Who cares about the kids that dont want to be a part of what Campbell is doing here. Focus on the one's that do want to be a part of it. We wont play Bollers ever unless it's a bowl game, so best of luck to him. Next man up.
[Commitment Watch] TJ Bollers
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Who cares about the kids that dont want to be a part of what Campbell is doing here. Focus on the one's that do want to be a part of it. We wont play Bollers ever unless it's a bowl game, so best of luck to him. Next man up.
Do you really think that we (ISU) don't want these kids? What's the action...fire the staff and hope to get one that recruits Iowa better? Campbell and staff will keep working the kids and then move on when they choose another school. Respect the kids decision...
Second place in recruiting is simply the first loser. He probably told all other schools they were second also.
Absolutely Campbell and staff wanted him. That's not the point of my post. Look at our in-state recruiting (or recruiting overall), it is very concerning. We have won zero head-to-head battles with Iowa and the one guy we had a good shot with just committed to Wisconsin. I follow recruiting up and down and this year's class and lack of other offers for the commitments is a huge concern.
The current meltdown in Iowa City is a huge bump for ISU's instate recruiting. Wouldn't be surprised to see some of their commits flip in the coming months.
I feel a lot better about our in state recruiting moving forward in the next class and beyond
I agree with this post. I think our recruiting in general is good, but I am confused why with our recent success we haven't won at least a few of the highest profile recruits in our state. I know the old verbiage of "they were lifelong Hawkeye fans" still somewhat holds up, but I figured we would have swayed a few the other way over the past years.
We could have access to 0 in state recruits and Campbell would still find a way to win and I would be just as much of a die hard if the whole roster was made up of out of state kids.
This obsession with Iowa kids is getting to weird levels. I guess people need something to go searching for to ***** about when the staff has led us down 3 of the greatest years in Iowa State football history
This obsession with Iowa kids is getting to weird levels. I guess people need something to go searching for to ***** about when the staff has led us down 3 of the greatest years in Iowa State football history
I also agree with this. Winning football is what I want. Good recruits are what gets us there (at least significantly helps), wherever they come from. I get somewhat frustrated when we loose out on highly rated recruits (which will happen) but it seems like we lose a lot more in our home state than we win.
It is like when we lost a bunch of great in state basketball recruits to Kansas (LaFrenz, Collison, Hinrich) and North Carolina (Barnes and Paige). I understand losing some of them, but I felt like we should have gotten more of them than we did. It is not like all of those years we were bad either. Now I also understand that we probably would have had Collison and Hinrich if Floyd stayed, but it still frustrates me.
Yeah, I doubt that happens. It is being spun that Iowa will be the change CFB really needs and is leading the way.....
Not likely to have rural and suburban white kids de-commit over this. Ferentz is un-touchable
And I’m so excited to live on that campus — to live in Madison, Wisconsin. It ranks as the No. 1 college football town in America for a reason. I’m a super outdoorsy guy. I love to climb trees, I love to fish and I love lakes. And on campus, there’s a student union that’s on a lake, where everybody hangs out, where there are walking trails and fishing spots. It is so nice.
As he reads this article, I can only imagine that Campbell is probably furious at himself for not selling Bollers on the wonders of Lake Laverne.
How long has Wisconsin been pretty good? Going on 3 decades, how long have we been good? Going on 3 years. There is a difference no matter what you think. It would have been nice to land him but it’s not like we weren’t right there in the running.
Cant argue with all of that. UW-Madison is a cool campus/college town. I’ve had a couple epic Halloween disasters up there.
I went to Iowa State and live in the Madison suburbs now and can't argue with his logic. The union on the lake is amazing. Can't beat a few pitchers of Spotted Cow hanging out there. Madison is an amazing campus/college city.
Probably an un-popular opinion here, but I think Spotted Cow is way overrated. It is just an average beer to me.
It seems to me we play a lot of 3-3-5. I think lots of folks may think all defenses are either a 4-3 or a 3-4.