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Chris Ballard Press Conference Reaction + College Football Season Preview! Rhett Lewis, Tom Dienhart, Ted Karras Jr. Join!

Query & Company

93.5 & 107.5 The Fan

Sports

3.1759 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

(00:00-11:50) – Query & Company opens on a Hump Day Wednesday with Jake Query and producer Eddie Garrison discussing some takeaways from the initial 53-man roster for the Indianapolis Colts. They also discuss the big win last night for the Indiana Fever over the Seattle Storm.

(11:50-20:29) – With College Football kicking off, officially, this weekend, Jake and Eddie discuss what the win total would be if you combined the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Hoosiers, and Purdue Boilermakers. They examine Purdue and Indiana’s schedule, and touch on just the unpredictability of Purdue’s season right now.  

(20:29-30:19) – The first hour of the program wraps up with Tom Dienhart from GoldAndBlack.com joining the program to provide his input if we have any idea on what type of season the Purdue Boilermakers are going to have in year one with Barry Odom. He also examines some of the notable transfers that the coaching staff is high on, explains what kind offense Purdue will have with Ryan Browne at quarterback, and believes the Boilermakers will be very disciplined.

(30:19-44:02) – Jake and Eddie turn things over to Chris Ballard for his press conference and then come back with thoughts on what he said, and didn’t say, during the 30 minutes with the media. Jake replays a couple of things that immediately stood out from the colts GM.

(44:02-56:21) – Marian Knights Head Coach Ted Karras Jr. joins Query & Company to preview their season opener against the University of Indianapolis, his relationship with Uindy HC Chris Keevers, highlights some changes from last year’s coaching staff, and discusses some of the players that are in store for a big season for the Knights.  

(56:21-1:10:56) – The second hour of the program concludes with Jake asking Colts fans to voice their opinion on what Chris Ballard said during his press conference.

(1:10:56-1:31:07) – Rhett Lewis from the NFL & Big Ten Network joins Jake Query to discuss the start of the college football season by accessing year two of the Indiana Hoosiers underneath Curt Cignetti. He also identifies Minnesota as a team that could be like this year’s Indiana. Plus, he weighs in on some of the comments Chris Ballard made during his press conference and examines the future of Anthony Richardson.   

(1:31:07-1:47:36) – With Chris Ballard chatting with the media for 30 minutes today, there were some comments made by Ballard about his job and what his message was as to why fans should believe in their plan this season.  

(1:47:36-1:57:23) – Today’s show closes out with Jake and JMV announcing their sponsorship for this cross-talk segment. They discuss some music history based off of JMV’s trivia question to Jake.

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0:00.0

I love summer.

0:01.9

I love summer.

0:03.1

I've made no bones about the fact I love summer.

0:05.6

With each passing year, I love summer even more.

0:08.8

I love the activities of it.

0:10.5

I love the relaxation of it.

0:12.0

I love the weather of it.

0:13.2

I love the sunshine of it.

0:14.6

I love the late days of it.

0:16.0

I love the not having to scrape your windshield of it. I love the, I'm not having to find out where I put

0:23.9

my gloves of it. I love the, do I need an umbrella? No, I don't because it hasn't rain. I love all

0:29.9

of it. I love everything about summer. And yes, I realize that the summers are getting

0:36.8

shorter and shorter seemingly.

0:38.2

I know they're not literally, but, you know, kids going back to school earlier.

0:42.5

I know that you have a year-round school and that schedule is different.

0:46.7

But there are certain things that remind me that summer is coming to an end that I'm not going to say upset me, but that are stark

0:56.4

reminders because then I'm like, oh gosh, we are a blink of an eye from those 545 sunsets where

1:03.4

then by like 8.30 at night, you feel like it's 2 in the morning and it's cold outside.

1:08.2

However, and I know that this is probably a soft launch and a fake summit,

1:16.7

but this week is it's starting to feel like those awesome Saturdays in October when the

1:25.6

weather's perfect and the leaves are changing and the air is

1:29.7

just a little bit crisp but so like still sunny out and there are big time college football games

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