Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa needs to step up their NIL game, Iowa Football has a brand new recruit, and we've got TWO stories of the day!

Episode Date: April 20, 2022

Iowa may be having some issues when it comes to name, image, and likeness deals in the NCAA. Today I sit down and discuss and article written about Iowa's constant, year-to-year expenses and how they are going to be changing over the next few years due to the NIL Legislation.Iowa Football has got a brand new stud of a recruit in the class of 2024 named Preston Ries. Not only is Ries a scary guy as a linebacker on the defensive side of the ball but he's also an amazing offensive talent. Although Ries is not being recruited for his abilities on offense, it's going to be fun to see what he does in his final two years of high school football.Iowa on B1G's twitter page went wild with a new video on Tyler Linderbaum's "Madden" style records as well as his "real world" overalls.Jermari Harris was arrested this past Sunday and charged with an OWI. Today I sit down and discuss what consequences Harris could see from this as well as whether or not it will affect his game in the future.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Athletic GreensAthletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/COLLEGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back, Hawkeye Nation, to another episode of the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast, your daily podcast covering your Iowa Hawkeyes on the Locked on Podcast Network. As always, I am your host, Wright Hillpiper, and before we get into things today, I want to thank you all for making the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast your first listen every single day. You can find the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast for free wherever you get your podcasts at and also on YouTube. Speaking of YouTube, I know there has been a delay and I apologize for that. I got my new mic today. I got it all set up. So hopefully I can start YouTube either today or tomorrow. As soon as I know that my mic is running good and that my audio quality is back to where it needs to be, then I will be all set up and ready to go. I went out and spent a bunch of money on

getting a webcam as well as a new mic. So hopefully things should be fixed. And I switched my web browser so that my recording thing, like the software we use for recording, should be a little bit better now. So there's a few things that I want to talk about today. Today's episode is going to be a little bit different than it usually is. My first segment, we're going to be talking about the NIL race for Iowa, how they're doing with that. If you don't know what that is, that is name, image, and likeness that the NCAA has finally approved for college athletes. I also want to talk about one of Iowa's newest football recruits, Preston Rise. And then for stories of the day,

I have two of them today that we're going to talk about, and we will get into that a little bit later. So the first thing, as I mentioned, the name, image, and likeness race that Iowa has gotten themselves into, Some people think they might be a little slow, a little slow off the gun here. So Rob Howe wrote and posted an article today about Iowa's current academic and athletic expenses, including the fact that Iowa may be slightly behind when you talk in terms of NIL deals for current Hawkeye athletes. Rob defines the way that Iowa spends money by describing it sort of like it's a pie, and that each piece of the pie is a different expense that Iowa has, whether it be

operation expenses, salaries, scholarships, etc., all that kind of stuff. So now Gary Barta, who is Iowa's athletic director. And for those of you, um, for those of you who don't know him, he is Iowa's athletic director and those him as well as those in positions in the, in his position before him have pretty much kept budget percentages. Um, like what percentage of the budget goes to which expense for each of the different expenses, relatively the same, obviously adjusting over time for inflation and stuff like that. But now with the NCAA passing the NIL legislation, there's an entirely new expense that Iowa has to worry about. And we all know that the NCAA dragged its feet for a very long time when it came to

players making money off of their image, whether it be brand deals, ambassadorships, commercials, representation, pretty much everything from having your own meal at McDonald's to having your own custom shoe, pretty much. Obviously, this had caused schools to figure out their own way to get top recruits to come play for their sports teams. And a lot of those different ways that schools chose happened to be, you know, a little less than legal, I would say, like offering potential recruits money under the table or having a local car dealership. This is one example that I thought was crazy. Having a local car dealership give the athlete a new car courtesy of a quote

unquote heavy donation from the school. And this new NIL deal was supposed to, you know, help stop that from happening. And also allow athletes to, you know, make money by just being who they are and being, you know, a good athlete. But, you know, just as well as I do, because athletes can now make money off of their own, you know, imaging like this, that's, that's not enough to get, you not enough to get them to go to certain schools. And it didn't stop schools from cutting recruits a check. And that has been a major problem in the past. We've seen it with a lot of power five schools, a lot of big name schools like Alabama has

had scandals like that in the past with paying recruits to come play for them and stuff like that. It's been a problem in the NCAA for a very long time, mostly because of there not being a name, image, and likeness legislation present. So now that that's happening, the NCAA was hoping to cut back on that, but it hasn't really happened. But now there's a lot of colleges and universities that have started this thing called a quote unquote collective. Basically, this means that not only athletes can get paid through their on the field performance or on the court, on the mat, whatever it is, but they can also get paid for their class

slash academic performance. Now, Barta and Coach Ferentz have made it known that a collective is currently in the works for the University of Iowa that may be able to start next year. But the question that Rob, as well as I have, is, is that going to be enough to get kids to, you know, come play for certain schools? And in theory, yes, it will be, but that's not exactly, you know, an easy question to answer with 100% certainty. Now, the way that Rob answered this question in his article really made me take a step back and think about how the NIL legislation is really going to affect bigger schools in the long run. Rob said, quote, if Ferentz can make $7 million a year and his coordinators, Phil Parker and Brian Fererencz, along with Barta, make around a million

each annually, it'd be tough to convince anyone that the money isn't there. Men's basketball coach Freddie McCaffrey earns $2.9 million roughly. Women's basketball coach Lisa Blutter makes around $1 million, and wrestling coach Tom Brands is compensated more than $500,000 a year. That brings us back to the pie analogy. There's a good chance these new collectives will approach many of the same donors they did to make the previous pie. The pie will probably get bigger, but now it will, but it will grow enough to add a, excuse me, it will grow enough to add a sufficiently sized piece of student athletes, or will the size of the other slices need to reduce

it? You may be noticing the economy isn't great. Deep pocketed individuals will kick in more for the collective, but others may ask their donations to be split up between the original pie slices and the new mouth to feed. Still others may not be on board with student athlete compensation, creating another challenge for fundraisers. And this is absolutely right. First of all, I 100% agree with the NIL deal. That is amazing. I'm glad to see that happen. It's needed to happen for a very long time. And if you remember back in the day when Madden was making these 2K college football games, these guys weren't making money off of being, you know, in those games, which isn't right. Because if you're in Madden or NBA 2k or whatever it is as a professional athlete, you made money from that. You made money from people using your name, image, and likeness. Um, so I think it's been,

it's been long overdue that the NCAA did this kind of thing. And I think it's really showed because hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of athletes have now been able to get these brand deals and sponsorships that they've been after since they started college. And one big example of that is Barstool Sports. They, you know, started sponsoring athletes. They sponsor thousands of athletes all over the country now. And that's just one way the athletes can start to push themselves through college because a lot of these athletes don't necessarily, some of them are walk-ons, some of them don't have scholarships, some of them don't have full ride scholarships. to pay for these classes that they're taking in college apart from the sports that they're playing. So it's really beneficial that the NCAA finally decided to pass something like this. And as I mentioned, I'm very glad that they finally decided to do something like this after dragging their feet on the subject for so, so very long. The second thing I want to talk about today is Iowa's newest recruit, Preston Rise. Before we get into that, I want to talk about Bilt Bar.

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to offer rise a scholarship behind Iowa state. And currently there's a few other big 10 schools who are interested in, in him, including Nebraska and Wisconsin to name a couple rise, talked about the offer in a statement saying, quote, it was a great day watching practice. I've been down there multiple times to a game, a junior day and a practice with my coach recently. My parents and I went down there yesterday again. And after practice, I had a chance to talk to some players and coach Wallace.

We also talked with coach Ference. He then informed me that they would like me to be a Hawkeye, which was a big surprise. Honestly, I'm going to stay open to anything and just play all four sports and compete with my high school teams. By the way, his high school teams are very, very good. In his sophomore season at Monticello, Rise was able to rack up a total of 65 and a half tackles, 18 tackles for loss, and eight and a half sacks on the defensive side of the ball. And on the offensive side of the ball, he was even better. Believe it or not, this kid, 6'2", 205 pounds, was even better.

200, or 200, 2,594 passing yards, 1,343 rushing yards, and 34 total touchdowns, arguably making his offensive campaign better than his defensive campaign is in his sophomore season. This kid is a stud on the offensive side of the ball, the defensive side of the ball. And when you get to, you know, these small town Iowa schools, like, you know, where I'm from or Monticello, whatever it is, Brooklyn, Monticello, Montezuma, all those, all those smaller schools that don't have a lot of guys, you get guys who are playing on the offensive and defensive side of the ball. You know, you're down in that one, two way classes. You know, once you start getting up into three and four way classes, you might not have to play both sides of the ball,

but this kid's an absolute stud. I mean, come on over 2,500 passing yards and 1,300 rushing yards as a sophomore in high school. That's crazy. Personally, I think he's a better offensive player than he is a defensive player. He is being recruited as a linebacker due to his size, obviously. But the kid's stellar. I think he would probably be better in college as a linebacker, per se, than he would be at the quarterback spot. But there's no denying his numbers. They are absolutely insane.

And for a guy that is playing a very, very physical position on defense like linebacker, he's getting beat up, he's getting hit, he's getting knocked around, he's doing the hitting, he's making tackles, he's getting sacks, all that sort of thing. It becomes extremely hard for a guy like that to play on the offensive side of the ball as well. So it's great to's great to see that there, there are guys out there, especially in the state of Iowa, these young guys that can, you know, perform that well perform up to this, you know, incredibly high unrealistic standard of being able to play on both sides of the ball for an entire football game for a whole 48 minutes. So it's, it's incredible to see that he's able to do that. And it's, it's nice to see that he's able to do that, and it's nice to see that Iowa can see his potential

on the defensive side of the ball as well. So hopefully he can maybe shine a little bit at Iowa if he decides to come to Iowa. But if not, then somebody's going to get very lucky with a very, very talented athlete on their team when his time comes to make a decision on where he's going to go. Now, the stories of the day, I've got two of them today. As I mentioned, one is about Tyler Lindenbaum. The other one is about Jermari Harris. We'll get into that in just

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The first one that I want to talk about today is Tyler Linderbaum. And I will admit to you, there is not a whole lot of point to me telling you this. It's just, it's funny to me. It's really hilarious. So I was, Iowa on Big Ten. Their Twitter page posted a video on Twitter where they had Tyler Linderbaum rate his skills in sort of like a Madden type way, like a scale of one to 99 sort of thing. And I thought some of his answers were pretty interesting. So I thought I'd share them with you. First of all, he gave himself an overall grade uh of a b plus which sounds pretty fair right um

it makes sense to me uh well he was first asked to rate his speed as a center and he gave himself a 90 overall his throwing power a 92 elusiveness and 82 trucking abilities 99 and that's definitely one that i agree with kid can hit for sure i don't know why i called him a kid he's definitely older than i am but whatever tackling a 99 he gave himself an 88 overall which i don't know if this was you know supposed to be sort of like a sarcastic and comical type of you know interview or whatever but but I don't know about that 90 overall speed. For a center, he's a pretty big boy. I don't know if 90 is quite the right rating for that,

but the 82 elusiveness, that's an interesting one as well. I completely agree with the 99 overall trucking and tackling the throwing power. I don't know. I've never seen him throw. So maybe, maybe 92 is accurate for that. But like I said, he gave himself an 88 overall, which I mean, seems, seems like it seems right to me. Now they also asked him to do some real life ratings. him to do some real life ratings. If you will, he gave himself a 72 overall as a cook and 85 overall for cleaning a 22 overall for texting people back and a solid 12 overall at dancing. Now I've never seen him dance before, but come on. I'm, I think I'm better than a 12 overall and I cannot dance. Dancing is not something that runs

in my family whatsoever. Texting back, I'm probably right around that 22 range myself. 85 for cleaning. Mine's probably a solid 40. 72 overall as a cook he gave himself. I think I'm a 90 overall as a cook. I think I'm a pretty good cook. He said that he gave himself a 72 overall because he can cook eggs. Eggs are hard to make. I think I could do better, but whatever. As I mentioned earlier, there wasn't really all that much of a point to me telling you about this. I just thought that it was, it was funny. And if you don't follow Iowa on Big Ten's Twitter page, go check them out. They're hilarious. They do stuff quite a bit. So I saw that on Twitter yesterday and I was like, I got to talk about this on the podcast. This is just too funny. With that being said, the second thing that I want to talk about today

is Jamari Harris. Now, I am sure that all of you guys heard about Jamari Harris being arrested in Iowa City this past Sunday. Now, I debated whether or not to talk about this because it's already been talked about a lot on social media quite a bit. And I knew I was going to have some very strong opinions about it. So in order to keep myself as professional as possible and only report the facts, I'm going to read to you the short article written by John Stepp from the Gazette. He put out this article. This is not content that I wrote out. I'm reading this to you. I want to give him the credit for what he wrote.

But as I mentioned, I wanted to stay or I wanted to give him the credit for what he wrote. But as I mentioned, I wanted to stay, I wanted to keep my opinions away from this situation. I wanted to keep quote unquote politics out of this sort of thing. So I'm just going to give you the straight up facts and let you know what exactly is going on. So Iowa cornerback Jamari Harris was arrested early Sunday morning on a charge of operating while intoxicated. The arrest happened at 2.46 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Myrtle Avenue in Iowa City, according to the Iowa City Police Department. The officer said Harris, who was driving a 2015 Reg. Dart, was stopped for driving without headlights and had bloodshot eyes, impaired speech and balance, and smelled of ingested alcohol. Harris admitted he had been drinking.

The officer said his blood alcohol concentration was 0.096 percent, according to a Data Master result in a police complaint. The legal limit for driving in Iowa is 0.08%. An Iowa football team spokesperson said the athletics department will follow quote-unquote normal procedures, and Harris is subject to the rules and regulation of the department's student-athlete code of conduct. Harris started seven games last season at cornerback as a sophomore in 2021 and was listed as a first-team cornerback on the 2022 spring depth chart. Now, the only part of my opinion that I'm going to insert into this story is how I think it will affect his game in the upcoming season. Obviously, Iowa has had a couple issues with guys getting suspended before for stuff like this. And those were, you know, one to two game suspensions.

So I think that, I think that that is probably where he is going to be at, where Harris is going to be at suspension wise. Whether or not I think it will affect his game, honestly, probably not. You know, it's, it's not, it's not something like he got, you know, in a car accident, like a drunk driving accident or anything like that. He made a bad decision. He got caught making that bad decision, and now he has to pay the consequences for it. hinder his ability to be a good athlete in the upcoming season. Obviously, he will have to serve that suspension, and that will be up to the student-athlete code of conduct that Iowa has set in place for all of their athletes. It's an unfortunate situation, and it's sad to see somebody who is as talented as Jermari Harris

get in trouble for something as know, something as, you know, preventable as this is. But as I mentioned, it's, it's, you know, it's done. It happened. It's in the past. We've got to move on from it. He is, he's going to serve, or I shouldn't say serve. I don't believe he's going to jail. He will, you know, he will have his suspension and he will, you know, face the consequences for his decision. But when it comes to his game, I don't think it's going to affect the level of play that he will be at when he comes back from his suspension. Now, who will replace him? I have no idea. Honestly, it could be a number of different guys. But I don't know what Iowa's choice is going to do.

Maybe Ferentz will take him out for longer than his suspension is just based off of principle. But as I said, it's not going to affect his game in any way, I don't believe. And if it does, then that's something that he has control over. He can't let this affect the way that he plays coming off of a suspension. Obviously, he's going to have a little less playing time than the rest of the guys, but it's a decision that he has to make in order to not let it affect how he plays on the field and how he does off the field. But as I mentioned, it's a tough situation and he will face the consequences for what he did.

Um, and we just have to, you know, kind of take that with a grain of salt, um, and see how he does in the upcoming season. Uh, I'm sure that I will know, uh, when a, when a decision is made on what his suspension will be, um, how long it will be. I wouldn't guess it'd be more than one to two games based on the past issues that Iowa's had with this. But, you know, it could be more. I don't think it'll be anything less than two games, but we will have to wait and see. As I mentioned, once I know,

I will let all of you guys know what decision is made when it comes to the code of conduct that Iowa has put in place. So thank you all for tuning into today's episode. I hope the audio quality was a little bit better today with this new mic that I got. I will make sure I check it out before I get it posted. But once again, thank you all for being so patient with the slight problems that we've been having in the last few episodes. I really appreciate it, and I really appreciate all of you guys

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