Williams & Blum: Why Iowa State football’s plan makes sense

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4.7 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Chris Williams & Brent Blum dive deeper into the creation of Iowa State football’s new program under Jimmy Rogers and the construction of its roster. Williams makes the point that it’s probably best for everybody if national expectations are incredibly low this season. The guys take a handful of mailbag questions about the roster and more, all courtesy of Mechdyne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Chris Williams from Cyclone Fanatic, a proud Iowa State graduate from the class of 2007.
0:05.0	No one shows up like Iowa State fan.
0:08.0	And Cyclones support Cyclones on and off the field.
0:14.0	Your gift can provide scholarships to students, fun groundbreaking research.
0:19.0	We could even drum up opportunities for the Marchup band. Visit Move What Matters.com to learn how you can make an impact today. I'm The Thank you. I'm the Chris Williams
1:11.6	Chris Williams
1:29.3	Brent Bloom
1:32.0	From the Northwest Bank Studios
1:34.9	It's Williams in Bloom
1:36.7	Presented by Mechdyne
1:38.5	On the Cyclone Fanatic Podcast Network
1:41.5	What is up? Welcome to the show. It is the, well, this is coming out on the 17th of May.
1:50.5	It's a Sunday. Full disclosure. We're not liars here on Williams and Bloom. We are recording
1:56.6	this on Friday the 15th. The reason being I am traveling. Happy graduation day to my beautiful
2:04.6	niece Addison, who I love dearly. I'm going to be spending the day with her and my sister's
2:09.6	family in Clorinda and didn't want to be rushed to get back to do the show because that's a
2:14.9	disservice to all of our audience, my family, all that
2:19.3	good stuff. So we're here on Friday knocking this out. Assuming Bloom, crazy stuff doesn't
2:24.5	happen. Head on a swivel. In this world, like, I mean, come on, something weird will happen.
2:30.2	I got, you know, should there be something, I'm ready to go. We got Brendan on standby.
2:35.5	Yeah, Brandon Pence will be in the bullpen.
2:39.2	Ready to roll.
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