Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - BIG 10 SQUAD: Big 10 & SEC MEGA CONFERENCE Coming Soon... What this means for Iowa

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Big Ten football faces a seismic shift as talk of a 70-school “Super Mega Conference” heats up. Could college athletics see relegation like the Premier League, or will tradition—with teams like Ohio State, Michigan, and UCLA—hold firm amidst swirling changes? The panel breaks down the latest bipartisan Congressional proposal that targets NIL regulation, transfer portal chaos, and the Lane Kiffin rule for mid-season coaching exits—all set to upend the college sports landscape. The Big 10 Squad leads a spirited debate featuring bold super conference visions, calls for NIL salary caps, and challenges to schools: “stop being poor” and keep pace in the new era. With player eligibility rulings, coaching drama, and powerhouse programs fighting for influence, this episode asks: Is college football’s future endangered or finally moving toward true competitive balance? Don’t miss exclusive insights on where the Big Ten stands as the sport barrels toward radical transformation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A Big Ten SEC mega conference seems to be on the way, unless Congress steps in. You're talking ball with the Big Ten Squad, sponsored by Game Time. From USC to Ohio State, from Michigan to Oregon, from Nebraska to Washington, it's the local experts of the Locked-on Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming Big Ten weekend. No hurt feelings and thin skin allowed. Squad up, you're part of the... Big Ten Squad. Yes, it is another Big Ten squad to talk all things college football, college sports,

and Big Ten News. I'm Zach Secoe, the host of this week's Big Ten Squad, and I am joined by Isaiah Hull of Lockdown Wolverines, Roman Tomashop, of Lockedon Husky, Spencer McLaughlin of Lockdown Ducks and Lockdown College Football. And Zach Anderson, Yoxheimer, of locked on UCLA, will be joined by Craig Sheeman of Locked on Big Ten momentarily. So plenty to cover is that college football era needs some direction, right? The ugliness of it. What we all got different tanks on what needs fixed. And speaking of Craig Scheme and Craig now joins us on this show. Is Congress actually going to step in? They, they agreed to a bipartisan bill. And is this going to stop the super ultra mega conference that is supposed to be coming soon? There's, this is the first that I've heard of this

project, Rudy, that is supposed to. And it's going to be the 70 school, private capital, expanded playoff. So everything that we've basically been discussing, but now only for a select group of schools if you happen to make the cut. I think all of our schools are safe, Isaiah. Is this what we need for college football? Because we'll get to Congress in just a moment, super mega conference, big fan or no? For once, I'm actually going to agree that this is actually what's going to save college football. So hear me out. Here's how this could work. It's actually it's genius. What you do is you take all of these, these 70 teams and you divide them in to these different regions, right? So then you've got different ways that play each other. And then we

call them like conferences? You know what? That's a great name. No. I think it could catch on. I think it could catch on. So I mean, and then you only have so many games against them. So you play other games against other teams that aren't within your little conference. I mean, that's kind of where we're headed. I actually did a mock of this on lockdown Wolverines back in 2020 and said like, okay, if you're going to do all this expansion, expand again and then just contract again. And that's kind of where we're weirdly headed. Craig, you are Mr. Big Ten. So you're going to have the most nuance with all of this. Super conference. Again, we'll get to Congress specifically in what they've conjured up here.

But are you fearful of the mega conference? But since the Big Ten and the SEC survive, it's kind of not all that bad. And then you pick and choose which schools from the other conferences would join along because what? That would be about 30 plus more schools that come in? My vision has always been a lockdown Big Ten probably by the end of this decade when the new TV deals get going would be that the ACC and the Big 12 would improve. because their TV deals are so bad. And then the good teams are going to scurry like musical chairs to the SEC and the big 10 and the SEC in the big 10 will be about 24 teams each.

And then that's going to be your super conference. And everybody else who's left behind, they're going to be some sort of subdivision. Now, whether it happens that way or whether it happens with Congress, with all the stuff that's coming through right now that you were talking about, one way or the other, we are going to get to a super conference. Whether it involves all schools or just football, that could be debated as well. anything that Congress does, every element of it, whether it's the five and five, or whether it's the size of these conferences, whatever, every element will be sued. Somebody is going to get a lawyer somewhere and say, let's sue this and tackle it.

So whatever's decide, and then it's going to go through the Supreme Court and all that kind of stuff. And then we'll have our final rules after the court has its say. But, you know, just because Congress passes something, I don't think that's going to happen automatically. We've got to go through the process, make it law. then the Supreme Court, and then we'll pick and choose whatever is the law of the land at that point. But in football, the 2030s, regardless, it's going to look a lot different than it does of the 2020s. And there will be some sort of super conference, one way or the other. Point of order, Mr. Chairman, point of order, may I?

Go for it. Can I just point out that Craig's desire to kill the Big 12 and the ACC to scrap them for parts like he's Ray in a particular? particularly poor Star Wars movie. I would just like to point out that that makes Craig evil, greedy, greedy, capitalistic warmonger, and he should be labeled as such. Well, I'm just in, Greg Sanky.

It'll, it'll condense everything. And we'll just have locked on super conference, which I guess I'll be the host of. I'm not sure. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. First of all, if there is a locked on super conference show, I'm so hesitant it. Come on, we morphed my channel once before.

We can. There's still, there'd still be college football. Craig's show would be taken away from him in theory, or it would be, you would have to, I think Craig, you would have to co-host with Chris Gordy from Rock 1. And it would be. Or wait, hold on. Or we let them have tryouts like the Joker. I'm just saying.

I like Spencer's idea here, but is there one super conference or two here? Because Craig could just be locked on Big 24 at that point in time. And his view comes to fruition. Like, you know, who's to say that's not what we're going to. Well, when I say Super Conference, I mean like a Big Ten SEC, kind of a AFC, NFC, NFL partnership. That's how I envision it. That's what I was thinking.

Zach Anderson, Yoximer, were you thinking anything different, especially with 70 teams? Again, this is kind of the layout here, is the Super Conference would have 70 teams, private equity, the expanded playoff. again, do you have concern that UCLA wouldn't make the cut? I'm not worried for Penn State, Michigan, Indiana, I guess, on Craigsby half, since that's who he'd be representing here.

I don't know. I think Washington could get left behind. We need to have that conversation. I was waiting for non-neutral arbiter of college football to jump in on that one today. What do you mean, not? Just because I'm not in the top left makes, well, he's not the host this week, so he can throw whatever stones he wants to. Let's talk about I love the state of Washington.

Look, I have a Mariners shirt on today. That's true. It's like the most poorest team in the state of Washington. Back to the point, though. I would say UCLA, we've had two outspoken coaches. We have Mick Cronin who says anything he likes. He's kind of talked about athletic departments are sinking. So if you go to a super conference, that could really alleviate a lot of these pains if you go college football only.

Chip Kelly, I think, floated this idea around when he was UCLA coach a few years ago, when it was like, these people we should break off, have football conferences only, and maybe make that into a super conference, would I be worried that UCLA wouldn't get pulled? They already got pulled into the Big Ten. I don't think they're going to leave Los Angeles, Westwood, or the Rose Bowl out of it for the time being with UCLA football. No, if we left UCLA behind, we would just take the Rose Bowl from you.

I mean, they're trying to leave it behind anyway. Yeah, but they left the Rose Bowl, so it's just... Not yet. Not yet. We would just confiscate it under. eminent domain. I would assert my authority. Where are you going, Spencer?

Are you on the run? I'm going to my car. Well, you know, not. He's practicing for the Mariners 5K. No, I'm walking through downtown Portland right now. It's a lovely day in my, technically my home city, but really

I'm from like 20 minutes south of here. But I haven't been here a long time. But I have to get to my car. That's where I'm actually going, but I didn't want to jump out before we got through the first segment. Thank you, thank you for all the ambiance of downtown for our audio listeners just love. You're so welcome. Did you want it? Did you want to, did you want more more visuals here? Hold on.

I got, I got the visuals. I'm good for the YouTube channel. There's a really can I even, I don't have no idea how to flip my camera around in this particular app. Grandpa doesn't know how to use technology. Look at that church. Look at that church. That's, that's beautiful architecture right there. That's European-esque. And I just ate at the greatest cup cake shop in the world, Stank Cupcake. If you ever go to Portland, I promise you, you better get there before they run out. They were almost all out of cupcakes when I got there. I would have been heartbroken if I hadn't got one.

It's like Oregon's non-conference schedule. Nice. Nice. That was good. That was well played. Yes. But you know, like Washington's football program, I'm now descending underground and I won't be able to connect with anybody. Wow. Wow, that was just just an incredible one there from Spencer.

Hey, I wish we were shocked. I worked it in seamlessly. Roman, I'm going to let you lead it off because as we talk about Congress, the new bipartisan proposal that they have agreed upon, nothing passed, but they've agreed upon something. You get the first take on relegation because Zach said, well, UCLA is safe and Washington came over in Oregon. We shouldn't be worried about relegation, but what about Northwestern and Purdue and Rutgers?

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This is a job for Indeed sponsored jobs. All right. Welcome back into our Big Ten squad show. Isaiah Holman Tomashoff, Craig Sheiman, and Zach Anderson, Yachshimer have all made it on to the next round here. No, Spencer willingly left us. Roman, I said you got the first. He got relegated.

Yes, he got relegated. Is anybody from the current state of the Big Ten going to get relegated? and we're going to talk about Congress in this segment before, just why the sport and why there needs to be some sort of overhaul and structure with the ugliness of the new era of college football. So Roman, should Rutgers, Northwestern, Purdue, I guess Vanderbilt, right? And this goes back to what Iowa State's athletic director said about how those conferences don't really respect you and the Big 12 or, you know, whatever.

You should leave that. No, no, they are not going to leave just because simply, well, you might get a little more respect. I don't even know what that means. I think an $80 million paycheck is pretty nice to wreckers right about now. Roman, who stays? Does somebody get kicked out? Or does everybody just kind of go along?

I feel like if you're in at this point, then you're not going to get relegated. I feel like there should be some sort of Premier League style system of relegation. I feel like that'd be a lot of fun. It's not feasible in any way, shape, or form. Let's be real about that. But I think if, you know, if you're Purdue and you're going, in one in 11, two in 10 every year. Why would it not be fun to like, you know, since Craig just wants to just destroy college football

as a whole in the Big 12 and the ACC, why not just take the Big 12 champ and be like, all right, Purdue, you got to go down to the ACC for a couple of years. You got to figure it out over there, or the Big 12, whatever, you go have some fun and we're bringing up, I don't know, Utah, somebody like that, somebody who's consistently winning at that, that level. I feel like that would be a fun way to go about things. again, it's not realistic. The TV partnerships and the way that all the money is handed out would never go for it in any way, shape, or form. But I feel like that's something that in some perfect

world would work. Isaiah, I agree with Roman that I don't think anyone is going to get right. If Rutgers and Northwestern Purdue are in the Big Ten, Vanderbilt is in the SEC. They're not going to get pushed out. And I guess Purdue has men's basketball, right? So there's that component because It's not just about football, men's basketball does get a say in the super mega conference. But should, should there be relegation like Roman said? Listen, number one, if we're just going to keep on throwing out the the R word, Rutgers, I think we need to at least put that this is not suitable for work. We shouldn't be, you know, people, people need to understand that this is that Rutgers is a serious thing that we all, we all struggle to come to terms with.

I love the idea of relegation. I mean, if you're going to just continue to like mangle this thing we love, because like here's the thing. Like if we're talking also about like, Congress is going to try to come and save it. Like this thing didn't really need saving in the first place. It's all the meddling that's happened.

That's suddenly like, okay, no, we got to fix the, we need to fix all the issues that don't exist or didn't exist five years ago that now are just prevalent. So if you're just going to continue to meddle to that point, yeah, make it more fun. Make it to the point where it's like you've got to fight and scrap and claw that much more. Like if you're going to have like this 512 team playoff and all these things that you're doing.

It's reasonable. Yeah. Then yeah, like make it so like, hey, you have to get your, you know, get your act together if you want to be in the big leagues. And even with that, like you can see like even a team like Michigan under Rich Rod, you know, very well could have been at that bottom level, right? Like it's just to get to that point where it's like even the big dogs might just have a down year. And it's like, all right. Like that just becomes that much more entertaining to some degree.

So I'm with that idea rather than all this other town foolery they're doing. So it wouldn't be. Yeah, it would be a chance to prove yourself and not permanent. Just let's kick you out. Congress, again, wants to save college athletics. Maybe, maybe they don't. But for the first time, I feel like we actually have something tangible because there was a bipartisan bill. agreed upon protect the college sports act, which would address NIL regulation,

transfer portal, mid-season coaching exits, anti-trust protections, and then there's health insurance scholarship preemption of state NIL laws. Craig, I'm going to throw it to you. The Lane Kippen rule is what part of this is being dubbed, right, with the mid-season coaching exits and everything else. The bill would reportedly limit athletes to one unrestricted transfer and then yeah preventing coaches from leaving before the season ends okay is this just is this a waste of time is there even any point to this because the the SEC and the big 10 with what we just talked about what they want to do does this have legs or you just saying that they're just doing it for show probably a little bit of both but i've heard people uh in and out of sports in business

say look get your act together because the last thing you generally want is for Congress or the government to get involved and tell you the rules of how to do your business. It's usually not in your best interest to let them make all the rules and then decide. And then you get a big threat into something you might not like. Back to the eviction thing. We talk about Iowa State's athletic director, Jamie Pollard. Two years ago, he started talking about, again, he's in the Big 12, how the Big Ten and the SEC would start evicting bottom feeder schools. Well, two years ago, there was no bigger.

bottom feeder school than Indiana University. Look at them now. So you've got to be careful who you're going to bounce out of these things. I just kind of want to tie that last topic together. But yeah, you don't want Congress making rules for you, but it looks like we're at the doorstep of that happening right now. Zach, your expectations for maybe at least Congress kickstarting some uniformity in college athletics.

I mean, how many lawsuits does it take to break it down, right? You can do your over, unders, what's the spread? I think the big thing is, does any of this hold up in court, right? What's brought college sports down is just a lawsuit that's led to, can you hold Diego Pavia to four years of eligibility in Juko and D1? It's endless lawsuits that they're trying to prevent to allow other athletes to have extra eligibility, transfer 30 billion times. And I guess we're trying to fix it.

But it just is it going to take one lawsuit, one little rabbit hole to go down for one lawyer to figure it out, one kid to feel like they're wronged in the five for five with this upcoming class. There's so many things. And one more point of relegation, UCLA crushed USC in the Crossdown Cup this year. So I think USC hasn't held up their weight in two years. What are they really done in two years in the big 10? Craig, what's the timeline for all of this where we're going to get some answers?

Is it in a year? Is it five days? Because you said in the 2030s, it's going to look radically different. I think in the 2030s, if it happens naturally with the expiration of the TV, deals that are currently in place, I think 2030, 2031, depending on the conference. Let's say hypothetically, Congress actually does something

and passes something here. Okay, so then the law comes out. Then what Zach had just said about, the lawsuits are coming. They'll come. There'll be a lawyer who wants to make a name for himself on every one of these issues. They'll be a lawsuit on the

five for five. There'll be a lawsuit on coaches leaving. They'll be all, it'll all go through the course. Now, that'll take forever. Um, so maybe we're still at 2030 before we figure out what college football looks like one way or the other. Because as we know, the legal system and the judicial system are very quick and and speedy when it comes to these matters. So yeah, I'm, I'm not expecting anything because like we all agree on the lawsuits, they're going to be out in abundance, but that's also going to slow everything that is agreed upon. And so if they actually do Congress passes something, the NCAA sets new rules, the Big Ten, SEC, it doesn't matter. It's all going to go through court first.

And that's just one aspect of all of this ugliness in the new era of college athletics, primarily college football. But what's the biggest concern? What are we trying to solve here? Is it scheduling? Is it NIL? Is it guys gambling on their own teams? We're going to talk about that next here on this Lockdown Big Ten squad. All right.

And we wrap things up. Isaiah, Roman, Craig, and Zach are all still here alongside myself, the host of the squad, Zach, as well. We see the Brendan Soresby News come out, Texas Tech quarterback, who has been deemed ineligible, and the NCAA is going to stand by that for previously gambling on his own team when he was quarterback in Indiana. And there's a lot of other things that he was doing with sports gambling. He did check himself into rehabilitation, but that's not going to satisfy the NCAA here. So it seems like they are going to stand pat in all of this. But what are we trying to fix?

What's the most pressing issue? Craig, I think it's appropriate that you start first. What do you want to see changed? If you could pick one thing is that the NIL slush funds, player conduct, transfer portal, one thing that you could fix no matter the circumstances, it's just changed for better or for worse. Well, regarding the Soresby thing, I think that's the SORSB thing. I think that's the one power the NCAA still really has, is determining eligibility, or at least they think they have.

And they used to run a pretty decent basketball tournament until they let 76 teams in. We'll see how that plummets. But I think the first thing, the first priority is a rather simple thing. And that's the actual sports calendar. Now, we've helped that a little bit by only having one transfer portal period in football. You know, last year we had one in the spring as well as in January. We got to get that dialed in.

Maybe that dovetails as to when coaches can leave or can't leave. Obviously, we've got to figure out when the playoffs are going to begin. If they're going to be every week from the first weekend of December into maybe being done by the first weekend of January, what a novel concept that would be. But I think, and again, these are things that can be self-policed that you don't necessarily need Congress getting involved in. Get your own sports calendar together for football. Get that fixed first.

And then we can start working on some of the other things and decide whether there should be salary caps for, you know, revenue share or whatever the case may be. Yeah. And I think that's a given too, because that's the core aspect of the sport. All these things that we have brand new, the transfer portal in NIL are all in the past five years or so, give or take. A sports calendar, this shouldn't be that big of an issue. Roman, where are you looking? The transfer, what do you think of the one time? transfer, right? If the, if Congress were to pass that in their in their agenda, is it, you know, having the, the teams. Because I think of, okay, a prospect's getting ready to commit to Cal and a certain show host representatives no longer here. But then another, another school that's related to that show host comes in in the final hour and offers the, the NIL bag. Oh, that's never what happened before? What are you talking about? I mean, I wouldn't be able to relate to that with a Brandon Finney. Um, when it came to

state. But Roman, what would you, what would you change in a flip of switch? Zach, it's that. It's the, it's the NIL because the revenue share, the fact that every school has a certain amount to spend on its players is great. But there needs to be some kind of salary cap here. It's just getting a little ridiculous when we look at just what some of these top schools, and I'm not saying it's bad that these schools have this money, right? If you have the donors, all that, that's great. That's cool. But it's one of these things where we're about to see a a massive lockout in the MLB because of all of this. And the way it just kind of skews the competitive balance in sport.

So I would have to go with that specifically because when we look at, you know, what Texas Tech is able to do and just go shout out, oh, it's going to cost $55 million to build our roster this year. Okay, cool. Yeah, we're just going to go do that. And I think that that's one of those things where there needs to be some kind of much harder just ceiling, much harder cap, whatever, whatever it is that you want. want to say on NIL as a whole because it is a little insane.

We can go out there and like, you know, there are, it makes the flips, all of that angle of recruiting. That's never going to go away. We're still going to see those things. But now all of a sudden, hey, you want to go go pay that big bag to flip that, that top quarterback or top defensive linemen, whoever it might be, all right, all of a sudden, you're going to have to go budget at another position. You're going to have to really figure that out, which is, I think it's a lot more fun.

and adds a whole lot more pressure to some of these coaching staffs as well where, you know, we're going to see extra job security. If there's a 2014 playoff, why not balance that out by saying, all right, it's going to be a whole lot harder to build a roster now, no matter what kind of donors you have. Isaiah, how do you tell a sponsor or a donor when these agreements are private, right? This is a, these are contractual agreements. It's different in the NFL with employment. And this isn't to, this isn't to dunk on Roman.

And it's to push back because the automatic objection is, how do you tell someone you're not allowed to spend your money and create a sponsorship with said player? There just might happen to be some pay for play involved because I'm affiliated with my favorite university or where I graduated from. And if you want this sponsorship deal, you got to come to this school. I mean, I think, and Roman, I hope you know, I love you with the bottom of my heart. This is not a personal thing. But I think you have to address it at the institutional level. And I have a graphic that a very important graphic. And I'll read it out here in a moment.

But this is what, I don't know if it's going to focus. It says stop being poor. So that's that's what you, first, institutions that have an issue with, you know, being able to meet those standards and other schools are stealing. Just stop being poor. Ultimately, I think that it's, I don't have a problem with the, the money in it as much because it's kind of like market value type of thing, right? Like if someone wants to spend the money on someone and yeah, they're driving prices up and

it's kind of frustrating and it's kind of changing things. But I think it's really not people in the Big Ten outside of like small internecine fights for, you know, certain players. Like you mentioned Brandon Finney and whatever, but like I generally it's it's more the SEC that's kind of throwing up in arms because they're used to having a monopoly on being able the pay and doing so quietly with car dealerships and the big 10 steps up and suddenly has a, you know, it's like, hey, we can pay actually a lot more and we can equalize the playing field. So I actually have no problem with that because it equalized the playing field.

What I want to see ultimately, though, is less that. Like, I wouldn't mind putting at least some kind of cap on the amount of transferring, right? I don't mind more than one time, but like when you see guys and they have graphics and it's like they literally were at six schools in like a four year, five year period. Yeah. That's a problem. But like to me, the biggest thing is what Craig said, the calendar. And I don't see a problem with the calendar.

No one was really complaining about the calendar and say like 2018, 2019, 2021. Right. Like, and part of that was by having a smaller playoff. And I just, I know you're not going to put the toothpaste back. in the tube. It just, to me, it was all so much better when it was that. And no, no aggressive transfer portal as well. So, Zach, I'll let you have the final word here, not myself. I'm not speaking in third person. Well, I guess I do because I got to close the show. Zach Anderson, Yoxheimer is, is college football ugly? Is it bad? Because Isaiah makes a great point that,

well, before all of this, before the transfer portal, this is something that I think about a lot. the SEC had a stronghold over college football was Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, and then Georgia gets in there, but we kind of figure out that team building and program building is not all equal. And now that it is because all resources are kind of available at this point, some schools have more than others. We have Indiana winning a national title. So this is what it has spawned. is all of this worth it in your mind? Because now we actually do have somewhat of a competitive balance

where Indiana at the bottom of the Big Ten in a super Big Ten conference, as it is, the Big Ten expansion, went undefeated. I forget which coach said that was never going to happen again. You will never see an undefeated team. You saw an undefeated Indiana team win a national title. So is college football really that ugly? I mean, maybe not to the point of Bryce Harper

with a toothpaste out of the tube into his mouth. Oh, you don't do that? paste into it. I don't. I try that. That's awkward. This is kind of how college football and college sports is right now. Like, it's like, does it get the job done? I guess. But obviously, it's not as awkward as that video, Bryce Harper did. And, you know, expansion, interesting, not needed, but we're doing it anyway. Competitive equity. That's fun. Obviously, seeing Indiana compete. If UCLA steps things up, obviously they can sort of compete in different sports. But the problem is for me, I think it's transfer portal. I'm tired of seeing a kid at five separate schools trying to get five separate

bags. You're not going to sit you, you know, like if it's five for five, it's not supposed be five separate schools. It's incentivize them to stay at one school, right? It's one thing to give a big bag, but kids love to play. Players love to play. So then let them go find a place to play. And if they graduate, give them a second transfer. That seems like a pretty safe thing. And that also incentivizes academics. If you graduate in three years, go. get your second transfer earlier in your five years players do that it's tough it's rough but i would say the transfer portal is probably the thing where it's like how often do you know everybody on your roster is going to be there the next year you don't it the beauty of college sports used to be oh these guys might

stay there a couple years in a couple of sports you think this team might build nope your conference player of the year freshman the year is going to another conference and then this big conference going to another conference and it's it could be fun it's entertaining for us to talk about but i think it's really it's really killing college sports as a whole. We got a great group of guys every time we get together for a Big Ten squad. Zach Anderson, Yoxheimer of Locked on UCLA, just closed us out there.

Craig Sheeman of Locked on Big Ten is here. Roman Tomashoff of Locked on Huskies, Isaiah Whole of Locked on Wolverines. We also had Spencer McLaughlin of Locked on Ducks and Locked on college footballs. He was on the road out and about in Portland. I guess I disclosed his location there. My name is Zach Sago, the host of Lockdown Nittney Lions and very privileged. to be hosting this week's squad.

We'll catch you again next week to talk all things Big Ten and college athletics here on the Lockdown Podcast Network.