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Mike Merlett

Mike Merlet (Merlett) is a professional sports handicapper and co-owner of ASAwins (American Sports Analysts) in Madison, Wisconsin, and a regular football-picks guest on the Mark Belling Podcast.

Sep 24, 2026

The Mark Belling Podcast

The Mark Belling Podcast

Mark Belling Podcast #169: The real affordability crisis: fewer Americans own anything including their own homes. Staggering property taxes are a big reason why even as super-taxer David Crowley seeks the Governorship and numerous school tax referendums are also on the ballot. And, Mark takes a look at a proposal to swamp Waukesha with nearly 300 more apartments; does anybody own anything anymore???

Sep 24 · 1h 39m

speaker_0NARRATOR
73:58
Yeah, I, you know,
Mike MerlettGUEST
73:59
I don't want to overreact to the first two or three weeks, but the Big Ten looks down this year compared to what they have been at the top and at the bottom.
Mike MerlettGUEST
74:06
And they just don't, they look down.
Mike MerlettGUEST
74:08
I mean, Indiana coming off their national championship last year, If you remember the first couple years under Cignetti, they were just destroying non-conference teams.
Mike MerlettGUEST
74:18
They haven't covered against any of the non-conference teams they've played, and they've all been bad teams.
Mike MerlettGUEST
74:23
Now, he might just be laying in the weeds for this week.
Mike MerlettGUEST
74:25
We'll find out more about them this weekend against Northwestern on Friday night.
JasonPANELIST
78:32
But the situation, in

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