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Jock 2 Jock · Mon Mar 6, 2023
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I'm half of the jock in the equation.
I'm the radio jock in this.
My name is Brian Marshall and the individual that I've had to point out to my son is not in his class.
Many times my son will say, well, not the Connor that's in my grade.
It's the Connor that's playing basketball.
Number 30 from the Iowa basketball team, Connor McCaffrey.
Welcome back.
Glad to be back.
You know, I've asked him a couple of times because both you and the Connor that's in his class both have dark hair.
I said, well, how do you tell the two apart?
He did tell me that you're the one with tattoos.
That is an easy way to tell us apart.
I guess we'll say that.
Nothing to do with the size, the age difference.
just the general fact that I'm, you know, six, six, 220 pounds.
We don't know what this Connor is doing.
I mean, he might be dunking basketballs in first grade too.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But I, I understand the tattoo difference because I don't know a lot of first graders with tattoos.
Have you been able to dunk a basketball?
Can I dunk?
Yeah.
Have you, have you dunked a basketball?
Yes.
Come on.
All right.
Well, I'm asking because I don't know what your vertical is.
I didn't see the scores.
Oh, it's nothing good.
My vertical is nothing good, but I can dunk.
I'm too tall.
Like I can easily dunk.
I mean, I'm not saying I'm throwing down any, you know, highlight, nothing like that.
Definitely not.
That's not my game.
It's not in my bag.
But I can get up there and dunk it pretty easily as long as I'm warmed up.
What grade were you in when you first dunked a
basketball?
Like in a game or just like for fun?
Just for fun.
Probably like freshman, eighth grade, freshman year.
Yeah.
Do
you feel pretty big at
that point after you dunked the ball?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But also, I still wasn't good at doing it.
So like not really yet.
The measure of a man, or at least a boy, if you played basketball was you either could hit the three from half court or you dunked the basketball.
Which one was it for you?
It was always the three for me.
Yeah.
For Patrick, it was dunking.
Like Patrick could dunk.
Patrick was dunking in seventh grade.
junior high games.
I didn't do that.
But I shot.
As we're getting into it, you've come off of a hell of a week, a beating Michigan State.
How much, how much juice did that put in the team?
A ton.
I mean, that game, you know, you're, you're pretty much dead.
Like we really didn't, we did not have a leg to stand on.
And we just
We just kept fighting.
And it was just like, it was the craziest game I've ever been in.
You know, and I like, I tweeted out, are you a Game of Thrones guy?
Yeah.
Did you see what I tweeted?
No, I didn't get a chance.
Michael Bear, one of my buddies who used to go here, Nicholas Bear also, you know, you probably remember them.
We're all Game of Thrones guys and that Michael texted me so I can't take his credit, but he texted me and said, what is dead may never die.
Yeah.
So I tweeted, I tweeted that out.
Hell
yeah.
What is dead may never die.
And that got that got a lot of love.
I got a lot of love, but it's true.
I mean, we, we were dead.
Like we had no, the game was over.
Like we were down 13 with like a minute, but we'd made
how many straight threes, you know, five, I think.
Yeah.
And we were able to fricking put it into overtime.
And once we got into overtime, we weren't losing, right?
Right.
We had all the momentum.
It was almost impossible to lose in overtime.
Can you feel that?
I mean, at that point, when you go, yes, we've taken it to overtime.
We've taken Michigan State's overtime.
We're making this happen.
Yes, especially once we scored in the first possession.
Chris never gets the tip ever.
We never win the jump ball.
It's like impossible for us to win the jump ball.
Yeah,
but we did like we won the jump ball and over time and then Like once we get the jump ball, we come down.
We have a good first possession Chris scores Then I think we got to stop and then we scored again and then we're like, okay We're rolling.
Yeah,
you know
shifting away from your team, but still staying with the black and gold
then the women have a hell of a game with a last second shot thrown up to go off of maybe Game of Thrones, but to go to Gladiator.
I saw somebody post a picture of Caitlyn Clark.
Are you not entertained?
What a hell of a weekend for the Hawks, huh?
I mean, look, I don't claim to be any type of Hawkeye historian or anything.
I don't know anything that happened with Iowa.
before the past 12, 13 years, my dad's been here.
But I find it hard to believe that there's ever been a better weekend for Iowa sports ever.
Baseball team beats number one, 12-4.
Caitlin hits a game winner against number two with College Game Day freaking packs sold out at Carver.
And we in front of a sold out crowd have the greatest
probably the second greatest comeback probably in the history of college basketball only one better being you and I losing to A&M when they I think they were down like 12 with 48 seconds or something and they blew that in which case you could literally just take four 10 second violations and it's almost impossible for the other team to win.
Which I think the math's been done done hot on that and like it probably could have gotten close to
being beneficial for Michigan State as well, to just do that.
But like all of those moments, like in one weekend, I get, like I said, I don't know what's happened before and other weekends of all time Hawkeye history, but I had some pretty big Hawkeye fans and some pretty, you know, some, some old wise guys who have been around the block text me and say, that was the best weekend of Hawkeye sports we've ever seen.
The ESPN picture that I loved.
was a picture of Caitlin Clark.
She's on the court.
She's celebrating.
And then there's a picture of you kind of doing a, huh?
Did you see that one?
I did.
I did.
I saw it.
They tweeted it out.
It was like kind of like, wow, we really just did that.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Then go into the Indiana game.
Holy crap.
Yeah.
I mean, the thing is we were due going into that game.
And our last two road games, I think we were six for 56 from three, which is truly about as bad as anybody could ever shoot if we're being honest.
That is like a statistical anomaly to shoot that poorly.
Now, granted, we shot really well at Indiana.
You also can't expect to make 13 threes going into Assembly Hall, but we also
We were thinking like hey we're going to work back on track we're not going to shoot three for thirty like we have the past two games and so i think that once we made our first couple like.
You know, we really leaned on Chris early in the game.
And when your best player gets going like that, it's contagious, right?
Because then, then Phillip gets going to get some easy ones.
Then, then Tony Perkins hates, hates IU and he gets going downhill and he's freaking fired up, right?
Playing his ass off, playing great.
Yeah.
And it just, it just spirals.
Peyton Samper comes in, makes his first three.
Like there's just a lot that goes into those games.
You know, Patrick's back cutting for layups.
Tony's back cutting for layups.
You go down the line, we're just getting easy baskets and stops and all of a sudden they tighten up a little bit because they're like, oh, we're down 15 already.
These dudes came to play and it's too late.
The game's over.
If you're Scotty Pippen, who's your Michael Jordan?
What do you mean?
Like on our team or?
Just, I mean, if you're playing a game, if in life,
If you're Scotty Pippen, who's your Michael Jordan?
Let's, yeah, let's pick it on the court.
Who's your Michael Jordan?
You're saying of guys that I've played with, correct?
Sure,
yeah.
Yeah, it's gotta be, it's gotta be Luca then, I think.
Okay.
Sure.
I mean, that was my guy.
He's, he's like the ultimate throw it to Luca and he's gonna get a bucket.
Like I was never, I never thought that he would miss.
Like he, you had to double team him.
It was impossible to guard him one-on-one.
Um, he could shoot threes.
He could, he could shoot face-up jumpers.
Like you, you name it.
Like he was, he was just dependable.
And I was always confident, like coming in the game knowing like we had Luca guards and the other team didn't.
And I mean, he was, that's why he was national player of the year, right?
Like what do you have at 24 and behind or something like two years in a row, 23 and 10, something like that.
And that's with.
like every defense, every double team, defense is three seconds.
You name it, like we had every game plan thrown against us and he's still dominated.
So that's gonna turn your answer on its head a little bit when I tell you this story.
Scotty Pippin's ex-wife says she has Michael Jordan's blessing to date his son.
Have you heard this story?
Yes, I have.
I saw that.
Good thing Luca doesn't have any kids yet.
Yeah.
And you don't
either.
Yeah, or me.
Yeah, or me.
But Larsa.
So we're clear from that right now.
For now.
Larsa Pippin, the ex-wife of former Chicago Bulls star, Scotty Pippin, is dating Marcus Jordan, son of Scotty's former team, Michael Jordan.
Larsa's 48, Marcus is 32, and Michael and his wife are saying it's okay.
That's just really weird.
She used to babysit him.
I've got another college hoops story for you against somebody you've played against Player missing practice in games for various illnesses over the years has happened before but an Illinois player Matthew Mayer Broke new ground for recently missing practices this week because of caffeine poisoning
Yeah That's a different dude man.
That's a different dude
The team lost to Ohio State last weekend, so he sat down in his room to play video games.
State City drank five Monster Energy drinks while playing and became ill afterwards.
You're not supposed to drink more than one.
Is that a true thing?
Like, have you ever heard of that?
It says it on there that if you're sensitive to caffeine, you shouldn't actually drink the drink it is.
But some of those monsters have between 180 and, what is it, 240 milligrams of caffeine in it?
So if you drink five, like what?
Realistically what happens like I don't even I've never heard of something like that
Well, I know that there was definitely a hole in the wall that was the size of Matthew Mayer after that because yeah five I don't know how he wasn't like just punching everything
That's gonna be like you just have like this like you're shaking you're like cold or hot or something and your your head feels like it's gonna explode like I don't even know what kind of it happens to you if you do that
after two I'm kind of like
And that's that's a day when I'm super tired or hungover one of the two
I've never had one so I and I don't want to because I've heard that once you do it.
You're just like you're hooked So I don't want to I Don't want to do it
Connor.
I promise I'll get better final one here and I brought this up to you via text message This happened Tuesday in the Louisville versus Virginia Tech men's basketball game
During one of the we kind of talked about this in the last episode where you know You kind of have things that go on in between you know during timeouts during halftime that kind of such Well, there was a Frisbee catching dog that went out On the floor at the Louisville men's basketball game.
Oh my god And the pump ran around the floor catching the Frisbees and he's coming back nature decided to call As the dog decided to pop a squat inside the three-point arc and did his business
right there on the
court
That's an all time great, isn't it?
I've never, if you're Louisville's marketing team, aren't you just, you might as yourself right there as well.
When you see that, like the dog, oh God.
And then the marketing lady, she fits herself.
And then the dark marketing dude, he fits himself.
Like it's just, that's like a chain reaction when somebody sees somebody throw up.
Oh geez.
The dog
just goes down the line.
It's everybody then, but only like on the on the marketing team because they're they're all getting fired Not actually they should they're I'm sure they're fine, but like holy hell
You know those that take care of the court there at Carver Can you imagine them having to go back out there if this happened at Carver to have them have to go pick up the business afterwards and then clean up the floor?
Oh god That I see that's one of the things like because I know our facilities people and they're and they're great
I think they'd be like, you know what, buddy?
Your dog, you did the halftime contest.
You're picking that shit up.
You're picking it up.
I'm not doing it.
Right.
That is you.
Yeah.
We paid you to come and do the halftime show.
You deal with it, pal.
That is above my pay grade.
That is not in my contract.
It does not say clean up dog shit from the carver floor.
So
can you imagine?
I will not do
it.
They clean it up.
To a certain degree, but you're going down the floor.
You're going up.
You're in the corner Conor McCaffrey up for two and oh he slipped and dog
It's pretty good.
I gotta be honest.
It's pretty good
as a shoe
guy
You don't want you won't you don't want dog stuff on your shoes.
Oh god I'd freak out but I've already loved the dog halftime shows too as I think most people do and But you think of them like oh, they're so well trained like they would never do that.
Oh really actually they would
We have the double-double dumbass today.
A little bit different.
This will give you a chance to kind of heat up.
Fox News had posted a list of the weirdest law in every state.
So I'll give you an example.
Some of the strangest ones include no dancing while wearing a sombrero in New Mexico.
No pet skunks in Tennessee.
You can't use a- Who wants a pet skunk?
Somebody in Tennessee.
It's my pole cat.
I got it.
I got
it.
You can't use a ferret to help you hunt in West Virginia.
That's because they've killed the worm on their head.
See, you gotta figure it out.
So I've got four from Big Ten States that I'm
going
to give you the law.
You just have to tell me what state it belongs to, okay?
All right, got it.
All right, here's the first one.
No catching fish with your bare hands and no dynamite either.
Okay, do I get a hand or is that it?
I'm just gonna give you that.
So
think of all
the states that associate with the Big Ten.
No, catching fish with bare hands, probably a lot of lakes.
But in Minnesota, I think I've seen people catch fish with bare hands before.
Like I think that's a thing.
It's not gonna be, I don't know.
No, I'm gonna say Minnesota.
With all the fish there,
All the all this stuff going on.
I'm saying Minnesota He said Minnesota There's no way that's right.
Okay.
I'm gonna hold on to that I'm gonna keep going through them and I'm gonna get a final answer from you here in just a second.
Okay, okay second law a 1913 law made it illegal to be drunk on a train
Let's say Pennsylvania because Patrick's right here and he said Pennsylvania.
Okay, got it
Uh, Nebraska.
What do you think?
You just gave it away.
No, no, listen to me.
Listen to me on this.
Nebraska.
Yes or no.
Can you get married if you have an STD?
I'm gonna say no because you, you posed a question like that already.
I'm saying
no.
Swans it in!
Anytime, anytime we could pick on Nebraska, especially ahead of them.
Can't get married if you have an STD.
You'd be screwed.
No explosives at weddings.
And you can't fire a gun either.
What?
No
guns.
No explosives at weddings, and you can't fire a gun either.
It's
not Iowa.
No.
Not, like you gotta think of the, I was thinking Jersey or like for Rutgers or, oh DC, Maryland.
Going with Maryland on that one?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like that you have Patrick working with you on this too.
Yeah, he's helping, he's helping.
That's cool.
Is he okay with the whole Jim Carrey thing, too?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Going back, starting at the first one, no catching fish with your bare hands and no dynamite either.
You said Minnesota.
Final answer?
Yes.
Andy, miss it.
No.
Yeah, no way.
Indiana.
Interesting.
Did you say Indiana?
Patrick said Indiana.
He said Indiana.
Patrick's already won.
Patrick's
up 1-0.
1-0.
1913 law made it illegal to be drunk on a train Pennsylvania is is your guess?
Yes Michigan We already got the Nebraska question technically you can't get married if you have an STD
I'll make sure like Carter Kingsbury.
No, he's from Nebraska.
Yeah, please and finally this one here No explosives at weddings.
You can't fire a gun either.
You said Maryland final answer
Yes, I'm confident in this one.
No,
but close Pennsylvania.
Oh my God.
We said Jersey and Maryland is right in between.
What the hell's even that?
I appreciate Patrick playing along.
No swearing in public.
If two or more people are around, I guess you would have broken that law in Mississippi today.
If you sing the national anthem in public, you have to sing the whole thing.
No stopping halfway through or you could be fined a hundred bucks.
That's Massachusetts.
What a double.
I need you to send me this list when we get off.
Hell yes.
I will do that.
Send it to you guys and you can run on through.
I think I've got the entire 50 so I'll send them on through to you.
Perfect.
Are we going to talk during the Big Ten tournament or beforehand?
Probably before or after in between selection show or you know something like that.
We'll talk again.
So what I'd like to do on that episode
is I'd like you to, uh, we'll work through it together offline first.
But I think we should have Connor McCaffrey's Your End Awards.
And they're not just best play, yada, yada, yada.
We'll come up with Connor McCaffrey's Your End Awards.
And we'll
do that in the next episode.
And we'll create some type of bullshit to give out.
I like it.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, like some weird stuff.
Yes.
No, absolutely.
All right, good.
Best Connor McCaffrey dunk.
When was it?
Oh, never.
Thanks for being on the show.
This was a good one today.
Yep.
Thanks for having me.
We'll talk again soon.
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