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
July 22, 2024 • 70 mins
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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July 15, 2024 • 64 mins
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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June 10, 2024 • 59 mins
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...
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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June 3, 2024 • 67 mins
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...
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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May 13, 2024 • 48 mins
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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May 6, 2024 • 58 mins
Football talk starts at 26:00
In todays episode we recap the NFL Draft for the guys in Black and Gold. An exciting weekend for a handful of now former Hawkeyes as 4 guys heard their name called, and several more signed FA deals around the country. We discuss the landing spots for each drafted guy, how they fit into their new organizations/cities/cultures and more. In the conversation that opens the episode we discuss the reality of...
In todays episode we recap the NFL Draft for the guys in Black and Gold. An exciting weekend for a handful of now former Hawkeyes as 4 guys heard their name called, and several more signed FA deals around the country. We discuss the landing spots for each drafted guy, how they fit into their new organizations/cities/cultures and more. In the conversation that opens the episode we discuss the reality of...
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April 29, 2024 • 54 mins
On today's show we discuss who replaces Ed Podolak in the booth during games alongside Gary Dolphin, who replaces Deacon Hill as the #2 QB behind Cade Mac, what the score of a Caitlin v Cooper 1v1 game is, KF helping to secure WBB transfer Lucy Olsen and what having her could mean for next years team, Reggie Bush being reinstated to the Heisman family, and Grant updates Kluver on NBA basketball- Plenty of other random conversation ...
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April 25, 2024 • 56 mins
A true friendship podcast episode for those that have listened for a long time. the Iowa football specific content is sparse in this one, but Kevin, Grant, and Kluver put together an hour of fun and entertainment for the Walkon Army. We discuss a minimum transfer package from the Swarm, why the team sometimes has too many players on scholarship, the Spring semester compared to the Season relative to workload and physical demand, th...
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April 22, 2024 • 97 mins
Sirles joins the show once more to further his Title as most frequent Walkon guest. His appearances on the show are nearing double digits and this episode solidifies why that is, as he is not only a former guy in the locker room at Nebraska and in the NFL with vast knowledge and experience as a player, but also provides great insight into NIL, the draft process, and much more from his current venture as an NFL agent. We discuss wha...
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April 18, 2024 • 63 mins
David joins the show for his 3rd or 4th time. He is an inside with 247 Sports and a beat writer for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He just got home from Cleveland and from covering the end of this historic 2 year run by the Iowa Women's Basketball team, and thats where we start. We debrief the run the women had, talk about his thoughts covering Caitlin the past 4 years, the Wright Thompson article that was written about her, and more. Then we ...
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April 15, 2024 • 61 mins
Steve is from Crofton, MD and joined the 2013 Iowa Football recruiting class as a Fullback out of Archbishop Spalding HS as a fellow Walkon. One of those unsung heroes Steve didn't see any action on the field but busted his ass day in and day out as an Iowa Hawkeye behind the scenes, and after our 4th season hung up the cleats for the career that he said he would always pursue, and is fully enveloped in today, Pro Wrestling. Steve ...
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April 11, 2024 • 58 mins
Today we dive into a Spring Ball focused Q&A episode! Why are guys still out at the bars during spring ball so much? How does a player missing time for injury during SB make that up? What's the funniest thing we ever saw during spring practice period? Is the Paulsen Spring Crawfish boil still happening? How does a new coach, like Lester, earn the respect of his new players? Are there any Spring Ball traditions? Why is Iowa's sp...
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April 8, 2024 • 41 mins
The Hawks defeated UConn in dramatic fashion in the Final Four to advance and take on South Carolina in the National Title game. Their 2nd straight appearance to the championship game where no one thought they would ever go once, let alone twice. They fell short against the Gamecocks, but overdelivered in bunches when it comes to what this team has done for the Iowa brand, school, and fanbase over the last 2 seasons. We sit down to...
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April 4, 2024 • 51 mins
An instant reaction show of sorts as we sit down to record immediately after the clock struck zeroes on the historic Iowa v LSU rematch. We discuss our opinions on if we thought Iowa could get this done, why the better team isn't always the one with better individual players, and why Iowa can win it all if Caitlin plays like that 2 more times. We talk about O'grady giving huge minutes with Stuelke in foul trouble, Gabbie Marshall a...
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