Hawkeye Football and Basketball Success At Same time

[ibahawkeye]

I'm just excited about the near future for both the Hawkeye football and basketball team. I just think the offense will get better under Brian, with KOK and Polasek's experience at OC and I think recruiting is already improving. The talent and depth of the basketball roster continues to improve and we still have guys like Weiskamp, Patrick McCaffrey to come.

Anybody else just feel excited for the future of these 2 programs?? And my other question, maybe from the older fans... what were some years that were great to be a Hawk fan in terms of success of both these programs at the same time? Would be interested in hearing some stories on the best years to be a hawk fan.

 

[hawkeye52205]

I'm just excited about the near future for both the Hawkeye football and basketball team. I just think the offense will get better under Brian, with KOK and Polasek's experience at OC and I think recruiting is already improving. The talent and depth of the basketball roster continues to improve and we still have guys like Weiskamp, Patrick McCaffrey to come.

Anybody else just feel excited for the future of these 2 programs?? And my other question, maybe from the older fans... what were some years that were great to be a Hawk fan in terms of success of both these programs at the same time? Would be interested in hearing some stories on the best years to be a hawk fan.

1956 would be hard to beat. Basketball national runner up to Bill Russell, followed by a Rose Bowl victory. Mid to late 50's were heady times for the Hawks.

 

[uihawk82]

1980-1997, Hayden and Lute, so so Raveling, but real good years under Mr. Davis. and wrestling was perennial Natty Champs.

if Fran and his players can finish a season strong it will help with their rep and the football team needs to get a good bowl matchup and a solid win.

 

[hawkdrummer1]

Final Four 1980, Rose Bowl 1982 (1981 season), Wrestling NC's on top of it. Pretty awesome time to be on campus.

 

[ibahawkeye]

Born in 85, so maybe that adds some context... I can't recall being as excited about the future of both these programs at the same time in my lifetime.

I'm more confident in the basketball team taking the next step but in regards to football, I'm hanging on to the optimism of an average offense with a good defense could produce good results. Feel like the offensive bar has been set so low it's hard to image our passing offens being worse with the OL returning and Wadley and Butler. Brian doesn't need to reinvent the entire wheel, just fix the passing attack.

 

[mopkins]

I was in college from 2000-2004 so I had a weird 4 year window with Iowa football and Basketball. The Recker/Evans/Oliver seasons, the 2002/2003 football seasons. My first 2 years of college the basketball team was good and my second 2 years the football team was REALLY good. But they weren't both good at the same time.

Iowa basketball has an incredible ceiling right now. This season I expect a tourney appearance but NEXT season I expect something even greater. They just need to stay healthy and stick together.

I am cautiously optimistic about Iowa football. I think they will surprise this year, but the future has a huge question mark on it, like always. Right now I don't want to think about Iowa football without Jewell and Wadley

 

[trj]

1980-1997, Hayden and Lute, so so Raveling, but real good years under Mr. Davis. and wrestling was perennial Natty Champs.

if Fran and his players can finish a season strong it will help with their rep and the football team needs to get a good bowl matchup and a solid win.

That is my wheelhouse; the 80's really spoiled me. I thought that run would last forever. C Viv had the women's program rolling, the women's field hockey team was a perennial national power for like a decade. It truly was a top 20 athletic department in terms of athletic performance probably right up to '97.

 

[IndianaHawk]

That is my wheelhouse; the 80's really spoiled me. I thought that run would last forever. C Viv had the women's program rolling, the women's field hockey team was a perennial national power for like a decade. It truly was a top 20 athletic department in terms of athletic performance probably right up to '97.

Same here. I started following Iowa sports when Lute was here. 9 in a row in wrestling, etc.

 

[SteveGarvey1]

Really can't think of a single year since the mid to late 70s when both the football and basketball teams were awful the same years. I think 2007 was the 6-6 no bowl season for Kirk which I believe coincided with the first year of Lick's terrible three year run but otherwise, one or the other team was at least decent no?

 

[judzeehawk]

I'm just excited about the near future for both the Hawkeye football and basketball team. I just think the offense will get better under Brian, with KOK and Polasek's experience at OC and I think recruiting is already improving. The talent and depth of the basketball roster continues to improve and we still have guys like Weiskamp, Patrick McCaffrey to come.

Anybody else just feel excited for the future of these 2 programs?? And my other question, maybe from the older fans... what were some years that were great to be a Hawk fan in terms of success of both these programs at the same time? Would be interested in hearing some stories on the best years to be a hawk fan.

Absolutely! Football along with men's and women's basketball! This is going to be a special season! I'm pumped! Go Hawks!

 

[uihawk82]

That is my wheelhouse; the 80's really spoiled me. I thought that run would last forever. C Viv had the women's program rolling, the women's field hockey team was a perennial national power for like a decade. It truly was a top 20 athletic department in terms of athletic performance probably right up to '97.

You remember it well. A lot of winning under Bump.

 

[SpiderRico]

There honestly was no better time to be a Hawk fan than between 1980 and 1990. In that time, the basketball team went to a final four, an elite 8 and a sweet 16 and was ranked #1 for several weeks; the football team went to 3 Rose Bowls, was ranked #1 on 2 different occasions (once for several weeks in '85 and preseason Sporting News #1 in 1988); the women's basketball team won 5 straight B1G titles and went to a final four; the baseball team, under Duane Banks, regularly won 30+ games every year and was the last outright B1G champion; and the wrestling team won everything under the sun during that time. I'd love for that to happen again, but I doubt I see something close to that again in my lifetime (I'm 44).