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Speaker 2: part of Football Friday Night number one of the High
Speaker 2: School Football campaign for twenty twenty six. It is from
Speaker 2: Indiana's Sports Talk. Our friend Bob Love, Hello Bob, Hello
Speaker 2: John Hall Aurion, Bob, you look outstanding. I'm looking at
Speaker 2: you right now. I see everything you're doing. The most
Speaker 2: interesting man in the world is Apog right now on Zoom.
Speaker 3: I had to pass inspection in terms of throwing on
Speaker 3: a collared shirt. My wife was saying, I can't believe
Speaker 3: you're actually going to go on the air in a
Speaker 3: T shirt. There's a good T shirt. But she's stepped
Speaker 3: in and said, you need to step up your game
Speaker 3: a tiny bit.
Speaker 2: Pal, They're lucky on this show, Bob, that I have
Speaker 2: a shirt on altogether.
Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you they're lucky. They are.
Speaker 2: Hey, I saw this from LN so Brownsburg LN and
Speaker 2: that battle in Night number one tonight at LLEN has
Speaker 2: solved out officially tonight.
Speaker 4: It's as good a game as you're gonna get.
Speaker 3: I mean, this game in terms of talent and coaching,
Speaker 3: feels like a state championship game. They saw each other
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago in the regional then Brassburg
Speaker 3: won one back to back championships, and so Sean, I
Speaker 3: mean it is. This is a night where there are
Speaker 3: a whole lot of great games starting with this one.
Speaker 3: And this game is basically you know, Oscar Fry, the
Speaker 3: talented quarterback from Brownsburg is back. I you recruit Brandon
Speaker 3: Sharp wide receiver can do everything monching sales, and another
Speaker 3: wide receiver for LN going to IU. Running back Xavion
Speaker 3: Moore headed to Purdue. And it's like an all Big
Speaker 3: ten night starting out high school football in this matchup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you got Sharp two's got a connection
Speaker 2: with in relation with l N. There's just all kinds
Speaker 2: of or at least family wise has s connection. There's
Speaker 2: there's all sorts of storylines in this sold out matchup tonight.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Frankly, you know, when we talk about high school football
Speaker 3: in our state, we used to get excited when we
Speaker 3: would get twenty five or thirty kids to recruited by
Speaker 3: Division one, And now you know we're looking at annually
Speaker 3: fis or more each year.
Speaker 4: Being recruited by the big time programs. And I think it.
Speaker 3: The dresses out and great, our coaches are, our kids
Speaker 3: are has gotten better and better. This is the destination
Speaker 3: for big time programs to recruit around the country, let
Speaker 3: alone the ones here in the state.
Speaker 2: Now, Football Friday with Bob Lovell and Bob's on the
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Speaker 2: oh seven five The Fan Kevin, right and Carmel if
Speaker 2: there seems like a time where and I'm not going
Speaker 2: to suggest they're off the radar because of that school.
Speaker 1: In any sport, you're never off the.
Speaker 2: Radar, right, But honestly, if there's going to be a
Speaker 2: season for them to step up, I would look for
Speaker 2: this one Carmel and Fishers to kick things off tonight.
Speaker 3: Kevin has won multiple championships Clearcut Hall of Fame football
Speaker 3: coach in our state. You know, it's genetic, obviously, but
Speaker 3: he has done a great job wherever he's been. His
Speaker 3: teams have won championships, and so you know, Carmel has
Speaker 3: won multiple championships.
Speaker 4: Carmel wins championships in all their sports.
Speaker 3: Give Kevin in his second year, I think you can
Speaker 3: expect to see a tremendous amount of improvement over year one.
Speaker 3: And that's what makes this game tonight with with Fishers
Speaker 3: such a great one. And and Dan Fisher's is a solid,
Speaker 3: solid football team and so, uh, you know that one
Speaker 3: of those tremendous openers that feels like a regional or
Speaker 3: even a semi state game at the end of the season.
Speaker 4: So a lot to look forward to in this one.
Speaker 1: Too well.
Speaker 2: You know, I love me some Eric Moore, you know
Speaker 2: that son of Grove and Warren tonied And I was
Speaker 2: texting back and forth with with Eric am.
Speaker 1: Earlier and I got the oh woe with us there?
Speaker 2: This Warren central team is absolutely low and what away
Speaker 2: going to do? So yeah, oh woe with Cindy Grove
Speaker 2: on the hill with Warren coming up later off the night.
Speaker 2: But he was right about this man. Warren is absolutely loaded.
Speaker 4: You know, talent wise, they're tremendous.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know they have this skilled players are as
Speaker 3: good as anybody in the county, anybody in this state.
Speaker 4: I think he's right, and I think he's has to be.
Speaker 3: Afraid of big plays and they have big play players.
Speaker 4: I have more than one big play player.
Speaker 3: And so it's one of these games where you can
Speaker 3: ill afford to make mistakes, missed assignments, turnovers, those kinds
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 4: Eric, thoughme, is the system guy.
Speaker 3: His system has worked years and years and years, multiple championships,
Speaker 3: and so as a co former coach of a different sport,
Speaker 3: you always wonder what you have in that first ball game.
Speaker 3: But I think he has a great idea of how
Speaker 3: they have to play, what they have to do to
Speaker 3: beat an incredibly talented Warren Central team.
Speaker 1: Now, that's Bob Lovell Indiana Sports Talk.
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Speaker 2: Group Hotline five A number one New pal They start
Speaker 2: off the season with an out of state matchup.
Speaker 1: I believe tonight.
Speaker 3: Well they're out of state taking on Wheaton, a team
Speaker 3: in Wheaton, Wheaton Saint.
Speaker 4: Francis, but Newpalace, Newpalce. Nothing's just good. As long as
Speaker 4: Kyle Ralph is there, They're.
Speaker 3: Going to continue to go out and just dominate people
Speaker 3: on both sides of the football.
Speaker 4: And this is another here.
Speaker 3: They are they again off a championship. They are an
Speaker 3: incredibly talented and well coached team and so great start.
Speaker 4: Get out of the state and find out what you have.
Speaker 2: Hey, bab I want to ask you about this and
Speaker 2: for a chatar, I believe it's number three.
Speaker 1: They start out tonight on the road at five A
Speaker 1: number two.
Speaker 2: Lafayete, Jeff, I can't recollect you know, if this may.
Speaker 1: Be be the start of the season.
Speaker 2: Wise, the highest ranking for Lafi at jeff that I
Speaker 2: can remember in recent history, so that one kind of
Speaker 2: I think Foles out of the category at least at
Speaker 2: the top of the list, but certainly should be recognized
Speaker 2: for one hell of a week one matchup.
Speaker 3: Well, it is because this is the Lafayete Jefferson team.
Speaker 4: Will put the ball in the air, that they are
Speaker 4: a high volume offensive team. We kind of, I think, you.
Speaker 3: Know, is going to be challenged in terms of what
Speaker 3: they can do, limiting the touches that the Broncos get
Speaker 3: and trying to slow down on offenses as potent is
Speaker 3: in the state, because you know, Pat Shanley's team likes
Speaker 3: to air it out.
Speaker 4: They always have. I think they always will and this is.
Speaker 3: A great challenge for coach Doyle and his guys. First, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're trying to find out what you have, but this
Speaker 3: is a really, really good ball game and it is
Speaker 3: a very talented Lafayete jeff team.
Speaker 2: Got to ask you this cascade so good a year ago,
Speaker 2: So what's the expectation there going into twenty twenty six
Speaker 2: and obviously three eight number two to start the season.
Speaker 3: I think quite simply, you have a lot of guys
Speaker 3: the beauty and winning of state championship. There are plenty
Speaker 3: of them, obviously, but your younger kids get more repetitions
Speaker 3: because you're you're practicing extra weeks because of that run
Speaker 3: you're making, and so your younger kids, you're clearly always
Speaker 3: worried about how they're going to respond in that first
Speaker 3: big game. But these guys have had reps against the
Speaker 3: number ones, They've had plenty of extra reps, you know,
Speaker 3: casscase for real, this is a program that wasn't just
Speaker 3: one of those flash and the fan type of things.
Speaker 3: This is a solid, well run outfit, and so I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it's a there's no question it's a challenge.
Speaker 3: But I think the other part of it too is
Speaker 3: I think that the team that is talented enough, experienced enough,
Speaker 3: although they've lost some key guys, they fill in with
Speaker 3: some guys who've got a chance to be around a.
Speaker 4: Championship caliber ball club. So this is a great way
Speaker 4: for them to open up.
Speaker 2: He put it on a college shuret to be on
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Speaker 2: Anything else that we left off the map here that
Speaker 2: you're going to be discussing coming up later on tonight
Speaker 2: and one should be an outstanding show with Indiana Sports
Speaker 2: talk around the state of Indiana.
Speaker 3: Got to talk about my quakers Plainfield playings Franklin Central tonight.
Speaker 3: Franklin's Plainfield hosting that game. That's always a good one.
Speaker 3: It's also a night John where you get some rivalries.
Speaker 3: Bloomington North Bloomington South always a great matchup for them.
Speaker 3: UH Cathedral Ben Davis is a game of these people
Speaker 3: need to pay attention to.
Speaker 4: So you have you have a lot of games around
Speaker 4: the state. And the key to John is you get
Speaker 4: a chance to play.
Speaker 3: Non conference games in these first two before you get
Speaker 3: into conference play.
Speaker 4: And so you'll see some.
Speaker 3: Uh people moving out of the area playing in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 3: Teams have had trouble in terms of scheduling, so you'll
Speaker 3: see some of those types of situations that pop up
Speaker 3: around the state on this first night and also coming
Speaker 3: up next week.
Speaker 2: That is a rock only being one of those to
Speaker 2: a rematch of the championship game for the Royals of
Speaker 2: a year ago too. I'm Bob, you got a lot
Speaker 2: on your plate later on tonight. You ready to go.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to get back in that pool and take
Speaker 4: off this shirt. That's now. Take this shirt over, get
Speaker 4: in the pool and relax. You're ready to have I'm
Speaker 4: gonna have a great night. It's always the fun night.
Speaker 3: Just to be the thirty third year that we've done
Speaker 3: the show on opening night, and I'm as excited to
Speaker 3: know as I was thirty two years ago.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Pal, I appreciate you man great as always
Speaker 2: been doing again next week, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Bob Lovell and the Indiana Sports Talk.
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Speaker 4: Thank John.
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Speaker 1: Joel, good afternoon to you, Pale. How are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. I'm generating to walk into the Indiana
Speaker 5: State Fair here.
Speaker 1: Oh really? Now?
Speaker 2: Where are you walking into? North side and south side
Speaker 2: of the State Fair? Do you know exactly where you are?
Speaker 5: So south side? The Ericston family strategy is to go
Speaker 5: to the dairy bar first, so we aim for the
Speaker 5: south side first.
Speaker 1: Well, great idea.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, when I went to the dairy bar, and this
Speaker 2: was a couple of days ago. When I was out there,
Speaker 2: I got served by Quarry and Schultz, and Derek Schultz
Speaker 2: was not rocking like a beard cover, and I thought, man,
Speaker 2: you gotta have some kind of beard cover there, Pal,
Speaker 2: I said, I know you call them Jimmy's or sprinkles,
Speaker 2: but I want your iron hair and my stuff right here.
Speaker 1: Buddy, Come on, you know what, that's a fair point.
Speaker 5: I hate to do this, yeah, but that's a fair point. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, a face mask if
Speaker 2: something needed to be done right there with Schultz, but
Speaker 2: he was not rocking one. Now, seriously, the Ericson family
Speaker 2: will enjoy it because the State Fair is an absolute blest.
Speaker 2: I believe Craig Morgan, the country music artist, is out
Speaker 2: there too, so it is probably going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit crowded, you know.
Speaker 1: I saw this Joel on ESPN.
Speaker 2: They don't have Daniel Jones in the top sixteen list
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks in the NFL to start the season.
Speaker 1: Is that wrong?
Speaker 5: I think he's kind of I don't think he's in
Speaker 5: that top ten tier. I think he's kind of more
Speaker 5: in that middle tier. And then the thing about that
Speaker 5: is once you get in there, I really think it's
Speaker 5: less about the numbers and more about just kind of
Speaker 5: where you are. So I don't think he's necessarily your
Speaker 5: your guy who's going to be, you know, like an
Speaker 5: MVP candidate, but just he's a good driving force for
Speaker 5: this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, on the other hand, they're running back John Fan
Speaker 2: Taylors is number one on the list. For this to
Speaker 2: be better than an average season or what we have
Speaker 2: witnessed here recently, a below average season, what is at
Speaker 2: the top of your list? It has to click for
Speaker 2: this Coats team.
Speaker 1: Joe No, I think the.
Speaker 5: Defense, the defense has got to figure some stuff out.
Speaker 5: The defense has got to figure some stuff out. Just
Speaker 5: in terms of there's gonna be games. I think the
Speaker 5: offense should be good as long as Daniel Jones is healthy,
Speaker 5: but they they're going to have to be able to
Speaker 5: stop some people in games where they have, you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of turnovers or something goes wrong, because you're
Speaker 5: just gonna have those no matter.
Speaker 1: How efficient you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel the same way. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I have any answers, and look at it in the secondary,
Speaker 2: I can't be the only one that's extremely worried, am
Speaker 2: I Joel about Charvarius Ward in the back situation?
Speaker 5: I think that outside of Alec Pearce, I think the
Speaker 5: Ward situation has maybe become the number one injury concern
Speaker 5: for me. Just in terms of, you know, with Pierce,
Speaker 5: we at least know that the surgery happened a while ago.
Speaker 5: He should be getting close. We don't really know exactly
Speaker 5: what's going on with Ward. We did see him standing
Speaker 5: on the practice this week this week, but we haven't.
Speaker 1: Seen him do anything.
Speaker 5: And I do think that that's a big deal because
Speaker 5: especially that first game, if I get to the opener
Speaker 5: and he can't play in the opener. They also don't
Speaker 5: have Cam Taylor Britt, who would be their fourth guy.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this as well.
Speaker 2: The secondary is supposed to cover up some of what
Speaker 2: we believe are going to be flaws, trying to get
Speaker 2: consistently after the quarterback up front, the playmaking. Unlike a
Speaker 2: lot of teams in the NFL, Joel is going to
Speaker 2: be from the secondary. And if you take that away,
Speaker 2: that is incredibly problematic. Plus you got a guy that
Speaker 2: was basically halfway into retirement before deciding to come back
Speaker 2: in the offseason.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the the way this the way this thing kind
Speaker 5: of looks in terms of the secondary, is you need Ward.
Speaker 5: I think you feel good with Britt, but then we've
Speaker 5: eaten the preseason that if you get to the Kai
Speaker 5: Blackman and Jonathan Edwards, I think you're maybe in a
Speaker 5: little bit of a worse spot just in terms of
Speaker 5: what we've seen from them so far. So we you
Speaker 5: gotta have Ward for I think I don't think you
Speaker 5: could expect to have it for seventeen games, but you
Speaker 5: got to have it for twelve, thirteen, fourteen, something like that.
Speaker 5: I think to really do what they're gonna want to do,
Speaker 5: because they're they're gonna have to blitz. They're gonna have
Speaker 5: to blitz to get pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Joey Erickson. He is that brought to you by sl
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Speaker 2: little bit earlier. Allowed to meet Joel, and you can
Speaker 2: go ahead and take this on if you like. Right
Speaker 2: here too, the production that you expect from Keenan Allen
Speaker 2: compared to the production that would be expected from Michael
Speaker 2: Pittman Junior.
Speaker 1: What's your comparison here, I think.
Speaker 5: It's very similar. I think they're they're very very similar.
Speaker 5: Keen Allen is not a guy because like at his age,
Speaker 5: I think you worry from an age end point. I
Speaker 5: think you worry more about injury than you do about
Speaker 5: a diminishing steed because he's never really.
Speaker 4: Been super fast.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Nathan Brown, my coworker, looked it up. He ran a
Speaker 5: four to seventy five at the combine before he before
Speaker 5: he caught you know, a thousand passes in the NFL.
Speaker 5: So you don't worry as much about that. You do
Speaker 5: worry as guys get older about injury, but he's been very,
Speaker 5: very durable. I think it's pretty much the same though
Speaker 5: at this point, because I don't think Michael Pittman June
Speaker 5: last year was really the type of guy who was
Speaker 5: was an elite separator. He was more kind of guy
Speaker 5: who could take advantage of what Shane Sikin schemed up.
Speaker 5: And I expect the same with Keenan Allen.
Speaker 2: Where we have red flags up. I think both of
Speaker 2: us were going to Charvall's ward. What you're feeling about
Speaker 2: Alec Pearce being good to go for week double one
Speaker 2: against Baltimore.
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell.
Speaker 5: It's hard to tell until he gets back out there.
Speaker 5: You know, they've said he's going through the workouts. We
Speaker 5: haven't seen him running yet, you know, flat out, which
Speaker 5: is what I think you care about the move. It's
Speaker 5: still still a couple of weeks away, you know. But
Speaker 5: I'm at least a little bit nervous because we haven't
Speaker 5: seen him on the practice field at all. He's so
Speaker 5: important to that offense. When he's out there, everything for
Speaker 5: Allen and downs and Warren opens up what her means
Speaker 5: when he's not there, I think you can play back
Speaker 5: a lot more. It's a lot easier to play to
Speaker 5: play back or move your guys up. We're going to
Speaker 5: take away the space for those guys operate. I think
Speaker 5: he's just a lot more difficult. He's not out there,
Speaker 5: so they really need him on the field.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's funny about what you just said. It
Speaker 2: just leads us as people that follow the Colts, talked
Speaker 2: about the Colts, you've written about the Colts, and the
Speaker 2: fans of the Colts.
Speaker 1: It leads us down this path. If you really.
Speaker 2: Don't believe somebody is healthy and good to go until
Speaker 2: you see them. Thus, how should everybody feel regarding Tyler
Speaker 2: Warren the tight end.
Speaker 5: I think he's going to be pretty much fine. I
Speaker 5: was there at practice when he got hurt and when
Speaker 5: he came back out. They do not the trainers do
Speaker 5: not usually let someone come right back out and watch
Speaker 5: the rest of practice if they're concerned about it.
Speaker 2: If you think it's going to be a big issue.
Speaker 5: And he was back out within maybe fifteen or twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: So my guess is that that's as mild they seem
Speaker 5: to suggest to this.
Speaker 1: H anything else that peach your interest positional battle wise
Speaker 1: or what have you going.
Speaker 2: Into tomorrow afternoons preseason game two against the Falcons. And
Speaker 2: I guess a little bit more specific to this question
Speaker 2: that of the kicking battle between Groupie and Schreyer.
Speaker 5: Well Blake, Groupie, you know, has been far more consistent
Speaker 5: in practicing, but the numbers, he's way way ahead Spencer
Speaker 5: Trader in terms of practice time kicks. But there's been
Speaker 5: some hints Brian Mason said, you know, just because of
Speaker 5: the difference in the way those two are put together,
Speaker 5: Traders a much bigger man.
Speaker 4: There's there's more power.
Speaker 5: Potential from Strader. And that's that's saying something considering that
Speaker 5: Groupie Groupie owns the longest kick in the history of
Speaker 5: the Indianapolis Colts in a game, the ball flight's a
Speaker 5: little bit different. I just it's it just seems really
Speaker 5: really hard to me. I think you're gonna have to
Speaker 5: have a couple more game performances from Schrader, like the
Speaker 5: one you got last week to really really make it
Speaker 5: make sense to say we're gonna go with Specher Strader
Speaker 5: over over Blake group. He just based on the numbers
Speaker 5: in practice.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna be watching out for? Could we
Speaker 1: up tomorrow?
Speaker 5: Besides that, the second team offensive line, I was going
Speaker 5: through it'll be out tomorrow. I usually do when camp breaks,
Speaker 5: I do fifty three thoughts on what I've seen out
Speaker 5: at camp, and it kind of doubles as a where
Speaker 5: I think the fifty three man roster looks like heading
Speaker 5: into that last couple of preseason games. And I was
Speaker 5: struck by the fact that once I get past Jalen Farmer,
Speaker 5: I have some can I have some some issues and
Speaker 5: concerns about the rest of the offensive line. Salton Tucker's
Speaker 5: a good backup guard. We've seen him have trouble with
Speaker 5: snaps at center. Blake Blake Freeland has has made an
Speaker 5: admirable return from injury, but I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 5: He'd be the tackle if one of the tackles get hurt,
Speaker 5: I think it'd be macansolve it. And so that makes
Speaker 5: me wonder if maybe there's some pickups coming there, maybe
Speaker 5: two pickups coming there where you're looking at cutdown day
Speaker 5: to try to shore up some of this this depth.
Speaker 5: I want to see how this offensive line plays in
Speaker 5: these last two police preseason games beyond the starters, and
Speaker 5: the starters won't.
Speaker 1: Play, j'all, I'll cut you loose after this.
Speaker 2: Baltimore, Kansas City, Houston, Washington and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously more of those on the road in London.
Speaker 2: You look at those first handful of weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: What do the Colts have to do not to completely
Speaker 2: dissolve before everything gets going prior to Halloween, Because that's tough.
Speaker 2: I mean, the rest of the way it does look
Speaker 2: occasionally manageable, but that start does look on paper problematic.
Speaker 2: What do they have to get off two start wise
Speaker 2: for you to be a believer?
Speaker 5: I think two and two. I think I think two
Speaker 5: and two.
Speaker 1: I think you win.
Speaker 5: You know, Houston's got the defense you got. I think
Speaker 5: Kansas City is going to be back to being Kansas City. Baltimore,
Speaker 5: I don't really know what to expected them having a
Speaker 5: new head coach, but they've got Lamar. I think if
Speaker 5: you take one of those games and you get to
Speaker 5: the you get through London at two and two to
Speaker 5: eat Washington in London, I think you feel pretty good
Speaker 5: because the start, the start of the schedule is really
Speaker 5: what scares me the most looking at it right now,
Speaker 5: I think you feel like you got you got a
Speaker 5: chance to do something, even if you even if you
Speaker 5: start two and two.
Speaker 2: All right, just don't put kids on the ride where
Speaker 2: they may puke up what they've.
Speaker 1: Eaten out there. Okay, buddy, don't do that. I'll do
Speaker 1: my best.
Speaker 5: I'll do my best.
Speaker 2: Hey, and a variety of places, because we're gonna get
Speaker 2: started on these fridays here relatively soon, actually next week.
Speaker 2: So make sure you eyeball some of those locations you
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Speaker 1: Live, Okay, Okay, I will do so. All right, have
Speaker 1: a great time at the state Fair. Thank you, Joe,
Speaker 1: you bet you bet me?
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Speaker 1: From Joel Ericson to our good friend.
Speaker 2: Bob lovel Night number one of high school football.
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Speaker 2: welcome in now for end of the show and a
Speaker 2: living legend in the state of Indiana. Because he was
Speaker 2: tuxedoed up, I think, going back a week or so ago,
Speaker 2: Boys of the Hoosiers, Don Fisher joins us.
Speaker 1: Now, Hello, Don, Hi John, how are you that tuxedo?
Speaker 1: You were a rocket? You look like James Bond and
Speaker 1: that thing. Buddy, let me tell you, seriously.
Speaker 6: You have a problem. You know that you have a
Speaker 6: big problem.
Speaker 1: This double O seven there? What are we doing now? Seriously?
Speaker 1: I would have thought, I would have thought you would
Speaker 1: have been a.
Speaker 2: Part of this long before what a week or so
Speaker 2: a half ago. But that had to be an incredibly
Speaker 2: proud moment for you, buddy.
Speaker 7: It really was no question about that. I knew nothing
Speaker 7: about the honor prior to them contacting me and letting
Speaker 7: me know that they'd like to me be a part
Speaker 7: of their Living Legends program. And it was it was
Speaker 7: a really cool night. My family was there, or a
Speaker 7: lot of my family was there, not all of them,
Speaker 7: but as many as we could get in, and it
Speaker 7: was it was just special and the people there were phenomenal.
Speaker 7: You didn't have to do a thing, John, All you
Speaker 7: had to do was go in and all you had
Speaker 7: to do was go in and get interviewed, and they
Speaker 7: taped the interview and they also taped you giving your
Speaker 7: final thoughts and thank you to the people that you
Speaker 7: wanted to think. And so basically when you went there
Speaker 7: and did the program, you just got introduced a couple
Speaker 7: of times, and then you were allowed to get up
Speaker 7: on the stage and they present you with your honor
Speaker 7: and that kind of thing. And then from that point
Speaker 7: forward you went and had dessert after the and the
Speaker 7: dinner was I'm just telling you now, John, you know
Speaker 7: how you get rubber chicken most of the time when
Speaker 7: you go to one of those banquet. I think this
Speaker 7: was like top shelf stuff. I mean, it was a
Speaker 7: surf and turf type deal, and it was delicious. It
Speaker 7: was just a great It was a great night because
Speaker 7: you didn't have to do anything. You didn't have to
Speaker 7: get nervous about getting up in front of an audience
Speaker 7: and that kind of stuff, which I usually do if
Speaker 7: I'm in front of people. So it was just a
Speaker 7: special night and I was really proud to be a
Speaker 7: part of that. And the people that are in that thing, John,
Speaker 7: it's amazing.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you've ever seen a list of it.
Speaker 6: There aren't very many sports people in it, but there are.
Speaker 7: A ton of people who do things that are much
Speaker 7: more important than what I do from a play by
Speaker 7: play standpoint.
Speaker 6: And then you've got the Larry Birds, and you've.
Speaker 7: Got the Bob Knights and the John Woodens and Peyton
Speaker 7: Manning and people like that from a sports perspective, and
Speaker 7: then people who do so much more in life than
Speaker 7: what we do. I mean, sure we entertain people that
Speaker 7: kind of thing, but I'm just telling you right now,
Speaker 7: the people that are in that thing, those are the
Speaker 7: notch people in our country, not just the state of Indiana.
Speaker 1: My brother, that's you. That is one hundred percent you.
Speaker 2: That's the reason why you're in there, because you're, like
Speaker 2: exactly what you just described, your impact alone on so
Speaker 2: many different generations. You had to think about that right
Speaker 2: when you were being a part of this.
Speaker 1: I know you. I know you really want.
Speaker 2: You don't sit around and think about it, but I do,
Speaker 2: and I do it for you, and it's incredible, Don,
Speaker 2: the impact you've had all multi generations, unlike anybody else truly, well.
Speaker 6: You know, John, and I've told you this before.
Speaker 7: I've been blessed to do what I love to do
Speaker 7: for almost sixty years now, and fifty three of those
Speaker 7: have been spent at Indiana University or with Indiana University.
Speaker 6: And that role.
Speaker 7: And literally I've had the most incredible life that I
Speaker 7: could ever imagine, because when I was getting out of
Speaker 7: high school, I didn't know what I wanted to do
Speaker 7: and was such an idiot in school that I didn't
Speaker 7: study all that hard as so many But I got
Speaker 7: lucky and I and I found something I thought I
Speaker 7: could do, and uh, you know, I took advantage of
Speaker 7: it and without questioning I, like I said before, I've
Speaker 7: been blessed.
Speaker 1: That's Don Fisher, Voice of the Hoosiers. We are proud
Speaker 1: to have him on here.
Speaker 2: Every Friday on the Andy Moore Automo IF Group Hotline.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're you're at home right now, so clearly we're
Speaker 2: not going to our table later.
Speaker 1: Off to night correction.
Speaker 7: No, I'm actually taking off my Susie and I are
Speaker 7: going down to Edgewood. We're gonna go see Edgewood play.
Speaker 7: The Mustangs played at night in the opener.
Speaker 2: So rock those sunglasses from that red field down there
Speaker 2: in alt Field at the end of the night.
Speaker 7: By I always take sunglasses to that ballpark. Trust me, no,
Speaker 7: it is. It is incredibly rough on the eyeballs. But
Speaker 7: I get exactly why they're doing it.
Speaker 2: I saw the court ruling today, and you know, obviously
Speaker 2: with Kellen Wyatt and Stephen Daily, that had some profound
Speaker 2: impact with their eligibility on the football program.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm not quite sure where it stands, John,
Speaker 7: to be quite honest about it, it looks like the
Speaker 7: NC double A is one that round, so to speak.
Speaker 7: Whether there'll be another round or not, I don't know
Speaker 7: of whether it's a lawsuit or whatever. We'll find out,
Speaker 7: but it definitely puts both Kelln Wyatt and Stephen Day
Speaker 7: and limbo at this point based on what I've been told.
Speaker 6: So we'll find out. But it's rare.
Speaker 7: Here, here's the oddity of it all, John, It's rare
Speaker 7: when the NC DOUBLEA wins anything anymore.
Speaker 6: When they go to court.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's amazing that that took place and that
Speaker 7: they ruled in favor of the NC double A. So
Speaker 7: I guess the NC double A can say we've won
Speaker 7: one at least at this point. But whether that will
Speaker 7: hold or not, I just don't know, because I don't
Speaker 7: know what you know, are there more court than things
Speaker 7: involved that kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Are they going to file for another injunction of some kind?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, we have to now, I think, and what
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Speaker 1: Of figure all this out. And that's what's a little
Speaker 1: bit maddening to it all.
Speaker 6: That's why.
Speaker 8: John I should have gone to college and I should
Speaker 8: have got some kind of a degree, because I'm the
Speaker 8: last person you want to ask about what the ruling
Speaker 8: is all about and all that kind of stuff, because
Speaker 8: it's too complicated for the lack of intelligence that I.
Speaker 6: Have in regard to to doing all this stuff.
Speaker 7: But I do know this, John, I hate the idea
Speaker 7: that if there's going to be an eligibility issue and
Speaker 7: those two guys, you know, really have a year of
Speaker 7: eligibility remaining if it was the five year rule, I
Speaker 7: hate that they're not going to get that opportunity, especially
Speaker 7: when they came back, started getting dressed for practice, went
Speaker 7: out to practice, those kinds of things, and now they're
Speaker 7: back in a position where you just don't know what's
Speaker 7: going to happen.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 2: Well, we're not going to get deep into it because
Speaker 2: Sam Alexis and the basketball team is still eligible because
Speaker 2: he did something different in this case. And I'm assuming
Speaker 2: that there's going to be something some kind of a
Speaker 2: lawyer and maneuver made by these specific two IU football
Speaker 2: players coming up here.
Speaker 1: In the not so distant future.
Speaker 2: But Donald, let's get to those that are eligible and
Speaker 2: this football team right now defending a national championship. From
Speaker 2: the practice and the workouts you have seen, what's this
Speaker 2: group look like compared to for example, last year's team.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, and I've been down to about six
Speaker 7: practices thus far. I have been totally impressed with what
Speaker 7: I've seen. I think the transfer portal once again was
Speaker 7: taken advantage of by Kurt Signetti, who is incredibly smart
Speaker 7: about who he brings on onto the squad, who here
Speaker 7: brings to the university, and what they talent, they possessed,
Speaker 7: the experience that they've had, all those kinds of things.
Speaker 7: I think this team, I think they've got a chance
Speaker 7: to be better john than what they were a year ago.
Speaker 6: I really do.
Speaker 7: I think this is a football team, especially on the
Speaker 7: defensive side. Even without Wyatt and Daily, if they don't
Speaker 7: get to play, they still have all the tools that
Speaker 7: they need to be terrific on the defensive side of
Speaker 7: the football. And they have Brian Haynes, who I think
Speaker 7: may be the best defensive coordinator in the country.
Speaker 6: At least you could certainly make that argument.
Speaker 7: And of course they tried to keep they or at
Speaker 7: Kurt Signetti kept him obviously gave him a big raise.
Speaker 7: Is he is one of the smartest defensive guys I've
Speaker 7: ever been around. He's tremendously aggressive, and on top of that,
Speaker 7: he's so innovative with what he does, and.
Speaker 6: He's kind of like Signetti.
Speaker 7: I think he must watch a ton of film every
Speaker 7: single week just based on who they're going to play
Speaker 7: and so on, and then figures out how to, you know,
Speaker 7: weaken that ball club with what they do defensively. So
Speaker 7: it's going to be I think it's going to be
Speaker 7: a great season again for Indiana. I think they've got
Speaker 7: another chance to win a national championship if they can,
Speaker 7: if they've got all the right tools and all the
Speaker 7: new faces coming in have ball bought in. And I
Speaker 7: think that's probably the case, because if it wasn't, they
Speaker 7: probably wouldn't be on the roster right now.
Speaker 6: So it's going to be exciting. John. I think it's
Speaker 6: I think the Hoover kid, Josh Hoover, the quarterback. I
Speaker 6: think he's going to be terrific. And think about this, John.
Speaker 7: The other thing that's impressive about Kurt Signetti, all of
Speaker 7: his quarterbacks over the last I think seven years now
Speaker 7: have been either the player of the year in their
Speaker 7: league or a first team All State that are all American,
Speaker 7: that kind of thing. It's amazing what he does with quarterbacks.
Speaker 7: In addition to Tino Santiri, who is back with the
Speaker 7: program this year. Tino, of course, went to UCLA for
Speaker 7: a year and got let go of that thing that
Speaker 7: took pace last year. And and Tino came back because
Speaker 7: the quarterback coach that they hired a year ago went
Speaker 7: to Tampa Bay. So you've got Tino back, and he
Speaker 7: was with us heading for like five or six years
Speaker 7: prior to that. So you know what, it's all falling
Speaker 7: into place once again, and I can't wait for the
Speaker 7: season to start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Don Fisher joins us see something Addy more on
Speaker 2: amtive group pile line. The one thing that stands out
Speaker 2: to me is what you told me about prior to
Speaker 2: the start of last year, both sides of the.
Speaker 1: Line, offensive line and defensive line.
Speaker 2: You said to me when we were hanging out on
Speaker 2: a Friday night that it's unlike any line that you
Speaker 2: have ever.
Speaker 1: Seen as far as talent level, and.
Speaker 2: This would appear to be the equivalent of a year ago.
Speaker 2: You were absolutely right about that, and I think most
Speaker 2: of the time that's the translation to Obviously, Josh.
Speaker 1: Uber at quarterback is a big deal, but I think
Speaker 1: most of the time that's the translation.
Speaker 2: We're thinking about what do you have on the offensive
Speaker 2: line and the defensive line, and at least right now,
Speaker 2: it looks like this is elite level stuff.
Speaker 7: There's no question, John, this is a deeper offensive line
Speaker 7: than they were last year. They've gotten some really key
Speaker 7: contributors back. Bray Lynch, of course, was a guard last year.
Speaker 7: Now he's the center. Drew Evans is back and healthy,
Speaker 7: Carter Smith is backed and healthy.
Speaker 6: On the right side.
Speaker 7: Out of Olajati is back, and he of course is
Speaker 7: a younger player in the offensive line, but has really
Speaker 7: played well when he got his opportunities last year and
Speaker 7: now he's in the starting role this and the only
Speaker 7: probably the biggest question mark on the offensive line is
Speaker 7: the tight end, because coming into the season, they had
Speaker 7: all young guys and we had a couple that didn't
Speaker 7: get much spring practice in because of injury. Brock Shot
Speaker 7: being one of those kids, rightchard freshman who was at
Speaker 7: Miami last year and he comes to Indiana now and
Speaker 7: I don't think there's any question his talent level is
Speaker 7: every bit what we have seen from some of the
Speaker 7: other tight ends that I you. The only thing he
Speaker 7: lacks is the experience in what we saw last year
Speaker 7: in Noah Kowski and the year before and as Zach Horton.
Speaker 7: So you've got a complete offensive line with depth now,
Speaker 7: more depth than they've had in the past. A bunch
Speaker 7: of guys here are no names at this point, but
Speaker 7: will be during the season, especially if there are any injuries.
Speaker 7: It's just a deeper football team in the offensive line
Speaker 7: and the defensive line is the same scenario. Two starters
Speaker 7: from Kansas State. Both those guys will be excellent in
Speaker 7: addition to Daily and Whyaet if in fact they get
Speaker 7: a chance to play. And then at the line backing corps,
Speaker 7: even though they lost to Aiden Fisher, a tremendous player
Speaker 7: as everybody knows and what he did for the program.
Speaker 6: But you've got Isaiah Jones.
Speaker 7: And Elijah Hardy that are te key contributors last season,
Speaker 7: will be the starters this year. And they're getting depth
Speaker 7: in the linebacking corps as well, with guys who have
Speaker 7: been there for a couple of years, have been playing
Speaker 7: out special teams and haven't really gotten their opportunity like
Speaker 7: some of these other guys. But it's going to be
Speaker 7: fun to watch. And I think the defensive backfield, I'll
Speaker 7: tell you what, Jamari Sharp last year came into his
Speaker 7: own and now he's taken over for D'Angelo Ponds, And
Speaker 7: if there was one guy that you could say, can
Speaker 7: they match up with DiAngelo Pond's type player this year?
Speaker 7: That'll be the question everybody's asking. But I think Jamari
Speaker 7: Sharp is going to fill that role and fill it well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Don Fisher here every Friday, pro sponsor of
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Speaker 2: will intercept any problem throwing your way. A black and
Speaker 2: him be a year ago, so good, so efficient from
Speaker 2: the backfield. What's been your impression on Turbo Richard a
Speaker 2: year ago seven forty nine that's almost five and a
Speaker 2: half per carry and nine touchdowns with Boston College. What's
Speaker 2: been your impression on Turbo Richard down the backfield for
Speaker 2: IU so far?
Speaker 1: On practice?
Speaker 6: He's been great.
Speaker 7: In fact, I think he's looked like this like may
Speaker 7: get the starting call what but he is he is
Speaker 7: one of three guys John in that running back field
Speaker 7: that are they're all kind of the same guy. Turbo's
Speaker 7: probably the smaller of the three. Kobe Martin, of course,
Speaker 7: who played the last couple of years now in a
Speaker 7: backup role, is getting his opportunity and has looked tremendous.
Speaker 7: And Lee Bebe, who got hurt last year I think
Speaker 7: in the second or third game of the season, BB
Speaker 7: was at you know prior down in Birmingham. UAB played
Speaker 7: down there. Was terrific they got him up here. He
Speaker 7: looked really good in those first couple of two or
Speaker 7: three ball games that he played. Then he got hurt,
Speaker 7: and he looks just like he looks. He and Kobe
Speaker 7: Martin look identical. And they're twenty eight and twenty nine,
Speaker 7: which is going to cause me problems on the football field,
Speaker 7: just recognizing which is which.
Speaker 6: The one thing.
Speaker 7: There are dreadlocks involved there for Lee Bebe, so that'll
Speaker 7: be about the only way I can tell him a
Speaker 7: part because they look so much alike out there with
Speaker 7: very close to the same number.
Speaker 6: So, but those three.
Speaker 7: Guys, and Richard is even though he's the smaller of
Speaker 7: the three, he is incredibly quick and very strong for
Speaker 7: a young guy that's not all that big. And it's
Speaker 7: going to be fun to watch all three of those
Speaker 7: guys play. They it's a three, It's a three headed
Speaker 7: monster out there at the running back position more so
Speaker 7: than it was a year ago when you had both
Speaker 7: Hemby and Kaylon Black.
Speaker 2: Well, at least you know, you got Buck sort of
Speaker 2: lead on hell, identify all the players, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: you need to.
Speaker 1: Know out there. Buck's right there next to you.
Speaker 7: Well, Buck got his eyes fixed over the summer too.
Speaker 7: I guess he had the cataract surgery and he got
Speaker 7: you know, I got all that. So he's now he
Speaker 7: is really excited. We played golf like a week ago Tuesday,
Speaker 7: and he was telling me what great eyesight he has.
Speaker 6: Now and he'll be able to get everybody right for change.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. That is so.
Speaker 2: By the way too. Later on in the fall, we
Speaker 2: have a live show in Bloomington here and we're going
Speaker 2: to be there for I believe it. Yogi's I believe
Speaker 2: is where we're going to be and blew me to
Speaker 2: So you guys.
Speaker 1: Have to combine.
Speaker 7: Well, we literally that's where our coaches shows are going
Speaker 7: to be this year is at Yogi, so we'll be
Speaker 7: quite familiar with that location.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: So you got Springs Valley tonight? Is that what the
Speaker 2: fighting scott Fishers have of Edgewood?
Speaker 6: They do?
Speaker 7: They have Springs Valley tonight. I guess I don't know
Speaker 7: how good Springs Valley was last year. I think they
Speaker 7: were a decent football team now they're still as good
Speaker 7: as they were a year ago. Generally, I think they've
Speaker 7: got a pretty good football program. So in the class
Speaker 7: that Edgewood's in, it's gonna be an interesting ball game.
Speaker 7: It'll be, I hope, a really successful start for Scott
Speaker 7: Fisher and his football program.
Speaker 2: And I know they've been dealing with I know a
Speaker 2: lot of their kids and families have been dealing with
Speaker 2: the high water down there as well. By the way,
Speaker 2: Springs Valley is number one in one A to start
Speaker 2: this season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I know they're pretty good. They're one A team.
Speaker 7: I think I think they could be a challenge in
Speaker 7: this ballgame. It'll be a tougher game than Mitchell has
Speaker 7: been the last few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah, the Mitchell you will put
Speaker 2: tell Scott to put Mitchell back on the schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she did not take a You don take a
Speaker 7: hint from from the college football now where you play
Speaker 7: three really nobody's at the beginning of the season and
Speaker 7: get your record started nicely.
Speaker 6: That's not the way Scott's doing it.
Speaker 1: Nod, I love this too.
Speaker 2: And you bring up the scheduling and Kurt Signetti and Iu.
Speaker 2: I love it because I never thought i'd be in
Speaker 2: a position where everybody's complaining about IU's scheduling.
Speaker 1: This is great. And here's put a thing.
Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti is going by a protocol that he has
Speaker 2: lived by since he's been a coach, and it's worked
Speaker 2: so well. Why would you ever go against what he
Speaker 2: has done, his protocol, his process. That's what's crazy to me.
Speaker 2: Everybody's asking him and them to do that. Why would
Speaker 2: you ever do that?
Speaker 7: That'd be my question too, John, because look what this
Speaker 7: guy did in two seasons at Indiana University, the losingest
Speaker 7: Division one program in the country at that time, and
Speaker 7: he has taking a team eleven and two. Now all
Speaker 7: of a sudden they're sixteen to ho won a national
Speaker 7: championship in year two. If you questioned anything that guy
Speaker 7: does right now, you're an idiot.
Speaker 6: And there are several of them out there, just so.
Speaker 1: You know, oh my, we are chalk full of idiots.
Speaker 1: Don no time about that.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, you as soon as you get on
Speaker 2: the road for Ellensville and we'll do this every Friday.
Speaker 1: It's great to have you back.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on the living legend honor here in the state
Speaker 2: of Indiana, well deserved of that. When you guys are
Speaker 2: good to go for our table again with Joe and
Speaker 2: Ginger and everybody, let me know, Okay, pal.
Speaker 6: Al, we'll do it. John, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: You got dot fix your voice, and the hooshiers right
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