Midseason report on Iowa football, season preview for Hawkeye women's basketball

Let's move on to – to Iowa football.

And so the news coming out of, when we talked to Tim Lester on Tuesday, he said, as of right now, or as of Tuesday, he did not know who was going to be play at quarterback against Minnesota.

He said that Hank Brown practiced on Tuesday.

He was throwing and, Didn't sound like he's back to 100% yet, but seems like he's making progress.

And Tim Lester, the one thing that he did seem confident about was that both of those quarterbacks are going to play meaningful snaps for Iowa in the second half of the season like they did in the first half of the season.

So I wanted to take a second, too, before we kind of get into discussion to, like, kind of recap what a roller coaster this quarterback saga has been.

We come out of kids day thinking it's gotta be Jeremy Heklinski, right? Then Hank Brown gets the start in the opening game.

It was kind of, he outplayed Jeremy Heklinski a little bit.

Game two, plan to play both.

Hank Brown plays the whole way.

We're thinking, oh, it's probably Hank Brown's job.

No, it hadn't officially been announced yet.

They both play game three.

Finally, we get the resolution.

It's Hank Brown.

That's going to be Iowa's starter.

Wins the game against Michigan.

Feels like, oh, he's solidified it.

Then you get to the Ohio State game.

His worst performance of the season gets hurt.

Jeremy Heklinski comes in, plays well, starts on the road against Washington.

does really well.

And now it feels like we're almost back at square one where it's like, we don't know exactly what this quarterback situation is going to look like moving forward.

So it's just been, it's been kind of a roller coaster through six games, not in necessarily a bad way because I was five and one, but it's, It's just been a lot of up and down.

So what is your evaluation or thoughts of, you know, what you expected going into the season? Has Iowa's quarterback play exceeded your expectations? Has it met it? Has it been below? What are your kind of thoughts on what we've seen so far?

Let's move on to – to Iowa football.

And so the news coming out of, when we talked to Tim Lester on Tuesday, he said, as of right now, or as of Tuesday, he did not know who was going to be play at quarterback against Minnesota.

He said that Hank Brown practiced on Tuesday.

He was throwing and, Didn't sound like he's back to 100% yet, but seems like he's making progress.

And Tim Lester, the one thing that he did seem confident about was that both of those quarterbacks are going to play meaningful snaps for Iowa in the second half of the season like they did in the first half of the season.

So I wanted to take a second, too, before we kind of get into discussion to, like, kind of recap what a roller coaster this quarterback saga has been.

We come out of kids day thinking it's gotta be Jeremy Heklinski, right? Then Hank Brown gets the start in the opening game.

It was kind of, he outplayed Jeremy Heklinski a little bit.

Game two, plan to play both.

Hank Brown plays the whole way.

We're thinking, oh, it's probably Hank Brown's job.

No, it hadn't officially been announced yet.

They both play game three.

Finally, we get the resolution.

It's Hank Brown.

That's going to be Iowa's starter.

Wins the game against Michigan.

Feels like, oh, he's solidified it.

Then you get to the Ohio State game.

His worst performance of the season gets hurt.

Jeremy Heklinski comes in, plays well, starts on the road against Washington.

does really well.

And now it feels like we're almost back at square one where it's like, we don't know exactly what this quarterback situation is going to look like moving forward.

So it's just been, it's been kind of a roller coaster through six games, not in necessarily a bad way because I was five and one, but it's, It's just been a lot of up and down.

So what is your evaluation or thoughts of, you know, what you expected going into the season? Has Iowa's quarterback play exceeded your expectations? Has it met it? Has it been below? What are your kind of thoughts on what we've seen so far?