Happy Friday, folks. Football is so close we can taste it. In fact, tonight will be the first night of fall practice for the 2018 iteration of the Hawkeyes!
As always, every season is its own unique story. And we’ve had some interesting tidbits of information come out about the 2018 season in the last few weeks of football-less summer, particularly in regards to roster attrition.
Chad Leistikow took a deep dive today into all of the 2017 scholarship players with 2018 eligibility who have departed the program. Now, of course there are varying reasons for these departures, like graduate transfers and medical concerns, but the sheer number of departures (19) seems high this year.