1
00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,559
Speaker 1: All right, let's continue it again speaking but it's never

2
00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,600
Speaker 1: about me, It's always about we and coming up later

3
00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:17,880
Speaker 1: more and the storm coming it could be the storm

4
00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,159
Speaker 1: of the century. They're calling it hype this thing up

5
00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:22,480
Speaker 1: and we're going to have either a Jennifer Ketch Mark

6
00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,360
Speaker 1: or Steve Rowley on later on to talk about how

7
00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,000
Speaker 1: to get ready for what's coming up. And they originally

8
00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,200
Speaker 1: predicted a little bit. Now they're predicting a whole bunch.

9
00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,159
Speaker 1: But until then, the most exciting sports story, maybe not

10
00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,239
Speaker 1: just of the year so far it's too short, but

11
00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,600
Speaker 1: of this decade, maybe of this century, is the Indiana Hoosiers.

12
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,280
Speaker 1: The Hoosiers, I think had the worst record in the

13
00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:45,800
Speaker 1: history of the Division One football over the last fifty

14
00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,640
Speaker 1: to eighty years, suddenly go to the top of the heap.

15
00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,199
Speaker 1: It's a great human interest story. But also it's said

16
00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,360
Speaker 1: quite a bit about their head football coach and what

17
00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,840
Speaker 1: he did. And at the center of all this was

18
00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,880
Speaker 1: a Brenneman, not Marty, not Tom, but Luke Brenneman. Luke Brenneman,

19
00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,039
Speaker 1: I think, welcome for the first time to the Bill

20
00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,520
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show. Luke, have you ever been on before? To

21
00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:07,240
Speaker 1: your knowledge.

22
00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,480
Speaker 2: No, sir, this is an enormous privilege to join you

23
00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,920
Speaker 2: on the show. I said to you off air, this

24
00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,759
Speaker 2: is the show of WLW because I don't know who

25
00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,080
Speaker 2: does that morning drive in the morning, but I'm thrilled

26
00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,720
Speaker 2: to be on this one before morning Drive.

27
00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,880
Speaker 1: You got that old guy too, just quick going. You know, baseball.

28
00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,360
Speaker 1: I don't know about whatever happened to Marty, have no idea.

29
00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,720
Speaker 1: Let's talk about you. Luke. So you're at Marymont High School.

30
00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,240
Speaker 1: Your daddy told me you were a good lacrosse player.

31
00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,240
Speaker 1: How did you pick Indiana over o you or Xavier?

32
00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,560
Speaker 1: What was your decision about that? It turned out quite well,

33
00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,959
Speaker 1: am I dad, because sure they play by play voice

34
00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,319
Speaker 1: of Indiana. Who's your football? But explain to me why

35
00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:45,240
Speaker 1: you picked Indiana.

36
00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,720
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't look at any schools in the Midwest originally,

37
00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,080
Speaker 2: mister Cunningham and Ohio State didn't really have kind of

38
00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,480
Speaker 2: the journalism program that I was looking for when.

39
00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:55,560
Speaker 1: It came to calling games.

40
00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,640
Speaker 2: So it was a specific criteria into schools that had programs,

41
00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,280
Speaker 2: whether it TV. I worked for the student radio station

42
00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,400
Speaker 2: here at IU and I went to a sports broadcasting

43
00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,960
Speaker 2: camp over the summer that my mom found for me

44
00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,280
Speaker 2: and it was hosted in Indiana. It wasn't actually through

45
00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,839
Speaker 2: Indiana's media school or journalism program, but it was on

46
00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,640
Speaker 2: campus and it kind of just hit me. I hadn't

47
00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,240
Speaker 2: had a clear favorite on where to go, and push

48
00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,720
Speaker 2: came to shove, I had to make a choice. I

49
00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,079
Speaker 2: was like, why don't I just go to the place

50
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,720
Speaker 2: that hosted this unbelievable camp? And they had all the facilities,

51
00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,839
Speaker 2: the equipment, and now they got the best football team

52
00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,360
Speaker 2: in the country.

53
00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,160
Speaker 1: So that really helped out with Signetta. That's impossible. Are

54
00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:41,560
Speaker 1: you a sophomore, junior, or senior? Looke? Are you what

55
00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,720
Speaker 1: level of school are you in at this point? You're

56
00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:44,800
Speaker 1: junior or senior.

57
00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,280
Speaker 2: I'm a junior right now at school.

58
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,520
Speaker 1: So when you started two and a half years ago,

59
00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:54,040
Speaker 1: did you have any conception that the Hoosiers would win

60
00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:59,639
Speaker 1: the national football title? Beating Ohio State, beating Alabama, Roletide,

61
00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,079
Speaker 1: beating Oregon, the DUTs went down hard twice and then

62
00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,320
Speaker 1: Miami and Miami. Did you have any hope of getting

63
00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,560
Speaker 1: involved with Indiana Who's your football to win the national title?

64
00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,359
Speaker 2: Mister Cunningham, I didn't know if Indiana, Who's your Football?

65
00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,120
Speaker 2: Would beat Northwestern or or our drive will Purdue, which

66
00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,560
Speaker 2: we've beaten by over a combined one hundred points the

67
00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,639
Speaker 2: last two years that I've been at the game. So

68
00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,080
Speaker 2: to think about the national title, it's the greatest story,

69
00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,400
Speaker 2: but their run of dominance that's so fascinating to look at, Like, yes,

70
00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,239
Speaker 2: it is an underdog story. Yes it is one of

71
00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,240
Speaker 2: the greatest turnarounds. It is the greatest turnaround in college

72
00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,480
Speaker 2: football history. But their level of doing it not kind

73
00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,560
Speaker 2: of as maybe an Old Miss run. If Old Miss

74
00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,640
Speaker 2: would have won the national championship this year, but their

75
00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,600
Speaker 2: coaching situation and the first time ever, it would have

76
00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,440
Speaker 2: been unique on its own, a fantastic Cinderella run. But

77
00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,240
Speaker 2: this Indiana team, I mean, that's a team right there,

78
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,640
Speaker 2: and they dominated just about every single opponent. So it

79
00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,720
Speaker 2: was even more impressive than just kind of skating by

80
00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,720
Speaker 2: and upsetting teams. They won all their big games on

81
00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,360
Speaker 2: the road, which was even crazier.

82
00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:04,360
Speaker 1: But to answer your.

83
00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,720
Speaker 2: Question, I couldn't fathom a better junior year of college

84
00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,600
Speaker 2: than this. To be on campus, defectivities are still going on,

85
00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,480
Speaker 2: the players are out every night, they're walking down the streets.

86
00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,400
Speaker 1: It's so cool. Well, as far as Hoosiers. No one

87
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,799
Speaker 1: saw it, no one predicted it. It couldn't have happened.

88
00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,720
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti was the key, of course, to start at all,

89
00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,960
Speaker 1: and as a young man. So many young Americans in

90
00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,159
Speaker 1: their late teenage years, in their twenties, maybe into the thirties,

91
00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,839
Speaker 1: have not focused on a career. Maybe it's because the

92
00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,360
Speaker 1: Brennaman name. If your name was Luke Smith, would you

93
00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,680
Speaker 1: be broadcasting football games in Indiana?

94
00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,640
Speaker 2: I really don't know. I think it's all I've ever known,

95
00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,480
Speaker 2: I said a couple of times earlier this week when

96
00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:46,440
Speaker 2: I got asked that question.

97
00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,200
Speaker 1: My dad he can't teach me.

98
00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:51,720
Speaker 2: How to fill out a stock portfolio or you know,

99
00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,520
Speaker 2: maybe a construction plan like some other guys have learned

100
00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,839
Speaker 2: from their old men. And then Marty obviously taught my

101
00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,560
Speaker 2: dad a lot of different things. So guess sure. I

102
00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,599
Speaker 2: don't know if saying it runs in the family isn't

103
00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,720
Speaker 2: necessarily true, because I got a ways to go before

104
00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,800
Speaker 2: I can ever get to the point that they're on

105
00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,080
Speaker 2: when both of those guys call a game. But they've

106
00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,120
Speaker 2: helped me so much, and I've always wanted to be

107
00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,280
Speaker 2: involved in sports, whether it was you know, on the

108
00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,680
Speaker 2: field or on camera or on the radio, and I

109
00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,279
Speaker 2: kind of found my niche here and Indiana really fostered

110
00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 2: it into happening, and it's extremely enjoyable to cover events

111
00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,400
Speaker 2: of that magnitude like the one in Miami.

112
00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,599
Speaker 1: No, let's get into it, because Luke, if you're your

113
00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,880
Speaker 1: name's Brennaman, the door will open, but you got to

114
00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,799
Speaker 1: earn your own seat. So when was the first time

115
00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,840
Speaker 1: you met Kurt Signetti and were you impressed? When did

116
00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,159
Speaker 1: you meet the By the way, this guy, Kurt Signetti

117
00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,440
Speaker 1: is eligible for Medicare later this year. It doesn't fit

118
00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:49,000
Speaker 1: the profile of the young, aggressive or well spoken, effervescent personality.

119
00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,279
Speaker 1: Damn it all is as a football coach. Do you

120
00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,760
Speaker 1: recall the first time you met him?

121
00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,440
Speaker 2: I do. I was going into my junior year, or

122
00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,880
Speaker 2: excuse me, my sophomore year. So coming out of freshman year,

123
00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,440
Speaker 2: kind of getting my feet wet school, especially in the media.

124
00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,920
Speaker 2: And the first real breakthrough I had was I got

125
00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,440
Speaker 2: selected to be a beat reporter, so a writer and

126
00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,159
Speaker 2: multimedia journalist covering Indiana football for the student television station.

127
00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,479
Speaker 2: And that process for the football team started in the

128
00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,960
Speaker 2: summer because the Big Ten media days were in Indianapolis.

129
00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,120
Speaker 2: So we show up and the people are kind of

130
00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:20,839
Speaker 2: looking down.

131
00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:21,880
Speaker 1: At us, they're laughing at us.

132
00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,560
Speaker 2: I remember I was in the restroom next to what

133
00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,200
Speaker 2: was the mighty man of the Big Ten, Sharon More

134
00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,159
Speaker 2: at the time, the Michigan head coach. I was just like,

135
00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,640
Speaker 2: man like, I don't know if I even belong in

136
00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,120
Speaker 2: the same room as these guys. They're winners. We had

137
00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,080
Speaker 2: lost the most games in college football history. And here

138
00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,920
Speaker 2: comes Kurt Signetti. He jumps on the microphone in front

139
00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,400
Speaker 2: of everybody. Each coach is up there to kind of

140
00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,320
Speaker 2: just address the media, and especially the first year head coaches.

141
00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,119
Speaker 2: It's their time to introduce themselves. And I'm looking around

142
00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,039
Speaker 2: at the other student media and journalists and I have

143
00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,480
Speaker 2: eyes bigger than a car. I mean, I'm like, what

144
00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,440
Speaker 2: is this guy saying? He's going on these shields? Every

145
00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,240
Speaker 2: time I've been picked last in a conference, I've turned

146
00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,040
Speaker 2: around and won the whole league. Well, he didn't win

147
00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,120
Speaker 2: the league the first year, he only won eleven games

148
00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:07,599
Speaker 2: and made.

149
00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:08,760
Speaker 1: The College Football Playoff.

150
00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,800
Speaker 2: But I would say this year, winning the league and

151
00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,320
Speaker 2: beating Ohio State and Oregon in fashion to do it

152
00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,960
Speaker 2: both on the road were or unique ways to go

153
00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,640
Speaker 2: about his business just one year late. This guy, I mean,

154
00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,120
Speaker 2: you said it best. He's football through and through. I

155
00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,960
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if he chooses football over family. He

156
00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,120
Speaker 2: is a film junkie, and he's a guy you talked

157
00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,280
Speaker 2: about the young head coaches in college football. He's not

158
00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,560
Speaker 2: the prototype of what you typically see, but he should

159
00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,640
Speaker 2: have been the proto type mister Cunningham. He had the

160
00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,480
Speaker 2: track record of winning at every single level. He had

161
00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,280
Speaker 2: the offensive mastermind under sab and he was a wide

162
00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,480
Speaker 2: receivers coach at Alabama and numerous other places. He just

163
00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,640
Speaker 2: never got a shot. And that's why I don't really

164
00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,600
Speaker 2: know if this chip on his shoulder is ever really

165
00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,160
Speaker 2: going to come off now that they've won a championship,

166
00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,680
Speaker 2: because he should have had this job maybe ten fifteen

167
00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,440
Speaker 2: years ago, because he's always been this obsessed with this sport.

168
00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,800
Speaker 1: And I guess he hit Indiana at the right time.

169
00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,920
Speaker 2: In man oh Man, blooming Kinney's thrilled to have him.

170
00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,600
Speaker 1: Luke Brennman, I look at two characters, a young man

171
00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,880
Speaker 1: and an old man. I'm not referring to your father

172
00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,600
Speaker 1: or grandfather. I'm referring to Kirk Signetti. You're nineteen or twenty.

173
00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,600
Speaker 1: You're starting your career. Hopefully it'll last as well as

174
00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,880
Speaker 1: successfully as your dad's and grandfather. However, I look at

175
00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,640
Speaker 1: Kurt Signetti. He is sixty four years old. He'll turn

176
00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:29,120
Speaker 1: sixty five in June at Medicare. I look at his record.

177
00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,640
Speaker 1: He starts off right after he played quarterback for West Virginia.

178
00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,079
Speaker 1: It didn't start much, wasn't very good. He wanted to

179
00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,119
Speaker 1: get into football. Some forty three years ago, Kurt Signetti

180
00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,920
Speaker 1: becomes a graduate assistant at Pittsburgh, the Panthers. Right after that,

181
00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,240
Speaker 1: he goes to Davidson, which is in exactly a football power,

182
00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,240
Speaker 1: with all due respect to their basketball program. He's the

183
00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,839
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach at Davidson, spends a year there, and

184
00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,080
Speaker 1: then he gets a job with Rice Rice, I'm not

185
00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,040
Speaker 1: sure what the nickname of Rice is. And he's the

186
00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,960
Speaker 1: quarterback coach. And he stays there for like two years,

187
00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,480
Speaker 1: and then he moves on to Temple, the home of

188
00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,080
Speaker 1: the Owls, and he's the quarterback coach. He's like fifth

189
00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,400
Speaker 1: or sixth down the line. Then he goes to North

190
00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,280
Speaker 1: Carolina State. He moves up to be the wide receiver

191
00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,720
Speaker 1: coach at North Carolina State. At this point, my gosh,

192
00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,480
Speaker 1: he's fifty years old and he's done nothing, done nothing

193
00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,360
Speaker 1: in football as far as coaching. He then moves on.

194
00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,160
Speaker 1: His big take was Alabama roll Tide seven to ten.

195
00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,200
Speaker 1: But at this point, twenty years ago. Heck, he was

196
00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,199
Speaker 1: in his early forties, in mid forties, and he's looking

197
00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,160
Speaker 1: around that room all the coaches. Nick Saban head, they

198
00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,160
Speaker 1: win a national title. He gets recommended for a job

199
00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:42,959
Speaker 1: at IUP.

200
00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:43,880
Speaker 2: Hell.

201
00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,400
Speaker 1: I thought that was a yurinary track infection. He's got

202
00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,120
Speaker 1: an IUP. But he was making three hundred thousand dollars

203
00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,720
Speaker 1: in Alabama. His family says, what are you doing. You're

204
00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,520
Speaker 1: making three hundred thousand dollars. You're at Alabama with Nick

205
00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,839
Speaker 1: Saban roll Tide. He says, no, I want to be

206
00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,640
Speaker 1: a head coach. He goes to IU. Look, Brendanman, do

207
00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:02,280
Speaker 1: you know what that is?

208
00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,199
Speaker 2: Indiana University, Pennsylvania.

209
00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,000
Speaker 1: Wherever the hell that is? And he's successful there for

210
00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,120
Speaker 1: five years. He moves up the ladder to Elon, the

211
00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:14,720
Speaker 1: head coach. Look what is Elon? What's that?

212
00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,800
Speaker 2: I think it's just a school where kids with a

213
00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,800
Speaker 2: bunch of money go down in North Carolina are around

214
00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,200
Speaker 2: that area, and it's actually a really really nice campus

215
00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,680
Speaker 2: from what I've heard. But he picked that program up

216
00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:26,960
Speaker 2: the same way he did Indiana.

217
00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,559
Speaker 1: Then it continues. He moves from Elon sounds like a

218
00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,160
Speaker 1: name of a tennis shoe. He now goes to James Madison.

219
00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,120
Speaker 1: I think it's Division three, four or five. JMU. I

220
00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,760
Speaker 1: love James Madison, as you know, one of the architects

221
00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,000
Speaker 1: of the Constitution. I love James Madison. Also a president,

222
00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,520
Speaker 1: by the way, and after him was Monroe, but that's

223
00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,520
Speaker 1: a different story. So he's there for four years and

224
00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,240
Speaker 1: then his big break comes. He is told the UC

225
00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,480
Speaker 1: job is opening the University of Cincinnati. This is going

226
00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,320
Speaker 1: back three years, and he interviews for the UC job

227
00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,400
Speaker 1: over the phone and he was so unimpressive that my

228
00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,640
Speaker 1: second cousin, John Cunningham, the athletic director at US, he says,

229
00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,079
Speaker 1: let's not even bring this guy in for an interview

230
00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,800
Speaker 1: because he's never coached division one. He didn't qualify. Somehow,

231
00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:18,800
Speaker 1: somebody talked to somebody somebody, and the Indiana athletic director

232
00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,760
Speaker 1: interviewed him and said, you know what, I'm going to

233
00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,840
Speaker 1: hire Kurt Signetti, which was a thud in Bloomington. You

234
00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,680
Speaker 1: hiring who? This guy's sixty three years old, he's never

235
00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,520
Speaker 1: coached the division when as a head coach, and then

236
00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, two seasons later, he's wine dined

237
00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,240
Speaker 1: in pocket lined. He's making fifteen to twenty million dollars

238
00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,280
Speaker 1: a year. I am told that the Las Vegas Raiders

239
00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,839
Speaker 1: may want to talk to him. I'm told he can

240
00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,640
Speaker 1: move on to a bigger college football program. What do

241
00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,480
Speaker 1: you think about that, Luke? Will he move on?

242
00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,360
Speaker 2: He won't move on. He's a loyalty guy, mister Cunningham,

243
00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,760
Speaker 2: and he's found a spot. He even admitted that after

244
00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,480
Speaker 2: last season and making the playoffs, that he saw about it.

245
00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,400
Speaker 2: He had that conversation with his wife. The NFL is

246
00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,440
Speaker 2: never going to be in the picture for Kurt Signetti,

247
00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,480
Speaker 2: and I'm glad you read his resume. He's a college

248
00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,400
Speaker 2: football guy through and through. His father was a Hall

249
00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,520
Speaker 2: of Fame head coach in college football, and a lot

250
00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,800
Speaker 2: of stuff from his dad. He's been in the college

251
00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,840
Speaker 2: game for his entire life. When it comes to bigger schools,

252
00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think a lot of people realize.

253
00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,120
Speaker 2: Although Bloomington may just be a small college town. Indiana

254
00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,480
Speaker 2: has the largest alumni base in the country. There's a

255
00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,400
Speaker 2: lot of money here at Indiana, and now there's infinite

256
00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,320
Speaker 2: amount of support. So the nil is coming in. They

257
00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,079
Speaker 2: have the second best class and the transfer portal. They're

258
00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,640
Speaker 2: chucking money bags that just about whoever they wont So

259
00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,240
Speaker 2: if he came into Indiana and won a national championship,

260
00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,360
Speaker 2: the kid who blocked the punt in the game was

261
00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,120
Speaker 2: a James Madison kid. The running back who rushed for

262
00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,800
Speaker 2: the most yards for Indiana, James Madison kid. The receiver

263
00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,760
Speaker 2: surat who had fifteen touchdowns in one season and missed

264
00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 2: three games over the course of the year. James Madison kid.

265
00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,680
Speaker 2: So he did this with his own guy. Now that

266
00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,600
Speaker 2: he has millions of dollars to spend on four and

267
00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,199
Speaker 2: five star recruits, I think it's kind of one of

268
00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:07,559
Speaker 2: those moments where.

269
00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:08,560
Speaker 1: It's already lookout.

270
00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,800
Speaker 2: Signetti won a national championship in just his second year

271
00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,440
Speaker 2: in a power for a conference. What the heck is

272
00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,520
Speaker 2: he going to do now that he doesn't really have

273
00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,240
Speaker 2: any limitations, because I think Indiana's going to give him

274
00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,199
Speaker 2: just about everything that a majority of these schools can

275
00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,360
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know. The Alabamas of the world in

276
00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,840
Speaker 2: Ohio State may have a little bit better facilities, but

277
00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,240
Speaker 2: Indiana they're going to be right there with them. They

278
00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,640
Speaker 2: have the funding from the school, the president, and obviously

279
00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:34,240
Speaker 2: the athletic director, Scott Dolson.

280
00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,680
Speaker 1: Well, I mean Luke Brenneman. I look at his resume.

281
00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,719
Speaker 1: It's an American success story of someone who never gave up,

282
00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,720
Speaker 1: who never quit, had all the crap thrown his way.

283
00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,480
Speaker 1: To spend your time at Pittsburgh Davidson, Rice Temple, North

284
00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,120
Speaker 1: Carolina State, I up Elon James Madison, and then in

285
00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,959
Speaker 1: in Indiana, the largest alumni base in the country. Mark Cuban,

286
00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,160
Speaker 1: who's a multi trillionaire, says, whatever, whatever it takes. My

287
00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,520
Speaker 1: friends in Ohio State are telling me that this is

288
00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:10,280
Speaker 1: a one off that Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, now Oregon,

289
00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,960
Speaker 1: Southern Cow will dominate the Big ten for years to come,

290
00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,680
Speaker 1: and generations unborn will look back on twenty twenty five

291
00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,000
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty six and say that was a one

292
00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,760
Speaker 1: off that'll never happen again. Indiana cannot even stand up

293
00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,880
Speaker 1: to the Ohio State. Buck, Guys, what do you think

294
00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,960
Speaker 1: about that? Thinking what do you think about that loop?

295
00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,720
Speaker 2: That's nonsense, mister Cunningham, Because I'm a numbers guy, and

296
00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,160
Speaker 2: our friends over at Draftings Sportsbook have the Indiana Hoosiers

297
00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,720
Speaker 2: as the favorite to win the national championship next year

298
00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,080
Speaker 2: at seven to one. So I think everybody better get

299
00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,280
Speaker 2: used to Kurt Signetti and stop making it such a

300
00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:48,480
Speaker 2: feel good story because he said earlier in the week,

301
00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,880
Speaker 2: I don't want warm, warm cookies and milk when I

302
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,880
Speaker 2: go to war, and we go to war every single

303
00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,920
Speaker 2: week at Indiana with no warm fuzzies. This program's not

304
00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,920
Speaker 2: messing around. I'm serious. This is going to become a

305
00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,920
Speaker 2: in college football, and he's extended all the way through

306
00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,880
Speaker 2: twenty thirty four, I believe.

307
00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,240
Speaker 1: And he's going to make billions and billions of dollars.

308
00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,560
Speaker 1: What do you look, Brenman, What do you see you

309
00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,920
Speaker 1: do yourself doing in say five years?

310
00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,280
Speaker 2: Oh, I would really hope that whether it's minor league

311
00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,960
Speaker 2: baseball or some type of network TV job calling games,

312
00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,200
Speaker 2: just continuing to grind out this dream and passion to

313
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,880
Speaker 2: be a play by play broadcaster. It's one of those

314
00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,360
Speaker 2: situations where you'd be a fool to not take any

315
00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,160
Speaker 2: opportunity that you can get on the year actually doing

316
00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,000
Speaker 2: what we want to do as sportscasters. And I'm going

317
00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,280
Speaker 2: back to the Cape Cod Baseball League this summer. I

318
00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,440
Speaker 2: was there and called forty four games last summer, so

319
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to the same spot. It's kind of just

320
00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,320
Speaker 2: a gauntlet of baseball every single day on the radio

321
00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,520
Speaker 2: and TV. So try and sharpen up my skills and

322
00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,520
Speaker 2: then come back for senior year and hopefully be a

323
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,760
Speaker 2: professional ready by then so that somebody will give me

324
00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:55,240
Speaker 2: a chance.

325
00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,680
Speaker 1: I know you went to Marriymount High School. I understand

326
00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,920
Speaker 1: you tried to get into Dear Park but didn't qualify.

327
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,600
Speaker 1: I tried to get Ino Xavier, didn't make it ahead

328
00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,280
Speaker 1: and end up at Marimant and then Indiana. Do you

329
00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,720
Speaker 1: have any questions for me about sports, politics, world capitals,

330
00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,160
Speaker 1: something mathematical formula, something that's confused you over the years.

331
00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,560
Speaker 2: Ooh, that's a good question, mister Cunningham. I guess I'll

332
00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,040
Speaker 2: ask you, as a guy who's all tapped into the

333
00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,920
Speaker 2: political stature of our country right now, where do you

334
00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,760
Speaker 2: see our country in five years?

335
00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,520
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about two roads to take and we

336
00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:33,040
Speaker 1: could become Minneapolis. Everything happening in Minneapolis and Chicago and

337
00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,040
Speaker 1: LA could become the Bloomington and Cincinnati and Covington. On

338
00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,320
Speaker 1: the other hand, this could be the beginning of the

339
00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,080
Speaker 1: American century, in which case we have good public education,

340
00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:48,280
Speaker 1: control of our borders, ridiculous welfare programs have been eliminated,

341
00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,520
Speaker 1: America projects power not using the military. We must prepare

342
00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,480
Speaker 1: for peace by preparing for war. We must be prepared

343
00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:00,360
Speaker 1: to defend American interest from Mexico to Greenland soon to

344
00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,160
Speaker 1: be named Trump Land, all across the globe. The way

345
00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,720
Speaker 1: to have peace is to prepare for war. And so

346
00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,000
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump and his second ideation is a one off,

347
00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,080
Speaker 1: much like Indiana football, some claim, and we go back

348
00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,880
Speaker 1: to the directions of Nancy Pelosi and a Keem Jeffries,

349
00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,560
Speaker 1: the children of Luke Brenneman and five or ten years

350
00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,560
Speaker 1: will be We'll be sad. However, if we take the

351
00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:26,480
Speaker 1: road that is taken that is about American individualism, American exceptionalism,

352
00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,360
Speaker 1: and not democratic socialism, will be in better shape. Well, Luke,

353
00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,120
Speaker 1: I hope to do this again next year. I want

354
00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,960
Speaker 1: to get you on again for the second time, two time,

355
00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,040
Speaker 1: two time consecutive national champions and you have something on

356
00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,360
Speaker 1: your finger that your daddy and your granddaddy will never have,

357
00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,000
Speaker 1: which is a national championship college ring. So when you

358
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,560
Speaker 1: get that put on your finger, come to the station here.

359
00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,280
Speaker 1: If you got the guts, let's meet MANO amno, I

360
00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,480
Speaker 1: see you at Chemical Country Club now and then say

361
00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,080
Speaker 1: hi to you. That's about it, but I want to

362
00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,120
Speaker 1: get you on here in six months or a year

363
00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,600
Speaker 1: if the Hoosiers do it again, and I want your

364
00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,840
Speaker 1: dad and your grandfather to look back and say they're

365
00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,520
Speaker 1: very sorry that they didn't have your opportunity to communicate

366
00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:11,639
Speaker 1: and broadcast a great national football college team. This is

367
00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,359
Speaker 1: the Hoosiers on steroids. I know what was named Bobby

368
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,120
Speaker 1: Plump or something like that hit that shot against somebody,

369
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 1: Bobby Plump was that his name? But Kurt Signetti and

370
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,119
Speaker 1: Luke Brenneman or March for Glory and for some the

371
00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,080
Speaker 1: judgment seat of God. Luke Brenneman, you're a great American

372
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,640
Speaker 1: and thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

373
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,760
Speaker 2: The cunning aam I gotta start learning from you. This

374
00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:35,320
Speaker 2: is a masterclass of a radio show on tuned in

375
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,159
Speaker 2: all the time. I really appreciate you having me on.

376
00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,080
Speaker 1: We get the iHeart Media app. It's free. You know

377
00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,560
Speaker 1: you might have some democratic leanings. If you're in college,

378
00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,919
Speaker 1: you're generally a Democrat. I get that. But get the

379
00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,360
Speaker 1: iHeart Media app. You can listen to me every afternoon

380
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,520
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world. How about that. I'll be dialed in.

381
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,680
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll do God bless America. Thank you, Luke.

382
00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,280
Speaker 1: Luke Brenneman walks in the shoes of Tom and Marty

383
00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,639
Speaker 1: not Bad on news radio seven hundred wul Me