Trying to be a good human. Some days are better than others! :) Go Hawks! "Work hard and be nice to be people." - Michael Franti
Teaching feed:
@AnIowaTeacher
Noah Shannon: Bet $50 and lost his last year of eligibility.
Jim Harbaugh: Cheats twice, back coaching his team.
@ncaa
: Has zero issue turning that blind eye when it benefits them moneywise. A no-class organization.
Can
@IowaWBB
create any more goodwill out there? Between the classy response by Coach Bluder and the response by Caitlin Clark, it just shows how a basketball program should be run.
A flat-out amazing couple of weeks and I'm all for the energy here.
Tonight, our 8th graders were getting beat by 35 points. The opposing coach calls THREE freaking full-time outs in the last 90 seconds to run set plays.
I was not happy. Not. At. All.
It's middle school basketball, not the national championship.
Yeah, it doesn't fit and I'll find a better spot. Today, it brings me joy! Happy Thursday and thank you
@WashedUpWalkons
for creating this family of
#Hawkeye
fans!
#HBAM
Is the world ending?? No. Will the sun come up tomorrow? Yes.
Is our offense broken? Yes.
Will acting like a freaking jackwagon on Twitter solve this problem?
A resounding no.
#HBAM
It wasn't pretty, but the feeling of beating a team that beat you a couple of weeks ago is absolutely priceless!
Nice game
@IowaWBB
! Way to keep your composure and just play your game!
#gohawkeyes
I didn't see the Iowa women's game last night, but here's the summary:
1) CC had a bad night.
2) The rest of the team didn't step up when CC had a bad night.
3) Iowa will lose a few more games like this until this team gels.
4) ESPN loves the SEC.
Carry on. 😉
Tyler Linderbaum's selling merch from today through the 17th with 100% of the profits going to the UI Children's Hospital.
Being a Hawkeye fan, this & the
@WashedUpWalkons
Pateron donation bring me so much joy and pride! Damn, it's great to be Hawkeye!
@ToddBrommelkamp
@JordanBo_3
As a coach/educator, this is SO important. Our students are bombarded w/ this kind of idiocy, day in and day out.
Very few of them have the platform to call out and draw awareness. Thank you, Jordan!
Thank you, Todd, for pointing this out and I agree:
We need to do better.
I get some of the "CC is awful" takes. She's chirping at refs, and other players, and is as passionate a player as I've seen for a while.
My thing: Did you mind when Jordan did it? Or Kobe? Did you mind when they started jawing w/ people? Or looked to pump the crowd? I doubt it.
Was doing some stat digs on the flight. This one is pretty obvious but notable: Iowa is 31-9 (!) in its last 40 football games (late 2017-present).
Only losses in those 40 games have come by margins of 11, 6, 4, 2, 7, 5, 2, 4 and 1. (And in the 11, Iowa led WIS w/ 1:00 to go.)
@davenewworld_2
All I see are a bunch of freaking attention seekers, one of which wearing a MAGA hat. Come on people, give a sh*t about your fellow man.
Welp, Jim Harbaugh is still a tool and I still love the Hawkeyes.
Tomorrow, the sun will rise and it will sting, but we are still Hawkeyes and that's what matters.
#HBAM
@HawkDad1
They thought the turning point was the 3-point barrage in the first half.
It's right here. Martin getting bumped w/no foul, Bluder getting the bench warning for 1/10th of the LSU bench's antics, the MC touch foul, CC touching the ball & getting T'd up. Like you said, game over.
As a middle school girls basketball coach and the father of daughters, I wholeheartedly agree. Attend women's games, get them in the gym, and allow them to be part of something bigger than themselves. They'll thank you for it later.
Catching up on the
@WashedUpWalkons
eposodes, and after listening to
@DavidEickholt
,
@SkinnyKenny_
, and Brad Hendricks (
@IowaSwarm
), holy crap, we are in the golden era of Iowa Athletics. Amazing interviews with some stellar people doing things the right way!
@MrClikestoteach
Talk to students, listen to them, greet them at the door, and be real. The time spent hearing their stories will do you well when the tough conversations come later.
Don't be afraid to laugh with them, at them, at yourself. The more you are the real you, the better it will be.
@GustafsonMeg10
Thank you, Megan, for putting a face to all that is good about Iowa Women's Basketball. Your grace, poise, and humble personality this year showed just how good our Iowa family truly is, and you showed this to a national audience! Your influence will be felt for years to come! :)
Well, that does it for 23 years at my current school, year 29 total. Next year, I'm back to first-year teacher mode as I'm moving districts.
Today was a huge slug of emotions as a couple of good friends are retiring as well.
A good cry as I got home, & now, finishing my grades.
@TheBossDaly
@SportsCenter
@espnW
@IowaWBB
Because.
She.
Can.
49% from the field for the game.
Shot before the double team came.
Has demonstrated time and time again she has that range.
There has to be something else that I'm not thinking about, but it comes down to confidence. She's got it.
A shooter has to shoot.
@ChadLeistikow
Again, it's all good. Colorado needed an answer for the question and it's not a bad one.
It's good that we have CC as both a scorer and creator of options for her teammates, who stepped up big time against GA. They'll need to continue to do that going forward.
Getting both daughters home together at 24 and 22 rarely happens. Watching them and the adults they've become makes my heart happy.
No, we aren't the perfect family, far from it, but having this weekend helps me to see we've done a few good things along the way.
❤️❤️
Got into an awesome health group during
@TylerKluver
fitness challenge and I've not felt this strong in a LONG time. All health metrics are looking great, but best of all, I FEEL good.
It's been a month and a half and I've missed a workout, which feels outstanding!
Say what you will about Kirk Ferentz, but his players will run through walls for him, and he'll do the same for them.
This is why I love Iowa football so much. It's about building relationships that will last a lifetime AND playing football, in that order.
Jack Campbell said the reason he came to Iowa was to play for Kirk Ferentz. Coach Ferentz got choked up answering the question.
It's a good thing I was in the back of the room with a giant camera blocking my face.
For all the "Caitlin Clark talks too much" yapping I see, have you watched ANY basketball games in the last two weeks?
ANY of them?
Hell, watching the LSU/Miami game, there's a lot of talking.
Give me a break.
I'll admit, I coach 8th-grade girls in rural Iowa. We are white girls who don't get a whole lot of run and gun, popping threes, or anything else. It's teaching basketball and I love it.
One thing I teach my girls early on: lose with class, win like you've done it before.
Holy sh*t! If you are a
@WashedUpWalkons
fan and haven't listened to the Kevin Kasper episode, it will make your Friday SO much better. Great to hear about what drove Kasper as a Hawkeye and what drives him today! Some great content on this one!
As a middle school coach, I work hard to keep the word "refs" out of any conversations I have with players. We talk a lot about playing through whatever comes at us.
That being said, what the hell was that Iowa game??
Hawkeyes got the W and that's what matters, but damn.
@JordanBo_3
I really don't like humans. 🤬
Although, if you'd want to stick around a couple more years, I'm not sure anyone would have a problem with it! 😂😂
I love everything about this so much. The shock on their faces when Sue Bird walks into their walkaround. But more, check Caitlin Clark's reaction compared to everybody else. That's elite-meets-elite.
#WNBA
#Hawkeyes
#MarchMadness
Thank you for creating a culture at Iowa and showing the rest of the country how it's done!
On to the Big 10 Tournament and a
#1
seed in the NCAA Tournament!
@IowaWBB
@kmelkhat
@TaylorOSoule
@HappyJoesPizza
Our Happy Joe's closed a couple of years ago, so good on you for supporting a local brand!
And you aren't wrong on either account: lettuce and tortilla chips belong on a pizza AND Happy Joe's is simply amazing!
Carry on! :)
@WashedUpWalkons
Great recap of Indiana game! Everyone who is an objective fan knows we aren't national championship contenders quite yet. Getting better every week is the name of the game! However, 1-0 is a great place to be!
The chaching for each f-bomb: priceless! 😂😂
In the first 30 FREAKING MINUTES I laughed, I cried, and had such a wide range of emotions! This is why we come here, both for the Xs and Os but also for this display of what it is truly like to be part of Hawkeye Nation!
#HBAM
What a WEEKEND!
Walkons Penn State Recap is LIVE!🔥
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🔸Fake PSU Injuries
🔸Big E drops an HBAM
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#2
Team in the Nation
We talk about it ALL
🎙️
@hawkchick11
Small town Iowa here & I enjoy bringing this up in class to my middle school students: We were in the Union & on the winning side of the Civil War. Why does ANY Iowan feel the need to fly a confederate flag?
It's usually pretty quiet after this question, but they are thinking!
The fact that 99% of the tweets I see are about
@IowaWBB
or
#WFinalFour
means two things: the women's game has been elevated and I'm following the right people! 😉
Either way, it's a great day to be a
#Hawkeye
!
Holy hell, listened to the
@WashedUpWalkons
and
@frankgarza57
on the way to school today. So much information to process as a teacher, coach, and person! Keep doing the great things all of you are doing and pushing our thinking! It's appreciated!
A former student of mine who was in an accident. Any help you can give is greatly appreciated! <3
Fundraiser for Megan Molseed by Jennifer Hutchinson : Megan & Family
Just as it always has, the sun came up today (covered by rain clouds), yesterday's game hurts a little less for us fans, but for the players, it will always be there, that "what if".
Be kind today, if not for you, in honor of them.
Go Hawks!
A friend told me my positive morning messages "were so not me" to which I said, "But I'm trying."
You have to work each day to keep a positive mental attitude. I'll admit, I'm not always that guy, but you have to keep trying to do better.
Why wouldn't we want that??
We are at the Iowa State Fair helping friends w/ their Brown Swiss in the barn. I'm hanging out when I hear: "Luke, I am your father," in a warbly voice.
Little dude (probably 5) whose family has their cows over the divider is saying this into a fan.
All is right in the world.
@TylerKluver
Like you've said about 1,000 times this year, they just don't give up on each other. All three aspects of the game keep competing. The special teams and defense know they've got things covered and we are seeing an offense getting their legs, which takes some pressure off.
Holy smokes, I love this. Caitlin gets much of the glory, but this team just simply gets it.
However things turn out in March, these Hawkeyes are legends.
"We just have that love"
After leaving the game to a standing ovation, Caitlin was Hannah's biggest cheerleader, showing her how close she was to the record... and telling her she'd love to see that kind of performance every single night.
@iche_me
Oh, the irony in the last paragraph........
"Other measures included an expansion of civics education for K-12 schools, including instruction about the perils of communist and totalitarian governments. "
Well, we'd planned on coming down to Iowa City tomorrow until we saw the latest snow forecast. We got home, threw stuff in bags and will wake up to snow rather than driving through it.
We were NOT missing tomorrow's
@IowaWBB
game!
I didn't get to see any of the game, but does anyone really think that any player on the Iowa team was holding back?
Above all else, they want the win.
This is a golden era of Hawkeye Athletics! While I wish things were a little (or a lot) different, it's an amazing time!
Seeing other programs falter because of coaching changes, corruption, or just plain incompetent, it's great to see Iowa rise above!
Go Hawkeyes! ❤️