"College Football Preview" 10/29/2010 Podcast

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This is the podcast from Friday's "College Football Preview Show" on KRUI radio. We break down the Iowa vs Michigan State game, along with the other big games of the weekend.

"College Football Preview Show" Podcast 10/22/2010

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This is the podcast of the "College Football Preview" radio show that I host on KRUI FM. Mike Rabon, Zach Smith, Neal Ternes, and Pat Rafferty are on my panel. On this show, we open discussing the firing of Minnesota coach Tim Brewster, discuss who we think is the #1 team in college football, and pick the big games of the week.

"Incompetent Sports Talk" 10/21/2010

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Iowa Basketball Team Adjusting Well To New Coaching Staff

#15 Iowa Prepares for Rival #13 Wisconsin

Media Putting Stock In Iowa Football

The Iowa Hawkeyes are currently ranked 15th in the initial BCS standings and are one of only three teams in the Big Ten that have not dropped a conference game. After back to back double-digit wins versus Big Ten opponents, the Hawkeyes are getting some love from college football media outlets.

The respected ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit said on Sunday that the Hawkeyes are the 6th best team in college football and he projected them to win the conference. In ESPN.com's bowl projections, both Mark Schlabach and Andrea Adelson have the Hawkeyes making a BCS bowl game. Schlabach has Iowa playing Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and Adelson has Iowa playing Oregon in the Rose Bowl. CBS Sports is projecting that the 5-1 Hawkeyes will play Boise State in the Rose Bowl and said that they are the "favorite to win the Big Ten."

The confidence that the media has placed in Iowa this season may be refreshing for Iowa fans. Last season, when the Hawkeyes started off the year 9-0, most of the media dismissed the Hawkeyes as a team that was lucky and living on the edge, despite the fact that they were just winning games.

Many Hawk fans think that Iowa thrives in the underdog position. Many think that they love when nobody believes in them. Considering last year's impressive season that culminated in an Orange Bowl win, that could possibly be true. The roles have reversed this season as the media is behind the Hawks. My bet is that they rise to the occasion and keep winning.

#15 Iowa wins at Michigan 38-28

"Sports Issues" Podcast 10/14/2010 Should we pay college athletes?

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Mike Rabon, Neal Ternes, Nick Robertson, Ryan Murphy, Kyle Hughes, and I have a discussion on whether we should pay college athletes money (in addition to their scholarships). We also discussed some of the Thursday college football matchups.

McCaffery, Speraw, and Players Talk About Iowa's New Up-Tempo Style

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"Incompetent Sports Talk" 10/14/2010

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Mike, Jake, and I go through our SEC and Big Ten power rankings, we pick the big games in week 7 of college football, and break down the Iowa vs Michigan game.

#14 Iowa Prepares for #24 Michigan

"Incompetet Sports Talk" 10-07-2010

On this week's IST, we recap Iowa's big win versus Penn State, draft our "fantasy" college football teams, and pick some of the big week 6 college football games.

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"Poll Preview Show" Podcast 10-07-2010

KRUI's "Poll Preview Show" is back this week as Neal Ternes, Mike Rabon, and I dig extensively into the college football rankings. Mike and I also reveal our personal Top 25 polls. It was a fun hour today and we get on plenty of tangents to make it even more interesting.

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"Black and Gold Spirit Night" a Success

Saturday’s Hawkeye football game versus #22 Penn State was officially declared “Black and Gold Spirit Day” by the University of Iowa. The concept behind it was to have alternating sections of people wearing all black or all gold apparel to give Kinnick a “striped” look when wide and aerial shots of the stadium would be seen on television. A press release from the University of Iowa said that they wanted to “provide a stunning image of the UI's prized Kinnick Stadium when ESPN pans the venue at kickoff.”

At first I was a little worried that the concept would not work. There are 70,585 people who fill Kinnick every Saturday. People come from all over the state and even the country to Iowa City for a Hawkeye game day and if some people did not get the memo, then it would not work.

The Hawkeyes have some of the best fans in the nation and they came through, as they always do. Kinnick looked absolutely stunning and unique during the entire broadcast on ESPN. I received numerous text messages from people during the game commenting on how they loved the colors in the stadium. Upon watching a rebroadcast of the game, ESPN had plenty of wide shots of the stadium that showed the colorful spectators inside Kinnick.

“Black and Gold Spirit Night” was a success in my book. Kudos to the Hawk fans for dressing in their colors and kudos to ESPN for their coverage of the game. I hope that there will be more "Black and Gold Spirit Days" in the future.

#18 Iowa Defeats #20 Penn State 24-3

"College Football Preview" Podcast 10-01-2010 On Location From Burge Hall

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This is the podcast of the "College Football Preview" show that I host along with Mike Rabon and former Hawkeye football player Chris Rowell on KRUI radio. We did our show on location inside Burge Hall during the lunch rush in order to promote the show. We picked some of the big games coming up this weekend, talked about which conference has had the biggest wins so far, and broke down the Iowa vs Penn State game.