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A Hawkeye great from the Forest Evashevski Rose Bowl years.

My father attended Iowa a few years after he got out of the Air Force, and because he was going to coach as well as get his teaching certificate, he had a Phys Ed course or two. During that time, there were only two guys dad knew of who could not climb a rope to save their butts: he and Alex Karras. Despite being rope-challenged, they both went on to their respective careers and did just fine.

Dad did not care for a lot of the other athletes who were at Iowa in those days. He and his younger brother were both veterans of the Korean War, and they would not take crap from anybody regardless of who they were (or who they thought they were)... but dad liked Alex Karras ("a fun guy... terrible at gymnastics, but a fun guy").

Mr. niteowl77

Evashevski moved from football coach to athletic director in 1960 and Jerry Burns took over the football program. Burns lasted four years until Ray Nagel became coach. Nagle was probably the worst football coach in any conference getting little help from Evashevski's Monday morning second guessing in public.
In the late 60s-early 70s, after Evashevski had retired to his home in Michigan, WHO Radio featured a sports program called “Ask Evy,” where host Jim Zable would throw softballs up for Evashevski to criticize the performance of Iowa coaches.
Finally, the university informed WHO that Evy's opinions were not helping the football team or its coaches and Mr. Zable might find himself unwelcome if the Evashevski show continued.
That was the last time anyone in the Iowa media asked Evy anything.