Dave Damashek

You got me for 15 more minutes.

Don't threaten us.

Why...

Why were Big Ten officials doing the Fiesta Bowl?

Because that game was going to determine who was playing a Big Ten opponent.

And if you want to put on your conspiracy hat, Big Ten, Wisconsin, Xavier Lucas, tied up in litigation.

Suing.

I didn't feel great about that.

I didn't like seeing the Big Ten officials on the game that would directly impact a Big Ten team's title chances.

What kind of officials are tonight?

I think it's the ones from the Texas A&M game.

Not Big Ten.

I'm curious about where everybody feels Lucy's rooting interest should be as a rival, a Big Ten rival of the Indiana Hoosiers.

The referees might be incented to see the conference do well, although what we end up seeing usually is that they don't want that stink of, you're biased in favor of your conference, so in fact they make calls to disprove that they're biased.

That is the way things end up going.

But in this case, Lucy, are you on the side of, with, you know, 98% of Football America on the side of the feel-good story that is Fernando, Coach Sig, and the Indiana Hoosiers?

What are you, getting a piece of the action?

Don't fall back on that.

I'm some intellectual.

It's good for the program ultimately in the long term.