Jock 2 Jock Podcast featuring Connor McCaffery - "66% Chance of Winning"

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I'm Brian Marshall joined by number 30 of the Iowa basketball team and another special guest here on this particular show.

First off, I will say hello to Conor McCaffrey.

Welcome back.

What's going on?

Glad to be back.

See the way that he said that, I think he's a little worried about who the other guest is.

I know.

I already know who the other guest is.

It's minus 10,000 JL.

That's correct.

Those bets are pretty high.

When you, when you need to make sure that you're defending your own honor, Josh Oglesby also joining us, former Iowa basketball player.

Welcome to the

podcast.

Appreciate you having me.

Heard through the great vine that

Connor was in here bashing me a little bit.

So stopped in, called in to work for a little bit to just ask Connor a couple of questions to defend myself.

Connor, have you ever done yoga?

Oh,

yeah.

Are you a big yoga guy?

Hot yoga.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A little hot in your pants one time.

I heard you might have sharded doing yoga once.

That is not true.

You're going to throw that out there.

Brian, how much do you have to pay him to come on this spot?

It's amazing.

I have to turn everything over to him.

I mean, you just led right with that in the fact that you wanted to just hit him right away.

He could have hung up on us, Josh.

I came in swinging.

I got a couple more throughout the podcast.

How did you even come up with that?

Like, where did you get that?

I don't know.

You're supposed to

stay in the business.

I've got sources.

I got a phone call from some guy that lives...

down south and Carolina somewhere, plays basketball for the Citadel.

Yeah.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

There's no way.

The only time he ever went to hot yoga is when his girlfriend dragged him there.

He wouldn't go otherwise.

I want to hear

it.

Yeah.

So we're not,

change the topic to his girlfriend.

We get it.

Hey, good girl.

Step Connor.

Josh on the podcast.

First off,

Connor asked, how much work do you actually do?

And for today, we can say, yeah, some do a little bit.

Yeah.

And you're

ready for the biz, uh, biz wicks here.

So that's right.

Not much

work.

Hey, nothing like being able to come on a podcast at 1030 on a Thursday in the middle of your work day.

This is Brian.

It's your job for him.

I don't, I can't say the same thing.

This is what you do.

But for him, you know, not much else going and, you know, in the morning on a work day, I guess.

Connor brought this up that.

On the last podcast, he said that for six weeks, you went to the wrong class.

Is that true?

I'm not going to lie.

I'm not going to lie like Connor did.

So yes, that is 100% true.

Okay.

100% true.

But there's a story, right?

To defend myself, I went to Language Arts.

And the EPB building, I think it is kind of the brick building by the library.

Those

rooms are a little confusing because I walked in about 15 minutes early because I was a good student and I wanted to get in front of the class.

And the class was just blank.

There was no lights, no one was in.

And right next door, the light was on and there was a teacher in there with one student.

And I said, is this language arts?

He said, yes.

So I'm like, oh, maybe they just, you know, had to screw up wrong room.

So I sat down and they went through the names and they said, did I forget anyone?

So I raised my hand.

He wrote my name down and six weeks later, after I finally decided to do one assignment, since I'm such a good student, Troy goes, well, where's the book?

I go, that's the thing.

I don't have this book.

I don't know where it would be.

You know, it's on the syllabus, but I don't have any of the books.

Well, come to find out.

been in the wrong class for six weeks.

So, yes, that is 100% true, but I also blame the professor a little bit as well for just adding me to the class.

Connor, I'm going to ask this as a player on the floor.

Do you blame others for your mistakes?

It depends on if it's actually my mistake or not.

Okay.

I take ownership, like you said on the floor, right?

Yeah, on the floor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like if I make a pass or something, like I'll be like, yo, like that's not me.

That was terrible.

But if you're like, if I throw you the ball and it hits you in the hands and you drop it, like I'm not going to say it was my mistake.

Would you say in this case that the ball hit him in the hands and he dropped it?

No.

I think it was like a little up and out and like turnover could go either way.

Okay.

I think when you bring six weeks into it.

that's as it gets maybe a little but like maybe for the first week like silly week he stayed in there and then switch back that would I would say not his mistake when you go six weeks that's half the semester man like you're down here in there you might as well just stay in

that class I tried yeah there's no reason to even switch

back

Funny that that was language arts because the other item that he brought up was Gable LeShaney and talking a little bit about language with that particular story.

Connor, would you mind bringing that story back up one more time?

I believe it was whether or not Gabe spoke much English before he got to the States when, you know, he came from London and went to prep school here also.

But I think that that was the question that was posed.

You can speak on that, J.O.

Josh, confirm or deny?

Well, if we're talking about ownership and admitting to our faults, I 100% asked that question.

You did.

Yeah.

100%.

I asked Connor and he wasn't able to confirm nor deny that for the remainder of the season, if you ran a bad play, if the team would ask you if you spoke English or not.

That did not happen.

That did not happen.

Okay.

All right.

Back to Connor.

So with the story that you got, what was going on with the hot yoga?

Is that something that you do consistently?

I'm going to be honest.

I swear on everything that is good that that never happened.

So he can come up with anything.

He can come up with anything else and I will admit to

it.

As said at 99.9% sure it happened.

To Ash is an idiot.

He's he is lying.

He he said that see that you got to know when that's your source.

I've also heard your mass pretty bad too.

I thought you might have had like the mastering and roulette playing 100 on one through 12.

See that's true 24

that that that is 66%

chance.

Yes, see that's something that

I'm not gonna deny.

I thought I had roulette completely figured out and I didn't obviously but we were in we were in Switzerland and on the Europe trip and so they obviously gave us per diem for food, but why would we use it for food, right?

We went right to the casino and Very nice casino and like everyone's winning awesome.

Okay speaking of

I'll come back to a story on him at this casino in Switzerland.

I was playing 100 on first 12 and 100 on second 12.

And then, you know, that covers two thirds of the numbers.

And then you win triple.

So I'm thinking like, whoa, like, why doesn't everybody do this?

This is easy.

You know, it hit like five times in a row.

But then, you know, it started hitting third 12.

And I quickly realized, well, now I'm losing double.

And so really, it doesn't matter that you're getting triple on the ones when you win, when you lose double, because you're just coming out behind anyway.

But yeah, I did make a comment like, yo, I got a 67% chance to win.

It's two out of three.

I got all the numbers covered, which is insane.

But in my defense too, it was the first time I've ever been to casino because I was only 18.

And in Europe, you can go when you're 18.

You're not 21 like here.

So it was the first time I'd ever been

in my defense as well.

That was literally like one of my first classes at the University of Iowa as well.

Okay.

Okay.

And hey, I don't want to throw Ash under the bus here, but he's listening.

But here we go.

But here we go.

Here we go.

We're playing at the same casino.

And again, like we have per diem on this card for food, literally.

And he

we're playing blackjack and he is just on fire and like i leave and he's and he's probably at like 300 400 bucks which at the time based on like what we both started with was like seemed like a ton because we had never been before whatever but i leave because i'm hungry so i leave and then i come back he's still in the same seat he's like he's up to like 1800 dollars

wow

no like it was like two grand and then like

he starts losing his mind.

He's playing like two or $300 a hand.

Like he literally has $200 on the table and he's just losing his ass.

He has a hand where he lost like $700 splitting cards.

I can't remember.

Yes.

I think he was like, I think it was maybe like sixes or something, but he just kept getting sixes and he just kept splitting, splitting.

He got like, he got like five splits.

I've never seen a hand like it.

And he'd lost all of them.

He lost like $700.

You

were probably flipped over 21 somehow.

They did.

Like it was a bad beat.

I'm going to be honest, a bad beat.

He loses like 701 hand and then just gradually, I'm like bro, like put like 500 in your pocket.

Like please, he's a Gary.

I got you.

So we walk out that night with like, he's probably up like 750.

Little did I know he snuck out of the room that night, went back, lost the rest of it.

I didn't even know.

These are the stories that you don't hear about on Big Ten Network.

These are the stories you don't hear about on ESPN.

Yeah, I'm telling you.

One of the things I did want to cover with both of you, kind of taking a little bit of a serious note, is there was the special last night on Chris Street.

Chris Street, what did he mean to you guys and the Iowa program?

Josh,

how about you?

Connor, I think you can speak more to that just because you've kind of been

a part of the program for longer than I was.

And, you know, the Jordan Bohanan thing you played with Jordan and everything that Chris means to the basketball program, the state of Iowa, the university as a whole.

Coach McCaffrey does a really good job of having his family there, welcoming them into, you know, our family, having his picture outside the locker room.

And, you know, we go to the locker room two, three times a day and just seeing him every single day.

Speaks volumes to who he was as a person a basketball player and what he meant to the university I know coach McCaffrey spoke about him a lot and you know, he was with us every step of the way for sure

Connor how about

you?

Just what J.O.

said he's the most special part of Iowa basketball probably and he just like he everything about their family and it's like the first thing you know you hear about is what you

It's what you want to play for, like the honor that it is, you know, being able to come to Carver every day and seeing like, you know, seeing his picture, seeing everything that, everything that he was about.

And then watching the documentary last night, you know, I've, I've gotten to know Mike and Patty pretty well over, over the years because they're around.

They come to, they've come to practices.

They come to games.

They'll come in the locker room after games.

They'll come on trips.

The Chris Street golf outing is a big deal.

You know you go down the line and they're just both such great people and I was still pretty young I knew about Chris Street, but I didn't know The story and I didn't I didn't realize to be completely honest how good he was like that was another thing I like I didn't know like he was like really really good I knew he was good to hear all those people

And to see all of the people who were involved, it just shows how much of an effect he had as a person on everyone and the entire state as a whole, on the basketball community, just on life.

And it was really sad watching it.

You learn a lot.

I mean, it was a really well done thing by the Big Ten.

I'm glad they did it.

And now I know we play a game.

I think it's...

30 years to the date that the initial first game was canceled against the same team.

When our Northwestern game got rescheduled, I'm pretty sure that is now that first game back is on the same date, which is crazy.

What did it mean to you, Connor, to win the Chris Street Award?

It's definitely the best award I've ever won.

And, you know, I said that before and I still meant it, it was.

But after last night,

Like it took like, you know, it won 100 times whatever I was feeling before 1000 times that because it's just so like, it's just such a special feeling.

And you realize how many people, you know, Chris affected positively.

And the kind of person he is, the kind of people, everybody in his family, how they all are, you know, being able to win that award and then have Mike and Patty are always at the at the banquet.

So

We take a picture with them, and we talk about it, and I obviously thank them and everything.

And it's right here in my room.

It's up on the wall in my room.

And it's definitely, I mean, if you, I don't know how to compare, I guess, but if you asked me to, if I had to trade something in, like Big Ten Championship ring or that award, I'd have to think about it in that

kind of

way.

I asked Jordan Mohan in this last year during the jock to jock podcast.

Would you rather have him come to your team today or would you rather go back and play on the team he was on back in the day?

I'd love to have him with us.

He was, you know, a monster.

Like he was long, athletic, like jail, like having him at the top of the 12, right?

Oh yeah,

he'd be great.

Yeah.

I mean, that's kind of what they did anyway.

You know, running around still in the ball.

He played with great energy.

could shoot it, dunk it, get out, run and transition.

I mean, he was just unreal.

And seeing all those clips, he was just a dominant player in high school in every way.

I was getting a kick out of the fact that they had him on JV when he first moved to Indianola, and then I could picture Mike Street saying, you'd be a damn fool if you didn't move him up.

And that's just how he kind of, and that's just how he went about it.

I got to go with maybe joining his team just because I don't know if you watch the game after the documentary.

Yeah, no, I

have five and I don't think I've ever seen Carver as electric as that game.

Obviously, I know they were there to support Chris Street and what he was, but man, that place was rocking.

Yeah, it was.

Do either of you have anything else to add about Chris Street or anything else you want the family to know?

I think they know

how every single one of the players now, present, who's ever gone through that locker room, know how we feel about them as a family and support them and care about them.

Yeah.

Just because they do the same for us, we welcome them with open arms.

And I kind of wanted to piggyback on what Connor was saying, too.

It's like you don't even really understand.

how big of an impact he was until you watched the documentary.

I saw that.

I actually, to be honest with you, have not watched.

I saw the end of it a little bit.

I saw the end of it.

And just to see that, you know, Chris Murray is named after Chris Street and Fred Hoiberg, not even an Iowa fan, one of the biggest rivalries in sports.

He changes his number to 40 just for Chris Street shows you the impact he had on the state of Iowa as a whole.

Connor, anything to add?

echoing again what J.O.

said, 100% is like the effect that, you know, their family has on us.

I think that they, I think they know they, they, they always, um, whenever they come around, it's a, you know, it's just a different kind of feeling.

Like you, you just know that, you know, there's love there and you, and you want to do, you do anything, anything for them, anything, either of them asked and you just want to be,

You know that much better when they're when they're around just as a person because you know kind of what what Chris did for as a as a player and You know, it's just how you need to carry yourself Awesome

guys as we get into a competition because I'm welcoming Josh in for the double double dumbass here in just a moment I asked the question of Connor in the last episode game a horse.

You're both in your prime Who's gonna win that game the E is a dunk?

Josh went blank on that one

What did I say last year?

I remember Connor used to come to our practices back when he was in high school and we used to play a little post-up game.

I used to bully him in the post.

Did you?

It would take advantage of me a little scrawny.

But I will say, though, I actually defended you a lot.

I was just like, dude, Connor is like one of the strongest individuals I think I've ever, like, encountered.

It's like this guy's, I don't even know, you're like a freshman or sophomore in high school.

And you'd come play pickup with us and you'd hold your own, you know, and you just have like that grown man strength.

I would always try to like back him down.

I'm like, this little scrawny kid's not even budging a little bit.

Connor said on the last episode, but I would 100% beat him in horse.

Oh, in

your prime, huh?

Oh,

yeah.

I think I said that, if I'm being honest.

You said I would win now.

I would win now for

sure.

You would destroy you.

is what he said.

He would destroy you.

All right.

So for the double, double dumb ass, the game, I've got two, uh, two stories here.

Uh, they come from areas here in the big 10.

I'm going to give you guys the schools, obviously also going to read the headlines here.

And I'm going to have Josh also take a run at this too.

You ready to go, Connor?

Let's do it.

A 77 year old guy from Colmer, that's C-O-L-M-A-R somehow managed to flip his Toyota Camry inside a drive through car wash.

Is this one taking place at Penn State, Indiana, or Wisconsin?

Second story, man passed out in the bushes outside of a stadium, and after a game upon awakening, he entered the team's clubhouse, stole electronics, a credit card, team memorabilia, and other items according to a criminal complaint.

To give you guys an idea, the jersey and shaving kit was taken from the manager Craig Council's office.

So... Oh, come on, that's a given.

Penn State, Indiana, Wisconsin.

Connor McCaffrey, first up for you.

Go ahead and shoot.

All right.

Well, I don't know if, okay, I'm not, I'm not going to give it away because I'm not sure J.O.

knows, but the, the shaving, the one with stealing all the stuff, that's Wisconsin.

Guaranteed.

And the other one.

What do you think, Josh?

He said it's a no brainer, so I'm going to go with Wisconsin too.

You're going

to guess.

J.O., why is it a no brainer?

Why is it a no brainer?

It's Craig.

Who's Craig?

No idea.

He's the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers.

That's right.

Nicely done, both of you.

That's why I said, because Craig, I was putting you on the spot to see if you actually knew.

Yeah.

That's what, that's the way he reacted to Troy when he was going to the wrong class, just like that.

It's Craig, right?

What about the 77 year old guy in Colmer somehow managed to flip his Toyota Camry?

I'll go with this one.

I

know this

one.

You do?

Yeah.

Where's that at?

Penn State.

Penn State.

What do

you think?

It is Penn State.

I know that for a fact.

It is Penn State because I know what Homer is.

I'm sitting right next to Brian.

I didn't look anything up.

All right.

Are we two for two?

Two for two

for both

of you.

I am.

Oh, man.

No wonder I had a 3.5 GPA.

All those wrong classes you took, right?

It would have been like a 3.7 if they would have just let me stay in language arts and not just pretty much fail that class.

Yeah, imagine trying to join up a class halfway through the semester.

You have four books to read, three papers and three tests to take, and you got to stay up to date with what we're doing today.

I was like, yeah,

I'll just fail this class.

I'll just fail.

Connor, what kind of classes you got to remain here this semester?

Anything?

Badminton.

I'm going to be honest.

This semester is not a whole lot going.

Not a whole lot.

Last semester, I had to pass classes.

to be eligible because I already graduated twice so that like the rules are a little different.

Yeah.

But uh yeah so like this semester I'm not even yeah I'm gonna leave it at that but there's not a whole lot going

here.

Patrick must not have a difficult semester either I texted him because Austin didn't reply to me to get some dirt on you and I texted Patrick at like nine nothing nothing so I finally call him at ten

He's like, hello, what up, P-Mac?

I was like, what you doing?

He's like, just waking up.

I'm like, Patrick, it's 10 AM.

Get

up.

Dude, you have no idea.

He's been doing this thing where he sleeps for like three hours every day after practice.

Geez.

Connor, as we wrap up the jock to jock podcast, because I know we're up against the timeframe for everybody and I got to work.

Yeah, right.

You got anything else to say to Connor before you bounce?

I'm out of here.

And you know, that story was a hundred percent true.

Connor, you just, uh, your pride took over.

I get it.

No worries.

Uh,

the hot yoga story.

Good little podcast today.

Good to hear from you.

And, um, I'll be in Chicago with Pat Doherty, Nate Zelens, and a couple of the managers watching you guys on Saturday take down the Buckeyes.

So good luck, buddy.

That sounds like a fun trip.

Thanks, Joe.

Appreciate it, bro.

You're going to play

some roulette.

Well, I got a 66% chance of winning.

So hell yeah.

That's right.

You were going to break the casino.

Connor, I appreciate you being on the show.

It was a fun one today.

Thanks, Brian.

We'll talk to you.

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