Coach Jake talks ESPY Award on OPR today....

[OH BABY! I luv this team!]

Ben Jacobson will be ON PRESS ROW with The Sports Guy today, Thursday, at 5pm for a few minutes to talk about the ESPY Award and Experience....that is if his plane arrives on time to the Waterloo airport! Call into the show and talk with Coach Jake at 319-235-1540 or 1-800-584-7024. He is scheduled to be right at 5pm or near that time so tune in panthernation!!!!! ON PRESS ROW airs at 5pm to 6pm Monday thru Friday on NEWSTALK 1540 KXEL, the flagship station for UNI football and mens basketball along with those two sports coaches call in shows!!

[TravelingPanther]

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Someone want to summarize for those of us outside of the area?

[UNIpanther99]

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Great news... I'll be listening and try to summarize.

[Trapped in California]

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Gary - please don't let Jake make any more "jokes" on air... that dump button is there for a reason.

[casbern]

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Gary - please don't let Jake make any more "jokes" on air... that dump button is there for a reason.

It's not about his jokes, it's about his coaching... If he can keep on doing what he did last year, he can joke all he want!

[9YRPLAN]

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Wtf? I thought it was a good joke...

[Trapped in California]

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Wtf? I thought it was a good joke...

This explains much of the past year on this board

[JayJ79]

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Wtf? I thought it was a good joke...

it wasn't any worse than many of the other jokes that were offered on the show, IMO. But he should definitely keep his day job.

[ProwlingPanther]

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it wasn't any worse than many of the other jokes that were offered on the show, IMO. But he should definitely keep his day job.

Agreed, his joke was fine.

He isn't a professional comedian and it was a simple one liner. He wasn't trying to get the crowd roaring. In public speaking it is recommended to open with a joke. If nothing else, it helps calm the nerves of the speaker.

[Blue42]

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Agreed, his joke was fine.

He isn't a professional comedian and it was a simple one liner. He wasn't trying to get the crowd roaring. In public speaking it is recommended to open with a joke. If nothing else, it helps calm the nerves of the speaker.

Agree as well.

Coach Jake understood that the show is about entertainment and he did his best to play along. It was a pretty good attempt and relevant to the reason they got the award. Then he gave some crisp, brief and humble comments and got off the stage. Right on the money.

Pretty tall order to wow the crowd with humor as a coach from Northern Iowa when you step on stage after Tracy Morgan does three minutes of Nelson Mandela impersonations.

[cydave]

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I thought Coach Jacobson did a great job accepting the award.
His joke, wasn't a side splitter, but again, he isn't paid to tell jokes like some of those other guys. He's paid to win games, and thats what he did.
His speech was perfect, he thanked the right people, it was short and sweet, and didn't go overboard on a bunch of nonsense to make the crowd restless.
Congrats again!

The Ed Thomas video was awesome. The amount of integrity and character the Thomas family showed was simply amazing. Aaron gave a great speech after accepting the award. Hopefully, some of those celebs take what he said by heart about being good role models for the younger generation.

[orangetennis]

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Anyone have a link to the video? I didn't get to see it

[UNIpanther99]

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From OPR today.

Coach Jake said his favorite moments were playing with the Thomas family at the golf outing and getting to meet Dr. J.

They didn't know they would win until it was announced. Tracy Morgan was apparently as funny backstage as he was on stage, and he enjoyed meeting with all of the ESPN talking heads who seemed to know quite a bit about the Panthers (Kenny Mayne, Michael Wilbon, John Berry, etc.).

Also, nothing is finalized with the opening game yet. Coach Jake said he couldn't make any announcement because they don't have a signed contract yet.

[JayJ79]

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Pretty tall order to wow the crowd with humor as a coach from Northern Iowa when you step on stage after Tracy Morgan does three minutes of Nelson Mandela impersonations.

Coach Jake's joke was much better than Tracy Morgan's attempts at humor.

[PFan23]

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I think we all liked his joke, but that is because we know Ali and how he will shoot from anywhere. The only problem with the joke was that 99% of the people in the audience know nothing about our players, so it made no sense to them.