Jock 2 Jock Podcast featuring Connor McCaffery - "Casting Director Connor"

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This season we've had a lot of fun so far with number 30 of the Iowa men's basketball team Connor McCaffrey.

If you haven't heard the last episode, we also had

Josh Oglesby, who happens to be an account executive with NRG Media, and a former Iowa basketball player join us, so make sure you check out that episode.

But Connor, welcome back to it this week.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Should be a better episode without JL, as

well.

I am just absolutely floored by not only the stories about your gambling and how you had roulette figured out, but some of the stuff that you think they got revealed between the two of you in the last episode.

It was wild.

Yeah, you know,

Most of that is true a couple things.

I'm not sure like where he came up with it But what we admitted from both of our sides is true like that that all happened So you're gonna first a first look inside.

I just know that hot yoga gotta be careful because True or not, there's chances that stuff could happen

That's the one that like I don't know where that came from that has never happened.

I have never taken hot yoga with Austin

I've never like that that's never been a thing, but I like we could again We can go back and expose Austin if he wants to start throwing out insane accusations

I'd keep it to the two of you on the court.

Maybe I mean we could always reach out and see if Austin wants to defend himself

We can also show that would be easy

if you want to make it happen for the next one.

I'm man.

I'm all down So with the Northwestern game rescheduled.

How did you feel going into that game?

I was honestly really confident

I felt like, I mean, I felt like we're the better team than them.

And we, we played pretty well for the most part, give or take a couple of minutes.

And I just felt like the basketball guys were going to come out for us as well.

Like we, we're just the way the whole game went down, like the first time and you know, the reschedule, I thought that all was kind of weird.

And then we, you know, we get into the game and.

You know, it's Chris Street diet.

Like we just weren't losing that game.

Yeah.

Peyton Sanfort gets a rare six point play.

You were the first one showing up, at least I see in the video, to congratulate him on that.

Did you know that that was going to be up, you know, that was going to be six right there?

Or what did you feel about that?

Well, no, because Collins hadn't got teed up yet.

Okay.

So we didn't know what was going on until after the time out.

And so I knew, I mean, I knew he had four.

I knew it was the free throw, but then Collins got teed up like after the fact.

Yeah.

And that's when it was like, okay, well, we'll just have to shoot three string free throws and they'll, and he'll make them all.

Some of the other memes that I've seen out there on the internet, him holding his hands out and he's got fire in both hands, like he's, uh, from a video game.

I feel like that's kind of the way he was on the court too.

Yeah.

Pretty much the kid can really, the kid can really heat up, but he always has been able to like

I mean, you know, in practice, he'll get on crazy hot streaks.

He's really got a back for just, I mean, he's making tough shots, moving right, moving left, fading, like running full speed, catching insurance.

And he's also like six, eight, so it's harder to guard.

Stretch coming up here, game at Illinois, game with Purdue and Minnesota.

I mean, all within eight days of each other.

That's another tough stretch again, isn't it?

Yeah, you know, it is.

But at this point, right?

That's kind of what you'd expect for the most part.

I think the Illinois game on Saturday is going to be really fun.

You know, there's already drama going on with that, which is insane, hilarious.

I think it's funny.

And then we got, you know, Purdue, obviously number one in the country, only one loss, very, very good team.

And then we go to Minnesota to like in a road game that you're supposed to win.

But it's not a gibby by any means.

It's not like they're just going to lay down.

You've got to go up there and play well.

They've played everybody tough in their home gym.

The Orange Crush, I'm assuming, is Illinois' traveling student section, fan section.

And then they go and they buy tickets at the opposing team stadium to raise the number of fans that are there.

And they bought this particular package at a discounted group rate.

And according to Iowa, that the Orange Crush bought these tickets, saying that they were the Boys and Girls Club of Illinois, to which when asked about it, confronted by it, the individual said, well, no, we're actually this.

And so then Iowa said, eh, we're gonna refund your money.

We're gonna give these to the Boys and Girls Club of Iowa.

How does this trickle down to you, some of this information?

Is the Scuttlebutt there at practice?

Honestly, I just kind of saw most of it on Twitter.

Okay.

And other people just told it to me.

It's not like I was in the discussion or anything.

I just thought, I thought the whole thing was funny.

It's just gamesmanship.

We don't need to talk about all the extra BS about legal action and fraud and from their side and then us causing them to lose thousands of dollars.

That's what you get, man.

You tried to pull a fast one.

It's admirable.

You bought hundreds of tickets.

It's a great attempt, great play.

I wish our fans, like that sounds, it's funny, like everybody should try to do that.

You got caught.

You got caught.

It's over.

We caught you.

We don't care about the discount and rate.

Like whatever they said, whatever statement, that is not important.

We caught you and we're playing at our place and that's what you get.

And all the, all the lost money, like that, that's what you get for posing for a boys and girls club.

This is all, this is a rivalry.

Like this is the type of stuff that's supposed to happen.

Why would we want 500 of their students or whatever coming to the game?

And, you know, in that way, like that's not, why would we accept that?

Like that's not a thing.

If we can stop, it was a nice try.

And I think if you do that.

That's what you like you're gonna lose out on somebody like they couldn't cancel the tour buses or whatever When I say nobody feels bad for you guys that is an understatement.

Nobody feels bad.

Yeah, that's what you get But again, it's a great is a great attempt like I love it.

I think it's funny I think if they pulled it off it would have been awesome

I think like I get like every student section should try to do something like that.

Maybe not pose at the girls and boys and girls stuff.

Cause by the way, if they just bought them outright and didn't try to get them at the discounted price, they would have been able to come to the game just to say you can't invalidate their tickets for no reason.

I don't think maybe you can, but they just gave us an out to cancel their tickets, which is awesome.

Here's something else.

I don't know if you heard this story or not.

This one's from Virginia.

It's not a part of the double-double dumbass, but it's a basketball story.

Somebody else that got caught, a 22-year-old girls basketball coach in Virginia caught impersonating a 13-year-old player in a game.

Yeah, I saw that.

That's

pretty funny.

Yeah.

The coach of a JV girls basketball team in Virginia, she entered in the game and said,

She was the player.

The coach's name, Arlisha Boykins, is 22.

And she was trying to impersonate a 13-year-old who was out of town and not able to play.

Word got out.

Arlisha can by the school.

Several other coaches, including the coaches of the JV and Varsity teams, were also let go in this case.

If you guys are down a player, your dad going to come in there and impersonate anybody?

You know, I don't think he would help.

But maybe we could get, like, Gaetans or somebody to step in, right?

Somebody might help us out a little bit.

Is it that your dad doesn't have the ups or what is it?

I think he's just a little past his prime.

Oh, when you heard this story, what did you think on this one?

I was surprised that she really got caught and made it to the point of national dues.

That's what I thought was funny, if I'm being honest.

I had one other thing for you.

I kind of teed you up on this one because I thought I'd want you to think about it a little bit.

In the 90s and 80s, there were a lot of cool basketball movies.

Hoosiers, Shaq, Nick Nolte, Blue Chips, Above the Rim, featuring Tupac Shakur, Space Jam, obviously with his airness, Michael Jordan, Like Mike with Lil' Bow Wow.

Any others that were your favorites?

I feel like you hit a bunch of them.

I mean, my favorites were Space Jam, Like Mike, Hoosiers, Glory Road, Coach Carter,

Mm-hmm hurricane season.

I'm still not hearing you say

the big one which is airbud airbud.

I was a big airbud guy.

Yeah, I liked it But I wasn't also I wasn't like a huge dog kid growing up.

Yeah

Because my my sister's allergic so we never had dogs.

Okay, I mean white like once I got older to like white men can't drop semi-pro.

Oh rebound.

Yes Rebound was awesome

Oh, he got gave him two by the way.

Sorry.

He got gave

I got that's what I hadn't thought of we're not seeing as many basketball movies now I don't count the remake of Space Jam with LeBron because no that doesn't count absolutely terrible, but if they were if they were to make a movie Surrounding you and your teammates.

I want to play a game here.

I want you to play casting director Conor McCaffrey and I want to I want to go down the list and find out

if you've got people figured out that could, uh, play your teammates in this movie.

You ready?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's do

it.

Let's start with number

zero.

Philip Rabracha.

Okay.

Um, Philip Rabracha.

Pretty intense guy.

Big guy.

Uh, yeah, I was kind of, I was trying to think about him and I didn't really come up with like a lot of great options.

Lookalike.

wise, but in terms of like his play and, you know, intensity, I immediately went to action movies.

Okay.

And one that I settled on was Gerard Butler.

Gerard Butler, yes.

Now Gerard Butler is not as tall as Phillip.

How do you... No, he's not.

How do you offset that?

He kills a lot of people.

So you've absolutely changed the whole scope of...

This movie you've changed it from a sports movie to an action movie, right?

No, I just think I have to go with somebody that's close to his personality and like in terms of aggression and intensity and I don't know where like you can't You're not going to like the notebook to find somebody like that.

You got to go to like London that's fallen.

I like it number one

Aaron Euless Yeah, hey you I was wondering about this one too.

I don't know man like

He's pretty quiet laid back Not really gonna do a whole lot in terms of like, you know getting up on your face that kind of stuff.

I was thinking maybe like I Don't know he's also kind of like secretly pretty funny.

Okay,

maybe a you could be like Let's come back to you.

Okay

number 11 Tony Perkins.

Oh TP

funny, strong, crazy outgoing.

I'm gonna say Chris Tucker.

Chris Tucker, yes.

Yeah, TP's hilarious.

And Chris Tucker, do you think he has the shot that Tony does?

Probably not.

We just mentioned this gentleman, he was on fire in the Northwestern game, number 20, Peyton Sanford.

Yeah, I looked, I was thinking about him too, and

Like kind of like, you know that little boy look like no no facial hair blonde I was thinking like an older or a younger.

I mean Ryan Gosling.

Okay,

I Don't know

he'll appreciate that that reference.

Yeah, I'm giving him too much credit on the looks.

He doesn't deserve that much there.

Yeah, but

All right.

So right now we've got Gerard Butler playing Phillip Baracha

We've got Chris Tucker playing Todi Perkins.

Ryan Gosling is Peyton Sanford.

Number 22, your brother, Patrick McCaffrey.

This one was easy.

Jim Carrey.

Really?

Absolutely.

It was just easy.

Like Patrick is a, I mean, he's just like still pretty immature.

I mean, he's hilarious.

And he, I don't know, it just made sense.

Like they, I think Jim Carrey is taller and like dark hair.

It just makes sense.

Okay.

Maybe this individual could get a double bill or split screen so he can play twins.

Number 24, Chris Murray.

Chris Murray.

I wonder who he would want.

Like, do we give him Michael B Jordan?

Like, I don't know.

Is that somebody he likes?

Yeah, I'm sure.

He's pretty yoked.

Yeah, because I'm thinking like Creed.

And an accomplished actor who could do the split screen, the double bill, so he could also play Keegan Murray too.

Yeah.

Okay, let's let's give Chris Michael B. Jordan.

Got it.

Hardest two, I think.

And anybody else that you think of, please make sure that you chime in on this.

Who do you think plays you?

See, this one's tough because whatever I say, I feel like I can't win.

Maybe I was Ben Affleck.

I can see that.

I would want Ben Affleck to play me.

Done.

Not saying we look alike.

I'm not in his league, but.

I love his movies and he's tall, pretty thin head like me, like shorter hair.

I'm

digging it, man.

Who plays your dad?

Who plays Fran McCaffrey?

I think DeNiro.

I think that was pretty easy.

I love it.

You know, the gray hair, like he's serious but funny.

My dad's pretty, my dad's pretty, like he's funny.

A lot of storytelling like DeNiro can definitely tell some stories.

So sure.

You

think

DeNiro

likes Springsteen too?

I would venture to bet.

I would feel pretty confident, man.

I think that's a good one.

Who am I missing out on on the team?

Like some of the people that help you guys out that maybe I don't see from the outside looking in.

Who are some other people that would that you'd want to see in this movie and who could play them?

All right.

Well, we got like, OK, so we I mean, we have a ton of other guys, right?

Like walk-ons on the other bench, like Dante Eldridge, Carter Kingsbury, Josh Gundelay, Riley Mulvey.

You know, like Josh, you're going to like God to be center, the entertainer, uh, for sure.

Dante Eldridge, maybe Kevin Hart.

He's freaking hilarious.

Who am I missing?

Riley Mulvey, maybe like Dwight Schrute, brain whopper.

That, yeah, like him.

Then we got, oh, we missed some of the freshmen too.

Like Josh, Rickson DeSante.

Who you thinking?

For DeSante, he gets.

Will Smith.

Oh, and then JD.

Oh, I don't know who he is.

That one's tough.

Well, now that you're in your your groove here, who's playing Aaron Eulas?

Yeah, see, I've been thinking about him too since we since we left.

Since we went off of him.

Maybe like, maybe like, oh, it could be.

What about like Omar Epps?

Oh, I'm loving basketball.

There's a guy.

He maybe not an actor, but he's really funny.

Jacked.

There's a guy in the WWE Xavier Woods.

You know him?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've seen him before.

I'm not a WWE guy, but I've seen him.

Anybody else like managers or scouts or anybody like that that you want to see in the movie that could catch a little bit part?

I think like Sherman Diller has got to be Morgan Freeman.

Like just why is like.

Like everybody like looks up to that guy.

Yeah, he's just Gaines.

Who do we give Gaines?

I don't want to give him too much credit.

I feel like you got to be honest, too.

Yeah,

you know him better than I do, obviously.

I

refuse to give him Chris Hemsworth.

That could be a tentative role for Chris or no?

Or maybe

Matt Damon.

Matt Damon, okay.

Yeah, Matt Damon.

Well, which is good.

You know, you and Gaines get along pretty well because I mean, you're Ben Affleck and he's Matt Damon.

Those two are the best

buds.

That's true.

That's a good point.

I like that.

And I got to come back to Carter Kingsbury, Liam Neeson, Liam Neeson for sure.

How do you feel about your casting?

I feel like with more time and research, I could have done better, but we're in a pretty good spot.

Do you have any idea what the name of the movie would be if it's a sports based movie?

Oh God, you didn't give me more time on that.

Okay.

Well, and I just asked you to be a casting director.

I'll work on the creative side of things for you.

The other thing is we're going to need an executive producer because I'm just looking at this list and Connor, um, we're looking probably in the millions, tens of millions of dollars just in actor fees alone.

Probably billions.

I mean, it all starts with Gerard Butler.

Uh, true.

I like it.

Okay.

You ready for the double, double dumb ass?

Let's do it.

All right.

We're going to start with this story here.

Just remember, these are two stories, all of them involved in the big 10.

I will give you locations as much as I can without giving it away, and then I will mention a school in the Big Ten.

First one, a man in Chesterfield, which is in the metro area of a major city.

A man named Keith Stonehouse let his six-year-old son use his phone to play a game on Saturday night.

Kid ended up buying a bunch of food on Grubhub to the point where he ordered nearly a thousand dollars in food delivery at this house in Chesterfield.

Oh, geez.

Is that in Nebraska?

Michigan, or Ohio State.

Next story, a toilet paper thief decided to steal the pipes behind a toilet inside a Burger King in Lancaster County's county seat.

Oh, I know that.

Security video showed the woman going into the bathroom, leaving a strange bulge in her pants after she left.

Pipes between the toilet and the wall were missing.

Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio State, which one you want first?

All right, I'll do the first one first because I really don't know.

Chesterfield

Chesterfield.

Yes.

It's in the metro area of a major city

The metro area of a major city and we're one of the options, Nebraska, Michigan,

Ohio State.

Yes.

Okay.

Well, the most major city out of those three is Columbus.

I'm going to Ohio State.

Final answer.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

That is incorrect.

What about the other one?

Okay.

Well, I'm going to Ohio State for that one too because I feel like I'm getting one of those there at Ohio State.

Final answer.

Yeah.

I'm sorry, you're incorrect.

Oh, oh, for too bad day.

Jeez.

When you said that you knew Lancaster County, I figured because I'm hitting you again with Lincoln, Nebraska on the toilet paper thief.

Nebraska on that one.

Chesterfield is in the suburban, I thought the major city would give it away because Detroit has Chesterfield.

Oh,

yeah.

And that's Michigan.

Yeah, I was thinking at our work.

And, uh, yeah, that's true.

I hope that I didn't throw you too far off, but oh, for two on today's, uh, we'll be back.

Tough

day.

Tough day.

You lose the close ones sometimes after talking about a movie, talking about the orange crush, talking about a 13 year old impersonator as a coach.

That's a full episode today.

Anything else to add, Connor?

No, I think we covered some, some ground here.

I like where we're at.

The game's coming up again.

Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota.

Good luck to you and the team.

This is going to be a good stretch, my friend.

Thank you.

We're excited.

Appreciate it.

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