Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - EXODUS: Iowa's Basketball Roster CRUMBLES as Dix and Sandfort FLEE | Can Ben McCollum Stop the BLEEDING?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Josh Dix and price amper are gone from Iowa officially is it panic time for Hawkeye hoops You are locked on Hawkeyes your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes Part of the locked on podcast network your team every day Don podcast network your team every day Come in I'm Trent Condon and this is the lockdown Hawkeyes podcast Thanks for making lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We're available wherever you find podcasts You can also watch us on YouTube while you're there hit subscribe Just takes a moment and helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can get $200 in bonus bets

Starting point is 00:00:48 when your first $5 bet wins. Well, we are here with the Final Four upon us, both in women's and men's college basketball for the first time in a couple seasons. We don't have the Hawkeye ladies playing in the Final Four, which is certainly disappointing, but should be some good games coming up this weekend coming up today on the program we're gonna talk about what's happening on the diamond a couple of big series for the Iowa

Starting point is 00:01:11 baseball team and the Iowa softball team baseball team in first place in the Big Ten the women on the softball side trying to build an NCAA tournament resume and they will have an opportunity against a top 25 ranked Nebraska team coming up this weekend over at Pearlfield. We will talk about that. Tom Cakert is going to join us from HawkeyeReport.com. We'll get Tom Cakert's thoughts on everything going on with the transfer portal. And of course we begin today with the big news. As it became official, Josh Dix and Price Sanford both will be getting their mail in Nebraska for Josh

Starting point is 00:01:44 Dix of the three guys that McCollum was trying to bring back in the biggest way. Cooper Koch, Josh Dix, and Price Samford. I think we had two pretty wide open swaths here. You had the one part where Cooper Koch appeared to be the most likely. Bloodlines, dad JR obviously that played for the Hawkeyes. He was on the last team that made a sweet 16, 25 years ago, 26 years ago now. Oh boy, as the years just keep stacking up. But the bloodlines, the connection, that was the one that made the most sense. And he was the quickest to make his decision that he was going to

Starting point is 00:02:19 come back to Iowa. Josh Dix and the money that was involved for his services, they were absolutely crazy. And you hear some of the terms of the numbers that are being thrown out there, one and a half, over $2 million, whatever the figure is, it's a lot of money. Iowa put together a competitive offer. I think Iowa also gave him a lot to think about but ultimately the pull of being close to home playing a Creighton and playing Within 10 miles of your home. I think said a lot of course his mom has gone through some health issues So there was a lot there and he'd go back to last spring There was a lot of buzz and I had few people tell me that there was a real possibility That they thought he was gonna end up a Creighton a year ago. That obviously didn't come to fruition, so this one shouldn't come as a surprise.

Starting point is 00:03:07 Now, it was a surprise after some of the things that we heard, and they were just rumors and rumblings. But about Owen Freeman after he committed to the Blue Jays, that maybe Josh Dix didn't want to end up there. Because of Josh Dix, along with Peyton Sanford, playing through injury a year ago, and Owen Freeman going under the knife for a finger injury They're gonna play together and they'll have to mend some fences if there was actually anything to those rumors Who knows the validity but it was certainly something that was out there. So you have those components and then in the middle was Price Sanford

Starting point is 00:03:42 And this is the one out of the three I felt, the most conflicted, the most back and forth, and I think heard the most different kind of things in his recruitment. Going back to Tuesday, Black, he's gonna go to Nebraska. Crystal balls are being put in,

Starting point is 00:03:57 all the projections that are out there, that was all there. And then we go back the other way, and you had, he's coming home, no, he's going here, he's all there. And then we go back the other way and you had, he's coming home, no he's going here, he's going there. Now ultimately it proves to be Nebraska. But Illinois was involved. There were some other programs.

Starting point is 00:04:14 The crazy thing is with Price Sanford coming into this basketball season, I wasn't sure where he fit. And from what we saw during his freshman campaign, I thought there was some disappointment. I mentioned he had a more well-rounded game at the high school level when I called his games than Peyton did. And that freshman year left some questions. And then they're bringing in all these small forwards and types of play the same kind of position. Now injuries also, I think, helped out Price Ampere this year. In the Cooper-K cop catch injury you wonder

Starting point is 00:04:46 Certainly price wouldn't be getting the same amount of minutes that he did in the back half of the season Worked out well for him But I've seen a lot of this and I don't want to have people take this as sour grapes But it is reality. Oh, this will be perfect. He's going to a place Price Sanford at Nebraska that is perfect with Fred Hoyberg and and Fred Hoyberg system This is gonna be great for him because Fred's such a great offensive coach well pump the brakes on that one Put the brakes on Fred Hoyberg is this great offensive coach because if you look at him and his teams now over the last six

Starting point is 00:05:24 years at Nebraska It doesn't pick the picture of a great offensive coach because if you look at him and his teams now over the last six years at Nebraska, it doesn't pick the picture of a great offensive coach. This year they were 65th in the country and adjusted offensive efficiency. That's good, but it's not a lead. Their high water mark was a year before that when they were 32nd, the only year they made the NCAA tournament in his six seasons his other years 149th 117th 179th 190th from head Fred Hoiberg so that's what you're getting as an offensive coach and good ones at Iowa State I get that but slow down in this being some kind of perfect fit on top of it Fred Hoiberg is going to be in the

Starting point is 00:06:02 hot seat regardless of what happens in Vegas. And if they win the crown tournament out there, he goes into year seven on the hot seat. One NCAA tournament, no wins because Nebraska's never had a win in the NCAA tournament. The pressure is going to be on. And you look at that roster for next season, you look at who's moving on, who's departing the guys that have had some incredible seasons, Bryce Williams, Joanne Gary, and the guys that they lose, they got work to do in the portal. And it's going to have to be a whole heck of a lot more than Price Sanford if he's going to save his job.

Starting point is 00:06:36 And then Price Sanford might be looking for a new destination one more time. That is what is in front of them. I will not wish them best of luck, certainly not against Nebraska. Go get your bag, do your thing. So this leads back to Iowa. And now Ben McCollum and company having to go back to the drawing board. The timing is good. And as we hit the dead period now in college basketball, in recruiting, it's a dead period. Now you can still make contact. The dead period is a little bit of a misnomer. We'll talk about that more with Tom Cakert who is deep into the game of recruiting

Starting point is 00:07:09 But you can still make contact with these guys you can still set up better visits And in fact next weekend the weekend of April 11th Visits are back on you could have guys on campus coming in official unofficial visits that can all be happening starting next week So you're back to the drawing board on that front too. Now you got to figure out what you got to do. The current roster construction, you got the Drake guys coming in, the five guys coming in that we anticipate. Isaiah Howard has committed. Kim Manwoo has committed. Kale Combs committed. And of course the biggest one,

Starting point is 00:07:40 one of the best players in the country. But it starts, forget how good this dude is as committed committed and we're waiting for one more That's Tavian Banks six foot seven wing guy. You need more shooting though. You look at this group of guys and outside of Sturtz It's not a great shooting group. I think I was Isaiah Howard can get there just a freshman and All of those guys likely outside of Manuel who might be your starting power forward You still need a center and you need more shooting. Ben McCollum's talked about the shooting component and he had teams at Northwest Missouri State that everybody on the floor, all five players, all five positions, were guys that shot over 40%

Starting point is 00:08:18 from three during the course of the season. That is a component. They need more shooting. And this group again, outside of Bennett Sturtz doesn't have a ton of shooting. You need a two guard, a combo guard, whatever it is, you need more shooting. Cooper Koch, that guy's gonna be able to shoot the ball well. You have that. And a big.

Starting point is 00:08:40 And it doesn't have to be a three point shooting big, but there is a big. The kid from Portland's been talked about a lot. That's a potential fit. Aussie coming in, if Iowa can get a visit out of him. His final five though, there's some heavy heads that they're going to be going up against. That's where we sit right now though, in the transfer portal. I get it. Disappointing day, certainly for Iowa. If you thought the Dicks

Starting point is 00:09:01 or Sanford, I still think there was a better chance of Sanford coming back, but it didn't happen. So now the coaching staff, they move on. We have to believe in our coaches. You're excited about the hire. You're excited what they're able to do. If you just look at it as all they did is bring in five Drake guys, it's not over yet. Portals not closed.

Starting point is 00:09:21 Work really begins now in order to shape this roster. When you have a player like Bennett Sturtz coming in, what you're building now is to be a tournament team in year number one. You can do that with that skill, but you need a lot more help. That is now the job for Ben McCollum and company. We'll dive a little bit deeper into this as we're joined by Tom Kaker from HawkeyeReport.com. He joins us as we continue on the Locked On,

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Starting point is 00:10:56 energized with 5-Hour Energy online, 5hourenergy.com. Let's get to our friend Tom Kaikman. I'm guessing he's had a busy morning watching those message boards, et cetera. I'm sure everyone's taking it well. Tom, HawkeyeReport.com, part of On3Media. How are you? Well, at least I don't have to worry about any more drastic pun threads that have been going on for a week. You know what?

Starting point is 00:11:24 I'm so glad you brought that up. It made it really hard to read, didn't it? Everybody trying to outdo themselves. And for every good one there is a dozen. There's a womp-womp. You know, you missed the mark. But anyway, I think we're done with those, you know, the Price-Sanford thing going to Nebraska. So what we expected, you know, I think everybody's kind of, you know, we're not going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it.

Starting point is 00:11:37 We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to be able to do it. We're going to Nebraska. So what we expected, you know, I think

Starting point is 00:11:48 everybody's kind of understood that price was probably going to Nebraska for several days and that Josh Dix was probably going somewhere else because somewhere else had a pot of gold at the end of it. And plus, he's going to be close to home. As we know, his mom's had health issues and he would want to be close to home. So now he and Owen Freeman are back together at Creighton. When your colleagues, and I know that you respect them over there, Callahan and Sippl and the crew, when they put out that, what do you call them, a crystal ball or whatever that he's headed to Nebraska headed to Nebraska. Um,

Starting point is 00:12:26 that seemed like they had pretty good info and their info was right on. So like you say, I talked to Robin to Robin Washington. Is that how you say his name? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Robin and I are good friends and we had, we had been talking. So just kind of hearing the same things that he was probably headed to Nebraska. So now Iowa turns the page and then McCollum gets to work We got the Drake guys coming in of course Bennett starts the headliner

Starting point is 00:12:50 And I think at times we need to pause and reflect on that they got the number one or number two player in the whole portal that's been in there at this point and I think there's so many people that have just glossed over that fact. When you talk to people, industry people, people that know basketball and know how things very well could translate, what have you heard about Sturtz making this move to the Big Ten in Iowa? Yeah, when they moved up in competition, when they played against the high major programs, they did pretty well. They really did.

Starting point is 00:13:24 I mean, they beat K-State, they beat Mizzou. I mean, they've beaten Big 12. And what, Florida State? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they've beaten some high major programs. So I think this is the ultimate test. And it's probably one of those things where, you know, as a coach, I'm sure McCollum just looks at it and says, look, we took this kind of D two players and we moved them up a level to Drake and we won 30 games. Um, I'm going to bring a bunch of these guys along with me and see if we can do it again. And I don't know. Well, we're gonna find out if this grand experiment is gonna work where you just keep bringing these guys up.

Starting point is 00:14:07 But it's, you know, I'm not gonna just say it won't work. I'm gonna be really interested. It's a great case study. And if the system is just something that's gonna be able to work at all the levels. Have you been able to glean anything from perhaps some of McCollum's next targets if you will? Trent thinks they need a five, I agree, needed two, another shooting guard. Do you have any names Tom that they might be, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:38 kicking the tires on, anything like that out there yet? The kid from Portland that they're trying to get involved with. You know, I did, and this sent the message boards off the edge, of course, because where they live. But, you know, a friend of mine shared with me that, you know, a kid at D2 level down in Missouri got a 6'9 kid who was a really good player, averaged like 17 and eight last year. He's entered the portal and Iowa at least called up and kind of kicked tires on him a little bit yesterday. So we'll see what happens to him. His name's Andrew Young and he's a pretty talented kid, but I don't know if they're

Starting point is 00:15:22 going to go after him, but I just shared it. And of course everybody went to the conclusion that oh now they're just they can't get any players so they're just going to the D2 kids and I'm like well but it starts with a D2 kid you know um it worked out okay for him so we'll see uh I I think this is going to be I've I've just kind of told people um you know written about it it's just like it's going to be a work in progress putting this roster together. It's, it's, it's a little bit different doing it at the Iowa level than it was the Drake level, you know, you've just, you've got some resources that maybe you

Starting point is 00:15:59 didn't have, but you're also competing in a different way for players than you were probably to get kids to come to Drake So it's just it's different. It's more of a financial thing. So You've just it's a different process that I think McCollum and his staff are kind of learning about and That's no one was retained from the previous staff, I don't think there is kind of maybe familiar or comfortable or understanding of how this works. I'm not saying that that's the case, but it's just, it's kind of something you have to learn how to do, I think, dealing with the new realities of college basketball.

Starting point is 00:16:41 Is the, I keep hearing about the Portland kid. Is it Oakman? Isn't it Rapp? That was his name. Austin Rapp? Yeah. Got Clemson, Michigan. Oh he's an Aussie. And he's an Aussie. Yeah, 6'10 kid. Can shoot it well from the outside. Maybe not a great inside presence but a more diverse skill set. And would arrive with three years of eligibility. That is good too. Hey, Tom, it's the dead period through Thursday now. So that started yesterday.

Starting point is 00:17:12 That just means that there's still contact, there's still phone calls. They can set visits up for next weekend, right? Is that what, explain the dead period again. We need a refresher sometimes. Yeah, they just can't have guys on campus, typically quickly and they can't go out to places and everything but your you know, the phone calls are still going on With with the thing. I don't even know if any of this really applies with a portal at all That's a tight score recording that you can't do any of that stuff because a portal just seems like it's a life

Starting point is 00:17:42 I don't ever know one of the interesting things that I didn't realize until the other day, um, and I shared this on our site, um, last night, that there's a lot of these places are there, there seems to be a real rush to get things done because April 7th is when that house settlement is supposed to be finalized. So they want to get everything in before that happens because the Wild West is still in effect until that happens. So you're seeing a lot of schools try to get these deals finalized. That's why you're seeing some of these inflated

Starting point is 00:18:19 prices right now, guys, is because they've just got... there's there's money to spend and they're gonna try it and they feel like they can do it and now once the house goes in effect then there's more scrutiny to the money to the endorsement deals the NIL that I think is gonna get challenged right away in court but it just you know the fair market value stuff. But if you do like, things are kind of done now where it's kind of wink, wink, nudge, nudge, NIL or whatever. If you do those things, it's gonna count against that 20.5 million and schools don't want that taken away. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:19:02 It's gonna count against it. So if you're doing like, hey, we're doing this kind of funky deal over here where we're giving this kid a million dollars, then you're down to 19.5 according to what this thing is supposed to do. No more news disappointing from the Hawkeye front, but not for Raina Harmon as she gets the head coaching job at Florida Gulf Coast program that's and we think of Dunk City, but that women's program has been pretty good down there. Also that did they have a coach recently leave for the WNBA

Starting point is 00:19:29 from Florida Gulf Coast, but aside, Raina that's going to be a blow for Iowa losing her. One of the top recruiters, but good for Raina Harmon. Yeah. I'm super happy for Raina. She's a really, a really good person. And, and I was really fortunate to keep her for as long as they did. And I'm happy that she's getting this opportunity to be a head coach and have her own program and she's earned it and she's ready for it.

Starting point is 00:19:53 But now you got an opening on that staff and I wonder if they're going to, you know, maybe they promote Taniya Davis, we'll see. Maybe there's, you know, I think you have to have some diversity on the staff after this. So, you know, I think you're going to have to hire an African American assistant. But you know, maybe there's somebody that I'm thinking of from the program that's history that's out there coaching that would fit that profile. But tonight Davis is on the staff. She's been there coaching that would fit that profile. But tonight Davis is on

Starting point is 00:20:25 the staff. She's been there for a couple of years. I wonder if maybe they'll elevate her and give her a bigger opportunity moving forward. Did you just back to the mid for just a second? Did you somebody just text me to ask about Dix's money? Do you know how much he got Tom? Don't have any idea. I saw somebody suggest it was over two million. I don't know that that's true. But it's so wild with all those things because I know Josh real well.

Starting point is 00:20:54 And Josh is one of the quietest kids I've ever covered in my entire life. I mean, he is just, and so everybody's saying, oh, I think he's doing this or all, you know, the last three days, at various points, he was going to Illinois, Indiana. He was coming back to Iowa. He was going to all these different places. I'm like, you guys, if you're doing this, that means that nobody knows what the heck this kid's doing. Just let him make a decision. He's

Starting point is 00:21:19 gonna, he's, he's really quiet. Um, and I, I always wondered if he'd just come back to Creighton just because it made sense. They made a run at him last year. He was still at Iowa. They were kind of just kind of floating some things out to him trying to entice him last year. So it makes sense that he's going to go close to home being near his family too. You had an opportunity yesterday to watch 15 minutes or so football practice.

Starting point is 00:21:48 I saw some good stretching, apparently, um, hunting, hunting, bunting and stretching. Uh, did you glean anything? Uh, I think maybe Trent and I biggest takeaways, just how big Hunter is, um, he's a big dude as in certainly chuck it a little bit. Um, what did you see Tom? Yeah, boy, he's got some zip on the ball too. Um, you know, he is, he's pretty impressive. Um, you know, Kronowski, um,

Starting point is 00:22:14 he's probably about six to put place, you know, he's, he's, I wouldn't say, stocky, but thick. It's the right word. Yeah. He's just got a sturdy kind of frame to him. There's no frailty to him. So that was interesting to me. Yeah, and restocking was punting really well. He was punting it up into the ceiling. How about that? That's what they do every time. 10 and 2, baby. After that. We're just going to give you 20 minutes and Five of it is stretching and uh about 13 of it is planting

Starting point is 00:22:51 So yeah, here's your starting quarterback dropping back, but that'll be it, but he can't throw right? Yeah Uh kirk could never change right? He's Yeah, at least he gave you a little carrot. Yes. Absolutely a little taste little taste and you continue to chase that carrot down the hall. With that, is it crazy to say that the wide receiver room is deep? I don't know if it's good, but it's at least deep for the first time and maybe a half decade? Yeah, they've got some depth there. And we'll find out if anybody emerges

Starting point is 00:23:25 um, I I kept one of the things I said yesterday as I As i'm watching some of those guys kind of do do some of those things out there. I was like We see any guys out there that could catch 50 balls in a season because we haven't seen that in a while Yeah, you know, I I just don't know. Um Sam phillips was out there and he did work with at least one rep with the ones. He's diminutive. He's a little small on the small side, but... And I think it was Brown that actually threw the pass that made its way to X, right?

Starting point is 00:23:57 The Brown to Phillips connection. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm... Maybe he's the guy. Jacob Gill had a nice little catch too. Seth Anderson was out there. I was just, you saw some of the guys that, and you think, boy, there's, you know, I didn't even mention Reese Vanderse, but I mean, that's another guy that, maybe he's, he's that guy. But the bottom line though, I think they've got more weapons for Tim Lester to use this year, and that's probably a good thing. They need that. They need to have

Starting point is 00:24:34 more weapons in the passing game. I didn't see any slow mash, so I'm still waiting. We'll see if that happens. Good stuff. Tom Kanker at HawkeyeReport.com Today's episode of Lockdown Hawkeyes is brought to you by Fandual. The NCAA tournament is here and Fandual is giving you the chance to get in on the action like never before. Right now new customers can get $200 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins. That's 200 extra bucks to use on everything from buzzer beaters to Cinderella stories and even who's cutting down the nets. I got my eye on a couple of teams. Now, is it inevitable with the Dukies?

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Starting point is 00:26:33 Thanks for being with us and making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. So as we wrap things up, we're gonna take a look at the diamond, but a quick story for you. So I read all the comments over on YouTube, all the reviews that you put out there on the different accounts, if it's Apple Music, whatever it is, and really do appreciate them.

Starting point is 00:26:52 Now, the one star ones, right? We'd like a little more five stars, a few of those would be okay, but that aside, and somebody on YouTube in the comment the other day had mentioned the poster back in my home office down in the man cave of BJ Armstrong Roy Marble Ed Horton I said Trent you're too young and don't know I'm in my mid 40s and if you're new to the program and I know there's a lot of people that have been jumping on here and thank you for all of you newbies that have been with us here lately. Iowa basketball was it and that was those are my guys right so my first real vivid memories I have bits and pieces of memories of George Raveling nothing of Lute I was only three when he departed

Starting point is 00:27:37 but a little bit of Raveling more than anything I just remember my grandpa complaining about his sweatsuit we've come full circle on that one that That was a long time ago, the mid eighties. But that was the first season, 86, 87, the run to the elite eight that I really remember a ton of that season. And when it came to that UNLV game and hearing so many people's different stories, I remember it so well because I just moved. My bedroom had just been moved to the basement when my little sister was born a year before. So I was alone.

Starting point is 00:28:08 And as the game was falling apart for the Hawkeyes and being even as a seven-year-old, baffled about what they were doing, why they were slowing things down, why this team that had been so good at pushing the pace all year long, suddenly trying to go four corners and seeing that 18-point lead dissipate and ultimately

Starting point is 00:28:26 losing in the final minutes. I remember bawling, running downstairs to my bedroom, and my mom coming downstairs, and my mom rubbing my back as my head's buried in the pillow, crying. My mom saying, it's alright Trent, Roy, Ned, and BJ, they're just sophomores. They'll make a final four. Well of course that never happened and here we are nearly 40 years later and they have never been close to a final four since.

Starting point is 00:29:00 Ben McCollum, prove my mom right, Please. So I don't have to have that little bit of angst against my mom. That's always in the back of my mind. Uh, one final thing is, uh, we get ready to wrap up here. Big weekend on the diamond for both the softball and the baseball teams. So the softball team, they get top 25 right Nebraska Huskers come in 26 to nine on the season of Pearl field that'll start on Friday night followed up by game Saturday I'm gonna go the game on Sunday that'll be a two o'clock first pitch or that one I'm looking forward to seeing the Iowa softball teams been a long time since I've been there taking my daughter and our softball team we're gonna be going over to the game on

Starting point is 00:29:38 Sunday after we play on Saturday in Iowa City at a tournament well actually in North Liberty so looking forward to, an opportunity for this Iowa team, certainly to make a strong push up, have that great win against UCLA. I'll currently rank number 49 in the RPI rankings, 209 record though, against Quad 1. So need to build on that resume, and there'll be a big opportunity to do that, certainly this week. Three and four record in the Big Ten after getting swept last weekend by Wisconsin work to be done to stay in the back half. And if they could win this series this weekend and even take a game, you're feeling

Starting point is 00:30:11 good. You take two out of three, you're in really good shape. That would be a really quality victory on the softball diamond over to baseball. In fact, it's going on right now as we record Iowa Northwestern Iowa with an early lead against the Wildcats in game one. They've had moved that schedule around a little bit because of the weather. But another road series, another chance against Northwestern, not a great team. Now another road midweek game against a bad Milwaukee team this week before the Huskers come to town for baseball then next weekend,

Starting point is 00:30:39 the weekend of the 11th through the 13th. So that's what's coming up on the diamond and the the teams this the teams this spring, it was a little something extra to root for. Not a bad thing. We got a lot of football we need to dive into. You know, we're kind of behind in our football conversations because of everything that's been happening, not only with the coaching change, but with it, the transfer portal, we'll start to get into that a whole lot more next week. Your team every day. That's what we do here on the lockdown network.

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