Hawkeye Report Podcast

A lot of ground to cover on the podcast this week. Kyle Huesmann joins the show and we take a look back at the Iowa baseball season. We also look at the recent roster movement with additions and subtractions via the transfer portal and what might be ahead. Then we dive into Kyle's summer check-in on Iowa women's hoops. We also look at Tom's summer check-in on Fran McCaffery's team. Finally we rundown all the latest recruiting news on the football front.

Back to back big guests on the podcast! This time around we are honored to have one of the greatest players in Iowa basketball history join us. Luka Garza comes on the podcast to promote his upcoming basketball camps taking place this month in Urbandale, Iowa. We discuss what the camps will be like for the kids and adding a Father/Son Camp this year on Father's Day weekend. You can sign up for the camp at LukaGarzaAcademy.com. We also discuss his NBA journey the last two years and much more.

A special edition of the podcast this week. With Caitlin Clark playing in the Pro-Am at the John Deere Classic, we were fortunate to get her playing partner for that day, Zach Johnson, to join us. We are also joined by JDC Tournament Director Andrew Lehman to discuss the event and how you can bring your kids to the course that day for free. Of course, we also talk a lot of Iowa football with some predictions for the upcoming season and Zach talks about being the captain for the USA team in the Ryder Cup this fall.

We get back to our Ready to Report podcast series. This time we are joined by wide receiver Alex Mota. The in-state standout just graduated from high school and is excited to get started this summer in Iowa City. Mota looks back at his recruiting process and how Iowa initially recruited him as a defensive back before flipping him to wide receiver. That decision got him to verbally commit a few hours later. He looks back on that process and his expectation for his first year with the Hawkeyes.

It was a jam packed podcast this week. First Matt Randazzo returns to the show to discuss a pretty cool event happening with the John Deere Classic in early July. Iowa star Caitlin Clark is playing golf at the Pro-Am with Zach Johnson. It's a pretty cool event and we discuss it. Then Kyle Huesmann joins the pod and we go in-depth on the Iowa baseball team traveling to Indiana State for the NCAA Tournament. We preview the game against North Carolina and more. Finally, we discuss Beth Goetz being named interim athletic director and what that means and Iowa basketball and their chances of landing transfer Grant Nelson from NDSU.

Iowa athletic director Gary Barta is retiring. That means we have to do a special emergency podcast. Scott Dochterman from The Athletic joins the pod to discuss the complicated legacy for the long time AD for the Hawkeyes. We look at the positives during the Barta era when it comes to facilities and we discuss the negatives including legal issues that resulted in the financial losses for the Iowa athletic department and the actions during the pandemic taken by Barta to removed several sports and how that resulted in lawsuit. We also discuss potential candidates for the job and the importance of making a solid hire with several high profile coaches in their mid-60's.

Hawkeye baseball is front and center this week on the podcast. Tom Kakert and Kyle Huesmann, who is in Omaha covering the Iowa baseball team, break down the Hawkeyes come from behind win over Indiana to advance to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. We discuss the start by Brody Brecht and how the Iowa bullpen was strong while the Iowa offense punished the Hoosiers pen. We look ahead to the next game and Iowa's chances of being a two seed in an NCAA regional. We also talk some Iowa women's hoops and some college football news.

We continue our Ready to Report series of podcast as we visit with the incoming Iowa football recruits. This time we spend 15 minutes with offensive lineman Cannon Leonard. We discuss how he found his way to football after growing up dreaming of playing D1 basketball. His time playing hoops with two future Hawkeyes and his brother playing football for Illinois. Plus his relationship with Coach Barnett and when he knew he was going to be a Hawkeye.

We continue on with our Ready to Report series in podcast form with another player from Illinois headed to Iowa City. This time it's defensive back John Nestor. He was a relatively early commitment in this class and we discuss why he picked Iowa over other Big Ten and Big 12 schools. Nestor also talks about his football journey, his hopes in the first year at Iowa, and his excitement for the first time he will be running out of the tunnel at Kinnick.

We continue our Ready to Report series on the podcast by visiting with incoming freshman Teegan Davis. The defensive back talks about the Hawkeyes adding him late in the recruiting process during the month of December and also a knee injury he sustained during the indoor track season this winter. He updates his health and his expectations for the first year on campus.