Randomly thought of him this morning. What a great Hawk he was.. one of my all-time faves. I got two words for ya!
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Matt Roth
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Liked watching him on the KO team when he was still a 'linebacker'. Blew some dudes up
Still remember opening the Sun Times and seeing the postage sized announcement…I want to say that their beat recruiting writer had leaked the news early…
Like my Grandma used to say: "Guns don't kill people, Matt Roth kills people".
I loved the recruiting story of Iowa telling him he could play linebacker and he'd be blitzing every other play
Well it's officially football off-season.. sharing any Roth off field stories will help get us to fall a little faster
I always loved to watch when the other team had a turnover, because Roth would go straight at the QB and just nail him. They were never ready for the shot they received. Same for a blocked FG, he would go after the kicker. There wasn’t a rule against defenseless players back then. Fun times.
Isn't there some story about him stealing a teammates car to go back to Illinois for the holidays?
Time marches on so quickly. That era of Hawkeye Football comes so readily to mind that it seems like only yesterday. But some simple math reminds us that those guys are all in their mid-40s now.
allegedly he bent a stop sign "while still on the pole" into a taco after getting kicked out of the bar! may or may not be able to confirm
It's crazy how far away the early 2000s felt to me compared to the late 2000s when I was at Iowa. That feels like yesterday and the 2009 season was almost 17 years ago.
freshman year at Iowa.. what was that class, tech and society— a science class for those who had no interest to pursue the sciences but needed the gen ed credit.
I miss the first lab class. I show up the second class and everyone had a partner except me and Matt. so he was my lab partner for the first semester.
we were supposed to wear long pants for one of the lab classes and he forgot. So he went into the bathroom and wrapped his legs in toilet paper and the teacher was like wtf and just let him go about with toilet paper wrapped around his lower body. The toilet paper was attached via his socks and elastic band on his gym shorts.
I miss the first lab class. I show up the second class and everyone had a partner except me and Matt. so he was my lab partner for the first semester.
we were supposed to wear long pants for one of the lab classes and he forgot. So he went into the bathroom and wrapped his legs in toilet paper and the teacher was like wtf and just let him go about with toilet paper wrapped around his lower body. The toilet paper was attached via his socks and elastic band on his gym shorts.
I remember him absolutely destroying a Purdue kicker in I believe '04 just because he could.
I remember being at that game. After the hit, a drunk guy a seats over yells "*****!!"