NEW Season almost here

Hey I don't know about any of you but I'm super excited for the new season to get here. This is a season that could be very interesting for the Hawks. We have a lot of new coaches at key positions with Greg Davis taking over as our offensive coordinator and Phil Parker taking over at Defensive Coordinator. We also have  new coaches at offensive line in Brian Ferents and Linebacker in Lavar Woods. There are a lot of unknowns on this football team which is why it is hard to predict exactly how good of a team this could be.

SCHEDULE

Date	Opponent*	Result		Record
Sept. 1, 2012	at Northern Illinois (ESPNU)	2:30 pm CT | Tickets
Sept. 8, 2012	Iowa State (Big Ten Network)	2:30 pm CT | Tickets
Sept. 15, 2012	Northern Iowa (Big Ten Network)	2:30 pm CT | Tickets
Sept. 22, 2012	Central Michigan	TBA | Tickets
Sept. 29, 2012	Minnesota	11:00 am CT | Tickets
Oct. 13, 2012	at Michigan State	11:00 am CT | Tickets
Oct. 20, 2012	Penn State (Big Ten Network)	7:00 pm CT | Tickets
Oct. 27, 2012	at Northwestern	11:00 am CT | Tickets
Nov. 3, 2012	at Indiana	TBA | Tickets
Nov. 10, 2012	Purdue	TBA | Tickets
Nov. 17, 2012	at Michigan	TBA | Tickets
Nov. 23, 2012	Nebraska (ABC)	11:00 am CT | Tickets

We play a fairly easy schedule in the beginning of the season which should be good for this younger team. The game vs Northern Illinois at Soldier Field should tell us a lot about this team as a whole be Northern Illinois is a good football team and should provide a good opening test for the Hawks.The next 2 games are rivalry games first we play Iowa State at home a game that won't be easy as we all know the Clones always play well against us. Of the first 5 games I will be disappointed if we aren't sitting at least 4-1 if not 5-0. 

Our Big Ten Schedule is fairly good as the toughest games I believe we will play are @ MSU, @ UM, @ NU and Vs Nebraska. These 4 games right here could determine how good of a record this team will have. Right now there a lot of question marks surrounding this team. I believe the schedule is set up nice for us but this all depends on how good James Vandenberg can be this coming season. 

In my next blog I'm going to breakdown every position on the team and look at who will be playing at the key positions for the Hawkeyes so stay tuned for that.

Thanks 

Andy Jennings