Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - 3 Hawks on HOF ballot | Contest winner announced! | Football recruiting recap from busy week

Episode Date: June 4, 2019

Today's episode is jam packed with tidbits from around the Iowa Hawkeyes stratosphere. Lots of recruiting news coming to light that we are going to cover as well as some great news for three former Hawks who are on the CFB HOF ballot. We touch on a few basketball pieces before announcing the winner of our 100th episode (which is actually our 101st episode) giveaway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are listening to the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast, your daily podcast covering the Iowa Hawkeyes for the Locked On Sports Network, hosted by Andrew Wade, editor at dearoldgold.com. Welcome to this beautiful Tuesday morning edition of the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. I am your host, Andrew Wade, editor over at dearoldgold.com, and I hope you had a fantastic weekend. It was a great weekend here in Denver, Colorado. I hope it was a good weekend over in the Midwest for you all. I know you've been dealing with some crappy weather. So again, hope you had a great weekend.

And we are back with some great content this week. Tomorrow, we are going to be having Reed Timmer, Drake University basketball player, or should I say former Drake University basketball player, current European professional player. And he's going to be playing on the Iowa United this summer. So in line with kind of what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks,

doing some of these conversations with Iowa United players, we're going to be having Reed Timmer on the podcast, talk about his career with the Drake University Bulldogs, his time over in Europe and his passion for pharmacy and what that could be hold in the future. So make sure to tune into tomorrow's episode. That is going to be a great conversation with Reed. Great young man that you'll really enjoy listening to and you'll be able to gain additional

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Get rewarded. All right, today's show is a very monumental occasion for the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. It is our 100th episode, and we're doing a very special 100th episode giveaway, which we're going to be announcing at the very end of the show. So right after we go through our three segments, we will be announcing the winner of the giveaway, which is an autographed Kevontae Martin Manley picture. And we're going to be posting that on Twitter as well. To all

those who retweeted that, we're going to let them know who the winner is. Make sure to reach out to me on Twitter at LockedOnIowa and let us know what your address is, and I'll get that sent out to you pretty quickly. So, again, I appreciate all of you for jumping in and joining our 100-episode giveaway. Very awesome that we've been able to make this happen for 100 episodes starting back in November. It's grown so much. We've had some really great guests on.

We've had Matt Tybee, a former UW-Milwaukee forward. We had Nicholas Bayer, you know, the sixth man of the Iowa basketball team. We've had two Iowa recruits on, Deuce Hogan and Elijah Yelverton. We also had Drew Tate and Ricky Stanzi. And Marcus Fizer, the number four overall draft pick in the 2000 NBA draft. So lots of great people we've had on the show. We've also just been able to provide you some pretty awesome content. I obviously think that's pretty awesome.

I'm pretty biased. So really appreciate all of you, you know, listening to the show, loving the show, responding and tweeting at us and that sort of stuff about the show. Really appreciate all your feedback, you know, comments, that kind of stuff. And if you are tuning into the show for the very first time, it would really help us if you like, subscribe and review this podcast, wherever you downloaded that at. You can get this podcast on Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, Spotify, and you can also get this podcast on the brand new Himalaya Podcast app. And the Himalaya Podcast app, just to give you a quick plug, because I love it. It's absolutely fantastic. I'm a big podcast guy myself. I have 20 different podcasts on my Himalaya app as we speak,

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Then we're going to jump into football for segment number two and segment number three. A lot of things happening as we speak. There's been some weird transfer rumors. There's been a few Hawks that have been visiting the Iowa campus. There's obviously been some camps that the Hawkeyes have been having that has kind of spawned some recruiting and some commitment news that we want to talk about as well. And there's also been some rumors just kind of around the bowl game. So we're going to cover all that on segment two and segment three. So let's jump right into it with segment number one talking all about basketball.

segment three. So let's jump right into it with segment number one talking all about basketball. All right, in basketball news, the Iowa United have submitted their application officially. Application submissions have closed. So we are now just awaiting to find out what their seating is going to be in the Wichita Regional. Going to be a very great regional to watch. The Kansas team is going to be there, Kansas State, Marquette. So the premier regional in TBT, the basketball tournament, the $2 million winner-take-all tournament. Iowa United is going to be playing in that regional. We just need to find out what their seating is

and we should be finding that out over the next week or so. We'll have Matt Crawford hopefully back on the show to talk about that and kind of what their draw means for the Iowa United. But really excited to see this team play. As you know, we've been having some of those guys on the show over the last couple of weeks to kind of get to know the players for the Iowa United. Also in basketball news, Ryan Creener is going to be playing overseas and it's kind of an

interesting opportunity there. I heard about this and thought, what the heck are they talking about, right? Why is Ryan Creener playing overseas? But apparently it's this kind of travel team called USA East Coast. They go overseas and they play a couple of games against the professional European teams. And they also get some really cool experience doing some educational type of tours. They host some youth clinics. So for Ryan, I think it's a really great opportunity and something that a lot of Iowa Hawkeyes in the past years have been able to do, such as Jared Uthoff,

Don Mool, and Nicholas Bayer. And I think the biggest thing I think here is that they have an opportunity to play a European game. So for those of you who don't realize, the game in the U.S. versus the European game is so different, so drastically different. And you hear that when you listen to some of these interviews we've been doing with some of these guys

that are going to be playing on the Iowa United. The game between America and Europe is a completely different ball game. And it favors a different level of skill, a different type of skill set, and a different type of attitude when playing in that game. And I think Ryan Crener's game would fit pretty well with a European basketball game. I mean, he's a 6'9", 255-pound forward. He can do some things that are pretty traditional from a 1970s, 1980s standpoint in terms of basketball.

Shooting prowess, he does the sky hook, that type of stuff. He does kind of the little things right, and he's a great team player. So I think that'll be a really interesting opportunity for him going overseas, being able to see kind of what the European game is like and being able to play against some of those professional teams. So some really exciting stuff for Ryan Kreener. And the biggest thing is he's going to get some more basketball experience. He's slated right now. He's potentially in line to start with Tyler Cook gone. It kind of depends though. We have Cordell Pemzo. We have Patrick McCaffrey. You know, we have Jack Nunge

and then Ryan Kreener is going to be in that mix as well. Either way though, he's going to be getting a lot more playing time this season. Last year, he averaged 13 minutes up from 10 minutes the previous year. So it'll be fun to watch him play overseas. We can actually watch those games streaming wise. Once I get that information, I'll try to tweet it out on our Locked On the previous year. So it'll be fun to watch him play overseas. We can actually watch those games streaming-wise. Once I get that information, I'll try to tweet it out on our Locked On Iowa Twitter account. So make sure to check that out. I'll also try to tweet it out on the Locked On Hawkeyes Facebook page as well. So make sure to check that out.

Hopefully you can watch him play and get some good experience overseas in Europe. And he leaves for that in just under a week. I believe he leaves next Monday. So really fun stuff for Ryan Kreener. That'll do it though for the quick basketball recap. We do a lot of football news to cover and we will be doing that on segment number two and segment number three. We do have a few messages from our sponsors. The first sponsor that we want to talk about though is Twillery. If you haven't heard of Twillery, you need to now. If you use dress shirts for anything,

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number two. And like I said, we're going to be covering a lot of football stuff on the podcast today. Before we jump into segment number two, though, just a quick reminder to like, subscribe and review wherever you download this podcast at, though, just a quick reminder to like, subscribe, and review wherever you download this podcast at, whether that is Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or the brand-new, free, and easy-to-use Himalaya Podcast app. So a couple things we want to talk about recruiting-wise. Joe Moore, a three-star strong side defensive end prospect out of St. Louis,

currently listed at 6'2", 239 pounds. He listed the Iowa Hawkeyes in his top 12 a couple days ago. He's an intriguing developmental prospect. Doesn't really have some of the major athleticism type of things that you love to see. He posted a 4.8 second 40-yard dash time, a 28.2 inch vertical. So not exactly great, but I think some time with Chris Doyle will be huge for him. Also, he has an NFL background. His dad played football in the NFL, was a first-round draft pick from the University of Missouri. So I think that is huge. I think that's

a really big-time kind of thing you want to see. He has that background that you know he maybe could have that potential to get there in the long run, especially under Iowa's guidance. We are competing with six other Big Ten programs, though, including the Illinois Fighting Illini, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue, and Wisconsin. The big one I'm worried about, though, including the Illinois Fighting Illini, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska,

Purdue, and Wisconsin. The big one I'm worried about, though, is Missouri, because that is his dad's alma mater, and he is from that Missouri area, being in St. Louis, so I think there's a good opportunity that Iowa could get him. According to 24-7 Sports, he is currently projected to go to the Hawkeyes,

but I still think Missouri is someone that you shouldn't be sleeping on, just because it is somewhere his dad went as well. In other recruiting news, the Iowa Hawkeyes did miss out on a three-star safety prospect. Just found out this information last night, actually. Makari Page, a three-star prospect, he listed his top seven and Iowa was not on it so you know things can change high school recruits can change their mind but likely it means that the Iowa Hawkeyes are out of the running for that three-star safety prospect not exactly ideal but that happens in college football other good news though the Iowa Hawkeyes got their very first commit in the class of 2021, which is huge.

Starting off that year right, the first one they got last year was Deuce Hogan in the class of 2020. We saw how big of a deal that was. The recruit this time is Jennings Dunker. He is an offensive tackle commit. He was actually at their camp on Sunday, and they gave him an opportunity to really look at him and see kind of how he played. He's also not the first one from his school. They have another guy coming in from the exact same school. So they've been able to kind of watch him grow over the last couple years. He still has two years, though, in high school football. So a lot can change from then to now. But he already, you know, Iowa offered, he committed, he's ready to

go. Obviously, he loves what he sees in the program. And you like to see commits commit early and stay there just because it allows them to start recruiting other guys as well. You can see it with Deuce Hogan. He's doing a great job of responding to anyone who's looking at the Iowa Hawkeyes. If they choose to not go to Iowa, he still says, nice work, excited to play against you, all these things. But he loves to get people to join the Iowa Hawkeyes. He's a big-time talker to people on Twitter. I'm trying to get some of these recru to join the Iowa Hawkeyes. He's a big guy, big-time talker

to people on Twitter. I'm trying to get some of these recruits in the Iowa Hawkeye football program. In other news, Connor McLaughlin, a four-star tackle prospect, is set to visit the Iowa Hawkeyes next week. That is a huge-time prospect for the Hawks. They currently don't have a tackle on their recruiting radar at this point, and by that I mean there's no one that has been committed to the Iowa Hawkeyes. They have two guard prospects, or at least who we think will be guards at the next level. So getting Conrad Glothlin in, he's kind of a small kid at 6'7", 245 pounds, has some room to grow. That shouldn't be an issue, again, with Chris Doyle being able to put weight on players.

We're more concerned about the athleticism, and he still has a year of high school football. So if he starts working hard at that, there's a chance he could kind of develop even more over the next couple years, or the next year, excuse me, before he joins the Iowa Hawkeye program, hopefully. Some more stuff, obviously lots of stuff to talk about with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Oliver Martin, I want to get to this because it's really important. I have a lot to say about it. Oliver Martin was an Iowa City West kid,

a kid who Iowa was high on trying to recruit late in the recruiting process, a four-star wide receiver prospect, ended up committing to the Michigan Wolverines. So a rival, nonetheless, in the Iowa Hawkeyes Big Ten Conference. And there was some rumors started by a guy named James Yoder that Oliver Martin was looking at leaving the Minnesota Wolverines because he was fifth or sixth on the depth chart, which, for a couple things. First off, don't listen to guys like James Yoder.

Listen to guys who actually know what's going on, who are in the in with these programs. James Yoder is not one of those guys. This guy is garbage, trash, and a complete fraud. Just look up James Yoder on really anywhere online. You're going to find that guy is crap. He has some great articles. There's great articles out about him, about how he's a shady individual. So do not listen to that.

Also, on dearoldgold.com, there's a publisher who posted a great piece about Oliver Martin and why it wasn't true. There's also a picture posted a couple days ago that Oliver Martin was actually eating with the Michigan Wolverine wide receivers. So those rumors are garbage. And also for all of you Iowa Hawkeye fans who are talking crap on a 19-year-old kid, can you please freaking stop? What the heck is wrong with you guys? This kid's a teenager. Just relax a little bit. He didn't choose Iowa. That sucks. I wish he would have, but he didn't. And we don't need to talk crap about him. The guy needs to make a decision that's best for him. He doesn't owe the state anything. Again, I would have, but he didn't. We don't need to talk crap about him. The guy needs to make a decision that's best for him. He doesn't owe the state anything. Again, I would have loved to see him in an Iowa Hawkeye

uniform, but he didn't choose the Iowa Hawkeyes. And now that he, you know, there's some weird rumors coming out, Iowa Hawkeye fans are pretty split on whether they wanted him. First off, don't be mean to the kid. Second off, let him do what he wants. If he comes to the Hawks, support him. If he doesn't, great.

Don't support him. Or at least root for an Iowa kid and hope he doesn't burn the Hawks, support him. If he doesn't, great. Don't support him. Or at least root for an Iowa kid and hope he doesn't burn the Hawks when he sees them. But again, just don't root against actively hating a kid like Oliver Martin. And talking to some of his friends, he sounds like he's a really good kid. So just kind of back off if you are one of those guys or girls who are hating on Oliver Martin. That'll do it, though, for segment number two. We're going to be back with segment number three, covering a few more Iowa Hawkeyes in the NFL type of stuff.

So stay tuned for segment number three after a message from our sponsors. All right, we are back with segment number three. Lots of fun stuff coming up. We still have additional recruiting stuff I want to make sure I cover on today's show. Travis Volkolek, he is a tight end prospect from Rutgers, a transfer prospect. He is expected to make his decision this week. So we could be finding out today or even tomorrow if he's deciding to go to the Iowa Hawkeyes. That would be a huge grab for him. He did get 16 receptions last year on a Rutgers offense.

That was absolutely atrocious. An offense that no one wanted to see. Very pivotal. So obviously making the great decision to move on from them. I hope he comes to the Iowa Hawkeyes. He's from Springfield, Missouri, so a little bit far away from Iowa. But he is currently looking at Kansas State and Nebraska. So anytime we can get a guy over Nebraska, that's a huge win anyways.

And then getting a tight end prospect, especially with the lack of depth between the senior class and the freshman class, would be huge for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Also, some big news. There are three Iowa Hawkeyes who are on the ballot for the College Bowl Hall of Fame. There's currently 11 guys in the College Bowl Hall of Fame from the Iowa football team. We could be adding three as early as this year. Dallas Kark, Tim Dwight, and Andre Tippett are currently on the ballot. Voting ends in just a few weeks, and

the ultimate decision or the induction will be made in December. I think both these guys have great chances to make it. Sorry, excuse me. All three of these guys have both chances to make it. Dallas Clark was huge, instrumental to the Iowa football program, had a fantastic last year before getting drafted in the first round.

Tim Dwight was a two-time All-American, one of the most explosive punt returners in the history of college football. And Andre Tippett really crushed it on the Iowa Hawkeye defense. All-American defensive end between 1979 and 1981, a captain of a great defense that 1981 season. He was drafted in the second round and is, and it's actually in the pro football hall of fame. So it'd just be kind of the, the, you know, completing the,

the kind of the scope of his career by getting in the pro football hall of fame and the college football hall of fame. So again, that will be, the voting will be ending June 21st and the induction will be December 8th. That'd be really awesome to see the Iowa Hawkeyes increase the representation in the college football hall of Fame by three this year. Also, the Minnesota Vikings added Nate Kading as a specialist, a kind of a part-time specialist coach watching the kickers. The Minnesota Vikings had an atrocious kicking game last year, the worst kicking game in terms of field goal percentage in the NFL. So it's awesome that they're bringing in Nate Kading to kind of do that. I'm not sure

if the idea behind this is that they can bring in Nate Kading and maybe he wants to become a coach full-time at some point, or maybe he's just doing this because he's kind of bored and wants to do something. So he's been busy starting a lot of restaurants in the Iowa City community. Now he's going to be in Minnesota, you know, doing some tutelage for their kickers. It'll be interesting to see how they improve. And if they improve, you could actually see Nate Kading start climbing up some of those coaching ranks pretty quickly. Big turnarounds are huge in the NFL ranks. Coaches love to see former players come in and do awesome work teaching some of these current players how to play football and do a better job at that. Also, kind of in conjunction with the NFL theme, some interesting stuff came out

in the past couple of weeks. One of the sites, I believe it was actually 24-7 Sports. Yeah, it was 24-7 Sports. They actually put out a ranking of all the active NFL earnings currently. And what I thought was interesting about this is the Iowa Hawkeyes ranked 23rd in active NFL earnings. And this basically means any player who's currently in the NFL, they basically can bind up all their earnings and then made a ranking list of that. And Iowa was 23rd. But what I think was most interesting about that is that not a lot of their guys, there wasn't a lot of like main guys at the top. So for example, you know, the Wisconsin Badgers checked in the 20th, but 74.4 million of that comes from Russell Wilson. First of all, I think it's garbage that Russell Wilson was included as a Badger considering

he played just one season there. Purdue, interestingly enough, came in at 18th with $344 million in active NFL earnings. But again, Drew Brees was on that team 20 years ago, and he's earned 66% of their total active earnings. So there's a lot of teams that kind of fall in line with this. Utah, NC State, Ole Miss, Pitt, and Michigan, where they have one very rich player, whereas the Iowa Hawkeyes just have a lot of players who've been consistent in the NFL for a long time.

Their most highly paid player right now is Marshall Yonda at $60 million. So again, Iowa Hawkeyes checking in with the 23rd ranking, which is ahead of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, which I freaking love. And the Nebraska Cornhuskers are actually only held up by Ndamukong Su, who's made a lot of money in his career as well. But I was checking in at $310 million of active NFL earnings, which I thought was pretty awesome. Again, a testament to that program just always pumping out great talent every single year.

And the final thing that I wanted to cover on today's episode of the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast is that the Big Ten is going to be losing the Holiday Bowl. Some rumors, I guess not official yet, but Brett McMurphy reported some rumors or some rumblings that the Big Ten is going to be losing the Holiday Bowl and replacing it with the Las Vegas Bowl and the Belk Bowl, which they'll be splitting, kind of doing a every other year thing with the SEC, I believe. So it'll be fun for the Iowa Hawkeyes to potentially be able to go to Las Vegas. We're also adding the Cheez-It Bowl as well, which is not really a bowl that I really care about.

I hope the Iowa Hawkeyes never make it to the Cheez-It Bowl. That means their season was probably not so good and probably underperformed. But again, we're going to be losing the Holiday Bowl. The Iowa Hawkeyes haven't been to the Holiday Bowl since 1987. There's still a chance they can go here in 2019, but again, I have high hopes for this team. One of the, I think, most underrated teams in the nation right now. I think they could be a potential CFP spoiler to make it to the Holiday Bowl, which would mean they're probably the fourth or fifth best team in the Big Ten. Again, although that's not a bad season, that's not really my

expectations coming into this year. So a good chance they don't see the Holiday Bowl for a long time. Even though they had an opportunity to go there last year, the Outback Bowl decided that Iowa was a better fit for them than Northwestern, which was the team that was most likely to go there. So they had an opportunity last year, likely not going to go there this year. So we could be seeing the Holiday Bowl off the table for the Iowa Hawkeyes in the foreseeable future. But that covers it. Again, lots of kind of small tidbits that I wanted to cover

on the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast today. I want to jump into the kind of contest we ran for the 100th episode, though. I know you've been waiting patiently, and I want to make sure I announce that news. And don't forget it because that would just kind of be a disappointment for any of you who did participate in the contest and did not listen until the end or got tired of me talking at that point. But the contest winner

of the signed Kevante Martin Manley picture for the 100th episode giveaway is actually Zach Pratt, at me, Zach P. Make sure to go follow him. Post some good content. Sounds like he's really involved with the sports publishing world. But congratulations, Zach P.

Give me a follow on Twitter. Make sure to DM us at LockedOnIowa. Actually, you're already following us, so just DM us at LockedOnIowa. Give me your address, and I'll get this signed autographed picture of Kevontae Martin Manley sent over to you. And again, a shout-out to everyone

who actually played and did the retweet of our pinned tweet. We'll be doing more of that kind of stuff in time. We've got to wait and spread those contests out a little bit, but I really appreciate everyone who did follow us and retweet that Twitter post as well.

Again, a big shout-out to all the fans who've been joining the show and listening to us throughout our time since November. Getting to the 100th episode is really a cool thing

and something that I'm really proud of as the host of the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. I hope I can continue giving you some awesome content. Like I said, we've had some great guests on the show

the past couple months. We hope to have some great guests coming on in the coming months as well. So again, thank you so much for all jumping on the show. This show was brought to you by Hotels.com and you can find the show wherever you download podcasts at, whether that is Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or the brand new Himalaya Podcast app,

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about when we're getting episodes out. We've been trying to get at least three episodes out in the summer months, a little bit slower of a time. But as you know, we're getting episodes out. We've been trying to get at least three episodes out in the summer months, a little bit slower of a time. But as you know, we're probably going to be posting an episode usually Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Mondays are just tough with so much weekend travel. Fridays are kind of tough when everyone's gone anyways.

So we'll be doing that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and I'll be keeping you all posted on our Twitter account when we're going to be getting new episodes out as well. Again, thank you all for tuning in for our 100th episode of the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. Thank you all, Hawkeye Nation. Have a great day and go Hawks! We'll see you next time. you