Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Receiver VOID? Iowa Hawkeyes SEEK Game-Changers, Why the Hawkeyes STRUGGLE to Land Wide Receivers

Starting point is 00:00:00 Bromelcamp joins us today as we talk Iowa football. Though five commitments in the transfer portal for the Hawkeyes, their biggest need, wide receiver, still a goose egg. 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. That's Todd Bromelcamp, and this is the Lockdown Hawkeyes podcast. Thanks for making Lockdown Hawkeyes, your first listen every day. We are your daily Iowa Hawkeye podcast. Talk to you five days a week, breaking it all down

Starting point is 00:00:39 here on the lockdown network now number one for sports podcast. Todd and I, we have been covering the Hawkeyes for a combined nearly 50 years and glad to talk to you here today. We're going to put a cap on the Iowa football season. I'm going to talk a lot about the transfer portal. And our basketball check in as we flip the calendar to 2026, difficult loss for the Iowa men's team as they fall to Minnesota and a big one with Illinois coming up this weekend on the women's side, another victory, and they got Indiana coming up over the weekend. Todd, good to see you once again. How were things over on the east side of the state? Things were a little rainy over here today. I feel like it's been forever since we've talked, but our Thursdays have been

Starting point is 00:01:18 interrupted by Christmas and New Year's here recently. Has been, though good holidays, had some football on both of those days, some interesting results. In the day before we got to New Year's, of course, was the Iowa win against Vanderbilt. This is our first opportunity to speak since then. And Todd, going back to that one, and we'll kind of culminate it all together with a recap a little bit later on of this season. But that win against Vanderbilt felt like it was very therapeutic. And after all the close losses of this season, just to have some good vibes going

Starting point is 00:01:48 into the off season and probably some good memories as well about this squad. Yeah, I think it caps the season that when you look back on it is going to be kind of one of the biggest what-if seasons of the Kirk Farrant's era. When you look at who they lost to, how competitive those games were, you flip a couple of those into the win column and maybe Iowa finds a way to sneak into the back end of the playoff conversation. But the bottom line is they held their own against a pretty decent amount of teams on their schedule this year, the ones that they did lose too. And they were able to cap it off with a, you know, I guess you could call it an upset win. I know they were the underdog there. I didn't view them as

Starting point is 00:02:28 the underdog going into that game. But just a very thorough win over Vanderbilt. It never really seemed like that one was in doubt. It really was. And though Vandy made a couple of plays there in the second half, I were really controlled it, good work out of the passing game. And to me, that was by far, I think, the most complete effort, both running the ball and throwing the ball that we saw on Mark Grinowski.

Starting point is 00:02:51 And really, before we found out in what was it, about 12 hours, that Grinowski made his commitment, then we found out that he had to go under the knife. for shoulder surgery that happened very quickly. That was the quarterback we saw against Vaynerbilt. I thought we were going to see all season long. Yeah, it goes back to the season of what ifs. What if Mark Grinowski had looked like that all season long, right?

Starting point is 00:03:13 But I'm with you. I thought two, three, four times watching that game, this is the guy that I thought Iowa was getting all season long. So he showed up in his final college football game and added one more win to that total. And it's always better to end the season on a win than it is a loss. And now we sort of head into the offseason, which the last couple of years, college football has changed so much that, you know,

Starting point is 00:03:39 I used to get excited about the baseball hot stove. But to me, the transfer portal is way more interesting than what goes on in baseball's off season now. You know, it's interesting here on the lockdown network. We have, you know, almost every Big Ten team covered. We got over 80 channels that we have here. And we have this slack where we get together and talk about things. people kind of always make fun of me from the Iowa perspective because in comparison to almost everybody else in the country, I was incredibly boring.

Starting point is 00:04:04 We don't have the same depth and certainly where you see some programs. And even what's happened in Iowa State now, no different circumstances, obviously with Campbell leaving for Penn State. But Iowa, it's filling in the grabs, right? Find in those cracks, finding some different things. Though they've gone partle shopping the last couple of years of quarterback, it is much different this season without going after that kind of big name that is out there. And early on, like what they're doing, you kind of look at who Tyler Barnes is following,

Starting point is 00:04:31 a lot of defensive tackles, defense alignments, safeties, wide receivers. And that's probably the most important one. We'll get to that here in a moment. But as wild as it does us for Hawkeye fans, I think maybe it's time every once in a while to step back and realize what's happening almost everywhere else across the country where it's not just picking up six, eight, 10 guys and kind of filling in some depth pieces, maybe looking for a starter or two. Other places, year after year, they're going through this and they're doing it three times as many guys they're going after. Well, look, we've got a big 10 team that's

Starting point is 00:05:02 one win away from a national championship game that in two years has flipped the script from being one of the worst college football programs of all time to being this unstoppable force in Bloomington, Indiana. So that to me is really what's been intriguing about the transfer portal is if you play your cards right and get the right guys to come in, you could you can turn your program's fortunes around pretty quickly. I thought people on the Slack were just making fun of you because of the Bears stock and cap. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:05:32 So you're a Cubs fan, but you're not a Bears fan? No. No, I root for the other team that's playing this. What is it, Amazon Prime, right? Now, Todd, figure out a way to watch that. Yeah, we're the same age. How, in God's name, in the mid to late 80s, could you become a Packer fan? They sucked.

Starting point is 00:05:53 I have family that lives up in the Green Bay area. And so split my allegiances between my Illinois side of the family and my family that lives in Wisconsin. So I was there long before, I was a Packer guy long before Brett Farb. I go back to even before, you know, Lynn Dickey and Paul Kaufman and Don McCowski days. So you can't get me as being a bandwagon.

Starting point is 00:06:20 You cannot get me as being a bandwagon jumper when it comes to my Packers. Well, and see, I am because I grew up in North Iowa, as our everyday listeners certainly have heard in past episodes that we've talked about, kind of where we grew up. I'm a Minnesota sports fan. It's the twins. It's the Timberwolves now.

Starting point is 00:06:36 And everybody else up there, I mean, 98% of people where I grew up were Vikings fans. But I was in kindergarten in 85. Those poor people. Absolutely. Those poor, poor people. And it's been fun to certainly look at throughout the history of my lifetime. but I was in kindergarten in 85, so it was very easy for me to jump aboard.

Starting point is 00:06:54 And a quick story here for you, I was at my grandpa's place, my grandpa and grandma's, grandma and grandpa Condon, and the Bears and Vikings were playing. And I think it might have been a Monday night football game that season. And the Bears were beating them.

Starting point is 00:07:07 And my grandpa, as always, is swearing at the TV about his Vikings and absolutely losing his mind. And I thought, well, I'll root for the team that's actually winning. So I said I'm going to root for the bears. The next day, my mom went out and bought me a bear sweatshirt.

Starting point is 00:07:20 And that's what stuck with it, is how I became a Bears fan. And the fandom went that way as she said, you know what, it's probably best for this young man not to be a Vikings fan. I'm going to tell you, I was thinking about the 85 Bears over the weekend, watching the Seahawks play. I know we're not an NFL podcast right now, but we're talking about what the Seahawks look really good right now. So I'm not allowing myself to get too worked up about the playoff game

Starting point is 00:07:44 between the Bears and the Packers because I don't think either one of them stand much of a chance further down the road. But what were you talking about, Iowa football, right? Iowa football, yeah. We took a little Iowa podcast, yeah. We took a U-turn there. That's okay. We can do that.

Starting point is 00:07:57 We don't do that off. You go from time to time. We'll verbal, let's bring it back. There is no Jackson Smith and Jigba in the Iowa wide receiver room. We certainly know that. And as we looked at what they've done portal-wise, like the pieces, makes sense, guys that definitely kind of fit the mold of what I was looking for, but they need wide receivers.

Starting point is 00:08:13 They need difference makers. And I think they need speed. We saw Vayner Z. He's got to stay healthy. But white heat. out there definitely is a big play receiver with that big body. Saw glimpses of Dayton Howard, but after

Starting point is 00:08:25 that it's a whole lot of question marks. We heard about Parker coming in the year. It wasn't a whole lot there that we saw even when he was getting reps. They need dudes and they're looking at a guy from Rio Grande Valley, Texas Rio Grande Valley, who just started up their football program at a kid from Kent State that has some ridiculous numbers

Starting point is 00:08:43 still had 17 catches, but that's the reality. I know people will just go out and get wide receivers. If you're a wide receiver and you look at this and say, am I sure I want to play in this offense? Yeah, the way that I go back to if you were a hypothetical situation, you had a family and you were looking at moving someplace for a job and that state was 48th in education and 49th in health care, would you really, would you be tripping over yourself to go live and work in that state? No. So I don't think wide receivers are necessarily knocking down Tim Lester's door.

Starting point is 00:09:19 trying to come play in this offense. And whether it's right or not, Iowa has a reputation for maybe not making the most of players that position. So until further notice, until they can change people's hearts and minds about the wide receiver position, I think they're going to struggle to attract talent there. We also had a big surprise this week in the portal. And that was the announcement by Cohen entering her that he was going to be entering the transfer portal. But you kind of connect some dots here. And you go back to him walking at senior day, a guy that didn't have tremendous numbers, his first season as a starter. That was interesting. I know the question by some of the beat guys that were down in Tampa, they brought it up a couple of different times. I know David Eichol was down

Starting point is 00:10:02 there. Tom Kaker was down there, Chad Lysdikow. And it was brought up to him. And he said, yeah, plan on being back. But it was just almost the terminology that he used. I guess as surprising as it is, it isn't a shock. And in this era, maybe as we go back to kind of where we open the conversation of how it's a lot different at Iowa. Maybe this one was different too because we're not used to seeing things like that, certainly from a team captain. Yeah, you know, nothing outside of Kirk Ferrence running down the ramp and attacking macho man Randy Savage at a pay-per-view and going NWO on me would surprise me at this point

Starting point is 00:10:39 in college football. So like you said, there were some tea leaves there to be read with walking on senior day. And in this new era, you know, maybe it's just an opportunity to go someplace else in play. It's a definite surprising loss, though, in the transfer portal. No doubt. Also a loss that was anticipated potentially being a starter in Brian Allen. They're continuing to look at depth there. And Yosa, yeah, Vanessa, we anticipate he's going to play a ton next year, like some of the other guys that they have on the defensive line.

Starting point is 00:11:13 I think detackle and certainly after they got to. commitment out of Brown, out of Elon, his commitment looks like a guy that could come in right away and help off the edge because that's one thing too. Iowa was 70th in the country this year in Sacks. And when you turn, great guys have played a ton of football with Hercott coming back this year, Llewellyn coming back, obviously Aaron Graves. And he finished 70th. It feels like maybe you need to get a little more fast twitch out there, guys that can get to the quarterback. Yeah, you know, you look at what they were able to accomplish or what they weren't able to accomplish on the defensive line this year. And that's it. They need to get somebody in there

Starting point is 00:11:47 that can get a little more pressure on the opposing quarterbacks. And maybe if you get a little bit more pressure on Fernando Mendoza in that Indiana game, things turn out a little bit differently there. So I like that pickup. And I really like the James Mattis, the offensive linemen that they got from James Madison. I think that's an up-and-coming program. Obviously, we've seen what Kurt Signetti is done, and there are other, the most recent coach's replacement has now moved on as well. So getting a guy out of James Madison, especially up front on the offensive line, because you look at what Indiana has been able to do with a lot of those James Madison transfers, I think that'll prove to be a pretty good pickup too. Yeah, Bob Chesney out there now at UCLA after a couple of years that James Madison did a really good job. And I was, in fact, after another guy from James Madison, a safety prospect that they're looking at.

Starting point is 00:12:38 Well, as we talk football, we touched on it a little bit at the top. I want to get into how we will remember this season. As we look back in 2025, how this Iowa football team will be remembered nine and four and yet just the third team ever in the Kirk Bairns era to finish with nine wins, which feels like it's happened a whole lot more than it actually has. We'll talk about that plus some basketball talk. As we continue, this is Locked on Hawkeyes. Let's be real.

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Starting point is 00:14:20 Thanks for being with us and making Locked on Hawkeyes your first listen every day. Todd, 2025, a football season that will be frustrating. I think when we look back upon it, I know a lot of people have equated this to the 2018. team. That also finished 9 and 4 that year, also ended the season with a win against a SEC team in the Outback Bowl as a throttled Spurrier in South Carolina in that one. But I think one of the reasons that 2008 is remembered so fondly is not just that team and the improvements that we saw in the way that they built, but it's also what happened the following year, getting off to the night and no start, right, third in the country, an Orange Bowl victory. They kind of go hand in hand. Look, if I would take the step back next year and it's seven and five, a much easier schedule. I don't think historically

Starting point is 00:15:08 2025 will remember quite the same way. Though they're all individual seasons, kind of what happens around them matters a little bit too. Yeah, and I think that's really, you know, when you look at the differences between those teams, the quarterback position, Iowa's going to have a new starter next year, regardless of who the is.

Starting point is 00:15:28 And so there's similarities there, but there's also some pretty major differences as well. And I just, again, I feel like this season, even though at the beginning of the year, I thought eight and four, and it played out eight and four, it just, it really felt like there were some missed opportunities. You know, that Indiana game really seems like that Indiana game could have changed the entire trajectory of the college football season. Now, when you look back at it, because what happens if they pick up a loss there and is, you know, at this point, there's no, there's no point in rehashing. what's already been done. But it's a frustrating year, I think, when you look at what Iowa was capable of doing, what they did do, what they didn't do. But then you look around and you see Indiana doing what the Hoosier doing right now. And sooner or later, eight and four, you know,

Starting point is 00:16:22 it's not going to cut it. And I've said for a number of years, look, you got to understand who you are and what you are when you're at Iowa. But in this new world order of college football, I'm not so sure that that's going to satisfy a lot of people for much longer. Yeah, Indiana has changed the equation for everybody, I think, out there. And Kirk Signity, yes, he is maybe once in a generation, a guy to come like that, this late in his career and do what he's done. But on top of it, I think we also have to remember the influx of cash that has made their way there from not just Mark Cuban, but a number of other donors.

Starting point is 00:16:58 And from the Iowa perspective, that's got to go hand at hand. You've kind of got to this level, but if you talk about taking that next step, I think there's somebody out there. I don't know, maybe the Krauses. I know they sold come and go. You know, somebody's got to open up that checkbook because it just doesn't happen by good coaching. You also need dudes. Yeah, and I know, there's a perception nationally that Indiana, you know, is just, you know, another podunk Midwestern state or whatever. But it's a great school and they've got a big alumni base and they've got a lot of wealthy donors.

Starting point is 00:17:28 And that's something that Iowa doesn't necessarily have. so in this era it's it's who's got the money and if you've got money you can win pretty quickly as indiana has but it also takes the right higher and you know i i think if i look back on almost 15 years on the radio my biggest miss is going to be some of the comments i made about kurt signetti when he took the microphone and said they were going to beat ohio state and michigan and everything i mean i cut this guy down and you know he doesn't you know indiana football is terrible, and he's going to be the latest in the long line, Cam Cameron and all of these other coaches, yeah, that aged like a glass of milk in July out in the sun.

Starting point is 00:18:13 Kurt Signetti's a hell of a football coach. That he is. And we'll have an opportunity to win a national championship as they take on Oregon and that, you know, historic Big Ten affair out in the Peach Bowl. That'll be happening tomorrow night in that matchup. But 2025, one thing that is going to stick with me. Mark Grinowski, though, the passing wasn't there. Definitely just watching him play after the frustrating start.

Starting point is 00:18:37 You can see he was still going through it and hear about him getting amped up. But just watching run the football, the bulldozers that he was. I think I heard maybe it was Scott Docterman that mentioned to this on my radio show earlier in the week. He said, it would be great to see if he could find a place where he could carve out like a Tassum Hill type of role with the Saints and what they built with him. and going back to Sean Payton because that's the likelihood who's going to be the only path that he's going to have at the next level is definitely a gadget type of guy. But just watching him run the football this year,

Starting point is 00:19:06 so entertaining and seeing that big guy, how good he was in the red zone. Yeah, I think, you know, I have reason to believe that he was a pretty solid leader clubhouse as well for the team this year. And not often that you see a team get behind a guy who's clearly a one and done the way that he was. but I thought he was an outstanding leader. He handled the ups and the downs about as well as you can

Starting point is 00:19:31 as a starting quarterback in the Big Ten. And it's going to be a – he leaves large shoes to fill next season, especially with, as you mentioned, what he did offensively, not through the air, but on the ground, because it did add a new element to Iowa's offensive attack. We'll talk about the future, what's going to come next at that quarterback spot. What other lingering thing that's going to stick? with me and it goes hand in hand with Matt Campbell leaving for Penn State as I will finish up

Starting point is 00:19:59 losing three the last four against Campbell and Iowa State. I anticipate things will look a little different next season. I will be a prohibitive favorite in that game in 2006. But losing on 250 plus yard field goals the last couple of years after I would take and regain kind of control of that series against Campbell, certainly early in his career. That was one of the big knocks against him. And what happened here recently, that's going to leave a little bit of the market and yet another loss to the cyclones. Yeah, and depending on what the schedules look like moving forward and how much longer Kirk Farrant sticks around, maybe he hasn't seen the last of Matt Campbell yet.

Starting point is 00:20:35 But a big loss for Iowa State, obviously, and I think, you know, I'm going to have to be convinced over the long haul that Jimmy Rogers will be the guy to get the job done there. Matt Campbell was tremendous, and I know there's a lot of upset Iowa State fans, but build a freaking statue of that guy for what he did. in Ames with that football program. But you got Matt Campbell going to Penn State. We haven't touched on Lovar Woods leaving to go to Michigan State, even taking restaken with him,

Starting point is 00:21:06 which I think is kind of interesting there and some palace intrigue in Iowa City. I don't know, you know, he's always mentioned as a possible future replacement for Kirk Ferrence, and now he's under the wing of Pat Fitzgerald and East Lansing, which I think will go down as one of the first. of the worst hires. I just got done talking about how I was so fully, you know what, with Kurt Signetti and my thoughts on that hire, but I don't think Michigan State's going to come out

Starting point is 00:21:35 of that Pat Fitzgerald hire all that well, but we'll see. He certainly acquired a tremendous coach in LeVar. Yes, no doubt in LeVar, hopeful that this is something that he's going to be able to spread his wings, learn from somebody else, and maybe eventually come back in some role, either be a head coach or maybe even something else down the line depending on how that shakes out. But who knows? I mean, Kirk, he might outlast both of us, Todd, by the time we finish up because that dude, he just keeps going and keeps winning football games year after year after year. A guy winning a lot of basketball games, Ben McCollum, though he's got a difficult stretch coming up. And it started on a bad foot this week, losing on the road at Minnesota, a very winnable

Starting point is 00:22:14 game. Now you got Illinois, two more, more difficult road trips on the horizon. We'll talk about Ben McCollum's basketball team, this difficult stretch and what it's going to take to bounce back, plus a check in with the women's basketball team as we continue, Locked on Hawkeyes. Back with you one final time, Lockdown Hawkeyes. Thanks for being with us and making Lockdown Hawkeyes your first listen every day. If you haven't, go check out our every day or club. Right now an opportunity for you to jump aboard with us, ad free with every audio feed of Lockdown Hawkeyes.

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Starting point is 00:23:10 Monday night, seen it coming. Now, it wasn't a no-name guy like Charles Bugs hitting 7-3-pointers. But there has been good Iowa teams that have gone up and played worst Minnesota teams and lost up in the barn. I love that building. I love going to those games. But boy, it has been at times a house of horrors. And this is not talking about in the 90s when Bobby Jackson and company and Clem Haskins cheating their asses off up there. We're doing their thing.

Starting point is 00:23:37 Still. You said it, not me. I think this one stings more just because of what's still in front of them. And now the growing importance is Sunday against Illinois. It probably stings more for Drake basketball fans, too, watching Ben McCollum and Nico Medved coaching against each other. But, you know, I think it goes back to what Ben McCollum said after that game about they need to find a way to get to the free throw line, especially when they're on the road. And you can talk about, you know, the benefits of playing at home in the Big Ten and getting whistles and all of that. But they didn't do a good enough job of it on the road, and it wound up costing them.

Starting point is 00:24:14 I think they were, what, five and a half, six-point favorites, and I think they were the better team in that game, but it's tough to win on the road. It's tough to win in that building, and it underscores to me what they need to do this year in order to be a tournament team, and that's to pretty much be undefeated at home and then pick up some wins on the road. And, you know, it's far too early to sit back and look and say that this one could prove costly, but one or two, two Big Ten Road wins is going to be a big difference maker, especially in that crowded middle. And I think they let an opportunity to pick one of those wins up, get away from them. The gap between probably teams six and 15 is going to be a game or two. And that's going to be one of them. Another thing I mentioned also yesterday, Todd, was when you go through the Iowa schedule and

Starting point is 00:25:06 what they still have in front of them on the road, there aren't going to be a whole lot of realistic opportunities. I think there's a lot of chances for road victories after we get these next two against Purdue and Indiana. But you look at the Loresa slate. This year, they go to the Pacific Northwest for their West Coast swing. Oregon to Washington, neither of those teams are tournament teams at this point. Maryland's terrible.

Starting point is 00:25:26 Wisconsin might be a bubble team. Penn State's not going to be a tournament team. And then they wrap up in Nebraska. And that game looks like an absolute behemoth. So though they might stack up a couple of road victories, I think this one had a chance to baby me their only quad one road victory because I think Minnesota's got a chance to still be pretty decent this year. That's another reason I think this was a missed opportunity.

Starting point is 00:25:47 I agree with you. I think we can't really judge Minnesota on where they are right now. You look at where they could be in a month and a half, two months from now. Like I said, I would bet money on a Nico Medved coached team being there in the discussion at the end of the season. They were at Drake. They were at Colorado State. And I think they will be at Minnesota. You look around the Big Ten right now.

Starting point is 00:26:10 and I think we're in an era of some really good young, up-and-coming coaches. And it's been a while since the coaching has been as solid across the board in the Big Ten in men's basketball as I think it is right now. And again, I think Iowa made the right higher with Ben McCollum. I didn't expect to be talking about them in the top 25 this year. They just, they continue to impress me. And we'll see, there's no reason Carverhawk Arena should. but not be sold out this weekend for that Illinois game.

Starting point is 00:26:44 None. Zero. Trending that direction. I was there last Saturday for the matchup against UCLA. Took my little guy. Always a lot of fun just getting there with Carver and seeing it through the kids' eyes. And of course, getting a Carver cone that goes along with it. But yeah, I'm right there with you on Sunday. Hope that this thing is sold out.

Starting point is 00:26:59 It's Illinois, too. I mean, of the basketball rivalries for Iowa, this one's got to be, if not the top, certainly way up there. Need to make that happen. Jump over to the women's side. They did not play well. against Northwestern. The turnoff continues to be an issue.

Starting point is 00:27:14 This is a Northwestern team that has now lost nine in a row. They lost eight in a row going into that game. They're down, a battle back and get the victory. I guess credit for that. But the turnovers continue to be the aspect with this team that is just absolutely befuddling of what's happening with this squad. And now they go to Indiana. This is not the Indiana team of the last four or five seasons.

Starting point is 00:27:34 Still pretty good. Chance for a lot of victories here. But the schedule is going to get much more difficult. And they play like they did Monday. there's going to be plenty of else coming up. Yeah, that offense can get stuck in the mud every once in a while. And credit Jan Jensen and her staff because they do have that team playing some pretty decent defense. And I think that that really helped them keep that Northwestern game from being a huge disaster.

Starting point is 00:28:01 And they've got to figure out a way to be more consistent offensively. Otherwise, they're going to have a frustrating loss in March somewhere. long way. I think this team's got a tremendous amount of potential. They've just got to figure out how to play consistently, especially on the offensive side of the floor. And you hit on it, Trent, stop turning the ball over. Oh, I'd be crazy, yelling at my TV. Kids are looking at me like I'm absolutely crazy. It's just it's careless. And so many of those, and that has been the kind of the last couple of years, that has been something that has been piling up for the squad, but we'll continue to watch. And that schedule mentioned that Indiana game. That's another one, kind of like we talked about

Starting point is 00:28:38 with the Minnesota game for Iowa on the men's side. Kind of in the same realm here. A decent team, but a really good chance at a road victory because after that, this schedule is going to get much more difficult. It'll be a lot of fun to see with the Iowa women. Todd, good to catch up with you once again. Going forward, we know that next seven years, it's not going to fall Christmas on Thursdays.

Starting point is 00:28:59 So we'll be good with that in New Year's. But good to talk to you again. We got plenty of topics here as we come into the football offseason. The portal, another week to go on that front. of basketball as well. Good talk to you again, Todd. Great seeing you, Trent. We'll touch base next week. That's Todd Bromel Camp. I'm Trent Kana. Thanks for being with us and making lockdown Hawkeyes, your first listen every day. We'll talk to you again tomorrow.

Starting point is 00:29:20 Until then, go Hawks.

Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Receiver VOID? Iowa Hawkeyes SEEK Game-Changers, Why the Hawkeyes STRUGGLE to Land Wide Receivers

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