On Iowa by Marc Morehouse

Marc Morehouse
Hi, 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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Iowa gets Indiana, Maryland in 2014

Two eastern road trips for Iowa in '14, along with Indiana 2

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 [...]

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Quick Slants: 6-6 bowl teams here to stay, for now

Expect a parity component in conference schedules 1

  – 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 [...]

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Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany spoke to conference media after the Big Ten spring meetings Wednesday in Chicago.

Big Ten breathes life into next round of bowls

No five trips to the same state or back-to-back destinations

  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 [...]

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Iowa State's Jake Knott (left) tries to bring down Rutgers' Michael Burton during the first half of their game during the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, in Bronx, New York. (SourceMedia Group News/Jim Slosiarek)

Quick Slants: Expansion talk takes the year off

Give Iowa $110 million and Barta says he will add hockey

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. [...]

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Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi (12) is hit after the play by Illinois defensive back Donsay Hardeman (4) during the fourth quarter of their game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill. on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. (Jonathan D. Woods/The Gazette)

One for-sure on Iowa’s schedule: Illinois in ’14

With the schools headed to Big Ten West, 5-year drought will end 2

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 [...]

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Iowa blocks a field goal attempt by UNI in the last few seconds of the fourth quarter at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Saturday, September 5, 2009. The ball was recovered by UNI with one second left. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

Iowa faces narrow parameters for non-B1G schedule

ISU rivalry, need for 7 home games locks down Iowa's scheduling 4

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 [...]

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Iowa Hawkeye Football History. No caption information available. Photo appears to show dejected Iowa players on their bench during the 1983 Gator Bowl. From left are: Scott Helverson (#87), Chuck Long (#16) and Owen Gill (#33, standing). With rain and wind chills at times being 13 below zero at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, Iowa lost to the Florida Gators, 14-6. Late in the game, a fumbled snap by punter Tom Nichol was recovered by Florida in Iowa's end zone to "ice" the game for the Gators. December 30, 1983.

B1G Meetings: Hello, Nashville and Jacksonville

Hello from the Big Ten meetings in Chicago

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 [...]

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Iowa's Damon Bullock (32) crosses into the end zone in front of Northern Illinois' Dechane Durante (21) during the fourth quarter of their college football game Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012 at Soldier Field in Chicago. Iowa won the game 18-17.  (Brian Ray/The Gazette-KCRG)

Horse Latitudes #5 – Hello again (& again), Huskies

Nick Saban is down with 5 mega-conferences, so let's do this 3

Football scheduling will rule the Latitudes today. First, CBSsports.com broke this morning that Iowa and Northern Illinois will play at Kinnick Stadium in 2018 and 2020. CBS’ Jeremy Fowler also reports the sides have discussed playing three straight games during that span. So far, NIU has elected to keep 2019 open. So, for now, that [...]

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Iowa athletics director Gary Barta was on ESPN's College Football Live on Thursday. (Gazette file)

Barta on CFB Live: No more FCS schools

But the ones that are scheduled, Iowa will try to keep 9

Iowa athletics director Gary Barta was on ESPN’s College Football Live on Thursday to discuss FCS-level schools on the Hawkeyes future schedules. Monday, The Gazette reported that Iowa was in a wait-and-see mode in regards to future games with Northern Iowa (2014 and 2018), Illinois State (2015) and North Dakota State (2016). Iowa will play [...]

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And one more. (Brian Ray/The Gazette)

And up goes the new video board

Less than two weeks after approval, Kinnick project underway 4

Less than two weeks after the project was approved by the State Board of Regents, the new video board and sound project is underway at Kinnick Stadium. The video board/sound upgrades will be up and going this fall. UI athletics director Gary Barta admitted that it will be a tight timeline, but the plan is [...]

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