Black Heart Gold Pants: For Iowa Hawkeyes Fans

After a week's hiatus (and a late pod this week), we talk about the Minnesota game, including a strong showing from the passing game a trick play, and Max's first Dilly Bar. We transition into talking about how concerned we are with the injuries on the defense, then talk a little bit about Iowa's upcoming matchup against the Hoosiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A loss so frustrating, we recorded way ahead of schedule this week. In this podcast, Harrison and Max discuss: negatives, including Iowa's play calling and execution, Iowa's offense under Brian Ferentz (and how it compares to his predecessors), and special teams (start of pod); positives, including Nate Stanley, the run game, and Amani Hooker (36:00). We definitely talked a bit more about negatives than positives, but that's what therapy is for, isn't it? We end the pod by looking ahead to the rest of the schedule and talking about Iowa's path to Indianapolis before we read a FIRE tweet that we received right before we signed off. Go Hawks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's week four of the 2018 football season. The Hawks take on Wisconsin, who lost to BYU last week, after a convincing victory against UNI. It's a night game in Kinnick this weekend. Excitement is in the air! Topics include: what we can take away from Iowa's victory against UNI, the state of the Big Ten after a BAD weekend, a preview of Wisconsin, and of course, predictions for the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a podcast. We talk a bit about the Iowa State victory, which only one of us truly remembers in full because of reasons you'll likely hear about (read: alcohol happened), and then this next week is Northern Iowa, which should be a victory. Should we be worried about Nate Stanley? Is the defense legitimate? Also, a basketball minute: Luka Garza has had surgery and we might not get the matchup against Bol Bol we all are hoping for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's HATE WEEK, so obviously, we talked a lot about the raider package and how people transport themselves in the state of Montana. We also spent about like six (or seven, we didn't count) seconds talking about Iowa State but you're obviously here to listen to us talk about ATVs, right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOOTBALL BACK. The boys are back to podcast a new football season, and this episode, they brought the HOT takes - how many 1,000 yard rushers will Iowa have? Will IKM and ISM total 1,500 yards on the season? Can Iowa be better than last year, even if Nate Stanley's stats are worse? Is Spam a sandwich? All that and more in this episode. Go Hawks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's part two of our fantasy draft in honor of Kirk Ferentz's 20th season at the helm of Iowa football. Coming into this episode, a Heisman runner-up, a top-5 all-time receiver at Iowa, Iowa's best kicker ever, and plenty more were still available. Not all of them were selected because well, we're a bunch of idiots. Go Hawks anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Folks, The Pants Party is back for SZN2, and to get things started off with a bang, we're hosting a fantasy draft of the best football players to play at Iowa under Kirk Ferentz in honor of the Dean of College Football's 20th season. Max, Jerry, Harrison, and JPinIC form the pod, and the first 12 picks are an adventure, where one of us certainly didn't draft a single lineman on day one. Bold strategy imo, let's see if it pays off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iowa basketball played Wisconsin on Tuesday and folks, they lit up those hapless Badgers in every single way. Of course, Wisconsin is actually bad at basketball, but it's good to see the Hawkeyes get a big win ahead of the easiest portion of the schedule. We also touch on the wrestling squad, who lost to Ohio State this past weekend despite a huge win from freshman phenom Spencer Lee. BUT FIRST, we lead you into this podcast with the age old question: is a hot dog a sandwich? Are tacos or burritos sandwiches? What about Pop-Tarts?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iowa basketball is broken. Can anyone fix it? Probably not! But three guys with a microphone and limited knowledge of Iowa basketball talk about HOW WE'D FIX IOWA BASKETBALL because we're smart sports men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Football, men's hoops, women's hoops. We have it all in this podcast! First we hit you with a little bit of bowl talk before we have the pleasure of being joined by AJ Black, the lead football writer at BC Interruption, SB Nation's premier Boston College site. We talk about how this game is likely to be like looking in a mirror in terms of schemes, which should provide for an interesting contest. Here for basketball? Don't fret, we have you covered there, too. Iowa's won a couple games in a row now and women's hoops is straight fire emojis. Ever heard of Megan Gustafson? Shooting a lousy 70% from the field and averaging only a double-double, she is. Better work on her game if you ask us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're 1/3 of the way through the hoops season and the takes are flying off the shelves. Fran McCaffery should be fired, the basketball season is lost, and Iowa State basketball has more momentum than Iowa football, some would say. Well that's not what we attending The Pants Party believe. There's still a lot to learn from this basketball season, and while some of Fran's decisions might have created the current debacle, this is the most talented roster Iowa's had in quite some time. Also included: Pinstripe Bowl tickets not sellin', crootin' talk and who could sign in the early signing period, and predictions for the game against Canadian rapper and entrepreneur Drake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Folks,, Iowa is headed to the Pinstripe Bowl, the bowl that we were all hoping our beloved Hawkeyes would attend this winter. We already know what you think about the bowl and it can be summed up in one phrase. IT STINKS. Will fans travel? Can Iowa win? Will the game even be remotely interesting? Plus, bonus thoughts on what we think of Nebraska hiring Scott Frost to lead their team for the foreseeable future, until the fans inevitably run him out of town for 8-9 win seasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Folks, it was a rollercoaster of a season, but the Hawkeyes were able to end it on a high note after a blowout victory against border rival(?) Nebraska. We talk a little bit about the game, our feelings on the season to this point, and how enjoyable it is to beat Nebraska yearly. Harrison also joins the show at the end to give a little bit of hoops talk after the VT debacle, where Iowa shot just 18% from the floor in the second half. Is it time to hit the panic button on Iowa basketball, or can they make this next week the most important part of their season? But first! We talk about some of the reviews we got. Yeah, that's right - we read them and they made us laugh. Find out how we feel about being called cracked out and being told we live in a garbage can (and then leave your own review!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is turkey even that good? What is the best kind of desert to eat on Thanksgiving? We tackle all the important topics on this week's edition of The Pants Party, and I guess give y'all a little bit of Iowa sports talk too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben, Jerry, and Max come to you this week despite having to deal with a myriad of technical difficulties, including Ben's computer crashing and Max not being able to hear his co-hosts for the majority of the podcast. You know, not that any of that stuff is important anyway. This podcast is brought to you in three parts! -Part one: That Wisconsin loss was brutal and awful and damn what in the world happened? Part two: recruiting with JPinIC Part three: Iowa basketball + Our Most Hated Rival picks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stop what you're doing. Unsubscribe to this podcast, then re-subscribe. Rate and review us. Okay, cool. Now click play. Thank you. Iowa is coming off a huge victory against Ohio State and folks, we have takes aplenty on this week's edition of the pod. Brian Ferentz and the offense came out with a performance for the ages, and suddenly Iowa has a realistic chance to win the rest of their games on the schedule this season. Will Iowa's offense stay impressive against an injury-ridden Badgers team? Is the Big Ten officially out of the College Football Playoff picture? Can the Hawkeyes make the Big Ten Championship Game, and more importantly, is this the year they win a bowl game? That, and more, in this week's podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back! Iowa got a big win last week to keep everyone's favorite rivalry trophy, and we talk about how they did it - mostly, we praised Josh Jackson and actually talked about what we like about this Iowa offense! That's right, we try to stay positive and talk about things they can build around! It worked! After that, we get into a bit of Ohio State talk, mostly wondering if Iowa can stop the vaunted run-pass option offense, and just a little bit of hoops talk at the end. Also, I, Max, am very very sorry that you had to listen to me and not our friend Jerry, who was unable to join us this week. :( Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Folks, might it be time to hit the panic button? The gang talks at length about the Iowa/Northwestern game and the general feeling of displeasure with the way the season has progressed. The show ends with a little preview of the Minnesota game and our predictions, as well as some quick hoops talk. Also - might candy corn be good?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Off Tackle Empire blogger MNWildcat is like the Neil Armstrong of visiting The Pants Party, as he joins Jerry and Max as the official first guest on the podcast. The trio talk a little bit about first half superlatives for their respective teams and preview this upcoming matchup between teams who aren't quite where they'd like to be at the season's midpoint, including a coin flip to determine the outcome. We also talk about much more important things, such as: appletinis, Jeppson's Malort, the time MNW met former NU coach Bill Carmody in Boston, and how our very own Ben Ross has a goofy voice. FYI: It gets a bit explicit at times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices