Fight for Iowa – Sedrick Shaw & George Barnett
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Fight for Iowa – The Official Podcast of Iowa Athletics
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What is the opening weekend celebration and Fry Fest tradition for Iowa football fans?
On the Hawkeye Sports Network from Learfield, this is the Fight for Iowa podcast. Here's the voice of the Hawkeyes, Gary Dolphin.
Opening weekend for Iowa football brings another edition of Fry Fest, a football farmers market, you could say. Hawk fans from all over invade Iowa City to browse through a multitude of booths, concession stands, and presentations by coaches, former players and broadcasters on what they see with the upcoming year. Usually there's a concert or two on the agenda, all spread throughout the Iowa River landing, and Coral. It's a great time to be a Hawkeye. Friday night at Carver Hawkeye Arena, the Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony will welcome seven letter winners across seven different sports as the thirty-seventh class takes its rightful position in the Black and Gold Theater of Honor. One of those by virtue of numbers alone would be the greatest running back in the history of Iowa football, or at least this side of Nile Kennick and Tavian Banks.
Cedric Shaw holds the school rushing record of four thousand one hundred and fifty six yards and is the only Hawk to run for a thousand plus in three consecutive seasons. Shaw, who bounded up and down Kennick Stadium's turf from nineteen ninety-three through ninety six, Pacing Iowa to twenty-eight victories and a couple bowl wins, still holds career records for rushing touchdowns, rushing attempts, and one hundred yard games with nineteen. Shaw crossed the two hundred yard threshold twice, including a forty-two carry, two hundred fifty-six yard effort at Michigan State. Yet the soft spoken Texan was differential when he received the phone call from Clark. Coach Kirk Ferrets.
It was a unexpected phone call, pleasant phone call. Uh it's a nice honor to receive.
Indeed, and deservedly so. Uh all all the rushing numbers you put up. uh at Iowa in your career. I mean from yards to touchdown uh uh touchdowns to attempts you were an absolute warrior uh and uh I followed your career closely at that time and uh what what what what uh w question I've always wanted to ask is what's the mentality have to be about being a running back who puts up glorious numbers like that. You know you're gonna get hit at some point in the play every time. I I know it starts with great offensive lines and you had a number of those, but uh uh tell me about the mentality of a running back in general.
I don't know if it's the running the running back mentality or just a mentality period. You just You go out and you play. And you focus it's like in anything, whether it's a sports or what you do in your professional career, you just go out and you focus at the task at hand. And you just Little by little, day by day. And you really try not to think too far ahead.
What was it about Coach Fry, Cedric, that uh Grab command, grab control of the offensive room.
Um I at the time when he came around and everything that he was doing with his coaching staff, they were actually rather uh new and innovative with a lot of things that they were doing. So I think that's where a lot of the offensive genius came in and and the things to do. And then of course, uh, in the process of creating those offensive schemes, getting the players needed to be able to execute, whether it's linemen, receivers, quarterbacks, uh full backs, running backs, tight ends, whatever. And just getting everybody in and then once you get 'em in, getting them to all buy into the system and then just to go out and do their job day in and day out.
Let's go to the offensive lines. What do you remember about the great offensive lines you played behind uh Cedric?
Uh hard working guys. Uh very hard working guys. Took a lot of pride in their job. Uh very mentally, not just physically tough, but they were mentally tough guys. And they always wanted to go out and just do their best. And they did their best.
And like the uh decade of the eighties, uh the Hawks had some outstanding quarterbacks in the nineties, uh
when I once when I arrived on campus, there was Paul Burmeister and uh Matt I
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