Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa Football: A transfer portal loss, John Bohnenkamp joins & Hawkeye Hoops schedule release

Starting point is 00:00:00 Though the transfer portal is closed, there is still movement happening. And today, though Iowa still looks for a backup quarterback, wide receiver very well could be even a more important position for this year's team. Iowa at a big-time target. He chooses Fresno State. Oh boy. Today, Locked on Hawkeyes. Oh boy. Today, Locked On Hawkeyes. You are Locked On Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome in. I'm Trent Condon and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Locked On Hawkeyes your first listen every day.

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Starting point is 00:01:11 So download Monopoly Go now for free on Google Play or the App Store. Game on. Well, the Transfer Portal continues to get a number of prospects that are Iowa targets. We're still awaiting the news of what's going to happen at the quarterback position. Now, there's some goofy theories out there. Is it time to welcome Deacon Hill back to the fold? Do you go that direction and say, you know what? We still need a backup for this season.

Starting point is 00:01:37 Unlikely, certainly at this point in time. And certainly the story I relayed earlier in the week, you everydayers remember that one. We'll see about the validity behind it. But if that is true, yikes, not going to happen. How about Spencer Petras? He looks to be the starter out at Utah State. Hey, Spencer, you want to come back to Iowa City for your final season and a minimum be the backup?

Starting point is 00:01:56 Again, both of those quarterbacks, there's just so much negativity there. And there's a lot going on, obviously, at the quarterback position. We brought up maybe a potential name down the line in Huard from formerly Washington and Cal Poly. Could that be a fit? Former five-star quarterback. Didn't work real well at Washington. Had a decent season at Cal Poly.

Starting point is 00:02:16 Again, we're talking about looking for a backup quarterback and somebody, if an injury strikes once again, to Cade McNamara going that direction. But another position that they definitely need is the wide receiver position. We know Iowa has been depleted. You look back over the last, what, nine scholarship wide receivers, just one of them completed their eligibility, and that was Nico Raggini. So when you go through and you look at that list and look at the number of guys

Starting point is 00:02:41 that left early, guys that moved on and had successes other places. Charlie Jones being certainly at the forefront of that conversation. We see Jacob Bostic here after what looked to be finally a healthy spring. He goes into the portal. It's a very depleted position. It is working on a couple of guys that we haven't seen a ton of. Caleb Brown, I think, certainly has the most upside and the most excitement. We saw at least bits and pieces of that a year ago. And that's Seth Anderson, who, after bursting onto the scene, getting behind the defender and nearly falling over in the end, so scoring the first touchdown of the season for Iowa way back in early September a year ago. Really wasn't seeing much after that outside of running out there,

Starting point is 00:03:23 running routes and getting the steps in for the day. That's all we saw for the most part out of Seth Anderson. Well, he was banged up this spring. And what else is there? Not a whole lot. You're talking about young guys. One of them, Alex Moda. He was out for spring.

Starting point is 00:03:35 What looked to be a pretty substantial injury for him. Dayton Howard, guy from Kansas City that wasn't recruited by Missouri or Kansas or Kansas State. Big receiver at minimum. Jarrett Bowie, maybe of those young prospects, the most intriguing guy from Florida that has some speed. He was on the travel team a year ago, but it's just not a deep position group. You look across college football, and many times you're going to see 11, 12, sometimes 13 scholarship wide receivers. And I was at about half of that. Incredibly scary going into the year. So they're looking in the portal, trying to find a wide receiver, and one was at about half of that. Incredibly scary going into the

Starting point is 00:04:05 year. So they're looking in the portal, trying to find a wide receiver. And one of them was Jalen Sharp, a guy that started his career at Houston. He continued on, went to the Missouri Valley Football Conference. He was at Missouri State this past season, put together a really nice year, big numbers, elite level speed. And he visited home, went back to Texas, visited North Texas. All right, he can understand that. And then after his visit to Iowa City, he had one more visit scheduled, and that was to Fresno State. And today, we found out he's going to be a Bulldog.

Starting point is 00:04:38 It's a tough sell. I completely understand the difficult nature that this is going to be for this Iowa staff to try to sell to offensive playmakers, to wide receivers, to even quarterbacks, that yes, this is going to be different. It's going to be the job of Tim Lester to be able to relay and bring to these prospects what they're going to be and why this is going to be different than what we've done over the last couple of years. And yes, we can have great memories of some great Iowa teams of the past offensively. When we think of the 2002 team, obviously the kind of benchmark and the tallest of all the offenses that we saw in the Kirk Ferris era. But there's been other ones as well, 2009, 2010, statistically very strong seasons. In those ones, 2009 was mired by a bunch of interceptions by Ricky Stanzi. And then a bunch of times he was able to bail them out and make plays late in the game. And Iowa was able to get up victories in that one.

Starting point is 00:05:30 So we've seen it. We've seen at least competent offenses. Look, let's not make this out to be what it isn't. We're not suddenly going to be talking about an offense that's in the top 30 nationally in yards per game, yards per play. That's not the way they're built. It's not the way they're going to play. And it's just not likely with the team that they are right now.

Starting point is 00:05:47 And with an offensive line that still has major question marks in its own right. However, there is hope. That's what you're looking for is some hope. Can this team put it together and give you hope that they're going to be able to find a way to move the football consistently throughout the course of the season? Because it got so ugly last year and over the last two seasons, just how bad it was. Improved play at the quarterback position will help. Improved play in the offensive line will help.

Starting point is 00:06:13 And running back, how about the portals closed and nobody in that running back room enter the transfer portal? You know what you have in LaShawn Williams? Just a steady, solid Big Ten running back. That's what he is. Had the big play against Wisconsin. He had a couple others throughout the course of the year. He is a guy that is just dependable, right? A solid, solid player, and you have him. Caleb Johnson, the combination of speed and power that he has, can he bounce back after a disappointing sophomore year? And then the two young guys that we saw a year ago.

Starting point is 00:06:46 I mean, you got Jazzy on Patterson, who was the number three last year. He was also banged up. He looked like maybe he was passed up by Kamari Bolton. You throw into the mix, TJ, the kid from Texas, whose name escapes me. Terrible work out of me. Terrell Washington, there it goes, popped into the head. Terrell Washington, who's now over a wide receiver and doing some work over there. You got two more incoming freshmen coming in this year. Williams from Indiana and Brevin Dahl from Central Iowa

Starting point is 00:07:13 here at ADM Adele. You put all those guys together, it's an incredibly deep position and nobody left, which is crazy. Just absolutely wild that a plate in that fashion. Wide receiver still remains a need position. One of the more confounding things is we're trying to figure out who's this quarterback going to be that's going to come in. What are they doing at this point in time? Same thing with wide receiver. I don't want to say eggs all in one basket because there's a lot more going on behind the scenes that we know. Even the recruiting websites know there's a lot more that's usually out there that we don't know about. But this one stungung uh felt like an ability to add another speed guy to this offense and what

Starting point is 00:07:50 they're doing and all the shifting and the changes that we're going to see schematically out of this team this year you're hopeful to add another weapon out of wide receiver ranks i'm going to guess they're going to still be shopping shopping in the portal and see if they can set up some visits and get some more guys in here there's are players out there, and that's one thing that we do. No, maybe not as deep as it was in the past, maybe not as deep as it was a year ago when Iowa hit the transfer portal incredibly hard, but that's where we are. John Bowenkamp covers the Iowa Hawkeyes for the Associated Press and hawkeyenation.com. Had an opportunity to talk with John, got that coming up for you. Plus, the Big Ten released its plays for the college basketball hoop season.

Starting point is 00:08:28 That's right. Who Iowa will play in their double plays, the single games, home and away. We don't know the order of the schedule yet, but we at least have a little bit of an idea of the way that's going to look. We're going to talk about that, plus what's happening in the portal for Fran's squad as Fran McCaffrey still continues to search for a big man in the latest. Matt Cross, who was last at UMass in Iowa, was involved with him, along with Wisconsin, SMU, TCU, a couple of the other programs

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Starting point is 00:09:49 when you look at the portal and the quarterbacks that are there at this point in time. Bowenkamp, how concerned should Hawkeye fans be at this point that we don't have anything, the portal is closed, and it just doesn't feel like there's a whole lot of smoke out there right now? No, but I think what you just need there is depth at that position. I mean, you're not going to – I mean, I think they've kind of made up their minds on who they're going to run with at No. 2. And so I just – in my mind, just get some depth.

Starting point is 00:10:18 And if you can get an experienced player, you know, if you can get an experienced quarterback, they're great because then that does really kind of solidify your number two and number three. But just get somebody in there because I just don't think you want to go into the season with three quarterbacks

Starting point is 00:10:36 and one that is a true freshman. I don't think you want to do that. I think you just got to go find somebody at this point. Gavin Wisment was a guy that was over here at Iowa, played at Kinnick early November, and he didn't play very well when he was over here, but

Starting point is 00:10:51 he just got beat up by another Big Ten quarterback Iowa saw in Kallik Manis from Minnesota. He won the Rutgers job, so Wisniewicz entering the transfer portal here today. At least that's another name. I mean, threw for 1,700 yards, nine TDs, eight interceptions, not the best of numbers by any means.

Starting point is 00:11:08 Better than Deacon Hill. Better than Deacon Hill, and at least he's played and started every game for Rutgers last year. You want some competence in that spot. Sure. You just want somebody that if something happens to Cade McNamara and given his, and we talked about this before, given his injury history,

Starting point is 00:11:24 you know, something very easily could happen. Just have somebody come in and run the game and make plays and not turn the ball over. And if you can find that in what you have now, or if you go get somebody, you're much better off than you were, especially late last year. The other side of the coin is all those running backs are sticking around. I'm surprised.

Starting point is 00:11:45 Yeah. Running back, I mean, this one, I think all four of those guys are at minimum competent. I think all four of those guys we saw a season ago have a chance to be really good. And they're all sticking around. I mean, what does that say about maybe the room as a whole? Just kind of that team building aspect of it. Maybe the room as a whole, just kind of that team-building aspect of it. Because they know there's going to be 35 carries a game,

Starting point is 00:12:12 and you're not going to divvy them up equally to get all those guys to stick around. I think that might be the most surprising component of the portal season for Iowa at this point. That was one of those positions I figured somebody would. Because like you said, it's a it's a big room now and um you know and and so but i i guess they all figure like they have a chance at the starting job and you know in in kind of the way they use running backs i mean they always like to have you know two and then that third down back and so i mean there's opportunities i think they they feel there and i think that's why they're staying and again again, running backs, they're all over the place.

Starting point is 00:12:49 I don't want to say dime a dozen because that kind of cheapens them, but everybody can get one. And so they're kind of hard to get into the portal because you may not find somewhere. So I think they probably realize, hey, stay and let's bet on ourselves and try to create an opportunity here. Yeah, we shall certainly see. Is there another position of Nefels?

Starting point is 00:13:08 We thought the wide receiver, you know, they could certainly use a boost there. And there's been – I haven't seen any news unless something's got by me. What about you, John? Is that a potential – is that a potential add if they can find – Well, yeah, I mean, they brought in the kid from Missouri State, you know, a couple weeks ago. And, I mean, I think that's one of those things it's like i don't want to say that they probably like what they have but if they can get a veteran even better and so i think they're going to look for some experienced guys and some guys are interested you bring them in and and check them

Starting point is 00:13:39 out and it doesn't hurt anything to do that so i do think that's place that if you can get older and more you know get more experienced i think you want to do that. So I do think that's a place that if you can get older and get more experienced, I think you want to do that. Tim Lester installed the offense throughout the spring. It is going to look different than certainly, I think, what we saw the last couple of years. It all comes down to me, offensive line. I think there's going to be somebody competent there. They're going to help out the quarterbacks, all those things.

Starting point is 00:14:01 But can the offensive line, a guys that have been along for a long time and just frankly haven't been very good, can there be another step? Can there be a big step forward out of this offensive line this season? But I think you want to see improvement. I don't think you want to go into this season and have another one of these where,

Starting point is 00:14:21 well, let's hope they get better over time because they've been playing together for a long time now. So they've got to come in ready to go, and they've got to come in and be able to produce from game one, not game five. And the last couple of years, and I know there's been some injuries there, and they've kind of moved some guys around, but you know what you've got now. And you know where everybody fits, and the key is you really know where everybody fits at the end of August. Now they're

Starting point is 00:14:47 going to have to execute, and just execute at a high level. It doesn't have to be a big step, but you have to show improvement, and you have to show improvement right away. I want to go to the draft with you, a guy we haven't talked a ton about. We've talked about the marquee names, and I'd love to talk about Cooper Dejean, where he ended up.

Starting point is 00:15:04 I think that the Eagles are going to be a major pain in the you-know-what. They needed two guys in the secondary, and they got both of them. Of all the Hawkeyes that we have kind of glossed over, one that we haven't spent a lot of time on is because he's been injured, and we really never, unfortunately,

Starting point is 00:15:20 got to know Eric All, the player, because, again, injuries took him off the field. He goes to a place, Cincinnati can know Eric All, the player, because, again, injuries took him off the field. He goes to a place, Cincinnati can, I mean, another weapon for Joe Burrow. I like where Eric All tied in briefly from the University of Iowa ended up. How about that one? Yeah, I mean, I thought that was a good place for him, and I thought it was a good pick for them. You know, and I mean, the guy obviously

Starting point is 00:15:45 has the resume. And yeah, you're right. We hardly saw him. But what we saw of him last year, I really liked him. I liked what he was able to do. And I think now he's healthy, and I think he probably showed them something that made them think, okay, we can use him, maybe not right away,

Starting point is 00:16:01 but we can kind of develop him. The toolbox is there, I guess, is probably the best way to say it. And now let's try to get him to figure out. But, no, I mean, I wasn't really surprised he was in that spot because I do think he had a lot of respect just from his entire career and what he was able to do. And knowing that he had been in this system, and, yeah, even though he'd been hurt, he still got a lot of that training in a school that has done very well in producing tight ends.

Starting point is 00:16:29 And another one on the horizon in Luke Lachey and a potential second-day pick, I think, at minimum, as long as he is healthy and maybe even a little bit higher than that. Who's the tight end that just left? Puskuzi? Yeah. Estrenga's ahead of him. Obviously, Lachey's ahead of them. And we saw Ortworth right a year ago in a true freshman campaign.

Starting point is 00:16:50 And I continue to hear good things about the Hoffman kid coming in from the Kansas City area. An uber athlete. And the kind of athlete that Iowa doesn't always get at the tight end position. Really? Yeah. A kid like that will probably work out pretty well. With that, a quick baseball question for you. Not the Dodgers.

Starting point is 00:17:07 Ken maybe will ask you about them a little bit later on. But I saw a report from Hawkeye Reports' Kyle Huseman earlier this morning. Sam Peterson, Kyle Huxdorf, two of their top hitters, doubtful for the rest of the season with injuries. This is a preseason top 20 team. Unless they win the Big Ten tournament, they are not going to the NCAA tournament. Could this go down as one of the most disappointing Iowa seasons across the board, all athletics ever,

Starting point is 00:17:32 and not even making the NCAA tournament? Heck, if it goes bad here this weekend against Northwestern and Illinois in their final two series, they might not make the Big Ten tournament for a preseason top 20 team. Yeah, these two injuries really hurt them. It takes away some offense from them and defense too. And, yeah, I mean, they came in with such high hopes,

Starting point is 00:17:53 and you looked at that rotation, and you thought it was a really good rotation. And they struggled right away out of the bullpen. And, you know, the guys that are starting, I mean, Brody Brecht has his good and bad moments. You know, and so, I mean, there was a lot of hope that this was going to be a team that could be at the top of the Big Ten, and you're right. They've got to be really careful here in the next couple weeks because you don't want to get in that situation where you don't make the Big Ten tournament. I mean, if you go there, you have a chance.

Starting point is 00:18:23 Everybody has a chance when you get there. But you don't make the Big Ten tournament. I mean, if you go there, you have a chance. Everybody has a chance when you get there. But you don't want to miss it. And because, I mean, then it becomes a really disappointing season for them. But, I mean, they've got some time to work some things out. And I do think maybe they've got some bats on the bench that they don't know a lot about. But, yeah, I mean, when you think about what everybody was saying about them in February and where they're at now, and, yeah, they've had some injuries. But, yeah, it's been when you think about what everybody was thinking about them in February and where they're at now,

Starting point is 00:18:46 and, yeah, they've had some injuries. But, yeah, it's been a little disappointing in my mind, especially when they were talking about, OK, they were going to renovate the field and all that other stuff. And now that's been scaled back. And, I mean, it's really been a tough couple of months for that program, I think. Very disappointing, no doubt about it. All right. On the men's basketball front, are you hearing anything?

Starting point is 00:19:09 I know they had the kid that also took a visit to Wisconsin last week. Then Wisconsin picked up a couple of forwards. Matt Cross is his name. Is it kind of it on that front of who they're still looking at in the portal? I would think that that probably is. But, again, there's going to be a lot of guys that, you know, now I don't want to say you go say you go bargain shopping but now you know everybody's going to try to want to find a home here and so you might be able to pick up a front court guy which i think you need and and i i think you need to add depth there and i know they've got some really good young players but i think you want to get some versatile player and i think there's a lot of those guys like that in the portal and so

Starting point is 00:19:44 you want to see you know what you want to see what pe like that in the portal. And so you want to see what Peyton Sanford's going to do. You want to see all that other stuff. But, yeah, I think Cross is the first point. And then you kind of go from there and see who's available and see who you might be able to get. Because I do think you still need some depth, especially in the frontcourt. Since we're on basketball, is it John Steppe? Is that how you pronounce his last

Starting point is 00:20:05 name? Steppe from the Gazette? Did you see the piece yesterday? I guess he's done some behind-the-scenes stuff. Tried to get some ticket information from the University of when it comes to basketball. And the average, I hope I've got this right, the

Starting point is 00:20:21 average number of tickets scanned per men's basketball game was just over 5,700. That's alarming. Yeah, it is. And I mean, again, I know he took a lot of heat last night on social media about the numbers. But he was only reporting the numbers. You know, and, you know, and, you know, Gabe, I mean, those were those are the numbers he was given.

Starting point is 00:20:46 So but I mean, I do think that is a little bit alarming. But, you know, I mean, I that was average from beginning to end. And some of those games there in November, December, I didn't want anybody. Yeah. And so, I mean, I think the home schedule probably is going to be a little bit better this year. I don't know. But yeah, it does. But I mean, I think the home schedule probably is going to be a little bit better this year. I don't know. But, yeah, it does.

Starting point is 00:21:06 But, I mean, it's an overall thing. And I don't know how you address it. Because, you know, you can sit there and point to, well, they played a week non-conference schedule. Or Iowa State played a week non-conference schedule. Dude, the place is always back. You know, so is it a marketing issue? Is it, you know, who knows what it is? And it's up to the fan base to come back,

Starting point is 00:21:29 and I don't know what it's going to take to do that right now. I really don't, unless it's just a team that's really, really good that's going to draw everybody back. Because you kind of saw that in Big Ten play. You started seeing some big crowds. Some sellouts, yep. Yeah, and you started seeing, and granted, some of it was who they were playing,

Starting point is 00:21:44 but you still started seeing some people show up. So, you know, I can started seeing it. And granted, some of it was who they were playing, but you still started seeing some people show up. So I can't explain it. I really can't. And I have friends who all have tickets, and they all have different explanations on why they don't go. And so it may be a variety of factors. I don't know. And the reason that I'm kind of – I'm not throwing cold water on it,

Starting point is 00:22:03 because also in the same report was that the women averaged 10,000, under 11,000. And John, you were at every single one of them, I'm assuming, or certainly 80% of them. There weren't 4,000 empty seats on any given night. Were there? There were a couple of nights. Okay, no, not that many. But there were a couple of nights, especially during the holidays with the student section, when there wasn't a lot of people there.

Starting point is 00:22:28 And that's what they're counting in there, too. But at the same time, from just the rest of it, I didn't see a whole lot of empty seats. And they did kind of explain that there's some things like if there's a group there, they don't necessarily, you know, it was kind of an explanation on how some tickets get just slipped through. Okay. So, yeah, that number kind of surprised me. But then, like I said, there were a lot of nights. And they always talk about students and men's basketball. You had the best women's basketball, one of the best women's basketball teams in the

Starting point is 00:22:58 country. There were a lot of nights the students didn't show up for those either. It's unbelievable to me. It really is. I wish I could have read the piece. I must have read my three free articles. Because I got blocked anyways. Good stuff. John Bowen Camp. We'll do

Starting point is 00:23:12 the Dodgers next time. I mean, next time we talk, they'll still be where they are right now, right? They'll be in first place. John Bowen Camp. John, thanks for coming on. Appreciate it. We'll talk to you in a couple of weeks. No problem. See you later. John Bowen Camp Cap Associated Press, HawkeyeNation.com.

Starting point is 00:23:30 Good stuff there from John Bowen. Can't always appreciate his time joining us here on the program. As we continue, lockdown Hawkeyes. Speaking of that basketball team, the latest on Matt Cross, what is happening with him as he makes his visits in Iowa, trying

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Starting point is 00:25:20 As we wrap things up here today, a little look forward matt cross the transfer prospect that i was looking at well traveled matt cross and maybe that's something that does bear mentioning i don't think we brought it up uh not only is he going to be going to his fourth university um was kicked off of miami's team when he was there lou Louisville, had a coaching change. All right, that was odd. Then went home, played at UMass, and now is going to be looking to complete his career at his fourth institution. But not only that, also four high school teams.

Starting point is 00:25:56 Hmm, that's something to ponder. Fit, beggars can't be choosers. But again, as we kind of talked about with Sharp at the wide receiver position with the football team, all your eggs in one basket, we will see. Look, Ben Kricke was a talented offensive player, but he was terrible defensively. He was not a good rebounder, and it was impactful a year ago.

Starting point is 00:26:18 Cross looks to be a better player, a better prospect, but fit matters at the University of Iowa, and fit matters with Fran McCaffrey's program. And you can argue with it and tell you're blue in the face, but it is reality that Fran McCaffrey being part of the team, that is something that is incredibly important to him and the way that he builds his program. We'll see on that front. If it doesn't happen with Matt Cross, what else is out there? One final note, the schedule has been released for the Big Ten coming up in men's basketball for 2024-25. The opponents that each team is going to be playing, that is 20 conference

Starting point is 00:26:51 games that will be played in the Big Ten again this season, even with the addition of USC and UCLA and Oregon and Washington. 18 teams, only 20 games. I would like to see that number at 22. I know it would be a difficult schedule that you're going through to make it there. And also remember, not every team is going to make the Big Ten tournament change from years past, even with the 14-team structure where everybody made it, not going to be the case going forward. So now you only play home and away against three opponents on a yearly basis. And I don't know if they're going to work overall and do this yearly where your three double plays, if you will, are going to be against teams that are regional, but that's

Starting point is 00:27:36 certainly the case for Iowa. Their home and homes this year are against Nebraska, makes sense. Northwestern, short drive. And Wisconsin, another short drive. They make a whole lot of sense. You definitely understand that. So those will be the three teams, just three teams, that I will play two games against in the Big Ten this season. Coming to Carver Hawkeye Arena this year, the Indiana Hoosiers. They have rebuilt and bolstered their roster.

Starting point is 00:28:06 No love lost between Mike Woodson and Frey McCaffrey, and they're coming to Carver, as are the Gophers. Michigan State, Sparty. Yeah, that's right. We won't have to go out there. I know it's gone well, and Iowa's had Michigan State's number throughout the course of the last couple of years. Oregon, the Ducks are coming to Carver this season. Penn State, Purdue, and the Washington Huskies. That means road trips for Iowa this year. They'll be going to Illinois again. They'll be going to Maryland again. Michigan, Ohio State, long trip to Rutgers, and the two newbies they'll be traveling to this year. It'll be an LA road trip ucla and usc on the schedule does that mean we're going to go back to the old style that the big 10 schedule used to be back in the 70s and 80s where you had

Starting point is 00:28:52 kind of a travel partner and he went out and played two teams i would go out and play on thursday night michigan and then on saturday michigan state or vice versa or you go out you play indiana and purdue on a road trip that's something that they did for a number of years that has gone away and has dissipated. But with the additions of the four schools from the old Pac-12, is that something that comes back? Can you go out Wednesday, Thursday, whatever it is, play a game against USC, and then a couple days later against UCLA?

Starting point is 00:29:18 It would make a whole lot of sense. And when we hear all the concerns about the travel schedule, you can definitely understand if that is going to be the case. With that, we are out of here. Coming up, we've got some recruiting talk coming your way. Our man is going to be with us, the lockdown recruiting guru, breaking things down. What I was looking at on the football scene for the class of 2025,

Starting point is 00:29:39 that's coming your way on tomorrow's program. A lot of football, a lot of portal talk. Get you ready, get you ramped up. And as we make our way through the baseball, softball season, we get to really the big off season. Throwback Thursdays are going to be coming back. Looking forward to that as we go back and relive some great moments in Hawkeye history.

Starting point is 00:29:57 That's coming your way on Thursdays. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Go Hawks.

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