Recent content by Grady

Yeah, I find this NET ranking about as meaningful as preseason college football polls. There's a reason the college football playoff committee doesn't put out their 1st rankings until halfway through the season. Sure, Iowa's only 2 losses are to the #3 and #7 teams in the nation, but they have...

Heckuva honor. Lots of OLines start out the season aiming to win the Joe Moore award. Having seen all 3 of the OLine finalists in-person at Kinnick this season, I probably would have given the edge to Oregon. But from a purely technique standpoint, hard to argue with the Iowa choice.

I think you're underestimating the expertise of Woods and how he put his heart and soul into those Special Teams. Jones, DeJean, and Wetjen were all special, for sure, but if you think they accomplished all they did on their own, you're mistaken. Woods was all about details, and that filtered...

News reports say he was recruited as a TE.

Without specifically mentioning the notoriously quiet Iowa fans at Iowa men's games, after the Bucknell game in Des Moines Coach McCollum offered up this gem: "We need to get those same people to Carver."

I tuned into the game off and on, not realizing it was in Des Moines. Then with just a few minutes remaining, I heard loud "Let's Go HAWKS" crowd chants -- when Iowa was up by 50 pts! I was like, WHAT? What's going on to make this game special and the crowd so enthusiastic? Then I realized...

When I was 18 in I entered volunteer service and lived in Jackson, MS for a year. 1976. Got involved with a lot of the old civil rights network folks, who were still around. At that time I had multiple friends get hauled down to the police depts in small towns for simply walking down the...

If she doesn't stick around, it's not the end of the world for the Hawks, but it's a loss. After one of the games, I noted she's one of the few players -- other than Chit Chat the ONLY player, really -- on Iowa's team that can 'get her own shot' -- meaning when the offense breaks down and the...

Watch this year's Vandy-Tennessee game. He's good.

Iowa tried to front Crooks numerous times -- most of the time the Clones were successful throwing it over the top to her, a couple times it resulted in a turnover. The only way Crooks will be stopped from scoring is when she encounters a post player significantly taller than her, 6'7 or 6'8"...

Just what the Hawks need prior to the bowl game -- a pissed off Heisman contender wanting to prove every voter in the country made a mistake when he plays vs Iowa. We don't need that. I still have nightmares of Iowa's first defensive play vs McCaffery at the Rose Bowl...

...about Chit Chat's concussion and whiplash situation, following the Lindenwood game. It sounds like at some point during the game Chit Chat got knocked and began to feel oddly out-of-sorts, and came out of the game. She never returned out of 'caution'. I thought Jensen's comments afterward...

It's so stupid that whenever an Iowa team loses, a majority of people blame it on the refs -- as tho the Hawks are better than any team they play and the only way can lose is if they get screwed by the refs. Frankly, I saw more holding and grabbing by Iowa's guards during the 1st half of the...

The refs didn't cost Iowa this game. In fact, by letting both teams play through obvious fouls in the 1st half that actually favored Iowa because ISU is a quicker team that drives more to the basket. In the 2nd half the refs called a much tighter game, which favored ISU -- but only because ISU...

It's not a crazy idea. But it's a crazy idea in the eyes of KF. From his lense, change=increased odds for mistakes or errors.