Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - CHRISTMAS WISHES: Iowa Hawkeyes CRAVE Stability—Will Jeremy Hecklinski or Hank Brown DELIVER?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Merry Christmas. Today we take a look at what we want to see under the tree for the Iowa Hawkeyes for 2026. Football, basketball, and a whole lot more. 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.

Starting point is 00:00:28 welcome in i'm trent condon and this is the locked on hawkeyes podcast thanks for making lockdown hawkeyes your first listen every day we're available wherever you find podcasts now number one for sports podcast here on the lockdown network you can also watch us on youtube i've been covering the hawkies for over 20 years on the radio in the state of iowa including currently on the iowa sports radio network each weekday from noon to two you can hear me in stations across the state demoyne Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and Quad Cities, and Sioux City, along with our flagship 106.3 KX&O in Des Moines. Today's episode is brought to you by Fandual. If you want to be right in the middle of the action this season, visit Fandual.com and place your NFL live bets.

Starting point is 00:01:13 Well, today it is Christmas, and that means we are going to take a look at what we want to see under the tree for Iowa coming up in 2026. The Hawkeyes, we're going to talk a lot about football. We're going to take a deep dive into that. we're looking for for this Hawkeye team. We're going to talk basketball, both men's and women's. Also, a look at the wrestling team offseason when we get into spring, summer, baseball, softball, all of it under the tree and some of the things that we're hoping to see coming up in the next calendar year. Let's kick it off, though, with some football talk and begin with, I think, one of the biggest

Starting point is 00:01:49 aspects for this football team of what they're going to look like, again, another year with a new starting quarterback as Mark Rodowski, his one year in Iowa City, has concluded, and that means it is time to go in another direction. Now, we know at this point in time that it appears to be a two-man battle for the quarterback spot next year with Jeremy Hecklinsky, the Wake Forest transfer, and with Hank Brown, the Auburn transfer. Both those guys on campus this past season, both those guys have gone through now. A lot of reps, a lot of opportunities for both of those guys, starting to understand. We'll see bull prep, and we'll hear from Kirk Farrants coming up when they get down to Tampa for the bowl game, and I'm sure we'll get to hear a little bit more about

Starting point is 00:02:29 both of their developments. But we go back to this season, and a lot of people, of course, your memory is of Hank Brown is what happened in the Indiana game. The miss pass on third down that could have salted it away on the screenplay. He looked jittery at times. There are other opportunities showed some good things. But then, you know, we had that by week before the Wisconsin game, and with it, we were left wondering, well, is Gernowski going to play? A lot of people early on, that it was going to be a stretch for him to play, certainly not in the Wisconsin game and going forward. Well, during that time, as they were preparing,

Starting point is 00:03:02 Mark Rannowski was not being able to be on the practice field very much. That's when Jeremy Hecklinsky took over as the backup. And in fact, we got to see him late in that blowout against the Badgers as he came in late in the football game. I think everybody, you every dayers out there, certainly know my thought process on it. What we've seen the last two years with a more mobile quarterback, a guy that can move, a guy that his legs is an asset to him.

Starting point is 00:03:28 What we saw, Grinowski running the ball, going back to Brendan Sullivan a year before when he took over for Cade McNamara, I think that is a big component for the Tim Lester offense and what they're trying to do. For me, Heklinsky definitely is the favorite in this one. But what I want under the tree is this, a healthy spring for both of these quarterbacks. Both these guys stick around, both these guys are on campus, both of these guys going through spring practice. Let's hope we don't hear about guys being banged up. Just get through it healthy. After two years ago, Cade McNamara, who had the injury against Michigan State, torn ACL.

Starting point is 00:04:05 He wasn't able to practice in the spring. We saw what happened early on in 2024. Then this past season, they get Mark Rodowski. We get excited and then less than 24 hours later. We find out the Mark Radowski's got to go under the knife himself and have shoulder surgery. And how behind the eight ball he was throughout the course of this season. So that is a thing. a huge part of this, health at the quarterback position during spring practice and just what that potentially can look like if we get to fall and suddenly we have a quarterback that was able to take all the reps in spring, take all the reps in August, and go through and go into the season with health. That is certainly at the top of the list for the quarterback

Starting point is 00:04:44 spot. Here's the other thing. If they do go portal shopping, top of my wish list is a healthy quarterback. Going back to the conversation we just had, even when McNamara first showed up, remember, I mean, there's a picture of him at Michigan in the wheelchair after his surgery that he had. If they go out there, don't get damaged goods. Go out there and get a healthy quarterback. I think that they will be looking for a quarterback. I don't think a guy to be a starter. I think they are happy. But at minimum, look it around, see if maybe there's more of a developmental guy, a guy maybe redshirt freshman, even a sophomore, something like that that will be down a little bit further in the pecking order, but regardless, health at the quarterback position.

Starting point is 00:05:24 And yes, going through spring practice completely healthy. Next on the wish list here, under the tree for your boy, T.C. Let's go to running back. I want to see an extra gear out of Kabari Molten. Now, we saw it two years ago, had a couple of long runs, including a big touchdown run, late in the game against Maryland as they went out there and cruised to a victory in that matchup. But we've seen so many times this year, and the plays for Kamari Bolton, where Moulton, it looked like, was going to pop one.

Starting point is 00:05:57 He was going to have that big play that was going to go off. And it just, it never happened. Somebody could get him by the shoe. Somebody just get an arm on him and he'd go down, just that extra gear this season for Kamari Moulton. Remember, Moulton was also playing banged up this year. And I think we've seen it in the past, and I think he could get there. Let's get it back. Now, here's a selfish one.

Starting point is 00:06:14 Speaking of the running pack spot, I just want to see my guy, Brevindal, get an opportunity, maybe not even a running back, you know, in a big role, but maybe returning to kick, getting him back there and using that elite speed that he has, got to play some special teams, but that's a selfish one on my front. All right, here's a big one. This is the one that Santa puts to the back of the tree, right? You want to open this one up late. This might be the last present that you open up, but regardless, this is the one that is star A number one.

Starting point is 00:06:44 This will be the Christmas present if it happens that we're all going to remember. Iowa goes into the transfer portal and gets a big time wide receiver. A guy that could come in and change the perception of this wide receiver room. I think we feel good about the return of Reese Van der Zee. Speaking of health, yeah, let's hope for some help there when we're going through our wish list for Hawkeye football this season for him. Dayton Howard certainly showed some flashes. There are some young guys that potentially are going to be there.

Starting point is 00:07:13 but just that prototypical 6-1, 210-pound guy that can go out there and just make plays. Play after play after play. Iowa hasn't had that guy in such a long time. That is at the top of my wish list, an elite, top shelf wide receiver to come in right away, ready to play, ready to go through spring practice. Also, that is at the top of the wish list. We continue offensively. Here's something I want to see, and I got this on the wish list. the reemergence of the tight end position at Iowa football.

Starting point is 00:07:46 Tim Lester, the last couple of years, we have seen the tight end not used nearly as much as it was under Brian Farrantz, as it was under Ken O'Keefe. This has been certainly a change. Now, I think that is a part of kind of what they're doing philosophically. I think that is a piece. But also, remember how banged up they've been the last couple of years. And, of course, this season, they lose Addison Estringa very early in the year in the game against Iowa State.

Starting point is 00:08:09 Your number one tight end goes down in that one. He'll be coming back next season with the Achilles injury that he's sustained. We'll see a long entry, one that usually takes a lot of time to rehabilitate. But happen early in the season. Hope he can come back for one final year and put it together. But we saw DJ Votomy and what he was able to do late in the season and finishes the year as Iowa's top yardage guy in terms of receiving yards this season. We definitely saw those flashes out of him.

Starting point is 00:08:38 Then the other young group. We saw a little bit of Thomas Meyer, and he was in there being a butt kicker, the freshman out of Clear Lake. He's still got four years of eligibility. He stayed under the four game threshold. So he'll come in with four years of eligibility excited about, though, his upside at that spot. Tight end, getting them more immersion. And I think health will go a long way of making that happen. Obviously, you go back a couple years ago, Lechay also was banged up throughout the course of his senior campaign, a healthy tight end room and getting that

Starting point is 00:09:09 reemerged in a big time way. So that's a look through some of the things I'm looking for offensively. Talked about wide receiver in the transfer portal at the top of the wish list. Well, defense, there's some wish there, too. What does Iowa need to do in the transfer portal defensively? What are we looking for? Some gifts for that. Plus, I got some gifts that I want to get for Iowa football as it pertains to the schedules.

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Starting point is 00:10:54 Fanduel, the game moves fast and so can you. Trent, I'm back with you once again on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. If you're watching us on YouTube, make sure you hit that subscribe button. If you're over on the podcast side, five-star reviews, all that helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. As we continue, this Christmas edition of Locked-on Hawkeyes, our wish list. What I got at the top of my Hawkeye wish list, we're talking football. We got more coming up with some basketball thoughts, a little wrestling, even some softball and baseball.

Starting point is 00:11:29 But let's go back to football and over defense. And we talked about probably the top of my list is a elite top shelf wide receiver, not a guy that put up good numbers at the FCF ranks, nothing like that, no, and it's going to cost money. Another thing that's going to cost money is an edge rusher, getting that guy off the edge that can get to the quarterback. We look back to this season, and Iowa brought back two very veteran defensive ends

Starting point is 00:11:53 with the return of Llewellyn and Hercott. You have both of those guys coming back this season, and overall, they just didn't get to the quarterback a ton. They didn't get there at the level. I think any of us probably anticipated coming into the air. Now, I'm excited about the future, about the guys that were the backups at that spot. Obviously, we saw Kenneth Meriwether make some plays this year. Brian Allen, you every dayers out there certainly know just how much I love Brian Allen

Starting point is 00:12:22 and his ability to get to the quarterback. And we saw that even more this season and him getting more reps. Those guys are stacking up. And the way that you build yourself up in Iowa football, these guys, they're running the race. They're doing the way that you have to be an Iowa football player and play a lot late in your season. Yose Apenessa, getting Yosei out there and he's going to see certainly more run this year, really like Joseph Anderson,

Starting point is 00:12:47 the redshirt freshman defensive end out of St. Louis and the physical upside that he has with the quick switch speed that he has. But still, that guy. And maybe it's a plug and play one year type of player, but somebody that has shown the ability to get to the quarterback, That speed edge rusher really important, I think, for Iowa football to get that kind of guy. It's different off the edge. There's so many offenses now.

Starting point is 00:13:13 Get the ball out quickly. Move the ball and he don't have the time. It's not a whole lot of seven-step drops like we saw in the past. That's not how the game is played anymore. That's why you need that guy with that quickness off the bounce that can get out there and make some plays and certainly disrupt things off the edge. Another thing on my wish list defensively, it's time to unleash the young linebackers. the time is now we went through this season we saw carshenshire stick around get to play same thing for jaden harrell this year got to see a little bit of jane montgomery after the harold injury and he's still got another

Starting point is 00:13:46 of eligibility but i'm ready for the youngsters i'm ready now to see cam buffington preston reese derrick weiskov all those guys get their opportunity that group registered freshman this year um bergoucher another guy out of that young group and they just keep coming I mean, they're bringing more and more of these guys in at the linebacker spot. Time is now. And some good things have been said already about this group. You talk to the players, the veterans on this Iowa football team, and they have nothing but glowing praise about these young guys and what they're going to be.

Starting point is 00:14:19 We saw them on special teams this year. I'm ready. See those young linebackers. And that's what are my wishes for Iowa football in 2006. A couple other things. How about a long snapper where there's not issue? And we talked a lot this year about Drew Stevens, some of the misses that he had early in the season,

Starting point is 00:14:38 the miss against Indiana, a couple other spots throughout the course, excuse me, of the season. But it wasn't just a Drew Stevens miss of kicks. It was the whole operation just felt off at times. We saw obviously the punt that went over the head of Reese Dakin in the game against Oregon, leading to a safety for the ducks in that game.

Starting point is 00:14:59 It would prove to be a two-point game. That one comes back to sting. They went to the portal, and it wasn't perfect this year. You couple that with what's going to happen at the special teams coordinator spot with LeVar Woods moving on. But a long snapper that we go back to not having to worry about the long snapper. Definitely want to get that on there. What's going to happen with special teams?

Starting point is 00:15:20 It's a question we talked about yesterday on the program. That is a big, big part of this. So those are some of my top-of-line wishless things for Iowa football. But there's one other avenue I want to go. go down as we await the big 10 football schedule being released so we do know the opponents for iowa next year the non-conference slate and calendar a little bit different this year there will not be two buys during the course of the season as there was this year the way the calendar fell i will open up the season in august with week number one not the case this year in fact the first

Starting point is 00:15:54 full saturday week one saturday for college football this year that will happen on september 5th iowa will be at home for their first three games of the year. They get Northern Illinois for the opener, the Seahawk game against the Cyclones in week number two, and then week three against you and I. So that is in place. That is locked up. The opponents that I will have next year,

Starting point is 00:16:16 making their way to Kinnick Stadium, your home games will include Nebraska at the end of the season, Ohio State, Purdue, and Wisconsin. Those are the four games that they'll get at home this season in the Big Ten. that means five games on the road this year. They go to Illinois, get to see old friend Brett Bilema and the Illini. It feels like forever since Iowa's played Illinois. I know it hasn't been that way, but just a team that fell off the rotation

Starting point is 00:16:43 and this new 18 team conference just don't see your opponents like you once did. They also go to Michigan next year. Interesting where that one's going to fall in the calendar. Road trip up to Minnesota to take on Phil Fleck at Northwestern, and then their West Coast trip this year is. out to Seattle. Personally, I want to see that one early. A, because I want to make the trip. I want to go out to Seattle. I want to do a little sailgating. I want to go out there, experience it. My nephew went to Washington. I know some people out there in Seattle. Nothing but

Starting point is 00:17:15 great things. Never been to Seattle before. So I want to have that somewhere in the calendar early in the season. Usually works a little bit better for a trip for me personally. And I'm going to be selfish. It's my wish list. So let's have Washington. In fact, how about this? How about we make that the opener. Big Ten opener for Iowa. Put it, September 26. I think I could sign up for that after Iowa opens up with three games at home at Kinnick Stadium. Don't open up the year. After the U and I game, you go out there. And let's not make it a Friday game. Please, Saturday game. You want to put it late. That's okay. Fine with that. But let's make that early in the season. Here's another thing I want to see. Let's get the Buckeyes come to town in November. We know the last time that happened where

Starting point is 00:17:58 Ohio State had to come to Kinnock Stadium went pretty well for Iowa, 55-24. I'm not anticipating that. I'm not predicting that. But boy, would I love to see that again. Regardless, let's put that thing a little bit later in the season. I'd like to see that one with them coming to Kinnick, and we know how special Kinnick Stadium is in general

Starting point is 00:18:16 and certainly what it is in that one. Schedule sets up and away. Iowa will see how things look. Hopefully there's been some rumors and some rumblings that potentially the Iowa Nebraska a game could be moving off Black Friday. I don't want to see that. Definitely do not have that moving on my wish list.

Starting point is 00:18:34 And when that initially happened, I know there were a lot of people that were slow to come around. Difficult day after Thanksgiving for a lot of people, a lot of fans to make their way to Kinnick Stadium, or if you're somebody that travels to a lot of the road games, to make that happen going over to Lincoln, regardless. Black Friday just feels right. Of course, for years and years, it was Nebraska, Oklahoma,

Starting point is 00:18:54 then Nebraska, Colorado, in that Black Friday game. And after their move to the Big Ten, This is something I want to see permanent. Put it there year after year after year. Let's hope that the Big Ten schedule makers make that happen. And Black Friday continues this year. Those are some of our wishes for Iowa football, but it's not just football here.

Starting point is 00:19:15 We got a whole lot more. Iowa basketball, both men's and women's. We got some hope on both sides for that one. Plus, a couple other sports on our wish lists here this year for Iowa football, including wrestling. Well, you can wish for a national championship, but I also like to live in reality. We'll talk about that. On the other side, it's locked on Hawkeyes.

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Starting point is 00:22:02 Once again, locked on hawkeyes. Dot supracast.com. Or you can just tap the link in the show notes to learn a little bit more. Let's jump into basketball here as we take a peek at what we anticipate, what we're looking for on our Christmas wish list. Now, here's a few. Bennett Sturts, I want to see a little bit more. rest. We talked about this a lot after the loss to Iowa State. Another game where he went out

Starting point is 00:22:29 there was on the floor for the full 40, and that's going to be a part of it. You go back to a year ago at Drake. That was something. But because of what is awaiting Iowa with 18 more games still left to play in the Big Ten after their final non-conference game Monday against UMass Lowell, this is an opportunity for Iowa with Bennett Sturts to just get him a little bit of run. He can still He'll play 35, 36 minutes a game. But there are a couple of times in that game against Iowa State where he can just see, I know he got banged up, he looks a little gasped. I'm not asking for him to go down and play 28 minutes a game and that this is going

Starting point is 00:23:07 to be some kind of democracy and everybody's, no, that's not what we're looking at at all. I understand. You want him on the floor. But what we've seen out of Kale Combs at the point guard spot, at a minimum, you know, he's going to be solid there. You can get away with it. Tate Sage is playing well. Here's another thing.

Starting point is 00:23:26 I want to see more minutes for Brendan Hosson. And if Hosson could go out there with as a shooting ability, yes, every day, as you know, Brandon Hosson is a guy I'm looking for more. Here's the final thing, though. And this is the biggest one for Iowa basketball. A sweet 16. Some people might roll their eyes.

Starting point is 00:23:43 Some people might think that it's just not going to happen with this group. You look back at what happened in their two losses this year, getting blown out of Michigan State, even to come back against Iowa State. You don't believe that this team has it. I do. I think this team can be special. I think this team can make that run.

Starting point is 00:24:04 It's been such a long time. And for Iowa basketball, historically, you look at win-loss record, you look at NCAA tournament appearances. This is a top 30 program in college basketball. And to think that it's been a quarter century since the last time that they made not a final four, a sweet 16. Final four happened 45 years ago. It'll be 46 years by the time we get into next year. 1980.

Starting point is 00:24:32 Here I was born. Didn't see it. Missed by about a week and a half. See you that final four. You go back to that sweet 16 run and the buildup that you get leading into it, down to 16 teams, talking

Starting point is 00:24:47 about the matchups, the national notoriety. And if Ben McCullum does that, does it a place that it's been so long. Remember, Arkansas just a couple years ago had a very similar streak program that what a national championship in the 90s and how it doesn't happen? The same thing here. I was made tournaments. I was had teams good enough to make the second weekend and it just hasn't happened. There's been upsets. There's been head scratching losses. The other part, it's been times where the bracket just hasn't opened up. A sweet 16 just to completely kill that narrative that is out there. That is

Starting point is 00:25:22 definitely. And for me, even more than anything, we talk to football, that's probably at the top of my wish list for this Christmas season. On the women's side, they did a great job, I thought, a year ago, bringing in Lucy Olson and building the bridge into the Caitlin Clark era into what we're getting into now. This is still a young team. Last year, got to the tournament, won a game. That was big. Being able to do that, proving that this wasn't just about Caitlin Clark, that there's more sustainability to this program. And now it's time to take another step. I think we've seen enough out of this squad already this year.

Starting point is 00:25:57 Yeah, Yukon, it didn't go well Saturday. It's not going to go well for many teams against Yukon this season. Iowa State, they were right there with an opportunity to beat a top 10 cyclone team on their home floor a couple of weeks ago. This team has the parts, it has the pieces. Here's another thing. Let's figure out the Emily Rodriguez thing sooner rather than later. now we're what a little less than a month away now from the start of the second semester if i was moving on if she's not willing to make the sacrifices that iowa basketball's asking

Starting point is 00:26:31 for get a clean break move on understand it just didn't work give her an opportunity to go somewhere else for the second semester get acclimated and go from there or bring her back in the fold because she is a different type of player she's the type of player that Iowa kind of needs somebody that can do things off the bounce that can get to the rim they don't have a ton of those players

Starting point is 00:26:55 really outside of chit-chat right that can play at that level we saw she was out of control go back to when she was playing more minutes back to that Baylor game and that was a big piece of it but regardless figure this out and move on

Starting point is 00:27:10 here's a crazy one and if you would have told me Not too long ago, that my wish list for Iowa wrestling would be this. Just get a trophy. Just finish in the top four of the NCAA, but I think that's where we are. We know they're not winning a national championship. Penn State will cruise again. Ohio State looks excellent.

Starting point is 00:27:31 Iowa State has emerged. Plenty of other good teams out there, Oklahoma State, in the way that they're spending and building their roster with David Taylor and company. It's difficult. Times are changing in college wrestling. The hope is not a big one. Just finish in that top four. Get that trophy.

Starting point is 00:27:50 Continue to build, continue to spend, and hopefully the right pieces will make their way to Iowa City. And then finally two more. I want to see an NCAA tournament for, yes, the Iowa baseball team. And they have changes to themselves. To the pitching coach, Coach Kenny, he's departing and going down to Arizona to take over the Wildcats pitching program down there in the Big 12th.

Starting point is 00:28:12 We've got to figure that out. Rick Heller. but get back to the tournament for them. Opportunities late last season just didn't happen. Had a very difficult end of the year. I had a ton of people at Duane Banksfield, the last home series, had good crowds on hand in Des Moines, just couldn't get the victories in those. They're going to have another difficult slate coming up this season.

Starting point is 00:28:32 Back to the NCAA tournament, not about an NCAA tournament for Iowa softball. I made by way this spring with my daughter who plays softball over there with our team, and it was really fun just watching them. Now, it was a bitterly cold day against Nebraska, very good Nebraska team. They're close. A couple years ago, they won the equivalent of the NIT, a couple of seasons back. Was that three years ago now? I believe it was.

Starting point is 00:28:55 So they've been close. They've been on the precipice, punched through, get to the NCAA tournament. With all the tumult that's been happening in that program, maybe it's a tall task, not sure. Regardless, it's a wish list. That's what we're wishing for. Hope everybody out there has a Merry Christmas. Thanks for being with us, as always here. on Locked on Hawkeyes.

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