After a busy week of sports — covering eight games and broadcasting four — I have a lot to go over in my weekly hour radio show on WIUX.
The Sunday Night Conversation airs from 8-9 pm Sundays and can be heard on 99.1 FM in Bloomington and online anywhere at wiux.org. Feel free to tweet me @ScottAgness or call in to offer your thoughts or spark conversation at 812-855-9489.
First as always, I’ll get into the IU football team and what went wrong (again) this week in East Lansing. I broadcast the game so I have a lot to say on the 1-10 Hoosiers, although I think the audience has already moved on with the season.
At 8:15 pm, I’ll be joined with Chris Denari, the television voice of the Indiana Pacers. No, we won’t be hitting on the NBA because well, we both can’t talk about it and there aren’t any developments anyway. With no NBA games, Denari has called the Hoosiers last two home games, against Chattanooga and Savannah State. I’ll get hit opinion on where IU stands and how he has the rest of the Big Ten stacks up because he’s also called two Ohio State games as well.
The Indiana basketball team has put on four straight dominant performances to open the season. Cody Zeller makes IU so much better. Sophomores Will Sheehey and Victor Oladipo have made big strides from their freshman year and Derek Elston is finally healthy. There are a lot of reasons to be encouraged by the team, even if its early.
Brandon Gaudin, the voice of the Butler Bulldogs will join the show around 8:30 to chat about Butler’s surprising 1-2 start. Replacing Matt Howard and Shelvin Mack is impossible but Coach Brad Stevens and company believe they have a strong core of young talent.
I’m confident Butler will get back to their winning ways. Right now they are just struggling with a learning curve. Gaudin can also help us preview the in-state matchup a week from today, when Butler heads to Bloomington to face the Hoosiers.
Our third guest will be Indiana sophomore Nikita Kotlov. He is a mid-fielder on the IU soccer team that advanced to the sweet sixteen today with a 3-0 win over Old Dominion. A fellow North Central graduate like myself, Kotlov has gone a terror the last nine games scoring eight goals. He scored two against ODU and assisted on Tim Wylie’s goal. I’m anxious to hear his take on where the team is at, what’s gotten into his play and preview their next game in a week against No.1-seed North Carolina.
The Colts didn’t lose today, but they also didn’t play (got ya, it’s their bye week). Indy hosts the 2-8 Carolina Panthers next week in a game between the two worst teams in the league.
We will of course wrap the show up with what grinds our gears. Call in and let your opinion be known. Most of all, sit back and enjoy. It should be a great one.