Perspective On March Madness and Fran McCaffery with Nicholas Baer | WUW 588

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

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2.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Join us for an engaging conversation with former Iowa Basketball player Nicholas Baer. Nick makes his second appearance on the show to help us with Peak Basketball season this year. We cover his transition from professional basketball to men's leagues, the impact of NIL on athletes, and the emotional departure of Coach Fran McCaffery from Iowa. Nicholas also shares his insights on March Madness, upcoming matchups, and thoughts on the future of Iowa Basketball. Get an inside look at the life of a former college athlete and his new ventures. Don't forget to check out Nicholas's own podcast, Three Points Pod!

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0:00.0	Had this guy on the show before, Nicholas Baer joins us, former Iowa men's basketball player under Coach Fran McCaffrey.
0:06.0	And we talk about Coach Fran today, Nick's relationship with him, what he means to Nick's career in his life now as an adult, as well as playing in March Madness, the perspective of being in the tournament.
0:15.5	Why is it special?
0:16.4	Why can teams that are not as highly rated suddenly find the magic in March?
0:20.3	All of this and more.
0:21.4	Grab the popcorn, sit back, relax, have a day.
0:23.8	Let's go. Back again, informal intro, Nicholas Baer joins the show.
0:54.0	Once again, had him on the podcast. God, a long time ago. What year did you graduate, Nick?
1:00.2	I graduated 2019. So I think we were talking when I was playing professionally with Raptors 905. But since then, I have now developed a true washed up walk-on. Like, I'm truly made that evolution now into just playing in men's leagues and done playing
1:14.3	professionally.
1:15.0	So it's nice to be part of the brotherhood today.
1:17.3	Let's go.
1:18.3	Are you just bawling in those men's leagues or what?
1:20.5	You just dominating?
1:21.7	I enjoy it.
1:22.4	Yeah, we, so I play with Austin Ash as well.
1:24.7	So we're both here in Des Moines and we play in men's leagues here.
1:27.7	So it's been a good time.
1:30.1	There's actually some pretty decent competition here in Des Moines, but yeah, good cardio,
1:33.9	and I'd rather do that than get on a treadmill and run it any day.
1:36.3	Oh, yeah.
1:37.2	But I just got to know, is this team just running it up, like back to back, back to back
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