Scott is joined by Glenn (@ASeaofBlue) from the Kentucky basketball blog A Sea of Blue, to talk about the ending of the IU vs UK game.
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Scholarships, Matt Roth & IU vs UK Series
Scott & Galen record a quick mid-week pod.
Topics they cover are:
- How the excitement for IUBB could be good for IUFB, by making us forget this upcoming Football season
- Scholarship numbers
- Matt Roth
- The end of the Indiana vs Kentucky series
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INDYCAR & 2012 Indy 500 talk with George from Oilpressure.com
Scott is joined by George from Oilpressure.com to discuss:
- Will Power’s recent dominance
- Dario Franchitti’s struggles
- Lotus’s struggles
- KV Racing and Tony Kanaan, can he get back on track?
- Marco Andretti
- James Hinchcliffe
- JR Hildebrand
- Helio Castroneves and why he has such a great shot at this year’s Indy 500
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INDYCAR and 2012 Indy 500 talk with George from Oilpressure.com [ 55:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (495)The Power Grid – Post Brazil
Starting this week, after every race we will post our “Power Grid”, currently the top 11 drivers in my view. Why 11? Because everyone else does a top 10, and TK is my favorite driver and is #11, so seems good enough reason for me!
We will also post a graph showing the Championship points standings graph for the season. Onto the power grid!
1st – Will Power - 180 points / 1st place
This list is not named after Will, but I have a feeling that he will be on top for much of this season and future seasons, so it may well be named after him after all is said and done. I’m a fan of Will, but not of his victory celebration. The “Power Leap” just seems a bit forced and looks a bit to much like something you would see in an episode of Glee. Would so much rather he just do the double bird after every win. That would get us on the A segment of PTI!
2nd – Scott Dixon – 109 points / 6th place
Had it not been for an engine problem at Long Beach and a bad caution at Brazil, he could very well have 4 podiums so far this season. I also think that Scott is looking forward to a season where he will get all the Ganassi resources as their championship contender.
3rd – Helio Castroneves – 135 points / 2nd place
I really have no idea how Helio was able to finish 4th in Brazil. It didn’t help that NBCSports had to buy the video feed from the local network. They couldn’t just get access to all the cameras and edit it themselves? Or they couldn’t have sent a few of their own camera guys so we could get a good broadcast? Why does NBCSports treat these races like a US Air Force Drone, putting the commentators in a booth in the desert and just sending the video into them? Although it was fun seeing Kevin Lee have to fight a Brazilian reporter to get the Will Power interview in victory lane.
I just know that someone Helio was missing part of his front wing and finished 4th. He is coming in Indy, with his best chance at getting #4.
4th – Ryan Hunter-Reay – 121 points / 4th place
How many times in the month of May will we hear about how much more “relaxed” and “friendly” the atmosphere is at Andretti Autosport. We should create a bingo board of all the ways that they will talk around the truth – Danica was a real drag on that team and must have been a royal pain in the ass.
Although, know this Ryan. If you get bumped again this year, especially if we only have 34 cars, you will be off this list for the season!
5th – James Hinchcliffe – 123 points / 3rd place
A VERY consistant start for James this season. Great to see this from the Mayor of Hinchtown! Hope he gets a lot of face-timeduring the month of May, as he might be the best personality in the series today.
6th – Simon Pagenaud – 118 points / 6th place
Close call between Simon & James. I give the nod to James, because Simon is a rookie in the series and at Brazil he didn’t look great. Also be interested to see how he does now that we are moving over to a few more ovals. We still race those in this series, don’t we?
7th – JR Hildebrand – 83 points / 7th place
7th & 5th in the last 2 races. Not bad for a someone who is still cutting his teeth on the road/street courses. His biggest hurdle is coming this month, as the reigning champion of the Indianapolis 499.75, I’m very curious to see how he handles his first year back to IMS. If Marco is any indication, after coming so close as a rookie, JR might be in for a few years of struggling. I hope it’s not the case for JR.
8th – Takuma Sato – 83 points / 7th place
It was very nice to see Sato finally get to a podium, as he deserved to be there at Long Beach. There are flashes of brilliance with Sato. Unfortunately, there is always a lapse of judgement, which normally sends him into the wall. My money is still on him NOT finishing 500 miles in May
9th – Rubens Barrichello – 79 points / 11th place
Since St. Pete, he has been in the top 10 of every race. I think we will see improvement in every future road/street course. I really thought that he would help Tony Kanaan improve this season and KV would be a team to be reckoned with. Doesn’t look like the case so far, which makes me very worried if the window has shut on TK.
I just want to know why INDYCAR allowed Rubens to color his number in such a way that it looks like an X. Can’t we just agree that everyone has to have solid numbers? The cars are already going 200+ mph, do we need to make it HARDER to catch the numbers?
10th – Ryan Briscoe – 83 points / 7th place
Seems like it is going to be another Briscoe year, where he hangs around the top 10 in most of the races, but is never a threat to win. A big month of May could really help him out.
11th – Dario Franchitti – 82 points / 10th place
How many horseshoes does he have up his ass? Is it over a baker’s dosen? He gets spun around in Brazil in a place where most people would get hit, and if he did get taken out, it would have probably been the nail in this season for him. Yet, nobody hits him and he comes back and finishes 5th. Until he is mathematically eliminated, he must stay on this list.
That’s The Power Grid for this week. It will be updated after Indy 500 qualifying.
2012 IZOD Championship Points Graph – After Brazil
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Long Beach – Post-Race Call-in Show
Long Beach Post Race Call In Show.
Topics discussed:
- Will Power’s dominance
- The end of Dario’s Championship chances
- Honda’s problems and dreadful finish
- Very bad day for Ganassi Racing
- Great runs by Pagenaud, Hinchcliffe & Hildebrand
- Looking ahead to Brazil
Join us after every race this season, details about the times of the show will be sent out via Twitter, the morning of the race. You can call us during the show at (626) 696-8557.
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Review of #IUBB Season and Preview of 2012-2013 Season
Scott & Galen have taken some time to reflect on the end of the 2011-2012 IU Basketball Season and are now ready to talk about it, and look forward to next season. (Please note, this was recorded on April 9th, before Watford and Zeller announced they were coming back)
Topics they cover are:
- Why this team was so special and so rare
- Giving credit to Coach Crean
- Watford and his decision
- Zeller and his decision, if staying another could hurt or help his NBA future
- Scholarship numbers
- Is next year our 1 year window to win a Championship?
- Replacing Kentucky with Kansas on the schedule
- Going into next year ranked #1 and how it could effect this team
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Barber – Post-Race Call-in Show
Grand Prix of Alabama Post Race Call In Show.
Topics discussed:
- How Dario and Kanaan are in similar bad situations to start the year
- How great it is to have NBC Sports back telecasting the races
- Will Power’s win and possibly start to a championship season
- Problems with the pits and what that could mean for the first pit-stop at Indy
Join us after every race this season, details about the times of the show will be sent out via Twitter, the morning of the race. You can call us during the show at (626) 696-8557.
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Coach Kevin Wilson Spring Football Update
Yesterday Kevin Wilson spoke to the media about how things have been going with the team so far in spring practice. If you haven’t seen it, you can view the video below.
Most of it is normal Kevin Wilson “coach-speak”, although I do like his comment at the 1:10 mark that we should be humble after going 1-11.
I have a hard time believing that many players were getting pumped up last season from, as Coach Wilson says, “blog, girlfriends, mothers”. I can’t imagine that after another loss, many players were getting big heads after reading comments on this blog or……………wait, I’m not sure there are any other blogs or podcasts relating to IU Football. So did Coach Kevin Wilson just plug CrimsonCast? I think so! Thanks Coach!
Review of IU Football Spring Highlight Video
IU Athletics released a Spring Football Highlight video on YouTube and with only 139 views as of this posting, I think back to
Harry Dolye in Major League saying “In case you haven’t noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven’t”.
So given that you probably haven’t seen this video, you can view it below. Now, let’s review what we see from our IUFB team:
- I’m really not a fan of them editing the video to make things go in slow motion. Makes me wonder if the video has been edited or if we are just really that much slower!
- 0:28 Mark – Nice pass by Roberson…..to bad he didn’t see that the receiver had no room after the catch and got drilled right after he caught it
- 0:38 Mark – Nice to see we learned the Black & White feature in iMovie. But seriously, in a 1 minute highlight video, you decide to put in a 6 yard wobbly pass from new QB Coffman? Really? This makes me think that all his passes in practice thus far have been worse than this one. Ugh!
- 0:43 Mark – And cue a 7 yard wobbling duck pass from Roberson. Seriously, this video is only 1 minute long. This is one of the best passes that we have on tape from Roberson this spring. Consider me scared for the upcoming season. Either we are not going to win another game, or our video editing guys are missing tons of great footage and thus our pre-game intro video is going to be bad
- 0:47 Mark – While I am excited about the run, seeing a defender miss a takle and get pushed to the ground with a weak stiff arm reminds me a bit to much of last season’s defense
What I take from this video is that either Tre Roberson can’t throw a spiral or our video guys can’t film him doing it. What do you think?
St. Pete – Post-Race Call-in Show
This season we will be hosting a post-race call-in show after every Izod INDYCAR race.
This week we talked about the season opener at St. Petersburg with Galen and George (@OilPressureBlog) from Oilpressure.com.
Topcis included:
- How the new body style effected Helio’s win
- Thoughts on the new look car
- How ABC covered Rubens Barrichello’s first race in the series
- The lack of passing
Join us next week after the race at Barber for the Call-In Show starting at 5pm. You can call us at (626) 696-8557. We will also send out more details via Twitter as we get closer to next Sunday.
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