Washed Up Walkons

Washed Up Walkons

Go inside the locker room with 3 guys who have worn the Black and Gold. An unfiltered look inside Iowa Football featuring stories, first hand accounts, and personal experience. Join us as we break down and preview games during football season and in the off season enjoy guest interviews from former players, teammates, coaches, staff, and other relevant Iowa Football/Sports names. Hawks By A Million!

Episodes

August 29, 2024 76 mins
Sirles joins the show once again for a wide ranging discussion around Cut weekend in the NFL, NIL landscape in college football, Raiola and the Huskers, Iowa's chance at winning 11 games, and a lot more. We talk about life as an agent, the clown show that is Colorado Football, what success would be in Lincoln this year, how the West coast teams will hold up in December in the Big Ten, if Iowa can win 11 games and get in the playoff...
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We debut our new show, the weekly presser breakdown! David Eickholt of 247 Sports will join us each and every week this season to help decipher answers from the podium at each weekly Tuesday press conference. Today we throw back to discuss the self imposed ban, the implications on what's coming for the rest of the country, Moulton being RB1, how each RB fits into Lester's Offense, The depth and versatility of the Offensive Line thi...
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August 26, 2024 22 mins
A brief episode to explain what our programming schedule will be this fall, who will be joining us this week and beyond, and a message to the haters.

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We kick off our new series with Coach Lima, all about the strength and conditioning side of College Football. Todays topic in week 0 of the college football season sets out to explore the summer strength and conditioning program. How is it built, what is it's main purpose, how are freshman integrated into the program, and what is important to have players ready for camp?

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Week 0 of the college football season is here and so are the Walkons to kick off our 6th season of the show. On today's episode we do some bookkeeping to catch up on the last month of WUW information, and invite everyone to join us August 30 from 3-5 PM at Backpocket Brewing in Coralville for our LIVE show. We talk about camp memories as the team is finishing up the fall prep in IC and how things have changed from over a decade ago...
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August 19, 2024 69 mins
Jake is from Springville, Iowa and joined the Hawkeyes in the class of 2013 alongside the Walkons. Coach Morgan found him at State Track his freshman year of high school, which led to conversations the next several years, physical development on the field, and eventually a chance to wear the black and gold. He talks about his first year in the program and catching up to the speed of the game, working his way up the depth chart amid...
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August 12, 2024 30 mins
Max joins the show for the second time this year. Max works for Pro Football Focus as a writer and podcaster focused on College Football, and is the host of the PFF College Football show. We discuss creating college football content in the off season, the new NCAA Football game, What outsiders think of Iowa's chances at the expanded CFP this season, what the strengths and weaknesses of the Hawks will be this season, the hang-ups in...
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August 5, 2024 124 mins
Coach Seth Wallace played football for Coe College from 1997 to 2000, and was immediately offered an opportunity to join the staff by his coach following his final collegiate game. He grew up in a football family and followed his dad around to all of his games as a child. Coach Ferentz hired Coach as a GA in 2006 for several years before he left to elevate his career at Valdosta St. He returned to Iowa in 2014 in a Recruiting coord...
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July 29, 2024 68 mins
Keith makes his 3rd appearance on the show. You most likely know him as the Groza finalist for the Hawks from 2016-2020, and the guy who shattered both Wolverine and Husker hearts across the land. He now works for Holmes Murphy in Waukee as well as running his own kicking business both of which we discuss at length. We also talk about the end of his football career and experience with the NFL, what its like being 4 years removed fr...
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In this episode we discuss initial thoughts on the new NCAA game as it has now been LIVE for a week. We talk about the upcoming Coach Grant series where Gbone plans to take his Dynasty to Saban levels of success. We preview our return to Backpocket Brewery to kick off this 2024 Football Season as well as the incoming Merch drop with our best ever design. We tease a couple more BIG TIME guests before this summer comes to a close, an...
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In todays episode the boys are back after a run of Summer guests on the show. College Football is only 7 weeks away, which means the news cycle will start to pick up now, and we have several fun pieces of Hawkeye topics. The Hawks got a new locker room and we discuss the arms race of CFB in that everyone is fighting for new shiny facilities and things to sell on the recruiting trail, as well as how this compares to what we had 10 y...
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July 8, 2024 67 mins
Pat joins the show for his 3rd appearance and with lots to talk about as he was just recently named the replacement for Ed Podolak in the radio booth. Pat played for the Hawks from 2005-2009 and then had a career in the NFL. He now returns to call Iowa games as the color commentator. We talk about what the process was like, interviewing and doing a simulated game call with Dolph. How it will work bringing his Pat Angerer flare to t...
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July 1, 2024 79 mins
Scott has been covering the Hawkeyes for almost 2 decades. The Walkons sit down with a real, actual professional, in the media space to discuss his background in journalism, covering the Hawks, and whole lot more. We talk covering the Chris Doyle story from 2020, the future of NIL in college sports, Caitlin Clark and her impact at Iowa, Tim Lester's new offense and what the potential of Iowa Football is this upcoming season, and hi...
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June 24, 2024 109 mins
Levar, 'Coach' Woods(to us) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He eventually found himself in Iowa, where he attended West Lyon High School, and was Class 2A Player of the Year in his Senior Season. He committed to Iowa, a fun story that he goes into detail on, as a Defensive End in one of Hayden Fry's final recruiting classes. After 'getting his ass kicked' for his first 2 years he found time on Special Teams and reps on Defense where h...
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June 17, 2024 71 mins
Spencer is from Murrysville, Pennsylvania and attended Franklin Regional High School. He was a Cadet World Champ, and the Top ranked pound-for-pound wrestling recruit in the country when he committed to the Hawkeyes. At Iowa he went on to be a 5 time All American, 3 time NCAA Champ, and 2 time Dan Hodge Trophy winner, amongst numerous other accolades, accomplishments, and awards. We got to sit down with Spencer 2 months out from hi...
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This is a rebroadcast of our 200th episode with Drew Tate from 2021

Drew came to Iowa City from Houston, Texas and is responsible for the most iconic play in Hawkeye Football History. We discuss "The Catch" and that day in Florida as the Hawks took down LSU. We also talk about who he modeled his game after and provided him QB inspiration, What it was like playing with guys like Sanders, Greenway, Roth, and others. What it was like b...
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Caitlin discussion starts at 25:00 in

In Todays episode we discuss Grant's debut as a golf caddy this summer, and several other golf related topics to open up the show. We do a short recap of Kluver's Half marathon and shout out the ARMY members who joined in and ran the race. We get into discussion about Caitlin and the latest controversy in the WNBA surrounding the Fever's matchup against the Chicago Sky this past Saturday. We tal...
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May 28, 2024 67 mins
Mitch is from Burlington, Iowa and, with help from a friend, decided to be a Hawkeye over a Cyclone after his Junior year of Football. He went on to become a Freshman All American, a 1st Team All American his senior year, and racked up plenty of tackles and awards in between. He played for several teams in the NFL for a span of 4 years before hanging up the cleats and joins us on the show today to talk about his career in college a...
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May 20, 2024 63 mins
Austin joins the show for the 3rd time. We discuss life after the NFL, what training and diet looks like when it isn't 'necessary' for your job any longer, forward thinking as a pro athlete to what goals and aspirations will be after the playing days are over, entrepreneurship and owning his hunting lodge which he plans on becoming more hands on with, dance recitals with his daughter, Iowa wrestling and Ben Kueter being a 2 sport a...
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In todays episode we discuss the Hawkeyes new Transfer QB Brendan Sullivan, formerly of Northwestern. We talk about the law suit filed by Iowa and Iowa State athletes who were affected by the gambling drama from last season. We also discuss Kate Martin maintaining her spot on the Las Vegas Aces Roster, Caitlin's financial implications that might already be playing out in the league, the WNBA finally get charter flights, and the Oma...
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