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Starting point is 00:00:00 degenerates reunite we got biz with us today our hawkeye season preview the most opinion opinionated man in eastern iowa joins us where the look at iowa football today locked on hawkeyes you are locked on hawkeyes your daily podcast on the iowa hawkeyes part of the locked on podcast network your team every day Hey, welcome in. I'm Trent Condon. That's Biz, and this is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for being with us and making Lockdown Hawkeyes, your first listen every day. So, Biz, at the top of the show, I got to kind of say why people should be listening to us. I've been covering the Hawkeyes for 20 years on radio.

Starting point is 00:00:46 You've been talking about the Hawks for nearly 50 years now. We're both old guys, and we've been talking about it. So there it is. If people are seeing us for the first time, there's the cell. Listen to us because we got opinions. Yeah, and I'm back by, I assume. I assume zero demand whatsoever, but I'm assuming everyone else must have been busy this week and had other commitments. But thanks for inviting me back.

Starting point is 00:01:11 I'm sure there are, I can think of at least one or two listeners that'll be excited. No doubt about it. Well, today's episode of Lockdown Hawkeyes is brought to you by Monarch Money. Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code lockdown college at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year. Biz, we're going to talk a little hoops later on. We haven't talked, at least here, since basketball season. And, of course, the hiring of Ben McCullum, want to get your thoughts on that.

Starting point is 00:01:37 And we're going to go through in our preview of this Iowa football season. But the lead-up, you know, I mentioned it yesterday on the podcast. This is a time where the Hawkeye infighting is really starting. You go to the message boards and everybody's yelling at each other. And if you try to give information, it's wrong. If you hear anything, you're wrong. Same thing on social media. It's that time where you can tell.

Starting point is 00:01:58 You know, we always hear that the guys. are ready to hit somebody else. It feels like kind of the fan base gets to this point to this week. They're ready for a game and something instead of just yelling at each other to actually see and see if what we believe is going to happen is actually going to be there. Yeah, I know I'm ready. I try to just stay off message boards these days just because they're so toxic. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:02:20 I still try to get my Iowa news, but try to do it in a little less, a little less angry format. But I attended the kids' day. I got my fill at least for a little while there. And, you know, kids' days, you always got to take them with a great assault because they're, you know, they're three weeks for the season starts and they're never, they never show much. But, you know, I thought there were some positives and some negatives take away from that day.

Starting point is 00:02:47 The thing that stood out as you sent a text to our group is that I think it was something to paraphrase. Mark Bernowski's going to give Kirk Farrant's a heart attack. He's aggressive with the full. football. And that's something that, you know, has been so coached out of the guys throughout the years. He's a different kind of guy and that gunslinger kind of mentality and the guy that's going to take a few chances and go down the field. Certainly I think it's going to be a welcome site, though, to Hawkeye fans. Yeah, I was, I don't know what I expected exactly,

Starting point is 00:03:15 but what happened on Kids Day definitely surprised me for a couple of reasons. One, I think he's more athletic than I thought he was. I mean, I think he's going to be able to make plays with his feet. He's going to be able to extend plays. I mean, I knew. He ran for a lot of yards at SDSU, but I didn't expect him, I guess, to be as quite as nimble as he was. So that's a positive. On the negative, boy, he didn't play like a 60-year quarterback at kids' day. He was a little more inconsistent and quite frankly wasn't great at reading defenses that day. He made some really bad reads.

Starting point is 00:03:52 Having said that, even though he made some bad reads, he put some throws in some really great spots. and almost had a couple of unbelievable throws. But he was pretty inconsistent that day. Clearly, he's light years better than what our options have been the last couple of years. So even if he's not the world's greatest quarterback, we still have a gigantic upgrade than what we've had the last couple of years. But, yeah, there was nothing. If anybody came away from Kids Day saying, yes, he was unbelievable.

Starting point is 00:04:22 They're lying to you. He was pretty inconsistent. It was a, it was a, a mixed bag, I would say, from Grinowski on Kids Day. Had the pick six to Cohen Engringer that he brought back a couple other and kind of started off hot and then slowed down as it went on. One thing I thought was interesting going back to Kids Day, too, is it did feel like they were working a lot in the passing game, just didn't see as much as we maybe anticipated

Starting point is 00:04:47 in the run game. And maybe that was just the script, you know, that you go through the course of the season, hey, this is the day that we're going to be working on the passing game a little bit more. And that goes to another one of the big, questions, the wide receiver position. And though it's deep, I don't know if there is, you know, a guy that can be even honorable mention, you know, all Big Ten this season, maybe on the fringes, something like that. But it is a deeper group than we've used to, certainly the last five, six years at the

Starting point is 00:05:11 wide receiver group. What did you see there? And are you a believer that this group can at least be okay? Wide receivers can finally not be a huge demerit for this Iowa football team. Oh, definitely. I think the best thing about is, yeah, they're seven or eight deep. But they've got a good mix. You got Gil and Weechin and guys like that that can be more possession receivers.

Starting point is 00:05:32 But I was impressed with both of our big receivers. I thought Vander Z and Howard both look really good. Vander Zee clearly has bulked up because his big problem last year was being able to get off line of scrimmage and just people were just bullying him after that first couple of games and getting off press coverage. And, you know, he's definitely bulked up. And, you know, if you can get it in his catch radius, he's going to catch it. He's got great hands. So, yeah, no, I agree with you.

Starting point is 00:05:58 I don't think there's any stars in that group, but I think there's probably four or five or six guys that could potentially, you know, have 30, 40 catches. I really like Jacob Gill. I just think he's really consistent. I think he can be that kind of a skate belt guy that, you know, he can consistently have, you know, five, six, seven catches every game.

Starting point is 00:06:19 Is he going to, you know, is he going to be, you know, a big player receiver? Probably not. but I think he can be, you know, that guy that we mean way back to the old Mo Brown days. I mean, you know, third and you just throw a five yard out to Mo Brown and he makes a play. I think hopefully, hopefully we can do that with Jacob Yale a little bit this year. He can be that guy that can move chains for you. And I'm really excited about Seth Anderson finally healthy.

Starting point is 00:06:42 Now, you're a Rams fan, of course, Flipper. I was really, I spent most of the scrimmage looking for Flipper in the stand. Okay. Did you find him? I waited. He caught a big touchdown. I was like, wait. If somebody jumped up, cheering, I got to go find a flipper.

Starting point is 00:06:55 He either wasn't there or he was very subdued when this kid played well. He's got speed. And we saw that a couple of times throughout his career. I mean, you'd go back to two years ago in that first play down the field, getting behind the defense on that one. But even last year when he was battling entry, there were a couple of those moments where you can see why they've been so excited about him. He gets through spring unscathed.

Starting point is 00:07:16 He gets through camp here, hopefully, you know, unscathed. And that's a guy, you throw in the dependability of Gill, like you talked about. But obviously what they can have with that big receiver with Bander Z. And if Seth Anderson becomes a solid number three, coupled with the depth, it gets really exciting. One more, though, on the offense biz, and it's a left tackle position. So we both consider ourselves, I guess, very amateur offensive line people. We yell about it a lot. And I don't know if we actually know what we're talking about.

Starting point is 00:07:43 But it's something we do talk about a lot. Left tackle remains the question mark. Trevor Lough looks to be the apparent starter at that position. and sophomore, good offers coming out of high school. This was a big-time prospect, but we've seen it before. I mean, they go back to the year that they had two NFL tackles and Linderbom in the medal, but the guard play was terrible and the offensive line was terrible because of that. Can Iowa scheme around if the left tackle position doesn't turn into a good position even?

Starting point is 00:08:13 Can they scheme around and still make a good running game even with the hole on that line? Anybody that's listened to us over the years knows that for years I was really critical of George Burnett. I just didn't think he was going to make it as offensive wine coach for Iowa. And now I've kind of done 180. I think what he did last year and what he can potentially do this year, I'll give him credit. I mean, they talked for years, just be patient, that it's coming, and he was accurate. So I don't know, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the dollar. But I think the combination of him and Lester, I think Lester will scheme and make sure that we don't leave that left tackle on an island a lot.

Starting point is 00:08:53 I think we'll give that left tackle a lot of help with tight ends and chipping and things like that. So with the combination of Lester and Vardet, I feel pretty good. I mean, I'm not overly worried about it. I mean, you never want to go into a season with left tackle being a complete question mark. but I don't know. I'm willing to give our coaching staff benefit for the doubt at least until I see otherwise. I'm right there with you and what they did in the ground game and the deep stable now they have a running backs.

Starting point is 00:09:21 I think they're going to be fine on that front. You're right, you know, help out a little bit. You got a guy next to him, Bo Stevens that started 21 games. Yeah, he's not, you know, Logan Jones. He's not Jennings Dunker, but that's a pretty good starting part at your left guard spot as well. So I really think this Iowa offensive line at minimum is going to be able to run the football and hopefully be able to make some plays in the passing game and hold up at left tackle. Well, we talked about the offense. We're going to talk about the defense. We're going

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Starting point is 00:12:34 you know, the bowl game against Missouri. I worry that that's what we're going to see from this defense this year is that they're and honestly you go back to the ucla game and the michigan state games like there were times last year that defense was average at best and maybe even below average and i'm not sure i'll always trust phil and i'll always assume that we're going to be in above average defense but uh if there's a year where that may not happen this is probably the year there's you know do i think we've got some talent in the defense yeah but I'm not sure there's any stars anywhere on the defense. Yep.

Starting point is 00:13:14 And I'm not sure, you know, we're just asking, we're filling a lot of gaps in there. So, yeah, I will always assume that Phil will figure it out and will be better than anticipated. But there were times last year where we were not good. And I'm not sure, you know, I'm not sure when you look at the unit this year that, you know, the cornerbacks a major, major question for me.

Starting point is 00:13:38 I'm just not sure. I'm not sure we have a, any cornerbacks that I would consider to be, you know, above average at this point. But, you know, hopefully, like I said, Phil, Phil's proven me wrong time and time again. So hopefully he does it again. But the one person who's positive on the defense, I thought Carson Shire played great. Yeah. He looked really good.

Starting point is 00:13:59 And he was everywhere. And I think, you know, one of those linebackers are probably a couple of them. We got to really step up. And I think I'd be shocked if he didn't secure the starting spot and just, runs with it because he looked really good. Yes, that's one of the bright spots. The depth of the defensive line, I think, is going to be there going in and bringing in the two defensive tackles, both Pace and Hawthorner are going to help out this year on what they have in the edge. Brian Allen, of course, it was an open practice. You know, Brian Allen was going

Starting point is 00:14:24 to be getting the quarterback because that's what he does coming off his offseason surgery. You mentioned the cornerback spot, huge question mark there. He also didn't get to see T.J. Hall. And for all reports, he did make that jump. You know, we go back and think of guys like Bradley Fletcher, who were just absolutely terrible in the beginning of their career. And by the end, was good as a senior and went on to play, what, six, seven years in the NFL. And you're hoping that T.J. Hull can have that kind of ascension. But you also look at the back end of the defense with Lutmer, with Entringer, Wampa moving over to the spot. You feel like you're going to be there. It's just, it's that linebacker spot. Because

Starting point is 00:14:59 he mentioned Shire, he's never been able to stay healthy. And then he'd go back and he mentioned the UCLA game biz. And it's just, as soon as Jay Higgins went out of that game, they looked like they didn't have a clue defensively, I understand. Jane Harrell was throwing into the fire, right? I mean, that was deep end of the pool, see if you can do it, and he wasn't able to. But that has to be pretty concerning. I was just been so good at the middle linebacker spot, you got Harold, you got Montgomery guys that have been around for a long time.

Starting point is 00:15:25 But we continued also here about those young guys, those redshirt freshmen and the possibility they might be out there. We've seen the past. When Iowa linebacker play is young or struggles, that whole defense can kind of take a step back to pretty average pretty quickly. Yeah, the good thing, I mean, we've adapted over the years, you know, obviously we used to be always four three and you had to rely on, you know, now, we really only need two linebackers.

Starting point is 00:15:50 We're pretty much a four, two, five defense now. I mean, I know we adjust occasionally and Lutmer will be that swing guy, you know, Lutmer and Rex Roth would be the swing guy's kind of rotating in and out. But, you know, if we can find two, you know, you're, you're okay nowadays. It's a little bit different. Linebacker, you know, over the years as adapted to where, you know, you don't need six or seven of them. You need three or four of them now.

Starting point is 00:16:15 So, but, yeah, I'm more worried about quarterback than in linebacker. I just, and honestly, the whole secondary. I just, until he shows me otherwise, I just don't believe in Xavier Wampa. I just don't think he's a high-level big 10 football player right now. He's never shown that he can consistently do it. And so I really hope he has a great year. but you know the fact that he's been here forever and he's not on the leadership council he's not on any of those things like pretty much every other fifth year player was on the leadership

Starting point is 00:16:45 council except for him so like there's some red flags of it i just i'm not sure he is ever going to take that jump and i know coen and chiggers everybody's favorite player because of that great play he did against michigan and he's famous for it but he's never proven it either i mean and so i just think across the board in that secondary there's so many questions that, you know, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but I just think that whole back seven, there's a lot of question marks. And so, you know, but I agree with the defensive line should be a strength. And I think, again, you count on filled and just kind of fill in the cracks and do the rest

Starting point is 00:17:25 for us. But on the positive side, and I don't know if you put this separately or not, Trent, but I'll jump into it, we could have the best special teams unit in the nation. I mean, holy cow, I was, Dakin has taken a gigantic jump. I mean, he is, he was just annihilating punts during the entire scrimmage. And so I think we have probably, you could argue a top five punter, top five place kicker, and top five returner across the board.

Starting point is 00:17:55 So, and, you know, special teams is always good at Iowa, but we've had a couple of years where it's not been elite. I think this year we could be truly elite special teams across the board. And I might need that this season because you look at some of the games this year, there might be against an Oregon, against an Indiana, a game where I was going to give up points. And they're going to have to win a game, 3127. You know, they're going to have to have a late fourth quarter come back and do something to do it with the offense or a special team's play something like that. And when you have that, even if the defense takes a step back.

Starting point is 00:18:27 So that kind of goes to next, where's your expectations? You know, fans can be fickle, completely understand that. And there's some fans that come into every year and they expect 12. 12 and O. And there's others that are Debbie Downers? Where are your expectations with this team? And we'll kind of piggyback off of that and take a look at your prediction for the season. Yeah. And I just yesterday, I think read the Chad Leicester article where he predicts we're going to be 10 and 2. And boy, I don't share that level of optimism. I mean, you and I talk about it all the time, Trent, the margins for Iowa football are just so small. Can Iowa go 10 and 2?

Starting point is 00:19:03 absolutely. Any Iowa team go 10 and 2 because we're fundamentally sound. And if breaks go our way, we can go 10 and 2 every year. We could have went 10 and 2 last year if the breaks went our way. But I think 10 and 2 is probably the ceiling for this team. And so to predict the ceiling is probably, I'm not that optimistic of an Iowa fan. So I will go with the incredibly boring, this is Iowa football prediction of 8 and 4. I just think you look at our schedule, there's too many hard games, especially the back half of that schedule,

Starting point is 00:19:35 I think we'll probably beat a team or two that we shouldn't, and we'll lose to a team or two that we shouldn't have. Kind of like last year, I think if you looked at it, people probably expected we'd beat UCLA and Michigan State, but we'd probably slip up against Nebraska or Wisconsin or something like that. But, you know, I think there's too many question marks across the board for this team to think 10 and 2 is a realistic option.

Starting point is 00:20:00 But, you know, I, I think 8 and 4 is probably the safe bet, so I'll go with that. I think, yeah, you mentioned those rivalry games in Wisconsin. I don't think it's going to show up maybe record-wise, but I think they're going to be better this year. They're kind of going back to their DNA, and that's a road trip there. It's a road trip to Nebraska. And, you know, 2011, that was the last time that Iowa lost in Ames and in Lincoln.

Starting point is 00:20:25 I mean, is that going to continue for the 14th year? Now, seventh time, but still, you get what I'm saying. And it just, it feels like those are the kind of games that can go the other way. And that doesn't mention two top 10 teams with Penn State and Oregon both coming in. That's one that I've had out there for a while, Biz. I think Iowa gets Oregon this year. I do think that November game is going to go the Hawkeyes way. But I'm in the same range.

Starting point is 00:20:46 I'll have my official prediction next week. But yeah, it definitely feels like an eight and four type of season. I'm right there on that. So, Biz, I want to get your life. And I've said, I've said to anybody, I think this team, if we have any hope whatsoever being a playoff team, you pretty much have to start 5 and 0. I mean, the first five games before that by week, you got to find a way to win at Iowa State

Starting point is 00:21:07 and you got to beat Indiana at home, which I get it. Indiana is kind of everybody's favorite team right now and everything, but if you're going to be a top half or a plath contender, you can't lose Indiana at home. You just can't. And then you got Rutgers and then you get two complete gimmies.

Starting point is 00:21:24 So, I mean, if we can get to that by week at 5 and 0, then, obviously, you're going to have a lot of excited Iowa fans. But, you know, I think, unfortunately, we'll, we'll slip one of those three, their Iowa State Rutgers or Indiana, I think we'll slip up somewhere in there. And then our dreams will be over, but we'll still be talking about, is there a path there? And that's what we do. Viz, let's talk some hoops when we come back.

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Starting point is 00:24:04 Trent and Biz back with you one final time on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for being with us and making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. Biz, let's talk some hoops. Ben McCollum knocked it out of the park at the press conference. I've had an opportunity to talk with him a couple of different times. He's around our age. He's a huge Hawkeye fan. I talked to him off the air about Montere Glasper for like 12.

Starting point is 00:24:26 minutes. So he knows he's our kind of dude. And seemingly he's done everything right here in his first couple months on the job. Yeah, that's that's an understatement. I mean, you couldn't get a better start to a coaching career than what he's had the first two months here. And, you know, I think my reservation or my concern when we hired him is not knowing him and not really having seen him other than just coaching, my worry was personality-wise. You know, what kind of personality does he have? What kind of ability is he have to connect with fans and get out there? And boy, he has proven that he is phenomenal across the board of those things.

Starting point is 00:25:06 You know, living over here in eastern Iowa, I wasn't able to go to the big drove event, but I know about people that did. And they all came away saying, you know, after he did his podcast and spoke up there, he went table to table and spoke with every single table for 10 minutes. And they were like, it wasn't like he was just coming over, shaking hands.

Starting point is 00:25:25 and go on the next table, you know, he had a few chat and, you know, he would have stayed there all night. And so the thing that excites me more than anything is you and I are, you know, pushing 50. And this is the first time ever in our lifetime that we have an Iowa coach with Iowa connections. That's a true Iowa. And I just think right now with the way NIL is and the way that things have changed, I think that's incredibly important because I think he's a guy who, he could be the Kirk Farrant's of basketball for us. I mean, he could be here 20 years from now. And I think he could be that guy that everybody just embraces and loves.

Starting point is 00:26:07 And, you know, obviously, as we know with Iowa basketball fans, they fell out of love with Dr. Tom and they fell out of love with Fran. I don't know. I think having him have that local connection and his just willingness to go out and connect with everybody, I think there's a better chance that they, I don't know, the fans might be a little more patient with him than they were the other two, just because of his connection and the way he has built that, you know, again, you couldn't possibly do better than he had the first few weeks, our first three months.

Starting point is 00:26:39 But, you know, that'll change, that could change quickly if you go out and start, you know, start three and five or something like that also. But I don't know, he has that little arrogance to him that I just absolutely love. I mean, he reminds me a little bit of the Indiana football coach. where it's just like, he didn't say Google me, but he basically, and for all intents of purposes, he basically did. He's like, yeah, we're going to win because I've won everywhere. Yeah, I love that.

Starting point is 00:27:05 I'm all in like everyone else. I mean, but, you know, it's easy to be all in at this point. Yeah, I mean, and what he did even, you know, this summer going out and getting Trey Thompson. Purdue, for the last two years, he thought he was going to be a boiler maker. And he goes in there and swoops in and he didn't want to have to sit in the bench for year number one. So he's going to be here at Iowa. So a big recruiting win.

Starting point is 00:27:24 something. We haven't had a ton of those, you know, getting Cooper Couch back. And that helps that obviously the family connection of those kind of things. But building this roster, I think they're going to compete right away. And then it's just those other little things. You're exactly right. One, I guess, question was style of play. Because if you watched Drake last year, it was an incredibly slow, methodical style of play. And they're, look, they're not going to be, you know, UNLV of the 80s and 90s in terms of pace and the way that they're going to play. But I think Iowa fans are going to be able to adapt too.

Starting point is 00:27:56 I mean, if they're actually playing some defense and, yes, with the pace is slower, it's very simple. Win games. People, Wisconsin fans sold out a building watching that crappy style. If I was winning basketball games, the fans are going to be there. Well, and college basketball in general just changed over the last decade. There's nobody playing Wisconsin-style basketball from a decade ago. I mean, even Wisconsin himself, they were one of the most efficient offenses

Starting point is 00:28:22 and all basketball last year. They averaged 80 plus. So, I mean, the slow basketball is still there. They're still patient with hockey basketball, but now slow basketball is what Iowa State's play. I mean, Iowa State, you know, they're not an offensive manned team, but everybody absolutely loves, you know,

Starting point is 00:28:42 T.J, because they play their butts off on defense and he gets people to play incredibly hard. Is their offensive basketball the prettiest? Absolutely not. But, you know, I think, Iowa fans, they're still scarred from those last few Fran years where they just realized it was never going to change. And it was always going to be offense only. So I think, I don't think fans, right now, I think fans care at all, what kind of style we play as long as we find a way to win.

Starting point is 00:29:10 And I think that they're going to. Biz, good to catch up again. And we will see you in less than two weeks over in Iowa City as, well, I got to jump on Venmo and pay for our parking spots. Right. It's important. Hey, real good story for you real quick for listeners. So as, as you know, our good friend has one of our best friends has a kid that's on the team now. And I sat with him at Kids Day. And he informed me that this is their second year around. And so second year, parents are asked to mentor a new family that's coming in this year. So I think you know this. But Fred Jackson's kid from Des Moines is over as a running back.

Starting point is 00:29:50 So our friend is Fred Jackson's mentor. So he's like, what can I? He was joking. What in the world can I teach Fred Jackson about football? So like that. That is wonderful. Yeah. He's Fred Jackson's mentor.

Starting point is 00:30:02 I told him it would have been even better if you're asked to be Lavaar Woods as mentor. But talk to Lavares. This is what it's like to be a Hawkeye parent, right? Yeah, that'd be an easy conversation. Well, with that, it's going to be a fun season. Really looking forward to it. Open things up in that 5 o'clock kickoff against Albany. And Biz, we've got to get you in here weekly.

Starting point is 00:30:23 When we get into football season, let's do this weekly. When basketball comes, I think it's going to be much easier to talk hoops this year, too. So let's make this a weekly occurrence if we can. I know schedule is getting away from time to time because I like talking to every week. And I think our listeners enjoy it too, even when you try to kind of poo yourself. I'll put you in touch on my age of. This is the first time since the true NIL era.

Starting point is 00:30:47 I deserve some sort of compensation for this. There were a lot of reads this time. I should get some kickback from that, I think. Well, I can pay in Coors late. How about that? Deal. All right. Sold.

Starting point is 00:30:58 I'm good. That's Ben. See in the week. Yep, sounds good. That's Biz with us. That'll do it for today. Lockdown, Hawkeyes, your team every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:31:08 Go, Hawks.

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