ster Ratt and Charlie Becker did, they feel
Speaker 9: really good about where the running back room sits. I know,
Speaker 9: Turbot Richard, there's some excitement there. And then you know,
Speaker 9: defensively they relod Harder Smith's back on the offensive line.
Speaker 9: Like I haven't sat down and tried to fill out
Speaker 9: of college football playoff racket yet, but I would tell
Speaker 9: you right now if I did it today, Indiana would
Speaker 9: be in the mix and I'd have a hard time
Speaker 9: picking against them to win the national title until Kurt
Speaker 9: Signaty proves differently.
Speaker 2: It's a funny pete too. You look at IU and
Speaker 2: they also reloaded. One of the big things about this
Speaker 2: team is upfront on both sides, and they look as
Speaker 2: stout as anybody up front on both sides. Once again,
Speaker 2: and you know a lot of the old school college
Speaker 2: coaches or coaches in general will tell you that that
Speaker 2: is necessary, but we saw it actually work for this group,
Speaker 2: certainly the past two years, and worked to the highest
Speaker 2: level a year ago. So you combine that with I
Speaker 2: also think the relation you have with keeping your top
Speaker 2: coordinators in this landscape of college athletics and especially college football,
Speaker 2: that is so incredibly important.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so huge.
Speaker 9: And you know, everyone likes to try to say that
Speaker 9: the number that Indiana had on last year's Robsters higher.
Speaker 6: Than it was. It was eighteen to twenty million. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's not a lot of money.
Speaker 9: I think that really gives you a really good insight
Speaker 9: into how much Art did with what he had to work.
Speaker 6: With, and how he evaluated video.
Speaker 9: And take and stuff, and that roster. You know this
Speaker 9: year is going to cost more than that. I've been told.
Speaker 9: I think it's twenty eight to thirty million. It's still
Speaker 9: not like the highest in college football, far from that,
Speaker 9: but it's super competitive and they put the numbers to work.
Speaker 9: I mean, you don't get back Carter Smith's cheek, you
Speaker 9: don't bring back Charlie Becker she played Indiana, or all
Speaker 9: the good.
Speaker 6: They have done in the portal too.
Speaker 9: They've also stepped up in terms of paying what's necessary
Speaker 9: to retain the talent that was either winning national title.
Speaker 2: In the first place, and that talent includes their coordinators.
Speaker 2: But I think that's also two peeed a part of
Speaker 2: the selection process which people say, Yeah, it's great to
Speaker 2: have a bunch of money, We're just going to have
Speaker 2: a windfall of cash and drop it on players and
Speaker 2: bring them in. But there is so much more to
Speaker 2: the strategy here. You have to make sure you bring
Speaker 2: dudes in they're going to fit the profile of your team,
Speaker 2: and Kurt Signetti has done that so far in the
Speaker 2: first two years at an incredible level. I think that's
Speaker 2: most important here. Sometimes even above the cash you have
Speaker 2: to spend is who you bring in.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know what Mike Shanahan Brant Haynes have brought
Speaker 9: in terms of the toughness and systematically and understanding what
Speaker 9: SIG wants to do, I think is it's off the
Speaker 9: charts in terms of what those two do from the
Speaker 9: top down in terms of just kind of building the
Speaker 9: culture that they want Indiana football to be in. I
Speaker 9: think it's really important enough too, Like Brian Haynes and
Speaker 9: Branch like those guys, I mean, Mike Shannan, Brian Hanes
Speaker 9: like those aren't like new guys, the Kurt Signetti wave
Speaker 9: thought like they've been around it before. And I think
Speaker 9: that they came in and like instantly knew what the
Speaker 9: expectation was going to be and knew that, you know,
Speaker 9: not winning games like like that wasn't going to be okay.
Speaker 9: I think that had a lot to do with the
Speaker 9: reason why they've won so quickly. Now, you know, we'll
Speaker 9: see how year three goes. And I'll just tell you
Speaker 9: this right now, we're going to be talking about you know, Mike,
Speaker 9: Shaneyan and Brian has a lot in the next six
Speaker 9: months in terms of coaching fair sale, and they might
Speaker 9: they might be two of the hottest names when it
Speaker 9: comes to, you know, seeing what job's open and where
Speaker 9: they fit in.
Speaker 2: And is Pete still with us? Right here? Did Pete
Speaker 2: and Nacos disappear? He's still on the line, but we
Speaker 2: lost it who and he was gone, I need more
Speaker 2: Pete content right here, So Caleb get after that and
Speaker 2: you let me know what he's back on. That's okay
Speaker 2: because he was talking about, you know the fact that
Speaker 2: that I was able to retain coordinators and and you're
Speaker 2: going to be watching jobs that become open with these
Speaker 2: coordinators in mind, but there also has been a significant
Speaker 2: shakeup in the landscape of the Big Ten coaching, most
Speaker 2: notably in an Arbor and Happy Valley with known guys
Speaker 2: across college football. So how much will that change? Pete
Speaker 2: rejoins us now Pete Nacos have on three on the
Speaker 2: anymore Automotive Group potline. You alluded to the fact that
Speaker 2: you know the landscape of college coaches. You're going to
Speaker 2: be watching the coordinators down in Bloomington, but we have
Speaker 2: seen that change in an Arbor and also with Penn State,
Speaker 2: with both the Wolverines and the Nitley Lions. How do
Speaker 2: you think the year number ones in that change will
Speaker 2: go in both destinations?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know where I went for thirty seconds,
Speaker 9: but happy to be backt at Penn State. Super interested
Speaker 9: to see what Matt Campbell does. I think the vacations
Speaker 9: are going to be so high and the schedule sets
Speaker 9: up well for them to win right away. I think
Speaker 9: my bigger question for Matt Campbell might end up being
Speaker 9: what's her two look like? Because of all the talent
Speaker 9: you brought in from Iowa State, I don't think winning
Speaker 9: games is going to be an issue off of that
Speaker 9: in State College and then Michigan Kyle Weddingham. It's going
Speaker 9: to be all about restoring the culture in the tradition
Speaker 9: that is Michigan football.
Speaker 6: I'm not worried about the talent there either. I think
Speaker 6: they'll win.
Speaker 9: The biggest question is does Bryce under would take the
Speaker 9: step that everyone wants him to make this fall, got
Speaker 9: a new offense coordinator and Jason back. There's some excitement
Speaker 9: about what that can look like, but similar to how
Speaker 9: we're talking about Josh Suber, I think we kind of
Speaker 9: all have to see it on the field before we
Speaker 9: can really make any final decisions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny too. Underwood was just you know, it's
Speaker 2: been handed the keys what you would understand. Sometimes that
Speaker 2: is really good as we understand it right now, but
Speaker 2: sometimes that's not the best. Sometimes you do want substantial competition.
Speaker 2: Do you believe in this year? Number one theory with
Speaker 2: a new head coach is saying, all right, you're the guy,
Speaker 2: we're riding on you. I guess it has to be
Speaker 2: that way, but sometimes that's not the best way to
Speaker 2: go about it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's kind of how it's going to
Speaker 9: have to work at some places to be honest with you, right,
Speaker 9: That's that's the challenge of this transfer portal era of
Speaker 9: if you only at that one quarterback that you believe
Speaker 9: can start, whether they're ready or not, you kind of
Speaker 9: throw them out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, I mean it's such a year to
Speaker 2: year thing too. Do you think Oregon bounces back because
Speaker 2: they had everybody thought in the Peach Bowl they'd have
Speaker 2: something more for IU? After IU beat them during the
Speaker 2: regular season out out in Eugene. What do you think
Speaker 2: they have coming back? What do you like about their
Speaker 2: squad which is also a high dollar nil squad with
Speaker 2: a great deal of talent on both sides of the football.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know, I just said five minutes ago. I'm
Speaker 9: not going to take against Kurtz signetty. But if there's
Speaker 9: a team that I would pick over Indiana right now
Speaker 9: or give it a lot of thought, probably the Oregon.
Speaker 6: I love what they have coming back.
Speaker 9: Dante Moore's arguably the best returning quarterback in college football.
Speaker 9: I think it's time that Dan Lannon gets a thing done.
Speaker 9: He's proven year in year out that he can win
Speaker 9: at Oregon. Now he's got to kind of put it
Speaker 9: together in the playoffs. We'll see if he can do
Speaker 9: it this year. I think this roster, it has all
Speaker 9: the returning talent on paper for them to go deep
Speaker 9: in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny about Dante Moore. Sometimes the worst moments
Speaker 2: lead to the best moments, and he had some bad
Speaker 2: moments late, and you kind of wonder if that learning experience,
Speaker 2: combined with the talent you're talking about across the board
Speaker 2: with this Ducks team can lead to something a little
Speaker 2: bit more certainly than what we even witnessed a year ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 2: So again, Pete Nikos joins us on the Andy Moore
Speaker 2: Automotive Group podline. Give me some outliers in the Big Ten,
Speaker 2: some teams that you believe that are able, ready, willing,
Speaker 2: and able to make some major moves that we're not
Speaker 2: talking about here at the start.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think Washington has the potential to really be
Speaker 9: a college football playoff dark course, the fact that the
Speaker 9: man Williams is back in Washington after an eventful seventy
Speaker 9: two hours in January where he was.
Speaker 6: Going into portaland then he didn't.
Speaker 9: I like how things look for the Huskies, you know, elsewhere.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I would call them an outlier.
Speaker 6: You're gonna hear a lot.
Speaker 9: Of buzz about them this week, how USC could make
Speaker 9: the playoff. I'm sold on the Trojans making the playoffs yet,
Speaker 9: but I think they're going to be a much improved
Speaker 9: in a make or break year for Lincoln Riley and USC.
Speaker 9: I also feel like I can't call this team an
Speaker 9: outlyer because they're always in it year in, year out.
Speaker 9: But I think Iowa and Kirk Ference will be relevant
Speaker 9: yet again. I think that kirk Ference has found ways
Speaker 9: to continue to build consistent programs.
Speaker 6: At Iowa.
Speaker 9: And then, if I have to give you one more
Speaker 9: other one, I'm excited about Wisconsin. I think the schedule
Speaker 9: sets up well for them to win a lot of
Speaker 9: football games. We'll see how they look in Week one
Speaker 9: against the notre A team that they're going to play.
Speaker 6: At lambeau Field. That could be ugly, I think.
Speaker 9: But even if Week one doesn't go great, ahead, the
Speaker 9: schedule sets a blow for them to win some football games.
Speaker 9: And they invested like double the amount of money or
Speaker 9: something like that, and this year's roster compared to where
Speaker 9: it was, They're bringing Colton Joseph, this electric dual threat
Speaker 9: quarterback from Oldaminion, who, if he can stay stay healthy,
Speaker 9: I think would be a big bust for Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: So going into year five, you alluded to Lincoln Riley
Speaker 2: at USC. He's had a lot of talent. The results
Speaker 2: certainly have not been there. Has this been a rather
Speaker 2: large disappointment so far for you and others that cover
Speaker 2: college football.
Speaker 6: I don't know about a disappointment.
Speaker 9: The fact that they haven't made the playoff and he's
Speaker 9: going into year five, I would probably say is a
Speaker 9: disappointment for the USC administration. I also think that Lincoln
Speaker 9: Riley took over at USC during one of the most
Speaker 9: turbulent times in college football with NIL in the portal,
Speaker 9: and I know that NIL hasn't exactly gone perfectly at USC.
Speaker 6: They've come along ways, and.
Speaker 9: The money is where it needs to be out of
Speaker 9: put together the kind of roster they need. I will
Speaker 9: tell you, though, that this is like make or break
Speaker 9: like I will not be surprised if they're in the playoffs,
Speaker 9: and I won't be surprised if we're having a conversation
Speaker 9: in November about the fact that Lincoln.
Speaker 6: Riley's on the hot seat. It's going to go one,
Speaker 6: one or two ways.
Speaker 2: It seems like it has to, because you go from
Speaker 2: Oklahoma to USC you have those expectations, and then I
Speaker 2: think you look at the back to back to back
Speaker 2: national titles. You also look at what else is going
Speaker 2: on within your own league, and that becomes problematic too, right,
Speaker 2: because then all of a sudden you're I mean, no,
Speaker 2: it was kind of unforeseen circumstances. I don't think anybody
Speaker 2: out there felt that they were going to be judged
Speaker 2: against Kurt Signetti and IU the way that they're being
Speaker 2: judged against that program of that head coach right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I completely agree with that.
Speaker 2: It's interesting, to say the least, Barry Odom in Purdue.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you've talked or thought about Purdue,
Speaker 2: but obviously we talk about that football program and trying
Speaker 2: to become re established. Is this a coach in program
Speaker 2: dynamic that you liked and there is Is there any
Speaker 2: way that they gather some footing this season in West Lafayette?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Well, you know, I'll start here. I think Barry
Speaker 9: Odoms the right coach for Purdue football. I think that
Speaker 9: his makeup fits what people want Purdue football to be.
Speaker 9: I think that his ideal way of playing football is
Speaker 9: what I think a successful Purdue football program would look
Speaker 9: like in terms of its physical great trying to, you know,
Speaker 9: smash mouth a little bit. At the same time, I
Speaker 9: think where he stepped in where Ryan Walters left it
Speaker 9: is very different than where Jeff Brown left it, and
Speaker 9: I think that that client they get back to where
Speaker 9: people want pretty.
Speaker 6: Football to be, It's probably going to be a little
Speaker 6: bit longer than some might want it to be.
Speaker 9: He's done a lot in trying to make sure that
Speaker 9: resources are where they need to be for pretty Football
Speaker 9: to put together winning roster. I think that his staff,
Speaker 9: his general manager did some really diligent work and trying
Speaker 9: to get aggressive and add experienced players out of the
Speaker 9: transfer portal. I think the line of scrimmage is going
Speaker 9: to be better than where it was. All that said,
Speaker 9: you still got to play football games in the Big Ten.
Speaker 6: So I think they'll be better. I don't know.
Speaker 9: If the record is going to look massively different. I
Speaker 9: would say that if they make a bowl game this year,
Speaker 9: I'd say that things have gone.
Speaker 6: Extremely well for Barry otom and that.
Speaker 9: I don't know about a surprise, but I think that'd
Speaker 9: be a huge one for Barrier of them if they
Speaker 9: can sweak into a bowl game.
Speaker 2: In closing here, Pete, do you believe in Pat Fitzgerald
Speaker 2: at Michigan State.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't have any.
Speaker 9: I think the person and coach that Pat Fitzgerald is,
Speaker 9: I'm a believer and can win football games in a
Speaker 9: Big ten. I think that we'll see how things go though,
Speaker 9: and you're one at Michigan State. He takes in over
Speaker 9: in a tough situation. I don't think Michigan State is
Speaker 9: where it needs to be to compete in this era.
Speaker 6: Of college football.
Speaker 9: Pat Fitzgerald is going to work his butt off to
Speaker 9: try to get it there.
Speaker 6: But that's going to be a slow build.
Speaker 9: That's not gonna be a you know, we look up
Speaker 9: in November and they're, you know, eight and three or
Speaker 9: something like.
Speaker 6: It's going to be a few years.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I think I think Pat Fitzgerald is similar
Speaker 9: to when I say Barry Odin has the make up
Speaker 9: for Purdue football. I think Pat Fitzgerald is the kind
Speaker 9: of coach you want in Michigan State.
Speaker 6: I think the reality.
Speaker 9: Here with some of these programs that aren't winning the
Speaker 9: number of games that their fans want, I think it's
Speaker 9: probably if you want this thing to be turned around.
Speaker 9: You're probably going to have to give some of these
Speaker 9: coaches a little bit longer of a amount of time than.
Speaker 6: You would want.
Speaker 2: Pete Nakos with us before I let you go pizza.
Speaker 2: On three. This doesn't necessarily have to pertain to the
Speaker 2: Big Ten, but just your overall thought on the biggest
Speaker 2: story you have going in Big Ten related or not,
Speaker 2: just across the college football landscape. What is the biggest
Speaker 2: deal for you as we get set to enter the
Speaker 2: season of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: Man, that's a big question.
Speaker 9: Let's let's keep the college football, not things off the field.
Speaker 9: Biggest question is what does Texas do? I think on paper,
Speaker 9: they're the most talented roster in college football. Can Steve
Speaker 9: Sarkisian execute it and get it done? I think, you know,
Speaker 9: I alluded some other you know topics on here about
Speaker 9: USC and Oregon and things like this. I think that
Speaker 9: this this Texas roster is so well funded, so elite
Speaker 9: and talent as great coaches it needs.
Speaker 6: The Longhorns are.
Speaker 9: Not playing deep into the college football play up answering
Speaker 9: me some really tough questions that people are going to ask,
Speaker 9: what Texas football for the year.
Speaker 2: All right, Pete Nacos with us on three for the
Speaker 2: first time on the show. I appreciate that you get
Speaker 2: a thing you want to direct the people that want
Speaker 2: to get your content too right now, and we'd love
Speaker 2: to have you back on again if you have time to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, would love to come on as much as you
Speaker 9: guys want to have me. You can just find me
Speaker 9: on on dot com.
Speaker 2: Pete, I appreciate you man. Good storylines here to start
Speaker 2: this college football season, and thanks for the input. We'll
Speaker 2: do it again soon, you bet, Thanks so much. Pete
Speaker 2: Nakos of on three. That is a Caleb Zuover original.
Speaker 2: Is he of the new era of college football coverage
Speaker 2: right there?
Speaker 8: I think so at on three is really relevant now
Speaker 8: because they keep up with all the transfer portal, yeah,
Speaker 8: recruiting news like and that's never been more relevant than
Speaker 8: it is right now.
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I thought he was great. That is
Speaker 2: one of the new ones that Caleeb put in the
Speaker 2: rotation right there.