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The kicker of Iowa’s all-time long FG ... is where?

Sep. 28, 2015 12:30 pm, Updated: Sep. 28, 2015 11:06 pm
There is one Iowa Hawkeyes field goal that was longer than the one Marshall Koehn made to defeat Pittsburgh on Sept. 19.
But what has become of the fellow who kicked it?
On Sept. 26, 1998, Iowa opened Big Ten play with a 37-14 thrashing of Illinois in Champaign. Tim Douglas made three field goals. Two were from 51 yards out. The other, the one in the middle, was a 58-yarder.
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At the time, he was just the third NCAA kicker to make three 50-yarders in a game. The others were Jerry DePoyser of Wyoming in 1966 and Sergio Lopez-Chavero in 1984.
The feat was matched by North Carolina's Dan Orner in 2002 and Wake Forest's Sam Swank in 2006
Iowa's previous record-long was Tom Nichol's 53-yarder in 1983.
'It's just an honor to be part of that (record),” Douglas said after the game. 'I think the biggest thing today was the Iowa Hawkeyes needed a big win. That's what I'm most happy about. I think we got a little respect back.”
Iowa had been coming off losses of 27-9 to Iowa State and 35-11 at Arizona.
Douglas was a junior from Plano, Texas, who had transferred to Iowa from Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College. He made just three other field goals that season, and was 6-of-11 in field goals the following season when he was the Hawkeyes' leading scorer in Kirk Ferentz's first season as head coach with 37 points.
So, where is Douglas now? I don't know. If you do, let me know and I'll update this.
On a Linkedin page for Douglas, he said he was a head waiter at Harry Caray's restaurant in Chicago from July 2005 to April 2006, a front waiter at Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse in New York City from April 2006 to May 2007, and a general managing partner at P.J. Clarke's restaurant in New York from May 2007 to September 2009.
Those are three very well-known joints.
Then, he founded TDKicking Academy in 2010. That was based in St. Petersburg, Fla. But it appears that operation didn't last long. The last update on the academy's Facebook page was in 2012. and it doesn't have much on it. After that, I don't know.
I asked Iowa's sports information director Steve Roe if he could get me a contact phone number for Douglas, and he gave it a shot. But all he could come up with was the latest address they had for Douglas, which was in Bluffton, S.C.
I then asked one of Douglas' former Iowa teammates if he had any suggestions. He said he messaged Douglas on Facebook after Koehn's kick beat Pittsburgh.
'I probably wasn't the only one,” the former teammate said. 'But, no response. ... I honestly don't think I've seen him since 1999.”
I've heard he had moved back to the Phoenix area, and this site suggests that's right, saying Tim M. Douglas who formerly lived in Iowa City, Chicago and Jersey City, N.J., was in Scottsdale.
But where is he now?
Tim Douglas lines up the 58-yard field goal at Illinois in 1998 that he would make. It stands 17 years later as Iowa's longest.