You're listening to. The back home network. Presented by Home Field Apparel All right folks, welcome back to Crimson Cash. Scott here with you, super excited. I'm I'm fired up. It's only Thursday that's get like the nice cool weather out. We have game there, big noon Saturday, whatever it is. Fox's big show is coming to Bloomington. I'm fired up. I'm very excited for the Indiana Nebraska game. Although I will explain how I'll
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already in them. I think that's. They like, charge five times as much. That's great. Yeah. Yeah, but it would cost $85 a drink. A4 pack. Yeah. But they they'd come with a really cool little like, like hand woven koozie that goes on top of it with like an old, an old like, you know, drive in logo or something that would be there. And yes, it would be like a four pack with the koozies and they're all different types of, you know, drive in logo koozies and it's 75 bucks for a pack.
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Because the other bets we gave did our noon special last week. Those hit. So Army was great for us. Iowa was great for us. So we were able to hit some bets last week at least. So we're we're back for the official Who's your hot streak this week? We are and I'm I'm ready. I have it loaded up. But let's start with our first game of the week. We are going to save Indiana for last.
We are going to go to West Lafayette, by the way, we're adding songs for every team when we're there playing at at home. So we have a couple that we still need name songs for. So if you want to throw it out there, feel free. But this is Thomas the Tank Engine because we are in West Lafayette where Oregon is coming in to probably kick the living shit out of Purdue. But Purdue is a 29 point underdog at home. I want.
Somebody out there on the Internet Internet somewheres to get like figure out a way to superimpose her Topham hat and to Purdue P like that'd be great. This was the 27 1/2 points this morning. So we a line jump here to go over 4 touchdowns. OK, here, here they have a common opponent actually, and it's not a conference opponent. They both played Oregon State this year. OK OK And Purdue got run off the field 38 to 21 and Oregon beat them 49 to 14.
So if we're looking at, you know, what does that mean, right? Is Purdue going to cover 4 touchdowns at home since it's over 4 touchdowns now? I'm tempted to take the points because I think Oregon probably going to have a bit of a let down after their big win against Ohio State. Although I let down or not, they could probably cakewalk to A4 touchdown victory. So that 28 numbers real key here.
I'm going to stay away from it cuz that sounds a little tricky to me. So I'm going to stay away from. I think Oregon probably does cover 28. Will they cover over that? Maybe, probably, but I'm not confident enough to bet that. So I'd probably sway towards more taking the points if you're going to get like 29 1/2 if it goes over 30. I mean take Purdue. I know they're shitty but they put up a bunch of points last week. I guess they also not great Illinois team. So I don't know.
Maybe they're not as dead in the water as we thought, but that might be more of a conversation to have about Illinois. Yeah, 30 points is a lot. All right, Next up we're going out to Piscataway. We're going to New Jersey. UCLA one and five. Maybe they're not good. It's still a good Rd. win at the Rose Bowl, but UCLA is coming in and Rutgers is only a four and a half point favorite at home. Rutgers has put up in their last two games 7 points and seven points. UCLA has been giving up points
and bunches. So we really got, we're going to figure out what, you know, what's going to happen here. We got it over under 41. I kind of like the under here. I think that's probably the best play on this game. But I also think that Rubber Kurz will cover that 4 1/2. You've got the cross country thing, which still seems to kind of be a thing Big 10. And so I think Rutgers probably
covers. I think it's a low scoring affair and I like that under 41. OK, Next up we have OK, turn it up for Wisconsin going to Northwestern. I'm not we need, I need to like triple up that cat sound. We need more of the you doing the cat noise. Northwestern coming off a solid win against Maryland, they are a 7 1/2 point underdog at home. Yeah. So Northwestern, I like that quarterback, man. I really do. I do too.
I was telling people after they beat Mara and I was like, dude, when we played him like that's a, that was a crafty little quarterback. Like he was kind of scary to play against. He was yeah. I'm I OK Wisconsin has won their last two games, 42 to 7 and 52 to six. OK. So they have just been boat racing their last two opponents, one of which was Purdue. So we can kind of throw that out seven and a half on the road. Northwestern, I'm going to take
the over a touchdown here. OK, Next up we have two ranked teams. The other the only, I guess ranked team match up this week going into Illinois. This is your call for Illinois. I, I like this. So we have the Wolverines, Michigan going into Illinois where there is no sex in the champagne room. So says Chris Rock. Illinois is a 3 1/2 point underdog at home. Lots of dog home dogs this week. And we have a total on this game of 44. Last game, Illinois had 99 points total in the game.
So I don't I don't know how they're going to stop Michigan from running. I mean, Michigan can only run, right? Right. But Illinois didn't seem able to stop Purdue at when that's all they were doing too. And Purdue had their, you know, quarterback was a freshman, came in and he was running the ball and they weren't even attempting passes. And Illinois knew it and still couldn't stop.
So, I mean, I see Michigan doing the same thing, but I think Illinois can probably get a, you know, a long play here or there to get a few points. I think this thing goes over the total of 44. And so that'd be my bet on this game. All right, Next up we have going into Maryland. That's what Maryland does. USC at 3:00 and 3:00 going into Maryland. Also three and three. Loser leaves town like loser just goes home. We'll see. Maryland is a 7 1/2 point. I mean, it's the the theme of
the week. Underdogs at home. Maryland is a 7 1/2 point. Underdog at home? Yeah, I like dogs that get over a touchdown. I think USC probably does win this game, but I don't think they'll cover over a touchdown. They seem to have a knack for letting teams come back late in games and every one of their games this year has been pretty close, so I'm going to take Maryland to at least. Cover all right last game before we get to Indiana, we have Iowa at Michigan State.
We don't have any sound effects for Michigan State. So it's it's open. We can talk through that if you have any thoughts, but I would also love listener suggestions. So if anybody has ideas, text us or sorry, tweet us at Crimson cast 317 for me. Crimson cast 260 for James. Hit us both up. Throw us your thoughts for a Michigan State fight song. Maybe it's like like 300, like Spartans. I I don't know.
It's it's we got to workshop it. We don't need to come up with all the answers today, but for the game. Me singing Hollywood Nights by Bob. Seger Karaoke Nope, you singing anything is not the right answer. We have Michigan. Michigan State is a 5 point keeping the trend going. 5 point underdog at home to Iowa. This was at 5 1/2 this morning, so we've got a little bit of movement there. I like Iowa -5 I think that's a pretty good play there. They looked pretty good against Washington.
And even though Michigan State's coming off of a bye, I, I still like that it's under a touchdown here. And so I would take the Hawkeyes. All right, finally a home team were the US and Rutgers are the only two non home teams that are not underdogs. Get used to that. Nebraska coming in at 5:00 and 1:00. Indiana 6 and O 16th ranked in the land. Indiana is a 6 1/2 point favorite at home at Memorial at a sold out Memorial Stadium. With an over under a 51 on the game too.
You are correct. We're looking at that, you know, I'm a Homer, so I'm going to take the just to cover. Hell yeah. That's what I'm going to do. I, I, I think we're looking at a game here where it might be like 31 to 1424 to 10, something like that. I, I do think maybe the under probably hits here because Nebraska's defense I think is stingy. I don't know, Illinois had some success against them and especially on play action. And I I think that we might be
able to take advantage of that. Their their D tackles are really big and that concerns me a little. But our offensive line has been really good. And I think our running backs are, are really good about choosing their holes and and knowing where to go. And Curtis work is good about putting them in the right position. I just think this is too perfect of a spot for IU to lose and fuck this up for them to lose and fuck it up. If that makes sense. Like it was screaming, Hey, watch out.
And I think that Signetti's got his team like focused on that. I, I agree. I, I almost like, I'm a little bit more nervous about the Washington game for that reason that this is the one where like you, you really focus to not screw it up and then maybe they screw it up against Washington. But I, I agree with you, I think they're going to win.
I'm not sure if they cover, but you know, they they've had this ability where I think if you would have asked me in the at halftime of the Maryland and halftime of the Northwestern game, would they cover A7 or 6 1/2 point spread at those games? I'd be like, I don't, I think they're going to win, but I'm not sure. And they came out and covered both, you know, covered my hypothetical spread for both of
those. So I think it's going to be a game where at halftime, maybe even the third quarter, it's like it's going to be tight and you may not feel like they could cover it, but I think they're going to win and it might end up being like a 10 or a 14 point win when all is said and done. I would play around with a live betting as well. James, I'm going to ask you this. This sucks for me. You know, our fall break is just is when it is, we always schedule it.
We, we normally try and take a trip, do this before Indiana releases its football schedule. I can't plan my life around them. We are, we are coming back next Friday. So I will be at the Washington game. I knew I only wanted to miss one Saturday. It just happens that we're missing this Saturday. So we are flying out, going to the Dominican Republic, which should be fun, although there's like a tropical storm that's might be hitting.
So we'll see flying from Baltimore to the Dominican, the flight leaves like 11:00 in the morning. We're flying from here to Baltimore like 6:00 in the morning. But like obviously I'm not like leaving out of Baltimore. It's on Southwest. So they have Fox. I'll watch up until we land. That won't be the end of the game. So here's the question I have for you. Do I try and catch it on Wi-Fi at the airport in Dominican going through customs, then wait till I get to the resort?
Or do I just watch as much as I can on the plane and then turn my phone off and just go radio silent until we get to the resort? And then while my wife will probably while we send the kids to the beach, we just sit there and watch the end of the game not knowing what's happening. Or would it be tough because everyone's going to text me? Like how do? How do I handle this? Here's what I do. I would try and get some Wi-Fi if if available, but you don't need to watch it.
Get a radio broadcast of it, listen to Don Fisher, call it the game. That's my that's my play. When I had to take my son on his college visit and missed that one game, that's what I did. I, I found it on my phone on the radio. And so I just listened to the radio call on my phone so. What app? What app did you use for the radio call? Safari. OK. I just pulled up my web page and I I I just googled IU on the radio with some local station out of.
OK. And just, and they have like a live stream browser or something that's pulled up on. Their live stream browser that's played that and listen to the, you know, the radio play by play. It's a great way to listen to a football. Game. No, it's, it's actually, that's a great idea that I hadn't thought of because.
More reliable and easier than trying to find the broadcast somewhere or getting, you know, I think that might be a little more difficult unless there's a bar in the airport and you can talk to your wife. Well, I mean, so we have, I have YouTube TV so I can pull it up on my phone easy. Like I can get the the the the broadcast. Not going to be a problem. Oh, OK.
Because YouTube TV is like, as long as I have Wi-Fi at the airport and then I mean I can do it on, I have international plan on my phone so I could pull up the YouTube TV. What I was concerned about is, you know, you're going to be hustling around, like, and in customs, they're not huge fans of or in, you know, passport checking customs, They're not huge fans of you having your phone out. Like there's a lot of signs I can't have your phone out.
So I don't want to be there sitting there watching the game. And it's also like, you know, you're, you're getting bags, you're not sure where to go. Like, I like your idea that maybe in the interim, when it's not available, I just have an earbud in and listen to the game.
Because my thing is like I was, if I go radio silent and then wait till I'm at the resort and then try and watch the second-half on the beach, I know if I pull my phone up the minute I hit Wi-Fi or turn it back on, I'm going to have a ton of texts one way or the other. Yeah, you're not going to be able to successfully avoid information on the game. So yeah, I mean, look, we all know Don Fisher's like the Pablo Picasso play, you know, play by play.
He's going to paint a beautiful picture for you of a homecoming football game. Enjoy that part of it. I, I that would be the way I'd go. I think you're right. I like, I like where your heads at. I think that's what I'm going to do. So that is how I'll be watching the game and how I'll be enjoying it. I'm bringing a mic with me, so hopefully I can do a Crimson cast with Galen on Sunday. And then you and I will figure out what we're doing next week because I will be in the
Dominican all week. But if I can, if I can break away, if the internet's good, I'll break away for 20 minutes and we'll do this. Although I'm not sure we'll have all the same production, but we shall see. We're definitely going to the soundboard. I'm not going to travel that with me. All right, man, last week didn't count. You have not missed a Hoosier hot streak yet. Yeah, it's pretty simple. I win. Google me. And that's the same thing as you man. You just win.
Google James, he wins. You have won the 1st Hoosier hot streak. You won the second Hoosier hot streak. I need to know because I I'm not going to be able to live bet in Dominican. So I got to bet before I leave. What is our who's your hot Strix? So you you've won two in a row. So now you have to add a fourth game. You got to have the Indiana game somewhere in there and you've got to add three other Big 10 games.
Let's do it. All right, I have been chastised for sometimes getting a little creative with my alternate point spreads and everything. So we're going back to the original premise of the Hoosier hot streak. I'm giving you 4 money line winners here. OK? So just take them straight up on the money line. We're going with a real easy 1 to get our parlay started. Oregon to beat Purdue. Not great odds, but yeah, our fourth leg and we're just going
to toss it in there. We're going to take IU to win, obviously, and we're going to take Rutgers in Iowa as well. OK, I like it. What does that pay out? That pays out plus 233, so pretty good odds. There. OK, I like it. If you're watching this on YouTube, you see the Hoosier hot streak right down there. You can pull it up and see it. There you go. All right, I hope we get it going. I, I was thinking about this too. You know, you're on such a hot streak. We got four in a row.
If we get this right, we go 5 next week. There are 123456. There's seven Big 10 games. Like there's a reality where if you are just hot for an entire season, we may run out of Big 10 games. I think we that should be a goal one season to get you to a point where there's there's no more Big 10 games you can pick. Well, then you eventually essentially have to pick every single game correctly, you know, in the Big 10.
So if we get to that point, then we'll be feeling pretty good even if we lose, because we would have made a lot of money up to that point. So I, I think at that point, then the next, if we have to add another game, if you, if you've out kicked your coverage and you have so many like you win, you know, week 7 and you have to pick eight games. There's not big, there's not 8 Big 10 games. I think we then have to add a team that has an Indiana tie.
So whether it's like Soresby a quarterback or, you know, de Boer coaching Alabama, I think that would be the way we would solve that is you got to just pick a team that has some kind of tangential Indiana tie. We'll. Cross that bridge. Well, at that point we will have won somewhat. That's like eight straight winning weeks like that. That 17 parlay is going to be like a + 10,000. So as we get all there, we're we're good to go. Do you have anything else
college football? I got a couple basketball NBA things I want to run by you, but do you have any other college football thoughts before I go to? NBA just in general, you know, we were talking about listen to the radio broadcast. You know, Fort Wayne, as I have most of my life, we didn't always get the games up here on television. I mean for Big 10 Network, I mean we rarely got IU games up here. We would have to listen to the radio call.
So there's just something kind of nostalgic about it for me that I've always enjoyed. And I will be watching the game from Fort Wayne. I won't be going to another one till the Michigan game. That's the next one I have tickets for, but I will be at a a barbecue and enjoying some chicken wings and rooting on my Hoosiers. So. OK, I like it. I had amba couple MBA things I wanted to run by you that are also kind of Big 10, Big 10 related.
So I I don't know the odds here. I was trying to pull it up. I haven't bet it yet, but one bet that I like is I like Zach Edie for rookie of the year. I think, Oh, you're already taking it. OK. I took some of my winnings from the IU season total over under and put it on. It was 5 to one odds. Zach Edie, Rookie of the Year. OK, I I think when you look at like the championship odds right now, the Celtics are plus 310 to win it all. I think that's a silly bet.
But what I am going to bet is I think the Celtics will win the East. So and then it's like, all right, can I just connect that with the correct winner on the West? So I'm going to put money and I haven't looked at these odds yet. I should have. This is just more, I'm just thinking out loud, but I'm going to bet on a Timberwolves Celtics Finals along with a Thunder Celtics finals.
So you're you're getting a little bit of a juice by picking the Western team, but it's also kind of a hedge on picking the Celtics to, I mean, win it all, but at least make the Finals. No Denver in there, huh? No, their team is awful. I mean Jokic is great, but the team around them is not good. All right. I also I was listening to a preview about this. I don't know the odds, right?
It's just the Action Network only has I was going to talk to pull it up. As I talked about the only futures they have are the NBA championship futures, which is like thanks, super helpful. They don't have the end of the MVP odds. But I was hearing that like Devin Booker for MVP is like 100 to one. I don't know if that's right, that if that's the case, I'm going to take at least 10 bucks on that.
I'm not sure he's going to win, but that's a like, if the Suns end up having a great year and he does really well, he'll be high in the MVP candidates candidacy. I think NBA futures bets are generally a fool's errand, so I would caution anybody not to invest too heavily in NBA futures bets. I love doing the futures. I love doing the over unders. I think the Lakers, I think they're like 30, seven wins, 37 1/2.
I would take the under on them. I take the under on the Clippers. I'm a big over on the Timberwolves and I'm also a over on the Pacers. I think they are their number is a little bit low. So those are my over under thoughts. What? About Bronny James, you got any Bronny James props? They they don't do a lot of G League props on FanDuel. So no, because he's going to
here. Here's my take on what What's going to happen in my view on Bronny James is he will play the first game of the season, they'll get it out of the way and then he'll go to the G League for the rest of the year. I can't understand that kid. Like, that would make me to my stomach if I were in his shoes and like my daddy was doing everything for me. Like, that's like, I don't know. It's just nepotism run rampant and it disgusts me to no end as
an outside observer. I don't know how you could possibly be that kind of person. And then I saw like something where like LeBron was like trying to get like some specialized, like video game skin or something for his son or something. I'm like, oh, that's how you get that way and not care because you've been treated like that your whole life. And I don't know, it's kind of disgusting to me. There's like guys who have worked their asses off who are really talented.
And this asshole is just taking up a roster spot because his daddy said so. That would. I don't know how he walks in a locker room full of men. I don't know. It's those are all true. I mean, I it's the last roster spot and again, he'll probably be in the G League in two weeks. Where I do think it's funny is I mean, this is the Indiana ties. You know, Jalen Hood Shafino is on the Lakers and you know, come middle of the year, I just don't think the Lakers are going to be great this year.
But this is I mean, this is a trend every single year there will be trade rumors swirling around that team because that is the way LeBron, that's his mode of business. And what sucks is a guy like, you know, Jalen Hood Shafino or I think Max Christie still on that team from Michigan State the year before. Both of them are going to be in every single trade rumors and Bronnie James is not.
And that's that's what's going to be annoying is you're Jaylen Hood Shaffino, you're trying to get your foot in the league or trying to make a name for yourself. You're going to just spend 8 months on the trade block. And that that's that's a tough pill to swallow. I hear you on. The trade block so you know it works out. Yeah, I mean, I hear you on the it's, I think it's tough for Brawny, his son. I think they he's put him in a tough position.
But I also, I understand as a father, it's like, if you could do this for your kid, it is pretty cool. No, I, I wouldn't either. But I, I, I, I understand the like, I, I want to make this happen. I think it's a cool thing. I understand Lebron's psyche behind it. The thing that I find funny is like this happened this offseason.
You know, Bronny was playing in a summer league game and there was some video of Jaylen Brown watching the game and kind of turned to his girlfriend and was like, that dude, that guy's AG League player. Or say he said something like that. Like that guy ain't ready for the NBA. He's AG League guy. But he didn't say it as like a joke. He was just kind of like saying like what he saw. Like, I just don't think he's ready for it. And everyone took offense like, Oh my God, like, how can you
disrespect LeBron? It's like we're allowed like it. I will say if you're going to be in the league, we're allowed to talk about you like every other player. And by the way, saying you're AG league player, like that's not it. Like that's not a knock. Like you're still pretty effing good. Like guys in G League are better than anybody you've ever seen play basketball outside of the NBA. And by the way, like I can think LeBron. I don't I could think LeBron is like the best player ever.
I can also think his kids isn't good at basketball. Like those two things can both occur at the same time. Like just me knocking your son's ability to play doesn't mean I'm knocking LeBron. So I think some of that is a little bit overdone and you see that in the media like people are really, really soft pedaling how to handle to talk about Brody because I don't want to piss off LeBron. I think that's kind of a interesting.
Subplot. Yeah, but when radio stations like start talking about it or, or the sports TV shows or whatever, I just turned the channel because I could care less about LeBron and his kid and the Lakers drama, considering I'm, you know, in northwest or Northeast Indiana. No, it's true. Well, in the end, like there's the Pacers just cut, I think a Kendall Walker Brown like this some. I'm a huge Pacers fan. I have season tickets. I don't even know who it is.
Like there's all of these guys who get, you know, second round guys who get signed and then go to G League and get cut and like they have a two year. Like that is what he is and very few of those guys ever hit. We're seeing one and Trace Jackson Davis hit which is awesome, but most of the time second round picks just don't amount to much. So, but Jerry Walker spent a lot of, you know, I mean, he spent most of his time on the G League last year, right?
I think he they're planning on him being an integral part of the team. But he's a lottery pick. He better. He just needed minutes, yeah, you know, and he wasn't going to get them. So, you know, I mean, the Geely can be used for different things. For Brawny, it's he just doesn't have the skill set to play in the NBA. And I think that's why, you know, he ends up there. So. All right, enough basketball talk. I started it. But enough of this. James.
Thank you so much for joining. I will talk to you at some point next week or if we don't, we will we'll we'll get the who's your hot streak out. There will be some kind of audio that I'll be able to put up next week. So don't you fear. Fear not, Crimson Cash fans. There will be something next week. And they can always follow an X as well. Crimson cast 260. That's me. He's Crimson cast 317. You got it.
All right, man, you couldn't have ended it better if I tried it myself, but I will try it myself. All right, for James Scott. Thank you all for listening. This is Crimson Cash signing off.