Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - DOMINANCE: Iowa Hawkeyes RUN Over Nebraska, Kamari Moulton and DJ Vonnahme SHINE in Rivalry ROUT

Starting point is 00:00:00 Seven straight wins in Lincoln for the Hawkeyes as Iowa rolls into Memorial Stadium and storms out with a 4016 beatdown of Nebraska. Dominant, decisive, and oh yeah, Iowa still runs his rival. 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, and this is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. We are your daily Iowa Hawkeye podcast, and thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes, your first listen every day here on the Lockdown Network. Now, number one, for sports podcasts. We will break things down, take a look back at this dominating performance by the Hawkeyes.

Starting point is 00:00:51 Plus, we're going to talk a little basketball later on as Iowa picks up their championship. A look back at the win against Grand Canyon. We'll break it all down, talk about the stars of the game. all coming up. I've been covering the Hawkeyes for over 20 years on the radio in the state of Iowa. You can hear me currently on the Iowa Sports Radio Network each weekday from noon to two. Talking the world of sports and a lot of Hawkeyes with you with stations in Des Moines, Iowa City, the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids and Sioux City, hear me each day from noon to two. Well, let's get into it here. Forty-16, the final Iowa runs away from Nebraska

Starting point is 00:01:25 in the second half of the game where a lot went right. A lot went Iowa's way and Iowa just was able to make the plays up and down the field. And after the initial surge on the 70-yard run by Emmett Johnson, they jump out 7-0. Iowa really did kind of whatever they wanted in this football game as Iowa finishes the regular season up at 8 and 4. A likely trip to Tampa now on the horizon for them. And the old Outback Bowl now that you rely a Quest Bowl is where I. Iowa's likely destination will be, still figuring out what's going to happen, obviously, on Saturday, and with conference championship games coming up next week, we'll get into that a whole lot more.

Starting point is 00:02:05 A performance defensively that looked rough, and it wasn't just that one run by Emmett Johnson, Iowa continually early in the football game was getting sucked in a little bit too far. He saw both the linebackers and the safety play at times, not playing assignment sound football that you're used to. And yet after that, another second half where they dialed it up, a game plan that certainly worked out to Iowa's advantage, some throws that were inexplicable, why Nebraska wasn't just lining up and running the football, much like Oregon did against the Hawkeyes here. A few weeks back, I'll have no idea, but good for us. And yet, as Iowa jumped out and down in the game, 7-0, they marched right down the field, they get the field goal. Right after that, take the lead 10-7. And Nebraska couldn't slew them down.

Starting point is 00:02:53 You know, this is an Iowa offense, obviously, that has had issues this year. But they were able to get chunk plays, had some bigger plays than we're used to, and some of the guys that we're going to talk about in our stars of the game from Mark Grunowski doing his thing, DJ Vonamy, who continues to emerge at the tight end position and have to be incredibly excited about what his future is going to be. Saw some new faces also defensively. And that goes hand at hand with the second half when Phil Parker changed some things up. They look like a different team than they did for the first,

Starting point is 00:03:25 certainly quarter and a half of this football game as they were able to dial it in. Special teams were really good at times. Again, the question, why do you continue to kick to Cain Weegean? Yes, please keep doing it. However, why teams continue to do it. And yet you have the muff kickoff that sets them up and it's 10-10 at the time. And you're wondering, oh, how's this going to turn out for Iowa? 10-10, but like you've gained, regain control kind of this football game.

Starting point is 00:03:52 the defense tightens you give up what a first down on i think the second play after that they go to the second quarter and then they slow him down holding him to a field goal and then from really there the onslaught was on and their special team coaches hopping around it and good for Nebraska this year i mean they shook hands so they give them credit for that way to go that rule we'll see if he knew the all-americans of this one and then of course at the end and you see emotional Kirk. And I know a lot of people, they want to read into that, right? They want to read into Kirk being emotional on the sidelines and saying, you know, is this the end? And I've heard it. And I've seen it on your comments on YouTube. I see it on social media. I just see it talking

Starting point is 00:04:37 to some of my Hawkeye friends. What's going on? I don't think anything. I really cannot believe that this is because he knows that the end is here. It's just getting older. I joke with my radio co-host, Ken Miller, he says, you know, I cry commercials all the time. And just when you get older, you get more emotional. And Kirk's talked about in the past with his father when he was around and at his older age, got more emotional. You think of Dick Vermeel, another great coach and what he did late in his career and he was so emotional. And that's what we're getting from Kirk. I don't think it's something that you can read into because he's emotional before this.

Starting point is 00:05:17 You know, this is not the first time or the first season that we see. emotion. Offensively, the first couple of drives were great. He was a lot of handoffs to Kamari Moulton, who again, grinded and just short of 100 yards again on the ground. Let's get him there for the bowl game, please. He's had so many harder runs. Finally broke one, had an over, what, a 33-yard run, I think it was, in the game, and finally at least busted out one of those big chunk plays that we've been waiting for for Kamari Moulton throughout the course of this season. But I want to see him get that pass. Outside of that, though, the offense was clicking. It was humming.

Starting point is 00:05:53 Grinowski as a thrower, was looking about as good as he has throughout the course of this whole season. And, of course, you know what you're going to be able to do. Metschibonimo going out there. How about Reese Vander Zee making another big play? And certainly gives you excitement about what he's going to be going forward. I think when we kind of talk about the individual players, it's one thing I want to talk about. Excuse me, yes. Still dealing with. with this cold. But one thing I do want to talk about is looking forward and looking towards next season. Yeah, there's still a bowl game, but we're going to be doing a ton of that.

Starting point is 00:06:29 And that's going to be a big part of the conversation certainly going forward. So we'll continue here, Lockdown Hawkeyes. Let's talk about some of those stars. Breakout and what a win against Nebraska means. Now, the seventh consecutive victory against the Hornhuskers over in Lincoln, We're moving into historic territory. This is something you've got to go back decades and decades and Oklahoma did the last time we saw some team have this kind of domination against Nebraska. I know it's not Nebraska football of the 70s.

Starting point is 00:07:00 There's not Nebraska of the 80s and 90s, and that's likely never coming back. Still, to do this yearn and year out, that's a pretty big feather in the cap of Iowa football. We'll talk about that as we come back. Stars of the game is Iowa. cruises past Nebraska 4016. Stay right there as we continue.

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Starting point is 00:08:55 and battled the weather conditions here today as we come back to you after Iowa gets the win. All right, stars of the game, and some of the names we definitely have to bring up. I mentioned DJ Vonamy, the big play and just a well-designed play. I mean, that route concept with him slipping back behind the defender running the inside slant or post route as he snuck back behind there, making that play. You know, Grinowski in the past, how many times it felt like that pass would have been completed, but not with an ability for the runner to catch it and move up the field. Boy, he's going to be so good. And still work to do as a blocker, and we've talked about that in the past.

Starting point is 00:09:32 But you get excited about his upside, Thomas Meyer, who's dressed and played a little bit here towards the back half. the year. They got a lot, certainly to be excited about it at that tight end position and also on top of it, they'll get a return next year. They'll get Addison Estringa back next year and definitely that tight end position that took a step back this year. Looks like it has a chance to really ascend forward. Definitely going forward at that spot. Offensive line, seeing those guys come out and the evasion that they got from the Hawkeye fans in Lincoln. That was great to see always fun when he can celebrate like that in whoever's stadium and doing it against a rival feels a little bit better.

Starting point is 00:10:15 Gradovsky's second touchdown, you know, they're hooting and hollered. You can hear that on the TV cameras, just that, that visceral scream that you let out. And I mentioned to my wife, now, I never played high level athletics. I mean, I played in the North Iowa conference, for God's sakes. But they're just something special. When you go on the road and you do something like that, how cool that feels. And you can definitely feel that coming out there. for a program that Iowa likes to be.

Starting point is 00:10:39 And you could tell there's a little something extra there. Speaking of that and why this matters. And we talked about this earlier in the week. Kirk Farrantz, it does feel like Nebraska. There is always a little extra motivation. Kirk loves rivalry games. He brings them up a ton. He talks about the importance, and he's been incredibly good

Starting point is 00:10:57 overall in rivalry games. Look at what they did this year against Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, just absolutely dominating in those three games. the Iowa State game and that's another one we know but that aside and it does feel like how about this so phil parker as a lot of the coaches do after the game picture with their position group picture with them with the heroes trophy this uh this is just the fourth time that he has tweeted in the last five years all them that's right after they beat nebraska so it feels like phil It's got a little something extra for this one, too.

Starting point is 00:11:36 Other guys got to talk about. And this is where I want to go speaking to that defense with some of these young guys. This young group of defensive backs that we just saw very little of until the end of the season. We start with Rashad Godfrey. So Godfrey, Florida kid, comes in from Tampa. Our guy, Brian, with the lockdown recruiting site, he talked a little bit about him. I felt like he was a really good fit for him. Iowa and the way that they're playing the scheme that they had.

Starting point is 00:12:06 And when he looked at Rashad Godfrey, his name has come up going back to July. Out in Vegas, remember that was a guy that Kirk brought up, talked to some of the defensive guys that were out there, a herket, I think brought up his name. I think Cohen Entryner did as well. He's just one of those young guys that run in the race. And when you see a performance like this, when DJ Hall's not going to go, and then early in the football game, you lose, coining entrant. And he steps up and he looks apart.

Starting point is 00:12:39 And he had the tackle on the fourth down play. I think the guy was short. I think he was first down. Great play. Out in space, big dude out there, he delivers the blow. Then he forces a fumble as I was up 24. Nebraska's eating some clock at the one-yard line makes the hit. Boom.

Starting point is 00:12:58 I would get some ball on the turnover there. That dude looked good. But another guy in the defensive backfield, I thought, looked really good. And you get excited about is Jacob Wallace. Jacob Wallace, D.C. guy. He's been out there playing special teams. And these are the kind of stories that always emerge. Brian Allen, he forces a fumble.

Starting point is 00:13:19 And he's going to be a guy next season that's going to have to be a starter likely for this team. And it needs to take one final big step. Every day, as you know it, this is a Brian Allen podcast. I love Brian Allen. And I think there's a ton of upside there. Well, it's going to be in a full-time role next season for him. These are the stories that make Iowa football, though, what they are. It's not just about the stars.

Starting point is 00:13:41 It's about the guys that put in the work and become stars and become stars very quickly. Are you going to be surprised next year if Rashad Godfrey or Jacob Wallace? Even to Jalen Watson, if those guys are going to be household names by the end of the season, you shouldn't. One more star of the game defensively we've got to bring up it was Aaron Graves. Now, Aaron Graves just has two tackles in the game. He's doing it as a new dad, though. That's right. His son was born, got a jet, apparently, that picked him up and brought him over to Nebraska,

Starting point is 00:14:14 told his wife, and told the guys he wasn't coming over here to lose. And so, first day as a dad, how about this? How about that performance out of Aaron Graves? Great to see. He got emotional. I saw the locker room and just some still pictures from that and the emotions that were there. It's not just Kirk. A lot of guys are emotional in that locker room.

Starting point is 00:14:34 It's a feel-good victory. And there's a ton of them. And Iowa does it once again. And this stat, it just jumps out. The number as Iowa finishes the year 8 and 4. I know for some of you, you see it as a disappointment. And there's disappointment inside of it, but look big picture. I was won at least eight games every season since 2015.

Starting point is 00:15:00 taking away the short in COVID year of 2020. By the way, that team went six and two that year, and definitely would have been an eight-win team. But that aside. Ten straight seasons will win in eight or more games. Other programs that have done that? Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State. I get it.

Starting point is 00:15:20 I was not winning national championships. I was not competing for national championships. I win this new system. It's not going to be competing for many Big Ten championships. But the consistency of winning is something that needs to be commended. Do we want more as fans? Absolutely. Do we want to have that playoff appearance, no doubt. Do we want to be able to win a game, do some damage come playoff time?

Starting point is 00:15:43 It'd be great. But the consistency of winning, yearn and year out, at a program like Iowa, it's something that should not be scoffed at. All right, so that great stat that came from Ben Stevens. Got another one. This is from Scott Nelson. And congrats on Kirk for passing Matt Rule, Scott Frost and Mike Riley for second most big 10 conference wins in Memorial Stadium history. That's right.

Starting point is 00:16:08 Bo Polini during his pretty successful run as a Nebraska head coach, he had 12 conference wins inside of their home stadium. Kirk Farrison was out, seven, six for Rule, six for Frost, six for Riley, Mickey Joseph with one. So there you go. That just absolutely incredible. we got more to talk about here locked on hawkeyes we got a whole lot more breaking down this season i will finishes eight and four it does it in dominating fashion over nebraska we're going to come back talk some hoops iowa picks up a championship win against grand canyon is iwa undefeated on the season up next a road trip to the is zone and michigan state talk some hoops when we come back locked on hawkeyes

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Starting point is 00:17:50 Rapid Reaction after Iowa cruises against Nebraska 4016. Let's talk a little basketball as Iowa gets. the championship win came to you after the win against Old Miss with a rapid reaction on that one. Let's go back to Wednesday night, Iowa, 59, 46 over Grand Canyon. And after Grand Canyon scored 13 points in the first, what, six minutes of the game, Iowa clamped down defensively. And that is the defense, I think a lot of us anticipated that we were going to see. It was not the same kind of offensive performance from Bennett Sturts.

Starting point is 00:18:20 Did not shoot the ball nearly as well as he did in the previous game against Old Miss. but another nice performance out of Cooper Couch. We've talked about Cooper and what he is going to be for this team, the skill set that he has, the size, the athleticism, and of course the shooting ability that he has, saw some good things out of Isaiah Howard. And after Howard was what, one of 12 from the three-point line going into that game, he knocks down a couple of big three-pointers in the second half.

Starting point is 00:18:47 Remember, he was a starter, then they moved Combs into the starting lineup. Howard went to the bench. He's such a plus defender. he's one of those elite-level wing defenders that you definitely need. And if he can knock down three-pointers, even, you know, to clip at like 35 percent, you're really cooking with something there. Shot got hot, of course, has the athleticism, had some big dunks out there in California and really excited about Isaiah Howard and what he's going to mean for this one.

Starting point is 00:19:14 And then it go real deep again. This was another game where we just didn't see a whole lot of the depth rotation, definitely tightening up. and feels like Ben McCullum, kind of finding his group, finding his guys. Now it's a road trip to Michigan State, and that one is not going to be easy by any means, but we'll break it down here on Locked on Hawkeyes. We are your daily Iowa Hawkeye podcast. Make sure hit subscribe if you're watching us on YouTube.

Starting point is 00:19:38 I need to get some water and get set up. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and we'll get ready with you. We will be back with you on Sunday night into Monday as we will break things down, go into what we saw one more time. a second look at the Iowa win against Nebraska and get you set for Iowa, Michigan State next week. Hit subscribe if you're watching on YouTube, five-star review if you're on the podcast side. All that helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. We'll talk to you again on Monday. Until then, go Hawks.

Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - DOMINANCE: Iowa Hawkeyes RUN Over Nebraska, Kamari Moulton and DJ Vonnahme SHINE in Rivalry ROUT

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