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Thursday, February 26, 2026

IA Storms Back from 14-2 deficit to Bounce OSU out of CHA

https://youtu.be/ U6YQ1Wvhbp0 - IA Storms Back from 14-2 deficit to Bounce OSU out of CHA

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

OUTRAGE?: Former Hawkeye SHOCKS Fanbase with SCATHING Tweet | Will McCaffrey Legacy be TARNISHED?

https://youtu.be/ qj4FtB7REvY - OUTRAGE?: Former Hawkeye SHOCKS Fanbase with SCATHING Tweet | Will McCaffrey Legacy be TARNISHED?

Monday, April 14, 2025

How Did the Iowa men's Basketball Team do?

Well? The 2024-2025 season has been over for a week - the NCAA Championship game was on 4-7-2025. On Monday, October 7, 2024, I was cautiously optimistic about the season, per Iowa men’s basketball needs its returning stars to take the next step, so I'm just hoping that the 2024-2025 season turned out better than expected.

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Rapid Reaction: Iowa collapses in 2nd half in Music City Bowl

Sigh.

I was really REALLY hoping that Nashville and the Music City Bowl would be an exclamation point for the 2024 Iowa Hawkeyes. Given the chance to end the season with 10 wins was a great opportunity and they fell short.

I'm not one of those Facebook "fans" who wants Kirk Ferentz fired or for him to be kicked out the door, never to coach in Kinnick Stadium again. Am I "satisfied" with the loss? Of course not! However, I have to say there's a reality to football games, which is "two teams can't win."

It's that simple.

Someone has to win and someone has to lose. Unfortunately, Iowa was the team that lost in Nashville, TN, on 12-30-2024.

Was it a game that Iowa could have won if one or two plays not played out the way that they did?

Absolutely!

Iowa committed a terrible penalty (supposedly) which allowed Missouri to go from a 3rd and 24 to a 1st and 10. Had Iowa not done that? Well, Missouri was on the ropes at that point in the game. If Iowa had gone for a 1st down on a 4th and 2 instead of punting and successfully went 2 yards, the game outcome might not have been the same. As it turned out, Missouri went 3 and out and kicked it back to Iowa. Iowa started marching down the field until it got to be 4th and 1, and, with time running out, Sullivan's QB sneak was stuffed prior to gaining the necessary yardage to get a 1st down and that was how the game ended, with the football returning to Missouri with a 27-24 lead and Iowa not having the football to score. Missouri did two snaps of the football in what is called the "Victory" formation and that ate up the last minute of the clock.

For the next 242 days (7 months, 4 weeks, 2 days), which is when Iowa will take the field at Kinnick Stadium against Ualbany (per https://hawkeyesports.com/sports/football/schedule/season/2025-26) for the first time in the 2025 season, there will be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth as fans complain about Coach Kirk Ferentz and the direction of the program. A lot of armchair quarterbacks will proclaim that they could have coached the team better than Coach KF did last night - I actually read that comment on Facebook after the game. Coach Kirk Ferentz has been the coach for the Iowa Hawkeyes for as long as my son Alex has been alive as Coach Kirk Ferentz took over the program in 1998 and that's the year Alex was born which means that the 2026 season will be the 26th season for Coach Kirk Ferentz.

As far as whether Coach Kirk Ferentz should retire - he is 70 years old as I write this - I am going to say, "Yes, he should retire" but not because of yesterday's loss or anything to do with his coaching record.

I think Coach Kirk Ferentz should retire because life doesn't have a known expiration date and I want Coach Kirk Ferentz to be able to sit down on a Saturday afternoon in his home and watch a NCAA football game on TV, perhaps with a cold beer or some other beverage in his hand. I think Coach Kirk Ferentz should enjoy life before he is pushed up against his mortality.

And I'm typically the person that openly says I want to work until I turn 66 in December of 2035 and still work until Friday, March 28, 2036, just so I can reach 20 years in my current role as a Senior Technical Writer. I say that because I'm not the person that typically thinks about the calm after a career that I am encouraging Coach Kirk Ferentz to enjoy.

I wrote all of this post without watching any of the video embedded below.

https://youtu.be/ X3RwTLCavJQ - Rapid Reaction: Iowa collapses in 2nd half in Music City Bowl

Friday, December 13, 2024

Caitlin Clark Apologizes For Being White

https://youtu.be/5MebuD8_wc4?si=b9GE7riG0a9Q4IHv

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Expiring Soon

November 24, 2024 marks the 3000 day anniversary of the announcement that Kirk Ferentz signed a contract extension to be Iowa's football coach through the 2024 season. based upon this article. I'm hoping there will be a long and winding dissertation published about Ferentz's accomplishments that I can link to HERE. I chose this date to publish this post because, at least in 2016, Iowa plays Nebraska on the Friday after Thanksgiving and since Thanksgiving is this Thursday, well, I thought it'd be appropriate. I'm not saying it will be his final game. After all, how could I possibly know in 2016 if Iowa will be eligible for a bowl game in 2024?

Editor's Note: prhmusic will be alive 20079 days - 54 years, 11 months, 2 weeks, 6 days - when this post is published, a mere 10 days before turning 55. Here are some assumptions about this post:

Kirk Ferentz didn't leave coaching prior to the 2024 season
The Cedar Rapids Gazette exists as that is the destination of the link above
prhmusic is alive

Hope for at least # 3 to be true... <grin>

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Hawkeye Basketball's Freeman, Harding Share Full-Court Connection

https://magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed=true&storyid=2477 - Hawkeye Basketball's Freeman, Harding Share Full-Court Connection

Monday, October 7, 2024

Iowa men’s basketball needs its returning stars to take the next step

It's easy for me to get amnesia when I think about the Iowa men's basketball team coming into the 2024-2025 season. I vaguely remember being frustrated during the 2023-2024 season and (maybe) losing some games that should have been won, though that could be also based upon the legacy of the Iowa men's basketball team from previous seasons. All I know is that I will cheer for the team this year and hope that they have a lot of Ws at the end of the season!

https://dailyiowan.com/2024/10/03/column-iowa-mens-basketball-needs-its-returning-stars-to-take-the-next-step - Iowa men’s basketball needs its returning stars to take the next step - The Daily Iowan

Monday, September 30, 2024

New Era, Same Run-and-Fun for Iowa Women’s Basketball

https://magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed=true&storyid=2450&utm_source=interact&utm_medium=email&ipid=1018 - New Era, Same Run-and-Fun for Iowa Women’s Basketball - Published 7-24-2024

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Is it Iowa mens basketball season yet?!?

Go Hawks! Their season kicks off with four games at Carver-Hawkeye Arena:

Fri-Oct 25-Men's Basketball vs. Minnesota Duluth (EXH)

Mon Nov 4 Texas_A and M–Commerce

Thu Nov 7 Southern University

Tue Nov 12 South Dakota

For the past 5 years, I always think about getting season tickets for the mens games... and I never have bitten the bullet and done it.

This article is from July. Look at the structure of the URL - it has 2024, followed by a slash, then a 7, followed by a slash, then a 10, followed by a slash. The issue I have with this structure is that you will never actually have the months line up in chronological order because the 7 should be 07 to deal with the "10" for October, the "11" for November, and the "12" for December. Yes, little piddly crap like that gnaw at me on a daily basis.

From https://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2024/7/10/24195174/iowa-hawkeye-hoops-unveils-new-look-basketball-fran-mccaffery-pat-tony-perkins-transfer-portal-bhgp - Hawkeye Hoops Unveils New Look:
For the first time in the better part of a decade, the Iowa Hawkeyes are poised to start a basketball season with only the head coach bearing the last name McCaffery. In today’s world of transfer portal madness and NIL funding, the Hawkeyes lost a trio of players to the portal after last year’s 19-15 finish, including coach McCaffery’s middle son Patrick. Pat (Butler) was joined in departing by PG Dasonte Bowen (St. Bonaventure) and Tony Perkins (Mizzou).

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Poor Clock Management

I created this clip from a longer video because it shows the Iowa Hawkeyes losing to the Wisconsin Badgers in Kinnick Stadium due to poor clock management:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxaC3Lfe7_7w4mTuLTikp18mBAPIl9_EHC?si=r4dWMtzGrfs8AKh1

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Hawkeye Hive is Buzzing

Well. What happens next?

https://dailyiowan.com/2024/03/26/point-counterpoint-should-fran-mccaffery-be-fired - Point/Counterpoint | Should Fran McCaffery be fired? - The Daily Iowan