The GM Behind Iowa’s NFL Talent Factory (feat. Tyler Barnes) | ANF PODCAST 65

<p>Check out Hawkeye Commercial Real Estate for all of your Quad Cities commercial real estate needs! https://thehawkeyegroup.com/</p><p>Subscribe to our Patreon to support our show and get access to exclusive content and opportunities: http://patreon.com/TheANFPodcast</p><p>Tyler Barnes, general manager of the Iowa Hawkeyes, joins the ANF Podcast for a rare, wide-ranging look inside the business of building a college football roster — talent evaluation, recruiting philosophy, the transfer portal, NFL-style cap modeling, and the retention conversations that now define the offseason.Tyler explains how a recruiting board goes from 350 names down to a signing class, why getting a kid on campus matters more than any star rating, and how Iowa keeps unearthing diamonds in the rough — the real stories behind Desmond King, Riley Moss (and his gray-shirt-that-almost-was), and Jamari Harris. He breaks down the biggest developmental leaps he&#39;s ever seen (including why he was wrong about Jack Campbell), what he looks for in the 4-3 tweener edge, the hardest positions to evaluate, and how he trained his own eye through Ken O&#39;Keefe and Iowa&#39;s &quot;scout school.&quot;We also get into the honest stuff: why Iowa refuses to be &quot;obsessive psychopath&quot; recruiters, the real value (and limits) of PFF, this year&#39;s FCS/Group-of-5 portal strategy, how Iowa built its rev-share model off a 10-year NFL cap study, the contract talks with the &quot;second wave&quot; of players who haven&#39;t earned it yet, and what he&#39;d change about NIL and the recruiting calendar if he could. Plus: why Iowa guys so often become the best player at their position in the NFL.If you want to understand how the Hawkeyes are actually built, this is the one.</p>