Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa football lands Florida DB Rashad Godfrey, Throwback Thursday to 86-87 Hawkeye Hoops, Caitlin Clark at JDC

Episode Date: July 6, 2023

Trent Condon returns for the latest Locked on Hawkeyes Podcast.Iowa football lands Florida DB Rashad Godfrey. A breakdown of what kind of prospect he is and where he fits in Phil Parker's scheme and if it is at cornerback or safety. Plus, who else Iowa is recruiting in the defensive backfield.Then it's a Throwback Thursday to the 1986-87 Hawkeye Hoops team that went to the Elite 8 and was ranked #1 in the country. What could have been and a run through one of the most talented Iowa basketball teams of all time.And finally Caitlin Clark played in the pro am for the John Deere Classic.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!FanDuelMake Every Moment More. Don’t miss the chance to get your No Sweat First Bet up to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in Bonus Bets when you go FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON.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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Hawkeye recruiting train continues. Another commitment here today as Iowa picks up a commitment from defensive back Rashad Godfrey. Kaitlyn Clark, she's at the John Deere Classic with the Pro-Am, and we throw it back, way back, 1986-87 on a throwback Thursday. We look back at my favorite Iowa basketball team all today. Locked on. 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 Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We're available wherever you get podcasts. You can also find us on YouTube. While you're there, hit that subscribe button. It helps us get in front of more Hawkeye fans. Well, we got football today. We got basketball.

We got golf, maybe a little bit, and we're going to throw it back to 1986-87. You youngsters come hang out with Uncle TC. I'm going to fill you in on my favorite Iowa basketball team and what really solidified me as not just a Hawkeye fan, but a sports fan. That season, an absolutely incredible one. Iowa ascending to number one in the country and falling just short of the final four. But we kick things off with some news of the current day, and that is another commitment for Iowa football. Today, they land a commitment from Rashad Godfrey,

a defensive back prospect from down in Florida. You start, and you look at him, the size, 6'1", 6'2", 185 pounds. He is ready made. The question becomes, is he a safety? Is he a cornerback at the Big Ten level? What is he going to be when he makes his way to campus? But another guy that they had really looked at didn't have the biggest offer list. This is not one of the top-rated guys that Iowa is after, but again, it fits the scheme. And more than anything, you just have to trust the evaluation of Phil Parker. What he has done in finding defensive backs under the radar, guys,

continually, not just as his time as the defensive coordinator for the past decade plus, but also what he's done in the last 25 years as a defensive back coach. And he finds these guys and his ability to turn them and mold them into all Big Ten players, guys that get a chance at the next level. It is absolutely incredible. Looking at some of the highlights from Rashad Godfrey, a couple of things jump off. His ability to high point the ball. Very good ball skills for him in space. His ability to punch balls away, get up in the air, go up and make plays defensively,

I thought really jumped out watching through with him. And the size, it really does show up when you watch him. He has gone up against a bunch of very good wide receivers, guys that have gone on to play at Miami and Georgia and Florida State. And he has held his own as a varsity player down there in Florida. And it's also the Florida Pipeline. The Pipeline continues down to Florida in Armwood High School.

Another great conversation there. And what Abdul Hodge has been able to do down there. Liddell Betts after coaching down at the high school level. Of course, Abdul Hodge, he grew up in the state of Florida. We know about his story making his way up to the University of Iowa and what kind of player he was and now what kind of coach he has become.

Those two guys recruiting at an incredibly high level down in Florida. Look, there's going to be very difficult for Iowa to go down there and beat some of the SEC programs, to beat a Clemson, a Florida State for prospects. Though, we're going to talk about a guy maybe they do have a shot with coming up here. And it also continues what we saw in that big recruiting weekend now a couple of weeks back

where Iowa brought a bunch of guys on campus, many of the guys that were already committed, along with a lot of uncommitted guys. And to this point, everyone that has come on that visit has made an official commitment. They have been with the Hawkeyes what a recruiting weekend that was congratulations to the staff and nabbing another one big one there now Iowa is not done in fact in this class they're probably looking at three or four defensive backs that they're going to be going after and this is just the first so this is kind of the area of this recruiting class that they're still looking to shore up.

Look, they've had the quarterback commitment, James Rezar, for over a year now. That is something that they tied up very quickly. We've seen what they did with the offensive line and hitting the state of Illinois incredibly hard and building that offensive line class with four players in there. They've had defensive line and the molded prospects that we've talked about here the last couple of days and what they have done up front. But this has been the spot that they've been looking for. So this is number one, getting Godfrey on board. They're also looking at a couple other prospects. A couple other guys that were on campus for that recruiting weekend a couple of weeks ago. One, Jalen Watson. And Jalen Watson certainly appears to be a guy that is trending

to the University of Iowa. He's got the connections with his uncle, Fred Russell. That one seems to be, I mean, as close to a sure thing as you're going to find. And he's going to be making his commitment here pretty quick. Cincinnati, Minnesota, Louisville, West Virginia, some of the other schools that are involved with him. Now, the more difficult, maybe the most difficult of any of the guys that made their way onto campus is going to be Xavier Lucas, another guy from down in Florida. And he's got big SEC offer from Auburn. Florida State continues to check in on him. I know Wisconsin continues to be incredibly high on his list.

Rutgers is also involved. He had a Michigan offer at one time. Illinois also tried to get involved with him. Xavier Lucas out of this group would be certainly the most highly regarded of the defensive back guys that they are after at this point in time. Guys that they maybe have the most realistic shot with and maybe still work to be done. But what Iowa can sell and what they do year in and year out at the defensive back position and all these guys getting an opportunity and finding guys that are either unheralded now you think back to what they've been able to do we can go way back to bob sanders and obviously what he became but just year after year the development at this position it's absolutely incredible and and guys that you see early in their career and i think of a guy

like bradley fletcher you saw bradley fletcher early in his career he struggled i mean he was frankly bad at the beginning portion of his career and by by the end of it, he was an all big 10 player. He bounced around in the league for a few years, got a couple of nice paychecks, did a really good job. But a guy like that, that is what Phil Parker does with these defensive backs. And it doesn't matter if it's a safety or a cornerback and Gottfried has that versatility. We'll see what they're going to build them into. But step number one is there. Next on the list, Jalen Watson, Xavier Lucas. That's what they're going to continue to be looking at

at the defensive back position. This class is coming together. They're getting towards the end defensive back. They will continue to mine. You also wonder what kind of flexibility Iowa's going to be looking at with the transfer portal. With the portal going already looking forward to next season, how many scholarships does Iowa want to fill

after how fruitful it was for Iowa this past season and what they were able to do in the portal, starting with Cade McNamara obviously coming in from Michigan, but also the holes that they were able to plug and getting Caleb Brown out of Ohio State, going out and getting a couple of offensive linemen in Feth and Parker. What they did at the middle linebacker spot after having to take over for Jack Campbell and you get Nick Jackson, an all ECC player that makes his way to Iowa City.

Does that mean that Iowa wants to slow it down a little bit here? Yeah, try to fill out this class, but not completely understanding that the transfer portal has worked with the Swarm Collective. That has gone incredibly well. With those kind of things happening, you wonder if Iowa's going to hold back a little bit more and certainly hold back on some of their scholarships. Speaking of that, and we're going to dive into this a little bit deeper later in the

week, but one concern that continues to be out there with this Iowa program and maybe what they are and what they can be is the question of what is Iowa football? And Iowa football built on obviously doing the work, right? Going in there every single day, getting the grind in and what it's going to become and what it's going to be to be an Iowa Hawkeye football player. it's going to be to be an Iowa Hawkeye football player. What we are used to. And it's a part that you're left kind of wondering what this program, what they are, what they're going to be. Apologies there. We got a little screwy on the video feed.

I'll be back with you. All right. Iowa football, though, built on, put in the work. You do it our way. You're going to be successful. And now you're kind of left wondering if that's going to be a change, if that's something that we're going to see

that's going to be different with this influx of talent. Something that I want to tack a little bit more here in the coming days and coming weeks and every dayers. We got you covered with a whole lot more Hawkeye football coverage. Continuing the conversation today. it's Thursday. It's a throwback Thursday. This is our summer series as we're looking back at some of my favorite Iowa football teams during my lifetime, during my 43 years, and we're going to go way back. Some of my earliest memories for Iowa

basketball. You see over my shoulder there, I got B.J. Armstrong and Roy Marble and Ed Horton, You see over my shoulder there, I got B.J. Armstrong and Roy Marvel and Ed Horton, that trio that were sophomores in 1986, 1987. It was a great year for Iowa basketball. It was year number one of Dr. Tom. Hey, if you're young, we're going to have some fun going back. If you're an old guy like me, we're going to go back and reminisce about some of the high points of Iowa basketball. Certainly, and I guess I can't even consider it recent history anymore. We're talking about going back 35 years ago, but we're going to have some fun with that

here on a throwback Thursday. Kaitlin Clark also, she showed up over in the Quad Cities on the wrong side of the river. She was at the John Deere Classic, hitting it around with Zach Johnson. We'll talk about that here today. A little basketball talk as we roll through and a look back at 1986, 1987,

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your first listen every day. So we throw it back here on a Thursday, and we go back to 1986-87. I'm a youngster. I'm in, let's see, I would have been in first grade. For some of the younger listeners and viewers out there, this is a period which, for me, solidified my fandom. Because during the week, look, I had three channels.

Up in North Iowa, it was 3, 6, and 10. That's what we got. Channel 3, KMT out of Mason City. Our ABC affiliate was out of Minnesota, Austin, and KAL. And KTTC, I think that's what it was in Rochester. That was the NBC affiliate. Well, there were no sports on during the week, during the winter. All we had was Iowa basketball.

And the Iowa basketball network was a monster. Lute Olson was the one that started it. And it started with KWWL out of Waterloo. It became a behemoth. They were getting sometimes a 75, 80 share. If you know anything about TV or ratings, that is ridiculous. Meaning 75 to 80% of the people in the state of Iowa that were watching television at the time were watching Iowa basketball. It's unheard of.

Super Bowls. Don't get numbers like that. That's what Iowa basketball was, and that's what it had to build into, and it continues to this point. But going into 86-87, Iowa needed a new coach. You know, this is something that I've searched for, and I've asked some questions before some people that have been on the beat for a long time and remember this era certainly more vividly than I do. They get Dr. Tom to come in from Stanford. Dr. Tom wasn't very good at Stanford. Had some good teams at Boston College, had a team that made it to the Elite Eight and almost made a Final Four when he was at BC. There's also some other things that were happening with Dr. Tom there that were out of his hands and

some NCAA violations that were happening at that time. But this is not a guy that was highly successful at Stanford. And my question is, if anybody out there could help me out, hit me up in the comments section on YouTube or hit me up on Twitter at Trent Condon. Who else was Iowa after? He was an upper Midwest guy, Dr. Tom from Wisconsin. He said, in fact, in his initial press conference that he actually grew up more of an Indiana basketball fan than anything else. Yuck. But he talked a little bit about that.

Who else was in consideration for the job? So George Raveling leaves for USC. And George Raveling was a single African-American that didn't feel comfortable all the time in Iowa City. And plenty of stories about that. There were certainly some racial overtones, and there were newspaper articles at the time talking just about that, about being an African-American coach in there. The president of the Des Moines NAACP said,

a combination of racial overtone and intense pressure drove Raveling from the state. Carter said that Raveling would not have left such a flourishing program had he not felt comfortable in Iowa. C. Vivian Stringer, also an African-American, was not happy about losing him and the pressure that got to him. Single guy, the fishbowl environment, something that also many people believe led Lou Dolson to leave the University of Iowa. And it's an immense pressure that we're talking about. That was a part of it.

Everybody in the state was watching Iowa basketball. Everybody in the state cared about Iowa basketball. It was as big as you're going to find. Hawkeye football and basketball, it was just completely different level. And the basketball program, I think to another degree, because it's all that we had during the week. That was our sports viewing for the whole week. And you waited for Thursday night, and that's landing had come on afterwards,

and that's what you watched, because that was what was most important, at least for me, back in those days. And I was not alone. We would come off the weekend, we'd talk about the game, and then we'd see who I was going to be playing on that Thursday. And it was such an incredible time for Hawkeye sports. But the season begins. Dr. Tom gets the job, and they hit the ground running. They start the season in the Great Alaskan Shootout, something that was a

monster tournament back then. Iowa opens up, in fact, just a 10-point victory against the host school, Alaska Anchorage. Then in the second game, they take on NC State. The NC State team that had beat them a year before. This is an NC State team that had four NBA players on there. Vinny Del Negro was on that team. He didn't play very much that season. He was a guy that came around a little bit later,

but he had Chucky Brown, he had Shackelford. I mean, this was a really good NC State team. And during the 80s, NC State, they were a thorn in our side from football to basketball. In fact, speaking of those guys behind me, Ed Roy and BJ, their final game came at a loss against NC State in the round of 32 a couple of years later. But they're down in the game. They come roaring back. And this is something that happened a ton with this team. You take what George Ravling had built and bringing in these players, a couple of them from Michigan, all across the country, great athletes, guys that just played at a different level than what Iowa basketball had been used to.

And he brings these guys in, maybe with a little help of Ed Barton. Google it if you don't know that name. And he had an absolute stacked roster. We take the recruiting acumen of George Ravling, coupled with what Dr. Tom wanted to do in his style, the pressing style, the full-court press, the up-and-down nature that he wanted to play at, the big pace, and then the ability to pound the boards

as Iowa led the country in rebound and margin that season, over 12 boards a game more than their opponent throughout the course of that season. It was a perfect storm, and it was a great team. Iowa races out that season to an 18-0 record. They get the comeback win against NC State in the second round of the Great Alaskan Shootout. Then in the championship, here's a little trivia for you. Remember who they beat that year in the championship of the Great Alaskan Shootout?

It was Northeastern, coached by Jim Calhoun, who goes on to UConn shortly after that. Iowa was preseason number 10. The expectations were high for this team, and they certainly showed out. They continue from after getting back from the Great Alaska Shootout. They get a couple of big wins at home. They've had the Man at Hawkeye Classic.

There's another blast from the past. They beat BYU. They go on the road to beat Drake by 7, they pulverize Iowa State by 25 that year and they're just rolling through, they played another tournament in fact that year the Anteater Classic at UC

Irvine and they survived against UC Irvine to continue their undefeated stretch, they get into Big 10 play, roll against Northwestern and against Wisconsin. They go up to the barn and beat Minnesota. And then the stretch that will live on for an incredibly long time, starting with a comeback overtime victory against Illinois on the road against the Illini, who were ranked number eight at the time. Really good team. So this is what Iowa faced

in the middle of January. Road trip to Illinois. They win that game after trailing by 20 and win it in OT. Then they go to number six, Purdue. They win that one by three. And then the biggest of them all, Indiana, comes in to Carver-Hawkeye Arena. And Iowa becomes the first Big Ten team ever to score 100 points against Bobby Knight's team. That ascends Iowa to number one. Now over the weekend, they fall to Ohio State. 1985 football fans will certainly remember that one.

Their first loss of the season as they fall to 18-1. They lose a week later to Michigan on the road, their second Big Ten loss of the season. They played a non-conference game down in Tucson against Arizona against Lute Olsen. Those were some great games. A couple of seasons when they played a home-conference game down in Tucson against Arizona against Lute Olsen. Those were some great games. A couple of seasons when they played a home-and-home with the Wildcats, with Sean Elliott and company.

Really, really fun games there. Then they drop another one, and this one's probably the most frustrating because it was at home. They lose at home to Purdue. Purdue avenges the loss. Really knocked them out of the conversation to win an outright Big Ten championship. But if they sweep Indiana, they can still get that crown. Doesn't happen.

They go there, and Indiana ran them off the floor. After what Iowa had done to them a couple of weeks previous, scoring 100 points, Bobby Knight, I remember reading the newspaper articles. I probably wasn't reading real well at the time, but I remember the conversation around it. Bobby Knight's team was absolutely ready for that one. They ran Iowa off the floor. I was down 20. They cut it to 10. I want to say maybe 9-10, something like that, with about four or five minutes left in the game, but never could get over the hump there. And Steve Alford, oh yeah, Steve Alford, that guy, he went off in that game as Iowa fell. Knocked them out of a chance of winning a regular season crown in the Big Ten. They win their final four games of the season, run past Michigan State.

Michigan really dominating at the end of the year and finish it up with road wins at Northwestern and Wisconsin. Remember back then also, there's no Big Ten tournament, so it's just raring to go into the NCAA tournament. With the year, Iowa earns a number two seed. Remember, preseason top ten, they're ranked in the top ten throughout the whole course of the season. Ranked number one for a while. They're in the top

five for most of the season, and they get a number two seed. They open up with an easy win against Santa Clara in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. They traveled back to Tucson, in fact, for the opening two rounds of the NCAA tournament. Then in the round of 32, they get UTEP.

Say, UTEP, come on. Well, this is UTEP with a Hall of Fame coach in Haskins with a NBA All-Star in Tim Hardaway and the UTEP two-step that he started getting going there, and they survived that one. They go on to the Sweet 16. They're traveling west again, and they go to the Kingdome in Seattle.

And who's waiting? It's Billy Tubbs and the Oklahoma Sooners. This is a game that Iowa didn't play very well for long stretches of the game. Kevin Gamble, though, hits the big shot. Iowa's down a point. They don't need a three-pointer, but they get it. Gamble hits the shot and sends Iowa to the Elite Eight against UNLV. It's a Sunday afternoon.

It's on CBS. It is as excited of as I've ever been at this point for a sporting event. I talked about my fandom really starting in 85. I'm in kindergarten. I'm starting to learn a little bit about it. Iowa has a great football season. I become a Chicago Bears fan that year. The Super Bowl Shuffle is going on, But this solidified things. And the excitement and the buildup and just the anticipation that Iowa was going to get to a Final Four. Now, they take on UNLV. And this UNLV team is absolutely stacked. They got Armand Gillian.

They got Patio, who went off at the game. They got Andre. They got Banks. This is a really good UNLV team. Yet Iowa races out to a 58-42 lead at the half. And in my young mind, as a seven-year-old, well, I was cruising into the Final Four. We're going to get the rubber match against Indiana. We're going to beat the Hoosiers. And we're going to take that pretty boy Steve Alford. And we're going to shove it right up his mouth, right? Wrong. The second half comes, and Iowa is tight.

And I've gone back and watched this game before. You can find it on YouTube. It's a difficult watch, certainly the second half, but they were just so out of sorts. Now, a big part of it was UNLV ratcheted up the pressure. I mean, they went out there, and they went with that old Amitaba defense that Jerry Tarkady was so famous for, and they really dialed it up. And the refs maybe swallowed their whistles a little bit too, made it at least easier for UNLV to get back in it.

But they're just hitting three-pointers from all over the place, and that was another part. UNLV, they had a couple of guys that were really struggling shooting the basketball. Gillian was a stud inside, but it was their ability on the outside. Another huge thing about this tournament in 1987, here's a couple of things. First of all, this is the first year of the three-point line. That is across the board and used at the NCAA tournament

in college basketball. There were so many things going on during the course of this year. College basketball was really evolving and becoming a different kind of sport. And the national conversation that was continuing with college basketball at this time. And it was still the era where guys were sticking around for all four years before departing to the NBA.

You had stars all over the place. You had guys that you knew. You saw these programs. And Iowa was right there. Iowa was as talented as anybody in the country. Iowa, for the longest time, had the most players drafted on a single team until Kentucky broke that record a couple of decades later. Eight guys on this roster were drafted into the NBA. Unthinkable. Yet that is what happened with this squad, and that's

how good they were. And that's why maybe the heartbreak continues for this game. Now, even as Iowa lost the lead, it was as high as 19. They're up 16 at the heartbreak continues for this game. Now, even as Iowa lost the lead, it was as high as 19. They're up 16 at the half. Even as they lose the lead, they come right back. They have an opportunity. They get a 10-second call, that full court press again. That absolutely was a big, big difference and a big part of what they were and their identity defensively. They get the 10-second call. They get the ball back with about 20 seconds to go. They throw a lob inside for Lohaus, and it's too high. And it goes out of bounds. Gillian hits a couple of free throws. Iowa has one more shot after Gamble had hit the shot to beat Oklahoma. He gets another one to try to tie the game up. It goes awry, and it goes to the L column. Now, as the game concludes,

I'm balling. Give me a break. Come on. I'm seven. But I'm balling. I can't handle it. And I run down to my room. My room was in the basement.

I remember my mom coming downstairs. My mom telling me, it's all right. Roy, Ed, BJ, they're just sophomores. They're going to make a Final Four. Well, here we are 36 years later. Still no Final Four.

Yeah, that one still sticks in the craw just a little bit. It was a great season. And though the end is disappointing, there was only one team that was happy. Frustrating parts. The way that the UNLV game obviously played out. UNLV that year, they're 37-2. I mean, that was a dang good team.

And yes, though, they were playing in the old Pacific Coast League. This was a team that went out and definitely took on all comers. They won the preseason on IT. They went to Memphis. They went to Auburn that year. UNLV was stacked. They were really, really good, really, really talented. They gave Indiana one heck of a game in the Final Four. But not being able to see that rubber match between the Hoosiers and the Hawkeyes.

What could have been different maybe with this Iowa basketball program if they would have broke through and even got to the Final Four? What could have been? Look, I've never seen one. 1980, last Final Four. And a lot of you watching right now and listening, you haven't seen it either. But it was a different era. And the 1987 tournament is still one of my favorites, even though it ended in heartbreak. And it absolutely was heartbreaking, the way that it played out. That season, the three-point shot coming in, how good Iowa was, how good the Big Ten was

that season with Indiana and Purdue and Michigan and Illinois and on and on and on. Just a great season of Big Ten basketball and stars all over the place. So you had that component of it. Also, here's another nugget for you. At the end of 1987, so Keith Smart hits the jumper to beat Syracuse in the national championship game. Hits the baseline jumper. And when that happened, at the end of the game, they played something that they still do today. That was the first year that they played one shining moment at the end of the national championship game.

That was our first. 1987 had it all. It was a different time, kids. It really was, but three-point shot, one shining moment. Stars and Iowa, they were as good as anybody that season. Can't say that very much anymore, but it was a fun, fun time. If you have any memories of 1986-87 and that Hoops team, hey, make sure to hit us up on

the comment section on YouTube. You can also find us on Twitter, either at LockedOnIowa or at Trent Conant is where you can find me. Help me out. Who else was in contention for the Iowa job when George Ravely departed for USC besides Dr. Tom? It was a different time. Oh, by the way, Dr. Tom's base salary that season, he signed a four-year deal when he signed on to be the Hawkeye coach, $75,000. Speaking about a different time. Wow. That was his base salary when he started at the University of Iowa. Well, that was a fun look back. We'll continue here throughout the summer months and look back at some of the great teams in Iowa history. When we come back, we come back to the present. Kaitlyn Clark, she was over in the Quad Cities at the John Deere Classic.

Some thoughts on that as we continue. This is the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. Trent Conant back with you one final time. Well, Kaitlyn Clark had a great time. Opening drive, you can just see, cool as a cucumber. Caitlin Clark with fans all over the place. There has never been a gallery for a pro-am at the John Deere Classic, I can imagine, that's anything like this. Just seeing the swarm of Hawkeye fans all around her throughout the day.

She's signing autographs, talked to some people that were there, and they just said she knocked it out of the park. Now, it's not a surprise. I mean, that's what Caitlin Clark seemingly does with everything, right? But her ability to just go up there, first shot. She's not a golfer. Not a pro golfer. She's a good golfer. She's a talented golfer, and she's a golfer she would have put the time in. You know that she could be incredibly good. She said that putting's not her strength. That's fine. She's just out there grooving it with all these people around her. Just think of that. I mean, I get nervous on the tee box when I got a group behind me and here she is just now she's built differently. And we definitely know that ability to play with Zach Johnson, a great Hawkeye fan, love to see it. A really, really cool thing. And to get this John Deere Classic started this week,

yes, it's on the Illinois side of the river. I get it, but this is our tournament. With Zach and what he has become and what he has meant to that golf tournament, keeping it going a week before, obviously the British and leading to the field not being exactly what it is. But what a cool moment that was.

Hawkeye fans all over the place. Lots of funny signs, lots of autographs. Hope you had a good time if you're able to make it out there and just great to see our star and caitlin clark is a hawkeye fan and getting to see her do her thing and doing it in a different way at the john deere classic really really awesome moment that'll do it here for today every day as as we got you covered, more football talk coming up. We're going to talk about one of those concerns. My one concern lingering with this team, it's not talent. How does it all come together? That's still sitting there in the back of my mind. Transfers are different. Transfers are different, certainly at the University of Iowa and the way this program is built. If there is a concern, will this be what shows up? We'll talk about that tomorrow on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast.

As always, thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow. Go Hawks.