Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Ben Kueter to concentrate on wrestling, Scott Dochterman on football schedules & Caitlin's struggles

Starting point is 00:00:00 Ben Keeter going to give up football for now to concentrate on wrestling. The impact to Iowa football. Plus, the great Scott Dockerman joins us to talk Iowa football, Big Ten scheduling, what it's going to look like on TV, and a whole lot more all 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. Welcome in, I'm Trent Condon and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every day.

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Starting point is 00:01:10 After a redshirt season, both on the football field and on the wrestling mat, he has made the decision, one that I think we maybe had a feeling was going to be coming. For the upcoming season, at least for the next 10 months, Ben Keeter announced on Monday evening that he is going to move away from football and concentrate solely on the wrestling mat. Now, after what he did last weekend, qualifying for the team and making the under-20 team with Team USA kind of a no-brainer to have that kind of opportunity to be involved in international competition.

Starting point is 00:01:44 No, it's not the Olympics, but for a guy that has still not even hit that plateau in terms of age and moving his way up, still has not even competed for a full season on the wrestling mat, a lot to be said, obviously, about what he is and just what a dynamic athlete that he is. We knew this was going to be difficult. We knew when he made the decision that he was going to try to play both football and wrestle at the University of Iowa that this was going to be an incredibly difficult path for him to go through. Not only do you have the two seasons overlapping, you also have the part of it where just the physicality of both sports. And recently we saw Brody Brecht try to do something similar, to play two sports at Iowa, and eventually he had to give up football and concentrate on baseball.

Starting point is 00:02:30 For him, it was a no-brainer. He has millions of dollars waiting for him at the next level, Major League Baseball, which makes it an easy decision. Maybe his first love was football. And in the past, we heard Brody Breck mention how important it was for him to run out of the tunnel at Kinnick Stadium. Somebody that grew up a Hawkeye fan and grew up wanting to wear the black and gold and play in Kinnick Stadium.

Starting point is 00:02:54 And he got that opportunity, but eventually Brody wasn't going to be an NFL wide receiver. What he was going to be is, if not a first round pick, a top two round pick. And we're going to see that coming up in a first round pick, a top two round pick. And we're going to see that coming up in the amateur draft here in a few short weeks. He made the right decision. But there's no pro wrestling. Well, there is, but it's not wrestling, right? It's entertainment.

Starting point is 00:03:18 There is not what we're used to. And there's not those millions of dollars that are waiting like Brody Beck for Ben Keeter. But Ben Keeter is an elite level wrestler. This is a guy I remember watching him for the first time as a freshman and just being absolutely astounded of what we were seeing. You see young guys on the wrestling mat, even at the 3A level, at the big school level in the state of Iowa,

Starting point is 00:03:40 and you see some good things, right? You see eye-opening performances, but it's wrestling down. It's wrestling in the lower weights. You don't see it from the big guys, but right away, you saw Ben Keeter, what made him so special. It's continued on the international stage. He's done some incredible things on the international stage already. He's done things that very few wrestlers have done this early in their career. But with football and wrestling, these are two sports that are very difficult. Even if you're as dedicated

Starting point is 00:04:12 as a guy like Ben Keeter is, it's going to be incredibly difficult to be able to put everything you need into both of those sports. Yes, it is still about strength, incredibly important in both of those sports, but just the time that you need to dedicate to play at a high level, to play at the Big Ten Wrestle, to wrestle at the Big Ten level, it takes so much. And these two sports, I think, take away. You couple that with the way that the seasons go. Best case scenario for him as a wrestler, you have a disappointing year, you don't even make a bowl game. Still, by the time that you're going to be ramped up and ready to go for the wrestling season, you're talking about, at best, maybe right before Christmas, likely after Christmas.

Starting point is 00:04:54 You've already left eight, 10 matches maybe out there that you don't get to. And in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't matter. But get your body right. What if there's a nagging injury coming off the football season? Those kind of things absolutely can be there. I do have the question. I do wonder myself. He says he's going to be back for spring football in 2025. That was in his statement that he put up on Instagram that he's going to be back for spring football. Is it actually going to happen? And something that I've been talking about since he was in high school, doesn't it make more sense for him to simplify things? He wants to get bigger.

Starting point is 00:05:31 He wants to get at a level. He mentioned last weekend after qualifying for the team that he wants to get more in that 245 to 255 range. It was something like that. Getting up there, you don't see many linebackers anymore at that kind of size, see many linebackers anymore at that kind of size. Even middle linebackers anymore. It's a rarity to see guys playing at that kind of size.

Starting point is 00:05:50 And because of that, does it make sense for him to transform into a defensive end? Don't have to worry about the weight at the same kind of level. You can add more power to yourself when you're building your body to be a defensive end as opposed to being a linebacker. But the question is, will we actually see him in a football uniform again? Takes a lot. But if he has this successful season that you'd anticipate this year on the wrestling mat, not just what he's doing in September with the team trials over in Spain, but what he's going to do on the wrestling mat for the Hawkeyes this upcoming season. So he goes out and wins the national championship. And after a redshirt year has

Starting point is 00:06:28 a possibility of being a four-time national champion. That's something that is hard to say, you know what, I'm going to move away from that for a while to play some football. It's hard to see. We're going to see Scott Dockerman. He's going to join us next. A lot of great conversation with Scott Dockerman. Great guy on the Iowa beat. A lot of Hawkeye questions. Also plenty of Big Ten questions. This past week at The Athletic had a great column

Starting point is 00:06:54 basically taking you behind the scenes in the scheduling for the Big Ten. How did this come together? The remaining games on the Iowa schedule, how are they going to come together in terms of what time those games are going to kick off, what television networks are going to take them. We'll dig into all that and a whole lot more. We'll talk a little bit about Kaitlyn Clark as well after that weekend that she just entered after the two games against the Chicago Sky on Saturday

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Starting point is 00:09:24 I want to start with uh a um as we do a lot of weeks that's uh pat you on the back for another great column i love the schedule breakdown you did at the athletic doc uh i guess from your perspective was as you went through it was there anything that uh you know made you pause for a second say one didn't realize that or boy that's that's a lot to ask. What were some of your takeaways from the work you did? Yeah, thank you. And I would say first I would go with the other Black Friday game, Minnesota and Wisconsin,

Starting point is 00:09:56 because back in the land before time, you could say, when Nebraska wanted to back out of Black Friday and the Big Tents left Iowa and Wisconsin to the season finale and you know Wisconsin was adamantly against moving a game to Black Friday but what I had learned is through that process there's a talk to Kerry Kenney is that the right now there are tolerances that schools are allowed to have. There are certain things that they say, oh, no, we're never going to do that, or, well, we don't really want to because of high school football. Well, those have been shrunk quite a bit. And so I think the Black Friday game alongside Iowa-Nebraska is one.

Starting point is 00:10:38 You know, I think when I was discussing the schedule and the layout, the other one that kind of came about was Michigan State's situation. Playing Ohio State and then six days later flying to Oregon. That has been discussed in the future and something like that will be avoided. But I think there's so much nuance when you're dealing with these games. You know, Washington, Washington State, it's going to be at the Seahawks Stadium. They wanted to play it at night on NBC, but then the Mariners and Major League Baseball

Starting point is 00:11:12 wouldn't move their game. So they got stuck kind of 3-30 on Peacock. But, you know, you still get a Rose Bowl entry for UCLA at prime time. So there's just a lot of meat there, a lot of different things. It's always fascinating. And then going forward, every Friday, we'll have a game on it. Every Friday going forward. You mentioned some of those things that universities, athletic departments have said the Big Ten are non-negotiable. How does it pertain to Iowa?

Starting point is 00:11:41 They play the Black Friday game every year. I know in the past you've mentioned to us they're willing to play Labor Day, but it's incredibly difficult because of the hospital and the structure there. Is there a likelihood that we will, I never want to say ever, but say it during this TV deal that outside of Labor Day or Black Friday that Iowa will play another home game on a Friday night? game on a Friday night? Very, very, very doubtful. I mean, that is one that has been, you know, in the past is certainly one that they've said no to. The Big Ten has agreed because of the logistics. I mean, you're talking about a world-class hospital and series of hospitals across the street in a very tight, confined area for no matter what is going on in that area, and then trying to fit in a game when you have all kinds of traffic for the normal course of business, it's almost an impossibility, at least with Labor Day Friday that a lot of people take that day off or you can kind of massage some of the parking lots.

Starting point is 00:12:44 But on a traditional Friday, they can't do that because even on game days, on a Saturday, if there's like a collision out on I-80, it's not ambulances that bring them in. It's helicopters because it's just there's no way to get in and out in a safe manner. So I don't see that being the case. And then Ohio State, Penn State, and Michigan are the three others that aren't going to be hosting on Friday. It's just simply the logistics of the state college or Ann Arbor for sure.

Starting point is 00:13:13 Having 110,000 people coming in in a small town on a work day is very difficult. And Michigan has been adamant about not playing on Friday at all. And part of it is, well, okay, go ahead and concede to Michigan. But the other part is that the Big Ten has to be cognizant of the teams or the networks and media partners for Saturday packages. And Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State are largely going to be considered, you know, for those top three spots almost every time they play. So they have to keep that open.

Starting point is 00:13:48 So that's part of the reason why. But the Friday game, they're looking at it somewhere between games four through six, which is pretty high up on the scale when you think about it and you're getting some of the games that they got and they moved. Doc, do you think that there was any back and forth when it came to the 630 kickoff at Kinnick for the Black Friday game? I mean, I got to believe if they would have had their choice, they wouldn't want to have played it at night.

Starting point is 00:14:13 I love it personally, selfishly. But was the Iowa, did Beth Getz, did anybody try and politic, you know, were you sure that this is the right way to go with this game? No. Anybody try and politic, you know, are we sure that this is the right way to go with this game? No, there's been no real discussion about that because, you know, Wisconsin has the same issue, except Wisconsin has an heated field and Iowa doesn't. So, you know, there's really no, yeah, when you're told to play sometime, you play it. And there's really no negotiation the way it used to be i mean that's part of your tolerances but uh i don't think i will you know there are times

Starting point is 00:14:51 when they'll say sorry we just can't help you there and that would be like hey we don't want to play on friday night as high school football that that doesn't wash anymore so that no i would not have been able to project it i like it it myself, and I think Iowa fans should too, just simply because you get a full Thanksgiving in now. Before, if it was an 11 o'clock kick, you're like, well, maybe we need to travel and stay in a hotel, or maybe we need to do this. Now you can, Thanksgiving is at your leisure,

Starting point is 00:15:20 which is something I can't say that I've had since 2009. Yeah, really. Doc, I know I'm not alone looking for another night game for Iowa, Kinnick Stadium, Black Friday, okay, tailgating in late November, a little bit different than during the rest of the fall months, where it's a little bit more fun than sitting out there freezing and trying to drink your frozen beer. I was looking at the Washington game, but I heard you a week ago on a podcast

Starting point is 00:15:44 kind of describe that that week you have ohio state at oregon penn state at usc the likelihood is both those guys well they can't kick off at 11 a.m our time they have to be later than that that potentially washington iowa i thought a perfect spot for a night game that game might be the 11 a.m box game yeah that's that's largely what's probably going to happen. When you look at that week, there are three games that jump out at you. Washington and Iowa is one of those three. Because the other two cannot be played at 9 a.m. Pacific time, that means Washington and Iowa is going to be the one

Starting point is 00:16:23 that's probably circled. Fox would be happy with that game. I mean, you get a pretty good team. So that one's not going to be the case. You've got 230 set already for Northwestern. You have Wisconsin's got a possibility, but I would probably say no, just simply because this doesn't operate in a you know in a solo environment here you know so when you got Ohio State Penn State and you got Michigan and Oregon they're gonna claim the top two spots then then the other three USC in Washington Iowa in Wisconsin and the other one was UCLA

Starting point is 00:17:03 and in Nebraska those are to kind of fight for number three. So there's a possibility, but CBS would have to be number two that week for that to happen. And I don't know what the pecking order is. So I would say that one would probably be the most

Starting point is 00:17:20 likely outside of the ones that we know. Doc, have you heard any disappointment, I guess, maybe from Hawkeye fans? I got the sense that there were certainly a number of them at least kicking the tires with going out to L.A. to watch the game against UCLA. But now that it's on a Friday, makes it maybe a little bit more difficult for some.

Starting point is 00:17:43 Obviously, don't you think the number, there won't be as many Hawkeye fans potentially at the rose bowl because it's a friday opposed to a saturday i don't know i i mean i think that's silly i mean if you're gonna go to california what are you when you're gonna go you're gonna go saturday morning and fly back sunday i mean you know if you're gonna go to la go to la you know if you're gonna have to take a day off from work six months from now take it off for five months from now, take it off. Go. I mean, you know, it's one thing, I guess, if it's a drive, you know, or you're even, even you're talking about Columbus, you know, then that's okay. I get it. But if you've got to go to LA, go to LA. So no, I mean, if

Starting point is 00:18:21 you're disappointed, be disappointed. But I can tell you this, that knowing 18 teams and the schedules and the networks and everything, sometimes you just got to be happy with what you got. And Iowa is not number one on the podium here for schools that they're worrying about. So I think it's a great game and a great environment in the Rose Bowl. And getting a solo window is going to be a good thing for Iowa. Scheduling a great component over there. Love the article and trying to kind of put this jigsaw

Starting point is 00:18:51 puzzle together and figure it out. Another piece he had last week at the Athletic talked about recruiting in the Chicagoland. Doc, it's a conversation, well, you and I have been having for as long as you've been on the Iowa football beat. Chicagoland area for Iowa football, they look at it as that's basically part of their home state. Take us into the story a little bit and the Iowa perspective when you're talking about Chicagoland recruiting. It's a great area for a lot of teams. It's kind of the capital of the old Big Ten. And Iowa used to fight, you know, with several teams, even to get its developmental prospects out of Chicago.

Starting point is 00:19:26 I mean, as you guys are well know, you know, Mark Morehouse and I used to talk about three polar bears fighting over the same sheet of ice. It was Michigan State, Wisconsin, and Iowa. And since then, Iowa has kind of filled that vacuum to some extent. And part of the reason why, and Iowa is more successful today than it's probably been in, you know, at least the mid part of the aughts, because Michigan State, with its turnover, has kind of vacated the area. Wisconsin, with its turnover, hasn't quite hit it as hard as it once did. And Fitzgerald, even though David Braun is doing an outstanding job by what the coaches tell us, you know, there's still a new staff. And Iowa is one of the few schools that goes in there and still wants to develop prospects. And a lot of times, like some of the coaches told me, was, you know, the coach or two that comes in and says, look,

Starting point is 00:20:25 we've got like 12 or 13 scholarships and, and we're not going to, and we can't really afford to go after a developmental prospect right now. We need to have somebody who can play right away. And, and so they avoid those where I was willing to go in and say, Hey, Drew McPherson from Loyola. I know you're a quarterback and play offense, but we project you as a safety. We want to come in and develop you. And then their second or third year, they're a valuable contributor, and the coaches over there

Starting point is 00:20:49 love that. So Iowa's reputation was the best out of the bunch, which is part of the reason why I wrote a second story about it. And I think Seth Wallace has proven himself to be probably the most respected recruiter in Chicago, which is helpful when they

Starting point is 00:21:05 do go up against once in a while in notre dame ohio state of michigan and uh and they can kind of sell that but all i also say matt campbell's developed a nice reputation too so uh he's somebody to you know that when he goes in and he and he doesn't do it all that often but does it enough to where that there is a lot of respect for what he does. Doc, away from football to the WNBA, was this weekend good or bad for the WNBA? I think in the big picture it can be a positive. In the narrow, it's not. And I think in the big picture it is they need to have conversations pronto

Starting point is 00:21:41 as to how they want to not only officiate this game but promote it because um what i think a lot of people the newer fans have said and saw and certainly in this state is that they're disgusted by what they feel like is uneven or unfortunate treatment of gaten clark and i think the the hit from behind the other day by kennedy carter um was kind of the pushover in some ways, because if that's the way that she's going to continue to be played, she's placed for a bad team that's poorly coached, that has no spacing offensively, does nothing to set her up, that has a lot of selfish players.

Starting point is 00:22:15 You have all that on your team and she's not being successful, then people will turn away from it and you're going to lose this unbelievable opportunity to grow the sport. from it and you're going to lose this unbelievable opportunity that to grow the sport and then there's also this gatekeeping that people who are wmba fans who seem to think that well if you haven't watched the sport you know three years ago then you don't have a right to comment you know what that's not the way society works and that's not the way sports work and and some people seem to think well yep well now she's stepping up the wmba competition they got to remind us of that on every single game. And I look at it and I go, you know what?

Starting point is 00:22:48 Nobody here is an idiot. We can watch it when a rookie goes into the NFL and struggles that, well, they're a rookie. Or even the NBA or Major League Baseball or any other sport. So for some reason I think there were a bunch of hayseeds in Iowa that we don't understand how the sports works. Well, everybody does but i also understand that when teams aren't aren't uh are playing well aren't coached well aren't performing and not backing up their teammates and i think that's something that uh you know these people need to they need to understand and have their uh the little session there to say you know we don't want to ruin this opportunity because they can make fun of us all they want in Iowa, but we're buying the apps.

Starting point is 00:23:26 People are buying the shirts. They're watching the games. And if it doesn't change soon, as soon as training camps start opening up, nobody will watch it for this part. You're right. Put them back on. Let them fly coach. Let them go through TSA with everybody else with the unwashed.

Starting point is 00:23:42 See if they remember those faraway times. No hope for salaries increasing. Good luck with that. Doc, those faraway times. No hope for salaries increasing. Good luck with that. Doc, a final thing for me. We haven't had an opportunity to talk since the announcement. Peyton Sanford coming back for his final season in a Hawkeye uniform. It's a big change, at least the way that I see it, to this roster and puts them at least potentially as a bubble team. Your thoughts on Sanford coming back in Iowa basketball now,

Starting point is 00:24:03 going through the first time, this 18-team configuration? I think for Iowa, it's the first bit of really positive news on the men's basketball front we've seen in quite a while. Because, you know, we've seen some, you know, guys leave, you know, and the storylines that go with it. Tony Perkins and Patrick McCaffrey leave the transfer portal. Tony Perkins and Patrick McCaffrey lead the transfer portal. This is one, though, that it does elevate. It had the potential not only to elevate Iowa, but if he wouldn't have come back, would have caused Iowa to fall.

Starting point is 00:24:36 I think, you know, now Iowa looks to me to be an upper third to upper half team in the Big Ten. And how the newcomers, you know, come in, you know, at Point Guard, how, you know, Cooper Koch, Chris Dajo, how they come in, you know, at Fellwell, at Point Guard, how Cooper Koch, Cristacho, how they fit in, plus the growth of the other ones. I think Iowa has a chance now to be an NCAA tournament team, whereas if he would have left, I would have said that they would have been fighting for potentially maybe not even getting in the Big Ten tournament, at least at this point in the last.

Starting point is 00:25:02 So, you know, I think Pete Sanford is that kind of a player that he can take their team from being eighth or point in the last. So, you know, I think Pete Sanford is that kind of a player that he can take the team from being eighth or seventh in the Big Ten, and if he's not there, 14th, 15th, 16th. So, you know, that's how competitive the Big Ten is, and that's what his ability means to this program. Great way to describe it, Doc. I forgot that everybody doesn't get a bid to the Big Ten tournament

Starting point is 00:25:21 starting this year. Fair point. Well said. Scott Dockerman from The Athletic. Doc, what can we look forward to this week at The Athletic from you? Yeah, I'm working on a story. It's about something that happened four years ago, and I think there's a lot of information that hasn't been uncovered yet.

Starting point is 00:25:42 And it's something that I don't know if I want to completely say. No, I gotcha. But it's also something that I think once it drops, and it should drop either tomorrow or possibly Wednesday, we'll have people talking. Good stuff, Doc. Look forward to it. We'll speculate what it is when you're gone. Thank you, buddy. Thanks. Have a good one. Yeah, see you, Doc. Scott Dockerman from The Athletic. So for your...

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Starting point is 00:27:33 It has been ugly. There's been frustrating moments. But what we saw on Saturday and over the weekend, some disappointing aspects. The physicality has gone too far. It's not good for the brand. It's not good for the brand. It's not good for the league. And though the discourse and the conversations very well can be important, there's also the part that is a little bit uncomfortable.

Starting point is 00:27:57 And there are elements to this that go deeper than just what's happening between the lines. There's a whole lot more out there. And social media has definitely increased that. The Yakin shows, the Holler and Back and Forth shows, they have taken it to another level. It's just not good. And as we look at it for Kaitlyn Clark and hoping for the best from one of the great and maybe the greatest ever to put on any Hawkeye uniform, but to see her go through this, not having off-season, not having the time to prepare that you normally see in any other sport,

Starting point is 00:28:31 there are times that it does feel unfair. But one thing we do have to remember, and one thing that I think I need to remind myself even at times, is that Kaitlyn Clark doesn't need us to white knight her. She's tough. She has handled a lot. She has gone through things that very few athletes have done before and had to deal with in terms of her popularity. She's going to be fine. She's going to figure out this league. Is it going to take an off season to transform her body? I think that will help. But I also believe that we're going to see real improvement throughout the course of the season.

Starting point is 00:29:10 And even with the struggles, leading the league in assists by a wide margin, a shooting percentage under 30% from three, Caitlin Clark under 30% on three pointers. I didn't think I'd be uttering that kind of phrase outside of maybe a single one-off game. But that's where we are right now. And even with all that, and a team that isn't very good, a coach that looks completely over her head, she's still putting up numbers. She's still doing good things.

Starting point is 00:29:38 Growing pains. The peaks and the valleys are more significant than I believed, but we don't have to come riding in for Kaitlyn Clark. She's going to be fine. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll be back with you tomorrow. We got a lot more going on. It's recruiting season, and that means we'll be talking recruiting

Starting point is 00:29:56 with our guy Brian Smith, breaking things down on the lockdown front. Some more prospects to talk about coming up in the class of 2025 that I was after. We're also going to take a look at what do they really need remaining in this class with the eight commitments already on hand, knowing that it's not the old days where they're going after pretty much every year. You know, about 20 to 22 prospects. How much more flexibility are they looking at at next year's roster?

Starting point is 00:30:22 And with that, with the transfer portal, knowing that next season I was going to be losing a ton. How many more high school prospects are the Hawkeyes going to be after? Roster construction, as important as it's ever been. That's going to be another topic we're going to be tackling this week. A whole lot more. We got basketball. We got football.

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Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Ben Kueter to concentrate on wrestling, Scott Dochterman on football schedules & Caitlin's struggles

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