KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - March 9, 2024

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We've got with us today the inimitable Mike Shane.

Mike, where's that ring tone?

The engineer of excellence here, and we are going to introduce along with Mike, Mr. Chip Reidman.

retired engineer and he's got his bona fides as a cyclone alum and also he's a Husker fan.

We have coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

with us and boy talking about women's hoops, how prescient that we've got a man who is there from the ground floor.

out of Washington DC, coaching the Georgetown women in the 1990s, putting women's D1 college hoops, not only on the map, but on national television.

Coach at Georgetown and the Yukon team.

Coach, of course, with his championship teams.

And then, of course, my wonderful co-host, Scott Corey, Mr. Hawk himself.

Guys, we're ready for a great discussion.

How exciting is it?

It's Saturday is tournament time.

Scotty!

Well, thanks, John.

It is a great Saturday morning here in Big Ten Country Hawkeye Nation.

But Coach Patrick Daynett Jr., thanks for joining us this morning.

And there's one topic and only one topic that America is talking about.

And that is Hawkeye Great, Caitlin Clark.

It is Caitlin Clark's world and we're just living in a coach.

On Sunday at the final senior game at Carver Hawkeye Arena where we paid homage to Caitlin Clark, Gabby Marshall, and Kate Martin.

There was so much going on and Sharon Goodman too.

I don't want to forget her as well.

Fox did a tremendous job Sunday.

Everybody was there, even pitching great.

Nolan Ryan bought tickets to see Caitlin Clark.

Coach, it was something.

Carver Hawkeye was just rocking.

And at the peak, during the Fox broadcast nationally on Sunday afternoon, 4.4 million people turned in to see Caitlin Clark break the record.

And before I get your take, Coach,

Let's go ahead and play the clip.

Mike Shane of Gus Johnson making the call with a Caitlin Clark bait breaks the 50 year old record of Pete Marovitch

for the record.

She ties in with that one.

This for college basketball history.

Coach

Nat, your thoughts on just basically the stone cold bloody cold bloodedness of Caitlin Clark.

The entire world was watching her and it was nothing to her.

It was just like, okay, here we go again.

Well, Scottie was an emotional day.

I truly enjoyed.

every minute of the game.

I took on the senior day celebration via YouTube later.

A tear came to my eye.

I was very impressed with how the Hawkeyes played in the second half, going deep into their pitch, which will mean a lot coming into the NCAA tournament.

And with Molly Davis, probably being out.

We're chassis about that.

But Kailin Clark said, you know, Jake, from State Farm was there.

I mean, you got to protect your investment.

State Farm was there.

And what can I say?

It was the height of women's basketball history.

Coach Blooter handled things perfectly.

I can't wait for the NCAA tournament.

Well Chip Reuben, we got a lot of unfinished business too.

This weekend Iowa is up at Minneapolis.

Carver Hawkeye North to compete for the third straight Big Ten title under Coach Bluter.

And it was just amazing just to recap Sunday where ESPN, NBC,

Fox were all in Iowa City to hype up and praise Caitlin Clark.

I thought Nike did a tremendous job with their commercial as well as the banners.

When she hit that second three-throw to break the record, they unfurled the second banner and it said it wasn't a long shot at all.

I mean, it was just all kind of nation, Caitlin Clark on display.

I mean, it was amazing.

And Holly Roll of ESPN,

MCing senior night ceremonies after the game.

I mean, that was a flex on a flex.

I mean, as a Hawkeye, I could never imagine the basically the entire globe focusing on Carver Hawkeye Arena and women's basketball on that Sunday afternoon.

It was an interesting game.

I did manage to watch a bunch of it.

So it was an interesting game.

I think she played a steady workman like game.

There was nothing flashy really about her play.

She took a shot at a

When she was going for the title or the record, I should say, when she's going for that, she definitely took a shot at a couple long threes, but it ended up being the foul shots.

I was about to have seen it like one of her classic signature three-pointers from the logo.

That would have been the best way to have her sink it, I think.

But I thought she had a good attitude about the way she played the game.

It was just like, you know, I'm here about business.

The record will fall.

That's fine.

But we got other things to do.

It's unfinished business.

They've got a national championship.

They've

got to go after now.

You know, Coach Knapp, you brought up a great point about the supporting cast.

And I mean that with all great affection, because Gabby Marshall is returning to Gabby March.

She is draining the three.

She has the confidence and the swagger we saw last year.

Kate Martin all of a sudden flipped the switch and just had a dominating five-minute stretch there, where she was launching three to come in with strong defensive play.

But Molly Davis, Molly D is Gus Johnson with the yellow dark screen all winter long.

She had an agonizing injury.

But coach Bluter alluded to in the hawk talk earlier this week, that Molly Davis could return for the NCAA tournament.

And Mike, go ahead and play this clip of Molly Davis, because I think that just sums up Molly's heart, but also

Basically how Coach Bluter has rallied this team for over 10 years and really put Hawkeye basketball on the map.

It's going to take some reflection, but you don't always have to be the biggest, the smartest, the tallest, the strongest to be able to play at this level.

And hopefully... And hopefully I've showed little girls out there that you can play at this level.

Coach Knapp, Molly Davis just handled the injury with true grace, but you can see Hawkeye Nation on social media rallying to Molly Davis and Gabby and Kate Martin.

I mean, it's just not about Caitlin Clark.

Don't get me wrong.

She is the focal point, but there is something special about this team that all of Hawkeye Nation and basketball are rallying to these these young women.

It is truly amazing.

Well,

I'll tell you what I really like, Scotty, and it's evident.

Every time the Hawkeye women talk, they allude to being part of a legacy, helping little girls understand how to play the game and what they can accomplish.

It's always there.

Kate Clark does it.

You heard Molly Davis say it.

And that comes from their coach.

I'm going to tell you right now, Lisa Bluter knows where women's basketball was.

40 years ago and where it is now.

And I really enjoy hearing that.

Hey, just a quick sidebar, Scotty.

Coach is very humble, but I know of an Eastern Iowa recruit that Lisa Bluter and Pat Knapper both recruiting the same athlete and.

coach uh coach got the win on that one so again we're so delighted pat nap is with us today uh it was 30 years ago when he was getting some national tv time for the first time the nation when georgetown

and Yukon with Rebecca Lobo, now the famous broadcaster.

We're going toe-to-toe, of course, that great run the coach snap had just about 30 March Madnesses ago with some shocking upsets along to get to the sweet 16, finished tight for ninth in the nation with the Big East Championship.

So great to have coach with us.

Back to you, Scott.

Well, that's a great point, John.

And, you know, Chip Riedman, we talk about, you know, what Lisa Bluter is doing at Iowa City, as well as what Coach Knapp did at Georgetown.

But it is amazing right now that, unfortunately, in a lot of ways, Lisa Bluter, in my opinion, is kind of almost a forgotten great coach because she does not get the limelight that she should, like, Gino up at UConn or that woman I won't name her name down at LSU.

as well as Staley at South Carolina.

In the last six out of the last seven years, Coach Bluter has had the big 10 player of the year with Megan Gustafson, with Doyle, and now Caitlin Clark.

She has really changed the culture at Iowa City for the better, and it's amazing what Lisa Bluter has done, Chip Riedman.

It's interesting thought about that.

We've had some previous conversations about

coaching turnover that's in the not too distant future for Iowa.

And I wonder if this is going to be close to her last hurrah.

I don't know, you probably have much better ideas to what she has coming up through the ranks as far as future players.

Obviously, no one's got another Caitlin Carr coming.

So I kind of wonder what's her future going to be like?

Is she going to at some point here say, you know what, maybe another year or two, I'm out.

I've done all I can.

I've done it as good as I can.

Maybe she wants to give it another year just to show that she does know how to coach and she can take maybe a team that kind of returns back to earth a little bit.

and take

them well into the tournament or something.

That's what I'm kind of curious about.

since an era, perhaps, about to transition with Coach Ference, Coach McCaffrey, and Coach Bluter, all between the ages of basically 64 and 69 years old, Scott?

You know, absolutely.

And that's why it's so important that President Wilson and now Permanent Athletic Director Beth Getz are in charge because they are a stabilizing force.

We're grateful to have these women in charge of the university.

And Coach Knapp, I want to get your thoughts on this too.

It was breaking news this week that talking about the power of women's sports and Caitlin Clark, Fox executives were mulling ideas and going to approach the other networks.

to try to put a NIL deal together to keep Caitlin Clark at the University of Iowa for one more year.

We all know last week she announced that she's going to be going to the WNBA and almost guaranteed to go to the Indiana team.

But tell us just real quickly, Coach, your thoughts that Fox saw what Caitlin Clark is doing to women's sports.

and was trying to put some money out there to keep her at Iowa City one more year.

I thought that was just an amazing accomplishment for how far we've come in the last 20 years for women.

That is an amazing story and it would have been an unprecedented offer when you think about the stars in college basketball, men or women over the years.

I mean, it would have been incredible.

But Jake wasn't going to do that.

She's not about money anyway.

She is about driving, entertaining, and winning.

And the fruits of her labor have come from all of that hard work.

You know, Chip and John, we talked about it.

You know, we talked about it earlier this year, too.

It's kind of like that Bulls team, the last dance, where everybody kind of alluded to it.

John and Chip, you know, I've been a Hawkeye fan my entire life in 40 some years.

And Caitlin Clark has not only changed the University of Iowa, she's changed the state.

She's changed women's basketball.

But the one I want to focus on real quickly is she's changed the vocabulary.

She's talking about national championships at the University of Iowa.

That is unheard of.

I mean, we've always been a very good program, but she's taking it to another level.

And Chip, you alluded to it.

There's unfinished business.

And I think if Gabby Marshall and Kate Martin and Hannah Stalke can do what they do right now, this is a team that could make a run back to the final four and maybe, maybe, maybe just hoist that banner at Carver Rock Arena.

I think that's very possible.

They can make the final four.

I kind of hope they do.

She should finish out her career on the on the high side.

You know, March Madness, even for the women, though, it's scary.

There's just there's just those teams that come up from out of nowhere and bite you and and take teams down that don't don't deserve to be taken down or shouldn't be taken down.

So there's always that scary edge out there.

We've got no idea where she's where they're going to be seated as far as which city.

Are they going to be top four?

What are they?

Are they ranked number six right now in the country?

Still talking

about a two seed.

We might, Scott,

I know we've

got coach for another 10 minutes, but we might ask him toward the end of the segment about seeding and what prospects are.

But Scott, you're alluding to something that I think is important for Iowa.

Let's face it, it's not an elite school in terms of the legendary

sports programs that win multiple national championships you know your your michigan's and your although what what a segue uh put a put a little asterisk on this but for as much as the big ten west got abused uh

in football, reputationally, I think every Big Ten West team is at the top of the Big Ten basketball conference standings right now.

But Scott, isn't there something pristine about a Midwest school in a largely agrarian state that somehow has captured the nation's imagination?

Dare I say,

America's team, do we put that monochrome like the Cowboys used to have?

Like Notre Dame has had to some extent, at least among the Irish and Italian Catholics, but between the hospital wave that we have as the football tradition and with the women having captured the imagination

of the public writ large.

This really is a golden moment in the sun for Iowa City and for the University of Iowa and for Iowans in general, Scott, don't you think?

Absolutely, but I would just say do not label us America's team because I don't want to be associated with the Dallas Cowboys because they choke like dogs.

And so we're just going to say we're the heartland

of

America.

You know, your thoughts on this, too.

I sent out a tweet to our group here the other day, and this is from FanDuel and the odds on favorite for a national championship.

LSU obviously is the favorite at 130, but coming in at plus 750, that team down in the LSU.

and then Iowa in third place at plus 950.

Vegas knows something, coach, to have Iowa ranked at number three there.

And it's kind of good to be very interesting as John alluded to and Chip alluded to.

It's all about the seating and peaking right now.

But I would say in a lot of ways, there's so much pressure on Iowa, but Caitlin Clark, she revels in that pressure and she just unfazed that by it.

I'll say what.

When we when we talk about the odds when winning it, uh, South Carolina, obviously, uh, OSU will be in there.

Um, Iowa obviously will be in there.

Uh, UCLA is, uh, a high seed.

And matter of fact, right now, uh, what Charlie Creen's brackets and women's NCA basketball.

has is Iowa had a two steam course they'll play at home which helps with the new women's format in the first in the first two rounds and then apparently they are in Portland and they'll go west but UCLA is at the top of their bracket.

There are other dangerous teams in that bracket and one that scares me a little bit is North Carolina.

But I think Iowa has a, I think they have the bracket at least resistance.

They're not in it with some of the other heavyweights who are favored.

And I hope the NCA sees the dollar signs and the notoriety and puts them in a decent bracket so they have a fighting chance to go the fuck for.

I don't want to see, I don't want to see them fight in South Carolina.

in an elite eighth game or who else, LSU or whoever else may be a top seed.

I think this seeded very nicely right now.

Coach brings up a great point.

It's all about seeding and Hawkeye Nation.

We love it when Iowa's men and women go west because that's usually what Iowa makes a run deep into the tournament.

You know, we talk about, you know, things are rigged, you know, during the Super Bowl and stuff, we saw the hashtag NFL rigged, you know, for the Chiefs and all that and conspiracy theorists.

Well, I think Iowa's paid enough dues over the last 60 years in both the football men's basketball, women's basketball, that it's time to rig this thing so that Iowa can make a run deep in the tournament because as coach alluded to, it's all about eyeballs and the moment that Caitlin Clark, let's just say they lose early in the tournament.

I would think the viewership would drop off dramatically, so they're going to do everything that they can to find a way to, you know, I don't want to say, you know, rig the system, but have almost a favorable outcome, like Coach alluded to, to have a showdown for Iowa versus South Carolina rematch of last year, or an Iowa LSU rematch of last year.

They're going to try to do whatever they can to draw as much attention.

Because the more that Caitlin Clark is on TV, the higher those viewership numbers go up, and the more the ad revenues come in, Chip Reitman.

You kind of talked a little bit about Midwestern teams.

Coach talked about some other teams that probably deserve some recognition.

I'm looking and there's a lot of teams just in our own region that deserve some recognition and the interest is to see how far they can go.

Iowa State, their women's team, they're not

I think the type of fourth or fifth and the big 12, they're looking good for making it.

Nebraska has a very good chance of making it.

Creighton's women's got a good chance of making it.

Drake, I think, has a good chance of making it.

There's a lot of teams just in our region that are probably going to be dancing with everybody else out there.

I think a lot of them deserve a lot of recognition out here in flyover country that we've got a lot of talent that probably gets overlooked by the coastal elite.

Media sources

that ship ship right now.

Iowa states women are a nine seed Creighton's women are a six seed The other team in the bracket with Iowa again, this is today a week from Alice became the other dangerous team is Oregon State They're extremely hot in the in the old pack 12 But you're right.

There are other regional things that will be in the day

John, one team that always kind of bothers me, and I've kind of been keeping an eye on them, is Stanford.

Stanford is a team.

They took down UConn back in UConn's heyday when they were undefeated all those years in a row.

And that's one of those teams out west that could give Iowa some trouble.

They know how to handle the pressure.

And we all know what happened in the Rose Bowl a few years ago.

I was just going to say, if they have a garden named McCaffrey, I'm going to start to panic.

Absolutely.

So it's going to be very interesting.

And I would harken back, John, that right now this stable of coaches and the amount of publicity around the university.

I would say this surpasses the great 1980s for the stable of coaches that we have at the University of Iowa and the amount of goodwill and viewership that we're seeing right now.

That's saying something because those were the years when Chalmers Bump Elliott had the great quadrafecta going there of Hayden Frye and football lute Olson in

basketball, C. Vivian Stringer in women's basketball, and of course, Dan Gable at wrestling.

Guys, as we end this segment, it would be appropriate to comment on the passing of the great Iowa Hawkeye Rose Bowl champion winning quarterback Kenny Plain.

Kenny playing PLOEN from Clinton, Iowa.

My folks knew him well, passed away in his home in Canada at 88 years old.

He had a tremendous CFL career after his days as an Iowa Hawkeye in the Canadian Football League for Winnipeg.

But you know, the last two Rose Bowl wins for Iowa came in the 1950s.

57, Evie's team,

won one of the national title acclamations that year, winning a Rose Bowl under quarterback Kenny Plain.

Two years later, in 59, that was Randy Duncan's helming of a team that won a second putative national title for Iowa.

Yes, Iowa has won national champions in football.

It wasn't quite the consensus

or a playoff type of situation was there, but those 56 and 58 teams did win.

Those were teams that were also populated by legends like pro football, Hall of Famers, Paul Krause, and Alex Karris.

There were some great ones, Eveshevsky winning a bevy of Big Ten titles, and of course those Iowa teams fortunate

to get to Helm Rose Bowls because the Big Ten back in the day had a rule that no team could go to a consecutive Rose Bowl.

So rest in peace, Kenny Plain, Kenneth Plain from Clinton, Iowa.

Rose Bowl, Iowa Hawkeye Champ and a claim to the national title without wonderful 19-56 team under coach Forrest Eveshevsky that won the Rose Bowl.

Scott, back to you.

Well, thanks, John.

And as we get close to wrapping up this segment, let's not forget that Fran McCaffrey has a huge game this Sunday evening at Carver Hawk Arena.

It is senior night.

They take on our hated rivals, the Illinois Crush, and we need to make sure that they are actually getting the proper tickets so they're not trying to scalp them from the boys and girls clubs like they've tried to in the past.

And it's an important game chip because if Iowa can win on Sunday night, they could possibly be looking at a double buy.

And in my opinion, this team has exceeded expectations for the year.

Another good job of coaching by Fran McCaffrey.

I'd have to agree with that.

They've been on a tear here the last couple of weeks, totally unexpected by us.

They listened to our last past few broadcasts and there was a lot of

Disappointment in the way the season started even up their midseason

Oh and three the they were oh and three in the big 10 conference chip for the second consecutive year And

I've seen on several things.

They're a bubble team.

I've seen them last four in I've seen them first four out So they can make a good run here There's a very good chance that they'll make the NCAA tournament and make us all look bad But for the way we were talking about them earlier in the year

Scotty, I think this team has a shot.

I mean they're 10 and 6 10 and 9 in the big 10 but 10 and 6 in their last 16 games So you're looking at a team right now that has won their last several big 10 tilts and has put themselves in the position with the 18 wins and the 12 losses if they

Beat Illinois at home, which is very doable and they win one or two in the Big Ten tournament It's gonna be hard to turn away a 20 and 12 Iowa team That would have won its last six games Scott.

It would be the seventh Big Ten team in I think if they beat Illinois and win two in the Big Ten tournament I think they're in might be a play-in game, but I think they're in

Yeah, I think it's very possible and I'm so happy too that it was announced Thursday that Carver Hawk arena is going to be sold out for senior night and it's going to be a rockin and I look forward to seeing where both the men's and women's end up in the in the Big Ten tournament as well as the NCAA tournament moving forward.

We'll have a lot to talk about next week, John.

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for being here with us for the first segment.

Next coming up, chariots of fire and the doctor is in.

Academy Award winner for best

music 1981 chariots of fire then jealous and His stirring chords how apropos as we bring in Dr. Pat Castle with us today the International head of life Runners and guys we have so many people who run

for recreation, for different causes, for their health, for exercise.

And Dr. Pat Castle, what a great joy it is to bring you into our, not just Eastern Iowa audience, but our Big Ten audience here on the 15,000 watt blowtorch.

Dr. Castle, you are an American veteran.

Service Academy Vet, who did some tremendous leadership for our nation.

Tell our audience a little bit about yourself to lay the groundwork for your work at Life Runners.

Doc, a little bit about your education, your military background, please.

You bet.

Well, the segue from what you've already laid down, but the Big Ten audience, this will get everyone's passions going.

I am a fighting a lion eye.

There you go.

1994 with the master's degree in analytical chemistry and then in 2005 with a PhD in nano-analytical chemistry.

What does that have to do with life runners?

It has a lot to do with life runners because you got to be able to recognize God's gift of life and when it begins to even start a conversation.

True that, true that.

So, um, it matters.

And then also just to take two steps back to the conversation that I'm blessed to enter into this morning, when everyone's reflecting, of course, on Caitlin Clark and Iowa, you know, I just got to point out when you see her shooting and where she shoots from, typically all of us would call that a Hail Mary.

Yes,

go to a Catholic high school.

Probably

finishes at least, you know,

three or four decades of the rosary without every game.

So I just had to inject a couple of comments from the previous conversation.

Well, she definitely wasn't.

She definitely was a Dowling girl.

That's for sure.

And, uh, doc, you served our nation, uh, in the military as well.

And you know, our, our Iowa folks, the, the national guards still very active there.

We were so proud of our defense.

communications industry.

You know, in Cedar Rapids, we had Collins Radio Rockwell.

They were the folks who put together the communications links for the Apollo Gemini Mercury programs.

We had the astronauts that would come into Collins and Cedar Rapids at various times during the 60s and 70s.

And of course, so much is done out of Des Moines.

at Camp Dodge.

Your military background, sir, you honored our country with some exemplary service.

Well, I'm a retired Air Force scientist and the interesting things about my 25 years in uniform were one, I got to help train our leaders of character at the United States Air Force Academy as a chemistry professor.

for seven years and my daughter grace now is a third-year cadet there and that was an interesting time to shaping our young leaders

at the academy there in

colorado yeah

at the

air force academy in colorado and then the the other side of my time in the military was dominated by being a weapons of mass destruction defense officer and with that title i was in an american unit on a turkish base

on 9-11, and we were the closest American unit to Osama Bin Laden on 9-11.

And again, my title, Weapons of Mass Destruction Defense Officer.

So, Neil's a say, made for a movie that day, that week, that month, that year ahead, being positioned in such a place on the planet at such a time, made for a really interesting service time.

But praise God, I was able to

apply the training that the taxpayers and the patriots of our country provided.

And we were able to hold the line for freedom.

And it was an absolute privilege to wear that uniform for 25 years.

I'll also throw a fun fact, John, you're throwing kind of those communication fun facts on the Iowa side of the river.

Well, over on the Nebraska side of the river at Offit, a lot of people don't realize that they outrigged the Enola Gay.

at Offit Air Force Base to drop, you know, Fat Man and Little Boy to end the World War II.

And a lot of people don't realize that history, and it's so subtle.

What's now the gym, a big hangar on Offit Air Force Base, there's just a little plaque as you walk into the gym with this history of in this building is where they outrigged the Enola Gay.

So we do have a lot of great rich history of how we have aided what it means to be America and to defend freedom.

And there's no greater defense for freedom by the numbers than defending life in the womb.

Why?

Because we lose more Americans in the womb.

That's about a million per year.

So a million per year, then all combat casualties in the history of our country.

And that number is 650,000.

So imagine the war on the womb and the war on life on the womb and how we're still battling to apply what the founding fathers certainly intended to be towards an unborn baby as well, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And how can you do that when you've been dismembered,

starved to death or lethal injection those are the three ways abortions occur and so there's an area as as god-loving faith-loving family-loving Patriots and that of course is all the DNA of the Constitution let us defend that not just now but always because my goodness those little unborn children need to be remembered

because the world's trying to snuff them out and dismember them so they're forgotten.

Let them not be forgotten, just like a POW.

Let them not be forgotten for somebody that is in harm's way.

How's that for a patriotic lens on being pro-life?

I love it.

I think you've hit a home run out of the park, Dr. Pat Castle.

You and I met, I believe, the first time.

at the governor's uh... mansion uh... we did over in lincoln when governor ricketts now u.s senator ricketts uh... had you and uh... jim jandran in for lunch i was very fortunate and blessed to be invited uh... little claire jandran one of the runners was in there and doctor we had you on one of our other networks a little over a week ago and uh... the loving gracious mrs jacobson signed up for life runners

Out

of

out of Kansas

when she

heard the program there.

So doc Yeah, and you know, we're not 18 year old athletes anymore I'm in my I'm in my seventh decade hand-to-hand great.

So how can make a great life runner John?

Yeah, well, how can people join this cause?

What is it that you guys do do I get my yeah shirt and This is gone international now.

We've got about four minutes.

I'm just gonna let you riff

for the last four minutes here on how folks can get involved.

Well, as you said, I'll pick up where he left off.

The ministry is international.

It's

in

30 over 3,500 cities across 47 nations.

So there's 23,457 people on the planet that are willing to put on a shirt or a jacket that has a big cross on the front in a Holy Spirit dove in Jeremiah one five.

which is a reference to God the Father saying to young Jeremiah, I knew you even before you were in your mother's

womb.

And then on the back has that strong, remember the unborn proclaimed on the back of the shirt and jacket.

And does that matter?

It does because that encourages mothers and fathers to choose life, to do exactly what it says, to remember the unborn.

And 78% of post-abortion women said that's all they would have needed to not enter an abortion facility was encouragement in the form of a person encouraging them or a sign encouraging them, like a billboard or a bumper sticker or a shirt that someone's wearing.

And so it's a real simple ministry.

Running's optional, maybe the best news of the day for listeners.

Like, oh, running's optional.

The more you move, the better.

Because then people can read it and read it again and read it again.

We love it when people are wearing the shirts and jackets, John, and all the crevices of the culture, walking down the ice cream aisle at the grocery store, going for a stroll around the block, being at a picnic at a family reunion, going to school.

Oh, school.

We have over 100 chapters of Life Runners.

in school

so you have so many young people pat this is what's so encouraging to me so many young people that's

right over ten thousand students pre-k to college we just sent two hundred and seventy seven shirts to a pre-k to eighth grade school in monument colorado and then the students wear them on the first wednesday of every month so if you're envisioning how simple yet powerful this life-saving ministry is everybody's qualified we have

teammates that are in little baby onesies that say remember the unborn and we have men and women in nursing homes and wheelchairs wearing shirts and jackets if they remember the unborn encouraging people starting conversations to remember the unborn so they're not dismembered

lethal injection or starve to death, the three ways that abortion occurs.

So Dr.

Pat, I could do that.

Yeah, Dr. Pat Castle.

So, so the punchline here that I want to know is how do I, I've got family listening in from Eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids area right now.

So they're listening in.

How, how do they sign up or how do they support this?

What media or phone or internet to the access?

How

do they get in touch?

Okay, two steps.

Step one,

Go to LifeRunners.org, LifeRunners.org, hit join, register to get our monthly update and order a shirt or jacket and wear it to help end abortion.

Number two, timing is fantastic.

Today is the last day to register for the All in Christ Four Pro Life Banquet that occurs on March 22nd at the Sac Aaron Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.

What a great venue.

That's a great venue.

And people can register today.

This is the last day for the March 22nd event.

Great national speaker, Dr. George Delgado, the founder of the abortion pill, Reversal.

Fantastic story.

Of course, Senator Pete Ricketts will be there.

Congressman Don Bacon, other great, you know, patriots and politicians and faith leaders and people of faith.

People that love God in country.

So if that's you,

LifeRunners.org slash Banquet.

Today's the last day to register for that great event.

Guys, Dr. Pat Castle, studio audience and grateful appreciation here for Dr. Pat Castle.

Doc, two networks down, one more to go.

Great to have you on the line.

We will stay in contact and Godspeed, my friend.

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The doctor is in when you hear that unmistakable in imitable ringtone You know it's serious business here in studio because Mike Shane is Coordinating the controls to get in the brain trust as commentators for the studio show here on KXEL John Jacobson with Scott Corey Chip Reedman and the aforementioned Mike Shane the Jacobson group guys

Fire up that Hawkeye music, Mike Shane, because it's tournament weekend.

The Hawkeye men on a wild tear of late just about to get on the plank of the ship and sail to an NCAA tournament with a few more wins.

Just the nick of time, but who's captured the imagination of the public with multi-million records viewing Iowa women's basketball.

Caitlin and Hannah and Gabby

and Kate and Molly.

What a tour de force and yet what what a time to integrate this discussion with our great doctors Ted Fogarty and David Hartsuch who practice in an area of medicine which helps rehab sports injuries.

My goodness we're worried about our Molly Davis right now rehabbing from that knee injury.

Good

Good morning, Dr. Fordy, Dr. Hartsich.

Ted, I'll start with you.

We're all alive and kicking here.

Thanks be to God today.

What is it about hyperbarics that helps produce more accelerated cures even of sports injuries?

Explain the science.

Well, yeah, just in layman's terms, it's kind of like a supercharger for your entire body system.

And so basically, you're taking all the energy substrates and you're making it more efficient.

You're increasing the energy substrate at the cellular level so that all of the repairs, all of the healing needed for somebody like Molly Davis is going to happen at an accelerated level.

And I have clinical experience in this within the ranks of athletes, through the Dakotas and Nebraska, but also Sebastian Alho.

who's one of the NHL's great hockey stars, and in a few years back he had suffered a severe concussion that was supposed to leave him out of the rest of the season, happened on a

on a Sunday or Monday, one week in January.

And then that next weekend, I was the supervising physician from afar on protocol and his hyperbaric recovery.

And he had a severe knee contusion as well with MRI documentation of that.

And of course, the concussion scoring was horrible.

He was basically on the NHL concussion score, you know, at the worst of the worst before you go unconscious.

That's how bad this hit was.

And so over a weekend out in North Carolina, with

one of the

world-class hyperbaric outpatient facilities in North Carolina at Ex-DeVita, we got Sebastian in the tank for three one-hour sessions, two on Saturday.

He slept for eight hours Saturday night for the first time in his entire life.

He's had multiple concussions.

Youngster playing hockey out of Europe and in the US now.

And then we got him an extra hour on Sunday.

And by Tuesday, the NHL concussion score had dropped to below 10.

It dropped all the way down to six.

And his preseason concussion score baseline was eight.

In all of that, of course, his knee, his severe knee contusion, documented on MRI, that all the edema, basically all of the swelling that would have otherwise prevented him from skating based on his knee injury later that week, that all went away too.

And so, you know, and I'm seeing, you know, all this stuff going on around the world.

I've consulted with Novak Djokovic's hyperbaric guru down in Australia.

I've looked over his MRIs to make sure that there's no missed findings by the Australian radiologist.

And so, you know, from a radiological sports medicine perspective,

if

I were the guru of medicine at the University of Iowa, I were, if I were the Grand Puba, I would have Molly Davis in the hyperbaric chambers, the medical grade hyperbaric chambers

that

are used at the University of Iowa to recover people from carbon monoxide poisoning

and

to do wound care.

I would have her in there for three, one hour.

sessions over this weekend.

And I would bet you she would be practicing by Tuesday already.

Amazing.

If that can't happen, then I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Hartsuch.

Oh, what a segue.

We want to get David in here.

Perfect segue, Dr. Hartsuch.

Yeah, hi, John.

You know, one of the first patients that I ever put in the chamber was a baseball player who had a plantares tendon rupture, which is a very common injury among baseball players.

and it's not a broken bone, and generally what happens is you're on on crutches for six weeks, very painful, swollen, etc.

And the first patient I put in his chamber had that, and within about five days he got four treatments in five days, and at the end of that period he had no tenderness, he was walking normally, no crutches, and he was completely healed.

That to me, and that's normally something that's going to take six weeks of hobbling around in pain.

Incredible.

It doesn't require surgery or anything like that.

It's a tendon that just causes this particular type of injury.

And I think Dr. Fogarty had demonstrated an Achilles tendon rupture repair with hyperbaric as well, because what it does is it accelerates these

um, you know, the stem cell migration into, into injured areas of your body and they, they then differentiate into the tissue of that area

and they heal it.

Amazing.

Yeah.

Well, guys, let's, I know Scott's got a question for one of the doctors.

Chip will take a question or comment from the other doctors.

Scott, you're first up.

Thanks, John.

I'll talk to us real quickly, Dr. Fogarty, about hyperbarigs, because we not only talked about what the injury with Molly Davis that we saw on national TV Sunday afternoon at Carver Hawkeye Arena, but we're talking about youngsters too that are out either in soccer or...

football or whatever.

Is there an age limit where they're almost too young to begin the treatment?

Or is there an age limit such as would help a, let's say a 80 year old person that got up in front of the nation on Thursday night and started screaming like a maniac?

Would that help him as well?

Well,

actually, I am the first position of the world to have reverse dementia with hyperbaric air therapy alone.

And I'm actually working on getting that case report published in Frontiers in Neurology right now.

But there really is no age limit in terms of hyperbaric air therapy.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is something that can be very...

problematic with especially very young kids.

You know the Eden Carlson case report that Dr. Hartz and I put out where we basically re-grew a three-year-old baby's brain after anoxic brain injury that shrunk her brain by 20% and I was the radiologist MRI specialist doing all the volumetric calculations on that.

Hartz knew

that babies are so responsive to oxygen that it would possibly be a detrimental effect to use hyperbaric oxygen.

So he used hyperbaric air on that Eden Carlson case.

And 1.3 atmospheres of room air is what we have now colloquially nicknamed the Eden protocol.

So, but yes.

Indeed, hyperbaric air therapy is something that is available to everyone.

It's safe for everyone.

There's literally oodles of data across the planet of virtual hyperbaric air therapy occurring between alpine regions and sea level regions.

So when you're on the west coast of South America and you're driving down the mountain side from 9,000 feet down to sea level, you've just added about three to four pounds per square inch of pressure.

that's 30% more pressure on your body.

And so every breath you take has 30% more oxygen.

And that is the derivative of what is going into the whole of bioenergetics cycle to increase the energy substrate so that your body can rebuild tissues faster.

We're coming up on the end of our segment here.

Chip Reidman, a question or comment for the honorable erstwhile alumnus legislator, fellow legislator of mine, David Hartsuch, former Iowa State Center from the Quad Cities, but renowned nationally for his medicinal prowess in the practice of medicine.

Chip, question or comment for Dr. Hartsuch?

Sure.

Thank you for your time calling in today.

My question would be is, so you talk about hyperbarics, you've talked about a couple injuries.

Are there some things that it works for and are there some things it does not work for?

So we've talked about tissue, we've talked about muscle, I'm making skeletal organs, brain, blood.

Is there some things that hyperbarics is not really intended for and maybe what does it work best on?

Yeah, I think the thing that I found that it works best on is headache.

It's amazing that you take some of the headache in five to ten minutes in the hyperbaric chamber, it's gone.

And that's an error, not oxygen, or sometimes we use oxygen.

I've generally found if it's an acute injury, I use oxygen.

And if it's a chronic condition, I use air.

I would say that I have tried it on Parkinson's disease, and I think it's kind of hit or miss on that.

But dementia, I think it's a very heavy hitter.

in terms of reversing dementia.

As far as the age issue, I've gone as the youngest person I've put in the chamber is four.

I've got two patients right now, one is seven and the other is nine.

And they do very well in the chamber.

Regarding Molly, I think it's important for me to put this out there, is that if they won't do it at University of Iowa,

Molly, I'm only 45 minutes away from after my clinic and I will put you in the chamber, go charge.

And we are going to show the world what hyperbarics can do for you.

Amazing.

You guys are rock stars.

Guys, having served in the Iowa legislature, I will just tell you the short story is these were two physicians that had the highest cure rate anywhere in the world during COVID.

They tackled COVID and they

killed COVID.

They defeated COVID with their protocols.

And these guys are awesome.

Dr. Ted Fogarty, Dr. David Hartsuch, the studio audience on their feet.

We appreciate you guys being on.

A lot of hot guys listening today.

You never know where this conversation will matriculate.

Guys, Godspeed.

We will talk to you again next week.

Mike, it's been a great morning here at Bevy of Interviews.

Wow.

And now we've got, again, our recurring guest, Curtis Hames.

We do our commerce segment every week on the show.

The wonderful people from Hames Homes.

The Homes people.

Manufactured, housing, spacious, attractive, safe.

manufactured home communities.

Curtis, welcome back to the program with us.

Good morning, guys.

Thank you for having me.

How are things going at your two wonderful communities at Summit View and Grand View?

We couldn't be more excited.

Spring and sprung.

We're ready to see people.

We're always ready year-round, but particularly in spring.

We love having people come in and teaching them about manufactured housing.

Well you know they're so affordable these manufactured homes there in eastern Iowa financing options are always available what impresses me is the safety of the communities but you know if you guys go to Haymes homes it's such a marvelous website with updates constantly including the listings of the homes and boy when we say affordable

You're looking at 1,800 square feet at $165,000.

You're looking at 1,000 square feet at $35,000.

Everything in between.

But Curtis, I want to talk a little bit today about how to read a data plate.

Inside every manufactured home is a data

plate.

Not so much a literal plate, but a sheet with important info about your new mobile home and how it was built.

Absolutely.

In every home, it's often going to be in the main closet.

You're going to have this one piece of paper and it's going to have a lot of information.

Where the home was built, the day it came off the factory line, the manufacturer, the serial number,

a lot of good information that you could also find on the title to your home, but also a lot of good information about how it was built for the correct conditions that it's located in.

This is really important, and I want you guys to get out there and see it with your own eyes.

I've been out these communities.

They're starting to look so beautiful now.

You know, things are greening up very early this year.

Curtis, what I'm always impressed with in driving through the beautiful neighborhoods of the two communities

There's a lot of green space.

Now you're, you're literally on the rural edge of town, so to speak.

It's very aesthetic there.

I especially love it because yet you're only five minutes away from all of the retail and schools and, and, uh, healthcare and you're only 10 minutes from the airport and you guys are better business.

Bureau accredited but you know when they get out to 540 Wabash Street there and take a look at you guys.

There's greenery everywhere.

How do you guys make sure that there's so much green space there?

There's lawns with every home there.

They're well manicured.

They're well kept.

How does that work with the whole community approach, Curtis?

That was something that was always very, and it was very important to grandpa.

He liked trees, he liked green spaces, shared spaces, kind of a third space for people to spend time in.

What we have is kind of our shared community spaces that we maintain.

And then everybody has their own home site.

You have a yard.

It's not a big overwhelming yard to take care of, but a little bit of something where everybody can have space.

It's not an apartment.

It's not a zero lot line condo where you're sharing walls.

You have your own yard, you have your own space, a very nice comfortable spot for each homeowner, plus these shared areas.

Walking trails, we have a lot of trees in our shared green spaces.

This is land them 30 years ago with a farm.

So we wanted to reflect some of that rural type of feel, but also clean, safe, affordable housing.

We want to have our own little.

So Curtis, people want to get out and see you.

How do they surf the net?

How do they call you on that legacy, Mary, and phone number?

And how do they drive out there and take a look themselves?

5410 Wabash Street, Southwest.

319-377-4863.

If you're thinking internet presence, the website is always the best place to go.

And we keep it really, really simple.

HamesHomes.com

Get over there today.

Curtis, always great to visit with you.

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One of the biggest of the year with Conference Hoops tournaments and we're gonna

Turn it over to my co-pilot here, Scott Corey.

Let's fire up that Hawkeye fight song, Mike Shane.

Scotty, all I can say is wow, from river to river, whether it's the buzz about the Hawkeye Men's Pratt Fall or the Creighton Early Exit from the Big East and Shock Waves, we lost a big 10 athletic director.

Are Iowa women maybe grabbing a one seed?

Scott, it's amazing we only have...

Half an hour to go through all this, but we've got the all-star cast today coach nap is coming in and he knows about winning in March He did it for Georgetown Putting women's athletics on the map in the USA getting him on national TV 30 years ago going up against Rebecca Lobo and Yukon and Dancing all this way into a top 10 finish in the sweet 16.

So we've got the whole gang here Scotty

Well, thanks, John.

As you mentioned, it is a busy show.

It is a busy time of year.

And I think all of us and all of the programs that we root for can testify to the great phrase that ABC's forging with Jim McKay, the thrill of victory and the agony defeat, because all of our programs have felt it this week, Coach Knapp.

But the thrill of victory, we're going to start off the show, of course, with the hot hand.

And that is Lisa Blukers, Iowa Women's Program.

poised to take a number one seed, and they had a tremendous showing Sunday up at Minneapolis, capturing the three-peach the first time in several years that has happened.

But coach, your thoughts on that before we really break down the game on where the Iowa women are poised to make history this year?

Well, they are going to be a number one seed.

Excuse me, guys.

And they are.

are sitting pretty, I think, in their bracket.

They label it Albany 1 out East.

And I believe they have a really good path to the final four.

Of course, they've got to get through.

It's hard to play home when you're favored in these circumstances.

They will have the first two games, the first round, at Carbohalt Guy Arena.

Of course, we don't know the exact brackets yet, and they will be favored.

So they need to come up that weekend, and then I really think the pressure will be off in the sweet 16.

You know, you bring up a great point, and we talked about the pressure.

There was a lot of pressure on this Iowa team up in Minneapolis, and as the turning of the page, it became March.

And Gabby Marshall, Gabby March, he may have made the play of the season with that block shot and overtime against a very good Nebraska team that sealed the victory.

Mike Sheen, let's play that Gabby Marshall block heard around the world.

Garth, we talked about what happened up in Minneapolis, and there was so much pressure on the Iowa women in that game.

The first time ever sell out, CBS said almost 4.4 million viewers tuned in to see the final minutes of that game.

Iowa struggled in the first half, but the seniors led by Caitlin Clark, Gabby Marshall, and Kate Martin, you could almost tell with about four minutes to go in the game in regulation.

They all looked at each other and they said, we are not going to lose this game.

This game ends right now.

It was Clark's passing in three point shooting.

It was Martin's three point shooting and leadership.

But it was Gabby Marshall's defense that found a way for the Iowa women to complete the three feet in Minneapolis on Sunday night.

That was a fun game to watch.

I took my 13 year old daughter out to watch it, just the two of us.

And it was really.

something.

I thought Iowa was fortunate to get it to overtime, but once it hit overtime, that was it.

Iowa had that one.

That was that was forced to will right there by the Iowa seniors.

They really played a good game in overtime and they've got a lot of momentum heading into the NCAA tournament.

Great win for Lisa Booter and the program.

You know chip read men we're gonna talk about the the troubles in the Husterland and it all began on Sunday afternoon with the dagger from Caitlyn Clark

to Gabby

Marshall But at the same time at one point with about two minutes to go ESPN Projected that Nebraska had a 99% probability of winning that game.

Nebraska is no slouch They are a very strong team and they could really mess up

March Madness Brackets for a lot of people.

They have a really good program moving forward.

So their future is very bright right now, Chip, even.

Yeah, it is.

And that's kind of an interesting observation when you say that, because you look at the previous time that Iowa and Nebraska played.

I wasn't at the same kind of percentage that Iowa was going to win that game.

So

it's

kind of funny how things turn around or come around when the pendulum starts swinging as to what the end score is going to be.

Yeah, quickly in that game, I think at the end of regulation, Coach Williams in Nebraska made a few mistakes with no timeout and then with, I think, a poor play selection in the last timeout.

They did not get a good look at the end of regulation like they should have.

That was sad to see because they had played so well.

And I think experience may have been a factor there.

I agree 100% coach.

And I think too, I think it was Iowa going for the three Pete led by the seniors where Marshall, Martin and Clark all kind of had a feel for each other and they knew exactly what to do.

But Tim Grover, we talk about Caitlyn Clark's shooting abilities.

There was a pass on a fast break.

that Caitlin Clark made that would have made Joe Montana and Patrick Mahomes jealous.

She threaded the needle, she hit Hannah Stokey in stride, and Hannah had the easy layup under the basket that really broke the spirit of Nebraska towards the end of that game.

I think Clark's passing has just been tremendous the last month and a half.

Oh, very much so.

She has a complete game, ball handling, passing, shooting, and the miracle of this team

is when it comes time to rise to the occasion, they all work together and all of them come through.

Kate Martin had a great game down the stretch.

It's incredible that a group, no matter what sport you're in, it's incredible a team can come together like that and everything clicks when you need it to pull through.

And as we get ready to talk about selection Sunday here, coach, it's going to be very interesting, as you said, to see how it's paired up.

And we're going to talk a little bit more as we pivot to the men's game because of the collapse of the Fran McCaffrey program.

But Lisa Bluter's Iowa women with the number one seed, they will commandeer a Carver Hawkeye arena.

And that may force the Iowa men to be on the road for the NIT once we know that selection on Sunday evening.

Yeah, there is there's no doubt about that the men if they go to the NIT if they're selected And I think they probably will the NIT loves that big conference games on their schedule Carver Hawk I arena will be taken over by the NCAA there will be Games there in the first round like I said, they're protected in an eastern Albany region

There's a little background to that.

I was involved in a similar situation.

The year we went to the Sweet 16 in 1993, our men went to the NIT against UTEP.

We of course had beaten Penn State at Penn State and we were scheduled to play Thursday night against the University of Virginia down in Richmond in the

the Eastern region.

The men could not get their home arena, the capital center in Landover, Maryland.

It was booked.

The men would not play on the road.

Obviously, they could have played at UTEP.

They would not even play, they had the arena, the George Mason University arena over in Virginia available.

They would not even play there.

So the day before we traveled to the sweet 16, we couldn't use the gym.

We had

to either practice at some high school and back then you could not leave

You could not skip class to go to practice.

You had to schedule practice in and around class.

That was a rule that we had.

So that's fine.

So we ended up practicing at 11.30 at night after the NIT game at Georgetown, which are men lost, by the way.

And my star point guard, Nikki Reed,

hurt

her knee.

in a drill.

So if you want a little Title IX history, there's a piece of change right

there.

Wow.

That is unbelievable that that would never happen in today's world and I'm glad you brought that up coach because it signifies how far women's sports have come and you know I'm the biggest home where there is I'll admit it you know I've said for years it's Caitlyn Clark's world and we're just living in it and the amount of attention that she has brought on to women's sports.

There would be an outcry if anything like that ever happened in today.

And I'm not, it's not talking at Iowa, Matt Garst.

I'm talking across all the conferences.

Now women's sports are on the ascension.

Iowa State has it rolling.

They were in the big 12 title game.

They, uh, did you hurt your wrist during doing all the horns down the other

night?

Boy, I did it.

My wrist still hurts from that game.

To be honest with you, we, Iowa State,

They played really well against Oklahoma.

From the first four minutes of the first quarter, I kind of had a feeling during that Texas game that, hey, we might be outclassed here.

I mean, I think at that point, we were 20 and our record was 20 and 10 and Texas's record was 29 and four.

And I completely understand why they had won 29 games and we had won 20.

They just, they outmuscled us.

Good news for Iowa State, Audie Crooks, our star freshman.

She scored 25 points in that game.

She scored almost half of our points, but we just didn't have an answer for Texas.

They were the better team.

They deserved for win.

I think Iowa State's future on the women's side is bright.

I think we've got a lot of talent.

We've got a very young team, a lot of talented freshmen.

So I'm curious to see where we get seated in the NCAA Tournament on the women's side and how we are a year from now because that landscape continues to change with the transfer portal and it's just going to be interesting to see how we end up here next year or maybe even the year after that if Santa Lea can keep this team together.

You know, as we're talking about here on KXDL, the Jacobson Report,

Chip Reven, we spent the opening 15 minutes talking about women's sports and women's basketball, and rightfully so.

It is on the Ascension here in the Midwest with a dominant Iowa team, a very good Iowa State team, and a very good Nebraska team.

It is quite a time for women's sports all across the globe, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

And Pat Knapp, coach Knapp, when he was at Georgetown, he was one of those founding pillars of what we are building on today.

Yeah, they're, they're looking pretty good in the Midwest.

I think even the Drake women, I haven't followed them in the last week, but they were even looking good for a while and have had some good potential.

Nebraska's women's team has definitely come through.

They've been kind of out there always on the edge of breaking through with a good team.

And finally they made it this year.

And

I think it's, I don't know what the seating is going to be.

It's harder to find women's seating than it is men's seating when it comes to bracketology predictions.

But even the Creighton women's team has done very well this season.

I'm sure they're looking at a good slot too.

Scott, if I can just pop in, it's not lost on me the latter part of your juxtaposition there.

You know, American college football really did not kick it into fourth gear until the 1920s when Newt Rockney took an obscure farm college

from Indiana well outside of the Chicago Metro and by his innovation with the forward pass and his traveling across the rails to find the big teams that would play him really catapulted the imagination of the American people back in the day radio newsprint and of course that idea the subway

alumni with Notre Dame with its Catholic fans, even though they weren't truly alums of the university.

We always stand on the shoulders of our giants, our predecessors, but Pat Knapp was key to that, you know, when I think of how

You know, in some ways, Rebecca Lobo, one of the first true media superstars 30 years ago, hard to believe at UConn, with UConn cobbling together that huge statewide network of television that went regionally there all through that.

You know, people could pick it up in New York on satellite, even in Omaha on satellite.

And I think having Pat Knapp there at Georgetown,

there couldn't have been a better media outlet that that's the capital the united states were all the media uh... was located at the time and of course john thompson was his colleague over on the men's program but what a perfect position for a great recruiter and bench coach who could use the media and get the message out to bring women's hoops

to the movers and shakers of the nation's capital to bring Title IX to metastatic in a good way, reach out to include so many new athletes across the country.

Tim Grover, that's quite an accomplishment, and I think when people build something like that,

They've got to be edified, Tim Grover, to see how this has grown based on the mustard seeds that they planted.

What say you, Tim Grover?

Oh, very much so.

I think you make a great analogy there that this might be the breaking open of women's sports started right here in Iowa.

I know it's the other night the NBC is promoting the Olympics.

The Olympics now and Mike Tarrico is talking about women's basketball because he knows Caitlyn's coming and and the Pat McAfee show, they are talking about women's basketball.

They're looking for an off-season thing to talk about that when football isn't on and I think they're seeing that as an opportunity because they're out of any map.

We all know that Caitlyn's going to be playing there too.

So

So yes, uh, coach Napa's got a legacy here where this is opening up and it's starting to bloom and certain here in Iowa.

Scott, I'm going to kick it back to you, but I'll just say this.

How ironic that this week we find Lisa Bluter up for coach of the year and the whispers in Lincoln.

We have several media people urging Nebraska to consider Bruce Rasmussen as their.

Athletic director just remember Scotty Pat nap out recruited both Bluter and Rasmussen

Yeah, he is the legend and I I always give him grief that he's kind of flummon with us every time he picks up the phone You know he's such a good-looking guy they put him on ESPN

they

do

I will

hold that against

him ESPN plus which means you have to subscribe to it

That's even better.

That's what they do.

They put you behind the paywall.

That's how good you are.

They're

monetizing that.

They're monetizing it.

But as we get closer to wrapping up the segment on the men's side, Matt Garst, the Iowa State men, looked to be on a collision course for Saturday night against a rubber match with Houston.

Could we get round three of that epic title fight?

We could.

This is going to be tonight at 830.

Iowa State plays Baylor.

Iowa State opened as a one and a half point favorite in that game, which built in South.

I consider that to be somewhat of a home game for Iowa State.

If Iowa State can so Baylor is number 14, Iowa State's number seven.

Iowa State can play the kind of game they played last night.

They 100% will be playing Houston for the Big 12 championship.

That will be a wonderful game.

Tonight will be a wonderful game.

Iowa State appeared last night to be firing on all cylinders other than shooting three pointers, but in that game, apparently we didn't have to to beat K-State, who frankly embarrassed us in the last regular season game of the year, beating us by seven points in the Little Apple.

So, Iowa State...

The last 10 games we have played pretty good basketball.

I'm cautiously optimistic after last night when already moved us up to a two-seat

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