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Jock 2 Jock · Thu Nov 2, 2023
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On the last episode, there was a story in the New York Times about Australian punters that are now involved in the football bull subdivision.
And I wanted to know a little bit more from Tori about what he thought about his fellow countrymen being involved in college sports.
People really only see, I guess, for example, all these oil fans.
People aren't really only see me going out there and kicking the bull, and it's the same with other places.
There's a lot of guys that have sacrificed a lot to kind of get to where they are, you know, like you don't see much of your family, you know, like I've seen my family for probably like one month of the year.
And then so there's a lot of sacrifices that go into it and people really only see like kind of that three hours on a Saturday.
But there's so much more that goes into it and I think one thing that I really appreciate about
being a shine over here is that you kind of part of like a small little family as well.
You know, there's a bunch of other guys doing what you're doing.
And you kind of build relationships with those guys because you kind of understand, well, you know, this it isn't easy.
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Bring it on board after a busy bye week.
We've got a lot to talk about.
Number nine from your Iowa football team, Tori Taylor.
Welcome aboard.
Thanks very much, Braun.
Always a pleasure.
What did you do on the bye week?
What did, uh, what occupied your time?
Uh, well, we still had a lift and a couple of meetings and we had practice on Tuesday, Wednesday, and then a lift on Thursday, but then they gave us Friday, Saturday off.
So it was obviously Halloween weekend.
So yeah, couple of the boys were still in town.
So we went out and had a good time.
Does Tory Taylor dress up for Halloween at all?
I didn't on Thursday, Friday night, but I did Saturday night.
What'd you dress up as?
I just wore a Sam LaPorta jersey.
Pretty, pretty, pretty boring, but no, it was a good weekend.
LaPorta had the touchdown last night on Monday night football.
Yeah.
So I heard I'll go to sleep at like 7 38 o'clock.
So I didn't really watch it.
Would you feel about your performance in the game versus Minnesota before the buy?
Oh, it wasn't too bad.
It was, it was very, very windy.
Um, it was kind of one of those days where it's like, all right, how am I going to get through this and hit balls that I want to hit?
You know, a couple of them are good, a couple of them are bad.
I'll take it.
You know, it wasn't the worst performance, but it wasn't the best.
And he kind of just moved on really.
Do you beat yourself up over a touchback now?
Not really.
No, because I mean, it was still like a good ball.
It went like that was into a really strong wind.
I was kind of ran off to the side when I said the coach was I said, I didn't even think I'd be able to get it inside the 10.
So I'm really surprised it was a touchback.
And he's like, yeah, it was a bit weird.
But no, I don't.
Not really.
The last two games, the Wisconsin game, the Minnesota game, you've had 10 punts versus Wisconsin and nine against Minnesota, which really raises your yards that you had out there.
But your average, even into the wind, 49.3.
How do you feel about that?
Yeah.
I mean, at the end of the day, it is a bit of a stats game.
So, yeah, it's always good to kind of walk away with good stats, but I really didn't hit that many great balls that day.
But
Yeah, the weather certainly played into that a bit, but from that point of the year, I was pretty happy.
What was the mood like on the sideline after Cooper Dijine's return?
Well, whenever we score a touchdown, I just try to stay a little bit relaxed because I've got to go out there and hold for the field goal.
But then everyone was obviously going a bit crazy, as was the crowd.
And we caught it right now.
They were about to do the PAT and the referee obviously stopped them.
Like, oh, what's going on here?
That must be checking.
Checking someone and then so they went and checked to see if he was out of bounds and I'm looking up the TV and You could tell that he was in bounds quite clearly.
So I thought it's all good then and then We ran off we went off to the sidelines just to get a few snaps Luke and I just because we still had a bit of time Yeah, the offense just started walking back and I was kind of what's going on.
It was in bounds by a mile everyone can can see it and then yeah the referee made it
joke of a call really.
I think we all saw that.
It's one of those things, you know, at the end of the day, um, did we really probably play the way we wanted to play and deserve to win?
Probably not.
But it's still one of those games.
Sometimes you don't play well and you can still win.
And it was, it was quite bizarre.
You know, I said, if you jokingly do a few people the next day, it was probably one of those games where it really probably deserved to be nine, nine.
And we just walk into the locker room and both teams are like, yeah, whatever, no one really deserves to win that.
But, you know,
I think one of the more frustrating things was that it probably stopped or prevented one of the greatest plays in college football history, you know, at that stage of the game, to be able to do what he didn't get past every single player that was there.
And it wasn't as if it was in the middle of the field.
It was literally like seven or eight guys on the sideline tackling him.
And he managed to squirt through them all and score a touchdown.
And yeah, I mean, like I said, I feel like I'm probably
bitching about it a bit, but I really can't wrap my head around why the call was made and Yeah, it just it doesn't make any sense how that they can go back and review something and say or How they sit if how they called it in the actual in the game in live play It's like, you know, like fair enough and I saw some people was saying that oh, it's the same referee that Called Jack Campbell's touchdown back last year.
It's like, well, they made that call in the game
So that's fine.
You know what I mean?
Like they said it was out of bounds in the game, in live play.
So I was like, whatever, that's fair enough, referees make mistakes.
But for them, for someone like sitting in a booth in another state, yeah, it just doesn't, that happens to go to that school.
You really question kind of what's going on behind the scenes, but who knows, Minnesota won the game and they played well and we didn't and that you kind of just move on.
Oh, we're focused on his north-western.
So does coach Woods help to coach on a kick return like that?
Would he be a part or involved in that in any shape or form?
Oh on a punt return, not like that.
I mean, yes, he has everything to do with punt return, but that was just a play that on the cupid regime could make really.
Right.
So then my next question is going to be this.
Does coach Woods, to your knowledge,
teach about how to signal for fair catch because even in the World Series last night, there's a Hawkeye fan behind home plate holding up saying,
was
it a fair catch?
Yeah, so that's what I think the frustrating thing was and Coach Woods was quite visibly upset after the game and totally understand why and I think the biggest reason for that is well, Kuba didn't do anything wrong.
So like, how do you actually coach the guy because what Kuba did is what we
is what Coach Woods and the other coaches coach.
You know, like you're allowed to point at the ground.
But yeah, look, it is what it is.
Nothing we can do about it now.
And like I said, we probably didn't deserve to win that game.
So you can't just move on.
The feeling after the game is over, losing in a way like that, that has to affect the morale of the locker room at least that night.
Yeah, it was dead silence, you know.
No, I don't really have much to say.
It was kind of to share and get out of there really.
That's that's pretty much what happened.
Did you have much interaction with Cooper either before or after?
No.
Yeah.
No, not after the game.
Like I said, everyone just shared and pretty much just left and got out of there.
How are you feeling after that?
How long does it take you to kind of recover from something like that?
I mean, I know not you necessarily being involved like Cooper was, but as a teammate that still affects you, doesn't it?
Yeah, absolutely.
But I think a lot of the time is I walk away from games just going, you know, did I do what I needed to do to the best of my ability?
And that day, with the balls I hit, probably not.
But at the same time, it's like, well, you know, I still hit good balls to help the team, put the team in the best position I possibly could.
So yeah, I obviously expect a kick for the next day.
Yeah, I think the frustrating thing is, like I said before, it was one of the greatest players that you'll ever see in football history and it will simply just go down as a fair catch.
What other thing that happened on the bye week happened recently?
Some changes are going to be made in the coaching structure at the end of the year.
Obviously, this will affect the team in 2024, but not necessarily you.
Coach Brian Farance, the school is saying that he's finished up.
What's the feeling like for you?
I know you don't interact with him as much as others do, but obviously your teammates are having to deal with this too.
You got any feelings or thoughts on that?
I mean, the first thought is it's obviously quite sad, you know, when someone is basically told that, you know, we're going to be with us anymore.
Yeah, it's probably quite an emotional moment for him.
and his family too you know yeah it's pretty crystal clear that um Ryan's father is the head coach so yeah there's obviously a lot of emotions amongst those and the rest of the coaching staff in the playing group you know like a lot of guys since since they've been here have um been coached under brian um whether it's the right or wrong move i really don't know um it's kind of hard for me as a player to have an opinion on it
But at the same time, is it going to affect me in any way?
No, because I won't be here.
But it is going to affect a lot of other players.
They still have time here.
And I think the one thing that I will say is, and again, this might be right or might be wrong, I feel like he's sometimes a bit of a scapegoat for a lot of things that are out of his control, you know.
Does he call shit plays?
Yes.
Does he call great plays?
Yes.
Does he get things wrong?
Yes.
Does he get things right?
Absolutely.
That's just part of being a coach, you know.
Coach Parker might call poor plays.
I really don't.
I don't even know what Brian calls whether they're good plays or bad plays.
I really don't know.
Is he trying to do the best?
What's best for the team?
Absolutely.
Well, as far as I know, he is because he's that sort of guy and that sort of coach.
But I think if you really dive deep into things,
you know, he's not the one out there that may miss a block or may drop a pass or may run the wrong route.
So, you know, sometimes there's a little thing, you really got to dive deeper into things, but yeah, it's kind of, it's very sad to, well, he's not gone yet.
I saw him this morning, but you know, at the end of the season, yeah, I'm sure it'd be very emotional moment for him and his family.
Like I said, is it the best thing for the football program?
I really I really don't know.
I guess time will tell but He's a good dude.
He's a very very funny man Brian very funny man and yeah, it'll be it'll be sad to see him go but that's just you know, it's a It's a cruel business like it's it is a business and at the end of the day, it's a performance-based business So yeah, it really it is what it is.
But like I said great guy
He's a very, very funny man.
Probably something people don't really know about him is that he's a very, very, very funny guy.
You've brought this up before.
Jordan Bohannon brought it up on a previous Jock to Jock podcast.
Iowa fans are, I mean, they bleed black and gold, obviously, right?
But they
think they've got it.
They think they've got it figured out.
Said that you know we got to be able to do this we got to do this we got to do this But none of us have put on the pads and stood in front of 70,000 at Kinnock.
It's interesting you say that I will say one thing about that is do not believe a single thing that you see on Twitter because Sometimes you'll think that Like some of these media guys it drives me crazy because it's they think that they know everything and then like yesterday I had a couple of friends message me and saying oh is Brian resigning and it's just like well
Like, no, that's not what it is.
And it's just like, where do these guys get the information from?
I think a lot of the time it's just like, oh, who can who can say it first?
And if I get it wrong, well, it doesn't really matter.
But yeah, I always just find it very, very interesting.
A few of the media guys that I'm not the biggest fan of.
But
yeah,
yeah, I think they just need to educate themselves a little bit more on the matter.
When I sent a question out yesterday, I looked and I said, huh,
How do I pose this to Tori to make sure that we're on time for our recording session?
I kind of, at first, wanted to go, hey, I got a question for you.
Dot, dot, dot.
Leave it like that.
And then you come back and go, is 11 o'clock still okay?
Yeah, absolutely.
And
I know some people might think it's like a bit of a sensitive topic to talk about, but it isn't.
It isn't.
But like I said, just don't, you cannot believe anything that you say on Twitter and a lot of the time it
It's as if like guys are walking around the building, um, living the lives that we're living in and they think they know more than we do, but they really have absolutely no idea, like zero idea.
Um, but they can really only go off the information they go off, but a lot of the time I think they're playing the guessing game.
Uh, North Northwestern is on the road and you've got to not only prepare for the cold of Chicago, but you got to prepare for a baseball stadium.
which has got to have different wins and odd locker rooms because they're not built for football teams, they're built for baseball teams.
A lot to prepare for for this upcoming contest versus Northwestern.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, from a logistical point of view to be a little strange, I'm really not sure how it's going to work.
I have been a Wrigley Field for a baseball game and watched from the stands, but I've never been in the locker room or whatever they call it.
Is it the locker room?
Yeah.
Clubhouse
locker room, I guess.
Yeah.
I've never been in one.
So I really don't know.
But yeah, the weather, it'll be, it won't be too cold.
I feel like it'll be a little similar to the last couple of games that you play in Chicago.
You know, it's going to be windy, but I really just worry about that stuff when we get there.
And coach Woods helps me out a lot with certain shots at certain parts of the field and whatnot.
But yeah, you play in a baseball field and every Chicago and we'll tell you how great it is even though they've never won anything there.
So, but.
Yeah, it should be a fun, fun experience for sure.
One other thing, I mentioned locker rooms.
I saw this story.
Several University of Colorado football players say that they were robbed at the Rose Bowl last Saturday during the game against UCLA with jewelry being stolen from their lockers.
Both Pasadena Police Department and UCLA confirmed the matter early on Monday.
UCLA is in communication with law enforcement.
I know some
Players like to wear jewelry Have obviously electronic equipment that they bring along with them and other things.
Is this something that is of concern?
To you sometimes at all to have you know, I
thought about it because they do have guys staying behind in the equipment room, so I'm never really Being too sure about that to be honest or never really worried about it, but I put all my stuff in my bag and things like that that
Yeah, we are in Chicago.
So my maybe a little bit extra caution.
Do you ever travel with anything other than just like your just my headphones?
I'll take my laptop because I'll do schoolwork and stuff.
But no, it's usually just my headphones and booking and a laptop.
I'm surprised you don't have a little bit of ice that has like the Australian continent
on it.
No, that's that's not me.
It's a waste of money in my opinion.
Okay.
Dumbass or Drongo?
Let's do it.
I've been told
that this is some of the listeners' favorite part because they like to hear how you process the dumbass or drongo, how you said that this was one of the most stressful points of your week besides Saturdays.
Yeah, well, it's not mutual.
I don't enjoy it, but we'll do it anyway.
All right.
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She recently stunned her followers on TikTok
with the nonchalant way that she handled a huntsman spider.
Crawled up her thigh while she was showering and she calmly picked it up, showed it to the camera and said that was the reality of her life.
That's stronger.
Why's that?
It's a huntsman spider.
Okay.
Only in... I've never seen one of those here.
Okay.
The next story, a nurse survived an attack by a patient at a West Monroe health facility.
In police reports, the patient was labeled as extremely combative and aggressive after attempting to stab the nurse with a spork.
All right.
That sounds like some American shit.
I'm gonna get that dumbass.
Final answer on both?
Yep.
Correct.
Now, for the bonus point, Anna Paul, since this is the drongo, city or state in Australia, please.
Well, you have to give me a little bit of a clue.
Um, known for its beaches.
New South Wales or Sydney.
Final answer.
Oh, hey, 40 be anywhere up that way 43.
They're all past 43 miles within the city of beaches 43 miles
Let's go test I'll be way West in Australia
final answer.
Yep.
No, Gold Coast Queensland
Yeah, well, I mean it could literally be anywhere
in Australia.
Yeah Like everyone lives on the outskirts
the piece for this for the for the dumbass West Monroe was your clue In the south I'll give you that much Louisiana that is correct.
I'm gonna say a Monroe.
I feel like that sounds familiar.
Yeah, you got it West Monroe, Louisiana
Yeah, so I'm three out of four.
That's three out of four on that one right now.
That means that you are 24 out of 34.
Oh,
that's actually not bad.
No,
not at all.
Rough start early on.
I have also been Accused of making them easier on you as the time has progressed.
Tell him to get asked.
Tori, it has been a busy week.
I'm looking forward to seeing how things work out for you.
against Northwestern, there at Wrigley Field.
Anything else to add to the audience for the jock to jock podcast this
week?
Um, no, not really.
Obviously, yeah, last week or a couple weeks here against Minnesota, it wasn't our game, but we really just need everyone's support.
There's four games left to the season.
And you know, we're going to make a bowl game, but hopefully there's, there's six games left and you can make it in the, but we're really going to need everyone's support.
So which I know we will.
So yeah, looking forward to it.
Tori, thanks again for the time.
Appreciate it, Brian.
Thank you.
That will do it for this week's jock to jock podcast coming up next week.
We'll recap the Northwestern game at Wrigley field and how that felt to be in the Cubs clubhouse for that particular contest.
What else will we talk about?
I'll find out on next week's edition of the jock to jock podcast sponsored by I'm on communications experience.
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