Speaker 1: Six nine in the Queen City of Cincinnati, chick Ludwigs
Speaker 1: seven hundred w l W.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Talk.
Speaker 3: Sean McMahon is tonight's producer, And like Eric Carmon and
Speaker 3: the Raspberries, We're going all the way to nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: It's Championship Saturday. In the world of college football, the
Speaker 3: Bengals face the Bill's, an extremely important NFL game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: The MLS Cup got decided today with Inner Miami knocking
Speaker 3: off Vancouver three to one. College hoops breaking out all
Speaker 3: over the land, with Iowa State giving it to Purdue
Speaker 3: at on the.
Speaker 2: Boilers home court.
Speaker 3: Lopsided loss for the Purdue boiler Makers. The twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six World Cup drawl was Friday, with the US Men
Speaker 3: landing in Group D with a first round match against
Speaker 3: Paraguay in Los Angeles next June. And oh yeah, the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Reds are being mentioned in the running for Philadelphia
Speaker 3: Phillies free agent designated hitter and Middletown native Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 3: But I want to start tonight with what happened last
Speaker 3: night at Sintas Center in the Skyline Chile Crosstown shootout,
Speaker 3: not the Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown, as mentioned on the
Speaker 3: TNT broadcast and the final as we all know Xavier
Speaker 3: seventy nine, U see seventy four and really, folks, it's
Speaker 3: like I'm strapped in a chair in a dark room
Speaker 3: with a flashlight shining in my eyes, and I've just
Speaker 3: been injected with truth serum. And the truth is Xavier
Speaker 3: owns Cincinnati, the Musketeers own the bear Cats, and Trey
Speaker 3: Carrol deserves the key to the Queen City. You talk
Speaker 3: about an overnight sensation. Carol just endeared himself to Xavier
Speaker 3: fans everywhere, embedded himself in Musketeer lore for the rest
Speaker 3: of his life. The musky six foot eight two and
Speaker 3: thirty five pounds forward, also known as Aquaman because of
Speaker 3: the length of his frame and his long, flowing locks
Speaker 3: that cascade halfway down his back, was unstoppable thirty points,
Speaker 3: seven rebounds and assist, a block, a steal, a three pointer.
Speaker 3: He was everywhere fourteen of twenty three from the floor,
Speaker 3: making shots from the baseline in the paint with his
Speaker 3: left hand and his right hand. You see, cannot shoot
Speaker 3: the ball with any kind of consistency. The Bearcats are
Speaker 3: known more for their defense, but the Bearcats couldn't stop
Speaker 3: Trey Carroll or containing as u See suffered its eleven
Speaker 3: straight loss at Sentas Center, and head coach Wes Miller
Speaker 3: lost to his third Xavior.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 3: Savior fans are with delight. They're laughing at their crosstown rival.
Speaker 3: UC fans, meanwhile, are angry and have every right to be.
Speaker 2: What a scene last night.
Speaker 3: This is the place to fence right here, seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: I want to hear from Xavier fans. I want to
Speaker 3: hear from UC fans because I've got my coffee, I've
Speaker 3: got my computer. All I need is you At five one, three, seven,
Speaker 3: four nine, seven thousand and one, eight hundred the Big One.
Speaker 3: The place was going crazy, and I loved Xavier coach
Speaker 3: Richard Patino afterward the interview with TNT, he called the
Speaker 3: Sintas Center crowd amazing. This is why I wanted to
Speaker 3: come to Xavier, Patino said, because it's one of the
Speaker 3: best fan bases and one of the best home courts
Speaker 3: in all of college basketball. That's Xavier. Whatever happened to UC,
Speaker 3: I knew Xavier would win this game. The Musketeers are
Speaker 3: more poised, more aggressive, and the more complete team. From
Speaker 3: our very own Lance McAllister, host of Sports Talk on
Speaker 3: seven hundred WLW Richard Patino has done more in three
Speaker 3: weeks to tweak, reinvent, and improve Xavier than Wes Miller
Speaker 3: has done with the Bearcats in four plus years and
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty games. And even Bearcat legend Nicky
Speaker 3: Van Exel chimes in to say I am disappointed would
Speaker 3: be an understatement. You see, x is a big rivalry
Speaker 3: game and it should be treated as such. One team
Speaker 3: played like it and the other didn't. Held disappointing for
Speaker 3: UC fans and the alumni. Unbelievable five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven,
Speaker 3: eight hundred, the big one at halftime. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: watching the first half, and even the guys in the
Speaker 3: TNT studio Chris Weber and Jalen Rose said, you see,
Speaker 3: take it inside, use your height instead of passing the
Speaker 3: ball around the perimeter for twenty five seconds and then
Speaker 3: hurling up a three. You see did come back from
Speaker 3: thirteen down to make a close at the end, but
Speaker 3: you have to be able to close, and that's what
Speaker 3: the Xavier Musketeers did.
Speaker 2: Behind Trey Carroll.
Speaker 3: The Aqua man, And how cool was his interview after
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: He points across the court.
Speaker 3: To his family, to his wife and said, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: gonna go get some dinner. He said, I'm gonna drink
Speaker 3: some minute made pink lemonade and maybe have a slice
Speaker 3: of pizza. Talk about enduring yourself to a fan base.
Speaker 3: That's what Trey Carroll did last night. We're not messing around.
Speaker 3: I'm riding this pony till it drops. Let's go out
Speaker 3: to the phones. Bryce's in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: I chicken, I just wanted to talk about the Big
Speaker 4: twelve championship. I mean at the trophy ceremony, Jully McGuire said,
Speaker 4: don't let the Red Raiders get hot. And they're entering
Speaker 4: the college with my playoff with the fullhead of steam.
Speaker 4: As they have won every single game this season by
Speaker 4: twenty points or more.
Speaker 3: I would not want to play the Texas Tech Red
Speaker 3: Raiders right now.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: The speed on both sides of the ball, the aggressiveness
Speaker 3: on defense, just incredible.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: They force four turnovers by BYU in the second half.
Speaker 3: BYU didn't have a prayer and how about giving up
Speaker 3: a chip shot field goal to go up by two?
Speaker 3: Scores when it's thirteen to seven. Okay, the Red Raiders
Speaker 3: gave that up and they wind up throwing an incomplete pass,
Speaker 3: so they're back on defense. But they get an interception
Speaker 3: and score a touchdown on the next two plays to
Speaker 3: blow this thing wide open.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
Speaker 3: You're right, Bryce, the Texas Tech Red Raiders look fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just love the tenacity that Joey McGuire coaches with.
Speaker 4: He just brings so much fire out of this Red
Speaker 4: Raiders team.
Speaker 5: They just want the ball.
Speaker 4: They just want to force a fumble or get an
Speaker 4: interception every single no matter what, no matter what situation
Speaker 4: or whatever. And the defensive performance today by Texas Tech
Speaker 4: shows exactly why this recruiting staff for Texas Tech focused
Speaker 4: so much on that front. Seven two forced bubbles and
Speaker 4: that linebacker Brian Roberts also got two interceptions to one
Speaker 4: player of the game. So just absolutely amazing play by
Speaker 4: Texas Tech today against BYU.
Speaker 3: Get.
Speaker 4: It's hard to beat a team twice in a row
Speaker 4: in a season because that losing team has a plan,
Speaker 4: They understand the mistakes they made and they want to
Speaker 4: go out and get their revenge. So BYU was playing
Speaker 4: with hate, but Texas Tech stood their ground and won
Speaker 4: in convincing fashion.
Speaker 3: The final was thirty four to seven, twenty one unanswered
Speaker 3: points to the second half. A very impressive performance by
Speaker 3: Texas Tech and they deserve to be one of the
Speaker 3: get one of the buys, one of the four buys
Speaker 3: in the twelve team college football playoff. Bryce, I appreciate
Speaker 3: the call man, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: You have a great rescue for your weekend chicks.
Speaker 3: All right, the rest of them, all right, Bryce, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Nick is on the east side, Nick.
Speaker 6: Can cow are you doing tonight?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: We're hanging in there. My head is swimming. Just spent
Speaker 3: all day with the remote in my hands. You're watching
Speaker 3: college football, high school football, college basketball. I'm going crazy here, Nick.
Speaker 3: But last night, I mean I came on glued watching
Speaker 3: that game the Crosstown shut.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I attended the game. My wife's a barricade. I've
Speaker 6: got a daughter who's a barricad, so I was kind
Speaker 6: of rooting for them. I don't really care much for
Speaker 6: each team. I think they're both bad basketball teams. It's
Speaker 6: some of the worst free throughly shooting I've ever witnessed.
Speaker 7: In my life.
Speaker 6: Was the difference. Yeah, yeah, the game has lost. It's
Speaker 6: lost there though, checking that the Xavier fans that they're
Speaker 6: tough to watch.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 6: The Cintas centered is tired. The game has lost it.
Speaker 6: I'm going home to watch some college football. I can't
Speaker 6: watch basketball until March.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't blame you, Nick, uh. I want to
Speaker 3: fall in love with college basketball again. I'm not there yet.
Speaker 3: I don't know any of these players. I'm getting to
Speaker 3: know Trey Carroll, that's for sure. Uh oh yeah, totally
Speaker 3: new rosters. It's just crazy. How how do we endear
Speaker 3: ourselves to certain players when they come in for one year.
Speaker 6: It's very tough. I used to know, you know, both
Speaker 6: rosters when the game back when the game was great,
Speaker 6: even just you know, four or five years ago. But
Speaker 6: since Twast has come in, it's kind of lost a fluster,
Speaker 6: you see, probably needs a make over. But it's all
Speaker 6: about college football. It's all about Joe Burrow. Tomorrow, we're
Speaker 6: gonna crawl back.
Speaker 7: Into this thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: I like that. I expect a Bengals victory. Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: all right, Nick, appreciate you all right, Sick, Thanks so much, Mike,
Speaker 3: is in Campbell County wants to talk cross town shootout.
Speaker 9: Mike, how are you? And I my man fan call
Speaker 9: your show?
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks so much for calling. Welcome to seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 9: So I'm gonna give you heads up. I'm a I'm
Speaker 9: a Louisville fan, but yeah, I rude for Xavier, I
Speaker 9: rude for UC, and I agree with what you just
Speaker 9: said a couple of minutes ago about Richard Patino has
Speaker 9: changed that team around and Wes Miller is not. And
Speaker 9: that's really I hate to see that for UC. To
Speaker 9: be honest with you, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I grew up a UC fan.
Speaker 3: I love both universities, but man, I was I was
Speaker 3: born in nineteen fifty four and UC wins back to
Speaker 3: back national championships in nineteen sixty one, in nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: two after Oscar Robertson left.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, the only other comment I just started listening,
Speaker 9: And I believe you're a big UK fan If I'm.
Speaker 3: Not, not me, not me, But gosh, what is going
Speaker 3: on with University of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: This is embarrassing. This is embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Oh, man, Mark Pope came in with guns blazing, and man,
Speaker 3: he might go out with a whimper. This is brutal.
Speaker 3: They're getting blown out. Yeah, they're getting blown out. But
Speaker 3: about Louisville Man, the Louisville UC rivalry, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: it was awesome to see it come back for one game.
Speaker 2: That's what I grew up with.
Speaker 3: The Missouri Valley Conference in Louisville wins today eighty seven
Speaker 3: to seventy eight at home over the Indiana Hoosiers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they do have a good team. But I'm just
Speaker 9: making a point. I'm a UC fan and a Xavier fan. Yeah,
Speaker 9: so I'm not other than that. I'd just like to
Speaker 9: see him both win.
Speaker 2: Amen. I want to see him good to get back
Speaker 2: to the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 9: You're exactly right, But.
Speaker 2: Right now Xavier is leading.
Speaker 3: I mean, Richard Patinos done a whale of a job,
Speaker 3: and like he said last night after the game, we're
Speaker 3: getting a lot better every game. He loves the team's attitude,
Speaker 3: he loves the way they practice, and he says we're
Speaker 3: growing and getting better. And of course they couldn't have
Speaker 3: won last night without the aquaman, Trey Carroll.
Speaker 9: Yeah exactly, all right, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: And before we go to break, Let's go up to
Speaker 3: the gym city and welcome in. Richard, Richard, what's happening.
Speaker 6: That's happening.
Speaker 10: You know what's happening. Everything another hour away till we
Speaker 10: become the net. I'm thinking we're going to become national
Speaker 10: championship with Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Buddy, Well, there's a lot.
Speaker 3: There's a lot on the line tonight when Ohio State
Speaker 3: faces the Indiana Hoosiers number one versus number two. You've
Speaker 3: got the Big Ten championship on the line. You've got seeds,
Speaker 3: the top four seeds who get buys in the twelve
Speaker 3: team playoff, and then it's the Heisman Trophy race.
Speaker 2: Yes, with both quarterbacks in the mix, yep.
Speaker 10: And you know tomorrow, I'm like you, he owns, he
Speaker 10: owns Buffalo. I think the offense with Joe Burrow, maybe
Speaker 10: the chase they're gonna They're not gonna stop them tomorrow.
Speaker 10: I do predict the Bengals to win that game by
Speaker 10: three or four points. I do, I really do.
Speaker 3: I'll take it by one point, Dick and Hey appreciate it.
Speaker 3: The Bengals do get good news that mister Higgins t
Speaker 3: has cleared per push pro Gosh concussion protocol and we'll
Speaker 3: play tomorrow. That is great news. Wow, phone lines were
Speaker 3: wide open. We'll talk some Bengals coming up here? U
Speaker 3: see Xavier? Where does U see go from here? Devastating
Speaker 3: loss eleventh straight. I got a tweet today, Please extend
Speaker 3: Wes Wooden. I mean talk about a backslap across the
Speaker 3: face that that is nasty. You are listening to Sports
Speaker 3: Talk with your host Chick Ludwig and tonight's producer Sean McMahon,
Speaker 3: fellow elder grad till nine o'clock on the Home of
Speaker 3: the Reds and the best Bengals coverage seven hundred WLW
Speaker 3: six in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig, seven
Speaker 3: hundred WLW Sports.
Speaker 2: Talk until nine o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3: Wow, a great data be on the couch with the
Speaker 3: remote college basketball, college football man.
Speaker 2: It's championship Saturday.
Speaker 3: The Alabama Crimson Tide trails the Georgia Bulldogs in the
Speaker 3: SEC Championship game twenty one to nothing. And Texas Tech
Speaker 3: wins the Big twelve all over BYU today thirty four
Speaker 3: to seven. And we're eagerly awaiting the ACC Championship game
Speaker 3: Virginia against Duke eight o'clock on ABC, and of course,
Speaker 3: the Ohio State Buckeyes against Indiana Buckeyes number one Hoosiers
Speaker 3: number two for the Big Ten Championship, the fight for
Speaker 3: the Heisman Trophy, and the seating in the twelve team
Speaker 3: college football Playoff. Let's go out to the phones, Kevin
Speaker 3: and Columbus, our good friend waiting a while.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm hey, Yeah, I'm a nervous wreck and I'm
Speaker 11: trying to listen to you.
Speaker 7: But the game's coming on. You still be on the air.
Speaker 11: That must be tough on you keeping a half an
Speaker 11: eye on that and still doing your show.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got some big screen, we got some big
Speaker 3: screen TVs here, and I've got Georgia on one and yeah, well,
Speaker 3: oh it's it's awesome.
Speaker 11: I was impressed last week that the way that game
Speaker 11: started out. You know how many Michigan games we've been
Speaker 11: through were undefeated and then everything goes wrong, and it
Speaker 11: started out that way.
Speaker 7: I oh, no, no, no.
Speaker 5: Hey, they got it together.
Speaker 11: Hey they're gonna win tonight.
Speaker 2: I believe they will.
Speaker 11: I know much about Indiana, but I'll be watching. I'm
Speaker 11: trying to keep watching, listening to you till that, and
Speaker 11: but it's tough.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 11: One other thing, I just want to say, Well, the
Speaker 11: Kyle Schwarber thing, I think we need to get. You
Speaker 11: need to get somebody like you and Frank COONa, maybe
Speaker 11: Seg Dennison and jd Vance talked to him. It's got
Speaker 11: to be his boyhood dream. He must have dreamed of
Speaker 11: playing for the Reds as a kid.
Speaker 2: Right, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 3: And I know a whole bunch I know a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of Kyle's friends in Middletown, and I know they're
Speaker 3: working on him.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Hey, Hey, like with Ken Griffy Junior who wanted to play.
Speaker 2: Here, yep, hey, I was.
Speaker 3: I was there that night in the Crosley room when
Speaker 3: Ken Griffy Junior was introduced and unforgettable, and it will
Speaker 3: be something similar if and when that happens with Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 11: Yeah, somehow make it happen. Hey, That's all I got. Hey,
Speaker 11: enjoy your games and I hope they win so much.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm right there with you, Keviny Columbus, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's go up to the great state of Michigan.
Speaker 3: Our good friend Craig Hey, Greg what's going on?
Speaker 7: Hey, it's been a while, mister positive.
Speaker 3: I'm trying, brother, I gotta ask you, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: I gotta try.
Speaker 7: I gotta ask you. How do you think the NFC
Speaker 7: nerd is going to shape out? Oh?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: The Bengals launched the career of one Caleb Williams. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh. Well, the Bears and the Packers only three losses.
Speaker 3: The Lions are eight and five two games back, a
Speaker 3: very positive sign that they destroyed the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they can win it.
Speaker 3: I want them to get into the playoffs and then
Speaker 3: anything can happen with the Lions getting back to what
Speaker 3: they do the best man run the football man. That's
Speaker 3: an awesome ground game. And then Jared Goff's got a
Speaker 3: step forward, and yeah, stop this ridiculousness and go out
Speaker 3: and punish people.
Speaker 7: There you go, there you go. Hey, if I don't
Speaker 7: speak kid before Christmas, have a beautiful Christmas, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: We'll be back on these airwaves filling in for the
Speaker 3: immortal Lance McAllister on Tuesday Night. Can't wait, man, appreciate it,
Speaker 3: Doug Greg As always, We've got Pat in Blue Ash.
Speaker 2: Hey, Pat, how are you chick fantastic? What's going on?
Speaker 12: Why I was calling about the shootout?
Speaker 13: I was not at the game.
Speaker 12: I gave my tickets to my daughter and son in law.
Speaker 12: But I will tell you I saw Xavier because I'm
Speaker 12: a season ticket holder.
Speaker 7: A month ago. They looked like.
Speaker 12: The worst college basketball team I had ever seen. They
Speaker 12: couldn't play defense, they couldn't score. And I watched UC
Speaker 12: B Dayton, and while I didn't think, uh, that was
Speaker 12: particularly UC's best game, Dayton's a good team, and I thought, well,
Speaker 12: maybe they're on their way. But I'll tell you what
Speaker 12: you know. I call him less Miller because he seems
Speaker 12: to get less out of his team than he should.
Speaker 12: He is just like Ciderfield, and I've got degrees from
Speaker 12: both schools.
Speaker 6: They are nice guys.
Speaker 12: They recruit well.
Speaker 13: I don't think they hold.
Speaker 12: Their teams the high enough standards. Their teams don't get
Speaker 12: better as the year progresses, and they don't make in
Speaker 12: game decisions that change the outcome of the game.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Even the TNT announcers in studio, they were be fuddled
Speaker 3: by UC's half court offense in the first half.
Speaker 2: There what is going on?
Speaker 3: Passing the ball around the perimeter and then launching threes.
Speaker 3: I was always taught you go inside and then out,
Speaker 3: not the opposite way.
Speaker 12: Oh, that's exactly right.
Speaker 10: I mean Tray Carroll.
Speaker 12: I thought he played a phenomenal game.
Speaker 13: But let's face it, he's not that athletic.
Speaker 12: He can badly jump over a credit card and you see,
Speaker 12: is much bigger, much more athletic.
Speaker 13: And did they double team him more than once? It
Speaker 13: was embarrassing.
Speaker 2: It was it was very embarrassing. And oh.
Speaker 3: One of the quotes after the game from West Miller,
Speaker 3: oh we haven't worked on the double team enough in
Speaker 3: the post and I'm there, Oh, oh god.
Speaker 12: That's that's the same. That's the same excuse he gave
Speaker 12: when they when they lost to Eastern Michigan.
Speaker 13: He said, well, we had.
Speaker 12: Never played in practice with that combination of players, so we.
Speaker 6: Didn't know what to do. And when Day.
Speaker 12: Day Thomas and Gisel James you were on the team together. Uh,
Speaker 12: and they never played together? He said, well, we never
Speaker 12: practiced having them play together. I mean, you know, at
Speaker 12: some point you have to take a flyer. You have
Speaker 12: to trust your guys and know that they're going to
Speaker 12: figure it out, because they have to figure it out.
Speaker 2: It was Uh, it wasn't that close to five point game.
Speaker 3: It just wasn't now much more poised coming down the
Speaker 3: stretch and closing the deal.
Speaker 2: And you see just their offenses a panic.
Speaker 3: It just and I see five guys instead of a team.
Speaker 3: I see you sees five guys on the floor attempting
Speaker 3: to attempting to make a case for their pro careers
Speaker 3: like auditions. Uh, I just see five individuals instead of
Speaker 3: a team.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, you're right, you know, you know, chick.
Speaker 12: When I used to coach basketball, and I coached for
Speaker 12: twenty seven seasons, just just the youth basketball, I used
Speaker 12: to tell them, do you want to if you were
Speaker 12: in a fight, do you want to slap somebody? Or
Speaker 12: do you want to punch somebody? Yeah, because if you're slapping,
Speaker 12: it's five fingers working independently. If it's a punch, it's
Speaker 12: all of you working together. And that's exactly what you see.
Speaker 12: Does they slap people instead of punching them?
Speaker 2: Amen to that? And uh, Mark or Pat really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Man, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, We've got Mark and Hamilton.
Speaker 14: Mark, Hi, Hi, Jake, Yes, sir, Yeah, the game tonight,
Speaker 14: the big ten Championship game. I you know, of course
Speaker 14: I'm rooting for a Hall of State and I'm want
Speaker 14: Ohio State to win. And uh, but it's number one
Speaker 14: against number two. If either team loses, I don't think either.
Speaker 15: One of them is going to get out of that
Speaker 15: top four bye week situation in which they are going
Speaker 15: for the national championship.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean the way.
Speaker 3: When I saw the bracket and I've got and they
Speaker 3: had Ohio State with the bye and then possibly playing
Speaker 3: in the Rose Bowl, I'm there, oh man, I just
Speaker 3: I'm in a dream state.
Speaker 2: I'm in love if that could happen.
Speaker 15: But yeah, I'm I want Ohio State to win, but uh,
Speaker 15: you know, the bigger goal is the national champions.
Speaker 7: Yes, so that's all I got, chick.
Speaker 3: All right, and I appreciate it, Mark, And uh, I
Speaker 3: was just pleased at my alma mater, the Ohio State
Speaker 3: University beat Michigan.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Oh, but tonight man Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback of IU
Speaker 3: against Julian saying two quality quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 3: A how about Jack wants to talk across town shootout?
Speaker 8: Yeah, he said, Jack?
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, Jack, what's going on?
Speaker 8: Yeah? When you touched on a big a very important
Speaker 8: part of my point that I want to make when
Speaker 8: you said, uh, you know playing the game basketball is
Speaker 8: inside out. Yes, that's that's part of basic fundamental basketball.
Speaker 3: Yes, did we see that last night? Did we see
Speaker 3: that from U see last night?
Speaker 8: We haven't seen it in three years.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: And I don't have anything against mister Miller. I'm sure
Speaker 8: he's a good guy and everything. But the thing that
Speaker 8: really stands out with what happens with the UC Bearcap
Speaker 8: basketball team, they are not working on fundamentals. I mean,
Speaker 8: look at the foul shooting. Foul shooting is part of
Speaker 8: your fundamentals. Brutal, They don't they don't box out, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Eleven of twenty two, Yeah, eleven of twenty two.
Speaker 8: It's just yeah, that's just part of fundamentals. You can't
Speaker 8: make a fact that's you stayed after practice until you
Speaker 8: can make seven or eight out of ten.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 8: But uh, that's what they're lacking. And it's a shame
Speaker 8: because they they're good athletes, and I know they want
Speaker 8: to win. You know, I'm anna, I'm a bear catalum,
Speaker 8: and uh, you know I'm used to like you said,
Speaker 8: you know, you know, good old fashioned Cincinnati Bears cap
Speaker 8: basketball and that's not what we're getting. But uh, that's
Speaker 8: you made part of my point. It's just basic fundamentals.
Speaker 8: But they're they're not getting that, they're not being taught,
Speaker 8: that they're not being they're not being practiced with their fundamentals.
Speaker 3: Totally agree, Jack, and Uh, hey appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, And before we go to the top of
Speaker 3: the hour break, I want to bring in our producer
Speaker 3: Sean McMahon, fellow elder grad with the Chickster Chicks, and
Speaker 3: he a uc alam and your take on last night.
Speaker 2: Sean, I know you're disappointed.
Speaker 16: Yeah, disappointed, unfortunately, not surprised. Yeah, because I mean with Xavier,
Speaker 16: they always show up. They always I got to give
Speaker 16: credit where credit is due to that program. It never
Speaker 16: matters who the head coach is. It doesn't matter who's
Speaker 16: on the floor for Xavier, it doesn't matter who's on
Speaker 16: the floor for U. See, Xavier always shows up in
Speaker 16: that game, and I got to give him a lot
Speaker 16: of credit. For months, chick I've kind of just assumed
Speaker 16: that they were probably going to drop this one for
Speaker 16: the simple fact that it was at the Centas Center.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been that way since two thousand and one.
Speaker 16: It's it's a it is a bitter piece of information
Speaker 16: to swallow if you're a UC fan that for twenty
Speaker 16: four years, Xavier has one, or I guess it would
Speaker 16: be twenty two years now, because twenty four years ago
Speaker 16: is the last time you see one. Yeah, eleven straight,
Speaker 16: eleven straight, and that's that's tough to swallow.
Speaker 3: And we talked off the air sean only one player
Speaker 3: on both teams has played in this rivalry.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's Dade Thomas.
Speaker 16: For those wondering, it's an incredible statistic. If you would
Speaker 16: have told me that ten years ago, I really don't
Speaker 16: know what I would have made with that information, because
Speaker 16: that just didn't seem it wasn't feasible at the time.
Speaker 16: Now it is because I think you brought up this
Speaker 16: point earlier, Chick. The way that teams are constructed nowadays,
Speaker 16: it feels like it's a lot it's just a bunch
Speaker 16: of mercenaries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't like that.
Speaker 16: I'm used to with football teams, basketball teams. I'm used
Speaker 16: to kind of watching these guys grow and develop into
Speaker 16: an identity. And we saw that with Luke fickle with
Speaker 16: the football team, and we haven't seen that with UC
Speaker 16: basketball in a while. You know, the last team that
Speaker 16: I can remember that was like that, I guess was
Speaker 16: the twenty nineteen squad.
Speaker 2: That was when Jared Cumberland was still on the team.
Speaker 16: After that and you know, Wes Miller and John and
Speaker 16: John Brannan and all that stuff, the program has been
Speaker 16: kind of on life support. But the game last night, specifically, though,
Speaker 16: getting back to that, it was it was tough because.
Speaker 2: I kind of knew how it was gonna go.
Speaker 16: It's funny how it seems like every time it's at
Speaker 16: the Sintas Center, UC plays the same game. They heave
Speaker 16: up a bunch of threes they shouldn't be taken. They
Speaker 16: shouldn't be taking. They miss a lot of them. Their
Speaker 16: free throw shooting is atrocious historically, it just is.
Speaker 2: And there's one guy that murders them, and.
Speaker 16: There's one guy that kills him, and that was Trey Carroll,
Speaker 16: and he was one of the guys I was at.
Speaker 16: I was out at the bar last night drinking with
Speaker 16: some friends and I was telling him, Hey, there's like
Speaker 16: four guys for Xavier.
Speaker 2: You've got a limit.
Speaker 16: That's bor Vichenen, Malisseovich Anderson the third and Trey Carroll.
Speaker 2: Those are the four.
Speaker 16: Guys you gotta maybe not shut down because shutting down
Speaker 16: four dudes is a lot harder to harder then did it?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 2: Then you'd like to admit.
Speaker 16: But they let one of those guys go off and
Speaker 16: he was a huge difference in the game.
Speaker 3: And the two guys I can't pronounce their last names,
Speaker 3: they hit big threes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they hit some big shots.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, Melisavichen Borovichnen I think or their o their names. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 16: that's that's the thing about Xavier. I will say this,
Speaker 16: you look at the box score. I think the biggest
Speaker 16: thing that I was saying, you see needed to do
Speaker 16: defensively to shut down Xavier was shut down Xavier's three
Speaker 16: point shooting. If you look at the box score, Xavier
Speaker 16: was six six of twenty eight from the three point line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you.
Speaker 16: See did a pretty good job of stopping the three
Speaker 16: point shot or at least making Xavier miss them. So
Speaker 16: they got lucky there. But you see themselves wasn't much better.
Speaker 16: They were eleven of thirty three from the three point line.
Speaker 16: But yeah, man, it's it's the free throw shooting that
Speaker 16: gets them every single time. And it's one of those
Speaker 16: things fundamentally that I don't understand how you're not practicing
Speaker 16: that day in day out. It's it's called the charity
Speaker 16: stripe for reason. You got to make those shots. Those
Speaker 16: are free points. You got to take them when you
Speaker 16: can get them, especially in a rivalry like that, and
Speaker 16: in a series that's been dominated by Xavier since the
Speaker 16: turn of the century and has been dominated since they
Speaker 16: opened Zinta Center.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh UC shoots thirty eight percent from the floor,
Speaker 3: twenty six of sixty nine, thirty three percent from three,
Speaker 3: and fifty percent at the line. Yeah, Xavier forty seven
Speaker 3: percent from the floor, and yeah, they were only twenty
Speaker 3: one percent six of twenty eight and only fifty seven
Speaker 3: percent from the foul line, so they were only thirteen
Speaker 3: of twenty three.
Speaker 2: But that all goes away when you win. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and with a thirty point performance by Trey Carroll.
Speaker 16: Right, And I got to get credit to Xavier. You know,
Speaker 16: they're in a new tenure with with Rick Patina or
Speaker 16: I'm sorry now Rick Patino, Richard Patino, And they came
Speaker 16: out and they played hard and they played well. Yeah,
Speaker 16: you can't not give that team credit for how they've
Speaker 16: how they played last night. Yeah, they've won four in
Speaker 16: a row, five out. They lost to Santa Clara and
Speaker 16: Iowa both by nineteen. We lose by one to Georgia,
Speaker 16: and then they've won four in a row. So he's right,
Speaker 16: they're getting better every game.
Speaker 2: Yep. And what can you say other than give him credit? Now,
Speaker 2: I'll make this real quick, but.
Speaker 16: I think you were bringing up Wes Miller and Aolance
Speaker 16: talks about Wes Miller all the time. He's losing faith
Speaker 16: even quicker with the fan base now, and he's got
Speaker 16: to get a lot done. He has to make the
Speaker 16: tournament this year. You can't come to this program year
Speaker 16: five and not make the tournament. And he's lost to
Speaker 16: three different head coaches at Xavier. It's just there's he
Speaker 16: doesn't have a lot going for him right now. So
Speaker 16: he's got to make up ground quickly.
Speaker 3: Hey, when we come back after the top of the
Speaker 3: hour news, we're going to welcome in. Jake Ballard retired
Speaker 3: tight end in the NFL. Played at Springboro High School,
Speaker 3: played at the Ohio State University. Caught a couple of
Speaker 3: touchdown passes and helped the New York Football Giants beat
Speaker 3: New England in Super Bowl forty six. He lives in Columbus.
Speaker 3: Now we'll get his take on the Indiana Ohio state
Speaker 3: matchup and talk.
Speaker 2: A little bit about his career when we return.
Speaker 3: It's the home of the best Bengals coverage and the
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Speaker 3: seven eight in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Chick Ludwig,
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Speaker 3: like Eric Carmon and the Raspberries, we're going all the
Speaker 3: way to nine o'clock and that's when Donnade takes over
Speaker 3: these airwaves.
Speaker 2: And I always enjoy catching up with famous.
Speaker 3: Athletes, local athletes, and we've got one right now. Let's
Speaker 3: go out to Columbus, where I went to school with
Speaker 3: fifty thousand of my closest friends, and welcome in retired
Speaker 3: tight end Jake Ballard.
Speaker 2: Jake, how are you tonight?
Speaker 7: I'm good. I'm doing good. Chick, how you doing? Man?
Speaker 3: Oh fantastic Springboro High School, home of the Panthers, the
Speaker 3: Ohio State University, home of the Buckeyes, and then a
Speaker 3: career in the National Football League that includes a Super
Speaker 3: Bowl ring. First things first, Jake, how sweet was it
Speaker 3: to finally beat the Michigan Wolverines.
Speaker 7: Well, it was pretty awesome watching them.
Speaker 5: The Bucks take care of business, completely dominate the game
Speaker 5: from beginning to end. And you know, as a guy
Speaker 5: who never lost to Michigan, these last four years have
Speaker 5: been tough, even living in Central Ohio. The Michigan fans
Speaker 5: that came out of the closets and he couldn't really
Speaker 5: say anything.
Speaker 7: But now this year, at the tides of turns.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, it's only a charm.
Speaker 3: But the gold Pants, Oh what I would give to
Speaker 3: get a gold Pants charm.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they're definitely pretty special. My you know,
Speaker 5: tradition is that the players, once you get them, usually
Speaker 5: moms hold on of those pretty tight. So my mom, actually,
Speaker 5: you know, I haven't played my freshman year. I hog
Speaker 5: to State with two thousand and six, and my mom.
Speaker 7: Just gave both of all four of mine to.
Speaker 5: My wife about a year or two ago, so she
Speaker 5: was hold on to him for a while.
Speaker 3: Oh man, awesome, that's fantastic, Josh never lost to Michigan. Incredible.
Speaker 3: How about tonight, Jake? Really, both teams number one and
Speaker 3: number two. It doesn't happen often, man, in a venue
Speaker 3: like Lucas Oil Stadium.
Speaker 2: Man, it doesn't get any bigger than this.
Speaker 3: But so much is on the line tonight with Ohio
Speaker 3: State and Indiana number one versus number two, the Big
Speaker 3: Ten Championship, the you know, the seedings in the twelve
Speaker 3: team college football playoff, and then the Heisman Trophy race
Speaker 3: with a Julian Sayan and Fernando Mendoza Man, two great quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot on the line tonight, two great teams.
Speaker 5: You know, arguably neither one is faced an opponent like
Speaker 5: the other. I might be a little biased, but you know,
Speaker 5: I think Indiana is a good team. I don't think
Speaker 5: they faced a defense like ours, number one defense in
Speaker 5: the country, not even letting guys get over average ten
Speaker 5: points a game. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: I guess I just don't know if Indiana can score
Speaker 5: more points than our offense versus our defense. And like
Speaker 5: you said, it's he's been. Whoever wins this game, it's
Speaker 5: probably gonna Heisman two. And as far as you know
Speaker 5: the playoff seeding goes, it really just depends on who
Speaker 5: you talk to.
Speaker 7: If if the game is closed.
Speaker 5: It sounds like both we'll still be in the running
Speaker 5: and get a first round by but we'll wait and
Speaker 5: see how.
Speaker 7: The how the game turns out well.
Speaker 3: And when I said this earlier on the show that
Speaker 3: you know, when I look at the the twelve team
Speaker 3: playoff and I see Ohio State with the possibly you know,
Speaker 3: a number one seed there and that the possibly get
Speaker 3: to buy and then possibly play in the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2: I've been there twice.
Speaker 3: It's the most incredible venue in all of college football,
Speaker 3: one of the most iconic venues in all of sports.
Speaker 3: And that would be special to go back to Pasadena.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely. I mean my last game Ohio State was
Speaker 5: the Rose Bowl. We actually beat Oregon Ducks. And most
Speaker 5: recently Ohio State played in the Rose Ball last.
Speaker 7: Year and beat Oregon. And it would be it'd.
Speaker 5: Be pretty special to see him go back there and
Speaker 5: start this playoff run in.
Speaker 7: The Rose Bowl.
Speaker 3: God, can you relate to the fan how special that
Speaker 3: was to take the field at the Rose Bowl. You know,
Speaker 3: the shadows of the San Gabriel Mountains with the sky
Speaker 3: turning pink blue, purple green. I mean, just it is
Speaker 3: a spectacular setting.
Speaker 5: It really is very surreal, and like you said, the
Speaker 5: sun setting on the San Gabriel Mountains. You know, you
Speaker 5: got jets flying overhead for the pregame, and it's just
Speaker 5: in that weather, it is always perfect. The grass is
Speaker 5: like a golf course, and you just there's so much
Speaker 5: history there. So to be able to be there and
Speaker 5: be a part of that game, and a couple of
Speaker 5: days before that, you know, we do the Rose bul
Speaker 5: Prade and all those things, and it just was super
Speaker 5: special and I'm very blessed to be able to play
Speaker 5: in that game.
Speaker 3: And back at Ohio State, I've been told that coming
Speaker 3: out of the tunnel at Ohio State, you are so
Speaker 3: jack you feel like you could leap over ten foot
Speaker 3: brick wall.
Speaker 5: I mean waiting in the tunnel and then eventually when
Speaker 5: they tell you to run out and you're running down
Speaker 5: in front of one hundred and five six seven thousand people,
Speaker 5: You're not going to jump over the wall. You might
Speaker 5: run through it, but it is it is extremely special.
Speaker 5: One of the loudest environments I've ever played in. And
Speaker 5: I've played in the Mall. You know, I played in
Speaker 5: Seattle in the NFL. I've played in Washington Huskies in
Speaker 5: Michigan and Penn State and Texas and anything.
Speaker 7: You can think of.
Speaker 5: Ohio Stadium is a very tough place to play.
Speaker 3: And running through a brick wall with snot bubbles, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Jacob your pro career, you're getting signed by
Speaker 3: the New York Football Giants. Is an undrafted college free
Speaker 3: agent following the twenty ten draft. What was that experience like?
Speaker 3: And you know, fighting through some injuries here that very
Speaker 3: first year and then finally getting on the field in
Speaker 3: twenty eleven making an impact and then eventually man getting
Speaker 3: a Super Bowl ring with a twenty one to seventeen
Speaker 3: victory over the New England Patriots at Lucas Oil Stadium
Speaker 3: after the twenty eleven season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was a dogfight.
Speaker 5: I was undrafted, so you're coming in there fighting for
Speaker 5: a spot like a lot of guys in the NFL
Speaker 5: training camp.
Speaker 7: And I was.
Speaker 5: Fortunate enough to obviously play at Ohio State, where I
Speaker 5: played against the NFL guys all the time, So I
Speaker 5: guess the learning curve for me wasn't that great. But
Speaker 5: I went there and did enough to you know, impress
Speaker 5: the coaches, and I was up and down off the
Speaker 5: practice squad and NAKI roster. My rookie year I started
Speaker 5: tighting was Kevin Boss, who did really well in my
Speaker 5: second year. It was the NFL lockout and didn't even
Speaker 5: get to off season with the team. And I showed
Speaker 5: up a camp and Kevin Boss is about to come back,
Speaker 5: and I'll never forget this.
Speaker 7: Our Titan coach walked in.
Speaker 5: He said, well, Kevin was going to sign with us,
Speaker 5: but the Oakland Raiders just doubled their offer and he's
Speaker 5: signed with them. And he said, our starting Titans in
Speaker 5: this room. We're not getting anyone else. And as soon
Speaker 5: as I heard him say that, I never looked back.
Speaker 7: I said, I'm going to earn the starting spot and
Speaker 7: I took and run with it.
Speaker 3: Beautiful And gosh, you've got to remember the November sixth,
Speaker 3: twenty eleven game against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: a one yard touchdown catch, a twenty eight yard catch
Speaker 3: on third and ten in the final minute, and that
Speaker 3: was huge.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was a special game.
Speaker 5: We actually ended up playing with the Patriots after the Giants,
Speaker 5: but yeah, Tom always liked to bring up that game,
Speaker 5: but we ended there about twenty I think they were
Speaker 5: going for a twenty six or seven game home winning
Speaker 5: streak and we ended that and that really kind of
Speaker 5: lit us on fire for that Super Bowl run that
Speaker 5: year and the next year when I was on the Patriots.
Speaker 5: Tom Brady just incredible guy, but obviously incredible leader and competitor.
Speaker 5: This guy's played in thousands, you know, thousands of football games,
Speaker 5: and he still remembers little little things like that. I
Speaker 5: would just be walking by the hallway and he'd be like, Jake,
Speaker 5: if you think I forgot you catching that ball in
Speaker 5: third and long, are catching the winning touchdown, You're forgetting
Speaker 5: You're mistaken.
Speaker 7: Oh, or you bring up something about us beating beating.
Speaker 2: Him in the Super Bowl, that is incredible.
Speaker 3: And that game in Foxborough twenty one to seventeen in
Speaker 3: favor of the Giants and handing the Patriots the second
Speaker 3: straight loss for the first time since two thousand and nine,
Speaker 3: twenty one consecutive victories at home and man, you stopped him.
Speaker 3: And then the Super Bowl final score twenty one to
Speaker 3: seventeen in favor of the Giants.
Speaker 5: Yep, pretty pretty crazy how it all worked out. I mean,
Speaker 5: the Patriots are town the team, but we got high
Speaker 5: at the right moment and and took care of business.
Speaker 2: Yes, And do you still have your Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: It kills me when I hear that guys sell them
Speaker 3: or give them away or lose them. Man, that's got
Speaker 3: to be in an awfully safe place for you.
Speaker 7: A safe place, indeed pun intended. I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't wear my sit in the safe of the house,
Speaker 5: and I'll bring it out on special occasions if I
Speaker 5: get dressed up or have any events that people want
Speaker 5: to see them. But I have the rest of my
Speaker 5: game ball the memorabilia kind of out in my basement
Speaker 5: hung up, so it's nice to see those every once
Speaker 5: in a while, too.
Speaker 3: Jutiful, We're talking with Jake Ballard, retired NFL tight end
Speaker 3: from Springboro High School the Ohio State University to New
Speaker 3: York Football Giants. In a bittersweet day in that in
Speaker 3: that Super Bowl, Jake, because uh, you win the game,
Speaker 3: but you got injured in that game and that, uh, man,
Speaker 3: that really hit an impact on your on your future.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely did.
Speaker 5: I you know, I ended up blowing out my knee
Speaker 5: with seven minutes to go in the game, a c
Speaker 5: L meniscus and a microfracture, and it definitely turned the
Speaker 5: tides of my life. But I always like to say,
Speaker 5: you know, I would have met my wife or had
Speaker 5: my son if I would have.
Speaker 7: Never got hurt in that game.
Speaker 5: But anyway, yeah, and it hurt.
Speaker 7: My knee.
Speaker 5: Came back for a couple of years, but never really
Speaker 5: was the same and ended up retiring with the Cardinals early.
Speaker 7: And it could have it could have covered the worst time.
Speaker 5: It was actually my contract year that year, so we
Speaker 5: were going to sign an extension until I got hurt.
Speaker 7: And you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now.
Speaker 3: The Giants wound up placing you on injured reserve and
Speaker 3: then that off season, Wow, the New York or the
Speaker 3: New England Patriots claim you off waivers. And isn't it
Speaker 3: kind of a gentleman's agreement, you know, an injured guy,
Speaker 3: you know, and other team's not gonna pick him up.
Speaker 3: But did Patriots and Bill Belichick claim you off waivers
Speaker 3: and then you spent the entire season what on the
Speaker 3: pup list or I R.
Speaker 7: Yeah, on I are on IR with the Patriots. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it was interesting.
Speaker 5: Interesting that the general manager tells me that you know,
Speaker 5: we're gonna put you on IR, and I was already
Speaker 5: prepped by my agent of the situation what would happen?
Speaker 5: And I told him, point, Blake, you know I want
Speaker 5: to be here the Giants. I don't want to do this.
Speaker 5: What's what's the chance that some team just takes a
Speaker 5: flyer and steals me in the waiver wire and stores
Speaker 5: me away for next year? And I was told by
Speaker 5: our our GM that you know, that doesn't happen. Teams
Speaker 5: don't do that. Blah blah blah. Well, later that day
Speaker 5: I get a call from Kaflin tell me how much
Speaker 5: he he cares about me and loves me, and and
Speaker 5: and how I was a big part of the success.
Speaker 5: And basically said, you know, Jake, you're a smart kid.
Speaker 5: You know I don't get all the decisions. If I did,
Speaker 5: this would not even be I would not even be
Speaker 5: gambling this. And sure enough, the last day, last five
Speaker 5: minutes of the waiver while whire Belichick and the Patriots
Speaker 5: claimed me man no, and I had and I had
Speaker 5: no decision or say the matter. The next morning, I
Speaker 5: was on a plane to New England at six.
Speaker 3: Am, Yeah twenty twelve, the regular season on the pup
Speaker 3: list or IR, and then August thirtieth of twenty thirteen,
Speaker 3: You're informed of your.
Speaker 2: Release by the Patriots.
Speaker 3: And then how did it come that you landed in
Speaker 3: Arizona with Carson Palmer?
Speaker 7: Yep, Carson a great guy.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so I was with New England all off
Speaker 5: all twelve and I are just kind of rehabbing, you know,
Speaker 5: since my injury wasn't a standard just ACL, it took
Speaker 5: a little bit longer. Yeah, And I went through training camp,
Speaker 5: played played in all the preseason games and it was
Speaker 5: no secret.
Speaker 7: You know, I knew my knee was not I wasn't.
Speaker 5: Ready, you know, I wasn't up to snuff and ready
Speaker 5: to play, and the team knew that. And I'll never
Speaker 5: forget Belichick call. But like a coach wants to see
Speaker 5: us the last day of cuts, you know what's happening
Speaker 5: when you hear that and you go up there and
Speaker 5: Nick Catherio was, uh, he wasn't old Billichick. Belichick's the
Speaker 5: GM and coach, but Nick Casserio has the title. And
Speaker 5: Nick starts talking to me and give me some standard
Speaker 5: BS answer, And I'll never forget Bill said, Nick, I
Speaker 5: got this one. And Bill says, Jake, you've been You've
Speaker 5: done everything we've asked of you. We've enjoyed you being
Speaker 5: here and being a Patriot, but you're a smart kid.
Speaker 5: We just think you need a little more time rehabbing
Speaker 5: that knee and getting it right, and we think it's
Speaker 5: the best thing for both of us to part ways
Speaker 5: right now. But we'll keep in contact with your you
Speaker 5: and your agent, and if you get healthy, we'd love
Speaker 5: to bring it back. So like that, that meant a
Speaker 5: lot to me, you know, Belichick going out of his way,
Speaker 5: not just treating me like another guy. But yeah, then
Speaker 5: I ended up in Arizona with Carson Palmer, who was
Speaker 5: also another just a great guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and caught what a couple of touchdowns from Carson?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did you have cause.
Speaker 5: I got signed in the middle of the season after
Speaker 5: rehaving my knee. Is actually funny. I was back in
Speaker 5: New England working out and I was about to sign
Speaker 5: with New England and they wanted to sign me because
Speaker 5: I was in a much better spot and they had
Speaker 5: some sign ends that were hurt and I obviously knew
Speaker 5: the offense and everything else. But New England wanted to
Speaker 5: sign me, and so the Cardinals. But the New England
Speaker 5: wanted to wait until after the bye week, and the
Speaker 5: Cardinals like, we need to sign you right now. So
Speaker 5: I ended up going out to New England, I mean
Speaker 5: going out to Arizona. Oh Man awesome.
Speaker 3: And then on August sixth, twenty fourteen, Jake Ballard announces
Speaker 3: his retirement.
Speaker 2: And how tough a decision.
Speaker 9: Was that.
Speaker 7: It was. It was a gut check.
Speaker 5: Uh, it was a very hard decision, you know, being
Speaker 5: a game that I played since third grade and dreams
Speaker 5: coming true when Super Bowl plays, playing in the NFL
Speaker 5: and going through injuries, I I just was not in
Speaker 5: love with the game like.
Speaker 7: I used to. You know, I was probably playing an
Speaker 7: eighty five.
Speaker 5: Percent of what I used to be able to do.
Speaker 7: And I was in pain every day.
Speaker 5: I hated going to practice. My mental mentally just exhausted
Speaker 5: because I just could not do what I used to
Speaker 5: do and quality life was.
Speaker 7: A big thing for me. And uh, after I.
Speaker 5: Think it might have only been seven days in a
Speaker 5: training camp is when I told my agent, I said,
Speaker 5: I'm done. I just can't push it anymore. You know,
Speaker 5: I don't have kids. I'd like to have kids and
Speaker 5: still be able bodied at that point.
Speaker 7: In time, and I was worried about getting hurt.
Speaker 5: Worse not being you know, not being not playing one
Speaker 5: hundred percent, worried about other injuries.
Speaker 7: So I'll never forget.
Speaker 5: I asked coach arians to have a conversation with them,
Speaker 5: and I told him put my heart on my sleeve
Speaker 5: and told him I was retiring. Broke down a little bit,
Speaker 5: and he looked at me and he said, Jake, we
Speaker 5: you know, we've loved.
Speaker 7: Having you here. And I hate to hear this, but
Speaker 7: he's like, you know, I have any problems in my heart.
Speaker 5: I feel like you're making the right decision for you
Speaker 5: and your and your family. So it was a special moment, Jake.
Speaker 3: And now you're a real estate agent in the Columbus area,
Speaker 3: possibly Upper Arlington, And how's that going for you?
Speaker 7: It's going really well.
Speaker 5: I've been doing over twelve years and I've been blessed
Speaker 5: to work with so many great people and friends and
Speaker 5: you know in the community that I want to change
Speaker 5: it for anything, And I you know, what do you
Speaker 5: hate you to say? You went with people and I
Speaker 5: couldn't agree, they couldn't agree more. And I really enjoyed
Speaker 5: it and feel.
Speaker 7: Like it's what I'm supposed to be doing right now.
Speaker 3: And last thing, Jake Ballard, you've been very kind with
Speaker 3: your time words of wisdom for young athletes, young football
Speaker 3: players coming up.
Speaker 2: What would you tell them?
Speaker 5: Man, I that's a deep question. I feel like I'll
Speaker 5: have a lot of thoughts. But you know, you you
Speaker 5: want to make sure you don't lose track of having
Speaker 5: fun and then losing. They're taking sports for granted. You
Speaker 5: need to put everything you can into it to make
Speaker 5: sure you don't look back and regret your choices because
Speaker 5: it's a game that can take you fear in life
Speaker 5: and not just on the you know, competitive field or court.
Speaker 7: You know it can give you.
Speaker 5: Mental toughness and training for all aspects of life. And
Speaker 5: it's it's it gives, it gives gives you what you.
Speaker 7: Put into it.
Speaker 3: Jake Ballard, Man, thank you so much for your time tonight.
Speaker 3: This has been awesome, great stuff. All the best of
Speaker 3: you and your family. Well, I appreciate it anytime then,
Speaker 3: all right, thanks so much, Jake Ballard and yeah, as always,
Speaker 3: go bucks.
Speaker 2: Thank you man.
Speaker 7: Thanks all right, take care you bet.
Speaker 3: That's Jake Ballard And when we come back, Linda Shanstead,
Speaker 3: Professor at Xavier University. All aspects of women in sports
Speaker 3: when we return. This is Chick Ludwig Sports Talk till
Speaker 3: nine o'clock tonight on seven hundred WLW well W well,
Speaker 3: I say it all the time on these airwaves. The
Speaker 3: greatest thing to happen in sports in my lifetime is
Speaker 3: Title nine opening the door for women in sports. And
Speaker 3: even though women have come a long way, there's still
Speaker 3: a lot of work that needs to be done. We
Speaker 3: welcome in my good friend, doctor Linda Shanstad, Professor, Xavier
Speaker 3: University Sport Management and Marketing Department.
Speaker 2: Linda, how the heck are you?
Speaker 17: I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 2: Fantastic? Thank you so much for joining us and Linda.
Speaker 3: On the surface, you know, it looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: women's sports man gaining and popularity with the US women's
Speaker 3: soccer team, the WNBA, the incredible nc DOUBA volleyball and
Speaker 3: basketball tournaments. But still, man, there's issues there with gender discrimination, sexism,
Speaker 3: unequal pay and funding, and even media coverage.
Speaker 2: Am I right about that?
Speaker 17: Well? I don't want to alienate fifty percent of your listeners, Chick,
Speaker 17: but yeah, there's still some issues there, for sure, there are.
Speaker 17: But let me just say I've been a fan of
Speaker 17: men's and women's sports for a very very long time,
Speaker 17: just as you have. And quite frankly, you know, the
Speaker 17: men have had a lot of time to figure out
Speaker 17: the marketing and sponsorship, promotion, advertising piece of this. You know,
Speaker 17: women haven't really been doing it that long and so
Speaker 17: you know, there's a lot of things to take away
Speaker 17: from how the men do things, you know, and how
Speaker 17: they've been successful. But there are you know, nuances I
Speaker 17: think in the women's game that's taken more time to
Speaker 17: catch up.
Speaker 3: Sure, and gosh, that would be probably marketing and media coverage,
Speaker 3: et cetera.
Speaker 17: Oh absolutely, I mean, women in the last two Olympics,
Speaker 17: actually probably the last three or four Olympics have only
Speaker 17: garnered about seven percent of all the media coverage, you know,
Speaker 17: so that you know, that says a lot and I
Speaker 17: get it. Sponsors want a sure thing. So the ones
Speaker 17: that are going to get the most money are the
Speaker 17: biggest uh you know uh sports that they're going to
Speaker 17: get a return on their investment for. And that makes
Speaker 17: perfect sense, you know, at the bottom line, you know,
Speaker 17: it's money. You know, money is going to drive access
Speaker 17: to sports, going to drive opportunities, and it's going to
Speaker 17: drive more equitable, you know, opportunities for women for sure.
Speaker 3: The Olympics are the The Winter Olympics in Italy are
Speaker 3: what sixty two days away? And I like to say
Speaker 3: that my favorite sport in the Winter Olympics is women's
Speaker 3: figure skating.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 3: And being a volleyball ref and fast pitch softball umpire. Man,
Speaker 3: I look back to my days at Ohio State from
Speaker 3: seventy two to seventy six, Woody Hayes parked his Cadillac
Speaker 3: on the softball diamond on the pitchers mound.
Speaker 2: They thought the world was ending. Far from it, Linda.
Speaker 17: Well, consider the source it was, Woody.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I remember sitting in doctor Phyllis Bailey's
Speaker 3: office when the title nine came down, and man, to
Speaker 3: think back to those days and to where we're at now.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of great strides that I just
Speaker 3: hope continue.
Speaker 17: Well, I think they will. And you pointed out, you
Speaker 17: know a lot of the leagues now we've got a
Speaker 17: women's professional baseball league, Women's professional hockey is really taking
Speaker 17: some big steps, you know so, and I think the
Speaker 17: Olympics are only another place to showcase you know a
Speaker 17: lot of that growth, you know, the college game, you know,
Speaker 17: is going to have a little bit of ways to go,
Speaker 17: certainly with nil and uh, you know third party you know,
Speaker 17: contributors to you know, the various athletes you know, and
Speaker 17: and and that's where I think we see some of
Speaker 17: the biggest inequities right now.
Speaker 3: And uh, we see sports being added in high school.
Speaker 3: In high school wrestling and flag football is seems to
Speaker 3: be taken off.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and that's really really exciting. You know. Uh, women
Speaker 17: are clam and girls are clamoring for an opportunity to
Speaker 17: to compete. They want participation opportunities, and I think you know,
Speaker 17: if you look at the Ohio State Federation or the
Speaker 17: National Federation for High School in sports, you know, they're
Speaker 17: they're all looking for ways to get you know, both
Speaker 17: girls and boys, you know, continue becoming more involved and
Speaker 17: providing additional things that you know they want to play.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 17: It's these are all based on interest levels and then
Speaker 17: connecting them to pro sport, college sport, you know, the
Speaker 17: role models and coaching there. These are all great things
Speaker 17: I think for boys and girls across the board.
Speaker 3: Linda Shanstead is with us from Xavier University, and Linda,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm reading a lot of stuff about girls,
Speaker 3: you know, teenagers, you know, possibly leaving sports behind, and
Speaker 3: so retention has to be huge. There's opportunity out there,
Speaker 3: and I just hope the girls continue to take advantage
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Judging by USA Softball and Junior Olympic Volleyball, man, thousands
Speaker 3: of girls are playing.
Speaker 2: I just hope they can be retained.
Speaker 17: Well. Sports become very expensive. I mean I had two
Speaker 17: kids go through and it was thousands of dollars, especially
Speaker 17: if they enjoyed it so much and ended up on
Speaker 17: club teams. You know, there's a financial hit that goes
Speaker 17: along with sport. You know, there's there's pay to play
Speaker 17: in a lot of high schools, and so you know
Speaker 17: there's a way that we can help defray those things.
Speaker 17: But you know, currently right now, that's that's what our
Speaker 17: model is. And so if parents want their kid to
Speaker 17: be the next you know, Steph Curry, you know they're
Speaker 17: certainly going to have to you know, pay the piper
Speaker 17: in order for their kids to be able to play.
Speaker 17: At least they have some enough training and then you
Speaker 17: know you kind of just see where the chips fall.
Speaker 17: But yeah, it's become a very very expensive enterprise, I think,
Speaker 17: and that's one reason that maybe some you know, boys
Speaker 17: and girls and males and females aren't able to stay
Speaker 17: in the sport that they love for as long as
Speaker 17: they do.
Speaker 3: Totally agree with you. I talked to some softball parents.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, the equipment that it takes, and then
Speaker 3: the travel and gosh, the hotel rooms, the food, the transportation.
Speaker 3: It just uh man, you're you're up there in the
Speaker 3: five figures, maybe even six.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, and there's no question about that, you know,
Speaker 17: and a lot of us think, you know, my son
Speaker 17: thought he was going to be, you know, the next
Speaker 17: NBA player you know, out of Cincinnati, until he you know,
Speaker 17: stopped at five nine and a half five ten. And
Speaker 17: you can't teach size, you know, you can't. So you know, okay,
Speaker 17: well that's the worst plan b. So you know, and
Speaker 17: that that happens to you know, ninety nine point six
Speaker 17: percent of all the athletes. You know, there's just such
Speaker 17: a small percentage that are going to go on to
Speaker 17: actually be that NBA player or professional players. So it's
Speaker 17: I think it's an issue, and I think it's you know,
Speaker 17: it it directly addresses I think some of the inability
Speaker 17: for for kids to access sport.
Speaker 3: Well, it's great to have Zaber Universities doctor Linda Shanstead
Speaker 3: with a sport management and marketing department at Xavier. UH.
Speaker 2: You had to be loving last night at the Centa Center.
Speaker 17: I was there and I had, you know, somehow they let,
Speaker 17: you know, a couple of our competitors fans in and
Speaker 17: they I had a couple sitting in front of me
Speaker 17: and a couple behind, but we all got along just fine,
Speaker 17: and it was really exciting. And I think what Richard
Speaker 17: Patino's done just in the last you know, a handful
Speaker 17: of weeks from the beginning of the year, I think
Speaker 17: he's made some believers.
Speaker 7: Out of a lot of us, no doubt.
Speaker 3: Yes, four straight wins, five out of the last six
Speaker 3: and used to do an eight.
Speaker 2: Fantastic job.
Speaker 3: Linda, can you explain to the gosh the listener what
Speaker 3: the what Ohio's Save Women's Sports Act is?
Speaker 17: Yeah? I know a little bit about it, but it's
Speaker 17: the idea that girls who that that the access to
Speaker 17: sport for girls who are have transitioned and have now
Speaker 17: now identify as as uh as male. Uh, that's been
Speaker 17: restricted or or banned and I understand it.
Speaker 7: I I do.
Speaker 17: I think there are some concerns, you know, with you know,
Speaker 17: the the level of strength and you know, skills and
Speaker 17: power that a lot of times are attributed to two boys.
Speaker 17: For me, it's it's a it's a science issue. I
Speaker 17: think we're not quite there yet to determine just what's
Speaker 17: most appropriate I think for for these individuals who who
Speaker 17: you know, aren't comfortable in the body that they were
Speaker 17: born in. So there's a lot to be be said
Speaker 17: about that. I mean, this is an issue that is uh,
Speaker 17: you know, as high up as as the Olympic Games,
Speaker 17: you know, it goes down into college. But it also
Speaker 17: is important to remember this is a very very very
Speaker 17: very small, very small number. Lest I looked, I think
Speaker 17: it was ten individuals in college period, and it's it's
Speaker 17: just a very very small number in the high schools
Speaker 17: as well. But I do understand the intention. I don't
Speaker 17: think it's it's you know, I just don't think we've
Speaker 17: settled that quite yet. But you know, it far from
Speaker 17: me to think I have the answers to this. It's
Speaker 17: been very very complicated with a lot of people trying
Speaker 17: to be what you know, to make the decisions that
Speaker 17: are most fair for any kid who wants to play sport.
Speaker 3: Linda one area that really kind of bothers me and
Speaker 3: I noticed this with Caitlin Clark coming out of the
Speaker 3: University of Iowa playing thirty plus games really her second
Speaker 3: last year and then her final season of college basketball.
Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, there's the WNBA Draft, and
Speaker 3: then less than a month later, the forty four game
Speaker 3: season starts. Man, don't they get a break? I mean,
Speaker 3: is there anything that can be done with the WNBA season?
Speaker 17: Well, chick, it's only going to get worse if the
Speaker 17: WNBA commissioners and the powers that be get their way
Speaker 17: with this new collective bargaining agreement, because the last projected,
Speaker 17: the last idea that was put forward was, yeah, we'll
Speaker 17: raise the caps to almost five million dollars per team,
Speaker 17: with your best players getting a million dollars and your
Speaker 17: middle of the road players getting half a million, and
Speaker 17: then your rookies, you know, at about two hundred and
Speaker 17: fifty dollars, which is great, but the trade off is
Speaker 17: is they actually start earlier to the season almost you know.
Speaker 17: And then in addition, they want to take away the housing,
Speaker 17: which you know, imagine being you know, as fluid as
Speaker 17: this can be sometimes with trades and an agency going on.
Speaker 17: You know, in the middle of a season, you know,
Speaker 17: somebody's got an apartment that they're renting, and now they've
Speaker 17: got to figure out how to sublet it or break
Speaker 17: the lease or pay a penalty, and they're you know,
Speaker 17: so there's a lot of issues. So you know, it's
Speaker 17: very very frustrating that, yeah, you're looking at, you know,
Speaker 17: allowing the players to share a little bit more in
Speaker 17: the revenue, but you're now going to make them play
Speaker 17: even sooner after the draft. You're, right, creating more potential
Speaker 17: for injury. And then you're also taking away some of
Speaker 17: the perks that they fought very hard for in the
Speaker 17: last collective bargaining agreement in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Oh very interesting, Linda, Thank you so much for that
Speaker 3: to break down. Well, sure, we see that the NCAA
Speaker 3: Women's volleyball tournament has started. Can anybody beat undefeated Nebraska?
Speaker 17: Man, I wouldn't bet against I would not bet against them.
Speaker 17: They're just loaded. I mean, you know, we kind of
Speaker 17: joke about some of these very very you know, talented
Speaker 17: teams that their their second and third strings would would
Speaker 17: be starters on you know, other top ten teams. Uh,
Speaker 17: Nebraska's really got it going on and that started with
Speaker 17: Terry Pettitt way back in the you know, the seventies
Speaker 17: and eighties, and then continued with John Cook and it's
Speaker 17: certainly uh continuing with coach Busboom, who's you know, if
Speaker 17: anybody who's a Louisville fan would remember her from last year.
Speaker 17: So yeah, they haven't missed a beat. And they do
Speaker 17: a great job of marketing, so they're also able to
Speaker 17: attract the players in the first place. And I know
Speaker 17: they're nil monies or actually it's probably their their their
Speaker 17: third party monies that are probably helping that situation out
Speaker 17: quite a bit.
Speaker 3: I know it's a sport you know and love as
Speaker 3: the former volleyball coach at Wright State and the University
Speaker 3: of Iowa, and I know you're following it very closely.
Speaker 3: And congratulations to both Right State and Xavier, even though
Speaker 3: they got knocked out in the first round, still a
Speaker 3: great accomplishment for both.
Speaker 17: It's a it's a great accomplishment, you bet, you know,
Speaker 17: and you know, success just usually begets more success. And
Speaker 17: I know Christy Peppenberger at Xavier and Dave got a
Speaker 17: new volleyball coach up at writes stayed here in the
Speaker 17: last few years, but they've really got it going on too.
Speaker 3: You bet well, Linda, this is this has been fantastic
Speaker 3: and given us kind of the state of union of
Speaker 3: women's sports here and I sincerely appreciate your time.
Speaker 17: Well, it's always an honor to be able to just
Speaker 17: talk sports with you, chicks. So have a great holiday
Speaker 17: season and same to your your listeners.
Speaker 2: Right back at you, Linda, thank you so much.
Speaker 17: You're welcome.
Speaker 3: I Chick, take care. That's Linda Shanstead, Xavier University, man
Speaker 3: professor in the Sport Management and Marketing Department. Uh, just
Speaker 3: a phenomen i'minal source for women in sports. And you're
Speaker 3: listening to Sports Talk with your host, Chick Ludwig and
Speaker 3: tonight's producer Sean McMahon on seven hundred WLWD the interview
Speaker 3: with Linda Shanstead, Savior University professor all things women sports.
Speaker 3: Also appreciate Jake Ballard, retired NFL tight end, joining us
Speaker 3: at the top of the seven o'clock hour. After the
Speaker 3: news at eight o'clock, we're going to bring in Greg
Speaker 3: Schumacher and we're going to talk some high school football.
Speaker 3: Anderson and Saint Xavier are defeated in the state championship
Speaker 3: games at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton
Speaker 3: over the weekend, and we're going to talk about really
Speaker 3: both games, both teams, and the OHSAA released the mister
Speaker 3: Football for Ohio. We're going to introduce him also and
Speaker 3: talk about the state football playoffs. And I hate to
Speaker 3: bash the OHSAA, but the presenters, the trophy presenters at
Speaker 3: the state football championships in Canton have made some embarrassing mistakes.
Speaker 3: Columbus Bishop Waterson wins the Division three title and the
Speaker 3: presenter said Division two. And then oll In Tangy Orange
Speaker 3: wins the D one state championship over Saint Zaber and
Speaker 3: the presenter forgot the year. He called them the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four state champs. I'm there, Oh my gosh, just
Speaker 3: look at the trophy. It's twenty twenty five. And my
Speaker 3: good friend Tina Gears chimes in, some things never changed.
Speaker 3: They did the same thing with Elder back in the
Speaker 3: two thousand and two so I know it's tough giving
Speaker 3: the speeches at the end of the game to the
Speaker 3: runner ups and the champions. But man, get the division
Speaker 3: right and get the year right. So we've reached the
Speaker 3: top of the hour. News thanks so much for joining
Speaker 3: us tonight. This is Chick Ludwig alongside tonight's producer Sean McMahon.
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Speaker 2: Chick Lugwigs, seven hundred WLW. This is sports talk.
Speaker 3: Like Eric Carmon and the Raspberries my favorite song. We're
Speaker 3: going all the way to nine o'clock tonight, and it's
Speaker 3: awesome to have Sean McMahon in my corner tonight running
Speaker 3: the big board in the seven hundred WLW Control Center.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk some high school football.
Speaker 3: What a weekend in Canton at Tom Benson Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame Stadium with our great friend, content director part owner
Speaker 3: of Tri Statefootball dot Com, the one and only Greg Shoemaker. Greg,
Speaker 3: thanks so much for carving out some time for us tonight. Brother,
Speaker 3: you're busting into the sixties in style.
Speaker 13: Yeah, how about that? I went up Thursday night. It
Speaker 13: was my thirtieth ninth high school state championship game I evercovered. Unfortunately,
Speaker 13: Anderson lost to Avon h Man.
Speaker 7: But good.
Speaker 13: I gotta tell you that Avon team, they are the
Speaker 13: class of Division two as good as Anderson has been.
Speaker 13: Avon's now won back to back state titles in Division two.
Speaker 13: You got give me their credit. They beat Anderson the
Speaker 13: last two years, given Anderson their only loss in the tournament.
Speaker 13: And then in order to get there to play Anderson,
Speaker 13: Avon had to beat Maslin in the state semi finals
Speaker 13: in back to back years. So I had thought. And
Speaker 13: they won eight regional titles in the last nine years.
Speaker 13: So I mean, Avon's really really good. And you know,
Speaker 13: it was a tough night for Anderson. They had ten
Speaker 13: possessions of that game, Chick, and five of them they
Speaker 13: turned the ball over on downs. Another one they threw
Speaker 13: an interception at that Avon picked off on the Anderson twelve.
Speaker 13: Easy score for brave On. But they went up twenty
Speaker 13: one to nothing in this game. And I went back
Speaker 13: and looked at Anderson's games. They hadn't been down fourteen
Speaker 13: to nothing in a game since two thousand October twenty
Speaker 13: twenty two, thirty thirty four to thirty five straight games
Speaker 13: without ever being down fourteen to nothing. Then all of
Speaker 13: a sudden, Avon's up twenty one to nothing in that game.
Speaker 13: But again Anderson's not done. They returned ten oh eleven
Speaker 13: starters on offense. Next year, They're gonna be fun. And
Speaker 13: quarterback Owen scaffs at the record for passing yards in
Speaker 13: the state championship game in Division two. He had almost
Speaker 13: three hundred and ninety or three hundred and sixty some
Speaker 13: ended up thirty one yards short of five thousand for
Speaker 13: the year and would have made him the eighth player
Speaker 13: in Ohio history with five thousand passing yards in the season. Now,
Speaker 13: Turner Lache up at Sidney Lanman threw for forty nine
Speaker 13: to ninety this year. So Owen scaffs total of forty
Speaker 13: six thirty nine or I'm sorry, forty nine thirty forty
Speaker 13: nine thirty six or whatever it is, we'll go down
Speaker 13: as the eleventh best single season passing yardage in Ohio history.
Speaker 13: So some good things out of that. Also, Tyson Weaver,
Speaker 13: the wide receiver at Anderson, had eleven receptions in that
Speaker 13: game that was tied for most in the Division two
Speaker 13: state championship game. He'll be back, he finished with ninety
Speaker 13: one catches this year for thirteen hundred and seventy five
Speaker 13: yards and twenty touchdown receptions. A transfer from Simon Kenton's,
Speaker 13: he'll be a senior next year. I think he's close
Speaker 13: to if not over two hundred career catches, he's close
Speaker 13: to it, and a fine, fine career going into his
Speaker 13: senior season, for sure.
Speaker 3: Definitely want to congratulate the Anderson Raptors on a phenomenal season.
Speaker 3: But man, I was watching that game and right away
Speaker 3: before the first snap, they had to call a time out,
Speaker 3: and I guess it was an equipment issue, that's what
Speaker 3: the announcers were saying. But regardless, and then to fall behind,
Speaker 3: you know, gosh, I snap over I believe they tried
Speaker 3: to punt. Yeah, you know, a snap over the head
Speaker 3: and you're right fourteen to nothing before you blinked, and
Speaker 3: then it was twenty one to nothing and it was just, man,
Speaker 3: you're digging a hole that was almost impossible to climb
Speaker 3: out of. But nevertheless, what an incredible season for the
Speaker 3: Raptors of Anderson.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean self inflicted wounds and they know it.
Speaker 13: You know, last year they lost to Avon in that
Speaker 13: it was a driving snow and a blustery win. The
Speaker 13: conditions were kretdy and I think everybody thought that, you know, hey,
Speaker 13: now Anderson gets that passing game gone, but it just
Speaker 13: didn't happen. I mean, this Avon team took out Jordan Davis,
Speaker 13: their running back for Anderson had was really nondescript in
Speaker 13: this game. And Jordan came in with over six hundred
Speaker 13: yards rushing, over seven hundred yards, receiving seventy receiving catches,
Speaker 13: twenty one rushing touchdowns, and they they limited him. And
Speaker 13: you know, I think it. Look, this Anderson team has
Speaker 13: got enough talent to get back to the finals again
Speaker 13: next year. All they're great players on the majority of
Speaker 13: them are coming back on defense as well, you know
Speaker 13: as the ten starters on offense. But look, this was
Speaker 13: self inflicted los. This is stuff that can be corrected.
Speaker 13: And if you want to go beat the best, I
Speaker 13: guarantee you Avon or Maslin is gonna be waiting for
Speaker 13: him again next year in the finals. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 13: this team's this team's got the talent to get back there.
Speaker 13: You know what, They're thirty nine and two over the
Speaker 13: last two seasons, or twenty nine and two over the
Speaker 13: last seasons. Incredible fantastic football.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Greg Shoemaker of Tristate Football dot Com with us. And
Speaker 3: before we get to the Division one game all in
Speaker 3: Tangy Orange over Saint X twenty eight to fourteen, I
Speaker 3: want to touch on Columbus Bishop Waterson thirty to nothing
Speaker 3: over Toledo Central Catholic. Now they they have the longest
Speaker 3: winning streak, now that Marion Local seventy six game winning
Speaker 3: streak has been snapped by Saint Henry, and Saint Henry
Speaker 3: winds up winning a state title today. But how about
Speaker 3: this for Waterson. Okay, back to back state football championships.
Speaker 3: Boys soccer team won the state this year. The girls
Speaker 3: were second in the state. Girls cross country won state.
Speaker 3: So Bishop Watterson's had an unbelievable fall and the quarterback
Speaker 3: rose what four interceptions and they still win thirty to nothing.
Speaker 2: That defense was unbelievable.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a Drew Bellisari is the quarterback here at Watterson.
Speaker 13: He is a Miami of Ohio A commit. I'm not sure,
Speaker 13: but I think it might be that Steve Belsaris kid
Speaker 13: that went to Oia State. Look, this is this Waterson
Speaker 13: team's good in the state semi finals. They crossed Typical
Speaker 13: New and Typical New had a great team this year.
Speaker 13: Matt Burbacker did a great job with those guys and
Speaker 13: Man and Chick. That's an impressive Waterson squad. They took
Speaker 13: care of business. If you look at their last two
Speaker 13: years in this thirty game win streak, very impressive. And
Speaker 13: I know some people are out there, they're talking about
Speaker 13: them being one of the best teams, the best team
Speaker 13: in the state of Ohio this year. But you know,
Speaker 13: very very awesome year for Waterson, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: Man really good.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: Now the Division one game twenty eight to fourteen olin
Speaker 3: Tangy Orange its first state championship fifteen to zero, knocking
Speaker 3: off the Saint Savior Bombers. Want to reiterate what a
Speaker 3: great season Saint X had to bounce back from you know,
Speaker 3: losses to what Mohler and Elder and to defeat Elder
Speaker 3: and then get to state what an accomplishment by the Bombers.
Speaker 7: It really was.
Speaker 13: When you look back to this team, they were sitting there,
Speaker 13: so it's back to back games, like you said, then
Speaker 13: they avenge those two losses to Elder and Mueller in
Speaker 13: the playoffs. Uh, did a great job. And you know
Speaker 13: the game against Elder at pay Corps this year in
Speaker 13: the regional championship fantastic.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 13: Then then they go on and knock off Middletown to
Speaker 13: get to the state championship game. And you know, Daniel
Speaker 13: Bulmer goes down to that Middletown game. He might have
Speaker 13: made a big difference in this old and tense Orange game.
Speaker 19: But again, much like Avon, you got to give your
Speaker 19: hat off in credit to old and Tansey Orange fifteen
Speaker 19: and oh this year Levi Davis their quarterback.
Speaker 13: He's a dual threat guy. Yeah, phenomenal and check he
Speaker 13: fits that program there. You know that quarterbacks they have
Speaker 13: now to Ohio you as a dual threat to this kid.
Speaker 13: As long as that coach stays down there at Ohio you,
Speaker 13: this kid could have a really fun run in the MAC.
Speaker 13: I mean, fantastic player, fantastic kid. Uh. They get all
Speaker 13: they deserves. Second straight team from Lewis Lewis.
Speaker 2: Wherever it is it was center, Yeah Lewis.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean there's four ol and Tangi teams out
Speaker 13: of Lewis Center, now right, I mean we think Lakona
Speaker 13: East and West is big ol in Tangi they split
Speaker 13: four times.
Speaker 7: So unbelievable.
Speaker 13: Great, great program and area for football up there, Lewis Center.
Speaker 13: I think that's uh with's that county up there, that's
Speaker 13: just north of Columbus.
Speaker 19: Delaware, Delaware County, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, good football
Speaker 19: being played up there.
Speaker 3: So once again, Orange twenty eight, Saint Savior fourteen, Avon
Speaker 3: thirty seven, Anderson twenty Waterson in Division three shuts out
Speaker 3: Toledo Central Catholic thirty to nothing. Cleveland Glenville with coach
Speaker 3: Ted Ginn Oh my gosh, forty five to seven over
Speaker 3: Shelby for the Division four title. Wheelersburg and Liberty Center.
Speaker 3: Right now. Division five, it's being played right now? Is
Speaker 3: the is the final game? Six Kirtland once a Hornet,
Speaker 3: always a hornet, northeast of Cleveland up there in Lake
Speaker 3: County forty one to six over Bascombe Hopewell Loudon forty
Speaker 3: one to six. Kirtland wins, and then Saint Henry, which
Speaker 3: knocked off Wow Marion Local, stopping the Flyers seventy six
Speaker 3: game winning streak. In the semifinals in Saint Henry all
Speaker 3: over Jeromesville Hillsdale thirty seven to three.
Speaker 2: So what a state? What a state tournament?
Speaker 13: Yeah, chick, I was just looking at something on the
Speaker 13: Twitter before the last two games tonight. The average margin
Speaker 13: of victory in the five the first five state championship
Speaker 13: games was like twenty six point seven points or something.
Speaker 13: And since they went to this format at the OSSA
Speaker 13: and the tournament, the largest victory of margin and state
Speaker 13: championship games was just a little bit above that. And
Speaker 13: that's happened like in fifty years ago when it first
Speaker 13: started or whatever it was. But this is like the
Speaker 13: best teams are blowing out the second best teams by
Speaker 13: far in this tournament, but not so much blown them out,
Speaker 13: but I think they come out and they've all come
Speaker 13: out and made a statement all five winners so far
Speaker 13: of the tournament. So yeah, very impressive teams again, like
Speaker 13: I said, I mean Avon, Olan, Tangy Orange, just you know,
Speaker 13: as good as we are in southwest Ohio. Like it
Speaker 13: hats off to these guys because they've been fantastic.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this weekend.
Speaker 3: Coach Mike Schneider, who coached Man at Miamisburg, at Wayne
Speaker 3: all over the place. He's been going up there for
Speaker 3: forty years and he said that is one of the
Speaker 3: most impressive teams he's ever seen in Division one and
Speaker 3: Olan Tangy Orange and can we throw some shade here,
Speaker 3: Great Shoemaker of Tri State football dot Com on this
Speaker 3: year's Mister Football. The dude's name is Grady Kinsey from
Speaker 3: Ganaden Hutton, Indian Valley. A five foot eight, two d
Speaker 3: and five pound running back and linebacker. How about this
Speaker 3: this year two thousand and five and eighty five yards rushing,
Speaker 3: forty touchdowns and oh my gosh, his uh.
Speaker 2: I mean, his resume is just off the charts.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so very much like Corey Kiner when when Roger
Speaker 13: Bacon won it. You know, a small school guy who
Speaker 13: won the Mister Football. This kid last year they took
Speaker 13: on Tapped in the state semi final game and he
Speaker 13: put on a show there. And I voted for Rider
Speaker 13: Hooks for Player of the Year Mister Ohio Mister Football.
Speaker 13: I had this kid second and Matt Ponatowski third in
Speaker 13: my voting for Ohio Mister Football this year. But yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean definitely earnd it. Very similar, like I said,
Speaker 13: very similar numbers to Corey Kiner rushing wise when he
Speaker 13: was at Roger Baker won this thing a few years back. Yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean that's all. I mean, just a great college
Speaker 13: or high school career, what you know. I think that's
Speaker 13: one of the great things about Ohio Mister Football. Sometimes
Speaker 13: you have like the best of the best players and
Speaker 13: then sometimes you have just this awesome high school football player.
Speaker 13: And that's what Kinsey was. Definitely, it was a great
Speaker 13: high school football player.
Speaker 3: Only the third Mister Football Award winner from Eastern or
Speaker 3: Southeastern Ohio, joining Zanesville's Buster Howe in nineteen eighty seven
Speaker 3: and of course Athens Joe Burrow in two thy fourteen.
Speaker 3: But Kinsey all right, first in Ohio High School Athletic
Speaker 3: Association history with one hundred and thirty three career touchdowns,
Speaker 3: second in total points at eight forty, third in career
Speaker 3: rushing yards eight thousand, six hundred and seven, and third
Speaker 3: in single season touchdowns with fifty man His three thy
Speaker 3: two hundred and seven eight rushing yards in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four ranked ninth. So the dude is an absolute beast.
Speaker 3: For Wow, So I had to give that cat some shade,
Speaker 3: no doubt.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I hope he gets one of an offer from somewhere.
Speaker 13: You know, he could play he can survive in the MAC.
Speaker 13: You know, We've had a lot of guys like that
Speaker 13: that are very good high school running backs that get
Speaker 13: a preferred walk on offer, and sometimes they don't show
Speaker 13: up for two or three years. This is one of
Speaker 13: those kids. I mean, whether he ends up at like
Speaker 13: a West Virginia or OHIU or a kid's state or
Speaker 13: somewhere like that, somebody take a chance on this kid
Speaker 13: because he's a gamer man and he wins.
Speaker 7: He's kind of like those kids.
Speaker 3: Well, if you can't get that that nice offer, man,
Speaker 3: he could wind up at Dayton, he could wind up
Speaker 3: at a John Carroll or a Mount Union. Who knows.
Speaker 3: But I think the kids got a phenomenal future, no
Speaker 3: doubt I do. Yeah, but what a season, Greg, You
Speaker 3: can uh man, you can breathe now, hopefully not really.
Speaker 13: The All Ohio teams come out next week. Check. I
Speaker 13: got Kevin articles. Starting on Monday on Tri State Football
Speaker 13: dot Com. We will have the Division six and seven
Speaker 13: all All Ohio teams. Then the next day it's uh
Speaker 13: four and five, and then two and three, and then
Speaker 13: on Thursday, you're.
Speaker 2: Like major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, uh you never quit titioned it out a
Speaker 3: little bit at a time, and uh, with all bases covered, man,
Speaker 3: great stuff.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and then after that, I mean we'll be in
Speaker 13: the All Tri State team. You know, we get are
Speaker 13: the best players from you know, Southeast Indiana, southwest Ohio
Speaker 13: and includes Dayton and our Northern Kentucky teams. After this
Speaker 13: week or coming up, that'll that'll start being in being
Speaker 13: in the fold on Tri State Football dot com and
Speaker 13: that runs all the way up to our awards show
Speaker 13: on President's Day. I think it's w Monday, February sixteenth.
Speaker 13: This year at the Holy Grail, we will have our
Speaker 13: Player of the Years from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio Dayton or
Speaker 13: a Cincinnatian Dayton, you know, offensive, defensive, and Teams of
Speaker 13: the year those are still up for grabs. There's been
Speaker 13: some great teams and we might not have any state
Speaker 13: champions this year in any of those those places, but boy,
Speaker 13: we have some great stories and some great teams to
Speaker 13: talk about. I mean, so Tri State football is not
Speaker 13: stopping anytime soon, all the way through February for sure.
Speaker 13: Then and we might take a little spring break for
Speaker 13: a little March madness about.
Speaker 2: What it's like.
Speaker 3: It's like, you see trying to Trey Carroll the Aquaman.
Speaker 3: You couldn't stop him, you couldn't even contain him. And
Speaker 3: that's what Trice State football is all about locally. So Greg,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time tonight. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 13: Awesome, Hey chiit have a happy holiday season. And God
Speaker 13: bless you and your family.
Speaker 3: Right back at you, and man, you're busting into your sixty.
Speaker 2: He's in style, I know.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 13: We'll catch it up with you, brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, have fun, be safe, you bet, man,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Great, awesome. Hey, uh, we're gonna
Speaker 3: come back with more. Uh, man, I haven't even touched
Speaker 3: on the Bengals. We'll update some scores and fired up
Speaker 3: here for the Buckeyes and whoa and uh just great
Speaker 3: to have you with us tonight on seven hundred WLW W.
Speaker 2: Awesome to have you.
Speaker 3: With me tonight, and fantastic to have Sean McMahon as
Speaker 3: tonight's producer keeping the Chickster off the Legend in the
Speaker 3: Fairway and we are wide open this last half hour.
Speaker 3: I've got my coffee, I've got my computer. All I
Speaker 3: need is you at five one, three, seven four nine
Speaker 3: seven thousand, one eight hundred the Big One. Indiana has
Speaker 3: taken a three to nothing lead over Ohio State after
Speaker 3: Julian saying through an interception hip ball red zone, but
Speaker 3: the Buckeyes held the Hoosiers out of the end zone
Speaker 3: and Indiana jumped on Ohio State with a Fueld goal
Speaker 3: for a three to zero lead here in the first quarter.
Speaker 3: Want to thank tonight's guests Jake Ballard, Linda Shanstead, and
Speaker 3: Greg Schumacher making this show. Dare I say, I'd like
Speaker 3: to think above average? Well, it's the Bengals and the
Speaker 3: Bills tomorrow in Buffalo actually Orchard Park, and been up
Speaker 3: there a few times during my days as the Bengals
Speaker 3: beat Rider. And when you turn the corner and start
Speaker 3: heading up to the stadium, it's an unbelievable site because
Speaker 3: on both sides of the street people are tailgating, drinking
Speaker 3: their Labat Blue beer. It is truly an awesome sight.
Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills fans known as the Bills Mafia.
Speaker 2: Now. I really enjoy reading Jay Morrison.
Speaker 3: Of Bengals on SI and he came out with a
Speaker 3: story this week courtesy some stats from sport Radar database
Speaker 3: about how efficient the Bengals are winning games in cold weather,
Speaker 3: and since two thousand, when it is thirty degrees or colder,
Speaker 3: the Bengals have a sixteen and eight record. That's a
Speaker 3: six sixty seven winning percentage, and that's second only to
Speaker 3: New England's thirty three to ten record, which is a
Speaker 3: seven sixty seven winning percentage. So thirty degrees or colder
Speaker 3: since two thousand, Bengals are sixteen to eight.
Speaker 2: And then as the road team playing on the road
Speaker 2: in thirty.
Speaker 3: Degrees or less with at least four road games, the
Speaker 3: Bengals are seven and four and that is the best
Speaker 3: road record thirty degrees or colder. That's six thirty six
Speaker 3: winning percentage, and the Bengals are five and one in
Speaker 3: their last six games on the road playing in thirty
Speaker 3: degrees or colder, So that bodes well for the Bengals
Speaker 3: tomorrow against the Buffalo Bills, and of course the Bills
Speaker 3: with quarterback Josh Allen just an incredible stat. Allen has
Speaker 3: six career rushing touchdowns, making him the NFL's career leader
Speaker 3: for quarterbacks, a record he's set this month, surpassing Cam Newton.
Speaker 3: His seventy six rushing tds rank him among the top
Speaker 3: twenty five all time players, including Hall of Fame running backs,
Speaker 3: highlighting his exceptional dual thread ability as a quarterback, Josh Allen,
Speaker 3: Bengals don't necessarily have to stop him, They've just got
Speaker 3: to contain him. And Man James Cook just a phenomenal
Speaker 3: running back for the Buffalo Bills. And I've asked myself
Speaker 3: numerous times, how is this defense of the Bengals gotten better?
Speaker 3: And they have improved the last few games, and it
Speaker 3: comes down to one person, quarterback Joe Burrow. When Burrow
Speaker 3: is on the field, he raises everyone's level, not just
Speaker 3: on offense but on defense. And the hustle plays that
Speaker 3: we saw last week on Thanksgiving Night against the Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens fantastic. The Bengals are four and eight. Both Baltimore
Speaker 3: and Pittsburgh are six and six. Pittsburgh plays at Baltimore
Speaker 3: on Sunday. One of those teams will go to seven
Speaker 3: and six, and even if the Bengals win and get
Speaker 3: to five and eight, they'll still be two games back.
Speaker 3: If the Bengals lose, they'll be three games back with
Speaker 3: four to play. So every game it feels like it's
Speaker 3: playoffs right now going into Buffalo. So Man strap it
Speaker 3: on for tomorrow at one o'clock in Buffalo for your
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Speaker 3: King Center Drive in Mason following the Bengals Bills game.
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Speaker 3: in cold weather, as we saw during their Super Bowl
Speaker 3: run in the snow at up in Buffalo, and we
Speaker 3: could see some more snow tomorrow. Now, if you're looking
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Speaker 3: come back update some scores. Happy to take your calls
Speaker 3: at five, one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand, one,
Speaker 3: eight hundred the Big One. It's Chick Ludwig Sports Talk
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Speaker 3: Chick Ludwig, seven hundred WLW. This is sports Talk. We're
Speaker 3: going till nine o'clock tonight and that's when Donna he
Speaker 3: takes over these airwaves. Well, want to update you on
Speaker 3: some scores. Indiana has a three to dozing lead over
Speaker 3: Ohio State, but the Buckeyes just intercepted Fernando Mendoza and
Speaker 3: they're in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2: Here in the plus territory.
Speaker 3: At Lucas Oil Stadium in the Big Ten Championship Game,
Speaker 3: Duke has taken a seven to nothing lead over Virginia
Speaker 3: in the final seconds of the first half. Seven to
Speaker 3: nothing in favor of the Duke Blue Devils. The Georgia
Speaker 3: Bulldogs all over Alabama today twenty eight to seven in
Speaker 3: the SEC title game. And if you watch the Big
Speaker 3: twelfth Championship while Texas Tech thirty four to seven over BYU,
Speaker 3: and when you think about the UC Bearcats, that's how
Speaker 3: good you have to be. I mean, BYU destroyed UC
Speaker 3: and then BYU gets destroyed by Texas Tech today thirty
Speaker 3: four to seven in the Big twelve championship game. That's
Speaker 3: how good you have to be to win that conference championship.
Speaker 3: And last night tu Lane over North Texas thirty four
Speaker 3: to twenty one, in James Madison over Troy thirty one
Speaker 3: to fourteen. Could we see Twulane and or James Madison
Speaker 3: in the college football playoff? We'll find out tomorrow at
Speaker 3: noon on ESPN when the final bracket of twelve teams
Speaker 3: is revealed. And you can't help but think, folks, no
Speaker 3: matter how much the college football playoffs expand, and I
Speaker 3: really can't see them expanding beyond twelve, there's going to
Speaker 3: be somebody disappointed, upset, angry that they didn't make it.
Speaker 3: In the big question tomorrow, will Miami Hurricanes and or
Speaker 3: Notre Dame make the twelve team playoff? Miami beat Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: but Notre Dame is ahead of Miami in the rankings.
Speaker 3: In the standings, so if Duke wins tonight, that's just
Speaker 3: going to throw everything out the window. It's going to
Speaker 3: be crazy. If Duke upsets seventeenth rank Virginia. I want
Speaker 3: to throw some shade here at the Miami RedHawks. And
Speaker 3: even though Miami lost today to Western Michigan in the
Speaker 3: MAC Conference championship game at Ford Field, a Detroit, twenty
Speaker 3: three to thirteen, the mere fact that Miami reached the
Speaker 3: championship game, gosh, borders on a miracle. They've lost their
Speaker 3: first three games of the season, with two games remaining
Speaker 3: in the regular season against Buffalo and ball State. Their quarterback,
Speaker 3: to Kwan Finn, leaves the program. A seventh year player
Speaker 3: who played at Toledo and then at Baylor and then
Speaker 3: was Miami's quarterback this year, ups and leaves the program
Speaker 3: to get ready for the NFL Draft, But Chuck Martin,
Speaker 3: head coach of the RedHawks, undaunted. He turns to freshman
Speaker 3: quarterback Thomas scott Kowski from Ben Davis High School, a
Speaker 3: freshman from Indianapolis, and Thomas scott Kowski leads the RedHawks
Speaker 3: to a pair of victories into the MAC title game
Speaker 3: and then Thomas scott Kowski got injured today in Henry
Speaker 3: Hessen needed to come on and finish up. But what
Speaker 3: plagued Miami today. Wow, Western Michigan's rushing attack fifty six
Speaker 3: carries two hundred and eighty six yards on the ground,
Speaker 3: one to eleven through the air for Western Michigan and
Speaker 3: brock Lowry.
Speaker 2: Miami ooh.
Speaker 3: On the ground thirty one carries for only seventy three yards,
Speaker 3: a two point four yard average on the ground. Hessen
Speaker 3: and Gotkowski combined for one hundred and ninety nine yards passing,
Speaker 3: but it was just too much Western Michigan. Western Michigan
Speaker 3: led sixteen to six at halftime, scored seven in the
Speaker 3: third quarter. Miami scored seven in the fourth, but Western
Speaker 3: Michigan improves to nine and four with the victory today
Speaker 3: of the MAC Championship. The RedHawks fall to seven and six.
Speaker 3: Miami will find out, along with the UC Bearcats, what
Speaker 3: their date is for a bowl game. So my question
Speaker 3: keeps coming up, what is who is UC's rival. Wish
Speaker 3: it was pitt Wish it was Louisville, but they're in
Speaker 3: the ACC. Maybe it's West Virginia. Maybe they can work
Speaker 3: out a final game as a rivalry game during rivalry
Speaker 3: weekend late in the season, we'll find out a lot
Speaker 3: of great discussion. Congratulations to Xavier Musketeers, seventy nine to
Speaker 3: seventy four winners in the Skyline Chile Crosstown Shootout.
Speaker 2: Not showdown.
Speaker 3: If the Bearcats can't beat Eastern Michigan at home, I
Speaker 3: don't care who was injured in that game. Boba Miller
Speaker 3: was out. You've got to win that game. How can
Speaker 3: you expect UC to go into Sintas Center and win
Speaker 3: that game?
Speaker 2: You see was the.
Speaker 3: UC has tremendous athletes, but they struggled to shoot the ball.
Speaker 2: And there there's.
Speaker 3: Specialty is supposed to be defense, but they could not stop.
Speaker 3: They absolutely couldn't stop Xavior. Congratulations to the Savior Musketeers. Also,
Speaker 3: Anderson and Saint x He had a phenomenal high school
Speaker 3: football seasons, but they came up short in these state
Speaker 3: championship games Sanex losing to Olin Tangy Orange last night
Speaker 3: and earlier this weekend, Avon all over the Anderson Raptors. Nevertheless,
Speaker 3: great seasons and I look forward to reading more about
Speaker 3: all the great high school players around the tri State
Speaker 3: area on Tri statefootball dot Com. Special thanks to our
Speaker 3: guest tonight, Jake Ballard, Linda Shanstead, and Greg Schumacher, and
Speaker 3: a special thanks to tonight's producer Sean McMahon. Keeping the
Speaker 3: Chickster off, the legend in the Fairway Man, keep that
Speaker 3: remote going strong, and who Day tomorrow against the Buffalo
Speaker 3: Bills Until next time, which will be Tuesday night as
Speaker 3: I fill in for Lance McAllister. Until then, it's the
Speaker 3: Chickster saying thanks for listening to the home of the
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