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Send us a text This Levi, Cole, and Marchie breakdown the UL-Monroe game and the 72 offensive explosion from the Cyclones. The win over the Warhawks showed a glimpse of what this offense can do at full capacity, and what the future may look like with the second team playing the entire fourth quarter. While the performance was impressive overall, the Cyclones certainly weren't perfect, so we take a...

Send us a text Levi, Cole, and Marchie are back to discuss the disappointing end to this year's CyHawk game, and why there's a lot of hope left for the rest of the season despite the disappointing loss. Then, we talk about what our takeaways mean for the rest of the season, as well as in this weekend's matchup with UL-Monroe.  Finally we talk a little about the new "development district" Jamie Pol...

Send us a text This week, Levi, Cole, and Marchie preview this year's edition of the CyHawk football game, as Matt Campbell looks to get his first ever win over Kirk Ferentz's Hawkeyes. We give our breakdown of both sides of the ball, and make our picks as to who takes home the trophy.

Send us a text After a closer than expected season opener against UNI, Levi, Cole, and Marchie are here to let everybody know that everything's gonna be okay. We break down the game against the Panthers and talk about a few things we saw that could be potential indicators for the rest of the season. We capped off the episode by taking a stab at picking this weekend's games, though Marchie is insis...

Send us a text This week, Marchie and Levi took a look at few of the major storylines around the football world, including our preview of Iowa State's first football game against Northern Iowa. First, we talk about last week's crazy, but ugly Florida-Miami game. It was interesting to watch, but how does the overall poor play of both teams affect perception of each team going forward? Next, we talk...

Send us a text As the final week of camp wraps up, Marchie dishes on some new info he got from camp about how the team is doing, and what players have stood out the most as we head into the first game week of the season. Cole and Marchie also talked about what their first game weeks and actual playing time was like, including Cole's first kick, and Marchie's first reception. Turns out, college ath...

Send us a text In part two of our comprehensive Iowa State football, Levi, Matthias, Cole, and Marchie return to talk about the Cyclone defense and special teams units. Iowa State brings back arguably the strongest defense in the conference, and one of the best defensive lines in the country. Will Iowa State's front seven be able to propel the team to the Big 12 title game? What does depth look li...

Send us a text This week, we're doing a two part in-depth season preview podcast for the 2019 Iowa State football season. Up first is the offense where we talk about one of the most exciting units in school history. We broke the podcast down by position, and gave our thoughts on a myriad of questions, including: What does Brock Purdy's potential look like, and where can he take the team? Is 2019 "...

Send us a text After a week of camp, Marchie got the scoop on what's been happening at practice on the offensive side of the ball. We talked about a few of his info nuggets, and what they might mean as we head into the meat of fall camp and the first game of the season.

Send us a text Football season has officially started as Iowa State players had their first practices this week. Cole and Marchie talk about approaching camp as a freshman player, in contrast to what going into your final fall camp is like, and how you prepare differently. The guys also dish on what a typical camp day looks like, and exactly what "camp eyes" are. Then, we each gave our three playe...

Send us a text In this episode, we discuss some of the over-arching factors that have kept Iowa State from being a high-level program in the past. Is it really "difficult" to win in Ames, or have the Cyclones simply lacked the elite coaching required to make that jump?  If Nebraska can become one of the winningest programs in history in a place like Lincoln, NE, then what's stopping Iowa State fro...

Send us a text This week, a bevy of reporters, athletes, and coaches descended on Arlington for Big 12 Media Days. These press conferences are largely just "coach speak" and cliches, but we dug into some of the different storylines we heard, especially Matt Campbell and managing the team's expectations coming into the season. Then, we took a deep dive into the depth chart and some of the position...

Send us a text This week, we're celebrating the 50th episode of Down the Pipe & Natty Lite! We talk about how the podcast originally came together, some of our favorite episodes and topics, and what we've learned and enjoyed most through the experience. We'd like to thank all of our listeners that have helped grow this podcast, and continue to support us as we work to make it better and better for...

Send us a text With UConn heading back to the Big East (for everything except football), we took a look at how this specific move could affect Iowa State in the future. Could the Cyclones get their chance at a revenge game for the 2014 NCAA Tournament? Then, we dove into conference realignment as a whole. What might it look like this time around? Could the Big 12's deal with ESPN+ actually be ahea...

Send us a text This week, the Cyclones landed a commitment from three-star Florida receiver Aidan Bitter, who flew WAY under the radar of recruiting services. As in, he didn't have any sort of rating on either 247 or Rivals. However, since then, Bitter has jumped way up to a mid-three star, with a low four-star rating within reach. Could Bitter be one of the steals of the class? This weekend is al...

Send us a text First, Levi and Marchie talked about Kevin Durant's Achilles injury and its short and long term affects. Could KD's willingness to risk is health in the name of leading the Warriors to a series comeback a possible sign that he wants to stay at Golden State? Then, they touched on David Montgomery and Hakeem Butler, and what their realistic expectations look like for the 2019 season....

Send us a text Recently, the NCAA voted to change a few rules in college basketball, most notably moving the three point line back to the international distance of 22'-1 3/4". We talked about how the various rule changes might affect Iowa State and the rest of the Big 12.Then, we talked about Iowa State football's nonconference schedule for the next decade. With home-and-home series scheduled with...

Send us a text This week, we dive into a couple video game franchises that are near and dear to the hearts of millions of gamers in Call of Duty  and NCAA Football. The release trailer for the newest entry, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, will probably immediately draw some nostalgia to the 21+ gamer crowd, but don't mistake this as just another cheap nostalgia play. The series appears to be headed...

Send us a text First, Levi talked to grad transfer receiver La'Michael Pettway to hear why he chose to come to Iowa State, what relationships he's already developing, and who he's most looking forward to playing in the fall. Then, Jay Jordan (52 Trap) made a return to his old stomping grounds to do a deep analysis on the 2019 Cyclone Football roster. We broke up the players into different "tiers,"...

Send us a text Now that the Iowa State football roster appears to be set, we took a look at the 2019 football schedule, and talk about which games are the most important to the Cyclones on their quest to breaking the school record for wins in a season. Next, we talked about some of the most likeable and hateable players in pro sports in light of the some of the NBA's star players seeming to drift...

Send us a text Iowa State picked up two important new players in football and basketball this week in transfer receiver La'Michael Pettway and 2019 freshman guard Caleb Grill, respectively. We took a look each player's skill set, and how well they'll fit in with their respective schemes. If you'd like to hear more about Pettway, we have you covered, because he'll be joining us for next week's epis...

Send us a text For the first time in five years, Iowa State had a player selected in the NFL Draft. We took a look at David Montgomery, Hakeem Butler, and all the undrafted free agents and examined how they fit on their new teams and what their prospects look like on those teams. Spoiler alert: we're really excited about David Montgomery on the Bears. Then, we pivoted to one of Cole's favorite new...

Send us a text As part of a new series of podcasts, we're going to be breaking down some of the best games, teams, seasons, players, and moments in Cyclone sports history. For this first episode, we took a look a the game that really kicked off the Matt Campbell era, the 2017 win at Oklahoma. We took a look at all of the different storylines from the lead up to the game, the game's biggest and mos...

Send us a text First off, we discussed the Thunder's early exit from the playoffs at the hands of the Blazers, and Russell Westbrook's role in their demise. With his high-volume, low-efficiency playing style, can the Thunder ever get the right mix of players around him to win a championship, or will Russell have to change his game to have a chance at a ring? Next, with Avengers: Endgame releasing...

Send us a text This past weekend, Tiger Woods captured his 5th green jacket at Augusta National, and his 15th major title after over a decade of struggles. Even if you never "forgive" Tiger for his personal transgressions, being able to come back after them and a slew of back and knee injuries and win a major places him near the top of any list of greatest redemption stories. We took some time to...