With great hype, comes great responsibility

Official Paver of Men: Bryan Bulaga

After a spectacular sophomore season, Iowa offensive tackle Bryan Bulaga is recieving some high praise from one mock draft. Bulaga spent his season protecting Rick Stanzi's blindside and mowing down opposing defensive ends. He's easily the best offensive lineman since Big Bob Gallery and could go down as one of the best offensive lineman in Hawkeye history if he keeps improving.

Click here for a mock draft that is published ridicously early.

Michigan State Recap: Hi Goran...

Sparty was just too American for the Hawks

It was a butt kicking. An absolute clinic. Something Sam Elliott might call a 'tail-whippin.'

This game was essentially over before it started. The Spartans were quicker, smoother and stronger. They were better in all facets of the game. You know the expression, "the game was closer than the final scored indicated." That wasn't this game. It was the exact opposite. The Hawks lost by 15, but it should have been way more. Tom Izzo called off the Spartans about halfway through the 2nd half.

Kalin Lucas sliced and diced the Hawkeye defense for 24 points and 4 assists. Delvon Roe and Goran Suton combined for 21 rebounds.

The President David Palmer

Rarely any Hawks stood out. The President reverted back to his old human form, scoring only one point in 14 minutes. 6'5 Matt Gatens, arguably Iowa's best player as a freshman, was so desperate in trying to box out a rangy 6'8 Roe, he turned around and started pushing Roe like Gatens was an offensive lineman.

The 3-point shot, a staple of Todd Lickliter's system, was not kind to the Hawks. They shot a measly 30.8% on 8-26 shooting. Meanwhile, the Spartans shot 55.6% from behind the arc.

Granted, Tom Izzo's Spartans are the cream of the crop in the Big 10. No one expected the Hawkeyes to win, but they are expected to compete. The Hawks sit at 10th, only besting the worst Indiana team in...forever.

It's a shame that the team failed to compete this particular game. The marketing department finally upped the ante by focusing on getting the students back into Carver-Hawkeye. They let all students in for free, the handed out pizza for the first 200 students in and they rewarded student season ticket holders with lower seats. This marketing department needs to continue to show this type of creativity. Even when the Hawks would make mini-runs during the game, cutting the deficit to single digits, the students energized the rest of Carver. The real question is this: will the students come back after the Hawks got thoroughly dominated in the most hyped game of the season?

The students need to be moved. They're crammed up some of the worst seats in the house, squarely behind the basket. And something has to be changed.

Hello, world, are you listening?

Welcome to Hawkeye House! If you've stumbled upon accidentally, or for some reason, visited here on purpose, I hope you stay.

In the upcoming months, I will be blogging about everything that has anything to do with the Iowa Hawkeyes' football and basketball teams. Maybe even the dominant wrestling team if I comprehend what they're actually doing and how they're keeping score. Among the topics I'll be covering in the future: the emergence of Mr. David Palmer, Ed Podolak's retirement (firing), the NFL Combine/Draft (Mitch King=Chris Hovan????), the wrestling teams eventual national title, Colonel Angle and Mini-Lick, the hell of a semester Anthony Tucker had, National Signing Day, Pat Angerer for Heisman, next year's 2-deeps, figuring out what the tournament below the NIT is called and if the Hawks will make it, and much more. Hopefully that's just scratching the surface. If there's anything that's going on in Hawkeye world, you can find it here.

A little about myself. The author per se. I'm a 20-year-old Junior at the University of Iowa double majoring in Journalism and Business Management. I'm nuts about the Hawks, as you can see. I have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life. None. But I'm not too worried about it. I'm from a town with less people than most of my lectures. Seriously, I graduated with 24 other kids to give you an idea. I played football, basketball and baseball in high school. I loved everything about it. And I basically needed to play so the school had enough people to field a team. I have zero professional writing experience. The only people that have read anything I've written are teachers and other instructors. So whoever is reading this blog will have to bear with me as I figured it all out; enjoy the ride. Essentially, I love sports and the Hawks, so what better way to combine my two passions.

Again, welcome to Hawkeye House. Make yourself at home.