The New Roster With Numbers For Freshmen Is Out. Yes, You Do Too Care

by Adam Jacobi on Jul 15, 2009 12:28 PM CDT in Iowa Hawkeyes Football

Rivals released the updated roster for the 2009 iteration of the Hawkeyes, so's you can update your NCAA 2010 rosters and all. Oh, and there's vitals for the players as well. Height and weight, we mean, not blood pressure*.

First, the freshmen:

3 - Brandon Wegher (RB)
6 - Keenan Davis (WR)
9 - JoJo Pregont (WR)
13 - Josh Brown (DB)
18 - Micah Hyde (DB)
23 - Jordan Cotton (WR)
35 - Martin Hopkins (DL)
37 - Shane DiBona (Porn Star**)
38 - Brad Rogers (RB)
41 - Jake Reisen (FB)
50 - Drew Clark (OL)
59 - Conor Boffeli (OL)
70 - Brett Van Sloten (OL)
72 - Matt Murphy (OL, Mose)
75 - Scott Covert (DL)
76 - Nolan MacMillan (OL)
79 - Dominic Alvis (DE)
80 - Dakota Getz (TE)
83 - Stephane N'goumou (WR)
96 - Tyler Harrell (DL)

Cool stuff. Not much to take from the guys' heights and weights--for veterans, they're taken verbatim from last season's official roster--but Brandon Wegher is already at 206 pounds, which happens to be a pound heavier than the listed weight of one Dr. Pythons, Jordan Bernstine.

Other than that, the tallest players outside of the offensive line are... a punter and wideout, both 6'6" walkons. Eric Guthrie is the punter, and the lanky WR is one JoJo Pregont, who has an awesome name. Pregont turned down a scholarship to Illinois State to attend Iowa as a walk-on. Being that he's so tall, we're assuming he's lacking some top-end speed, which Doyle may or may not be able to imbue into the receiver. Guthrie, meanwhile, has the misfortune of spending two more seasons behind cannon-legged nutball junior Ryan Donahue.

So yeah, for now, Cotton's a WR, Wegher's a tailback and kick returner, and other than that, no surprises. God, the season needs to start already.

*Casey McMillan's blood pressure, if you were curious, is "leaded." This is no surprise, as he has not been declared street legal in decades.
**Or linebacker, if you want to be all factual and shit about it.

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How is Wegher a surprise at RB?

With his speed and history at the position how could he be anything else? Cotton is still a little more up in the air I think.

by the_iowa_hawkeye on Jul 15, 2009 1:17 PM CDT reply actions

Never said it was a surprise

But I could definitely see him moving to a flanker spot, like Tim Dwight did after his freshman season.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Jul 15, 2009 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions

Oh wait, I see what you mean

and other than that, no surprises.

I attribute that to being a poor writer.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Adam Jacobi on Jul 15, 2009 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions

I think Cotton is pretty well set

He played RB in high school just so they could get him the ball more, but he doesn’t really have the size to pull it off at the next level. I guess he could move to corner or something, but Iowa was recruiting him as a receiver pretty much from Day 1.

by NorseHawk on Jul 15, 2009 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions

Even as a running back

He was still the number one receiver on the team, just came out of the backfield to do it.

by MP hawkfan on Jul 16, 2009 9:23 AM CDT up reply actions

Nolan MacMillan

is from Canada, and went to someplace called The Hun School.

by TarHeelHawk on Jul 15, 2009 3:39 PM CDT reply actions

The Hun School

I’ve heard their AP class slections are, um, unique. To wit: Raping, Pillaging, Sacking Rome

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Jul 15, 2009 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Not many seniors listed

for the O-line or D-line. If the O-line is as good as everyone thinks they can be, that bodes well for next season as well

by TarHeelHawk on Jul 15, 2009 3:45 PM CDT reply actions

Not so much

Of the projected starting line, the following are seniors: Calloway, Keumpel, Doering/Richardson, Eubanks (possible starter). Plus, assume 50% chance (at least) that Bulaga is gone, gone, motherfuckin gone, next season. In other words, next season we will likely have a very young offensive line, hopefully it won’t be as LOL-tastic as 2007.

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Jul 15, 2009 6:35 PM CDT up reply actions

I think the numbers are interesting.

Why did Wegher pick #3 as as tailback? I don’t think this was his HS number (wasn’t it in the 40’s?) Does this hint at him becoming a cornerback or something? Or is it homage (kind of…) to Timmy D, who also had a single-digit number?

Same with N’Goumou—#83. In a strange way, I’ve always given more ‘cred’ to WR numbers in the single digits (UM’s #1) or the high 80’s (88 and 89 in particular). So why 83?

Does college allow a 00, like old Raiders center Jim Otto?

Wow, am I bored.

I dunno. Admittedly, I’m pretty bored.

If it's not too much trouble, search your soul--and then ask yourself if maybe I might have a point.

by The Director on Jul 15, 2009 6:03 PM CDT reply actions

Dunno

Probably because he’ll only be used in a limited fashion (if at all) as a RB this year, and more as a kick-returner/occasional slot receiver. While a single-digit number for a running back is unusual, it seemed to work out pretty well for Fred Russell (#2) and some guy from USC who’s name I can’t remember, same as a president’s last name, Washington?

I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.

by HoyaGoon on Jul 15, 2009 6:38 PM CDT up reply actions

I think you mean...

Keyshawn Johnson (like Lyndon Johnson). He was a receiver who wore #3.

(BTW, I know you are talking about Reggie Bush).

by WaterlooChazz on Jul 15, 2009 7:30 PM CDT up reply actions

It would have been so hillarious if jNW had beaten them.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Jul 16, 2009 11:44 AM CDT up reply actions

No stranger than a WR wearing #23.

Or a DL wearing #35.

Oh – and it was Van Buren.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 15, 2009 7:27 PM CDT up reply actions

Perhaps Keenan is the one homaging Mr. Timmy D

was Dwight’s number back in the day. And now I suddenly feel the need to buy one of those bargain-priced #6 jerseys that they’ve been trying to sell for the last few years. It’s no longer a Jake C jersey – it’s a Keenan Davis jersey! Or a throwback (throw-forward, given that it’s not quite what he actually played in?) Timmy D jersey! Hooray!

Also, I hope Wegher has better luck with #3 than Mr. Morrow did. Have there been any Iowa greats that wore #3?

by RossWB on Jul 16, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions

er

That should be “number 6” was Dwight’s number back in the day. Stupid auto-formatting…

by RossWB on Jul 16, 2009 6:15 PM CDT up reply actions

Danan Hughes

He is the only #3 I can come up with off the top of my head.

by shada's revenge on Jul 16, 2009 7:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Tom Nichols was #3.

Granted, he didn’t catch many balls (read: zero) or score many TDs (again, probably zero), but did kick the ball through the goalposts a like a sumbitch.

Also, wasn’t Kahlil Hill #3?

Also Rick Bayless wore #13, which is close to #3 in that it has the number 3 in it. Which, given that logic, would make Owen Gill the greatest Hawkeye ever to wear #3.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 16, 2009 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions

It may actually be "Nichol," sans the pluralization.

But that was the early 80s and I was in kindergarten, so suck it, detail-Nazis.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 16, 2009 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions

Kahlil Hill

definitely wore #3, but it was actually 4:20 whenever he was around. LOL

by WaterlooChazz on Jul 16, 2009 11:31 PM CDT up reply actions

It's College Football...

Where the biggest guys on the team can wear the smallest numbers, and no rules committee or commissioner can do a damn thing about it.

by Sam Brownlee Rides Again on Jul 15, 2009 7:51 PM CDT reply actions

Or the smallest guys wear the biggest numbers:

by Twin Cities Hawk on Jul 15, 2009 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Yes, before you respond, I know I'm hell-bound. No need to remind me...

(this guy could probably kick my ass up and down my street)

by Twin Cities Hawk on Jul 15, 2009 9:48 PM CDT up reply actions

I'll save you a seat.

by Bucketochicken on Jul 15, 2009 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions

Thank you.

by Twin Cities Hawk on Jul 15, 2009 9:53 PM CDT up reply actions

It's OK

I think you could outrun him.

by RossWB on Jul 16, 2009 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions

Greenway

I always thought Chad Greenway looked cooler in #18 than he does in #52 or whatever. But maybe it was the colors. I get a huge boner everytime I see black and gold. But maybe that is just the Livestrong stuff. I’m straight by the way.

by Duez I say on Jul 17, 2009 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions

If you...

want to claim you are straight, you may want to say it like this:

I get a huge boner everytime I see a really hot woman in black and gold.

by WaterlooChazz on Jul 17, 2009 7:25 PM CDT up reply actions

I've always been in favor of a good subverting the number guidelines.

Because they ARE “guidelines” in college. Until the year after my team featured DL’s wearing numbers in the 30’s, WR"s in the 90’s, offensive linemen in the 80s, and DB’s in the 50. Try to pick up your assignment in THAT zone flood, M’Fo. (oh, and I’d change every single individual player’s number every game. There’s actually no rule against that, either).

Bring on the A-11 offense and psychedelic footballs, I say. Every ambiguity should be exploited, thus ruining the game as fast as possible.

by indyhawk on Jul 15, 2009 8:38 PM CDT reply actions