Washed Up Walkons

Every Hawkeye's favorite Husker Jeremiah Sirles joins for our annual Thanksgiving tradition. If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel access, and more! Find us on social media @...

The final regular season press conference of the year! Not a ton was said about Friday's matchup against the Huskers, and more was discussed around this senior class, the kid captains, and the rule changes looming in college football. If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcas...

The Hawks notched their 7th win of the season on Saturday out east against Maryland. The running game got back to their ways as KJ went for another 150 supplemented by over 100 yards from Moulton. The Defense was what we have wanted them to be all year long looking like a traditional bend dont break Iowa. Drew Stevens was lights out with the biggest game of his career going 5/5 with several from 5...

On Todays show we start with a discussion around warming up to lift weights. The dos and donts, what it looked like in 2015 in a team setting vs now as an adult in the garage working out alone, how to make warmups more efficient and so on. We ask Coach what he thinks the avg strength program around the country gets WRONG more often than not and why, and then discuss how to fix or optimize those is...

To start todays episode we have a conversation that tries to dissect the Iowa QB situation and why Stratton is set to likely get the start over Cade McNamara against the Terps. Is there something deeper going on here considering that Cade is medically cleared but not back in front and still no longer a captain..? We discuss how this could even be the case going up against a walk on 4th string and...

KF stepped to the podium with a higher energy that you may expect, after having to lead this team out of a 2 week down period, coming off of a game that the Hawks should have won. Coupled with his answers around Cade McNamara and Jackson Stratton and who will be playing QB for the Hawks this week, this press conference became more interesting than anyone anticipated. We discuss the future of the Q...

BYE Week round table to discuss CFB from this past weekend. Iowa didn't play but the rest of the B1G did, what were the most interesting outcomes from around the league? We update the fans on Drake's MMA fight, and what's next for him, we ponder a new coin toss idea for Kinnick, Jon Gruden got hired at Barstool, we recap the betting weekend, briefly touch on our game our decade ago against Diggs a...

On todays show we talk injuries. While the Hawks made it deep into the season with a generally healthy squad, with just 2 games left the nicks and bruises have caught up with them and are now affecting major positions on both sides of the ball. We talk what injury protocol looks like, what the steps are for return to play, which staff has control over certain parts of the process, how integrating...

Quick update show on our Holiday season merchandise, and some pondering over statistics that say we should have more wins this year.. If you love the show and want to show support, tell your friends! And, check out our exclusive content at Patreon.com/washedupwalkons where you can find extra podcast episodes, exclusive merchandise, Merch discounts with every tier, private Walkon discord channel ac...

A coordinator themed press review show as we once again got to hear from Tim Lester, Levar Woods, and Phil Parker. It's BYE week for the Hawks, one they need, and the coaches provided some interesting answers to questions on Tuesday. Does Coach Parker and staff even know why this Defense that returned 8 starters hasn't performed up to potential this year? Is there a Cooper Dejean shaped presence t...

The Hawks fell to UCLA on Friday night in a game that they 'should have won'. We discuss why its hard to win football games, regardless of the opponent, with fresh examples from all around the country this weekend. We discuss the acute depth issue at QB and how impressive Stratton was given the lack of prep time, and we talk Sullivan's performance before leaving the game and how he could have been...

In todays video we recap the Wisconsin game, and contrast the badger outfit to 10 years ago in style and effort. We discuss the emotional side of Coach Ferentz and how much that played a role into playing Cade as long as he did. We ask coach to define some secondary responsibilities of a strength coach, and what roles they should play in helping the athletes with things like, Game Day motivation,...

In a surprise turn of events Drake joins the recording, and it turns into a catch up episode with what he's been doing for the last year, and previewing his debut MMA match on November 16th. He also gives his top 5 teammates ever, his thoughts on Kaleb Johnson, his opinion on the Offensive Line performance this year, and more. Ward's Winners to finish it off. If you love the show and want to show...

David joins us once again to discuss the press conference post game from Wisconsin as well as Tuesday's presser. One that David said saw 'the most relaxed and confident Kirk of the season'. We discuss Kaleb Johnson's continued success and if he is getting the national attention that he deserves, and one of the biggest factors to his success, the Offensive Line. Does Barnett need more credit for wh...

Iowa v Wisco talk starts 31 mins into the show Before that we talk games and teams around the B1G and try to decipher how which coaches are going to find their seat hot, and we answer how long a coach deserves before a University cuts them loose. We recap our bets of the weekend as all 3 hosts scored a positive win rate once again, and then we talk Hawks. Why you should never come to Kinnick as an...

On todays episode we talked about the weight room, velocity based training, forging one's ability to respond when faced with obstacles, how we approached facing Wisconsin a decade ago, how the New Wisconsin is viewed now. The identity that NW/Iowa/Wisconsin have tried to bring to the football field over the last 20 years, meeting with players 1 on 1 before their first season, the 4.15 40 by the tr...

Football discussion about this weekends matchup against Wisconsin starts about 30 minutes into the show. Before that we talk Black out uniforms and what alternates Iowa should NEVER wear, we discuss the biggest game of the weekend with a Rusty Toolbox on the line, and we talk Halloween and Grant's best costume advice. We discuss some of Wisconsins national rankings and outputs relative to Iowa, an...

On today's show we have an in depth conversation based mostly in the IAFB press time on Tuesday. We start the episode with some basketball season talk as the season kicks off tonight with an exhibition. That turns into a conversation about how mid majors are similar to the MAC in football, and the state of the transfer portal and NIL. That filters into a conversation about coming after players bec...

The Hawks chalk another in the Win column this past weekend with a successful Homecoming game against Northwestern. A slow start saw Brendan Sullivan, the hot topic of the past few weeks, come into the game to replace Cade after a hard hit, and bad interception. Sullivan would finish out a quiet 1st half and return as the starter for the 2nd where Iowa exploded for 4 total TDs in quarter 3 and a r...

Deep conversation on today's show that zero's in on the narrative that Doyle leaving Iowa's program was a direct hit to the Offensive Line performance of the last few years. We get into an entire conversation about Coach Doyle, his recent interview, how he affected the program at Iowa, the blowback to assistants when everything went down, the reality of the situation 4 years later, our thoughts on...

Long episode tonight where we dive into multiple CFB topics from around the country. We examine a call to action from Pat Angerer for the fans in Kinnick this weekend and take a deeper look at the Psychology of a fan. We talk about the inherent natures of a 'conference' and why the super conference is pushing us back to the necessitation of divisions. We discuss why there is still a ton to play fo...

Another press conference breakdown on tap today, we discuss the focal points of Coach's time at the podium which included questions about the poor defensive play, the tackling in particular, as well as the liability at the CB2 position and the cast of characters at that role trying to fill the void. We obviously talk about QB and more reasons why Cade isn't what we all hoped he might be, and the r...

The Hawks suffered an ego altering loss this weekend in East Lansing, we take a quick, concise look at what happened, and try to decipher where this team goes from here. We examine the worst Defensive performance in recent memory, talk about the tackling issues, the physicality issues, and most notably the liability we have at our CB2 spot. We try to highlight a few of the positives from this week...

In this weeks show we find out what Doctor Justin Lima actually does for a job now these days and how he's helping strength coaches maintain education for their career. Then we get into the life of a strength coach, what that looks like during the week, how many hours they are required to work, job responsibilities, how KF handled coaching hours and balancing family time, and much more. We also di...

Fun filled episode out ahead of this weekends Prime Time MSU matchup, we get to discuss several topics around the country including the ethical side of Oregon's 12 man drama, A polecat that was executed to perfection in Cali, Why the travel between old pac-12 teams and the B1G teams is proving to hold weight, and how Coach Cig at Indiana is crushing through it, and a social media masterclass by th...