**2025 Iowa Offseason & Coaching Search Thread***

Mysterio

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no postseason for wvu so hopefully will bring some quicker clarity to iowa-devries and if it happens or not
 

Floyd R

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Kakert with a very vague, something might be happening post. Thanks, Tom.
It’s amazing how a guy who does this for a living has zero insiders (other than Brad who I wouldn’t call an insider anymore).
 

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Oh no, Harding in the portal. He had some good moments, but, just a Big 10 level guard
 

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It’s amazing how a guy who does this for a living has zero insiders (other than Brad who I wouldn’t call an insider anymore).
Kakert is a dipshit, but he's not stupid. He knows he has zero talent in life to do anything else, but if he just remains a steadfast outlet covering Iowa Hawkeye sports and recruiting that he has a job for the rest of his life. He's made it 20+ years already and he's very likely to retire some day down the road having done this for what will be 40 years at that point.

He figured out long ago that breaking news and putting insider gossip out to the public isn't the way to win favor of the Iowa administration, but acting like he knew "2 weeks ago" is more than enough for his idiot subscribers. He might facilitate insider gossip like the NIL Brad guy, but stays far enough away that he can't be blamed for it.

It's not a great living, he probably has never made more than $75k a year, but that is more than almost all the others. His job is to maintain a stupid message board, do a podcast, drive to Iowa City a few times per week and then spend his fall traveling to watch college football. Not bad for him.
 

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Kakert also knows that sharing the info immediately hinders the amount of time people spend on his site. Making a post like he did today has a bunch of people sitting on his site hitting F5.
 

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I don’t really have anything negative to say about Tom as a person. I just think he’s hyper sensitive when it comes to running his message board.

to celebrate my 50,000th post, I intentionally picked a fight and got banned from there by posting a sweet pair of tits. I was just planning to take a break, and it probably was not the most mature route but I figured everyone loves tits. But as a result, he seems to have blocked me on all forms of social media which just seemed a little odd.

I have never met Blair personally, but he seems like a good guy and I have thrown him a few scoops over the years.
 

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Kakert also knows that sharing the info immediately hinders the amount of time people spend on his site. Making a post like he did today has a bunch of people sitting on his site hitting F5.
Exactly, he's a giant fucking dork but he's not stupid. You don't survive making any sort of a living doing what he does by being stupid.
 

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I don’t really have anything negative to say about Tom as a person. I just think he’s hyper sensitive when it comes to running his message board.

to celebrate my 50,000th post, I intentionally picked a fight and got banned from there by posting a sweet pair of tits. I was just planning to take a break, and it probably was not the most mature route but I figured everyone loves tits. But as a result, he seems to have blocked me on all forms of social media which just seemed a little odd.

I have never met Blair personally, but he seems like a good guy and I have thrown him a few scoops over the years.
Pic?
 

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I don’t really have anything negative to say about Tom as a person. I just think he’s hyper sensitive when it comes to running his message board.

to celebrate my 50,000th post, I intentionally picked a fight and got banned from there by posting a sweet pair of tits. I was just planning to take a break, and it probably was not the most mature route but I figured everyone loves tits. But as a result, he seems to have blocked me on all forms of social media which just seemed a little odd.

I have never met Blair personally, but he seems like a good guy and I have thrown him a few scoops over the years.
My man.
 

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Kakert is a dipshit, but he's not stupid. He knows he has zero talent in life to do anything else, but if he just remains a steadfast outlet covering Iowa Hawkeye sports and recruiting that he has a job for the rest of his life. He's made it 20+ years already and he's very likely to retire some day down the road having done this for what will be 40 years at that point.

He figured out long ago that breaking news and putting insider gossip out to the public isn't the way to win favor of the Iowa administration, but acting like he knew "2 weeks ago" is more than enough for his idiot subscribers. He might facilitate insider gossip like the NIL Brad guy, but stays far enough away that he can't be blamed for it.

It's not a great living, he probably has never made more than $75k a year, but that is more than almost all the others. His job is to maintain a stupid message board, do a podcast, drive to Iowa City a few times per week and then spend his fall traveling to watch college football. Not bad for him.
The one thing I appreciate about Tom is that he calls Randazzo’s new show “All Ears” and not by its real name.
 

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Dailey-gate for how it was handled was another gift from Gary Barta.
 

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Fales comes across as a much bigger baby than anyone in that clip. Also, if you are going to get all self righteous, how about you do it while Fran is still the coach?
Does he always randomly pause during his sentences?
 

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Late night flight to Aurora by Beth to get the deal done.
 
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