Hawkeye Football

Edgar Cervantes (left), Robert Gallery (70) and Maurice Brown (9) celebrate with Iowa's Dallas Clark after a touchdown against Northwestern at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002. (Gazette file)

Dallas Clark: Maybe the best story from the Ferentz era 8

  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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And the best current NFL player among all former ex-Iowa Hawkeyes is …

According to CBSsports.com, it's not even close. 7

  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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Iowa’s 2014 football schedule may be its weirdest ever

Two byes in a three-week period 4

  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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Iowa tight end Tony Moeaki celebrates as he crosses the goal line for a touchdown during the first half of their game against Illinois at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, in Champaign, Ill. Iowa won, 24-7. (Gazette file)

Iowa’s future schedules 6

  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, left, outgoing University of Iowa athletic director, congratulates his replacement and longtime friend, Gary Barta, after a news conference Friday, June 23, 2006, in Iowa City, Iowa, where Barta was named Bowlsby's replacement. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Harry Baumert)

Barta on Bowlsby, Phase III and (there is no Phase III) 2

  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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Iowa’s QB recruit Nic Shimonek is a Mildred Eagle. That’s fine, but I’d have preferred a Cisco Lobo.

Slick Nic is a Mildred Eagle. The Mildred Eagles are good. 1

  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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Corsicana (Texas) Mildred quarterback Nic Shimonek (No. 9) committed to the Hawkeyes on Thursday. (Corsicana Daily Sun)

Texas QB picks the Hawkeyes 19

  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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The Air Force Wings of Blue parachute team flies the Iowa flag into Sun Devil Stadium Iowa's game against Oklahoma in the 2011 Insight Bowl Friday,Dec. 30, 2011 in Tempe, AZ.  (Brian Ray/ SourceMedia Group News)

Big Ten wants bowls to change ticket distribution 2

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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The Hawkeye flag is waved over Kinnick Stadium after an Iowa field goal in the third quarter of Iowa's 45-24 homecoming win against Indiana at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in Iowa City. Iowa won 45-24. (Liz Martin/SourceMedia Group News)

Re-seating coming to Kinnick in 2014 4

  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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Caption: (from left) Iowa's Lebron Daniel, Kyle Haganman, Broderick Binns and Karl Klug head toward Northwestern during a kick off return during the first half at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City on Saturday, September 27, 2008. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

Kickoffs are an endangered species

Big Ten ADs send straightforward message that kickoffs are dangerous and need to be changed 3

  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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