Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - BIG 10 SQUAD - How Transfer Portal Strategy Will Impact Iowa Hawkeyes

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

Nico Iamaleava's transfer saga is shaking up college football. Could his move redefine player compensation and transfer dynamics? Dive into the latest buzz surrounding the UCLA Bruins and their Big Te...n journey, as Spencer McLaughlin, Roman Tomashoff, Mark Culkin, and Zach Anderson y UCLA dissect the implications of Iamaleava's potential transfer to UCLA or USC. Explore UCLA's prospects under Deshaun Foster, with debates on their projected win total and strategic adjustments. The conversation also covers transfer portal updates, highlighting Washington's punter search and USC's quiet stance. The hosts discuss the balance of power in college football, questioning if the pendulum has swung too far in favor of players.Join the discussion for insider insights and expert analysis on the evolving landscape of college football. Don't miss out on this engaging conversation that could change how you view the game.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Will Niko wind up in the Big Ten? Is UCLA gonna do something exciting on the football field, whether he's there or not? That and more on today's Locked On Big Ten Squad. 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. Happy Thursday everybody and welcome into the Big Ten Squad.
Starting point is 00:00:37 I'm your host Spencer McLaughlin, Roman Tomashoff of Locked On Huskies is here. Mark Kolkin of Locked On USC and Zach Anderson- Mark Culkin of Lockdown USC and Zach Anderson Yaksheimer of Lockdown UCLA as well. Sit back, relax and get ready for a four man squad. Look, we kind of resemble myself this week. Small, but very, very mighty. So Zach, we start with you. I just have, I could go for an hour on the Niko situation, but UCLA has always kind of been seen as the fallback option and then, ah, no, UCLA's not really in the fold anymore.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Is there any chance that that could change and NECO winds up at UCLA? I mean, I hope it doesn't change. There's no reason he should be UCLA's, UCLA should be that fallback option for him. He should find a way to, I don't know, go to USC. He goes elsewhere, who knows? There's no other, there's no real fit for him other than going back to Tennessee and asking for forgiveness. But going to UCLA after what his brass did with Madden, his
Starting point is 00:01:34 younger brother, just spurning UCLA and the commitment of the period to go to Arkansas where he never even visited, I think it's ridiculous that Nico would even consider UCLA and that UCLA would consider him back. Well, I don't think it's inherently ridiculous since would even consider UCLA and that UCLA would consider him back Well, I don't think it's inherently ridiculous since he's from Southern, California I just think you know once you get past that fact everything else about it makes very little sense But mark would USC even kick the tires on the stitch would it would it be worth it? Because I don't think it's the worst fit in the world, but I mean, I don't know Yeah, no, this is a non-starter Would it be worth it? Cause I don't think it's the worst fit in the world, but I mean, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Yeah, no, this is a non-starter. He's not coming to USC. It sucks that this young man has to deal with this, but this is kind of the environment he brought on himself. This started back in high school. He's had commitment issues going back to high school where he was at Warren High School, then I'm gonna transfer to Long Beach Poly, but I'm only going to play in certain games. So Long Beach Poly says, well, we don't need that type of, you know, person on our roster.
Starting point is 00:02:32 He ends up back at Warren. You know, Zach brings up his younger brother, you know, leaving the Bruins at the altar on signing day. Now, all of a sudden, Nico wants to come back to California, maybe use UCLA as a, you know, call thirds because you know he was interested in UCLA coming out of high school then he ends up at Tennessee. What Nico needs right now he needs to just rehabilitate his image. Forget NIL, forget the money part of it. Come back to California, go to a place like a San Diego State, San Jose State, you know, pick Fresno State, pick a school that's not an FBS team and show that you know what, you can be a quarterback, you can be a team leader, you might even gravitate some players and recruits
Starting point is 00:03:16 to come with you who are from Southern California. That's the best thing for him. But right now, if you're going to go to UCLA, I'll tell you what, that would take some major cojones, because he's gonna have to answer a lot of questions. And it's not just about, you know, UCLA, but it's about what does it mean to be a division one quarterback at this level? You know, what's important to you? Because right now, he's getting some really bad advice. This was the reset college football needed though. Like I said, I'm sorry that it's happening to him because by all accounts he is a good young man. But this is the reset college football needed. I'm happy with all these programs kind of colluding together
Starting point is 00:03:56 and say, no, you had 2.5 million in your back pocket. You decided you want 4 million. Tell you what, let's teach you a lesson that there are consequences with decisions. Here's a million. You still like playing football. Okay, a couple of things. First of all, just to be clear, Mark, San Diego State, San Jose State, Fresno State are indeed all FBS programs. I'm trying to power forward.
Starting point is 00:04:24 I didn't want as high and mighty as the big 10 squad to be up and be like San Diego State they're basically the FCS man Yeah, I mean I've thought of San Diego State before I think their quarterback situation is Okay, bet but do they have four million dollars? Is that what it's going to come down to Roman? I want I want to get you in on this because I actually agree with part of what Mark said, which is a rarity, but hey, blind squirrels and acorns. But I think the reset part of it
Starting point is 00:04:54 is actually a good thing for the sport, where a school and now the entire sport is just putting their foot down saying, no, okay, enough is enough. Yeah, in 2001, you want to make the case that there was too much power in institutions and not enough for players. It's kind of hard to argue that the pendulum, though, has swung the other way and it has swung too far.
Starting point is 00:05:16 And now the schools and athletic departments are saying and coaches are saying, no, we're not just going to give you four million dollars just because you're a super talented guy. Oh, absolutely. Where the first thing I said when I saw that Tennessee would be moving on from Nico was good for Tennessee Was they're doing the right thing by doing this by not giving it into his demands where I feel you know, Zach I'm sorry, but you know mark at USC Spencer at Oregon when we were well I am neutral arbiter of all things college football. Where's that? Where's this Oregon label coming from that?
Starting point is 00:05:50 Well, this is army green this is locked on army green there is no team on here whatsoever I don't stand for such accusations of bias. I bet you it says ducks on the back Yeah, if I if I put on a piece of tape and written it in sharpie sure. It still counts. Before Spencer had to go and defend himself here for no reason when I was gonna you know not just totally run down Oregon for the first time in my life I was like if if my whole thought process with when this originally happened was if Nico can ask for four, Bo Nicks in 2023, Caleb Williams in 2023, Michael Pennex in 2023, they should ask for 30. If Nico stat line from 2024 was anything remotely in the, just in the ballpark of somebody who deserved $4 million, I think the Tennessee would have been okay with
Starting point is 00:06:40 doing that. But it's ridiculous. And Zach, when you know, UCLA got in the mix, and then now has seemingly backed off, I kind of I kind of felt bad, because it's just one of those things where it feels like way too much of a headache at this point. So getting a hard reset, and finding a way to go and you know, remake your image, just find a way to prove that you can't miss long on every other throw where there's, there's a thread I saw on Twitter of just five minutes of him missing long
Starting point is 00:07:07 on wide open receivers time and time again. If you can go find a way to rehabilitate yourself, not in terms of how you actually play as a quarterback and hone in on some of the things that made you a class to be a class mechanic in high school, great. But you haven't proven that yet at any point outside of some flashes, some flashes. Yeah, I think there is a twofold shift that he has to undergo. And I definitely, definitely
Starting point is 00:07:36 do not believe that this is all him there. There are external factors that are driving the bus here. And I do echo what Mark said that I feel bad he's at the center of it but it is kind of a reset that I felt like was going to come in college football eventually because he's out there asking for four million he's capable of being a four million dollar a year quarterback he is not that right now so he's left looking for a situation where someone's gonna be willing to overpay for him and he's going to rehabilitate that program is going to be able to rehabilitate his image and also his play on the football field.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Like I don't know. I don't know who that is. Everyone's pulling out. If UCLA is like, oh, we're good. North Carolina is like, oh, we're good. He entered the portal with do not contact tag. Maybe that's changed by the time you're all listening to or watching the show. But I just I don't know where else he could wind up. But back at Tennessee, Tulane even pulled out of the show. Yeah. That's all you really need to know. I don't think Tulane would have had the money. Tulane could find a million bucks. Tulane's not a poor school. No, no, no, no. They can find a million. But if he was,
Starting point is 00:08:42 if he was sticking to the $4 million number, we know they don't have that, because that's what their quarterback just got to go to Duke. Like we've all been agreeing upon. We needed it a reset right now, because this actually started during the playoffs. If those allegations are true that he was trying to hold out for more money to play in the playoff game,
Starting point is 00:09:01 college football needed this a lot. I mean, it needed it desperately because we're at a stage right now where the tail is literally wagging the dog and you can't have it. The schools have to remain in power in some way, shape or form. No one's saying the players shouldn't be being,
Starting point is 00:09:18 shouldn't get paid, but it shouldn't be free agency on steroids. And that's what it's turned into, where you've got parents who think they're agents, and they're looking out for their own self-interest. They're not even looking out for their kids' self-interest anymore. No, no.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Like anybody who's gotten to Nico's camp and encouraged him to go down this path doesn't have his best interest in mind. He's now an incredibly toxic naming college football. He's struggling to find a quality there is no way no way his football situation in 2025 is better than what it would have been if he'd stuck it out and stayed at Tennessee. I don't know that he's going to get as
Starting point is 00:09:59 much money as Tennessee was already paying him. I don't think he's going to be on as good of a team with a coach as good as Josh Hyple. I think it's all kind of a mess. We might circle back to that, but we are gonna circle back to the UCLA Bruins just because Zach is here. With our continuing trend on over or under the Bruins in 2025, that's coming up next.
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Starting point is 00:11:26 I mean, I hope you will at least, but I don't know. Give me a snapshot of optimism for UCLA going into Sean Foster's year two. They have one of the lowest win totals in the Big 10. Do you think that's a sign of disrespect to what you guys have down there? I think to Sean Foster's building, something doesn't mean they're gonna get eight, nine wins something doesn't mean they're going to get eight, nine
Starting point is 00:11:46 wins doesn't mean they're going to a playoff and they'll be in Indiana. Of course, the super optimistic fool like I am could think, Oh, Indiana 2.0 this year. But it's really trying to figure out what the quarterback situation is. That was already the question prior to any Niko rumors, anything. It's what can they do with a one year rental with the Juco extension for NCAA eligibility? They have Joey Aguilar coming from App State. They don't really have a future behind them and it doesn't seem like Aguilar is running away
Starting point is 00:12:13 with the job at Spring Camp, which is a bit of an uh-oh. The defense, which was good a couple of years ago, Akaka Molloy had some remnants of that last year. That's mostly all gone. But a new offensive coordinator, which should breathe life into the offense with Tinas and Sri, and then you mix in a Clackamalloy, hopefully working some magic. This is a team that I think could surpass that low over-under for the win total. It's four and a half. So repeat of last season and you're going over if you want to spell some optimism in there.
Starting point is 00:12:45 But make, make, make your declarative take right now, Zach, over under four and a half. Cause I got to tell you, I don't love their schedule. Boy, I don't know. I think they can go over now. I'm an optimistic fool. So I'll make that clear bias blue. I'm wearing it all. Spencer doesn't, he wants to go to neutral arbiter.
Starting point is 00:13:04 We know he's wearing green. Army green, army, army green. Not even the army black knights. This is just, this is just US army green with locked on on it and nothing else. Sir, yes sir. Okay, so UCLA is, UCLA is gonna go over, whether it's by the five,
Starting point is 00:13:22 whether you get some pins in the lane and call it bowling, whatever it might be, I'm saying UCLA gonna go over, whether it's by the five, whether you get some pins in the lane and call it bowling, whatever it might be, I'm saying UCLA can go over and might go, you know, UCLA had a horrible start last year and had all the reason to give up and they had a good strong finish. And that was with the horrible offense and unexpected presence from the defense and some big wins down the stretch.
Starting point is 00:13:42 I just, I'm not gonna come out here and say they're gonna win eight, nine games, but I think there's room for optimism that they can pass four and a half to five to six. Okay. So, all right, Roman, you can weigh in here first. Mark can let all of his thoughts fester and then he can dunk on him.
Starting point is 00:13:59 He can dunk on him at the end. Here's Zach, where are the five wins? I don't see the five wins. You might be losing week two at UNLV. I just don't see that. I think it's a fascinating game. What was it? In December, I sat at a flat tire
Starting point is 00:14:17 next to some of the UNLV football players when they're going to the LA bowl. As much as they're cool, I think they can beat UNLV. Doesn't mean that was the coaching switch and what they've done that they won't beat UCLA, but I like to believe they can get it. Can we go back to what you just kind of slid in there? You ran into the UNLV football team
Starting point is 00:14:37 when they had a flat tire on their bus? There was a couple of players, this was very early in their trip in December. I had a flat tire, ran over something on the 110 freeway in the South Bay, pulled over. Another car came behind me with the flat tire. And there were like three players from the UNLV football team who were telling me,
Starting point is 00:14:55 oh, such and such, you're in the Heisman, this is what happens. Oh, this is cool, we met the new coach. And this is right before they went out and got the dub. How about that? Zach Anderson Yoxheimer, a connected man to UNLV football. OK, Roman, you see five wins for UCLA here? I'm seriously struggling to see where they come from.
Starting point is 00:15:16 So as I look at this, it's going to be really funny. Because let's run in Zach's hypothetical world here where they do beat UNLV. This three game winning streak is going to be the best part of your fall, Zach. Where you UNLV, New Mexico, Northwestern, and then who's the other win in here? Maryland?
Starting point is 00:15:37 Oh, absolutely, bring on Maryland. That's your most winnable big 10 game. I think that's more winnable than at Northwestern because you have to go on the road to Evanston in that makeshift stadium. Like it feels weird. Crazy things can happen. Yeah, for a UCLA win.
Starting point is 00:15:53 I think we can make the math work for five. Absolutely. Okay, name me the five. Let's see. I'm cocky enough to think maybe they can mess around against Utah. Week one to get one of those dumb college football wins that makes no sense. Like a week one where you're like oh what happened there. I think UCLA at home could do something
Starting point is 00:16:11 weird there. Obviously the other two non-conference games and you mix it Northwestern you mix the likes of Maryland. Last year they messed around and won it at Nebraska. Nobody saw that coming. Not saying that that's gonna happen this year or anything, but weird things can happen in the stage of a season where a team could overlook UCLA and the Bruins could steal one again this year and that can account for the five to six wins. Should they, are they good enough? Do they have a lot of question marks? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:16:38 But as I said, I already qualified this. Optimistic fool, you're looking at him, you're hearing him speak right now. The last three games of the season. I mean, the most winnable one is this guy's team. That's Roman for those listening on podcast. That's the most winnable game. And I like Washington's quarterback a heck of a lot more
Starting point is 00:17:00 than whatever UCLA is doing. Like Roman, you got any worry going to the Rose Bowl late in the year? Not really. I'm planning on being down there. Like this is my mom's birthday weekend and everything. So I'm expecting, you know, a nice solid victory, right? Right before Thanksgiving.
Starting point is 00:17:15 I think that's gonna be a whole lot of fun to be at coming, coming home and doing all that sort of stuff. But I look at UCLA and I say all of the best players that impressed me when they were up here last year, they're all gone. There's not a lot that I look at this UCLA team on paper and say, oh, that's somebody I'm going to watch out for. That's somebody I'm going to watch out for.
Starting point is 00:17:36 I don't see it. Okay. Mark's been waiting patiently like a kid in a candy store ready to go crazy and fill up his bag. So you go ahead, Mark Mark and make your case for UCLA over under four and a half wins. So I'm gonna surprise a few of you here, a few of us here.
Starting point is 00:17:53 Last year was kind of atypical of how UCLA football comes out of the box. People don't realize they're on the quarter system. Those guys don't even start classes until beginning of October, it feels like. So they typically are always focused on football, football, football. I can see these guys coming out of the box for no, and then losing their final eight. Okay, okay, okay. The first four are Utah, at UNLV, New Mexico, who has a new coach, and at Northwestern. Remember, no classes, they get to focus on football.
Starting point is 00:18:38 These aren't impossible. This isn't Murderers Roe Spencer. Let's not try and make this into this is a really- No. But it's Kyleyle it's i mean mark you of all people should know kyle wittingham's pretty good kyle wittingham's got one and a half foot out the door right now i'm not even sure he's gonna be the head coach from the season kicks off i'm kidding he will be next year i don't know exactly again you're kind of tempted no no yeah
Starting point is 00:19:01 no i mean he said like yeah our defensive coordinator is the head coach what i'm just saying he's still there for a reason. Unless they can find a quarterback that's going into his 10th year of college football, I'm not sold on Kyle Whittingham this year with Utah. Again, I can see them. I didn't say they're going to do it. I can see it happening, where they go 4-0,
Starting point is 00:19:20 because again, it's not a murderer's row. And then all of a sudden, oh, here's classes, here's the real part of our football schedule. It was eight in a row. I can see it. I can see it happen. Somehow that was an even greater prediction than I ever could have hoped for.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Just take your rival and predict, you know what? I think they could give everyone some hope and life and then they just suck the rest of the year. That's what the Big Ten squad is really all about. And we've still got another segment to discuss. That's Poof. You didn't hear a lot of it back. What's yours?
Starting point is 00:19:59 You didn't hear a lot of it back, did you? I mean, like, well, four, no, I'll take like a 25, ranked being 25th in week five or six and then you would you would which you probably would be quite frankly if you're if you're for no you have the win against Utah you get a road win I would say okay you're ranked that would be a lot of hype now who's talking to be crushing you're not gonna get ranked because you beat Utah in Northwestern yeah Yeah, you could. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a fair point.
Starting point is 00:20:29 Is Utah preseason ranked? Uh, we don't have preseason top 25 yet. I think that it gives you some. Preseason rankings is Utah ranked right now? Uh, it depends on who's preseason top 25 you look at. We're probably saying no. Probably. I mean, I mean, probably. But then the other consideration is UNLV was on the doorstep
Starting point is 00:20:49 of the playoff last year and they have Dan Mullin. I don't know, I've seen crazier things happen in the top 25 poll in the first month than that 4-0 resulting in a top 25 ranking. I think, I don't think that's impossible at all. I do think it's impossible to go 4-0 in those games. But hey, that's just me. Just for the record, I'm hammering the under
Starting point is 00:21:11 on 4 1 1 2 for a second straight year on UCLA. I was only right last year. I mean, I got nervous once they started winning games. Of course, I was like, oh boy, that prediction's, no, looking so hot, but they went under 5 1 1 2. Yeah, I'm not, I don't predictions now looking so hot but they went under five and a half Yeah, I'm like I'm kind of down on that Is anybody here up or down on the transfer portal and the buzz surrounding our the programs that's coming up next First reminder this episode brought to you by fan duel the NBA playoffs are almost here and fan Duel is giving new customers an incredible way to get in on the action.
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Starting point is 00:22:22 and claim your $250 in bonus bets today, check them out at FanDuel.com. Damon Williams is in the po- No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That was a joke. It was flying.
Starting point is 00:22:34 It is crazy. The old line, I think it's from Mark Twain that a lie gets all the way around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. There was a Nico getting $4 million. Is that the Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:22:48 No, no, no, that's actually that's actually not happening. That was a fake tweet that was going around. And but you know, the internet is the internet. So what are you going to do? Right Roman? But portal wise for Washington, good, bad, neutral. Where's where's Washington at right now? I mean, if we're talking the spring portal here, neutral,
Starting point is 00:23:12 like Washington needs a punter like that's that. I'm told Iowa is plentiful. Yeah, that's that's what I hear. Yeah. The Boise State punters in the portal, you know, there's something going on. I'm told Iowa always has a bountiful harvest of leg swingers. Yeah, this is what I hear. Yeah. The Boise State punters in the portal, you know, there's something going on there. I'm told Iowa always has a bountiful harvest of leg swingers. Yeah, this is what I hear. I know, you know, since this is just technically locked on Pac-12, we're still not all that familiar with that.
Starting point is 00:23:34 So, yeah, no, RIP. But I with Washington right now, I'm I'm just looking at it and I say, we're going to see. Mark with the water bottle. We're at Washington is over the 85 man scholarship limit I'm just looking at it and I say, we're going to see the water puddle. Right. Washington is over the 85 man scholarship limit that they've sort of self-imposed at this point in time to maximize revenue share and feel things like that.
Starting point is 00:23:52 So we're probably going to see if a couple guys hit the transfer portal. I'm curious to see if Jetfish wants to, you know, maybe go out and bring in another edge rusher or another offensive lineman depending on how things work out. Personally, I'm in the camp that he's gonna run with some of the young guys he has on the roster. So outside of a parter,
Starting point is 00:24:08 where they're going to be very active in the transfer portal market after bringing in a dusty Zimmer from Pro Kick Australia. And he was on campus for exactly one practice and decided to go back to Australia. So outside of that, doesn't seem like- How rough are those Washington facilities, man? Hey man, that that's that he was
Starting point is 00:24:27 That's a different discussion for a different day He's like nah, like what did he step on that does he hate water or something? What's the problem something like that? No, it's it seems like he was just a little unfamiliar with how football really worked on on this side of the Pacific Ocean so was he under the impression he was gonna have to tackle or something like yeah probably that only happened that only happens once in a blue moon but Mark USC and the spring transfer portal window what what what happens does anything happen here in the coming days so so far right USC's lost in the most recent announcement.
Starting point is 00:25:09 One player that's going to the transfer portal. He was a Redshirt freshman defensive end Lorenzo Cowan. I see USC picking up one to five guys the most. The roster is pretty complete. They need just to fill in some experience holes maybe for some depth pieces an offensive lineman definitely at linebacker and then wide receiver cornerback or the other two positions that people have some mild concerns about. I can see more players possibly leaving USC than USC bringing in just because of what USC did during the off season so far. USC is fine with the transfer report right now. There's not a lot of talk going on that, my God,
Starting point is 00:25:52 we're gonna lose our quarterback to Tennessee like Washington. With the Mon Williams taking the 3 million to go. Just we're clear that is not true. It's just- Yes. We're just throwing jabs at Roman because secretly we don't like him for no reason in particular. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Just we're clear. That is not true. It's just. Yes. We're just throwing jabs at Roman because secretly we don't like
Starting point is 00:26:10 him for no reason in particular but. Wow. Zach, nope. It should be pretty quiet with the USC portal this morning. Zach, I don't think anybody that's uh team-wise represented in this uh squad show today could
Starting point is 00:26:24 benefit more potentially from the portal than UCLA because hey if you start with one of the three or four worst rosters in the conference hey you can improve a lot so they gonna go out and be busy I mean if the craziest headline is Nico coming to UCLA then I would say I think that would signal busy that counts bring portal I think the one thing is Caden Robinson who came from App State with Joey Aguilar, he was deemed ineligible, didn't get that waiver to extend his career. So UCLA might be in the room looking for a receiver. And then one of their punters just hit the portal.
Starting point is 00:26:56 So that could be a space. Oh, Roman, you hear that? Roman, punter in the portal. This is Big Ten football. But I heard he kind of wants to go to Australia, so I mean there's nothing inherently wrong with Australia It's home to like this world seven deadliest snakes and so I would and like biggest spiders, right? Yeah, and big spiders too. I mean that's probably more in the outback, more so than Sydney. I would guess people seem to like it there.
Starting point is 00:27:28 But yeah, I mean, well, let's look, let's close with this important discussion, Zach. How big of a loss is the punter really? Because he could be busy this fall, whoever the punter winds up being, right? I mean, if he transferred from Iowa, probably big, but I remember going to the UCLA LSU game and the big surprise for all you LSU fans was how good the UCLA punter was so I
Starting point is 00:27:50 They had two punters at the time. I don't think it was Brody Richter, but it was you know, they were excited with the punter I think Richter he's moving on I think we'll be fine Excited about the punter. New Highest hole punting is winning mantra again It's winning let's do it I about the punter. The Rick Newhysel punting is winning mantra again. It's winning, let's do it. I mean, it can be. I saw one of my favorite tweets about the Masters from the weekend was when Rory went conservative on the par five 13th and put his wedge in the water.
Starting point is 00:28:19 Someone tweeted Rory just punted on fourth and three at midfield and the punt was blocked. And I thought that was perfect. That is indeed exactly what happened. But hey, Tino Sincere could change things. We don't know. We'll just wait around and find out. Roman Tomashoff locked on Huskies.
Starting point is 00:28:38 Mark Kolkin locked on USC. Zach Anderson Yaksheimer locked on UCLA. I'm Spencer McLaughlin locked on all over the place, sort of. This has been the Biglock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the Glock and I'm Spence from the

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