Today on the podcast, we welcome back Zach Schneider, a former Northwest Missouri State player and longtime assistant/associate head coach under Ben McCollum, to discuss McCollum’s first season at Iowa and the program’s rapid rise from regular-season inconsistency to an Elite Eight run highlighted by beating Florida and rival Nebraska. Schneider recaps his background, explains McCollum’s recruiting approach, emotional intelligence, culture-building, and practice consistency, and argues those factors drive winning more than Xs and Os. The group evaluates Iowa’s roster fit for McCollum’s system, emphasizing the need for an impact true center and a playmaking guard to replace Bennett Stirtz, while noting key returners and young wings like Tate Sage, and Cooper Koch. They also discuss NIL/“payroll,” rotation preferences, Big Ten size/physicality matchups, and realistic expectations going forward.

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In this Friendship podcast episode, Kluv welcomes Drake and GB Bone, open with jokes about Tiger Woods’ crashes and Masters week, and discuss an AI-edited Masters Champions Dinner image, the tradition itself, and the note that the reigning champion pays the tab. They react to Rory McIlroy’s commissioned Masters drawing and criticize his personality, then recap March Madness, including a Duke endgame meltdown, an Iowa highlight in One Shining Moment, and Michigan winning the national title. The conversation shifts to swim technique advice for an upcoming CrossFit event, brief Masters betting odds via FanDuel, an Iowa football big-hit clip, and the optics of the Diana Russini–Mike Vrabel pool photo. They then criticize NIL plus the transfer portal and note Iowa women’s losses and Iowa men’s surge under Ben McCollum, before ending with a story about a 6’9" Texas lefty throwing 100 mph and teasing a next episode with Zach Schneider.

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