Jock 2 Jock Podcast with Patrick McCaffery - "Player Pranks"

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And joining me number 22 from the Iowa basketball team, Patrick McCaffrey.

Welcome aboard.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

Before we get into basketball, which I know we talk about every week, as we're recording, winter has started and has it ever.

I sent you a text yesterday that read, quote, please tell me you've thrown at least one snowball after practice today.

I did get that text from

you.

And you responded that no, no practice, but that snowballs would be thrown.

Who's catching a snowball to the back, or who's getting a snow wash?

Riley Mulvey.

Why?

It's just the way it's going to go.

It just has to be him.

I really thought you would have said Brock.

No, Riley Mulvey is, I think, our number one answer.

Brock is up there, though, for sure.

But Riley Mulvey's the number one answer.

Are you throwing the snowball?

You're doing the snow wash.

What you

doing?

Probably just throwing a snowball.

When's the last time you chucked a snowball?

I mean,

probably last year.

Really?

Yeah.

Somebody catch one?

Maybe I tried to hit them.

I probably didn't.

It wasn't very accurate.

If you had to be away from them a certain distance, let's say free throw lines worth a distance, would you have been able to hit them?

Yeah.

Maybe a loud crowd around you would have helped a little bit?

Probably,

yeah.

Tell me about some pranks that you've pulled or a teammate has pulled on you.

No names have to be said at all to protect the innocent in this case, but

There has to be some pranks that go on within the team.

A lot of times, well not a lot of times, but this has happened more than once.

Somebody will be in the shower and we all have stalls in our showers and you take their towel and you hide it because you bring your towel and you hang it up over the shower.

That's something that I wouldn't say we do very often but somewhat of the time.

It's happened more than once.

or like a lot of stuff happens in the shower because like our showers are like not in the shower but our showers are like right by our locker room so like guys will be in there and then you leave your locker in a tent so guys will take phones and shoes or whatever and like hide them like it'll be like in the fridge or something like so I would say those are the things that uh happen the most probably

now that you're one of the senior members on the team that doesn't happen to you much anymore doesn't no okay never yeah

Is there any member of the team or the coaching staff that should never have a prank pulled on them?

Probably Courtney Eldridge.

He would not.

That would not be his thing.

He wouldn't like it or he would return serve and it would be really bad.

Oh,

he would not like it.

He would not like it at all.

I have to imagine your dad is also somebody that may not like a prank.

Yeah, no, probably not.

Yeah, that wouldn't be his thing either.

You know outside of pranks and hiding phones and such like that that helps to build a little bit of camaraderie within the locker room I have to imagine

Absolutely.

Yeah, you know just kind of funny goofy stuff like we're not doing anything like Insane like in terms of pranks or doing anything crossing the line.

It's just kind of like, you know, like little funny just like kind of random stuff

Do members of the basketball team ever pull pranks on members of the other sporting teams at

Iowa?

Um Not really no

A lot of us are friends.

We're a lot of us are good friends with girls on our women's team through different like groups on campus or whatever.

There might be different relationships like between certain athletes or whatever, whether it's like athletes in action or class or all that kind of stuff.

So it's always kind of a random connection to another sport.

But for the most part, like, no, we're not, we're not doing that.

That would be, yeah.

Crossing into their locker room, that would be not ideal.

It would be maybe a funny idea, something to think about, but no.

Heads up, I don't know if I would mess with the wrestlers at all.

No, we

stay away from them.

How are you feeling?

Here today, you're recording from a different location.

How are things going for

you?

Just OK.

Been better, been worse.

Hopefully can play Friday, but if not.

is what it is.

Just kind of keep, just keep trying to get back to where I can feel better.

Final season, obviously, that missing a game, that hurts a little bit too, doesn't it?

Yeah, it hurts a lot.

You know, you don't want to leave your teammates.

But at the end of the day, I think that there's solace in the fact that like, if I'm not going to be my best self or somewhere, you know, like in that realm, because you're not going to be your best every single time you step on the floor, obviously.

But in that realm, where I feel the best and feel like that I'm capable of competing at that level, then, you know, you need to

kind of the, you realize that then you hurt your team in that way.

And, uh, like if I put myself out there and I'm not okay, it's the same as, you know, playing hurt, playing sick, all that kind of stuff.

So it's, it's all connected.

So I think for the most part, you know, it just, if I don't feel up to it, then, then that wouldn't be fair to my teammates either.

So I take pride in that and Zallis and that.

And, you know, it's just kind of, just kind of keep pushing and trying to get better.

As a teammate, it was nice to see the win against Rutgers, right?

Absolutely.

Yes.

We needed that and that was that was that was fun to see.

It's fun to see the guys play well.

We got a lot of guys played well.

So that's always good.

What was it about the full court press that was just getting in their head against Rutgers?

Our press are their press.

Your press against them?

Yes.

Realistically like only a couple other teams in our league press a lot.

Like not a lot of other teams press.

So I think you just don't see it a ton.

And

They seem pretty prepared, but it's just different when you're really going against.

We try to be active in it, try to force turnovers, try to slow them down.

So I think it's a new sort of speed for the game in general.

So I think it might be taken aback by certain people, but for the most part, I think there's days where it's effective and there's days where it's not.

And it was effective on Saturday.

We have a full court press.

For the general audience member, it's obviously covering the entire court to defend against the other team, which then can tire you out quicker as an athlete.

Yes,

very tiring.

After a game where you play full court press as much as you guys can, what do you do after a game like that?

So I typically lift after most of the games, try to, you know, get your body, like make your body feel better.

But yeah, those games are ones where

you put your body through the ringer, so you go sit in the ice bath, you sit in the hot tub, you get treatment, you do the normal text on your legs, you get scraped by the trainer and certain like take like a little tool and you know, scrape certain muscles that are sore, all that kind of stuff.

So every guy has his processes different, every guy, you know, feels different and with certain treatments and all that, but yeah, that's one where you.

You gotta go to the training room and recover for a little bit.

Your recovery for those that obviously go out and they run or they do the treadmill, the beginning of the year, they're trying to lose weight and they go to the gym for the first time and then they cramp up, you're trying to avoid doing that because you are constantly exercising as it were throughout the week, right?

Yes.

Yeah, cramping is interesting.

You see that a lot of times at the end of games, right?

especially in like hot gyms, like guys cramp, like big pack gyms, it's warm, you get dehydrated easily, you cramp.

I, knock on wood, have been lucky enough, I've never cramped during a game, but I know it's a very real thing, and a lot of guys go through stuff like that, so it's not ideal and never fun, those, because cramps hurt.

Depending on where the cramp is at, it makes it so you're almost immobile at it sometimes, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Like if you have like a calf cramp, like you're not going anywhere with that.

Like that's just, just painful.

So definitely a mobile.

And when you said the word scrape, is it Guasha?

Is that how that's pronounced?

I

don't even know.

So basically the way it is, is like, it'll be like a metal tool.

And they're like, they're different sizes.

There's bigger ones, smaller ones, depending on like kind of the muscle.

So like, usually be like about big as my hand, maybe a little bigger and like pretty, pretty thick, but it's like literally a metal.

Thing and so they'll put like lotion on there and they literally just like take it and just go like this And you kind of like scrape out that excess like just gunk or whatever and try to you know Relax the muscle a little bit

and that's not breaking the skin for the audience, right?

Nope.

Have you ever done the fire cup and thing?

I have not but a lot

of people do like I personally I'm not like I do that for their backs and stuff like come on my teammates do that a lot Looks really interesting, but I've never done it.

Oh, how do you feel about the matchup coming up against Nebraska?

They had a big win last night

They've been, they've been on the uptick here for the last couple of years.

It started off not great for them, but they've been kind of, you know, improving.

And you knew he was going to get it right.

Coach Harber is a really good coach.

They're going to get good players.

They have really good players and they have a really good team.

So, you know, I think we definitely have a work cut out for us.

As of recording right now, you prepping to be a part of that squad against Nebraska?

Yes, trying, trying.

Awesome.

Let's move on to the pregame meal.

I have another one from Nebraska this week, and I'm gonna give you a quick modifier on this.

So if you like it, you dunk it.

If it's okay, you pass it.

If it sucks, you block it.

The modifier this week is you can dunk it, pass it, or block it personally or for pre-game, because I know last week we kind of mentioned it was more for pre-game.

So

I

have another item that comes from Nebraska this week because of the game coming up on Friday.

Butterbrickle ice cream first started in Omaha at the Blackstone Hotel in the 1920s Pregame meal personally or as a pregame meal.

Are you dunking it passing it or blocking it on both of those

probably blocking it on both That just I don't I don't know how I feel about that type of

ice cream Toffee mixed into classic vanilla.

Yeah, no, I'm not a coffee guys.

I'm gonna pass.

All

right.

Yeah block

block it.

Okay

Minnesota game comes up on Monday.

I used to live in Minnesota, so I know way more about this than I should.

Ludifisk.

This is an air-dried codfish that is soaked in a lye solution for a few days and then washed- Block,

block, block, block, block.

We're personally

ad for pre-game.

Yes, block.

Every aspect of

block.

I thought, I'm surprised you blocked it so quick because the result has a gelatinous texture and the smell of ammonia.

Yeah, block.

That'll do it for this week on that one.

As we come into the double, double dumb ass today, the record currently is five and 14.

We have two different stories today.

Your school's Ohio State, Michigan State, and Penn State.

The first story, Upper Darby Township.

Police put out a description of a white Dodge Durango that was used in a smoke shop robbery and two men and women believed to be involved.

Police pursuit that spanned from Delaware County into the heart of the city.

That's Pennsylvania.

Final answer?

Yeah, my dad's from Philly and my dad lived in Delaware County.

You've got that one correct.

Yeah, my uncle writes for the Delco County Times.

So yeah, that was that was easy.

That was that was the giveaway.

All right.

So we've got Penn State already knocked out.

Your two remaining schools would be Ohio State and Michigan State.

Second story, a woman went into an outhouse at the Dixon Lake Department of Natural Resources boat launch in Otsego County.

After dropping her Apple Watch in the toilet, she found herself in a predicament stuck in the toilet.

Oh God, she went after the Apple Watch.

State police troopers DNR conservation officers and emergency workers responded to the rescue of the woman who was yelling for help from inside the toilet They needed to remove her using a hoist to lift her out Patrick Police have an important message for others who may drop something in an outhouse toilet quote do not attempt to venture inside the containment area serious injury may occur

So I'm going to go, I'm going to pick Michigan State for that one.

My, uh, I have a teammate, uh, Luca Kettos from Michigan.

And, uh, that sounds like something he would do.

So I'm going to go, I'm going to go Michigan State.

Why would Luca go after his Apple watch

in the toilet?

He just would do something like that.

That's just like, but, but the thing about Lucas, he wouldn't get stuck though.

Like he would figure out a way to get it out.

Like he would just like, it's just, he's just operates that way.

What's his arm reach?

Is

it comparable to yours?

No, but it's good enough.

He could do some damage.

Okay, so it means that he could probably reach it if he wanted to.

Yes.

First off, you're correct.

Yes.

So you got both of them this week.

Funny story is I actually have an experience with something that I dropped into an outhouse.

This would have been at Thinkvine, pre-football game.

May have had a beer or six.

Yeah, I

was gonna say or more.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I had my tickets in the left pocket, which I thought I had zipped up.

As I turned around after, you know, taking care of the hands and such like that, I realized the tickets are gone.

They had fallen into the hole and I went right after them.

Luckily, they were just sitting on top and they were paper tickets, but I had to go after and I didn't get stuck at that point, but I didn't care because I probably had one to six beers.

Yeah, exactly.

That doesn't even matter when you have enough beers.

You're the athlete on the other side of things.

If somebody had to put themselves through something like that to watch you play, is that them going above and beyond or do you not care at that point?

I would think that the beers probably aided in your mistake and also probably were why you were so adamant about getting the tickets.

So I would say probably that'd be

Yeah, no, I think you know what I've always appreciate our fans And if you're doing stuff like that like good good on you guys

Thank you for for saying for the fans because I do believe black and gold and that was the reason why I needed to cheer on my team that day.

Exactly.

That's awesome Audience didn't see he rolled his eyes at me

That's the great part about this jock to jock podcast is it's audio only Patrick I really appreciate it looking forward to the game against Nebraska putting forth the best effort.

I think we got a W here I know that they played tough against Purdue, but look I think we're playing some of our best basketball.

Would you agree?

I agree.

Yeah, I think you know, we're playing better.

We're kind of hitting our stride and

And so in our league, it's always better when you're at home.

Winning on the road in this league is so hard.

I don't care who you are.

I don't care where you are.

And I think you could say that probably for college basketball in general, winning on the road, not just the Big Ten, but winning on the road is incredibly hard.

And if you're able to do it, like that's unbelievable.

And so I think us being at home is helpful.

As always, thank you for the time.

Yes, sir.

Thanks, Brian.