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Podcast: Cover 3 College Football Episode: Spring Game Lookahead For Indiana, Oregon & Notre Dame + MAILBAG Questions & More! Segment: Indiana podcast segment **Team-Specific Podcast Notes** - also, as you see in the headline, we are going to be looking ahead to the spring game action which includes Indiana having its spring game at the exact same time as arguably its biggest NFL draft moment in school history. - I I you know, like millions of people, I'm going to pretend that I'm suddenly an Indiana football fan. - if I am an Indiana football fan, that feels kind of unfair to me. - **Episode:** also, as you see in the headline, we are going to be looking ahead to the spring game action which includes Indiana having its spring game at the exact same time as arguably its biggest NFL draft moment in school history. - **Episode:** I I you know, like millions of people, I'm going to pretend that I'm suddenly an Indiana football fan. - **Episode:** if I am an Indiana football fan, that feels kind of unfair to me. Transcript excerpt: Smash that subscribe, smash that like, and come and join us in the chat, aka the Cover 3 Tailgate, rocking and rolling here on a Thursday because this is the time of year, this is the time of week when we get interactive. We've got questions coming from the big old bag of mail where listeners have left us a five-star review and put a mailbag question in there. We are also going to be getting to those Spotify comments which no mailbag questions that I saw per se Tom, but some reaction so we can offer a reaction to the reaction which you know, I'm always willing to do at least take a few minutes to do that here on a Thursday. And also, as you see in the headline, we are going to be looking ahead to the spring game action which includes Indiana having its spring game at the exact same time as arguably its biggest NFL draft moment in school history. I thought about this, you know? So can can we sync up Josh Hoover throwing a touchdown pass as Fernando Mendoza is getting drafted? I don't think I don't I know Kurt's a big fan of the Cover 3 podcast. I don't know if he's into those kinds of things, but that at least would be a fun moment. Maybe even pause the spring game and and let everybody celebrate Fernando, the past, and Josh Hoover, the future. There's a lot of possibilities in Bloomington here on a Thursday night. So they're actually doing it tonight? >> Watch it on Big Ten Network. If you don't want to watch the nine different ways to watch the NFL draft here on this Thursday night and you are all about Nick Marsh and you're like, I want to see Nick Marsh catch touchdown passes from Josh Hoover. If you're into that, that is your option. Like listen, you can watch on ESPN, ABC, NFL Network, CBS Sports HQ is going to have awesome coverage. We Ryan Wilson, who joined us last week, has been doing the the full CBS Sports HQ tour. He was in Fort Lauderdale, then he'll be up in Stamford for all of the draft coverage in primetime. So, lots of different ways to track and follow the draft. But also, at the exact same time, the reigning national champions having their spring game over on the Big Ten Network. I mean I get the thought behind it. I I you know, like millions of people, I'm going to pretend that I'm suddenly an Indiana football fan. Like if I am an Indiana football fan, that feels kind of unfair to me. >> To that wants to celebrate Fernando? >> Yeah, like I want to watch the NFL draft so I could see Fernando Mendoza, the greatest quarterback in my school history, the guy who led us to a national title get drafted. But in order to do that, if I care enough where I want to watch the spring game, I'm going to miss the start of the spring game because the NFL draft starts at 7:00 or 7:00 8:00 Eastern on ESPN and NFL Network, all the other networks that it's on. But like it won't really get going until like 7:15, 7:20. I don't I don't I don't know if I like that decision. I think that's unfair to me and my fellow sudden Indiana fans. Yeah, I listen, but this has also avoided the criticism of a closed practice because as it was pointed out in the tailgate, if you're having your spring game at the same time as the NFL draft, it might as well be a closed practice. So, we'll we'll see >> in the chat they're showing the draft on the video boards in the stadium. If I'm not I'm at home. Like if I'm unless I'm at the stadium, what good does that do me? I just noticed your I just noticed on youtube.com/cover3 you got a little shout out to was it 3-0? >> yeah, the Dodgers suck. >> Yeah, let's go twins. Everybody's been looking for a way for MLB to fix the sport to keep the Dodgers from dominating. Apparently, the only thing you had to do have them do was play the Giants. It's not like there are 40,000 people on campus all the time. I think both being in metropolitan areas, the people within the athletic department would argue that we are constantly pitching ourselves to people who are not alumni to become fans. And there's an NFL stadium that you're pitching >> They can Yeah, or maybe they're going to be they're going to start like That's going to be their intro into that they probably live far Most of their fans probably live far closer to that pro stadium than they do to the campus. Coming up on the other side, taking a look at some of the spring game action this weekend, which includes both Notre Dame and Indiana and more. When you need your sports news all the time, we've got breaking news to bring to you. CBS Sports HQ hits every highlight from all the sports that matter to you. We're bringing you that breaking news right here on HQ. CBS Sports HQ, streaming free 24/7. Back here on the Cover 3 podcast. Yes, some commentary including the point that Miami Gardens is not Coral Gables, the stadium is not necessarily near the university and if you go to where the university is, we don't really have don't really have the the the space to be able to all of the sudden let a let a massive state college football stadium spring up out of nowhere. And to my I haven't been to Pittsburgh in 9 years, 10 years or so, but to my mind around campus, I didn't really see a lot of empty space either where all of the sudden you'd be able to dig everything out and spring up a new football stadium out of nowhere. Pittsburgh on its own, one of our country's most underrated cities. I like Pittsburgh a lot. Pro Pittsburgh This is a pro-Pittsburgh podcast. Pro Pittsburgh versus the city. Danny's got the Pittsburgh connections, yeah. But he's the only one here who hates the city, thinks it's a hellhole. But he likes >> his exact words. >> [snorts] >> He's a big Pat Narduzzi guy, very much against the Steel City as a as a municipality. All right, let's look ahead at the spring game action. We mentioned Indiana on Thursday night. Besides the NFL Draft conflict, what is going to be standing out to you? Cuz again, this one is on Big Ten Network, so no matter what your Thursday night plans are, whether you're watching the Caroli