Hawkeye Report Podcast 758
Hawkeye Report Podcast
The Big Ten Conference has officially released the football schedule for the 2026 season and the Iowa Hawkeyes now know who their opponents will be each week in the final nine weeks of the season. Tom Kakert and Kyle Huesmann hop on the podcast to discuss the very latest on this news. Iowa opens their Big Ten schedule with what most would consider to be their three toughest games of the season, including road games at Michigan and Washington and in the middle is a visit from Ohio State. We talk about the entire schedule for the Hawkeyes and how it is laid out this year. Which games...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 757
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's a special Sunday evening edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast. Tom Kakert and Kyle Huesmann are on for just over thirty minutes talking exclusively about Iowa women's basketball following the Hawkeyes convincing 91-70 victory over nationally ranked Ohio State at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. We discuss the hot start for the Hawkeyes, clicking right out of the gate from the floor and continued to play solid basketball, particularly when it comes to scores in the paint from Hannah Stuelke and Ava Heiden. There was also a downside to the game for Iowa and that was one the headlines....
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 756
Hawkeye Report Podcast
Back to back days of shows for the Hawkeye Report Podcast. This one was not an emergency podcast, but it might as well be one as the Iowa women's basketball team held on for an overtime win at Maryland. What made it more dramatic than it needed to be was the Hawkeyes blowing a 17 point lead with 3:15 left in the fourth quarter before outscoring the Terps in overtime, 12-5 on their way to a seven point victory. Tom Kakert and Kyle Huesmann headed to the podcast shortly after the game and broke it down from all the angles. We open looking at the end where Iowa somehow got off the...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 755
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's another busy edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast with Tom Kakert and Tanner LaFever covering a lot of ground on all the winter sports. We open the podcast actually going back to a fall sport, football. The Hawkeyes may have wrapped up thier portal work on Wednesday when they landed Ohio State defensive back transfer Cody Haddad. We talk about how he might fit into the Iowa secondary and the impressive haul and re-working of the safety position this off-season. Then we moved to Iowa men's basketball with a discussion of the Hawkeyes win on Tuesday evening over Rutgers. We...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 754
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's another very busy addition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast. This time it's Tom Kakert and Tanner Lafever talking Iowa athletics on the podcast. We open the show discussing Iowa hiring a new special teams coordinator. It's a name that you probably heard here on the pod when Levar Woods departure was announced, Chris Polizzi. We look at his background discuss why this is a good hire. Plus we mention that Iowa appears to be closing in on a punter who is from the land down under and has the same trainer as Tory Taylor. Then we discuss some potential late additions to Iowa's portal...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 753
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's another busy week of Iowa Hawkeye athletics for us to review and preview on the podcast. We are joined by Tom Kakert and Kyle Huesmann to break it all down this week. This week we start with Iowa women's hoops. Huesmann was in Evanston and Bloomington this week to cover the Hawkeyes two road victories. Neither were pretty, but they were victories and he talks about how they got there in those games and the way they rallied on Sunday in the victory over Indiana. Plus we look ahead to this coming week that begins a very challenging stretch of basketball for Jan Jensen's squad,...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 752
Hawkeye Report Podcast
The transfer portal is open and the Iowa Hawkeye Football team has been busy shopping for players, and yes, losing a few on the way. We discuss that and more on the Hawkeye Report Podcast. First, we talk some Hawkeye Basketball. We open discussing the Iowa men's team having a shot to tie the game at Minnesota, only to miss three shots and lose by three to the Gophers. Tom Kakert was in Minneapolis for the game and discusses what he saw and the conversations he had with Ben McCollum and the players after the game, including the Hawkeyes dealing with illness among several team...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 751
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's a post bowl game edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo join up to talk about the Iowa football team beating Vanderbilt in the ReliaQuest Bowl, 34-27 on New Year's Eve. It was a strong performance for the Iowa offense, led by Mark Gronowski and featuring huge plays in the passing game from DJ Vonnahme and others along the way. We talk about the fast start, led by a huge run by Gronowski and the huge trick play early in the second half to put points on the board. Plus we discuss the defensive effort of the Hawkeyes, who did a pretty solid job against...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 750
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's a very special edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast as we record from Tampa prior to the ReliaQuest Bowl. We are pleased to be joined by the two gentlemen who will be calling the game agianst Vanderbilt, Gary Dolphin and Pat Angerer. It's a wide ranging conversation talking a lot of Iowa football, starting with our memories from this bowl game with Dolphin ready to call his seventh bowl game from Tampa and Angerer having played and won the 2009 then Outback Bowl over South Carolina. We walk down memory lane discussing this bowl game. We talk about the state of the Iowa...
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Hawkeye Report Podcast 749
Hawkeye Report Podcast
It's our year end wrap-up Hawkeye Report Podcast. Of course we will probably do one or two more before the end of the year, but this is our wrap on the entire season for all the various sports that we cover. We are joined by Tom Kakert, Kyle Huesmann, and Tanner LaFever to discuss the various sports and beats that we cover. We start with Iowa football and earning the Joe Moore Award on Monday and why it's a special award for this group and for Kirk Ferentz since Moore was his former high school coach and mentor. We then highlight some of the top stories from the Iowa football...
info_outlineIt's another post game edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast. This time it's another pod following a win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Iowa blew open a close by by outscoring the Cornhuskers 30-3 on their way to a convincing 40-16 victory.
Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo dive into the win and the plays that were key in the game. We also discuss the incredible day for Aaron Graves, who became a father for the first time on Thansgiving Day and then rushed to Lincoln to play a football game.
We discuss the strong performance from Mark Gronowski at quarterback and his key plays to DJ Vonnahme for a score and the amazing throw and catch to Reece Vander Zee. Then we dive into a look at this season and where the Hawkeyes might be bowling. Could a trip to Tampa be on the agenda?
Finally we wrap up talking some Iowa men's basketball after their 2-0 trip to Palm Springs and what we learned about the Hawkeye team.