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Happy Hour with John Gaskins

John Gaskins

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38:56

USD A.D. Jon Schemmel, Part 1 - Paying athletes...

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2025/06/25

So, the South Dakota Coyotes will now get to pay athletes directly starting July 1, thanks to USD athletic director Jon Schemmel's June 17 decision to "opt in" to the NCAA-House Settlement allowing revenue sharing to athletes for the first time. Why? How does it all work? How much money will there be to share with athletes this year? Which athletes get the money? How much do they get? What does this mean for the major boosters and those who want to contribute more mildly, either to the athletic

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01:14:53

FULL TUESDAY SHOW: Bergen Reilly (O'Gorman / Huskers...

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2025/06/24

There aren't too many athletes that have come out of Sioux Falls with more national and international acclaim and achievement than O'Gorman alumnus Bergen Reilly. And she just turned 20 last month. A two-time All-American on two NCAA Final Four teams at four-time national champion Nebraska, Reilly is the first player in Big Ten volleyball history to be the league's Setter of the Year in each of her first two seasons. She's also a four-time member of USA teams, including the 2022 national team as

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30:31

John-o-logue: Gophers beat Alabama!!!... for...

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2025/06/24

Yes, it's a BIG deal. How big? Well... Minnesota's top-rated high school football player in the Class of 2026 and the No. 12-rated "athlete" nationally announced he will be a Golden Gopher. That's enough to bring some pandemonium to Dinkytown and "Gopher Nation." But the fact Jackson County Central's Roman Voss chose Minnesota over Alabama? Throw a parade! Or not. Happy Hour Host John Gaskins breaks down the relevance of this commitment, which includes insight into why Voss chose the Gophers from

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44:23

Bergen Reilly on Husker VB mania, being a celebrity,...

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2025/06/24

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01:12:42

FULL SHOW: SDSU's big decision / Twins & Canaries...

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2025/06/23

Judging by a strong engagement from Thursday's 90-minute Happy Hour interview with South Dakota State athletic director Justin Sell, there is high interest from both Jackrabbit fans and all FCS and mid-major enthusiasts in SDSU's decision to "opt in" or not opt in to the House Settlement that allows colleges to pay student athlets directly. What were the key things Sell said that may be hints to where the Jacks are leaning? Almost as importantly, after elite FCS rivals South Dakota and Montana State

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32:30

John-o-logue: SDSU's In-or-Out & then what? / Twins...

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2025/06/23

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40:12

Chris Johnson (USF) on how Wolves become champs next...

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2025/06/23

What is the absolute first thing the Minnesota Timberwolves need to narrow the gap between themselves and both Oklahoma City and Indianapolis now that we've seen what it took for the Thunder to win? (Of course, the excruiciating achilles injury to Indiana star Tyrese Haliburton helped OKC take the deciding Game 7, but would they have still won?) One player the Wolves won't add to the mix is future Hall of Famer Kevin Durant, who is headed to Houston after Minnesota was left off his list of a

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01:25:59

Kim Nelson on 50 years in football, new HS job,...

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2025/06/20

He just can't shake the coaching bug. It has been in his blood since he played for his father — a legendary head high school coach in Minnesota — and "every night" he still thinks about the game and how he can draw up plays to make it fun for the next crop of young talent. South Dakota's all-time high school wins leader Kim Nelson "retired" from 45 years of prep coaching in November 2023 after his 15th and final season at Sioux Falls Roosevelt, his fifth and final stop/success story. But he kept on

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01:30:39

FULL Justin Sell interview — Future of SDSU in CFB...

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2025/06/19

Do you want to know exactly where South Dakota State athletic director Justin Sell sits on the heaviest and most important issues facing college athletic departments all over the country, particularly in the Jackrabbits' sandbox of FCS football and mid-major basketball? There's so much to cover — particularly the prospect of SDSU moving "up" to FBS and the opportunity for the athletic department to "opt in" to an NCAA-House Settlement and pay athletes directly for the first time in NCAA history

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52:04

Justin Sell, part 2 — Paying athletes & to "opt in"...

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2025/06/19

Opt in or opt out? To some, the hottest and most fascinating college athletics topic around. To others, a brain-frying maze of gobblygook to ignore for the sheer depth and legal confusion of it all. But undeniably, it is a major decision for each Division I program not in the Power Four Conferences (they have to "opt in"): Will you take the option to allow your athletes to be paid directly by the school via sharing the revenue your athletic department makes — up to $20.5 million of revenue this

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38:29

Justin Sell, part 1 - Future of college football and...

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2025/06/19

The only constant in college athletics — particularly college football — is change. Blink and a new conference is formed, or a team has left one conference for another, or yet another team has left the FCS level for the FBS, hoping to get in on that "College Football Playoff" and bowl game action (money!). In recent years, several FCS programs have made the leap and found home in "Group of Five" conferences like the Sun Belt and Conference USA. South Dakota State's 2025 season opening opponent,

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01:23:08

FULL WED. SHOW - Matt Mooney (USD hoops stud 2016-18)...

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2025/06/18

He had a jump shot out of a cannon that sparked the University of South Dakota's best two years in Division I hoops (2016-18), then Texas Tech's historic run into overtime of the national championship game (2019). Matt Mooney was a cold-blooded sharpshooting machine in those three years, and he is just as to-the-point and entertaining when he tells stories about them. In a one-hour sit down with Happy Hour host John Gaskins from his home in Puerto Rico — Mooney's latest stop in a six-year pro

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21:04

John-o-logue: SDSU's turtle vs Sac State's hare in...

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2025/06/18

It's a story of the Jackrabbits actually playing the turtle and not the hare in a race — this one from the FCS to the FBS. John weighs in on the eggs Sacramento State is smearing off of its face in its brash and brazen bid to make that move as quickly and aggressively as possible, which has most recently backfired with the FCS Oversight Committee's denying SCSU of seeking FBS independence. This ruling followed Sac State's president calling the FCS level "JV" — a jab that received a lethal social

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01:02:05

Matt Mooney on his two dynamite years at USD, Final...

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2025/06/18

He had a jump shot out of a cannon that sparked the University of South Dakota's best two years in Division I hoops (2016-18), then Texas Tech's run into overtime of the national championship game (2019). Matt Mooney was a cold-blooded sharpshooting machine in those three years, and he is just as to-the-point and entertaining telling stories about them. In a one-hour sit down with Happy Hour host John Gaskins from his home in Puerto Rico — his latest stop in a six-year pro career that took him all

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01:26:24

Austin Sumner on his gun-slinging, record-smashing QB...

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2025/06/17

Balling with future NFL running back Zach Zenner. Rooming with currnent South Dakota State tight ends coach Vince Benedetto. Getting chewed out by Brandon Valley coaching legends. These are stories that can only be told by Austin Sumner, a gun-slinging quarterback who smashed passing records and elevated football programs at both BVHS and SDSU from up-and-comers to upper crusters. No Mount Rushmore of SDSU or BVHS quarterbacks is complete without Sumner, the son of two Augustana athletes whose

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43:38

Kurtiss Riggs takes us inside NIL, top HS prospects,...

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2025/06/16

It's a Monday and Mid-June, over two months before actual football games start, and you're starving for new deep-diving local college and prep football content. We have the freshest insight from the ultimate "insider" ready for you! Enjoy a smorgasbord of meaty information and educated opinions on the hottest topics from Kurtiss Riggs, our Happy Hour with John Gaskins lead football analyst, the Sanford Sports Academy football director, veteran high school and college TV game commentator, and 11-time

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01:06:48

SDSU All-America center Ryan McKnight (2007-10) on...

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2025/06/13

It doesn't get any more Jackrabbit Football than Ryan McKnight. An All-America center his senior year of 2010, McKnight was part of the first SDSU football team to reach the FCS playoffs in 2009, laying a foundation for the Jacks to rise to national prominence. Now the president of the Jackrabbit Former Players Association (JFPA), McKnight was a teammate former head coach Jimmy Rogers and is a long-time friend of both Rogers and Rogers' replacement, Dan Jackson. All played under the legend John

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50:00

Matt Zimmer on Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, pickup...

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2025/06/12

Beer-logo'd golf bags. Old school MTV veejays. The Dead Guys of the Week — Brian Wilson and Sly Stone — and their place in music and pop culture history. Matt Zimmer and John Gaskins tried their best to kick around fun and breezy topics to avoid that dreaded summer buzz kill — The NCAA-House Settlement and where schools like SDSU and USD fit into it. But eventually, the hosts of the weekly "Nobody's Listening Anyway" podcast got down to busines at Gateway Lounge. What does this darn thing mean and

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01:20:18

FULL WEDNESDAY SHOW: Andre Fields / Latest on if...

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2025/06/11

One of the all-time legends of the all-time most successful minor league sports franchise in South Dakota history is walking away from that operation. After 22 years with the Sioux Falls Storm — the last one as head coach — Andre Fields resigned on Tuesday. A day later, he joined Happy Hour host John Gaskins to explain why. The Storm are dormant in 2025. Does Fields know what the prospects are for the team to come back in 2026? How much did this have to do with his decision? The University of

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30:35

Andre Fields on why he resigned as head coach of the...

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2025/06/11

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