Hawkeye Recap - History of Iowa Hawkeyes Football and Basketball

In this podcast, Brion recaps the history of football between Iowa and Missouri, on the eve of the 2024 Music City Bowl. Due to poor sportsmanship and racial conflict, the series took a hiatus of 100 years from 1910-2010. Missouri leads the series 7-6. Note: this podcast was recorded before the game. Links from the podcast: Iowa vs Missouri Football History: https://hawkeyerecap.com/home.asp?sport...

In this podcast, Brion shares Iowa football player and coach interviews from August 2008 at Media Day. The audio was provided by HawkeyeNation.com's Jon Miller. After the interviews, I recap the 2008 season, so you can compare their interviews with the outcome of the season. Links from the podcast: 2008 Iowa Football season: https://hawkeyerecap.com/home.asp?sport=Football&coach=&seaso...

In this podcast, I review and summarize the amazing high school and college achievements of Caitlin Clark. I also include audio from the postgame interviews after her final game in this year's national championship game. Links from the podcast: Caitlin Clark Profile: https://hawkeyerecap.com/player.asp?id=2546 Video of the NCAA championship postgame interviews with Catilin and Kate Martin: htt...

In this podcast, I highlight the 50 seasons of Iowa women's basketball history, starting with the 1974-75 season with Coach Lark Birdsong up until the most recent back-to-back National Title game appearances. I finished loading all the WBB games to the website, so you can check out all past games! I also share my expectations of the team going forward, and my thoughts about the future of the p...

In this podcast, I highlight additional player profiles, including some women's basketball players for the first time, along with former basketball player and North Dakota head coach Dave Gunther, who recently passed away. Links from the podcast: All Iowa WBB Player Profiles (so far): https://hawkeyerecap.com/players.asp?teamsport=Women%27s%20Basketball Joe Laws: https://hawkeyerecap.com/playe...

In this podcast, I pulled the radio broadcast highlights from three Iowa football games against Notre Dame (1953, 1956 and 1958). These were clipped from the album, "Hooray for the Hawkeyes" that recapped the success of the 1950's Iowa Football program. 1953: Iowa 14, Notre Dame 14 1956: Iowa 48, Notre Dame 8 1958: Iowa 31, Notre Dame 21 You can find more details about all the Iowa f...

In this podcast, I share another section of the interview I had with Hawkfanatic's Tyler Devine of The Devine Line from back in February 2021. In the last podcast, we discussed Hawkeye history, but in this podcast, Tyler shares a great story about the time he interviewed Dan Gable for an article he wrote in high school. I also found an interview with Tom Brands a few years ago with Flo Wrestli...

In this podcast, I share the interview I did with Tyler Devine of The Devine Line from back in February 2021. We talk about a variety of topics related to Hawkeye history. This podcast is not the entire episode, you can find that here: https://hawkfanatic.com/2021/02/06/the-devine-line-ep-17-brion-hurley/ I removed the segment where Tyler talks about an interview he did with Dan Gable. I will post...

For this week's podcast, I highlight former Iowa player and Oklahoma legendary head coach, Bob Stoops. I also review his book "No Excuses: The Making of a Head Coach" that was published in 2019. Earlier this month, we lost another Hawkeye legend, Kenny Ploen, who died at the age of 88. He was the QB for Iowa during the 1956 season, leading them to the Big Ten title and first Rose Bow...

For this week's podcast, I share the final part of our 4-part series to highlight black players and coaches at Iowa in honor of Black History month in February. This week, I highlight the following athletes, many of them being trailblazers at Iowa and across the nation: Kevin Gamble, Ed Horton, Robert Smith, Larry Station, Quinn Early and Andre Tippett. Links from the podcast: Kevin Gamble: ht...

For this week's podcast, I share part 3 of our 4-part series to highlight black players and coaches at Iowa in honor of Black History month in February. This week, I highlight the following athletes, many of them being trailblazers at Iowa and across the nation: Duke Slater, Ronnie Lester, Felton Rogers, Bobby Grier, Marcella Benson (1st Black Women Letterwinner at Iowa), Emma Williams (1st Bl...

For this week's podcast, I share part 2 of our 4-part series to highlight black players and coaches at Iowa in honor of Black History month in February. This week, I highlight the following athletes, many of them being trailblazers at Iowa and across the nation: Emlen Tunnell, Ozzie Simmons, Roy Marble, Reggie Roby and coaches C. Vivian Stringer and George Raveling Links from the podcast: Emle...

For this week's podcast, I begin a 4-part series to highlight black players and coaches at Iowa in honor of Black History month in February. This week, I highlight the following athletes, many of them being trailblazers at Iowa and across the nation: Wilburn Hollis, Simon Roberts, Frank Kinney Holbrook, Frank Gilliam, Calvin Jones, Eddie Vincent, Joe Williams, Archie Alexander, Homer Harris an...

With the news that Beth Goetz was officially named Iowa's athletic director, I went back and looked at the past athletic directors, including the split role during Christine Grant's tenure leading the women's athletics program. Past directors include Alden Knipe, Nelson Kellogg, Howard Jones, Paul Belting, Edward Lauer, Ossie Solem, E. G. Schroeder, Paul Brechler, Forest Evashevski, Bu...

For last week's podcast, I shared some books and movies that were written about or written by former players. This week, I'm sharing books and movies about or written by former coaches, including Dan Gable, Hayden Fry, C. Vivian Stringer. Forest Evashevski, and Otto Vogel. Links from the podcast: Books and Movies about or from former Iowa Hawkeye players and coaches: https://hawkeyerecap.c...

For this week's podcast, I share some books and movies that are written about or written by former Hawkeye players. A few were written or directed by Quinn Early, and not surprisingly, there are a few books about Nile Kinnick. There are also books about Duke Slater, Connie Hawkins, Chuck Long, Bob Stoops, Chris Street, Ronnie Lester and even some less famous players. Links from the podcast: Bo...

In this week's podcast, I spotlight 2 player profiles The first one is Jerry Hilgenberg, who walked-on at Iowa in the early 1950's and had two sons that played at Iowa and in the NFL (Jay and Joel). Sadly he passed away last week. With the news yesterday of Kadyn Proctor joining the Hawks, I also profile a big-time football recruit back in 1972, Butch Caldwell. He also had all the big scho...

For this week's podcast, I share some of the player profiles that are getting the most clicks on his website (most recently or overall). Basketball players include: Kenyon Murray, Sam Okey, Steve Krafsicin, Larry Parker, Michael Payne, and Mitch "Sky" King Football players include: Andre Jackson and Mitch Ogiego Links from the podcast: Kenyon Murray: https://hawkeyerecap.com/player.a...

I share my perspectives of getting a press credential to cover the 2024 Citrus Bowl from the press box for the first time. I go through the process and timeline of a day in the life of an Iowa media reporter. I read the article I wrote on HawkFanatic.com after the game. The Citrus Bowl loss was the worst margin of defeat in a bowl game in Iowa football history, surpassing the 37-3 loss in the 1993...

This podcast was recorded at the end of last year, but I'm just now posting it. The Citrus Bowl did not go well, with the Hawks losing badly 35-0 to Tennessee. That makes Iowa 1-3 all-time against the Volunteers. In this podcast, I recapped Iowa's 3 previous games against Tennessee in football. The 1982 Peach Bowl win, the 1987 Kickoff Classic loss, and the 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl blowout loss...

This podcast was recorded at the end of last year, but I'm just now posting it. Iowa played Northern Illinois on 12/29 and won 103-74, putting their all-time record at 10-0 against the Huskies. In this podcast, I recap the previous 9 victories, starting back in 1973. Links from the podcast: Northern Illinois Basketball Games vs Iowa: https://hawkeyerecap.com/home.asp?opp=Northern%20Illinois&am...

Player Profiles this week are with fan favorite and former All-American Jess Settles and a lesser known Hawkeye, Jim Speed, who unfortunately lost his eyesight and was never able to play basketball at Iowa back in the early 1970's. Links from the podcast: Jim Speed Player Profile: https://hawkeyerecap.com/player.asp?id=147 Jess Settles Player Profile: https://hawkeyerecap.com/player.asp?id=14...

With a light basketball schedule this week, I decided to go through a variety of Iowa history in this podcast. First, I looked at Iowa's 2-game history against upcoming opponent, Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), and recap the 1990 and 2014 games. Next, I researched how Iowa women's basketball team hosted the inaugural Big Ten tournament in December of 1974 for 5 of the 8 teams that had wo...

Iowa was going to face #1 Purdue last week, but they fell from the top ranking with their loss at Northwestern. Despite that, I wanted to recap the past men's basketball games against #1 ranked teams. Iowa is 3-23 all-time (11.5% win rate), with the 3 wins coming in 1965 vs UCLA (played in Chicago), 1999 against UConn in Steve Alford's first game as coach, and in 2015 against Michigan Stat...

One of this week's opponent in basketball is Iowa State, so I summarized the games played from 1910 through 1935. Iowa is 48-28 (63% win) all-time. Fran McCaffery is 6-7 (46%) all-time vs the Cyclones. For comparison, Tom Davis was 8-5 (61.5%) all-time. The first game wasn't played until 1910. They played frequently (sometimes twice a year) through 1921, then restarted in 1933. They played...