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entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Welcome back Hawkeye fans to another edition of the Hawkeye fans to another edition of the Hawkeye Nation Prospect podcast.

We are recording on Wednesday, May the 20th, and happy to be joined today by Illinois

defensive end. Lucas Van Ness.

How are you doing today, Lucas?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for asking.

How are you?

Doing well.

And I appreciate you joining us on the podcast

and look forward to letting the Hawkeye fans get to know you a little bit

before you get to campus and then we can't talk to you

for a year so it's uh coach ferrets and his no no uh media availability for true freshmen

true freshman i kind of i i remember when he instituted that lucas we had a we had a true

freshman and uh he listens to this podcast sometimes,

I think, too. His name was Julian Vandervelde and he ended up in the NFL as well. And he played

as a freshman and we had him during our weekly press conference. And it happened to be the week of the Iowa State

game and he came out and said he hated Iowa State.

That's a good one.

Got wind of that and since then, and that was probably a decade ago now, even more than

that, I guess, since Julian Platt.

So, yeah, and I kind of like the rule.

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