Kirk Ferentz has been head coach for the Hawkeyes for 14 years now. That’s a long time and that’s a lot of great stories. Bob Sanders rings out. Robert Gallery isn’t bad, either. Certainly, Nate Kaeding, Colin Cole and Pat Angerer. I’m not going to go over them all (Abdul Hodge/Chad Greenway). There’s no [...]
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Who would you say is the best NFL player among all the ex-Iowa Hawkeyes currently in the league? When I thought about this, the answer that leaped to my mind was Minnesota Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway. He hasn’t missed a game in the last five seasons, and averaged 9.6 tackles per game last season. [...]
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The Big Ten made a Big Deal about releasing its 2015 and 2016 conference football schedules Monday. Well, maybe not a big deal, but it was a press release. I took little interest in it since a) There’s no guarantee I or the world will be here in 2015 and b) who’s to say [...]
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The Big Ten released football schedules for the 2015-16 seasons today. Here’s the release from Iowa with some thoughts following: 2015-16 BIG TEN FOOTBALL SCHEDULES ANNOUNCED IOWA CITY, IA – The University of Iowa’s Big Ten Conference football schedules have been announced for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Schedules for all 12 league schools [...]
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Bob Bowlsby still isn’t quite in his new job as Big 12 commissioner, but the league made a move Friday that will shape Bowlsby’s tenure. The Big 12 and SEC announced that it would pit the two teams in a New Year’s Day Bowl beginning in 2015. The initial deal is for five seasons. [...]
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You may have seen Marc Morehouse’s blog post on the latest Iowa football recruiting oral commitment, quarterback Nic Shimonek of Corsicana, Texas. When you’ve never lived in Texas and you like football, as I haven’t and I do, there’s a mythology to Texas high school football that you find fascinating. Well, I do. Look, [...]
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Score one for Iowa offensive coordinator Greg Davis and his Texas connections. When the former University of Texas OC was hired at Iowa in February, he immediately heard from around 20 Texas prep coaches interested in his new ties. That appears to have helped the Hawkeyes land Corsicana (Texas) Mildred quarterback Nic Shimonek, who [...]
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CHICAGO — Fan bases at Iowa and Nebraska are known nationally to take over bowl sites and the turn the stadium into a pseudo-home environment for their football teams. Yet each school’s athletics department sold around half of its bowl ticket allotment last year, costing both the school and Big Ten significant revenue. Iowa was required [...]
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CHICAGO — Don’t get too comfortable in your seat at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa athletics director Gary Barta said Wednesday that Kinnick will once again be re-seated in 2014. The stadium was re-seated after a $90 million renovation project in 2006. Barta said Iowa told fans in ’06 that the process would happen again in [...]
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CHICAGO — The kickoff, as we know it, is in its final days. Since 2010, the NCAA has twice changed kickoff rules in an effort to improve player safety. The NFL has talked about some form of punting with a tighter space between teams as a replacement for the kickoff, which has been proven [...]
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