Rick Heller

I know it's not exactly baseball season anymore, but I wanted to get this post out there.
Rick Heller is the new head baseball coach at the University of Iowa as of July 2013.  He is the 20th head coach in program history.   An Iowa native, Rick Has been the head coach at three previous schools (Upper Iowa, Northern Iowa, Indiana State) and is looking to revitalize an Iowa program that has languished in the bottom of the Big Ten standings more often than not in recent years.

Here is a video with some snippets from his introductory press conference.  He seems excited to get started, and here's to hoping that he can get the job done.

Rick also sat down with College Baseball Insider recently to talk a little about his philosophy and the Iowa job

Rick Heller Flutes

"Greetings from Beech Creek Studio, my name is Rick Heller."

That's what greets you, dear reader, at www.rickhellerflutes.com.  Rick Heller makes Native American flutes in a 5-hole Lakota design.  Cost is $85 and up, depending on design, custom flutes are obviously much more expensive.  Feel free to browse the catalog on his site or on Ebay if you're interested.

Rick has been a woodworker since age 16 and has been making his flutes since the early 1990s.  You can find more about his professional history on this page of his website

Since I'm sure you're wondering how they sound, let's hop on over to youtube and find user Allen Bruce Ray, who has a number of videos of himself playing Rick Heller flutes in a tunnel.  He seems really good at it.

http://youtu.be/etr30gKB2B4

http://youtu.be/E1siUiFixUM