Your Biggest "Coincidence"

Not really a coincidence. More of an "oh WOW" moment.

Invited a group of neighbors over a couple years ago. Included were a couple sisters that live a few doors down.

We were all in the basement and the one more meek of the ladies sees all the records and music paraphernalia on the walls. It prompts her to volunteer, "My nephew is in a punk band."

I'm thinking, "That's nice, probably some local group playing bars around the area..." I asked what the name of the group was, not expecting to know who they were. She says, "X." I pause and say, "...From Los Angeles?" "Yes, that's the group, have you heard of them?"

Her nephew is Billy Zoom, the guitarist. I looked it up to be sure, and sure enough, he was born in Savannah IL - and that's where these sisters are from.

KXNO Sports Fanatics

This feels like the same move iHeart tried to make a few years back when they fired most of the local people. Listener push back made them walk that back, but murph and andy are gone now, miller is retiring, and the remaining local shows have been mediocre at best.

These circumstances emboldened corporate to try the move again, and this time, there won't be enough outcry to stop them.

Sucks to see people fired, but I haven't found the recent lineup all that compelling.

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KXNO Sports Fanatics

Well ****, guess that's pretty much all but the end of local sports radio here in central Iowa.

Its been on life support for a few years now. National decision makers make it hard for local radio to be successful. They give the listeners a bunch of crap to listen to with over half the shows taken up by ads. With streaming music and podcasts their model is so outdated, plus they keep getting rid of the good shows and hosts.

Serious Question: How does ISUs football recruiting look so far?

I looked at their 247 rankings back to 2020, PSU had one season with 3 five star players, outside of that it was 1 per year. They generally were bringing in 10 to 12 four star recruits and the rest were another 10 to 12 three star recruits.
Comparing their recruiting to those at the top, its not even close, they had talented players but no where near what Ohio State, Alabama and Georgia was bringing in year after year.
Franklin lost not because of recruiting, generally around 15th or so nationally, he got fired because he could not beat top 10 ranked teams, even when he had equal to a little less talent. If Campbell can perform against those teams at PSU like he did at ISU, he will be fine.
I'm not convinced Matt is a good enough in game coach, Mouser included, to win those big time games consistently.

I'll be curious to see.

JJeff is a !st rounder!!!!!

Can someone explain to me why they would draft him and then trade him immediately? Can they not just trade the pick? I don't know the NBA.
They didn’t draft and trade immediately. That pick was part of the Julius Randle trade from yesterday. Brooklyn was technically making the pick.


However, in other instances when teams do draft someone and trade them immediately: the other team who is trading tells the team who to draft, and then the draft rights for that player get traded.

Like in the 2024 draft: Spurs and Wolves are talking about the Wolves wanting the Spurs’ #8 pick. Spurs don’t really need the #8 pick since they got the guy they wanted at #4 (Stephon Castle). Spurs like the Wolves offer and the Spurs ask who the Wolves want in the draft. Wolves wanted Dillingham. Spurs select Dillingham and then he gets immediately traded.

Serious Question: How does ISUs football recruiting look so far?

I personally think this class is very similar to the typical Matt class. ISU is not getting 4 and 5 star guys. We need to get the right 3 star guys. Matt won with culture. I honestly think Jimmy and staff may be better on game day. Time will tell. QB play is going to be critical. That one position saw the biggest improvement under Matt. Before Matt we rarely had an advantage at QB. Brock changed that.

KXNO Sports Fanatics

I'd be surprised if his show stays on KXNO. Iheart can say they are done with local programing altogether. Sean was the program director and without a local person in that position now they may not care for keeping that show in the lineup

Definitely going to tune in to hear what Ken has to say. He could just go out in a blaze and trash iheart as he really has nothing to lose at this point. I hope he does and drops the mic lol
Yeah I have a feeling Ken is going to go hard on it. Hell knowing IHeart though they may not even let his last show air tomorrow.

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