Iowa Football Recruiting

This isn't scientific in any way shape or form obviously, but my feeling is that CMC's recruiting of skill position players would get a rating of 7.5 out of 10, and KF's would be a 6 out of 10.

The biggest issue for CMC is that the OL/DL recruiting for him has been about a 5.5 out of 10 and KF's probably an 8 out of 10.

And the overall success of your football team starts and ends with being good in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Your skill position players are of little value without a good OL and DL.

Until CMC can build really good OL's and DL's, ISU won't win more than 5-7 games a year IMO. Purdy, Hall, Brock, and the WR's can all be made to look VERY average without blocking and pass protection.

KF has always known that is where football games are won at. Being able to run the ball, and stop the run have always been the key, and always will be no matter how "fancy" offenses become.

Iowa has a strong ability to develop defensive backs. I think that has been as big of a contributor as the lines. Phil Parker is the best coach in the state.
 
This will be a fun one to revisit in a couple years. I wonder if it will age as well as your Michael Ojemudia take. I’m sure you have quite a few other hot takes in your posting history too.

At least you can admit you lied Benji
 
Iowa graduated 2 1st round draft picks at TE the year before. It caught Iowa a little short handed losing a So. and a Jr. to the NFL Draft. They will be right back to where they were fairly quickly.

Do you think Iowa State has a better TE room than Iowa again this year?
 
Not at all. Bruce was down to Iowa and ISU, and before he decided I was on here saying Bruce was one of only 4 WR that Iowa still wanted. If he would have picked ISU, that would have obviously been a loss to ISU there. Same with Llewellyn, same with Fidone.

On the flip side, lets just say for instance McLaurin picks ISU (that would be a good get BTW). I would correctly say that Iowa stopped recruiting him long ago as they are full at LB. That is a fact no matter who McLaurin picks. Same goes for Mbow, he isn't a take for us any longer, we are down to 2 guys right now on OL that we are going after.

Right now there just aren't may players left that would pick ISU that Iowa is even recruiting. I think you are out on the 1 RB we want (Ricky Parks), the 2 WR we might still take (Keegan Johnson and Bell), the 2 OL we might take (not sure if we take both) Alt and Myslinski. We are full at DE and LB, so if you get one with an Iowa offer, we simply aren't recruiting or taking another one. I am not sure where we stand at DB recruiting right now, as we are gonna take 1 more, so maybe Iowa and ISU are still fighting over a guy there, but I'm not sure.

Iowa's full at DE?
 
This will be a fun one to revisit in a couple years. I wonder if it will age as well as your Michael Ojemudia take. I’m sure you have quite a few other hot takes in your posting history too.
You dont think you have hot takes in your past?
 
Saying LaPorta isn’t anywhere near as good as Allen or Soehner right now is laughable. Neither Allen nor Soehner have proven that they are threats in the passing game. LaPorta put up better receiving stats than both of them despite playing sparingly for half of the season.

I know Allen is supposed to have a reputation as a good blocker (I have no idea about Soehner), but LaPorta was already a pretty good blocker, especially for a true freshman.
This will be the third time I've asked. How much ISU football did you watch?
 
Iowa's full at DE?

They are pursing a couple DT right now, Pittman and Benny. Benny is a total longshot, I doubt we land him. Pittman has an ISU offer, not sure why CMC didn't at least throw an offer at a stud like Benny though.
 
This is correct. The 05 class ended up around #6 nationally I think with like (3) 5* and (6) 4* guys. Ton of talent that year.
Can’t believe y’all didn’t win a national championship with all that talent and a HOF coach. Crazy
 
Iowa has the better tradition with TE’s over the last 10-20 years. Iowa would have had the best TE in the state had either Fant or Hockenson stayed, they didn’t.

I do think LaPorta has potential to be a very good player, but jury is still out and should get pushed by the incoming Freshmen.

LaPorta
Miamen
Yelverton
Lachey

That's a ridiculous level of young talent at TE.
 

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