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All right guys, Monday afternoon here, a little special drop-in podcast for you today.

Many of you saw last week the Kansas State game, the iconic Jeff Van Gundy was in attendance.

He has been around Iowa State's program a lot. He is a

good friend of head coach T.J. Otselburgers and I caught up with Coach Van Gundy

this morning for about 15 minutes, 20 minutes to get his insight on this Iowa State program

and everything you are watching in front of us.

This is really cool, thrill of mine.

I'm a huge Jeff Van Gundy fan, so it was really great opportunity to get to talk to him.

Let's hear from him right now. My interview with

E-SPN commentator, former NBA head coach, Jeff Van Gundy. All right,. P. N. P. N. Gondi.

All right, well, this is cool.

A guy who I grew up watching coach and now obviously one of the, I think, coach Vincunney, I'm not trying to butter you up. I think you're one of the I think coach Vincunning I'm not trying to butter you up I think you're one of the best broadcasters out there right now and you also have a

Tied of the cyclones which is kind of cool. So thank you so much for taking a few minutes for us today. How are you sir? of and TJ had a relationship for quite some time, but I don't think a lot of fans did.

Saw you on the broadcast the other day and I started getting peppered with questions and I was like,

oh, let's see if Coach Van Gunney will take a few minutes to talk about it.

So how did you become associated, I guess, with T.J. Altsberger?

When did this relationship start?

So I have a great friend here in Houston named Chris Lohman. He's a lawyer here in

Houston and anyway he grew up in Ames and he's a diehard Iowa State grad

Fervent fan season ticket holder football basketball anyway.

He was going up to Ames when T.J. was working for Coach Prom,

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