The Hawkeyes lost a lot of their defensive prowess this offseason. Higgins is playing NFL preseason football with the Baltimore Ravens, Nick Jackson is doing the same with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Hawkeyes lost Kyler Fisher, too.
Iowa’s defense led the country in yards allowed per play in 2022 and 2023. The 2024 season has been a reminder of how difficult it is to sustain such an elite level of play.
Phil Parker has a “good idea” of who his starting cornerbacks will be in 2024. But with 11 days to go until the Hawkeyes’ season opener, the Iowa defensive coordinator was reluctant on Tuesday to name who specifically those starters will be.
Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker discussed his own injury recovery Tuesday after undergoing shoulder surgery earlier this month.
Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker had shoulder surgery Thursday and is out of commission right now.
Iowa football’s eight returning assistant coaches have received pay raises ranging from 7 to 36 percent ahead of the 2024 season, according to updated salary data obtained by The Gazette via a public records request.
Phil Parker is “unequivocally the best secondary coach I have ever, ever been with,” Kirk Ferentz said while in Orlando for the Hawkeyes’ Citrus Bowl trip.
Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker is the 2023 recipient of the American Football Coaches Association’s Assistant FBS Coach of the Year Award, the AFCA announced Friday.
Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker was named the Frank Broyles Award honoree Tuesday, and it’s a choice that can’t be disputed.
With the exception of offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, every Iowa football assistant coach is getting a pay bump in 2023. Most are between 7 and 8 percent.
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Hear what stood out to Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker while watching film of former Virginia linebacker Nick Jackson, who will join the program after the spring semester.
The 2022 Iowa defense is in rare company after limiting opponents to fewer than four yards per play.
At 59, Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker has gotten better with age and seems eager for more.
Iowa football’s nine on-field assistant coaches who are returning for the 2022 season and strength and conditioning director Raimond Braithwaite received raises of varying amounts. Here’s how much they now make.
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