We're back from our holidays and diving head-first into basketball season, previewing tonight's Purdue game with Aneesh Ramaswamy (@aneeshswamy) from Boiled Sports.  His team has a bunch of tall guys and is probably the Big Ten favorite at the moment.  He's about as reasonable as you'll find for someone who supports OMHR.

After Aneesh ruins our Thursday, Adam and Pat discuss the recent changes on Iowa's football coaching staff.  Because when your 18th-year head coach fires someone for the first time, you've gotta spend at least 15 minutes on it.

Pretty much every time we do one of these podcast episodes, we have a guest.  We feel like you'd generally like to hear from a diverse bunch of people who know a lot about college sports and/or professional wrestling.  But let's not kid ourselves: It's the semi-informed opinions of your hosts that bring you back, week after week.  And so this week, @Adam_Jacobi and I answer questions from readers for over an hour.  It's ill-reasoned, fact-free and wholly unhinged from reality.  You should listen.

While Iowa football raced to the finish, Iowa recruiting imploded.  And while Iowa recruiting imploded, Hawkeye Insider's Derek Young (@DYoungScout) has become an essential Twitter follow.  He's been reasonable, calm, and more than willing to explain both the problems of Iowa's no-visit policy and the issues with particular commits who have broken it.  This week, he talks with us about the state of recruiting in Iowa football.  Needless to say, he knows more than us.