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Washed Up Walkons

Ivory Kelly-Martin Opens Up: Journey from Iowa Football to Coaching at Bemidji State | WUW 604

Washed Up Walkons

Tyler Kluver

Sports, College Football, Ncaa Team, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Athletes, Hawkeyes, Iowa

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Former Iowa RB Ivory Kelly-Martin joins the show to talk about his career, and his new coaching role.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A guy that is undervalued, underrated in the history of Iowa running backs, Ivory Kelly Martin,

0:05.2

an amazing teammate of ours back in 2017, played in a stable of running backs over the course of five years

0:10.7

that was talented. A lot of guys taking reps, dealt with some injuries that stalled out his career,

0:15.9

is past his playing days and is now a coach at Bamigi State.

0:19.7

Kevin runs this interview because my internet sucks. Enjoy this one.

0:23.0

Let's have a day. Let's go. Welcome back, washed up walk-on fans. It is my first ever intro to this podcast.

0:56.8

Clover is having some computer issues.

1:00.0

Probably been looking at too much listed material.

1:02.8

But we are back episode.

1:04.6

I have no idea because I'm not the producer of the show.

1:07.4

But we've got Ivory Kellyn Martin back for the podcast iro how's it going man doing

1:14.2

good happy you guys ask me to hop on here and talk a little bit about my story kind of where i left

1:21.4

off from leaving iowa and where i'm at now in life and ready to get down yeah man, man, let's hop right into the future and the present.

1:31.3

So just got the announcement on Twitter that we're going up to Bemidji State to be a coach up there.

1:37.6

Tell us a little bit about that, how that came about.

1:41.9

Yeah, so the past couple of years, I've been coaching football at Baker University.

1:49.3

I should probably start kind of a little bit closer to the beginning of it all.

1:54.8

Once I finished playing football, I end up getting injured up in the CFO playing for Calgary Stampeders. After that, I kind of got to the

2:04.7

point where, you know, I love the game in football, but I wanted to figure out what I love most

2:11.3

about it. And, you know, playing just wasn't it for me. I love competing and going out there every single day and giving my max effort,

2:20.9

but I also just love, you know, teaching the game of football too.

2:25.2

And that's why I finally decided to hang up the cleats and, you know, put on a whistle

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