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How would we have reacted if we didn’t take a 5 star guard?
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RECRUITING: Iowa State makes McKinley Wright's top five - Cyclone Fanatic
A lot of the talk recently surrounding Iowa State basketball recruiting has been about under-the-radar recruits, but on Saturday a not so under-the-radar point guard included the Cyclones in his top five. Champlin, Minn., guard McKinley Wright listed the Cyclones along with Dayton, Memphis...
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Who the hell takes a 3 star player over a 5-star? I don't know how it all went down but Prohm should have figured out a way to get both of them. Wigginton wasn't a point guard anyways.
Just fine as most would believe the odds weren’t likely we’d land Wigginton and you don’t pass up on good pgs. Wigginton never looked like a pg and you knew he wasn’t likely to be around long.
Even more important, it wouldn’t have mattered, we’re not paying a coach to fan-vote recruiting decisions. They get paid to make the Wright choice.
It was clear Wright should have been a take, even without hindsight.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t have took him. We should have took both, but imagine if we didn’t take a 5 star.
We took Wiggs. However, we probably would not have gone after Halliburton had we already had wright. We made the right decisions at the time. Wright just ended up being really good.
What are the odds Wright would’ve stayed four years with us? Most didn’t.
Drew we need smart people like you that make things make sense here. Good insight and point there.
First, that is not the situation- Wright wanted to commit before Wigginton wanted to come here. At that point you don’t know what Wigginton is going to do, but you do have a good pg wanting to commit. Take it- you don’t know if you’ll get Wigginton, who’s not a pg and a flight risk anyways. Make room somehow else if Wigginton wants to commit later.
Second, Prohm isn’t paid to win recruiting rankings, he’s paid to have foresight and good evaluation, and one game of watching Wigginton at Oak Hill should cause you to have no problem grabbing a true pg.
Apparently we've reached the "second guessing five year old recruiting decisions" part of the program
Why wouldn’t we? You’re saying Prohm thinks Haliburton’s a big 12 level pg, which Wigginton never indicated, but he’s going to pass because he has one that’s going to be a freshman (Wright)? You can take multiple pg prospects, particularly when one is 6’5”. That’s horrible risk and roster management by Prohm if what you suggest is true, but it’s just conjuncture. Then again, you could be correct though, given Prohm did prove to be horrible, lacking in roster management
Not sure what we are arguing. We should have took Wright. He’s turned out to be really good. Then we can both agree that you always take a 5 star prospect, especially at ISU.
You’re the one that disagreed with saying it was brutal to not take Wright because of Wigginton. That was clearly a mistake when it happened, just bad risk and roster management. Take Wright and continue to recruit Wigginton.
If you want to play the what will fans think game, imagine if we don’t land Wigginton after passing on Wright? More famine recruits? Honestly, it doesn’t change any seasons to not land Wigginton, but that’s a different topic.
It’s all good though, I wouldn’t want to risk Prohm getting retained this year.
All I said is we should have took the 5 star no matter what. I agree that we should have taken McKinley. This is just another mistake from the Prohm era.
Why are we arguing over this? Didn’t everyone want prohm gone after year 1? That might have helped him keep his job!
I was suspect of Prohm year 1 and 2. During year 3 it became apparent he wasn’t up for the task of coaching in the big 12.