C.J. Fiedorowicz hasn’t even arrived at the University of Iowa yet, but his legend already is growing. Fiedorowicz, one of the top high school tight ends in the country, is expected to contend for a starting job with the Hawkeyes right away next fall but for now he is doing amazing things on the basketball [...]

Random thoughts in the wake of Wednesday’s national signing day:
— Once upon a time, when a high school football player made a verbal commitment to sign with a school, you could take it to the bank. The recruiting was over. The kid was going to that school.
Not any more.
“Decommits” — players who change their mind [...]

ou won’t see any punters and kickers on the list of scholarship recruits that Iowa will sign next week, but with Ryan Donahue and Daniel Murray both being seniors next year, Kirk Ferentz and his staff are looking to the future.
Punter Jonny Mullings will come on board as a “grayshirt,’’ which means he won’t enroll [...]

Upon further review, maybe the Hawkeyes aren’t quite finished recruiting.
It looks as though they could get one more recruit this weekend when Lorain (Ohio) Clearview star Anthony Hitchens makes his official visit to the Iowa campus. Hitchens was regarded as a fall-back recruit – someone the Hawkeyes only would take if other recruiting pitches fell [...]

With the national signing date now just two weeks away, Iowa recruiting class is holding steady with 19 recruits. There probably will not be any more additions to the class. Coach Kirk Ferentz and his staff are just hoping there won’t be any more subtractions.
One player who was committed to signing with Iowa for 5½ [...]

The latest projections by Scout, Inc. have Bryan Bulaga listed as the 27th best player available in April’s NFL Draft. MyNFLDraft.com projects him going No. 28 to Green Bay in the first round of the draft.
Amari Spievey? He’s nowhere to be found in any draft projections. But the junior cornerback is going to test the [...]

A few thoughts on Iowa’s offensive line situation as I sit here killing time in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, waiting for Delta Airlines to find a way to get me home from Miami:
I hope Bryan Bulaga knows what he’s doing. Iowa’s junior left tackle has declared for this spring’s NFL draft and while there never has [...]

After handling Georgia Tech 24-14 in Tuesday’s night’s Orange Bowl, the Iowa football team probably is going to finish in a very familiar spot in the final Associated Press poll.
The Hawkeyes are likely to be eighth, which is exactly where they were at the end of the 2002, 2003 and 2004 seasons.
They were 10th entering [...]

What can we expect to see Tuesday night in the Orange Bowl? A few thoughts:
– Georgia Tech typically starts fast and Iowa usually has not, and it’s hard to see either of those trends changing in this game. I think it will take the Hawkeyes some time to adjust to the speed of the Tech [...]

 The Iowa fans have begun to descend on South Florida for Tuesday’s Orange Bowl. A bunch of them took over the Clevelander, an outdoor bar along Ocean Drive in South Beach on Sunday afternoon. It was quite a show.
 
They had the proprietors playing the Iowa fight song and everything.
It’s one of those bars they have [...]