In this episode, Joe and guest Andrew Birkeland (Twitter/X @Birky534), former Creighton men’s basketball manager, discuss Andrew’s time as a manager before gleaning insights from him about Greg McDermott’s program to help provide context to fans about what makes it difficult to integrate new players, what specifically has ...
In this episode, Joe outlines a number of things that each of Creighton’s greatest players in the modern era (1995-present) have in common with each other but do not have in common with Ryan Kalkbrenner. These differences make his time at Creighton as one of the program’s all-time greats unique and somewhat difficult to ...
In this episode, Joe and guest Brian Ayers (@southpawpress on Twitter/X) discuss Brian’s Creighton fandom before, in light of the Pop Isaacs’ season-ending hip injury news, digging into Creighton’s history of significant season-ending injuries and the fallout of each of those injuries. Finally, with the context of those ...
In this episode, following the loss to Nebraska, Joe looks back at Greg McDermott’s tenure for similar non-conference dud performances and identifies a few key takeaways about these historical games before discussing why Nebraska is able to create dud performances from the Ryan Kalkbrenner era Jays. Finally, Joe explains why the ...
In this episode, Joe and guest Matt DeMarinis of White & Blue Review discuss the origination of Matt’s Creighton fandom and his journey to and through covering Creighton athletics. Then (starting around minute 40), they dive into the legacy of Greg McDermott, who recently became Creighton’s all-time winningest men’s ...
In this episode, Joe and guest Austin Mazur (Creighton graduate, class of 2016) discuss Austin’s Creighton fandom before diving into a variety of storylines that generated buzz during the offseason and determined whether we think the buzz was “real,” “fake,” or is “to be determined” based on what ...
In this episode, Joe and guest Pat Coder of the “Bluejays at the B.” podcast make their predictions on a variety of Creighton related over/unders for the upcoming season such as: Will the Jays win over or under 22.5 games this regular season? Will Pop Isaacs average over or under 16 points per game? Will...
In this episode, Joe and guests Sam Huppert and Peter Cunningham draft the the 2024-25 Creighton men’s basketball schedule based on the games they believe the Jays will win (scoring system below). The results of the draft will be shared on Twitter @Jays_Classic and tracked throughout the year!
In the final episode of the Greatest Players of the Modern Era series, Joe and guest Jacob Padilla of Hurrdat Sports, Hail Varsity, and NebPreps, break down and discuss the final results of the Greatest Players of the Modern Era rankings in a variety of ways.
In episode 3 of the Greatest Jays of the Modern Era series, Joe and former Bluejay Antoine Young discuss Antoine’s commitment to Creighton as a sophomore in high school, playing in front of his friends and family in Omaha, the differences between playing under Dana Altman and Greg McDermott, some of his best performances as...