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#oniowapod — For the record, it’s PAWL-uh-seck. I think we got it right some of the time
Marc Morehouse
Feb. 15, 2017 5:02 pm
IOWA CITY — It's been awhile since Land of Ten's Scott Dochterman and I did one of these #oniowapods, so we covered a ton of ground.
We started with Iowa's coaching moves, rewinding to Ken O'Keefe's hiring as QB coach on Feb. 3 and then fast forwarding to Tuesday when Kirk Ferentz rounded out his staff with OL coach Tim Polasek and WR coach Kelton Copeland.
Will Kirk Ferentz and first-year OC Brian Ferentz mine Polasek for some ideas on the run game? Probably. It's probably a lot of the reason Polasek got the job, despite not having a ton of experience coaching offensive lines. Or, really, no formal experience, at least on his resume.
Scott brought up the fact that Copeland played for Jerry Kill at Emporia State. Does he take a chunk of the special teams?
The NCAA votes on the 10th assistant coach in April. It probably happens. Where does Iowa go with that? We touched on that.
We talked salaries for the coaching hires (ranging from $540K for O'Keefe to $225K for Copeland).
Hey, we talked recruiting and some of the stories we liked best from Iowa's 2017 class.
We took your #oniowapod questions from Twitter.
They ranged from how many Busch Lights did Hawkeyes fans consume upon hearing former OC Greg Davis retired (this did give me one more chance to give my 'it wasn't just Davis' rap that you're all tired of hearing) to an over/under on TD passes for probable new QB Nathan Stanley.
The number was 14. I said 17 and then promptly talked myself out of it.
You've seen the 2017 schedule, right?
Lots of footballin' and one hoops question at the end.
FRY, HAYDEN PICNIC 11.031099.CEP -- (PUBLISHED: Former Hawkeye great and current Atlanta Falcon Tim Dwight (right) appears to be toasting new Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz (left) and former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler during Hayden Fry's High Porch Picnic last night in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. ) More coverage, 4-5C.) left to right Kirk Ferentz, Bo Schembechler, and Tim Dwight