If You Build It, They Will Come

 I made a post recently about one of my non-Iowa collections.  It was my Minnesota Vikings Schedule collection, where I try to find a card with a photo from each game of the season.  It's probably never going to be a complete collection for reasons, but fun to collect non the less. I've been mildly working on that collection since Covid, and it took until today for me to have the most obvious of epiphanies.  "I can also collect the Iowa teams schedules!"   Probably I didn't think about this is because it is much harder to collect.  I'll use Iowa Hawkeyes Football for reference.  Each year there are about 0-4 players drafted which make up a majority of the college cards.  Each set does not use college uniforms, mostly early release sets or the SAGE types.  So the pool I have to pull from is much smaller. Who cares!  I'm going to see what I have! I'll start with Iowa Hawkeyes football, and rummage through my duplicates.  Let's se...

        Profile Wayne Fontes is a former NFL coach with the Detroit Lions from 1988-1996.  Wayne own the franchise records for wins (and losses), won Coach of the Year in 1991*, and has a National Championship with USC as an assistant in 1972.  He was the defensive backs coach with the University of Iowa from 1969-1971**.  I mean, its not a coincidence that USC brings in a coach from Iowa and they win the National Championship the next year, right? * Won the division, and lost to eventual champion Mark Rypien and the Washington Football Team.  That was a fun team to watch, wasn't it.  ** Wayne coached future NFLer Craig Clemons who played 6 years in the pros Personal Notes Wayne Fontes joins the Iowa Collection bringing with him a National Championship and Coach of the Year trophy.  However, I would wager that he wouldn't have the fondest of memories in his time in the Hawkeye state.  He came to Iowa after coaching at Dayton, a...