Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Friday Night Hawkeye Football? Scott Dochterman joins from LA, Iowa Baseball in the B1G Tournament

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

Trent Condon returns for another week of the Locked On Hawkeyes Podcast. A look at the upcoming Iowa football schedule and another Friday game for the Hawkeyes coming up this season. Of course, the Ha...wkeyes will be playing against Nebraska on Black Friday, but Kirk Ferentz mentioned last week that Iowa will be playing another Friday road game. Then Scott Dochterman from The Athletic joins the show and talks about the Big Ten meetings happening in Los Angeles and what he is looking to chase down. Finally, the Iowa baseball team gets ready for the Big Ten Tournament as they open up against Michigan. Follow Trent Condon on X: https://twitter.com/trentcondon LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/locked-on-hawkeyes-daily-podcast-on-iowa-hawkeyes-football/id1441592240 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GTyz5ygevcGXdTF6QSoEo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnHawkeyes Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Yahoo Finance For comprehensive financial news and analysis, visit the brand behind every great investor, YahooFinance.com. LinkedIn These days every new potential hire can feel like a high stakes wager for your small business. That’s why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team, faster and for free. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. FanDuel FanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook. Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning GUARANTEED That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – with any winning FIVE DOLLAR BET! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. eBay Motors From brakes to exhaust kits and beyond, eBay Motors has over 122 million parts to keep your ride-or-die alive. With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to bring home that big win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Though the Iowa football schedule is set, we're trying to start to figure out some kick times. Kurt Ferrin said last week Iowa's going to be playing a Friday game. And no, not just that Black Friday game against Nebraska. When is Cy Hawk going to be played? We break it down. Plus, Scott Dockerman joins us from Media Day over in L.A. All coming up today, Locked on Hawkeyes. All coming up today, Locked on Hawkeyes. You are Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Starting point is 00:00:38 Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. I'm Trent Condon, and this is the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked on Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We're available wherever you find podcasts, and you can also find us on YouTube. While you're there, make sure you hit the subscribe button. Helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Today's episode is brought to you by LinkedIn. These days, every new potential hire can feel like a high-stakes wager for your small business.
Starting point is 00:01:07 That's why LinkedIn Jobs helps find the right people for your team faster and for free. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash lockdowncollege. Terms and conditions apply. Well, as we get ready for the football season, yes, we are still months away from it, but we are inside of triple digits now, inside of 100 days until the kickoff of the 2024 college football season. Iowa will get things started in week one against Illinois State. Then, of course, the big in-state rivalry matchup against Iowa State in week number two. Speculation is bounding right now as we are getting closer and closer to finding out when exactly these games are going to be played. And a little nugget last week as Kirk Ferentz was in West Des Moines for his annual stopover during the Cold Chicken Tour
Starting point is 00:01:50 as they made their way around the I-Club circuit and made their way to West Des Moines. And a full house. It was great to see that. A lot of excitement, obviously, building. Lisa Bluter also made an appearance there, which came as a surprise to a lot of people because the day previous she had announced her retirement. But I heard a lot of good things from the event. I was over in Iowa City at an event of my own, but heard some good things and some nuggets that always come out of those. And one of the biggest, I thought, was Coach Ferentz mentioning that the potential and the likelihood that they're going to be playing another Friday night game this season, not just the Black Friday game against Nebraska, which has become tradition now
Starting point is 00:02:29 since them joining the Big Ten and putting that at the end of the season. Something that, frankly, I think is a good thing for Iowa football, getting that national spotlight. It's also helped that Iowa has been the plus side of this rivalry as of late and have had so many of those games go their way throughout the year. So you got that component to it, but you'd look through the schedule. All right, Black Friday against Nebraska. Sure. Makes sense. It's going to be there. It's always going to be there. And this year game back in Iowa City and one that very well could decide a lot in terms of not just the potential for these teams making their way into and moving up the pecking order, if you will, for bowl games.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Because I do believe both these teams are going to be bowl teams this season. It could mean a little bit more for Iowa. You go through the schedule and something we've talked about in the past throughout this spring. This is as advantageous of a schedule as you're going to find in the Big Ten. Yes, you have to go to Ohio State. That's going to be incredibly difficult. but you're going to draw somebody good. You're going to draw the best of the best, and that is the Buckeyes in my mind this season. However, even if you play them in Kinnick, I don't think I was beating this Ohio State team, at least the way that they look
Starting point is 00:03:37 on paper, what they did in the transfer portal, if they can figure out that offensive line and exactly what they're going to do with the quarterback position, I think that's going to be a whole lot about this team that's going to be contending for a national championship. Is it Will Howard? Is it one of the guys that have been around for a while? What direction do they go. In fact, the week before, or the game before, I should say, they take on Minnesota. They go up to Minnesota, revenge on their mind. This Minnesota team, the oddsmakers do not have a whole lot of hope for Minnesota at this point in time. You kind of look through at the numbers that are out there right now in terms of win totals, and certainly one of the lowest that we've seen in a long time for Phil Flex Squad up in Minnesota. That's a matchup.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Then you get the bye week going into that matchup against Ohio State. After that, you come home for Washington. Washington, some of the lowest numbers of returning starters in all of college football. Yes, they played for the national championship a year ago, but what this Washington team's going to be, Kalen DeBoer now getting his mail, obviously, in Tuscaloosa, just a lot of change there. And it's going to be, I think, a level up, if you will, a step up for them and a change going into
Starting point is 00:04:53 the Big Ten. I think Iowa's certainly the favorite in that game. After that, it's a road trip to Michigan State, home for Northwestern in Wisconsin. After that, then the road trips back to back UCLA, Maryland, and finishing up Black Friday against Nebraska. So when you're looking at this schedule, what are the games that make the most sense for a Friday night matchup? What make the most sense? I think there's two that probably make the most sense. First of all, mentioning Ohio State. Ohio State has made it known in no uncertain terms, they will not play Friday home games in Columbus. They won't do it. Iowa has used the excuse, and it's a very good one, with the hospital there and parking,
Starting point is 00:05:32 how difficult it is to pull something like that off. They said they'd be willing to do it on Labor Day weekend. Luckily, that hasn't come to fruition. I hate Friday night games. I work Friday nights. I'm calling high school football here across the state. And because of that, I despise them. but I know the way that things are done anymore. It's about TV and TV dictates what's going to be done. So let's cross that one off. Now,
Starting point is 00:05:54 the potential Minnesota, they played there a few years ago. That was the infamous, leave the timeouts and take the pig moment from Kirk Ferentz, rubbing it in a little bit against PJ Fleck. And Oh, that was so good. I'd love to have another opportunity for that. That could be a possibility for Iowa. That would be on September 20th. That game then would be played on a Friday night if they go that direction. Some other potential games at Michigan State.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Again, a potential one. Iowa would have played at home the week before. That's a potential. But I think the ones that make the most sense are the last two road games of the year. First, the trip out to UCLA. Much easier to put them in a late window. When you're trying to find new TV windows, you put that as a nine o'clock central kickoff on like an FS1, something like that. If they have a double header of football, one starts at six. This one, probably more like 9.30 before it gets going. I know a lot of people already making plans to go out there. Let's see, because it sounds like
Starting point is 00:06:50 this news is potentially going to come out this week. If it is, UCLA might have to be changing around your travel plans just a little bit in order for that to happen. And then the following game against Maryland. Iowa will be coming off a bye week. They do have a bye week after that game against UCLA at the Rose Bowl that is scheduled right now for November 9th with a bye week there. Don't have to worry about the quick turnaround. And then Iowa on top of it would also get a full week to prepare for the matchup against Nebraska, something that they obviously don't always have playing Saturday and then coming back on Friday on a short week. So I guess if everything goes according to the way that we would want it, I think the Maryland game would be the
Starting point is 00:07:30 one that makes the most sense. Rest component coming off of what they have with the bye week after the UCLA game, I think that's one that you potentially certainly would be circling. But we should find out here pretty soon. This is the time, late May, that normally we start to get these schedules. We get to find out a little bit more about is the time, late May, that normally we start to get these schedules. We get to find out a little bit more about exactly what it's going to look like as it pertains to the TV schedule. The other note on CyHawk. So week two scheduled for September 7th for that one. A couple of Big Ten games have already been announced in week two. The first one, the big one, Texas going to Michigan. How about that matchup? A potential top 10 matchup early in the season with the Wolverines, the defending national champion.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Texas comes to town with Quentin Ewers and company. A lot of returning talent on that Longhorn team. A lot of buzz about Texas in their first year in the SEC. That has already been designated as the big noon kickoff. It'll be 11 o'clock Central time on Big Fox. They will have that one. The other game also scheduled already in week two is the Colorado-Nebraska game. That game being played in Lincoln this season. That'll be the NBC game, 6.30 kickoff for that one. So when you're looking
Starting point is 00:08:38 around, obviously the biggest window still remaining would be the 2.30 kickoff on CBS. That would be what you're looking at. Some other good games that weekend in the Big Ten. You have an all-Big Ten matchup with Michigan State and Maryland. Those teams anticipated to be great, certainly, of this season. Another one to keep an eye on, potentially, would be Boise State at Oregon. Fan base of Boise. What kind of generation are you going to get out of eyeballs?
Starting point is 00:09:04 Now, Oregon, likely a preseason top five team. So that could certainly drive some viewership there. Kansas goes to Illinois. And on the surface, Kansas is a lot of people's top 25 in the preseason. Two teams from the power structure, a potential there. But those are who you're kind of fighting with right now, that 230 window, which would be great. 230 kickoffs for me are absolutely perfect. You still got your evening, got a chance to get back, watch the late games if you're making your way back from Iowa City. So you have all that.
Starting point is 00:09:35 That's my hope is that what we're going to get. We'll get that 230 kickoff with Cy Hawk coming up this season. Well, Scott Dockerman, he is in Los Angeles right now as there are Big Ten meetings happening. We'll talk with Doc a little bit about what's going on there, break things down, and get you ready for the Big Ten baseball tournament right around the corner. Iowa's qualified as the number five seed.
Starting point is 00:09:56 What's the path for Iowa baseball? But coming up next, we talk with Doc. Scott Dockerman joins us. This is Locked on Hawkeyes. Scott Dockerman joins us. This is Locked on Hawkeyes. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality professionals that are right for the role.
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Starting point is 00:11:15 Two and a half million small businesses use LinkedIn for hiring. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash lockdowncollege. That's linkedin.com slash lockdowncollege to post your job for free. Termin.com locked on college that's linkedin.com locked on college to post your job for free terms and conditions apply los angeles big ten.A. as the footprint for the Big Ten has expanded to the Westcott Doctrine and is there. Dr. Trenton, Ken, thank you for coming on, Doc. How are you and what are you attending here that takes you to Los Angeles? Well, it's the Big Ten meetings this week through Wednesday. So there's a lot to discuss here.
Starting point is 00:12:28 So there's a lot to discuss here. As you probably know, the House case, the settlement is in kind of prime position for that to happen. have the men's basketball, women's basketball, and football coaches all here, go along with all the administrators. So there's a lot going on, and they haven't quite started yet, but they'll start this afternoon. So as we talk about the House case, I mean, what are you unearthing? What are you kind of waiting for? And an opportunity to talk to these people. We know it's huge, and the impact is going to be immense when it comes down. What's kind of the latest on that front and how close we are to getting some kind of settlement?
Starting point is 00:13:01 It appears that the votes will happen on Thursday as to whether or not this goes through. You're looking at $2.7 billion dollars settlement and this will come kind of in parcel where about Forty percent of it or so will will come from the NCAA itself the rate remaining like 1.6 billion will come from future against future revenues from the NCAA tournament Which is where they bring in NCAA primarily gets its revenue. So it means every school will lose money. Well, not lose money, but make less money, I guess, on the NCAA tournament.
Starting point is 00:13:33 And it doesn't damage these schools nearly as much as it will, say, the group of five teams, you know, at Draker in northern Iowa, where, you know, if you take $100,000 out of their budget, that's huge. So there's that. There's also the opportunity and probability that schools will be able to pay for student-athletes up to $20 million per year. The split right now, it appears to be based on percentage of female and male athletes. So if it's 50%, 52% female, 52% of that money will go to female athletes. So it's a very complicated
Starting point is 00:14:14 case. I don't know that I could go too far in depth and detail on a lot of the other topics, but it is vastly important. I think this is probably even bigger in the big picture as what we saw three years ago with NIL and the Alston case. Doc, Tony Petit had been on the job, I think, essentially about a year now, right? I think it was middle of May last year they got it. How would you, not grade, but some of the highlights of Petit's first year as Big Ten commissioner, how do you think it's gone? Oh, wow. Well, it's certainly been impactful.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Let's put it that way. I mean, when you look at everything that has changed, I mean, being able to get, you know, Washington, Oregon, going with what's going on here. I mean, he's basically hopped on the treadmill at 12 and hasn't really slowed down over the course of this year. I mean, the TV contracts were finalized. So there's a lot in this league, and then trying to figure it out, whether it's non-divisional play in football, figure out travel. That's going to be a bigger factor here this week. And so, yeah, I mean, it's hard to give him a grade,
Starting point is 00:15:32 but I'll say that his short reign thus far has been one of the most impactful that I've ever seen. So our first opportunity to talk to you, Doc, since the surprise announcement a week ago in the afternoon. Lisa Bluter is retiring, and very quickly, 23 minutes later, Jan Jensen has been named the head coach. Something that came together very quickly for Beth Goetz, though. She had a little more thought time than just a press release that we saw there. Take us in a little bit, your thoughts on the retirement, Jan, getting the job,
Starting point is 00:16:00 and the job that Beth Goetz did in order to make this happen very quickly. Yeah, it happened all, it came together very quickly. And it's funny you bring that up because I, when I was actually talking to Jan Jensen here, while you, when you called, there's, you know, this was something that she had to be prepared for, but also, you know, happened very quickly. And that was, you know, you've got to look big picture at Iowa. You know, is Jan the best fit? Or you could probably get all the maybe 10, 15 or so coaches in the country that would be interested in coming to Iowa. So she had to really hone in on that.
Starting point is 00:16:41 I mean, you know, it looks like a no-brainer to elevate Jan, but you've got to do your due diligence and so when Lisa mentioned that then she had to figure it out very quickly you also had it was a dead period so they had to wait on Lisa's announcement because you didn't want to leave the recruits stranded because they may have a lot of questions you can't talk to them so they had to be very strategic because you can imagine if that would have happened, say, a week ago, Wednesday, Thursday, and then you had to wait till Monday to contact them. That's been tough on them and their families.
Starting point is 00:17:16 And you probably have to try to go through a third party. But even then, then you know that everybody's going to be gutting for them. then you know that everybody's going to be gutting for them. Maybe they're not allowed to talk, but some coach might call their high school coach and say, oh, by the way. So there's a lot there. But I think Beth handled it about as well as she possibly could.
Starting point is 00:17:41 And here we are. Scott Dockman from The Athletic is our guest. Doc, do you know the – Pat Fitzgerald, if he was still at Northwestern, would his kid be playing for him or was he looking to get out from dad's shadow? Do you know? I don't know, but my guess is he would probably play for him as a walk-on. It is interesting, Drew McPherson, who also goes to Loyola, his dad was an associate head coach for Pitts, and now Pitts' son, and they're both going to Iowa.
Starting point is 00:18:10 I was there when they visited last year, I guess it was the Michigan State game, and it was kind of a surprise to see Pat on the sidelines. But overall, it was, you know, they have – well, the one thing with Pat and Pat Fitzgerald and with Kirk, you know, they have great respect for one another. So I think that's apparent. And so, you know, Brian Fitzgerald will come on as a walk-on. Of course, if he does get a few more offers, Power 5 offers, then maybe that will change.
Starting point is 00:18:43 But Ryan was certainly wanting to to come to iowa and from what i was told by you know somebody very close to pitts and then and then also uh iowa was really interested in getting him in the program as a walk well i mean there's a billion analysis or analysts out there in college football i mean can, can't Kirk find a spot maybe for him, cool his heels a little bit and come in? They don't need a ton of help on the defensive side of the football, but getting him in the building wouldn't be a bad thing, right? I wouldn't do it right now. I mean, not until after this case is settled.
Starting point is 00:19:18 I think you really want to make sure that, you know, there's been enough issues around all the programs. You just want to avoid that. Now if he comes back and he's considered, you know, he did nothing and was found, you know, not guilty but not liable for any of that, then sure, you know, but he probably will have some other offers as he goes. I would think so. Scott Document, Doc, so you'll be there covering it for the three days
Starting point is 00:19:45 What can we look forward to as far as far as a subscriber say athletic? What are you planning on doing? Well, I'm gonna really just try to hone in on what happened to you I have a lot of questions about the Big Ten moving forward. I mean, how are they gonna manage this? Let me be it on both coasts. How are they gonna handle travel? How are they gonna handle being a new league with four main brands coming into it and everything from tiebreakers in football to what may be the future of uh you know championship games with vocation so i think there's a lot here and uh you know and then there's probably a lot that i haven't even thought about uh good stuff scott dockckerman from The Athletic.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Doc, thank you. Have a safe trip home. Enjoy your stay out in the West Coast, and we'll talk to you in a week. Thank you, Scott Dockerman. All right. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thanks, everybody.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Scott Dockerman as he joins us from the Big Ten meetings that are taking place. Thanks, as always, to Scott Dockerman for joining us. Great information from him and should be a lot of news making its way through the Big Ten landscape. A lot of changes continue on the horizon. Coming up this week, it's the Big Ten baseball tournament. Iowa has qualified, but the schedule makers did the Hawkeyes no favors. We'll talk a little bit about that, wrap things up, and get you set for Omaha and the Big Ten Baseball Tournament. That's as we continue. This is Locked on Hawkeyes.
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Starting point is 00:22:30 though this Iowa baseball season has been a disappointing one, certainly for the Iowa baseball program, preseason top 20, and have not come close to those heights. There's been frustrations really up and down this team. So many different angles. Early on in the season, it was the bullpen issues. Not being able to find the right guys at the right opportunity. And though the bullpen certainly improved throughout the course of the year, it was not at the level that we thought I think it was coming into the season. The starting rotation had a set of issues. Brody Brecht was struggling with a lot of different things early on in the season. And has really turned it around here over the last month plus. And we're seeing the best. Brody Brecht was struggling with a lot of different things early on in the season and has really turned it around here over the last month plus and we're seeing the best of
Starting point is 00:23:09 Brody Brecht but it also went awry his last start on Thursday night here in Des Moines at Principal Park in that game against Florida International. We knew Brecht wasn't going to throw a ton in that game but struggled with his command and something that we see certainly from time to time with him. Cade Obermuller the way that he has stepped up this year and been maybe the most consistent of the starting pitching, as frustrating at times as Breck's season has been, Marcus Morgan has been just absolutely terrible. And it's been an awful year for him. The injuries that have been sustained to the offense, that's been a big part of it this season. It's just been a year that has not gone according
Starting point is 00:23:45 to plan. And not only that, but remember Iowa baseball, Rick Heller had put a ton of work into the fundraising for rebuilding, if you will, Dwayne Banks Field and putting in everything to make it up to code for a Big Ten baseball stadium. It looked like the funding was there. And then that was pulled away as some of the financing that looked to be delivered by some investor here from Des Moines fell through. That guy didn't have the money. And with it, now they're back to the drawing board on that one. So there's just been so many hiccups that have happened in this baseball season.
Starting point is 00:24:19 You know, a coach at a non-revenue sport like baseball at a place like Iowa, you have to wear a lot of hats. Speaking of what we talked about earlier with LinkedIn, that's Rick Heller. He has to do so much. And to have that and feel like you have things close to the finish line at minimum for the rebuild of Dwayne Banks' field and then have that pulled out, I mean, that frustration coupled with the way the season has gone has been there. But now Iowa gets ready for their first matchup.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Now, the schedule is not great for Iowa. So they will play, they'll be the only team, all of them in Michigan, that will not get to play on the opening day on Tuesday. They have to wait until Wednesday to play their quarterfinal round matchup against the Wolverines. So they play at two o'clock. That means that their schedule is compressed even more. That means more taxing on your bullpen. Iowa has to win the Big Ten tournament to be an NCAA tournament team. There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it. There is no path for this team to get in as an at-large team with what their record and their RPI is at this point in time.
Starting point is 00:25:16 It's just not going to happen, so you have to do it. I think, obviously, the easiest way to do it is winning that opening game. You lose your first game of the Big Ten tournament. Coming back and even getting to a championship game is just so opening game. You lose your first game of the Big Ten tournament, coming back and even getting to a championship game is just so incredibly difficult. So they're in the 4-5 matchup. Michigan won the season series. Both these teams tied with 14-10 records in the Big Ten this year.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Michigan gets to be the home team as the higher seed as they won the series earlier this season in Iowa City, two games to one. Illinois, the top seed, is also on their side of the bracket. The eighth seed, Penn State, is the other one. They will play the late game, Illinois and Penn State will, on Tuesday night. It'll get started on Tuesday morning. The Battle of Indiana, it'll be the Hoosiers against the Boilmakers,
Starting point is 00:25:57 followed up by Nebraska-Ohio State. That'll be 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. If Iowa wins their first matchup against Michigan, they will come back then the next day on the 23rd, play at 6 o'clock against the winner of Illinois, Penn State, likely the top seeded Illini in that one. If they lose, though, they will drop down and they will play then at 10 a.m.
Starting point is 00:26:18 A quick turnaround again into the 23rd, the morning of the 23rd is when they will play in that one. And then that means winning one, two is when they will play in that one. And then that means winning one, two, three, four games in a row to get to the Big Ten championship game if they would fall early on. The path is incredibly difficult. Brecht's going to get the ball in game number one. The other component, speaking of Brody Brecht and getting him out there, if they would have been able to play on Tuesday,
Starting point is 00:26:44 the schedule would have went their way or tiebreakers would have went their way, whatever it was. Even got another win in there at some point. Brody Breck wasn't going to be able to come back and pitch in a championship game and give you 110 pitches, but he could probably give you a couple of innings. And that likely is completely off the board now if that does play out, and that's another disappointing way this went. They did in the past try to play four games on that first day where we had games that were ending. Was it Iowa-Indiana one year?
Starting point is 00:27:12 I can't remember who it was against. That thing went late, late into the night, and then you turn around the next day and you've got to play again. So they decided to move off of that. Don't love it because it hurts the Hawkeyes in this instance, but it's the reality, and that's what it is. Baseball coming up and we get ready for the off season of most everything right around the corner, putting a cap on all the spring sports, and then it'll be a lead up into football season. We got you covered every day here on Lockdown Hawkeyes. Thanks for making
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Starting point is 00:28:20 Baseball and a whole lot more. Recruiting season right around the corner. A couple of big camps coming up for Iowa as we're going to see more and more official visits on the football side of things make their way to Iowa City. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Go Hawks.

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