live coverage here on kwwl. >> we had a great crew. scott albanese, zach grant and brad hanson joint me and ron in pasadena. scott normally produces the 10:00 newscast and also produces in program. brad is stationed in our newsroom in dubuque and you'll hear from them later in today's show. >> ron: mark, let me ask you, first of all, aside from the result of the game itself, which was shocking to say the least, what words come to mind when you think about covering an event like this, kind of for all of us, kind of a once in a lifetime event? i know it's my first rose bowl. talking about covering thats at days leading up to the spectacle. >> mark: you mentioned it earlier, i was there for nine days. there's a lot of work that goes go something like this. people think we're on vacation, we hear it from our coworkers every single day and i mentioned, you know, if you're going to be working somewhere in december and january, southern california is a great place.

follow the team around to some great events. of course, i got there on christmas day. >> ron: the hawkeye team of '82 went out two weeks earlier and this team went out early, but you left -- >> i left on christmas day. they left on christmas eve. a nice spot out on the west coast. i arrived on christmas day and had chance to follow coaches and team players all week long. >> ron: having some fun there at the cedar rapids airport. good or bad, the fact is there are many, many distractions for both teams in peace dena and you have to -- pass dena and you have to wonder what kind of impact that has on players by game day. >> mark: is focus is on the game itself. sunday after christmas, they paid a visit to disneyland in nearby anaheim and i asked them about these types of events and whether or not it was a distraction. everybody else felt it was more

lines, both teams go through the same routine, both in the same boat, and those events leading up to game time, they're really a big, big part of actually what makes the rose bowl experience special. >> ron: because this is a lifetime experience for those players and staff too. some of the hawkeye staff have been there before. now, the hawkeyes practiced early in the week. do you know how many times they actually practiced practiced, how many times in pads and how many times did you the media get to watch them? >> mark: we were allowed to be there twice. as you might expect, it was the first 15 minutes before they really got into the meat of the workout and the game planning. i was first practicing in california on christmas day and per the normal routine, i know they did take off at least one day before the game. they had a brief chance to get into the stadium the night before, but for the most part, they stuck to the normal game week schedule. that part was a little bit different. >> ron: that has worked all year long, that's for sure. >> mark: without a doubt. but even when they went to

opportunity to go through a walk-through on the field the day before in indianapolis, the big 10 championship. they chose not to do it. the rose bowl, they had a picture beforehand and they were kind of forced to do it this time around. >> ron: safe to say one of the busiest members of our crew was reporter brad hanson. he is normally, as mark mentioned, stationed in dubuque newsroom in the media building downtown, so on the rose bowl trip, he was all over town thanks to our live reporting technology whi really allowed us to go live to more than just one location. let's get brad's thoughts on his trip to pasadena. >> brad: guys, it's good to be back from california, although still trying to adjust to that weather difference. the one big takeaway that i had from this trip really is at there are no better fans than hawkeye fans. while mark and zach and ron, you guys were doing a lot with the actual football team and around the game, i got to spend my week among the fans, different places in southern california, and the thing about los angeles, it's so

would think it might be a little bit harder to find some fans, but that really wasn't the case. we sent some time at the santa monica pier, an absolutely beautiful location on monday. four days before the game, still no trouble finding hawkeye fans there. we also talked to people at a beanery bar there in downtown santa monica that's an iowa bar. a couple of fans around there early monday, but it those you the dedication that -- shows you the dedication that fans were out there that early in the week. they were able to take off that much time of work to go to the rose bowl and experience everything around it. the highlight of my week for sure had to be my two trips to the uss iowa battleship, the first on tuesday. i got an actual tour of the ship down into at one point below the water level, all the way up top as well, and all around the ship. you know, as a marine corps veteran, that was a special experience for me.

while i was active duty, so this was a pretty cool chance for me to get a look at all of that. we also talk to some hawkeye fans, too, it's free admission for any iowa residents, so there were some hawkeye fans out there, but thursday we went back -- they had a pep rally out there and it was just incredible. by noon, they had set the single day attendance record and just about 15- to 20,000 fans out there all day long having a great time, some touring the ship. a lot of people just staying on land, just happy to be in the presence of so many others. the night before, wednesday, we had done the hawkeye huddle and saw plenty of spans out there, about 20,000 in the convention center. even tom arnold, that was a need experience. friday before the actual rose an hour and a half walking

and what a special atmosphere that was, unlike anything i've ever experienced. people were excited, so unfortunate the game went the way it did, but people were so excited to be out there and black and gold outnumbered the stanford cardinal fans probably exaggeration. obviously the rose bowl didn't go the way you would have like, but it was stl an absolute blast to be out there. thanks to all the hawkeye fans we ran into this week that were so happy to talk to us, and not only being on camera, but the ones we talked to off camera. i spent more time this week getting to know hawkeye fans and had a blast. thank you for such an incredible experience. >> ron: brad, thanks very much. interesting he's never been on a ship before because he served our country in afghanistan. thanks to his hard work in pass is a zeen na. brad said hawkeye spans were so gracious and fun to be around like the hawkeye huddle and the

great job by jeff heeter and everybody at the alumni association at the university of iowa, and this had to be special for so many of you on one of those university of iowa alumni association tours. the final press conference before the game, a question came up about recruiting, and the coach delivered what would be a classic line, a true statement. he said when the hawkeyes go shopping, they don't get to go to the gourmet store, so that was telling. they were going after four- and five-star recruits, tough to get th to come to iowa city, but that new facility is going to makekell the difference in the world. you said you thought the coach seemed a lot more comfortable in these settings than we'd ever heard him before? >> mark: he's the newkirk, right. he mentioned earlier in the season that he went back and watch some of the old press conferences and didn't like the way he looked and came off and reacted.

about limbs. it is the new kirk. they moved practices from the afternoon to the morning. the players seem to love it and he seems more comfortable. going back to january, he named c.j. bessard the starter right after the season. that's something he hasn't done before. >> ron: we're going to take a short break and we'll be on

program airs here on the mai >> ron: and welcome back to this week's edition of the steele report. i'm ron steele with mark woodley. we're recapping kwwl rose bowl coverage from pasadena. a tremendous experience, hawkeyes going back therefor the first time in 25 years. every day out there was really special, but one day which i really enjoyed was thursday. that was new year's eve day and we got kind of an unexpected surprise that morning when an event came up that we weren't planning on attending. >> mark: we got a schedule at the beginning of the week and thisas not on it. we didn't think the team was going to e the ststium until game day, but we found out that they were going to take a team photograph the day before the game. we were welcomed to tag along. of coursi, we did exactly that. now, the hawkeyes, they arrive at the rose bowl stadium to the cheers of hawkeye fans who were just outside the stadium with all their cameras.

bowl in droves just to see some of the sights and sounds of this very carnival like atmosphere surrounding that iconic rose bowl structure. the players and coached lined up for the team photo, really seemed to be enjoying very moment of their pre-game trip. the players getting out their cameras as well. not just getting their picture taken. they got on to the playing field for the very first time, just a little more than 24 hours before the rose bowl kickoff, which would happen later on friday afternoon. now, among those greeting the hawkeyes, that was pass is a dena police officer bill broghammer. he has a special connection to an iowa linebacker. he is also from decorah and a distant relative of josie's. you might recognize his name because he was a member of iowa fps 1982 rose bowl team under then coach hey deny frye. >> we came out a couple weeks early and we stayed here na pass is a dena and practiced at -- pasadena and practiced at citrus college, so yeah, it was a great

never been to california in my life prior to that, so -- and now i'm here living here. >> mark: bill says he didn't get a chance to play a down in the 1982 rose bow he got to ru on the field and that was the big thing he talked about. certainly a lifetime experience for him and the other members of that iowa 1982 rose bowl team. bad weather delayed your flight. i was able to fly out early on christmas day. i had no problems whatsoever. as for scott, zach and brad, they had to drive. >> ron: they had to drive and they were willing to do so. they did run out of gas on the way back, i understand, but they actually drove two kwwl vehicles from here in iowa to pass is a dena, including our brand-new satellite truck that allows us to report literally from anywhere in the world and we have a new source for the live reporting capabilities and that's called the live-u. i asked zach grant to tell you

capabilities and for his thoughts on the week in peace dena. >> zach: that's right, our producer scott albanese, brad hanson and i drove the satellite truck to sunny california. the trip probably took around 30 hours, but who's koupting. driving the sat truck gives us the opportunity to go live from just about anywhere on earth. the first step is you put this dish up in the air and you find the satellite we're going to use. once you have identified the satellite, we have specific coordinates that natural up with -- match up with what they have at the station. then it's a simple phone call away ban we're up and ready to go and in business. we brought the live view backpack with us. that's a new technology that allows us to go live using a cellular signal. the backpacks are light and easy to transport. you plug it into the camera and push this live button at the bottom and you're broadcasting. this gave us the opportunity to be live at two locations in

one of the places i went to was hollywood. we tried to hit as many touristy spots as we could. the walk of fame was something need to see. i had to for the one of my favorite rock bands queen into the stand-up. one ofofhe other days that stood out was media day. i've been to a few, but nothing like this. the entire iowa roster was made available to the media, which is interesting because kirk usually lass -- has a policy wsh freshmen cannot talk to the medias. i've never seen a room so full of players and coaches. they say the lights are ighter at the rose bowl and there was certainly a sign of that. describe your experience? >> zach: i think it was easily one of the greatest things i've ever done in my professional career. i wish the game would have went better for the hawkeyes, that would have made it more fun, but other than that, the weather, everything down there was absolutely spectacular.

you know, there's a picture of bob brooks in there interviewing someone. i think bob has been to every rose bowl that the hawkeyes have been in and he even covered -- he's been around for a long time. he's really the legendary sports broadcaster and so great to know that he was abe to make it -- able to make it out there once again. takiki a show on the road, at can be difficult. so we took five people, all told, including a producer, scott albanese, and you mentioned him earlier, scott produces the 10:00 news and he's producing the show right now. we asked scott to give us his thououts. >> scott: my job was different out there, being the field producer. just kind of communicating with everyone, especially back here, just trying to get everyone on the same page, so basically, you know, when we wake up in the morning, get everything going.

into the west. >> scott: we decide where everyone is going to go, going to turn, and i relay that back to the assignment producer back here. if things change, we can go ahead and change those later in the day, t i was going wherever i was needed, kind of the floater of the group. if brad needed me to go with him, i could help him, and certain days, i helped ron, mark and zamp in the sat truck -- zach in the sat truck. my big responsibility was putting together the road to the rose bowl show, trying to make that perfect. i was working on it for weeks. it's really y st tryingto get that good to go. i did also put together a package for that, kind of my first big stcry put together, so pefully that turned out all right for you guys. jeff, i'm going to float 8-10, move up 8-11. we're 20 seconds over. >> ron: normly you're back

control room at kwwl, so how is that different being not here in waterloo, but out in california? >> scott: i think the resources are different. back here, i have everything on me. i have thehe computer, the directors, other people in the newsroom here, versus out there, it's out in the middle of nowhere, so just trying to work the way you can and the communication is the big papa of that. communicating back here with my producers, jason pope and shannon and zach who i was working with mainly, just communicating with then, making sure everything is moving smoothly and staying on the same page. >> ron: this is called the line-up, so explain that briefly. >> scott: we put everything together, make sure, you know, everything flows nicely, especially with the two different sources zach talked about with the live view and the satellite truck. we were able to do a little bit more than some of the other stations, experimenting with ron and mark tossing over to zach or

little bit, so it was kind of cool to work with different sources and, you know, just putting everything together. >> ron: can you put into words what the trip meant to you because you're young in the business, and this is a first big opportunity for you. >> scott: once in a lifetime opportunity. i've been in the business about 14 months now and this is one of the coolest things i'll ever get to do. it was a pretty amazingtrip and m thankful for the opportunity and i hope to do it again sometime. >> mark: of course, ron, taking a show like this with as many people as we had involved, it's definitely a challenge, but a great opportunity and a lot of fun too. >> ron: certainly is. >> announcer: and they're ready to good big time.e. the -- gobig time. the excitement of the crowd, the cheerleaders and the university of iowa hawkeye football team, already cheering their team. we wish them well! go iowa. >> ron: the hawkeye marching

representing the state of iowa even though al roker had trouble earlier o on, he called them the iowa state hawkeyes and i'm sure he heard all about that on social media, but a great event before the game by the always-popular iowa hawkeye marching band. that was a great parade. we saw them making the floats the day before and we had a chance to d drive down one of the roads. >> mark: the orange grove boulevard. >> ron: and colorado boulevard, the two popular ones and it was a sight to see all of these temporary bleachers set up in people's yards. i don't know how many people showed up for the parade, i think they said about a million for the parade itself. when we finally got to go to the stadium, i wanted to show you this one piece of video. as we walked through the tunnel on to the playing field, and by the way, this is the same tunnel that the hawkeye players came from the locker room, they went from the locker room to the rose bowl turf and this is exactly

people in it by the time they came out for game day, but that turf was an amazing piece of real grass. i mean, just a spectacular surface, but walking through that tunnel kind of made you feel like, wow, this is what the players are feeling and i don't know about you, mark, but i always ask myself, what are those players thinking as they walk through that tunnel on to this great iconic stadium turf and knowing that this is perhaps the only time they'll ever play in the rose bowl, certainly what an experience for them. >> mark: yeah, when you're playing in a game that big, it's a special moment. you talk about that turf, i had to lean down and feel it because it looks fake and you get down there, it's like touching a green. like playing on a putting surface, the softest, most well kept thing. >> ron: it's about the best golf course you've ever seen, but it's so smooth and so

>> mark: i'm working to do that with my lawn now. >> ron: we need to take one more break. we're coming rybak to wrap

final segment of this week's edition of the steele report as we look back on our kwwl trip to the 102 rose bowl. >> ron: and it was quite an experience. during our half hour rose bowl special last week, several times you heard from coach fer rens, and one message that we weren't abe to bring you that moved me was about the relationship with the players over the years. he talked about what bob sanders difor some of the players at the big 10 championship game. >> sticts were lard to -- tickets wra lard to find, but bob sanders saved the day. he got a box and a bunch of our former players were up in the box with him. i didn't get to see him in indianapolis, but had a really good conversation with him afterwards. he's a father of four now, but just to talk to him and the way he's grown as a person and he's a young man, now a young parent

he's financially lyly stable, done a great job there. it's not just inform players that went to -- former players that went to the nfl, but so many guys don't go to the nfl, but they're doing great things in business, medicine, education, and just to see the guys grow and mature and become young adults is really neat and that's another reason i consider myself fortunate to be at iowa, the fact that i've been here 26 years of my professional life and just to have that kind of longevity, you get exposure to things that if you're only in a job for four or five years or six years and moving on the next one. >> mark: now the four-time big 10 coach the year. 17 years in the books at iowa right now, 127 victories, just 16 short of tying the leg defend zaer haydenn frye who earned 123 in his years the hawkeyes.

old friend out at the rose bowl, that being former kwwl sports director ohmy bob hoag. he was retired from the television industry, actually a state senator and now commissioner at the pack west athletic conference and he today bus the rose bowl he covered for us back in 1982 for kwwl. >> even though they lost the game, 40,000 iowa fans spontaneously singing at the end of the rose bowl game. i'll never forget it. what an experience. >> ron: it's been 25 years since iowa has been here, bob. >> i can't believe it's been that long. you can see the fans lining up at the gate to take pictures of everything. there's nothing like an iowa fan, oh my. >> ron: the classic line oh mie from the great bob hoag. the first play from scrimmage, that was 364 all-purpose yards and seemed to catch everybody offguard and set the tone,

the day. >> mark: they can line him up anywhere. startered out receiver -- started out receiver, took a jab step, shot between two receivers and made that catch. iowa was driving that point, the game was almost over. >> ron: it seems like they weren't really ready for him being a receiver on that first play, caught everybody offguard. but the hawks got a lot of players coming back next year and we're coming back next week for the latest edition of the steele report. thanks to mark woodley and the whole crew. thanks to all of you for being

see you next week.

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