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It's the jock to jock podcast here on rock 108.com.
I'm Brian Marshall.
You may have caught the episode where we had Tori Taylor punter of the Iowa football team.
Now we're joined by a member of the basketball team, Connor McCaffrey.
Welcome to the jock to jock podcast.
Thanks for having me.
Let's chop it up.
We had the conversation with Tori.
How often do you associate with or are you around the football team, at least in that type of capacity?
Honestly, it kind of depends.
I would say like a lot, a lot of it is freshman year because we're all in the dorms together.
So like the football guys I was close with were the guys that we were in the dorms together.
So it was like Gino Stone, AJ, Apenessa, Peyton Mansell, like that class.
And so that was kind of like the football guys that I got close with.
But then you also, I mean, honestly, like downtown is another place where you see a lot of them.
So that's kind of like another spot where if you're not friends, you're at least cool because there's kind of like a mutual respect.
But when you see them and whatever, like, you know, kind of what their, what their seasons like, what their grinds like, and they know the same.
So even if you don't really, even if you're not really friends, you still like say what's up and whatever else.
When you are out, you get things like homecoming just happened here a little while ago.
Were you a were you a part of that?
No, honestly, I wasn't because we had recruits in.
So I wasn't.
So we had we had a recruit dinner that night.
What's that like working with somebody that's considering coming to Iowa?
Is that something you can talk about?
Yeah, no, it's like so.
So basically the weekend rundown is like they kind of we have a host.
So one of us pairs up with the recruit and then we will just
We'll take them around and hang out with them.
They'll hang out with us, but then they'll also do stuff with the coaching staff and with the academic staff, training staff, weightlifting staff.
They go through our entire process of what being a player here is like.
But one of the nights, we'll always go to my house in North Liberty, like my parents' house, and we'll eat and hang out, and their family will come and we'll kind of just, we do that.
but we do that quite a bit.
So we'll just go and my mom will make dessert and we'll get like some good food catered in and
yeah.
What type of meal are you looking forward to the most when you're on a recruiting visit like that?
Well, a lot of times they take the recruit out and they take them to Joseph's steakhouse in downtown.
So that's that's always a good one because that's pretty high quality.
And then but like if we're going to my house
A lot of times we'll get grazed chicken lips, and that's pretty good.
That's pretty good too.
Really?
Oh yeah.
What's your dish
at
Joseph's?
I always just go like a solid ribeye or filet mignon or something like that.
Pretty easy.
Yeah, it's pretty simple and straightforward.
Mashed potatoes, they got good onion rings too.
Do they?
Really?
Yeah, maybe, and then maybe like, I don't know, I think they have, they used to have some pretty good soup, but I haven't got, I honestly haven't been there in a while because I haven't hosted as much this year.
I did it more last year, a year before.
What helped you to make your decision to return for this season?
Honestly, it just came down to my family and all my friends on the team.
And then NIL was a factor in it too, because at this point now, I'm 24.
I wanted to start making money and saving money for later.
I hadn't really made any money or been able to save any money to this point, so that was a big
a big thing for me, like I want to get money invested and start a portfolio and have some assets to my name.
And so now this year with NIL, I'm able to do that.
And so that's kind of what I've done in that.
So that went into it, but then also just the time span, like with the people that I live with in my house that I live with, Philip Ubracha, Patrick, my brother, Luke Lucchetta, and then Zach Albright.
And then we just live with...
or sorry, we live with those guys and then we just hang out with like the rest of the guys as well.
So that part of it and then just being around family for one more year before starting up into the workforce.
So how hard is it on you?
Because when we're talking with Tori, we're talking about a lot of guys in the locker room.
You'd mentioned on the last episode that we had with Tori on Jock to Jock is 15 guys in the locker room.
How hard is it to adjust when a guy like Jordan Bohannon graduates out?
Keegan Murray goes to the NBA draft.
and doing very well, no mistake about it.
But when they go away, you lose a couple of, quite frankly, family members at that point.
Is that difficult for you to deal with?
Yeah, it definitely was, especially with the guys that I came in with, because that was definitely an adjustment period.
So I came in with Austin Ash, Luca Garza, Michael Baer, those guys.
And so when they left,
That was kind of an adjustment for me because I was so used to them and we were buddies and we're always hanging out.
We lived together.
Once they left, you kind of have to get used to like, okay, what is this going to be like now?
But pretty soon after that, like you just kind of, you just kind of pick up right where you left off with everybody else on the team.
You know, guys at this point have always been on teams, always kind of had friends through their team.
And so they just made it really easy.
You mentioned Luca Garza's name, who's now playing on the Iowa Wolves with Jordan Bohannon.
I bet you they're having some fun getting back together again.
I'll probably try to get up there at some point to watch a game with those guys.
I know I think Luca's gonna come down for some of ours and whenever we have an off day or whenever I can get up to Des Moines to see the Wolves play, I'm gonna do that as well.
But it's kind of cool because Luca was telling me he was gonna be with the T Wolves a lot this year.
And I was like, okay, well, if you're on a 2A, that means you're gonna be with the G League team some a little bit.
Sure enough, that's the, that's the wolf.
So, I mean, that's literally the only chance he had of being somewhat close to here.
And so I just thought, I mean, I was excited.
Yeah, I'm excited about that too.
And I think that that's, it's big for the Iowa wolves because when you have two guys that they've played together in Jordan and, and Luca, you know, they're going to be pretty formidable team this year, wouldn't you think?
I think they're definitely going to be a good team.
And they got, like, you know, they have other guys too that have been, been around and then guys who are.
like Wendell Moore, who's a, you know, big time prospect for the T Wolves, CJ LB been in the league, DJ Carton and other Iowa dudes who, who, uh, who's very talented.
Like they, they got a, they got a good squad and I'm excited to kind of see what, what they, what they can do.
I would assume that they're going to be one of the better teams in the G League, but I guess I haven't seen any of the rosters and it's always tough to know how teams are going to play together in the, in the G League when they're just, you know, the.
Other than Luca and Bo, everybody's kind of just thrown together this year.
Let's knock this question out.
This will be the first and the only time I ask it on the podcast.
Do you have aspirations to get to the NBA after this season?
I mean, I would love to, but I'm not the athlete that they're looking for in that league.
I would love to play in the NBA.
If I did do something in the NBA, it would be on the coaching side.
OK.
That's enough out of that one.
The NCAA tournament prep, because it didn't give you a whole lot of time to really enjoy the Big Ten Championship last year, did it?
No, yeah, we kind of got right into it.
We got back that night, and then right away, Monday, we introduced for the game, and then we left on, I think we left Monday.
Well,
maybe we left Tuesday.
I can't remember.
But no, it was no chance really to celebrate.
But we did have
I think it was like the second game of the year we played Iowa State at home and they get a football and they gave us our rings like on the field and that was pretty fun like we kind of got to that was kind of when we celebrated a little bit more of that that championship.
You know because I kind of saw Jordan he was our co-host here the jock to jock last year I saw Jordan was kind of parting with some of his mementos some of his things what are some things that you've had in your run
With the Iowa team that you hold on to or you hold beer.
I mean obviously the big 10 championship ring.
That's a that's a big deal anything else
Yeah, I would say Anytime you went on the road like those kinds of things road road wins are just huge And they're always like the most fun the trip back like last year You look at the win at Virginia.
Yeah,
right the win the win at Ohio State Like those are two wins that the win at Michigan
Those are those are just so much fun and they're it's like I can't even describe like the feeling of joy and happiness like after a game like that and the feeling of relief and celebration that takes place and the coaches are happy players are happy because it's just so much that goes into each and every game and there's so much pressure and so like you know we we lose to Michigan at home and everyone thinks we really stink and then the next game we come out and we beat
Ohio stages ranked like number 14 on the road.
Like those are the kinds of things that can happen in a season and everyone's like starts believing this a little bit and then we just get hot like we kind of get on the roll.
It's just the parts of the season that and I could go through.
I mean I've been here a while so I could go through the road wins quite a bit.
We won't get into all of
them.
And the reason you said you've been here a while and I brought up that you know your decision to return back, you mentioned that you're 24.
Some people look at that and they go
Wow, again.
And they kind of did that with Jordan too, didn't they?
Yeah, they definitely did.
Does that mean anything to you?
Or, you know, no, this is, I want to have fun.
I have the opportunity to do it.
Might not be able to take that next step.
I don't know.
How does that feel for you?
Yeah, you know, it doesn't, it really doesn't bother me.
I definitely think that there's some people that might like try to say something funny.
But at this point, there's old guys everywhere and caught like they're
With the COVID year and the the COVID year and the red shirts and the transfer portal like I am not out of you know Maybe I just highlighted a little more, but we kind of let Philip.
We're brought to get swept under the rug.
He's 25 So I don't know.
Yeah, see nobody knows that he's 25 I don't want to like we can't forget about this guy Because this guy's just like nobody nobody thinks about him, but like
I think if you look at teams, like you're going to see a lot of old guys and pretty much everyone I talked to was like, don't leave college early.
Like there's no reason to get one more year of college and just playing basketball.
Like there's nothing, nothing better.
And then, you know, you add the family piece for me, friend piece and then the NIL piece.
It was pretty much, it was a, it was a good, a good decision.
And that's it.
One of the things that we're going to talk about in the upcoming episodes is I do want to talk about
Your association with your family, but I figured we just kind of start here at least for this first episode of the jock to jock podcast Upcoming North Carolina A&T.
What are your plans for that or just prepping like any other game?
That's a good program and they're gonna be a good team and we got to be we got to be ready for that one for sure And then but pretty much after that like I think we go right into right into some serious action Like I think we go at Seton Hall is the next game.
So we got to be we kind of hit the ground run in there
Yeah, and you're not messing around.
I mean, it's December, you start seeing, you know, Iowa State, December 8th is coming up.
Big 10 action starts against Wisconsin.
That's always a tough program.
Any other big 10 programs that you're looking at and you're going, we need to get that one?
Like, I think Indiana is going to be really good this year.
So if we can beat them, I think that's going to be a standout.
You know, Illinois is another one.
Always nice to beat them.
But I think, I mean,
I think you look at every team and I think like they're all going to be tough.
I mean, anytime you go play on the road in the Big Ten, it's going to be tough and there's not going to be any easy games.
You know, the coaches know each other and there's going to be really good game plans to go against and you're just going to need to play while every single night.
It doesn't really matter who you're playing.
Connor McCaffrey, our guest on the Jock to Jock podcast.
This is an either or question and then I'm going to get into what I think we could have some fun with here for this season.
Would you rather
posterize someone with a dunk or shoot over the top of them and nail a long three?
Well, I would much rather posterize somebody with the dunk, but that's just not exactly in my repertoire.
I've never really been able to do that too well.
So
I would have to say they hit the three over somebody first.
Little, little fast break action.
You wouldn't allow you up to yourself, you know, that kind of
stuff.
Hey, I would love to, but
I got enough trouble dunking on my own, let alone starting mixed alley hoops in there.
How about Chris just absolutely posterizing that guy this week in the exhibition contest?
He just, yeah, no, he, I feel bad for that kid.
He's going to be seeing that video.
I know his teammates and buddies are just letting him here at every time they see that clip.
He's probably had that sent to him.
I mean, like we were on the bench where like, like one of our coaches was like, don't do it.
We just see him running after Chris.
He said, don't do it.
Don't jump.
And then he jumped and then the kid jumped and Chris just punched it on him.
You could see it coming from a mile away.
I knew he was going to do it.
What does that make the bench feel like when something like that happens?
Everybody gets up and is riled up.
Like there's not a single person who doesn't jump up and start talking shit or whatever.
You know, they're just going to let the dude have it every single time.
That's awesome.
One of the other things that I wanted to highlight, not only are you doing the jock to jock podcast, but you got a podcast of your own, right?
Yeah, we do.
So, uh, I'm a big podcast guy now, I guess, cause I'm doing, I'm doing my own podcast.
I'm doing this podcast.
I'm doing another podcast with, with Luca.
Uh, so we kind of, we got, we got a lot going on, but, um, my podcast is called teed up and it's on the Estella's Taco bout network.
And so you can, you know, go on YouTube and subscribe.
It's on Spotify, Apple music or Apple podcasts.
um, google podcast, you know, whatever whatever your your platform is that that's another one so we we interview guests kind of like kind of like this one how you interview me we'll just interview other basketball football players coaches uh baseball players baseball coaches football coaches basketball coaches women's basketball players and we really we really dive dive deep into that one as well it's a pretty good it's a pretty good listen it's called tee up tee apostrophe d up
and then you said you got one going
What with Luca too?
Yeah.
So, but that's not starting yet, but, but I am, we are getting that going here pretty soon.
So that's another one.
You're like the pot father right now.
This is, this is pretty incredible.
I don't know.
I don't know everybody.
I'm like, I feel like I could do like another two and still be all right, but five might be the limit.
You had mentioned here that, you know, feeling like this was kind of an interview.
I want you to feel like this is, we're both hosting this thing together.
And I wanted to offer this as a part of the show meeting.
What do you think about doing a game where I would read you kind of like what I did with Tori, some crazy headlines.
But then after that, you have to identify which Big Ten school or which Big Ten market that story happened in.
And I'd give you a couple options.
What do you think about that?
No, yeah, I want to do that because I felt a little left out with Tori's headlines last one.
I need to, I'm ready.
And then one of the other things you had mentioned is you wanted to talk about places to go in Iowa City, places to hang out, good food to have.
You mentioned Joseph's earlier.
I think that would also be kind of a cool thing to highlight at least one of those a week.
Yeah,
let's do
it.
Anything else you want to tell the fans of the jock to jock podcast about the upcoming basketball season or what you got going this week or anything else you want to hype?
No, I mean, I think
You know, you look at the team this season, I think we're going to, we should be pretty good.
We got a really tough schedule.
So, you know, we got to get going quick, but there's always like, we might, we might lose a game or something or win a big game, lose a tough game.
And I would say just stay even keel because we're going to have a lot of them.
There's going to be tough games.
There's going to be really good games and we're going to come out on top some and I'm sure we're going to lose some.
So it's just kind of got to, it's going to be a balance this year.
We got tough schedule, but stick with us.
We're going to be good.
Connor McCaffrey, thanks again for the time.
Thanks for having me.
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Who used all the Wi-Fi?
Ah, apartment life.
Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.
Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.
Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments, furnished in-unit washer and dryer.
Internet included a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.
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