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Signing off
October 17, 2020 03:06 - 1 hour - 262 MBThe reminder for the podcast keeps popping up like every five minutes, so let’s work around this one last thing. I’m leaving The Gazette. It’s been 24 years, nearly 22 covering Iowa football. That’s a long damn time in the same circle against the same opponent. There can’t be too many other beat writers who’ve been on the griddle this long. If there are, what in the hell are you doing? You traded your heart for a phone. Thanks to everyone who’s been along for the ride. That’s lame, I know, ...
This is the year for a Cy-Hawk bowl game
September 25, 2020 20:52 - 242 MBThis is the calm before the storm. OK, this is the less stormy part of the storm. Or maybe the most stormy? COVID-19 will continue to tear at our collective long-term view of the world. If you can deal with existential, then you can semi-enjoy a football season. Or maybe not. Football is coming and it’s time to start to figure out what that might look like. The #oniowapod didn’t do the full Hawkeye breakdown. There’s time for that. Today we kind of darted around and took a stab at answerin...
Big Ten football is coming back
September 17, 2020 19:13 - 268 MBThe Big Ten football spigot has been turned on. Let’s rephrase, the Big Ten football spigot has been allowed to trickle during this COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, the Big Ten said yes to football on Wednesday. There was much rejoicing. A 5 percent positive test rate is the hurdle for teams. That’s going to be a difficult task, but now the Big Ten programs have a chance to show they can make the right choices. All anyone ever asked for was a chance. If it doesn’t get off the ground, well, they trie...
Will Big Ten football return this fall?
September 14, 2020 22:17 - 194 MBAt least Big Ten leaders are talking about the possibility of playing football this fall. That’s something. Can it happen? The league soon will tell us when it might happen. The Big Ten’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors is meeting on the topic. This is all a “might.” America still is gripped by COVID-19. There are no guarantees. The league could very well vote to play and the pandemic could have other ideas. So, The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman and I talked about return to play and so...
Ramifications of Big Ten’s fall sports decision and Iowa’s cuts
August 27, 2020 22:40 - 226 MBMaybe the Big Ten made the right decision. Maybe. Maybe the three remaining Power 5 conferences will be forced to push their fall season into January and beyond, like the Big Ten and Pac-12 have. So many maybes. Still, what happened in the Big Ten on Aug. 11 was a tremendous show of power by the league’s presidents/chancellors. Reports mention Big Ten athletics directors being aligned in their desire to play and/or allow the mechanisms built into the schedule, that was released just six days...
The Big Ten’s decision to cancel fall football and the ensuing pushback
August 18, 2020 20:27 - 242 MBI’m going to compare the Big Ten to the Bill Paxton character “Pvt. Hudson” in the movie “Aliens.” When the conference released its 10-game schedule six days before deciding to cancel fall football, that was Pvt. Hudson and the bravado he showed at the beginning of the movie, when his military unit descended into the spaceship where all the aliens were. Then, Pvt. Hudson actually saw the aliens. “Game over, man. Game over.” “Seventeen days? We’re not going to last 17 minutes.” Pvt. Hudson...
Iowa football external review, new Big Ten schedule and a few predictions
August 07, 2020 20:10 - 274 MBThe Athletic’s Scott Dochterman sat down with Kirk Ferentz and had a one-on-one interview after his July 30 news conference on the review of his program for racial disparities and mistreatment of players. This is called “pole position,” and the On Iowa Podcast soaked in it. This discussion is the first part of the podcast. Obviously, it’s an ongoing situation. The conclusion is that there really is no conclusion. This is going to have to be an ongoing period of self-reflection for everyone w...
Is the golden age of college sports over?
July 15, 2020 21:37 - 136 MBOK, first the good news: We actually talked football. Like the Hawkeyes and positions and all of that comfortable football porridge that we all dig. (You can switch “porridge” with shrimp and grits or whatever you want, comfort food is the point. We’re all going to need some “comfort football” at some point.) Neither of us believes the Cy-Hawk is totally gone for 2020. Oh, we do think there will be football. It might not be the football we recognize, but football. You read ISU athletics dire...
Jay Niemann on Iowa’s defensive line, recruiting, his sons' success and more
July 08, 2020 20:38 - 254 MBFootball coaching titles have gotten out of hand, but Jay Niemann does wear the assistant defensive line coach and defensive recruiting coordinator hats for the Iowa football team. Coach Niemann also happens to be the father of Iowa linebacker Nick Niemann and former Hawkeye and Kansas City Chief Ben Niemann. Jay Niemann joined the On Iowa Podcast and we asked about all of that. Yes, Iowa recruited Ben away from Northern Illinois, where Jay was defensive coordinator. Yeah, it sucked, but, w...
Kelton Copeland on Iowa football’s culture shift, 2020 receivers and more
June 24, 2020 23:47 - 238 MBIowa wide receivers coach Kelton Copeland is from Miami, Fla. He signed up to play football at Saginaw (Mich.) Valley State under head coach Jerry Kill. He followed Kill to Emporia (Kan.) State. Kill left again. Copeland was heartbroken, but kept in touch with Kill and considers him a mentor in his life. On this week’s On Iowa Podcast, we talk with Copeland about the powerlessness that a player might feel out there in the super-intense world of college football. Copeland will be an important...
What’s next for Iowa football after racism allegations
June 09, 2020 23:37 - 252 MBThis is an important episode of the On Iowa Podcast. The last week or so has sent everyone who follows the Hawkeyes into some introspection on what their role is in this, where they sit and how they see people. The Gazette’s Marc Morehouse and The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman discuss the allegations of racism and other social issues raised by former players, Iowa’s decision to place Chris Doyle on administrative leave, what the future looks like for Doyle and the rest of the coaching staff, ...
Brian Ferentz on recruiting, running scheme, development of receivers, NIL rules and more
May 28, 2020 00:56 - 129 MBYou work, you prepare. And then the Zoom glitches and … now what? We had a couple of glitches, but Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz hung with us. I think it’s fair to say we all love college football. We all love that kids are trying to do this and make it beautiful and meaningful. And I think Brian articulated that wonderfully. We go a lot of places. That’s all I’m going to say. Listen to this one. You’ll enjoy it. Loved having Brian on. Glad I did my homework. Scott and I hung ar...
Ken O’Keefe on Iowa QBs, Zoom calls with former Hawkeyes, Boundary Waters adventures and more
May 12, 2020 21:15 - 243 MBSo yes, I am old enough to expect a coach’s show after a certain team plays. I got into that habit long before taking this job covering the Hawkeyes. When I could, I would enjoy the Mike Holmgren Show from Green Bay. I want to say there were a few back in the day. Anyway, Iowa football didn’t have one of those last year. I’ve heard really great things about the “Heartland” show or whatever it’s called. It’s online. It’s not on TV at 10:35 p.m. on a Sunday night with a local news lead-in. It’...
NFL Draft reaction + Seth Wallace on Iowa LBs, his big break in coaching and more
April 29, 2020 18:08 - 227 MBWe had some fits and starts, but thanks to Iowa linebackers coach and assistant defensive coordinator Seth Wallace for joining the #oniowapod. Of course, we talked about his group of linebackers for 2020. Along those lines, look for Nick Niemann getting a shot at an inside linebacker spot. The outside linebacker probably will be manned more in 2020 by someone who might play inside linebacker, but that’s a wait-and-see. Wallace said it’s tough to advertise outside linebacker when it’s a 20-pe...
NFL Draft preview + What the college football season might look like
April 21, 2020 18:45 - 232 MBOK, here’s a list of some of what we covered on the latest On Iowa Podcast. We went over some college football winners and losers during COVID-19. Listen to what some coaches are saying. (No, we didn’t even get to Mike Leach.) I’m not sure this is a great time to be provocative, but you have to be you. That’s one thing college football coaches totally grasp. We get a little into the money. The money is the reason why there has to be a college football season. At some time, at some point. W...
How the coronavirus pandemic affects Iowa athletics, college football
March 26, 2020 20:38 - 193 MBThis podcast once was recorded on I-88 with a digital recorder after Big Ten media days. Scott Dochterman was driving 80 mph and breaking down something we learned in Chicago. I nervously watched and tried to say something stuff without a sense of foreboding. And now the podcast has been done on a website that allowed us to communicate from North Liberty to Fairfax. We talk about how the quarantine, but not a ton. Yes, it’s affected our lives. I have a couple kids unemployed. I’m glad they...
COVID-19 on sports, the Big Ten, and much more
March 12, 2020 20:13 - 42.2 MBThe sporting world changed dramatically overnight and now by the minute. Scott and I walked through some real-time news updates courtesy of The Athletic’s Slack channel. There’s no sports ticker that’s going to keep up with the news of cancellations and postponements with the rise of the COVID-19 virus. That’s usually where I would’ve written “in the wake of.” A wake is the commotion that trails after something large moves through. This might still be coming. I don’t know if we’re in the wak...
Post-NFL combine thoughts
March 02, 2020 19:55 - 107 MBYes, Scott Dochterman and I (Marc Morehouse) were two of the three Iowa journalists (QC TV dude Adam Rossow was there, too) at the NFL combine. So, guess what this #oniowapod is about. This is a little bit of what happened to and for the five Hawkeyes at the combine and then where WE THINK they might stand with results on the board. The CAPS are for emphasis. So many opinions on the draft are binary. You have to be smart enough to know there are degrees. So, I think Scott and I are fairly ...
NFL Combine preview, Kevin Warren's visit, Minnesota's 'Who hates Iowa?' chant
February 20, 2020 16:48 - 80.8 MBThe #oniowapod got a little drafty this week. It wasn’t a total nerd-out, but we played the draft note. We don’t know why draft-niks say A.J. Epenesa is slow. We don’t know why they call Tristan Wirfs unathletic. We obviously don’t agree, and none of what we think really matters. It’s the NFL people's opinion that really matters. In other words, this all will be sorted out. The NFL combine kicks off next week. Scott and I talked about what each of the five Hawkeyes will face there. Epenesa ...
Lots of Q&A + Mel Tucker to Michigan State, D-Linemen in the transfer portal
February 13, 2020 23:22 - 115 MBToday was mostly a question #oniowapod, and you guys were fantastic. We talked about the Michigan State hire, defensive linemen in the transfer portal and the best Archer episode (that was very short). • Scott had a sit down with Kirk Ferentz. We got into his first post from that, which was about officiating. It’s more the rules than the officials is the basic point. • Probably no “Two Score Milker” T-shirts because I can’t decide if it needs a hyphen. • I scooped through the transfer por...
Mark Dantonio's retirement, Iowa's 2020 recruiting class
February 06, 2020 17:27 - 104 MBI have a lot of fun talking about Big Ten football. Scott does, too Why? It’s a nice break from always doing Hawkeye stuff. Plus, like West Virginia, the Big Ten is a wild and wonderful place with storylines galore. This is a long way of saying I think we’re probably going to do a Big Ten segment at some point. It’s good to know what’s going on out there. This is me explaining why I started the podcast with Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio’s retirement. Iowa fans have a special hatred (...
Coy Cronk's arrival, who replaces Kirk Ferentz one day, and free T-shirts
January 23, 2020 19:54 - 125 MBI didn’t make too big of a deal with the “Cheesedickery” T-shirts, the snow-day idea that the fantastic and good-humored folks from Raygun indulged me last Friday. I gave away 10 today. I’ll DM you for a size and an address. These are on me. I’ll admit to being completely naïve on how the charitable T-shirt thing works. My hope is we can get as much of this purchase as possible to Camp Courageous. We’ll work it out. Beyond that, I’d like to work out something with Thew Brewing. Wear a “chees...
The state of football officiating and other rants
January 14, 2020 23:12 - 85.4 MBToday’s #oniowapod was kind of our Festivus. We absolutely talked the living daylights out of 2020 Hawkeyes. In the wake of Tuesday’s news of A.J. Epenesa making the move to the NFL, it did open the gate to a fun discussion on 2020. You’ll enjoy that part of the pod. Of course, there’s one more NFL potential early entry. We talked about that a little bit. Mainly, this podcast was the “Rantcast.” Football officiating needs to feel some sort of outside criticism. I no longer trust the confe...
What will the 2020 Iowa football depth chart look like?
January 06, 2020 20:32 - 72.8 MBThe #oniowapod has reached the “turn in your gear” time of the year. It’s the ceremonial putting away of football. At least the gear part of football. We, all of us in college football land, don’t get to play with helmets now for another nine months. Thirty-five Saturdays, I believe. So, we unravel today and will continue to probably until the next signing period in February. Today we mostly covered what we think a 2020 depth chart might look like. Here are the variables: 1. A new QB 2. R...
Hayden Fry tribute; Iowa's early signing period
December 19, 2019 21:29 - 97 MBHayden Fry was the parent who would allow you to jump your Big Wheel over the pit full of nails and broken glass. Fry would imbue with the confidence. He would push the buttons that would motivate you and allow you to believe the Big Wheel was going to fly. Kirk Ferentz is the parent who would tell you to dream about jumping the Big Wheel over the pit of ultimate darkness, but he would mostly tell you to focus on your homework and that Big Wheels don’t fly. Fry brought idealism. Ferentz bro...
Remembering Hayden Fry
December 18, 2019 22:40 - 46.5 MBOn a special edition of the On Iowa Podcast, journalists who covered Hayden Fry for The Gazette remember the former Iowa football coach, who died Tuesday at the age of 90. Gazette sports editor J.R. Ogden, former sports editor Mark Dukes and former assistant sports editor Jim Ecker share their stories of a coach who transformed Iowa football from a perennial loser to a consistent winner.
Happy Holiday: First look at Iowa's bowl game
December 09, 2019 22:31 - 98.8 MBThere wasn’t a lot of drama with Iowa and its bowl destination. News started to leak around 11 a.m. on Sunday that Iowa was picked to face USC in the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 27 (7 p.m. Iowa time kick, FS1). It’s likely the only drama was the Citrus Bowl hanging on to teams to make sure it got what it wanted. Bowls do pay for the pecking order, and so the Citrus probably wanted to measure all options. And then Michigan and Alabama, Harbaugh and Saban, popped up on the Citrus’ screen and that wa...
The bowl possibilities are narrowing
December 05, 2019 19:53 - 112 MBWe get into bowls. The scenario is fairly simple: Iowa and the Holiday Bowl like each other, but the Citrus Bowl will hang on to Iowa for insurance and because it’s Disney World and a premier vacation destination, Iowa and the Big Ten will be cool with that. Holiday Bowl is down to Iowa or Michigan, but maybe Michigan goes and faces Alabama in the Citrus? The bowl possibilities are narrowing and we’ll know Sunday afternoon, either way. We talked about the Black Friday game. Yes, A.J. Epen...
Huskers, Hawkeyes and one more full week of college football
November 25, 2019 23:44 - 110 MBThere will be an #oniowapod next week. Not sure when, yet, but football isn’t over. It isn’t over over, anyway. This is Huskers week for the Hawkeyes. Nebraska is playing with whatever strength a team gathers when it’s playing for bowl eligibility in its last game of the season. Don’t discount this. It might be the same kind of strength someone finds when their baby is trapped underneath a burning car. You know, tragedy strength. So, Nebraska should have “tragedy strength” on Friday. That’...
Illinois, bowl landscape and Iowa director of recruiting Tyler Barnes
November 21, 2019 17:44 - 136 MBJust as everyone was stuffing Illinois into the recycling bin … Welcome back, Fighting Illini. We give the Illini some respect. We also look at this realistically, whole body of work, and we see an Iowa win. Scott picked a healthy margin. I went with a classic two-score milk job. We’ll see. We talked Iowa’s bowl landscape. Start making calls on flights to San Diego, but, goodness gracious, make sure that shirt fits before you buy it. The Gator Bowl is in it. Could get weird if the Music C...
Everyone wants to turn the page, but you don’t want Minnesota to do that for you
November 14, 2019 18:02 - 131 MBHere’s a Pig Game that’s all about Minnesota. Feels weird, yes, but what comes around does go around in football. Eventually. That’s No. 20 Iowa’s job this week, making sure what comes around doesn’t come around and that the relationship it has enjoyed with Minnesota goes on as regularly scheduled. It feels like Minnesota’s turn. But the No. 8 Gophers still have to make it their turn. We lifted the moratorium on future Iowa coaches and play that game, briefly, this week. Hey, gotta give th...
Iowa-Wisconsin preview + Phil Parker interview
November 07, 2019 21:49 - 143 MBIf this is about championships and the big Big Ten football things, then Iowa has to get right with Wisconsin. That’s been the theme this week. Three straight, six of the last seven, eight of the last 11. The Badgers have owned the Big Ten West. Iowa and Wisconsin aren’t all that different, but the results have been. That’s what makes this all the more maddening if you’re an Iowa person. Iowa has the defense leave Camp Randall Stadium with the bronze bull. Can it find enough offense? It do...
Bye Week 2: Electric Boogaloo
October 28, 2019 23:19 - 137 MBIt’s a bye week. Yes, I know it should be “idle” week, but I’m going to live a little by calling it “bye week.” I’m edgy like that. Scott Dochterman and I talked a long time today. Sorry about that, but this one turned into two dudes talking college football. I did answer everyone’s Twitter questions this week, too. That always puts some air into this. We have availability with a few assistant coaches Tuesday. So, there will be a couple more stories this week. I hope to be fishing by Wedne...
Iowa-Northwestern preview + Derrick Foster on RBs
October 24, 2019 18:29 - 131 MBIowa-Northwestern preview + Derrick Foster on RBs by The Gazette
Bob Sanders, O-Line play and Iowa-Purdue
October 17, 2019 20:00 - 125 MBYou’re going to have to listen to the entire deal to get to the good part. How’s that for a tease? Kidding. We found out late in the #oniowapod that Bob Sanders is the honorary captain for the Hawkeyes this week. Scott immediately switched his prediction to 100-0 Hawkeyes. I was already throwing Iowa and the points. I think the Bob as honorary captain is kind of overkill this week. Yes, Purdue has been tricky. If Iowa drops this one, it’s the worst one. I don’t think it comes to that. Elit...
Can Iowa bounce back against Penn State?
October 10, 2019 20:52 - 118 MBLast week, the #oniowapod went heavy on favoring the Hawkeyes at Michigan. You seemed to enjoy that, so we’re going to just pick Iowa every week for the clicks. April Fool’s!!! You’ll have to listen to see where that conversation goes, but I think you’ll enjoy the important part and that is the conversation on this game. It’s fascinating. Lots of ins and outs, to paraphrase Jeffrey Lebowski. Penn State coach James Franklin is 0-6 in road games against ranked opponents. Iowa is 0-3 vs. Fra...
It matters this week: Iowa-Michigan preview
October 03, 2019 16:37 - 99.8 MBYou probably don’t remember the Al Franken (edit out the politics, I’m making a joke here) character Stuart Smalley from “Saturday Night Live.” The character was a self-help softie whose famous line was “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and, doggone it, people like me!” That’s Iowa this week. The Hawkeyes are good enough, talented enough, veteran enough and, doggone it, who wouldn’t want to see the championship portion of Jim Harbaugh’s season end on the first week of October at the hands...
Breaking down Iowa's Cy-Hawk victory
September 16, 2019 22:44 - 109 MBScott and Marc do a thorough breakdown of the Iowa-Iowa State game. It’s weird how #oniowapod questions on this game fell into two camps: the clock management at the end of the first half and the personnel packages on third-and-short. Marc ran through a few of these during the show. More than a few. Actually, he got a little mad at himself for starting to read a question and then quickly realizing, oh, another clock management question. Also, we love @ueshawk. We answered his “Iowa should ...
The 2019 Cy-Hawk preview
September 12, 2019 18:29 - 101 MBDunh, dunh, dunh. Does that still work for “dramatic organ” sound? Or am I just old? I know, I’m old. People don’t remember dramatic orchestral music in movies or shows. I mean, how old is “Jaws” now? It’s the Cy-Hawk thing. The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman makes a really good point in our podcast. The ESPN College GameDay thing hasn’t crept over to the eastern side of the state. Everyone seems to be going on with their lives in a normal way. “Seems.” Meanwhile in Ames, the Cyclones have b...
Reviewing Iowa's season-opener, moving to B1G play
September 05, 2019 19:55 - 124 MBYou’re going to hear some Bears-Packers nonsense. The greatest rivalry in sports happens tonight. One half of the #oniowapod loves America and babies and puppies. The other half is a Bears fan. You can guess which is which. Scott Dochterman and I didn’t do much of that. I did sense Scott is confident about tonight’s matchup. I thought I’d be dead before the Bears mattered again. Oh well. You come to us for Hawkeyes, and there’s almost 2.5 hours of it. We reviewed the Miami (Ohio) game and...
Game week is finally here
August 29, 2019 22:07 - 115 MBJuly/August is the hardest part of this. Players have camp. That’s when they establish themselves for 2019. It’s obviously hugely important. You know all of those T-shirts players get? They should get one that says “I survived camp and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.” You guys go crazy with the waiting. You have the Hawkeyes winning the natty one minute and then going winless the next. You see a superstar quarterback or you see a problem. You have nothing to go on except emotion and alleg...
It's time to football
August 21, 2019 20:52 - 124 MBIt’s time to football. It just is. That’s what we do on the On Iowa podcast. Yeah, there’s some basketball yada yada, but football is the thing and we go into the Hawkeyes today with the waders on. Iowa offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz didn’t hint, he flat-out said in his Tuesday news conference that there’s really nothing worse than “talking season.” You know, that time of year where you make an outlandish prediction for your team and then realize two weeks later that you might’ve bit...
Iowa football media day is here
August 08, 2019 17:28 - 107 MBThe On Iowa Podcast decided to get a jump on media day. Why not? We went long off the top with a discussion led by a couple of topics The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman covered this week: Five potential breakout players and some statistics that will show up and matter for the 2019 Hawkeyes. The players discussion spiraled into mostly the “underappreciated player” category. But, yeah, it’s going to be fun to see what defensive tackle Daviyon Nixon can do and what Tyler Linderbaum can be at ...
Back from Big Ten Media Days
July 25, 2019 21:05 - 96.1 MBBig Ten media days have value. Absolutely, they do. It’d have more value if the league edited its invite list. Last week was too much. This event has gone from two-hour sitdowns at a table with players and coaches scheduled for different times. So, when Kirk Ferentz was talking, Bob Sanders was waiting to talk. You could swing from one Iowa convo to another without missing anything. It’s not like that anymore. There is podium time with players and coaches. They are generally around the sa...
Recruiting update, conference realignment and more
July 01, 2019 21:39 - 119 MBWith Big Ten media days coming up, football is basically here. Scott Dochterman and I wanted to get a podcast in before the B1G media days (July 17-18) and the end of the portions of our waking lives that don’t involve football. We hit recruiting. Iowa’s 2020 class now at 20 prospects. There could be more. One thing that impresses me? The geography of this class is national-ish. Texas, Florida, all over the upper midwest and, of course, Iowa. The only place missing that would make this a cl...
Oliver Martin, kickoff times, B1G West favorites and more
June 13, 2019 19:48 - 126 MBHere’s a little 2-hour podcast to break the ice of the horse latitudes, you know, that part of the summer where there’s not a whole lot going on in football. There was a little going on in Iowa football last week. Lots of kickoff times trickled out. Marc Morehouse and Scott Dochterman talk about the times and the teams. We’ve been doing various posts on Iowa’s 2019 schedule, so we brought that to the podcast. We ranked the Big Ten West as far as favorites. We talk Iowa wide receiver. ...
Iowa football, basketball talk to take you into summer
May 23, 2019 18:33 - 114 MBOne last two-hour podcast to send you into the summer. The #oniowapod will be taking a break for summer vacations. Marc is off to Wisconsin. Scott will be enjoying greater Canada. So, we sort of went a little crazy. All over the board. We even lifted the moratorium on talk about Iowa’s next head football coach. There will be one. Someday. Isaiah Moss came up. Iowa basketball has woe now, you guys. Maybe lots of woe. We talked extensively about the Big Ten West. Yes, Iowa has a roster ...
Wrapping up spring football
April 29, 2019 17:11 - 97.3 MBIt was a fun spring. We talked with each Iowa assistant coach. We had excellent convos and football discussion (real football discussion, it feels so good). And we saw a glimpse of the team last Friday night. In that regard, it’s been a great spring. I’d characterize the Hawkeyes’ spring as positive. There was just one ACL injury and it was a non-two-deeper at linebacker (Colten Dinsdale). The next wave of early NFL entries got in good work … against each other. DE A.J. Epenesa vs. OT Alari...
NFL Draft preview, Takeaways from Brian Ferentz and Phil Parker
April 25, 2019 21:14 - 96.1 MBIt is draft night. We came into this with a plan, so hear us out. We know #oniowapod will be available for just a few hours before Thursday night’s NFL Draft. So, we talk draft on the front end of the podcast, knowing how different it might turn out. Also, this podcast would’ve only had a shelf life of two hours if it was just the draft. So, a little draft stuff. We make calls on Iowa’s four combine guys. Scott believes OL Ross Reynolds could be picked, too. I agree. What else did we ta...
Spring football: Slot receivers, defensive backs and your questions
April 18, 2019 18:54 - 132 MBWe stuck some Game of Thrones in this, but the #oniowapod sticks to the subject, which is, you know, Iowa sports. This one is heavy, heavy football, and with a week left in spring practice, why wouldn’t it be? We talked the race at the slot receiver position between Nico Ragaini and Tyrone Tracy. Defensive backs came up a lot. We’re all going to have to get to know Kaevon Merriweather a little better. Whither Ihmir Smith-Marsette? We were asked in #oniowapod questions about running back...