Published on: 7th August, 2010
The first USA Today/Coaches Poll of the 2010 season has been released, and Iowa opens the season as the No. 10 rated football team in the country. Some fans think the ranking is low, based on the amount of starters Iowa has returning to the field this season. Other fans would ...Published on: 7th August, 2010
Let the 2010 Iowa Hawkeyes Football season officially begin. After Iowa's first practice of the season on Friday, the majority of the Hawkeye players and coaches participated in the highly-anticipated media day. Iowa's Media Day is a chance to ask players and coaches about anything and everything. Members of the media use this ...Published on: 5th August, 2010
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany might have ruffled a few feathers amongst the coaches with his decisive talk about switching to a nine-game conference schedule. Delany's idea didn't seem to go over well with the coaches around the league. "In this conference, a home game is a tremendous advantage," Wisconsin Badger head ...Published on: 5th August, 2010
After watching, reading, writing, and tweeting about Big Ten’s 2010 Media Event for the last few days, I think I might need rehab for information overdose. It was nearly impossible to keep up with the plethora of tweets and articles about every team and coach in the league. Some ...Published on: 3rd August, 2010
With Iowa’s practice set to begin this week, the first depth chart of the season was released as part of the Hawkeye media guides handed out at Big Ten Media Days. Depth charts this far out before the first game don’t mean a great deal. They prove as more of a ...Published on: 2nd August, 2010
Not long before the 2010 Big Ten Media Days circus got underway, rumors began circulating on Twitter about the possible retirement of Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker at season's end. Parker is entering his 46th season of his coaching career and his 12th as an assistant at Iowa. Hawkeye Insider's Rob Howe tweeted that, ...Published on: 2nd August, 2010
The 2010 Jim Thorpe Award preseason watch list was recently released and includes 35 of the nation's best defensive backs as the leading candidates for this year's trophy. Three of those players come from the Big Ten. Iowa's Tyler Sash and Ohio State's Jermale Hines and Chimdi Chekwa all represent the Big Ten ...Published on: 2nd August, 2010
Just when college football writers were starting to run out of things to blog about, college football's media days finally arrive. Media days are the universal-yet-unofficial start of the football season, and begin to feed the withdrawal symptoms of writers across the country. This year, one of the most anticipated ...Published on: 30th July, 2010
Unforeseen factors often play a role in shaping how successful a college football team's season will be. Injuries, rule violations, and other intangibles can throw a wrench in a team’s title hopes if there isn’t a proper plan in place. Since most teams don’t have the depth at positions like Ohio ...Published on: 27th July, 2010
The College Football Media Day circus has flung into high gear this week, and with it comes more drama than a Keeping up with the Kardashians marathon. Members of the media have been eagerly awaiting the league's press day since news of the conference breakup, and are full of stress-inducing questions ...