Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - OUTRAGE?: Former Hawkeye SHOCKS Fanbase with SCATHING Tweet | Will McCaffrey Legacy be TARNISHED?

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Hawkeye Nation buzzes as Connor McCaffrey's tweet ignites fan controversy. Is the former Iowa star burning bridges or expressing justified frustration?Host Trent Condon dissect McCaffrey's social med...ia outburst, analyzing its impact on Iowa's passionate fanbase. And Hawkeye Report's Tom Kakert tackles Iowa football's recruiting landscape, including walk-on receiver Jackson Nave's potential. They explore the Big Ten basketball coaching carousel, highlighting hot seats at Michigan State and Wisconsin. Women's basketball recruiting takes center stage, with insights on top prospects like Abby Deal. NIL and transfer portal changes reshape college athletics - but are schools truly following new rules?Tune in for expert analysis on Iowa Hawkeyes football, basketball, and the evolving collegiate sports landscape. Will recent developments propel Iowa to new heights or create unexpected challenges?Follow Trent Condon on X: https://twitter.com/trentcondonLISTEN TO THE PODCAST: APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/locked-on-hawkeyes-daily-podcast-on-iowa-hawkeyes-football/id1441592240SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GTyz5ygevcGXdTF6QSoEoYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LockedOnHawkeyesSupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeToday's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply. Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE at monarchmoney.com for 50% off your first year.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Former Hawkeye Conor McCaffrey goes after Iowa fans for saying go Hawks! Uh oh. You are Locked On Hawkeyes, your daily podcast on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Hey, welcome in, I'm Trent Condon and this is the Locked On Hawkeyes Podcast. I've been covering the Hawkeyes for over 20 years on the radio here in the state of Iowa,
Starting point is 00:00:35 including currently on the Iowa Sports Radio Network with stations in Des Moines, 106.3 KXO, along with Sioux City, the Quad Cities, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City. You can hear me each weekday from noon to two. Well, we have a busy show to kick off the week here. Updates from Iowa Wrestling, some good news including their schedule for 2025. The Iowa baseball team has added from the transfer portal. We'll be joined by Tom Kaker from Hawkeye Report and
Starting point is 00:01:02 a breakdown of recruiting and a whole lot more But we begin today's program with a look at Connor McCaffrey and going after Hawkeye fans once again Today's episode of lockdown Hawkeyes is brought to you by game time Download the game time app create an account and use code locked on college for 20 off your first purchase So here we are. It's a slow time. It's a slow news time We do not have any Hawkeye athletics going on and that creates a time situations like this that Let's be frank at the top in the grand scheme of things. This is a nothing burger This is an absolute nothing it is a tweet in the beginning of summer That will get some people riled up that'll get them fired up, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter
Starting point is 00:01:46 So if you missed it though over the weekend kind of McCaffrey put out a sweet tweet Excuse me or an X that has since been deleted. He said this I DK which means I don't know for the uninformed out there Why people still yell go Hawks when they see me like no go dogs go Quakers go fever so that's the tweet and the question from former Hawkeye Connor McCaffrey is why do people still yell go Hawks when they see him well because he played for the baseball program and the basketball program he played for what six years because your dad was the head coach for 15 years because
Starting point is 00:02:31 You're a Hawkeye and that's what Hawkeye fans do when he spot a Hawkeye out in The wilderness. What do you do go Hawks? That's what we do now. I get it kind of McCaffrey is still upset that his father was fired. He believes that Fray McCaffrey got a raw deal. The all time winningest coach after back to back down seasons was not given another year. And for many programs, they would. For many programs, a coach like that,
Starting point is 00:03:01 a coach with his resume, would have gotten more. We know though, this is a much more complex issue than just surface level all-time winning his coach gets fired There's a lot more that goes into it The easiest thing is to just watch the basketball games the last two years and the way that the fan base is checked out But that's the easiest component to all this the fans were gone But that's the easiest component to all this the fans were gone The fans did not believe that frame McCaffrey was gonna be the guy that was going to be able to elevate them And because of that they stopped showing up They stopped spending their money and they stopped supporting the program in today's environment of college athletics
Starting point is 00:03:39 When money is not coming into a program in the NIL pay for play era, guess what? You're gonna get what you get the last couple of years. Fray McCaffrey was an excellent offensive basketball coach. Fray McCaffrey elevated Iowa back to respectability, and he needs to be commended for that, and he's always been commended by me for that. Do I believe that he should have got another year? If it was just basketball, yes, but it's not.
Starting point is 00:04:07 And these are the avenues here. But when you put out a tweet like this, when you put out a tweet that you delete quickly afterwards, it adds more ridicule to what we've heard from Conor McCaffrey. Conor McCaffrey is a basketball player. He was a coach on the floor. He was a hard-working guy A guy that got as much as he possibly could by the end turned himself into an okay shooter
Starting point is 00:04:31 Was a tremendous passer. I mean you think of the number of assists that he had and just beautiful feeds inside to garza He was a guy that had more pluses than minuses But because of some of the offensive inefficiencies in his game. He was ridiculed He was ripped by Iowa fans and because of that I can understand the Yanks. I can understand the frustration Here's the thing though for Connor McCaffrey the people that are coming up to you and saying go Hawks Those are not the people that were ripping you those are not the people that were tearing you down That's not what it is now after his dad was was fired he put out a tweet with just a clown emoji I understand at the time you're hurt. You're upset a place that you gave 15 years of your time to was taken away
Starting point is 00:05:15 I understand but we're two months past that and it's time to let it go. It's time to move on The only thing that these kind of tweets are going to do Is add more divisiveness and I know as The gap grows bigger Ben's fences will be mended Bridges will be built back and there will be positive memories of the McCaffrey era as there should be But when you have your son doing things like that, it doesn't help But when you have your son doing things like that, it doesn't help. This is not helping the situation. And on top of it, the other component is when your girlfriend, a former University of Iowa
Starting point is 00:05:52 star, is one of the most famous athletes in all of sport, and you're doing this. Is that good? Is that a good thing? In general, social media is a disaster. I am not a fan I have moved further and further away from social media for my own mental health. It is ugly It is divisive and it's not for me. However, I Understand people are going to be on there. It's not going away. So this is the reality
Starting point is 00:06:20 I love to live in reality and the reality is it's still going to be out there At times though, it's time just to step away from the keyboard. What could make you this upset from an Iowa fan saying to you, go Hawks, that you go out and do this? Sometimes all of us. Just think a little bit more before we tweet. Before you open up that keyboard, think a little bit more about what it is. Like I said, in the grand scheme of things. This is a nothing burger
Starting point is 00:06:47 It will be quickly forgotten as it should it is just that kind of deleted it We're moving on and we will do that with Tom kicker Tom kicker Hawkeye report comm some Iowa football recruiting news We're also gonna talk with Tom about this. What is Iowa's easiest Big Ten football game? Not as easy answer as it normally is. We'll get into that as we continue on the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. There's nothing like the NBA playoffs, intensity, buzzer beaters, fans just losing their minds.
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Starting point is 00:08:25 Tom Kekert joins us to talk some hawks and big 10, etc. with Tom hello Tom cake and how are you good how are you guys okay appreciate you come and I guess we'll start with football because that's where the news seemingly was made today unless there's been some in the last couple of hours that we miss but the football program gets a receiver and receiver from the plate is high school football right in the state of Iowa. Yeah, I could play actually in Iowa City at Regina. How about that? Jackson Nave, who's, you know, had a pretty good career
Starting point is 00:08:58 playing at Regina, but last year was at Iowa Western had only like eight catches for 86 yards, something like that, six catches. But camped with Iowa last day, I guess, and they offered him an opportunity to walk on. And Iowa was kind of down to like the 105 and they were pretty much set on that's where they were going to be. But now that the house settlement has opened things up where you can add a few guys, why not take a flyer on a kid that's, um, got some good speed and added, uh, you know, according to his coaches, added 20 pounds and a couple inches to his frame and still running a four, four, seven. Why not take a swing at that one and see what happens?
Starting point is 00:09:45 Can he return kicks? That's probably one of the things they might look at him. I mean, it's, you know, the Caden region path. So, you know, kind of similar path. So there we go. We'll see if it happens. Well, he's a Juco kid. And I think my mind goes to Diego Pavia, looking for more eligibility. Do we have any resolution or any idea of how that's going to turn out for junior college players and the ability for them to get maybe upwards of four years of D1 opportunity after their Juco careers finish up? I think that's what what it's going to be moving forward is they're going to look
Starting point is 00:10:24 at junior college years as like you're at a prep school, you know, so you get an extra time. That's how they're going to view it from here on out. It looks like so until that changes, yeah, yeah, this kid's going to get back that that year and we'll see if you can develop. But then, you know, we've got to contend also with the 105 that's going to eventually get there, I think. Who knows with all these rules and regulations and how many of them actually hold and become something and how many of them actually just kind of drift away. And I mean, we're already going to get, we've already had somebody, I think, file a lawsuit based on Title IX. So we'll see how long this lasts. But I am skeptical on how this is going to work out just because I was told this week that
Starting point is 00:11:27 they're like, all the colleges have kind of just like said, yeah, we're all going to follow these rules and everything. Okay, I believe you. Everybody's going to believe in each other. Sure. You have to trust each other like that. What was the pact that they, the Alliance. The Alliance. The they see the Alliance, the Alliance, the long
Starting point is 00:11:46 live the Alliance. Why am I not worth the paper that it was written on? So time I was over the last a little bit, getting more acquainted with what lies ahead for both the in-state schools and looking at the Hawkeye schedules I did with Iowa State, but this one, particularly when it comes to Iowa and looking at their big 10 slate of games, I'm trying to find the breather. You know, I'm trying to find, well, that's a win. Well, what do you mean? They're not so fast. What if it goes a, you know, X, Y, and Z might be easy.
Starting point is 00:12:15 And I hate to say it, put it like this, because I mean, Minnesota and Iowa, they play for the greatest trophy in college, maybe certainly make the case that it's the pig above everybody else, but Minnesota, Iowa, they play some very tough games, but that might be to say it like this, the softest point of Iowa's big 10 slate. Is that crazy? Maybe Michigan state home, Michigan state. That's a revenge spot for sure. After what happened in the slant scene, Rutgers can pick you up. Rutgers is getting, I think they're right.
Starting point is 00:12:46 Arrow is pointing up. Yeah. And that's a Friday night game up there. So that'll be a challenge. And then, you know, you've got Indiana coming to Iowa City and I don't know what Indiana is going to be. You know, I'm going to believe they're going to be pretty decent this year. Once again, but yeah, there's I guess the good, good news for Iowa is they've got a couple of bye weeks this year. So that maybe that that'll be the, the breather forum will
Starting point is 00:13:15 be getting a break in two breaks in the schedule to kind of prepare for, for whatever's ahead. One of those breaks is gonna be before the matchup against Wisconsin. So they go to Camp Randall, never easy. Well with that program, Tom, I know they've done it. That might be a trend. It's a breather. They, last year we know 42-10.
Starting point is 00:13:38 All right, they got 42 up in the locker room, who cares? Right, I mean, it's an off season thing. It's not gonna matter when the ball is in the air. How bad do you think Wisconsin is going to be? Because speaking of schedules, there is an absolute bear. Did they do enough in the portal to make them a difficult big 10? When told, do you know, Trent? Five and a half. That's what I thought.
Starting point is 00:13:58 Five and a half. Yes. And they don't say Bama to And they've don't they Bama too? Yes. You know, that's a program that never gained an identity thus far. I do look for cool. And that's the they tried to change who they were, right? And it didn't work. And I'm not sure you can ever recover from that with Luke. I don't know. Maybe they can, maybe they, maybe they'll surprise me, but I just think they've, they've kind of Luke Fickles, just kind of hit the bit on this one and just didn't,
Starting point is 00:14:37 didn't figure out what this was supposed to be. And, and now he's, he's chasing cause if he doesn't imagine if they're like three and nine, is he back? That's just gonna ask. I think they might get ahead of the posse. He might be the first coach fired. Really? If they don't have those betting markets in college sports, but he'd definitely be up there. I the fan base is very restless and what they're likely facing this year. He could be the guy Wisconsin says, you know what, we made a mistake.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Let's pull the plug here. Let's get to the front of line and try to get our pick of the litter for the next coach. What were they last year? They went five? Five and seven, something like that. I think they were. Yeah, they lost their last five. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Yeah. Got blown out in Nebraska, got clobbered by Minnesota. The Oregon game was close. Iowa waxed them, as Trent said. Jesus, he may not survive. You might be right, Trent. Um, who saw that coming? If indeed this goes this way, we'll see.
Starting point is 00:15:36 I know that they're excited by some of the replacement, maybe not on the field, but coaching staff, we'll see where it goes. Uh, is there another seat in the big 10 that's hot? Do you think, Tom? coaching staff. We'll see where it goes. Is there another seat in the big 10 to talk to you think Tom? This is a question. You know, talking to some Michigan state people, I know it seems crazy, but they're just not super enamored with Smith up there. Just not. They're just like, yeah, it's not gone well and it just doesn't feel great.
Starting point is 00:16:05 And you traveled there last year too, didn't you? Yes, you did. Yeah. Yeah. And there was just, I don't know, it's just like, eh, this guy's not really getting it done. And I don't know if there's a lot of love up there for that guy. So that might be another guy that's looking for work
Starting point is 00:16:26 you know we'll see uh um let's see what happens UCLA might be another one maybe USC Lincoln Riley maybe Lincoln oh boy I'm a lot of money money though that's so much money. What about Northwestern? Yeah, you know, that's a good one too. Plus they're opening a new building. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, but you don't want to go into, because they weren't boiled eligible last year. I know that for, I was only going to have to look. They weren't boiled eligible. I know where Fitz will be on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:17:01 Oh, is he coming to Iowa City? Well, his kid's going to be on scene.. Oh, is he coming to, is he coming to Iowa City? Well, his kid's gonna be on the scene. Yeah, I know it. Speaking of being there, tell us what you've been able to gather on the Scott Pioli thing, being an analyst. He's not a full-time employee at Iowa. He is an analyst for other programs. Also, we know the connection with him and Kirk, what his role is, kind of what
Starting point is 00:17:24 you've been able to unearth about Pioli and kind of what his role is with the university. Somebody I talked to said that they hadn't seen Scott Piolli and I was sitting in like six months. So that kind of tells you he's a consultant. And that's about all it is. He'll show up if you need him. And that's about it. It's just, it's not going to be like Scott Piolli is going to be camped out. about all it is is he'll show up if you need him. And that's about it.
Starting point is 00:17:45 It's just, it's not gonna be like Scott Peole is gonna be camped out at Iowa athletic department offices, you know, year round. It's just, it's not gonna be like that. The nuts and bolts of what they're gonna be doing is gonna be run by Marcus Wilson and Scott Brinkman. And that's who's going to handle all of those details I think moving forward.
Starting point is 00:18:09 Switching to basketball, I saw that Jan Jensen is doing a lot of traveling and rushing to get back to welcome some of her team back to campus. So women going well. I mean, every time I see, you know, on X that the player, the player, player X is, you know, the narrowed their list down to this school, seemingly Jensen's Hawkeyes are in the conversation most of the time. It is clearly what she's got,
Starting point is 00:18:38 what she's continuing to build on after the Blueder era seemingly is going in a positive direction still at this point, Tom. Yeah, it is. And there's still kind of moving in the afterglove, the Caitlin Clark era. And, and they should be. And so this 26 group, we'll see if they can, you know, they got Addie Dio, one of the better players in her class, and that was a huge deal, no pun intended. But that's gonna bring in, hopefully, according to Jan, but that's the hope, is that they'll bring in some more of these really high-level 2026 players
Starting point is 00:19:20 and get them on campus and get them committed. I know they really, I think they feel pretty good about the Lewis girl, you know, from you guys, back of the woods, Jenica Lewis. Yeah, Johnson. Yeah, so we'll see if they can get her. And then, you know, there's Addison Bjorn, who I think is one of our AU teammates.
Starting point is 00:19:44 You know, there's several really good players in that class that they're very much in on. And they just offered a 2027 player who's the younger sister of Cam Manuel, the men's basketball player, and she's piled up offers from everybody in the country. So maybe they have a leg up on her as well. So over to the men's side of things,
Starting point is 00:20:06 and sounds like Ben McCollum still sniffing around. There was the guard from Robert Morris, who since he has officially said he's going to South Florida, but they're still working. Are they working maybe more though in the international market? Is that kind of the waters that they're swimming in at this point?
Starting point is 00:20:23 Yeah, and what I was told was just before that, that deadline, you know, the the announcement comes to that, Judge Wilkin announced that the thing was settled. So you had basically until the end of that day, I was told that they were working on somebody internationally, right up until midnight that night. And then they just couldn't get the deal done. And I don't know what happened, but that's what I was told that somebody was in the mix. But they just couldn't get things firmed up. So they just passed on it. And I think he's totally comfortable
Starting point is 00:21:07 with his roster right now, but I think they'd like to add somebody if they could. It's just now you're going to have some financial limitations because you're gonna... July 1, it's the new era. So you're gonna have some financial limitations right now too with just the framework of that legislation or that court case is done. And so now you've got to live in a different world than it was a week ago. Tom, do you know if, since you mentioned international players, it dawned on me that one of the layers of that, the $20.5 million settlement, our payment, international players to this point do not have the ability to share in that. That was something that they were made aware of, but that loophole had not been, I guess, closed to prevent them
Starting point is 00:21:59 from being a part of that. Do you know if that got done? I know that there was some work being done on it. Do you have any idea? Boy, I don't know, but that's a great question because I think there's some guys who wanna partake in some of those dollars. And I think some of them did, like the guys who transferred this spring, they, I think they've been quote
Starting point is 00:22:27 unquote made whole, you know, just they've been taken care of. So I don't think it'll be anything this year, but like next year when, you know, you don't have so many workarounds, boy, I wonder what's going to happen. It's going to be interesting. I wonder if that international market starts to dry up because those guys will just stay over over season play and make money as opposed to that's why all these guys are coming over now. That's why everybody on the Illinois roster and has their last name and an IC right now is because they, you know, they just hit all the Baltic states and picked up players
Starting point is 00:23:07 because they can make more money over here. And Illinois has got a budget that's over 10 million for their basketball team this year. So that's... How's it going to work out? How's that going to play out? Is that going to be a success? I'm anxious to see it. I bet them. I'm anxious to see it. I bet him. I know it's, it's going to be fascinating to see how Brad Underwood coaches that team because Brad writes guys pretty hard. He coaches them. You're right. Yeah. And I'm not sure how those guys are going to react to that. But, and language barriers may be, I, boy, it's fascinating to see.
Starting point is 00:23:45 I mean, it's an avenue. It's an angle that they took and they definitely embraced it, but boy, I don't know if it's gonna work. It just don't. Tom, with the house settlement now as we're trying to figure out kind of all the ins and outs, you deal in the message board community
Starting point is 00:24:02 and there's some different type of people over there. What's the thing that- God bless them. You know, the general population, you know, your everyday keyboard warrior, what's the thing that they have wrong? What's the thing that you see most on your message boards that people have wrong at this point
Starting point is 00:24:18 and how the future of college athletics is going, at least in your future? I don't know. That's a great question. I think the most common misnomer out there is that, I think might be from some of the administrative side of things of college athletics who believe that everybody's gonna just like,
Starting point is 00:24:39 oh yeah, we're all just gonna follow this 20.5 and that's gonna be the cap and everybody's gonna be honest about things. I mean, the one thing we can say about the last four years, as chaotic and wild west as it was, is everything was above board. Right? Every dollar, it wasn't like there was some nefarious things. There was no rumors about, oh, he's getting paid under the table because everything was above the table, right? Well, guess where everything's going to go now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:08 It's going to go back to the old. Yep. That's my prediction. You're 100% right. Yeah. 1000% right. And the SECs can start winning championships again in football because they're going to cheat.
Starting point is 00:25:18 Yeah. And they're going to, and it's, and there's this whole thing. I mean, there was an athletic directors conference or athletic administrative conference, and they were all down there, oh, yeah, we're all holding hands. We're all gonna follow this and do all this right here until you need to get a stud quarterback. And then you're gonna say, well, we gotta find a way to funnel, you know, and it's not going to get approved by the clearinghouse that Deloitte is going to, you know, the college football, the college commission. So we got to figure out a way to get a couple million bucks for this guy and that's where they're going to need it.
Starting point is 00:25:57 And I think the other thing is, boy, it was pretty clear that Iowa is moving on from, or at least Iowa athletics has moved on from the Iowa swarm. Oh, interesting. Just, just seemed like it just, there was no mention of the swarm in any of those press releases and it feels like everything that they've done is just to kind of replace it and bring it in house at this point. Well, we tried to get Brad Heinrich and he was unavailable this week. So, yeah, he is out of the country. Fascinating. Tom, great stuff, Tom Cakert, HawkeyeReport.com, part of the On3 network, HawkeyeReport.com. Tom, thank you, buddy. I
Starting point is 00:26:38 appreciate it. We'll talk to you next week. Thanks, Tom. Okay. Yeah. Good to talk to you. There he is, Tom Cakert, joining us from HawkeyeReport.com. Big to talk to you. There he is. Tom Kaker joining us from Hawkeye report.com. Big thank you as always to Tom. We got some news and notes for Iowa sports going on. The wrestling schedule has been updated from the big 10 and some portal news from the baseball team. That's all as we continue Lockdown Hawkeyes. Trencana back with you one final time on the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day and a shout out to you every day as with us each and every day.
Starting point is 00:27:16 Couldn't do it with each and every one of you. Your team every day. That's what we do here on the Lockdown Network. Shout out to the wrestling program as the Big Ten schedule has been released for next wrestling season. The duel opponents that they will face throughout the course of next year. So Iowa will be welcoming him to Penn State. That's a headliner as always.
Starting point is 00:27:35 At the top of the fold, if you will, Penn State will be making its way into Carver Hawkeye Arena. Also coming into Carver, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. A couple of decent duels in there. The Penn State one though, it will be the big one. Iowa goes this year to Purdue, Michigan state, double Ohio state. Okay. But then they go over to Lincoln to take on Nebraska.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Of course, a surprising run last year from the corn huskers, both in the big tens in the NCAA, so should be a spirited one in that one. And a couple of portal entries for Iowa baseball, as Iowa has picked up commitments from Bryce Phelps, the Denver Iowa native is going to be finishing up his Iowa career with the Hawkeyes, big stick outfielder, and definitely a needed pop for this team. He's been playing out at Wagner University
Starting point is 00:28:24 throughout his collegiate career all Northeast, Northeast conference selection from Denver, Iowa, coming back home little cyclone. Uh, Bryce Phelps will be coming in also some news from the baseball front as they also picked up a pitcher from Florida international. So I will Rick Heller continue to do work in there. Obviously they were impacted hard by the transfer portal, but trying to pick up the pieces and bet against Rick Heller against your own peril. That guy is absolutely incredible what he does year in and year out for Iowa baseball, trying to restock the cupboards there and
Starting point is 00:28:59 keep the momentum going. It was a disappointing end of the season, no doubt, but continuing on that front and building things back up tomorrow We got some football news coming your way It sounds like a potential decommitment from cash Herrera the four-star quarterback in this class coming up in 2026 stills just rumblings on that will await some confirmation on that front have some news on that Also gonna have a few other things come your way I hope to have Brad Heinrichs on the show with the Hawkeye swarm and a few other things percolating here in Hawkeye land thanks for being with us and making locked on Hawkeyes your first listen every day
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