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Jack Koerner now holds the Squat (515 lbs) & Bench (390 lbs) Records for a Safety.
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Jack had a great year, as a first year guy. Look for Jack to be a big Hitter and
big leader for the Hawkeye defense for the foreseeable future.
GO HAWKS !!
Can you imagine spotting Scherff's 655 lb squat? I am guessing there were 3 guys there to spot it.385 lb bench for B. Smith
Bench as a movement isn't as important as clean or squat anyways.
Very rarely in football are you using just pure chest strength.
Neat to see Amani Jones holding the Squat and Hang Clean records for Defensive Ends even though he was a Linebacker until his final year. Kudos to Brandon Smith, Linderbaum and Koerner for their records---all 3 are excellent players. Hats off to the one player that holds all 3 records for his position----Nate Stanley!
Logan Jones flirting with the hang clean record before he even enrolls. Nice.
How about young Doyle at 600# in the squat as a soph....
I was just watching the College Football 150 show. One of the games they showcased was the Notre Dame-MSU game played back in 1966 in East Lansing. The first thing that jumped out at me was how thin the players looked then as compared to now. Back then I don't the players of that era could even imagine the kind of weight lifting records that we see in the modern era.
One of the UNI lineman just did a 700 pound squat a guy named Tim Butcher.
Agreed. The bench numbers aren't all that great in relation to guys of their caliber.
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That’s insane and Brandon Smith is right behind him at 385...
who's his dad again? He probably did his first squat when he was 2 years old...........with plates
I non sarcastically put a lot of stock in this to my expectations for that player. Got burnt on this a couple years ago with Amani Jones but I've learned nothing from that scenario and expect the world of him now.
Yeah, hang clean and squat are farm more important and translate better as far as major lifts. Also, I believe Doyle has said himself "it's not how much weight you can move, it's how fast you can move it."
And? It's impressive, no doubt about it. Doesn't take anything away from Jack, it's just a philosophy.
One of my good friends trained under Doyle back in the late 2000’s. He said normal bench wasn’t stressed all that much. Some incline bench was however if I remember right.
He had a great year, as a first year starter.
Keeps improving, like he will, under P Parker, Jack will be
playing on Sundays. Heck, Cowboys might want him now
If bench is unimportant to the program then why have the records on the wall? My guess is that it is important to the Iowa program. I don't see records for deadlifts on the wall. But then again Doyle doesn't really like lifting from the ground due to injuries at that position which is why you see hang cleans.
No one said bench isn't important, it just isn't as important as other lifts. It's still considered a major lift, hence why it's on the wall. We're just not a program that heavily stresses traditional bench, as has been explained.
Rewatched the 2019 Husker game on BTN last night. I had forgotten how many tackles Koerner made in that game. Not only the number, but how many tackles were made in space. Not quite as good as Hooker (yet), but he is a sure tackler and brings the wood!
