Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Hawkeye Football & Basketball Mailbag on quarterback play, new OC & Fixing Men's Hoops & a new NIL deal for Caitlin Clark

Episode Date: December 12, 2023

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It's a mailbag edition of the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Your questions on Iowa football, Iowa basketball. We try to figure out this hoops team and get them fixed. A whole lot coming up. Plus, Caitlin Clark strikes it big again today. Locked On Hawkeyes. You are Locked On Hawkeyes. Your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash lockdown college. Terms and conditions free. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash lockedoncollege. Terms and conditions apply. Well, it is time to go through the mailbag, something that we do here about every month on the Locked On feed. A lot of comments from YouTube, some suggestions from people reaching out on social media, finding me different ways.

Even had a guy called in on my radio show that you can hear each and every weekday on KXNO from 11 to 1 here in Central Iowa and across the country on the iHeartRadio app. But we got a lot to talk about. It is a quiet time right now. A year ago at this time, we were excited about the possibility of Cade McNamara becoming the Iowa quarterback. There was a lot of transfer portal activity happening because Iowa had a lot more flexibility than they do at this time. And before we get into the football conversation and take some of your questions and take a look at some different things,

try to fix this basketball team and talk about the women's team and Caitlin Clark again, getting some more money coming her way with another NIL deal. But we have to throw this out there. The last year, people harken back. Cade McNamara going out, getting Seth Anderson later on in the year, getting Kayla Brown and all the excitement that came there. All the portion of portal additions that Iowa got for Iowa football. The likelihood that that happens this year at the same level is so incredibly small,

and it's simply a numbers crunch. At this point in time, Iowa, in fact, is over scholarships. When you couple the incoming freshmen along with what you have and just the four guys that have entered the portal. Yes, I know six overall, but Spencer Petras was not considered a scholarship player this year as he was sitting out with the injury. And then he also had a walk-on that had entered the portal in Filer. So really four scholarship players are all that have entered the portal as we sit here today on a Tuesday.

And because of that, because of what they have coming in with the freshman class and not a whole lot of other people have entered the portal, you're left thinking that there just isn't a whole lot that they're going to do. Now, after the bowl game, it is likely you're going to see more players enter the portal. We've talked a lot about running back. How are you going to keep all three of those guys healthy? We will see. Other position groups, guys that are stacked up on the depth chart, are not going to make a rise.

The conversations that happen, hey, maybe it is. Stick around for a bowl game and see what else is out there. That's a real possibility. But what we don't right now is Iowa just doesn't have a whole lot of flexibility to go out there and bring in seven, eight guys like they did a year ago. So that is definitely consideration that we have to talk about and look at when we're going through and talking about this. So let's get into the questions again.

Always hit us up over on the comment section on YouTube. That is the easiest spot. I see all the comments over there of what they have. Let's start with some football and start off here with Lolly Q. She says, I'm in for Cade to return as QB, but would put Marco Linus in the two slot. He's young and a different type of QB for Iowa. What time and effort into him for the future? Why not? We have a thing to lose, not a thing to lose on the offensive end. Lolly,

you're exactly right. It's something that I truly believe Iowa needs to do in this bowl game. We know what Deacon Hill is. Can there be improvements that Deacon Hill makes? Sure. This is a guy with not a whole lot of experience, not just at the collegiate level, but even go back and look at him at the high school level. His senior year was 2020. He shortened season that year. This is a guy that just doesn't have a ton of reps. He's got a strong arm. Accuracy is a problem, and though there were

improvements, it's just not a whole lot of improvements that you want to see out of him. I don't think that Iowa can afford to have him as the backup next season with what we know from him, the kind of quarterback that he has, and the nature of Cade McNamara. This is a guy now that has sustained two significant injuries in his collegiate career, a guy that even before those two significant injuries

had been banged up at his time in Michigan. Apparently, he was also a guy that was banged up at the high school level, if memory serves back, when he was a high school quarterback in Nevada. So you have all these things up there. He's a brittle quarterback. He's a brittle player. The injuries don't lie. This has happened.

He can call it bad luck and he chalked it up to all those things. I don't think Iowa can afford to go into next season with only Deacon Hill. So see what Marco Lion has is get him a couple of series in the second quarter in the third quarter of the bowl game. The bowl game means nothing I know bowl games used to mean something they don't anymore

unless you're in the college football playoff maybe in the new year's six but even then we see the opt-outs that are happening this is about the development of your program this is about the future Kirk loves bowl games Kirk loves winning bowl games he loves the reward that comes of it.

But let's be honest. It does not mean anything for Iowa football. Win or lose against Tennessee, it is not going to change the trajectory of Iowa football going forward. Lolly, you're exactly right. Get him out there. This is from Charles Harris, another one on Marco Lyon. I don't think we know anything about Marco Lyon.

I think KF is blowing smoke on the QB order because when KF makes his decision on a QB, he doesn't want to be second guess. Charles, I think you're exactly right on that. It's one of the more baffling things about Iowa football. You see a guy put the ball on the turf, fumble the football as a running back. You're in the doghouse. You see a wide receiver make a mistake. You're in the doghouse. Offensive line.

They shuffle that thing all throughout September every single year, even when it feels like the five guys are solidified. Make a mistake defensively, special teams, you're out. Quarterback, well, we've seen it now for years. And it's something, I don't know if Kirk's brain was broken, what happened over 20 years ago with Kyle McCann and Brad Banks, when Kyle McCann came back on the field in that 0-1 game against Michigan and he was booed and Iowa ultimately lost a tough game

to the Wolverines in that one. Because since then, some of these quarterback decisions have been baffling. From Jake Christensen and the inability to move on from him. Eventually finally getting to Ricky Stanzi. Jake Ruddock, who was fine. He was a fine quarterback. But C.J. Beathard had a higher upside. And how long it took.

And here we are, after watching Spencer Petras muck it up for years upon years. And now, what we saw with Deacon Hill. And not to give another guy an opportunity, it's baffling. I think his brain's broke. Absolutely. Continuing on here from Charles Harris,

he digs into Se seals and hand waves off anyone who rudely asks him that decision. You're exactly right. I don't get it. I don't understand it for an old football guy. Quarterback is something that he cannot wrap his mind around and his inability to move on when a guy truly doesn't have it is something that I think will be remembered a long time when we talk about the Kirk Barron's era. This comes from Jim Romine, 36, 67. Let's have a dedicated quarterback coach and let the OC concentrate on

game planning. Let this guy go out, find a top tier quarterback rather than settle for these division three clues. All right, Jeff, I got you there. I'm a proponent of that.

The new offensive coordinator does not have to be in my mind. Also the quarterback coach. It's something that I was done plenty of times in the past, but I don't think it's a necessity. I don't think it's something that has to be done in order for this to work out. Well, Ken O'Keefe, when he was just the quarterback's coach, when he came back after his gig with the Miami Dolphins, I think absolutely that was something that worked out well.

And we saw as an offensive coordinator, Brian Ferris was a whole lot better before he also had to become the quarterback coach. This is from Ronald Goodrich. Truth is, Deacon only had two seconds to pass. Also, does he have any targets? Both fair questions, Ronald. Wide receivers got to get better.

Caleb Brown, we saw his emergence, but the scheme has to be better too. And the offensive line, pass protection was better this year. It wasn't great. We're not talking elite. This is not the 0-2 offensive line. This is the 2015 offensive line. They had holes.

There is no doubt, but definitely something to be said. Not a whole lot of time back there. We'll continue with your questions here on Locked On Hawkeyes football, and we try to figure out some basketball as well. A lot of angst happening in Hawkeye Nation as it pertains what is happening with Iowa basketball. We'll talk football and basketball as we continue here. This is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to have as many top-tier candidates as possible to interview. That's why you have to check out LinkedIn Jobs.

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the comment section. Let's see. Let's go to Thomas Hahn. A new AC, is it going to make the receivers catch the damn ball? Well, true. Players still have to make plays.

I would argue a scheme that made sense in the passing game would help, but that's a different conversation. Thomas continues. I'm not going to be negative about you. I'll just unsubscribe. All right, that's fine, Thomas. You can do that. Not going to be negative.

That's good. Positivity here around Christmas time. Like that. Jerry Lee, Topple Rocky, Top Go Hawks. We'll start to preview that game a little bit more going forward, certainly about that. Sunkiss, 98-99. Men's basketball has the same problem as football.

Lack of athleticism and explosive players. I was going to have to recruit more outside the state, but now with NIL and the transfer portal, it's going to take big money to bring these players in and keep them. Bring up a great point. In order to invest, and we've seen this now, the Swarm Collective and Brad Heinrichs and what his group has done. Football is going well. It can do better. You would like to see more money invested. That's why I was able to go out and attack the portal the way that they were a year ago. That was how

they were able to also bring back guys like Logan Lee and Joe Evans for another season of eligibility. That worked out incredibly well. You want that to continue. If you want to see Sebastian Castro back, if you want to see Jay Higgins come back for another season, those types

of players got to invest, got to put the money in there. Is it fair? No, but it's the reality. And that's what we'd love to talk about here on Locked on Hawkeyes. We can have these great, grandiose ideas, and we can deride what college athletics has turned into. But the reality is, this is where we are. And in order for Iowa to compete at the highest level, they need investment from the fan base.

They need money from the fan base. They need money from the fan base for NIL. And you bring in basketball to the equation here, the same thing happens here. We talked about the future of Fran McCaffrey, and we'll continue to talk about it. We got some questions coming up just on that fact. However, Iowa basketball, their NIL is not as in good shape as it is in football. More people are willing to invest in the football program. You can argue it's because of Fran McCaffrey. People are sick of Fran. They have Fran fatigue, all those different things.

But that is the reality. And if Iwood does have a new coach next season, Fran walks away, he retires, he takes another job or something I don't believe would happen. He is fired. takes another job, or something I don't believe would happen, he is fired. If one of those things do happen, though, you got a freshman class, there are going to be buzzards circling Iowa City. You don't think Owen Freeman's going to get a good deal?

Other places? Even Brock Harding? Dembale, what we've seen out of him? Absolutely. There's going to be people that are going to be looking at them peyton sanford for a final season of eligibility yeah there's going to be a big program that could use a shooter like we've seen out of him no doubt that investment needs to happen also for men's basketball or things could get ugly. Tyrone Biggins, as usual, no defense or rebounding. I can't believe this is actually a Big Ten roster.

They got spanked by an NIT team. This was after the Iowa State game. Iowa State is not an NIT team. Look, the Big 12 is a monster. I don't know if they're even going to have a winning record in that league. It is a behemoth. But come on, that is not an NIT team. Continuing, there's a reason the men don't sell out Carver anymore.

Most fans are done with this. Tyrone, I think you're right. And I have been a proponent of Fran McCaffrey. He has delivered what he was brought in to do. He has got Iowa back to what they were back in the 90s. Made them a consistent NCAA tournament team eight of the last 10 years, something that is not easy to do in Iowa City. He does not have the success in the tournament

that people want, but he has at least got them back to the level that Dr. Tom had them. Yes, Dr. Tom in his final season made a sweet 16. It was also the first time in a decade that he was able to do that. The program is back to what it was in that era. After B.J. Armstrong and Roy Marble and Ed Harton departed, after that, this was what the program was for a

decade. They're back. We want more. I get it. That is one point. I have been a Fran McCaffrey proponent. It's an exciting style. It's fun to watch. Now, I've also argued that something needed to be done defensively when opportunities were out there to hire a new coach, go out and bring a defensive coordinator like Michigan did on her beeline. That was the time to do it. They didn't. And we see year after year, this deplorable defense, a group that doesn't look like what they have. And this group is even worse. This is a bad of a defensive team as we have seen out of Fran McCaffrey. It is ugly. Let's see more here on basketball.

Paul Klein, I quit watching Iowa basketball when they got rid of Dr. Tom. They shouldn't have. Disagree, Paul. That is a revisionist history. That is something that absolutely positively is people look in the rearview mirror and wish they had what they had. We're back there. We're back to what they had. Dr. Tom, it had come to an end.

Attendance was struggling. Sound familiar? Non-conference scheduling was awful. Sound familiar? People were not filling the stands like they once were, and they had hit a dead period. That's what happened there. They absolutely should have got rid of Dr. Tom.

The way that they did it was awful. That was bad. A lame duck season, a year of recruiting misses, a year that, by the way, you had high school seniors and Kirk Heinrich and Nick Collison. Nick Collison, very well with the right coach,

could have been an Iowa Hawkeye. Didn't happen because he didn't have a coach. And those recruiting misses are also a reason that we saw Dr. Tom eventually lose his job. Back to football. This is from Jerry Gangler. Paul Chris is the perfect fit for Kirk Ferentz.

Chris falls from the Alvarez tree, which has ran similar styles and could come in and actually improve what Iowa has tried to do. Wisconsin freaked and pulled the trigger too soon on him. I think you're correct in that Kirk would tend to be hands off with Chris. That's why I'm very much in favor of Paul Chris getting the offensive coordinator job. What I look at is whoever comes in, if it's a young guy, if it's a guy that has a background that Kirk Ferentz has a relationship

with in the past, he's going to be too hands-on. He's going to have, and you saw that at times, even with Brian. Look, I think everybody, as you get older, you get more conservative, right? Now, conservative has different connotations. I get that. But just in general, you get older, you get a little more curmudgeonly, and Kirk Ferentz has taken to the nth degree. And Kirk was never a guy that was out there, you know, doing wild things as a football coach. That's not who he is. That's not his personality.

And that's not the way that he runs his program. No doubt about it. However, you know, go back to Marshall Cain, runner of that fake field goal, what, seven, eight years back. And just the cheers that came out. We were talking about Kirk 2.0 or maybe it was 3.0, whatever it is. But he became more aggressive. He has changed.

He has been more willing to go for it on fourth down. He has been more aggressive at different times. But over the last couple of seasons, that has completely flipped. I don't know if it's just because he knew how awful this offense was and he was trying to protect the team as much as possible. Look, they got wins. And ultimately, wins, it's a bottom line business and he has delivered as it pertains to wins.

But that is something why a guy like Paul Chris, I believe Kirk Ferentz would be more hands-off because the conservative nature over these last two seasons has grown exponentially for Kirk Ferentz would be more hands-off because the conservative nature over these last two seasons has grown exponentially for Kirk Ferentz. Let's see what else we got here. This is from Username Invalid. All right. Could not agree more with your take regarding Patrick McCaffrey. He's six foot nine and has never averaged over four rebounds per game in his entire Iowa career. Try not to be disrespectful, but man, can't wait until he moves on. Patrick, it's a delicate situation. Mental health break that he had a year ago, it's difficult. It is. But we're

here to give opinions. We're not just going to sit here and say everything's fine and play patty cake with each other. We're going to give you real takes. They're measured. I think we're going to be respectful when we disagree with things. We're going to talk about it, but you're exactly right. It's a difficult conversation. Patrick McCaffrey is a fine offensive player. He can get to the rim. He can knock down buckets from the outside, but he just doesn't add enough. Six foot nine, you want to see more from him, but there's other components, and that's

absolutely something that continues to be out there. More on basketball, and this is what we're trying to fix, right? This basketball team. It's not fun to watch right now because the one saving grace of Fran McCaffrey teams is normally they're at least exciting. Maybe they're going to get blown out, right? But it's going to be an exciting

basketball game. It's not crappy lick lighter ball. It's something good. It's better, in my mind, to lose 95-85 as opposed to 55, 45. I could be alone in that. There's other people that maybe like that style. I don't, it's not fun. It's not entertaining. Is it frustrating losing one way or the other? No doubt. It's not to say that I'm okay losing basketball games in a particular style because that's not the case. And we talk about that a lot with football.

I mean, the dichotomy between football and basketball offensive and defensively, it's, I don't think there's anything like it in all the college sports, but here we are back to the conversation at hand though. Let's see what else we got. Oh, it feels like Bowen is our best option at being that big 10 guard who can get into the lane and either finish,

get to the line or create for others. It's something that I'm still really struggling to wrap my mind around. DeSante Bowen this year has put up great numbers. Off the top of my head, I think 32 assists and eight turnovers on the year. That's right. A four to one turnover assist to turnover ratio. That's incredibly good. All right. I got the numbers here. I'm going to bring it up here for DeSante Bowen. Yeah.

So there it is. Yeah. A four to one. His assist rate is 28.4%. That is 112th in the country. Again, we're talking about 350 some teams. We're talking about 12 to 15 players. That's incredibly good.

His offensive rating, very good this year. Getting to the free throw line. How about this? He's shooting 92.6% from the free throw line and getting there at a high rate. 27 free throw attempts already this season and playing less than half the minutes per game. Three of 10 from three has at least shown an ability

to get there and knock down an open three-pointer. He's your point guard. Tony Perkins is not. Josh Dix is not. And Brock Harding right now at 152 pounds is not either. Not for the grind of the Big Ten. 13 minutes against Michigan for DeSante Bowen. 13 minutes in the game against Purdue.

20, a lot of them in the second half, against Iowa State. 17 against North Florida. 15 against Seton Hall. No. The time is now. The schedule sets up now for Iowa. They got to win these next three games, and they need to do it decisively. Starting on Saturday, here in Des Moines, against Florida A&M.

A Florida A&M team that's ranked 321st right now and Ken Palm. You know, follow that up with UMBC. That's right, Maryland, Baltimore County. There was a Dr. Tom special, felt like they came in every single season near them or Maryland Eastern Shore. And then you wrap up the non-conference with Northern Illinois.

Win these three games, win them decisively and let DeSante Bowen be the point guard. He makes a mistake, don't yank him out of there. Your starting point guard should not be playing 15 minutes a game. No, the time is now. Make him the point guard. I believe that is the only path for this team to put it together and come together for a run.

Another thing for Iowa, not just these three games, but the way the schedule begins in the Big Ten, Iowa has to get off to a good start. Game one's the most difficult as they go to Wisconsin, a place that has not been a great place. Yeah, they've won a couple of games. Bohannon hit the shot, had a win early in the Fran era,

but not a whole lot of victories at the Kohl Center. After that, you come home for Rutgers and Nebraska, followed up with the road trip against Minnesota. You have to win all three of those games. You get Purdue coming in. There's a loss. Then after that, Maryland, Michigan, Indiana. Ohio State at home at Penn State.

Because after that, the closing stretch for Iowa is about as difficult as you're going to find. This is how Iowa wraps up the final six games of the season. Wisconsin. Toss-up game.'re going to find. This is how Iowa wraps up the final six games of the season. Wisconsin. Toss-up game. Probably going to lose because they always lose to Wisconsin, right? At Michigan State. Tougher on paper than it is in reality, at least

the way the Spartans are playing right now. At Illinois, yuck. You get Penn State at home, and then you go to Northwestern. Oh, by the way, a team that beat Purdue on their home floor, and Illinois again. That closing stretch is tough. Any hope at all? Iowa has to get off to a great

start. No more losing to crappy Michigan teams. You can't afford it. It can't happen. I believe the only way this is going to happen is giving the keys to the car to DeSante Bowen and let him play through some mistakes. This is from Ron.

Obviously, you freaking armchair coaches haven't considered they're playing as many as four, five, or six freshmen. Well, it's four, although I'm sure your YMCA experience qualifies you. Well, Ron, you do not have to be a college basketball coach to comment on it. I don't know if you've seen the, I don't know, world over the last 50 years from sports talk radio to podcasts to what is going on.

People give opinions. It's what this is. I can give you the news. I think that would be boring as hell. That's not what we're going to do here on Locked On Hawkeyes. I've been saying that the last three or four years, it's time to move on from Fran. Ray, it's a difficult conversation.

I think he has built up enough equity to believe if he wants to come back next season for another season, that he should have that. But tell you what, this bandwagon that I'm on, there's not a whole lot of people. A lot of people jumping off. A couple more questions here on this mailbag edition of Locked On.

Hawkeyes defense and rebounding wins. The France teams have never done either of those from Tyrone. They could score enough points to win enough games, but without those two phases, it's an early exit. That's what we've seen. This from Charles Gerlach. I hope Fran has been smart with his money over the years

so he can retire and watch his last son play ball wherever he ends up signing. We move on. Fire Fran, that's from Engine Work. Boy, there's a whole lot out of there. This was from the other day. Looks like a Purdue cap. No, it was a non-team affiliated one.

Black and gold clay. Well, I don't even got black and gold on today. Apologies. I'll get some Hawkeye gear on coming up a little bit later here uh and a football question to wrap up y'all need a qb this joey phillips 1181 i'm a bama fan but i was kind of my second favorite team y'all need a good quarterback a good wide receiver in an offensive lineman yeah yes we do joey hopefully kade mcnamara is that guy. A healthy season. A competent offensive coordinator.

Good wide receiver. I think they have one in Kayla Brown, but it's going to take more than that. It's going to take Seth Anderson taking a step forward this year. It's going to take, I believe, an addition as an ex-wide receiver. They need that big wide receiver in the Iowa offense to make it go. An offensive lineman, they need that star. Is it going to be there? They'll have experience next year.

There's no butt kicker, though, on this line. There's nobody that you feel confident, right? There's no Tyler Linderbaum. There's no Tristan Wirfs, Brian Bulaga, Eric Steinbach. I don't see one of those guys on this line. Kaitlyn Clark, a new NIL deal. And what does her future look like? Yesterday, it was the draft lottery in the WNBA.

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She's everywhere. Buick and a whole lot more and added another everywhere. Buick and a whole lot more. And added another one. How about Gatorade? That's right. A new commercial is out spotlighting Kaitlyn Clark. Now, it is going to be interesting to see how this goes because Iowa, as a school that has a contract with Coca-Cola, that means Powerade, same as the NCAA tournament, has

the same. What's that going to mean? Are we going to see Kaitlyn over on the bench when she takes a sip out of a Gatorade bottle? Is that allowed? Is that okay? I don't know. I'm kind of interested to see though,

how this plays out, but just really cool. I mean, we're watching a generational player. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and it's happening in our university. It's happening for the team that we root for. It's absolutely amazing that this is happening.

We're seeing this happen. And the WNBA had their draft lottery. Indiana, the Fever, get the number one pick. The Fever, who a year ago added Aaliyah Boston to the mix. Remember her from South Carolina a year ago before their undefeated run ended at the hands of the Hawkeyes in the final four down in Dallas. She is there.

Indiana's also where her boyfriend resides. That's right. Connor McCaffrey working for the Indiana Pacers. A whole lot of symmetry. A Midwest team relatively close to home. A lot of those Midwest values and maybe Hy-Vee open some stores in Indiana. We will see. Really cool.

Enjoy this ride. Enjoy what this run is going to be. They come to Des Moines this weekend. Take out a Cleveland state team. That is good. It is not like the men's team taking on Florida A&M, but it's Cleveland state, our team from the horizon.

All right. You might roll your eyes. Don't live. The state team is pretty good. Something to keep an eye on there. Caitlin Clark. Gatorade is pretty good. Something to keep an eye on there. Caitlin Clark, Gatorade now for her. Congratulations. Young lady from my backyard

in West Des Moines. Watched her, called a ton of her games in high school. We're lucky to be able to see what she is. We are out of here. Lockdown Hawkeyes,

your team every day. That's what we do on the Lockdown Network. And thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We's what we do on the Lockdown Network. And thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Go Hawks.