Todd Stepsis

What's going on on the show? Tell you what, like I just said, we'll talk plenty of college football and NFL on the show today.

We'll hear from Northern Iowa's Todd Stepsis before 6:00, as they look ahead to tomorrow night's game at Youngstown State.

Panthers going for three straight wins over top 10 ranked teams, with a game against the Penguins coming up, uh, here this weekend.

But we will have our usual, uh, guests on the program.

It's a bye week.

Still talking Hawkeyes and Cyclones throughout the show today.

We'll get to some sound as well from Northern Iowa's head coach, Todd Stepsis.

They are in action this weekend.

he was always willing to laugh at himself.

The ones I watched... slash listen to on the drive over here because i'm not supposed to watch my phone on a drive was uh when uh chris farley's trying to hit on the waitress and get and she sits in his lap and the other guy's like todd you got a wife at home and then he has the dream sequence and he's got chris farley dressed up as chris farley's wife stirring a pot going Okay, honey, the pork chops are ready.

You're my Ditka.

You're my Ditka.

Obviously, we've had a couple of really great performances, and now we've got to prove to everybody that we can do it outside the Dome now.

Northern Iowa head coach Todd Stepsis earlier this week.

His Panthers headed to Youngstown State for some Saturday evening action after back-to-back wins over top five teams in the Dome, beating Illinois State and North Dakota this past weekend at homecoming.

You and I headed to Youngstown State.

But, hey, let's talk about these Panthers.

Back-to-back wins over top five teams.

When you look at kind of what they've accomplished over the last couple of weeks, what's impressed you the most about Todd Stepsis' crew?

You know, they've found ways to win.

He's an accurate passer.

That's Northern Iowa head coach Todd Stepsis on North Dakota Fighting Hawks quarterback Jerry Kaminsky.

who is going to be a big challenge for the Panther defense as they host North Dakota, the fourth-ranked Fighting Hawks coming to Cedar Falls tomorrow afternoon, actually playing on Saturday, unlike Iowa and Iowa State.

Kaminsky has passed for 198 touchdowns in his career.

Some thoughts on that from Jimmy Rogers.

And Todd Stepsis and you and I coming off a big win.

They've got a little extra time to rest and recuperate after beating Illinois State last week.

They're on their bye, and we'll try to squeeze in some sound from him before 6 as well.

Some final notes here before we get to the quickie poll results.

Congratulations to Todd Stepsis, his biggest win ever at UNI.

They beat a ranked team.

Grandview, Does exactly what we expected.

So play back the conversation between now and then.

Got some sound from Todd Stepsis we'll get to.

Going to look at the rest of the college football slate, NFL, and preview the weekend ahead and let you know just what's going on with baseball because it's an important weekend for seeding.

Most everything's been clinched in Major League Baseball.

319-366-1600.

We've got Madison Horitzik from the Cedar Rapids Gazette joining the program here in about four minutes.

Also, we'll check in with Northern Iowa's Todd Stepsis, take a look at the rest of the college football and NFL slate, plus preview what's important for you this weekend in terms of Major League Baseball and WNBA playoffs starting this weekend.

Talk about that bracket and more before six as we continue our program here for a Friday afternoon on 1600 ESPN Live from the Third Base Brewery Studio.

And Iowa not the only team preparing for their conference opener.

Northern Iowa and their head coach Todd Stepsis, they are playing Illinois State this weekend.

Coach Stepsis confident that the Panthers will bounce back this week with a strong effort.

Northern Iowa opening the Missouri Valley Conference football race at home against fourth-ranked Illinois State.

More from Kirk Ferentz, Hank Brown, and Deshaun Lee.

Also, we'll squeeze in Jimmy Rogers, Todd Stepsis, and more all before 6 here on 1600 ESPN.

Stay tuned.

Eastern Iowa weather from 1600 ESPN.

It was like, oh, yeah, you should have offered this guy a scholarship.

Granted, it was Todd Stepsis getting the job in December, and he was coming over from Drake, but just completely missed on Braden Jackson was, was a mistake by that new staff at Northern Iowa.

And that's a tough metric to measure up when every single other FCS school whiffed.

Because if he didn't end up with that preferred walk-on from Iowa and Lindell Betts at the time, he probably would have gone to Iowa Western Community College and probably blown up from there on out.