Enthusiasm may beat Oklahoma for the first quarter or maybe even a half, but it's gunna take talent to win the game.
REPORT: Anthony Nelson flips commitment to Iowa
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Enthusiasm may beat Oklahoma for the first quarter or maybe even a half, but it's gunna take talent to win the game.
David Johnson is better than any running back we've had in the last 10 years. Again, I'm not saying we have to avoid texas and florida, but I would just like it if we quit scraping the bottom of the barrel in those states.
We offered him as an LB. You keep cherry picking. What % of our team do you suppose should be from Iowa and other lower level high school leagues? It's already pretty high.
How did Bevins, Lemke, Rogers fare? There's plenty more as well. You can Cherrywood pick either side of the argument.
I'm curious as to what kids you think we left off the team in favor of bottom of the barrel Texas and Florida recruits?
Honest question, I don't know for sure, I just assume if a kid is a good Division 1 prospect, with offers that aren't ISU or Iowa, he's going to those other schools. Do you know of all this unused talent sitting around in Iowa?
I can think of 4 or 5 iowa kids in both last year and this years class that I would've love to have seen get an ISU offer.
That's news on Johnson I've never heard before. All I've heard or read about his recruitment is that neither Iowa or ISU offered him so he went to UNI.
With a win over K-State last year and pounding us this year, I think NDSU has shown they could compete, at least to avoid the bottom of the conference. And UNI has been taking many iowa kids rejected by Iowa and ISU and either winning or often outplaying them the last few years, all on the road. Looks to me like both programs could do a better job evaluating Iowa high school talent.
Since my father played at Iowa State I would have had a rough time playing anywhere else if I had the chance to go to Ames... (but ... I was an All-American!!!!!) I guess that they just didn't want meDon't blame the kid at all.
So you'd commit to Iowa knowing that if the ISU offer came you'd drop them like a hot rock?
If the kid had such a hard-on to be a hawk he could've walked on at UI or gray-shirted. I'd expect daddy could put a good word in directly to KF.
That makes sense. With that kid's size and speed he could have been a d-1 linebacker, safety, running back or receiver since he also had great hands.
Like having 2 job interviews resulting in 1 job offer from the company you weren't really that hot on. Then your favorite company finally comes through with an offer.
A more accurate analogy is that the interviewee has a father who has retired from the dream job company and has the ability to get said interviewee an unpaid internship which will most likely result in a salaried position.
Or how about dropping all of the stupid analogies and just go with:
He's a kid that grew up an Iowa fan and really wanted to play Division 1 football. And he's good enough to warrant a scholarship to play Division 1 football. So when his dream school didn't offer that scholarship, he accepted one to another Division 1 program. Then, when dream school came knocking, he switched.