 Marc MorehouseHi, I'm Marc Morehouse. I've covered sports for more than 15 years, mostly in Eastern Iowa. I've had Hayden Fry call me "Mike." I've had Chad Greenway call me "Mr." And Kirk Ferentz will occasionally call me "bleep." (Kidding, kidding.)||I have fun with the blog. I’ve made some great connections with a few readers and hope to continue that. Ultimately, I want to know what you want to know.||Thanks for reading. |
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Horse Latitudes #7 – KF convo from last November
Let’s set the scene here: This was the week of Purdue last November. Iowa needed to win two of its next three to gain bowl eligibility. The Hawkeyes were putting on the military uniforms in salute to Veteran’s Day. At this point, Iowa had lost three straight. Purdue was the one most everyone thought Iowa [...]
2014 is a cushion, but will Iowa land on it?
The general consensus is that Iowa’s 2014 football schedule is a cool breeze on an island beach. A veritable boat drink with a little reggae in the background. It kind of is. The Hawkeyes will be part of the welcoming crew for Maryland when it joins the Big Ten in 2014. Iowa will travel to [...]
Horse Latitudes #6 — B1G football, a house cat for now
The Big Tough Big Ten doesn’t want anything to do with an outdoor venue for its football championship game. Actually, I don’t see anything wrong with that. Who does an outdoor title game outside of the Pac-12? Where would the B1G have it’s title game? Soldier Field in Chicago? Forget that. The turf there is [...]
Iowa gets Indiana, Maryland in 2014
Iowa’s first taste of the Big Ten’s newbies will come Oct. 18, 2014 when the Hawkeyes travel to Maryland. The Big Ten released its conference schedules in the last few minutes. There were murmurs of “parity-based” scheduling at the Big Ten meetings earlier this week and, in Iowa’s case, that seemed to hit home. Iowa’s [...]
Quick Slants: 6-6 bowl teams here to stay, for now
– Big Ten athletics directors and commissioner Jim Delany were unanimous in their desire to make 7-5 the minimum record for bowl teams, but with so many bowls, they conceded that isn’t possible and accept that 6-6 teams will be bowl eligible in the Big Ten. “We were hoping the 6-6 would go to [...]
Big Ten breathes life into next round of bowls
CHICAGO — The buzzwords you hear on the Big Ten’s new bowl lineup are “national,” “diverse” and “recruiting.” The conference has seemingly achieved national with bowl deals from the Holiday Bowl in San Diego to the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium in New York. The diversity stems from the less sexy word, “fatigue.” Many [...]
Quick Slants: Expansion talk takes the year off
CHICAGO – These Big Ten May meetings took on a life of their own in 2010 when the conference was in the midst of expansion. The meetings are still going strong as far as news cycles go, with the B1G’s bowl lineup and future schedules being among the topics on Tuesday. Expansion wasn’t a topic. [...]
One for-sure on Iowa’s schedule: Illinois in ’14
CHICAGO — Five things that have happened since the last time Iowa and Illinois met on a football field (Nov. 1, 2008): 1) Barack Obama was elected. 2) The Chicago Blackhawks ended a 49-year Stanley Cup drought. 3) Craft beer became a thing. 4) A TV show called “Jersey Shore” came and went. 5) Justin [...]
Iowa faces narrow parameters for non-B1G schedule
CHICAGO — You see Wisconsin and Alabama. You see Minnesota and TCU. You see Michigan State and Oregon. And you wonder why you see Iowa and Northern Illinois. Iowa athletics director Gary Barta discussed the parameters for future football schedules during Tuesday’s Big Ten Conference meetings. The Big Ten will release football schedules for the [...]
B1G Meetings: Hello, Nashville and Jacksonville
CHICAGO – That Big Ten bowl shuffle has so far yielded…not great stuff. According to ESPN.com’s Brett McMurphy, the conference will share tie-ins with the Gator Bowl and Music City Bowl with the ACC during a six-year agreement, so three Big Ten teams would go to Jacksonville and three to Nashville in the span. They’ll face [...]
