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Jock 2 Jock · Tue Nov 15, 2022
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I'm half of this conversation.
Brian Marshall.
I'm joined by number 30 from the Iowa basketball team.
Connor McCaffrey.
Welcome back.
Yeah.
Thanks for having me back.
I'm excited for another episode.
So let's talk a little bit about some of the games that have gone on so far.
The Thune Cookman, North Carolina A&T.
How'd you feel about those games?
Yeah, no, both games went well.
I thought definitely things we need to learn from both of them.
But we had two different styles of teams that we kind of dealt with separately.
Definitely good moments and bad moments in both games.
We kind of saw that on film.
A couple runs here and there.
that we, we definitely wish we could have prevented on their side, but we also overall, I mean, offense was good.
We scored a lot of points, you know, got a lot of different guys played well.
You kind of saw positives from a lot of different people.
So I think overall, you know, definitely some positives there, just from both those games and where they're good building blocks going into the, the Seton Hall game.
You mentioned the building blocks, those smaller schools, those smaller teams.
When you take somebody on like that, it's harder to prepare for them, isn't it?
Because you don't have as much film on them.
Yeah, no, exactly.
You don't really know who they're going to play.
The players that they're going to play because their teams are so big.
A lot of times they're new.
For example, we had 15, 16 guys on the Scouting Report because we weren't sure who's going to start, who's going to come off the bench.
That's always a little bit more difficult to tell.
And so, for us,
We just kind of prepare for all of it and then learn with it as you go.
But it's definitely different than like the big 10 once you kind of get into the swing of things and know what to expect.
These are all different.
When you're preparing for a game like this, it's early in the season, you had a couple of exhibition matchups.
Do you guys just kind of do a wide swath as far as your practices or do you kind of find ways that you fine tune to face the team that you're facing this early on?
No, we honestly we always Will prepare for whoever we're facing like that game.
Yeah, like so like we're you know two days before a and t like we're prepping for a and t nobody else and then same for Seaton Hall with whom cookman doesn't matter But we will also throw in stuff like just kind of working on ourselves in that but we're we're constantly
working toward just the teams that were actually playing in a two-day, we call it two-day prep.
So in a two-day prep, that's when we, that's when we really get after it.
I got you.
Look, I was a guy that played up until like seventh, eighth grade basketball, right?
So we weren't prepping much.
It was you run strong, you run weak.
That's about it.
And
that kind of decides which side of the court you go through, right?
Correct,
yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
And I was that type that was out there, and I wouldn't necessarily say I was talking trash.
I was just the goofball out there.
Didn't score many points.
And there was one game where we were down.
And for some reason, I'm at the top of the key playing forward.
And I just wing up a hook shot because why not?
Made it.
Coach sat me on the bench after that.
He said, you never don't look at the basket.
Have you had coach come down on you or your brother because you've done something that maybe didn't work out?
Oh,
okay.
So you're telling me you shot a hook shot without looking at it went in?
Yes.
That's insane.
I don't know if I buy it.
I don't know if I buy
it.
Wait, you don't buy it?
Maybe.
I don't know.
Okay.
I'll believe you, but I guess I'll say
I've never had that experience now.
There's definitely some instances.
The only time me and my coach, also my dad get into it is when I talk back to him thinking in more of like my dad versus the coach.
That's really when that's the only time it gets bad.
Otherwise, we're usually all right.
And that's one of the things I want to get into.
And I think in our next episode is to find
It's got to be difficult for you and your brother to separate that sometimes.
Am I reading into that right?
No, you're right.
Like it definitely is because it's, it's always like a balance, right?
Like, I don't know, how would you treat your dad separate than you treat your coach?
Like it's, it's just different.
Yeah.
And so I think we're constantly like even still dealing with things like on a day to day basis that okay, wait, like that was probably something I,
you know wouldn't have done to my coach but to my dad like pretty normal and then vice versa so it's just I don't know it's something you're constantly learning and like for me like I've been obviously here for a while now so I kind of I know what to expect and what's going on but I think Patrick definitely is an example of that still and you know even Jack like if he continues to play like he'll
deal with things like coaching versus dad, though, though, all of those different responsibilities.
I want to talk about that more and I'd like to unpack that a little bit more on our next episode.
If you're all right with that.
Yeah.
No, let's get into it next one.
That's perfect.
Awesome.
So let's talk about Seton Hall real quick.
Seton Hall known more as a basketball school, right?
And they always kind of play everybody tough.
What are some things that you're looking at with that game coming up this week?
Yeah.
So Seton Hall is good.
They, um,
They really play hard.
They're going to pressure the ball.
They're going to press.
They're going to be up into our space, trying to get us to turn the ball over, trying to speed us up.
They really defend.
And they actually just got a new coach.
So their coach took the job at Maryland.
So he took off.
But then they hired the guy from St.
Peter's named Shaheen Holloway.
So he's a new coach there.
So they're kind of doing a different.
They're starting a different era, I guess you could say and we're kind of like their first big game kind of similar to us.
They had two games that I think they played Monmouth and St.
Peter so two teams that they definitely should be as you know, we played two teams that we should be Going into going into our game now.
I Think it's gonna be like it's supposed to be sold out.
We'll expect you know an intense environment It's gonna be a fun game.
I'm really excited.
I think it's gonna be fun like for
You know, our freshman to see for guys that, you know, we haven't played on the road in a while.
So this will be a first true test.
I mean, we have a tough schedule, so we got to be ready to go.
I mean, they're a good team.
They're a really good team.
We have practice today and we'll introduce them.
So we'll kind of know more about them.
We're filming this a little too early for to get the full scoop from me, but that's all right.
With a coach that's new,
do
they
have
something to prove?
You know, I think maybe a little bit but also a lot of the guys on their team were there last year and like they were a good team last year and I think I Don't know.
I think the new coach definitely gives them like some added motivation like he really he'll get into them and try to make sure that they I don't know are playing his style and however he wants to play he'll make sure they're they're on that but
I don't think that it's necessarily going to be a huge change from last year.
Well, that's the portion this week where we kind of talk about the games prior and the game upcoming.
Now I wanted to move it to something else.
Do you play a lot of basketball video games or anything like that where you have to create yourself in the game?
I've played 2K in the past, NBA 2K, but honestly, I've played more.
I play MLB the show.
FIFA like I'll play other games non basketball related fortnight Just I don't know if it's I get enough of basketball like on TV and playing and then I just want to play something else But yeah, I'm a big sports guy.
So I don't really I don't really care.
I'll play whatever honestly
So you mentioned a couple of games where you have to do some customization.
So are you creating Connor McCaffrey in those games?
Yeah, I have before definitely.
Yeah The reason I'm asking about customization
is I'm interested in how you, other teammates, how you select your gear, what type of shoes you like to wear, that kind of stuff.
What is, what is that like?
I don't, I don't think that that gets talked about a lot.
Yeah, no.
So the gear side of things is kind of, so you get your gear for Nike school, right?
So they, they'll send us
Shirts sweatsuits sweatpants, but you know, whatever whatever you gotta wear and they put the Nike logo on it in the Iowa stuff So you kind of get that from them and that goes for shoes too.
So The difference with shoes is you can choose the colors and the style so like for example I think the Paul George shoes are really comfortable like they just fit my fit my fuck yeah, like whatever some guys like the Yanis
anti-canubo shoes.
I don't know if I said his last name right, but they like those shoes better.
So like they'll get the option to wear.
So like I don't know how many pairs we get.
It's probably it's at least like three or four because over the season like I've you know, I've busted through ripped through it.
I think two already since the start of practicing.
So we you definitely can pop a lace or ruin the insole or bust through the side of the shoe.
Funny story sidetrack.
We were playing Illinois in the Big Ten tournament a couple years ago And I busted through my shoe.
Oh,
and I didn't have any other shoes.
So I had to switch with Somebody who wasn't playing who was my size at the time Chris Murray wasn't playing he was a freshman and he was where he was a size 14 So my shoe is completely busted like it's you know, you can't my foot is falling out of the side of it and
He had a size 14 so I put his shoes on started wearing them and then he was barefoot on the bench and I was Shopping after the game trying to get another pair of shoes for the next like for the next game because I didn't have any other ones to play in yeah, so I literally had to steal his shoes during the game but So that is that is a true story.
That's what happened But outside of that most of the time like we're more at home and everything we have enough pair to where you can kind of
get whatever through Iowa, but then you always obviously have the freedom to go and buy whatever else on your own as well as long as it's Nike.
Two things.
First off, does Nike show up preseason anytime beforehand to give you guys like when they change out models so that you can wear them, kind of feel them out, practice in them to figure out that's the shoe I want to wear?
I would say kind of, but like I kind of know
that, okay, I'm like, I know that I like Paul George shoes.
Okay.
Because a lot of them, like, so last year shoes, this year shoes, the model is like similar enough to where you just know that it's going to be comfortable for you.
And even though they change, they might change like the designer look, for the most part, like, you know, that it's going to work for you.
For example, like LeBron's are really heavy.
LeBron shoes are really heavy, but they're really stable.
So like, some people like the stability of them.
but they don't like how heavy they are, so they won't wear them.
Okay.
Paul George's are comfortable.
Yannis's are comfortable.
Trying to think who else.
Oh, Kyrie's, I guess, that would be another one that are like maybe a little lighter, normally pretty comfortable.
Kevin Durant's, like that's another shoe that is like, I've not had great luck with.
Yeah.
But the list goes on, right?
But you kind of always, you get a feel for the different kinds of shoes and what fits and what doesn't and what you want to wear, just like anything else.
How
long does a pair of shoes last you in the season?
It depends if you practice in them too.
Okay.
Like if I practice in a shoe every day and play in every game with them, they'll last, I don't know, couple months, three months.
Okay.
And then they'll I usually either need to get new insoles or it'll just like the shoe will just rip so I don't have to start another one.
But a lot of times like I'll try to switch up my shoes so that way they last longer because I might like a specific pair once I break them in or whatever.
Is it the responsibility of the athlete to make sure that they have you were talking about how you had to borrow Chris Murray shoe?
Is it your responsibility to make sure you have enough pairs while you're traveling on the road?
Um, it is yes, but
I just messed up that time.
Like I said, I had more and I just messed
up.
What about on the rest of the stuff?
How much customization do you have within what you wear on the court?
Is it based upon your needs as far as maybe you have to have something on your elbow?
You know, that kind of thing.
So you don't really get
Like you don't get much say in that because they kind of just order all that stuff for you like where you're going to wear on the court.
Like at home games, we wear white compressions, white tank top, white socks.
Like, you know, you don't get to choose that because there's actually rules that say like, like if you're Iowa, you can't be, you can't have guys wearing a black leg sleeve, a gold leg sleeve, a white leg sleeve.
you know, a green arm sleeve, whatever.
They don't let you do that.
You all have to go around one thing.
I don't know why that is, but that's just how it is.
So that's, I just kind of got used to that, I guess.
But then when it comes to the other gear and everything, you don't get any customization with it, but they send you quite a bit of it.
So it's like, you might as well just, they pretty much send you anything you would have picked out.
Okay.
Why do we see
Not many players.
Well, you see a few.
I think I saw it in the Wisconsin game the other day.
Why don't many guys wear headbands anymore?
I
think it's just because I don't know.
You just kind of look like a douchebag, I feel like.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
Like some guys can do it.
Like some guys can rock it and it works and it's funny when they do.
But some guys just can't, they just can't pull it off.
And I think like, especially like a lot of guys on our team, like no way any of them could pull it off.
You're not saying Chris Marie could pull off a headband, huh?
No, he could not.
Okay.
The shorts in nowadays are a heck of a lot longer than they ever used to be.
Cause if you ever go back and you watch college basketball from the eighties, right?
You see the shorts are darn near up there.
Ball bag, right?
Yeah.
Would you be able to wear those or are you comfortable with the length of the short now?
So I feel like they've kind of all balanced out like they used to be like so short short short, but then the fab five made them long like so long and then now it's like kind of mellowed out like in between I think.
Okay.
So I don't know I'm kind of like an in between guy like I like I don't want them like hanging below my knees like
Being in the way, but I also don't want them like riding up so high.
I feel like I'm naked Running
around
and I'm definitely I'm the in-between guy
Anything else on gear that I'm I haven't covered because I think I've covered shoes covered headbands Which none of you said nobody on the team's gonna wear?
Length is short.
What am I missing out on?
Nothing.
I don't think we covered because I think we covered just about everything else, too
socks, headbands, arm sleeves, leg sleeves, underwear, under shirts.
You name it, I'm pretty sure we've covered it all.
Does your dad have a pick of gear too to go out there with?
Nah, he's got no swag.
He does have some cool shoes though.
Yeah.
Because we pick them out for him.
My mom, my sister, like my brothers and I will pick shoes out for him and he'll wear them.
So some of those are cool.
So he has to go out and he wears the suit.
And I have to imagine that that makes it incredibly warm for him while he's, um, getting after it as it were.
Oh, definitely.
But, um, also the suit thing, they stopped doing that a couple of years, like over COVID.
So they don't wear the suits anymore.
So now they're really comfortable.
I got you.
You ready to play the game?
Let's play the game.
All right.
So the game is called the double double dumb ass.
So what's going to happen is I'm going to read you.
headlines of two individuals that are in a Big Ten market.
All right.
I don't want you to guess right away what's going on because I will give you three different schools that are within the Big Ten market and you'll be able to select from them.
What I would like to have you do is walk me through your thought process as to why you think it's that particular school.
So are you ready to go?
Yes, I'm ready.
A man dressed as the Pokemon Pikachu
led police on a chase on his modified lawnmower and pulling a trailer.
I will read the second headline.
So then you'll have the ability to choose between the three.
The second headline, a mom made a meatloaf that represents or resembles her 17 year old son, included shredded cheese for the hair, green olives for the eyes, red peppers for the eyebrows and white onions for the teeth.
Which one of these stories is from Wisconsin?
Indiana or Michigan State, you've got three options here.
So what do you want to take first?
Okay.
I'm going to say the meatloaf, uh, the meatloaf 17 year old kid.
Okay.
And I'm going to guess that that was an Indiana thing.
And the reason I'm saying that is because one, because of the colors used, I guess, because the red is what stands out there.
Okay.
And then also like the meatloaf food choice.
Like I feel like that's more of like a southern type dish.
I don't know.
Like I think, like I feel like meatloaf isn't a Michigan thing.
Like some Michigan state thing and I don't know, Indiana just is what struck me at first.
I don't, I'm not sure though.
I can't
decide.
And I'm not going to take your final answer yet on that because I want to move to the Pokemon one.
Okay, which one do you think that's from Wisconsin, Indiana or Michigan State?
Indiana, Michigan State for Pokemon.
Yeah, he was he was leading police on a chase on his modified lawnmower pulling a trailer.
I'm going Michigan State
for the Pokemon one.
Yeah, for Pokemon.
That's my guess.
And I honestly don't really have a reason for that.
Because you just want to pick on Michigan State.
Yeah, I get you
because I don't think it's what I I'm gonna say.
I don't think it's Wisconsin, but it probably is Wisconsin.
All right, so final answer on both or do you want another run at it?
Final answers Connor you were at the free throw line today Unfortunately, you missed both of them.
Oh gosh Oh for two to start this season on the double double dumb ass.
I really was confident on the Indiana one not the not the Michigan State
so
The guy that was dressed as a Pokemon led police on a chase was Indiana.
Officers were called because the man was driving recklessly throughout the small town on Halloween night.
Police followed the lawnmower for a few blocks, but had to stop the man because he tried to ram it into a squad car.
There you go.
Officers eventually found the man at his home.
And after wrestling with the suspect, were able to arrest him.
Police said the man wasn't drinking or high during the chase.
He was just a Hoosier.
What was the other one?
I'm curious about that
one.
Yes, I'm going to take you.
A mom in Michigan made a meatloaf that resembled her 17 year old son.
I kind of want to text you the picture because it is dog ass ugly.
Especially
after she
baked it.
It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
It is greasy inside the pan.
The resemblance went away and in this time that we're talking about Jeffrey Dahmer, you know because of the Netflix specials I don't know that that was the best thing that she could have done for her son
Yeah, I'm with you.
She's 42.
She's a mama for and she made a meatloaf of her son in Michigan State
Oh for two.
Oh for two.
That's a good start 0%
I think
I mean, I'm sitting there and I figured throwing Wisconsin in there might throw you off a little bit, especially with the meatloaf because you said it was more of a Southern thing.
And I'm kind of interested in that because I've always known it to be more Northern in a way.
I honestly, that was just a guess.
Okay.
I've lived in Northern, like I lived in New York and I lived in, I guess, Iowa now.
And I've never even had meatloaf like that.
The only place I've ever had meatloaf was
Back when I remember like in North Carolina, but that might just be because my fam doesn't really like it.
So So
if you're This is gonna be the honest question, but here we go if your mom was to make a dish that resembled you your face What's it gonna be?
Oh Probably some type of pie, okay, uh
I don't know.
Maybe like a, maybe like a peach pie.
Okay.
I don't know.
I don't, or
pasta.
Connor, did you think when you signed up for the jock to jock podcast, that you'd be asked questions, hard hitting questions, like if your mom was to make a dish in your honor, it was supposed to look like you.
What's it going to be?
No, this is definitely not what I thought I would be.
This is not what I thought I would be answering, but.
I like it.
It's interesting and it's new.
Yes.
That's one of the things that we talked a little bit about when we were talking with Tori here earlier.
When you have to answer questions for the media, are there any questions that for you are just a little too much you'd rather not discuss?
No, I don't think anything's ever too much.
I definitely get a little tired of the generic media question toned all the time.
But I don't know.
It's really never that bad because they're trying to do their job and you're trying to do a job.
You know, it's really not.
You just kind of get used to it.
You respect what they're doing.
But I mean, sometimes the ones that I don't like and that are annoying are the ones that like you can tell the guys trying to work an angle that he just has no idea what he's talking about.
And that only happens about once a year.
So it's really not that bad.
Is there a particular market that that happens more in?
I'm not looking for you to call anybody out, but just,
no, just maybe like when you lose a couple in a row, depending on where you're at.
That's really only time.
I'm not looking to do that.
I'm, I will continue with a double, double dumb ass and you can come back from an O and two start.
I like that.
No, I'm going to, I'm going to get them both right next week.
I'm going to look up like insane big 10 headlines.
So I know what to expect.
Uh, real quick.
You also run another podcast.
You tell us about it again and where they can find it.
Yeah.
So it's called, uh, it's called teed up.
Appreciate the, the plug again.
It's, um, it's on the Estelos talk about network.
And if you just go like on a place like Twitter or podcast, YouTube, whatever you listen to, uh, Instagram, you just, I have the link like in my bio, Patrick has the link in his bio.
And, uh, it should be able to direct you to both, to both sites for the pod.
So that's kind of.
where to find that, I guess.
And it's a pretty good lesson.
I guess we have different guests on from around the university and we'll just, we get into a multitude of topics kind of every week.
And is
it just basketball related or is it all university related?
It's all university related.
It just depends on who we interview really.
Gotcha.
So like we'll do, I don't know, we've had basketball players, football players, baseball.
We've done, I want to get like some wrestling on there here soon.
That was my next goal.
Back when I was growing up, wrestling in basketball players never really got along.
I grew up in Minnesota.
Is that different at Iowa?
No, I wouldn't say we don't get along.
I mean, I wouldn't say we're best friends because I feel like wrestlers kind of like walk to the tune of their own drum.
Like they kind of do what they, they do what they want to do and you're not going to have much say about it.
is how I'd kind of describe that.
Like they're definitely moving kind of at their pace, but they're all like, I know, I came in like with Jacob Warner and he's like a really good dude.
Like I know a lot of different ones.
Marinelli was always a really good dude, really nice kid to me, never had any issues with him.
And if I see him always say hi, Jay Nierman, but it's not like we're best friends either because they're doing stuff and we're doing stuff and it's kind of in the same season and
We're kind of both always working, I guess.
Well, and the good thing is, is you can eat during the
week.
They can't.
Yeah.
I mean, what, you know, it's like, oh, hey guys, want to go get some food?
No, we don't.
We can't.
They can't just go eat.
They can't do that.
I gotta go make a wait.
Exactly.
Like I'm actually going to go, hey Connor, want to come run stairs carrying someone on your back?
Oh, nope.
I'm good.
Well, maybe if you did that, you get a couple of extra minutes out there, you know?
Yeah, I might.
I've probably been in better shape.
It's all in the shoes.
That's what you were talking about earlier.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Connor, thanks again for the time.
I'm looking forward to it again next week.
Yeah.
No, thanks, Brian.
This is fun.
We'll get into some more stuff next week, like you said.
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