Hawkeye Report Podcast

A little bit of everything this week on the podcast. We open with Iowa football talk and close with men's hoops and a little bit of Caitlin Clark discussion.  First, the Iowa football talk opens the show. We take one final look back at the Hawkeyes win over the Gophers and how Iowa was scratching where it itched on Saturday night in Minneapolis. Those words came from Hawkeye offensive coordinator...

The Hawkeyes headed into a bye week with a convincing victory over Minneosta. We visit with former Iowa quarterback Chuck Long about what he saw on Saturday night as the Hawkeyes pulled away for a comfortable win over Minnesota.  We get Long's view of the Iowa offense that continues to be inconsistent at times, but is riding the amazing performances of Kaleb Johnson, who leads the country in rushi...

The Iowa Hawkeyes used a 24 point second half to rally past Minnesota and reclaim Floyd of Rosedale on Saturday night. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo fired up the podcast machine late on Saturday night to recap the significant win for the Hawkeyes.  We look back another amazing performance by running back Kaleb Johnson. He gave full credit after the game, as he did all season, to his offensive line...

We have a special edition of the podcast as we are joined by Iowa women's wrestling head coach Clarissa Chun. Tom Kakert and Tanner LaFever discuss a variety of topics with Coach Chun, starting with building a program from the ground floor and how she has done that and what she learned along the way.  We also discuss the growth of women's wrestling on a national and local level and what that means...

It's Floyd of Rosedale week for the Hawkeye football team. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo take one final look back at the win over Troy and more importantly the stats for the Iowa offense so far this season, which are pretty good. We also discuss what Kirk Ferentz had to say about potentially expanding the package run by Brendan Sullivan along the goal line and if it could be included on short yarda...

A great new Chuck Long Podcast this week. We go deep into the weeds on Iowa football on a variety of fronts with the legendary Hawkeye quarterback. First we start with the win over Troy and we open with a discussion surrounding the big plays that the Iowa defense has given up the last two weeks. What can be done there and how concerning is it moving forward? Then we slide over to the offense and s...

It's the post game edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast. This time it's following an Iowa victory, but it wasn't pretty for the entire game. We open discussing how the Iowa football team seems to play a good half of football, but they haven't yet played a complete contest.  We have an extended discussion about the play of Cade McNamara. Have fans just made up their mind about him and his performa...

The weekly verison of the Hawkeye Report Podcast has plenty of ground to cover. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo open one final look back at the loss to Iowa State. One person who seems to still be thinking about defeat to the Cyclones is the Iowa head coach, who is clearly frustrated with his red zone and goal line offense.  We talk about the situation at quarterback for the Hawkeyes. Where do things...

A lot of ground to cover this week on the Chuck Long Podcast. This week we try to make sense of the stunning loss to Iowa State and what went wrong in the second half. We open discussing how unusual the game was for Iowa and then dive into the play of Cade McNamara.. How he started hot and then struggled in the last three quarters of the game.  We discuss if Iowa should look at playing Brendan Sul...

For a good portion of Saturday's game against Iowa State, the Hawkeyes controled the potential outcome of the game. Then the wheels slowly fell off and the next thing you know, the Cyclones were lining up for a game winning field goal that led to a defeat of the Iowa football team.  Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo are back for the second straight week with a pod game podcast, this time to discuss a s...

It's Cy-Hawk Week and we have a wide ranging podcast breaking it all down and getting you caught up with the latest recruiting news. First, we open praising the amazing play of Caitlin Clark following her triple-double on Wednesday night.  Then we get to Iowa football and take one final look back at the win over Illinois State. We discuss the success of the Iowa offense and building upon it and th...

Week one of the Iowa football season is in the books and we catch up with the great Chuck Long to get his thoughts on what he saw from the Hawkeye offense. After a slow start, Long breaks down what Iowa did to snap out of their early funk.  We look at how Tim Lester called the game and what he thought of the performance of the Iowa offensive coordinator in his first game leading the Hawkeye offens...

The Iowa Hawkeye football team started slow, but came on in the second half to post a convincing 40-0 win over Illinois State. Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo do a post game podcast breaking down what we saw at Kinnick Stadium on Saturday afternoon.  We start with the struggles in the first half and then dive into what exactly occured in the second half of the game where Cade McNamara catches fire an...

Iowa fans, we made it! It's week one of the Hawkeye football season and we have your full preview podcast of the opening game against Illinois State. We start by discussing what Kirk Ferentz had to say at his press conference and how little he really talked about being suspended for it.  Then we dive into the game itself and the new depth chart, that included Kamari Moulton starting at running bac...

Plenty of news to discuss this week on the Chuck Long Podcast. We visit with Chuck about the big news of late last week that Kirk Ferentz has been suspended for the first game of the season. We get Chuck's thoughts on how that will impact Iowa in the first game of the season and what the rest of the Iowa staff might move around because of hte suspension of Ferentz and wide receiver coach Jon Budma...

In what can only be termed stunning and surprising news, Kirk Ferentz has been suspended for the first game of the season against Illinois State for a recruiting violation that took place in late 2022.  On the podcast we go into detail about what happened to get Ferentz in trouble with the NCAA and why they decided to go ahead and offer up a one game suspension instead of battling the NCAA. We loo...

A really fun podcast the week before the start of the Iowa football season. Of course we discuss the Hawkeye football season as Matt Randazzo and Tom Kakert are joined by The CEO of the Iowa Swarm, Brad Heinrichs. You can contribute to the Iowa Swarm Collective at IowaSwarm.com.  Heinrichs was at Iowa football practice twice last weekend and we discuss what he saw while he was there and who he thi...

Breaking news that was big enough that we had to fire up the podcast machine. Iose Epenesa has verbally committed to the Iowa football program. He is a five star prospect and the son of Epenesa Epenesa and brother of A.J. and Eric, who have both played at Iowa.  What's the impact of the commitment from Iose Epenesa? For a while it looked like he might be headed either Miami, Utah, or Penn State. W...

It's a very special Hawkeye Report Podcast this week. Matt Randazzo and Tom Kakert and joined by former Hawkeye and WWE Champion Ettore Ewen (Big E) for wide ranging conversation. We open discussing how he was discovered by Iowa. It's an amazing story of being in the right place at the right time in the spring of 2004.  We look back at how that process played out of being seen in the weight room a...

There might be a quarterback controversy in Iowa City. After a lackluster performance on Saturday, we launch the new season of the Chuck Long Podcast to get the former Hawkeye quarterbacks view of what he saw on film from Cade McNamara and Brendan Sullivan.  We get his thoughts on the overall offense and why he really likes what Tim Lester is showing in terms of presnap motion and the design of th...

We are almost there. The Iowa football season is nearly back! In the last two days in Iowa City we have had Iowa football media day and then the Kids Day practice. Tom Kakert flies solo on the Saturday night podcast to discuss all the hot topics coming out of it.  As you might expect, there's a huge discussion about what we thought of Cade McNamara's peformance on Saturday? Is it time to hit the p...

It's a busy podcast this week with plenty of ground to cover. The Iowa football team has opened fall practice so we start the podcast with a look at fall camp. We offer up some thoughts on the key storylines for the Iowa football team and we look at five players to watch on both sides of the call during camp.  After talking football we dive into the complex House vs. NCAA settlement. A whole lot t...

It's a special edition of the Hawkeye Report Podcast with a huge guest. With fall practice about to get underway in Iowa City, we are honored to have defensive coordinator Phil Parker on the pod.  We spent 30 minutes with the Broyles Award winner leading up to the start of practice. We open discussing what he enjoys about fall camp before diving into the positions groups, starting with the defensi...

Plenty of news and notes to cover this week. It's a rare solo podcast for Tom Kakert as he breaks down the news and notes from an Iowa perspective from Big Ten Football Media Days in Indianapolis.  We start by diving into the newly released Iowa football two deeps. It's our first look at Iowa football heading into the start of fall camp next week. We start with the defense and look at every positi...

It's one of our favorite podcasts of the year leading up to the start of the Iowa football season.  Tom Kakert and Matt Randazzo are joined by their good friend Chad Leistikow from the Des Moines Register to examine the over/under win totals for the entire Big Ten Conference. But, before we do that, there have been several media sessions in the last two weeks for Iowa football and Hawkeye men's an...