Serious Question: How does ISUs football recruiting look so far?
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I'm going to disagree with this. Are we getting a few players like you describe, certainly. But we are also getting some that a lot of other teams wanted as well.
OL Will Slagel: Offers from Penn State, Iowa, Nebraska, Miami, Auburn, Wisconsin, Kansas State, Northwestern, Missouri, Stanford, Minnesota, Duke, Arkansas and North Carolina.
WR Bryson Thompson: Offers from Baylor, TCU, Mississippi state, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma State in addition to a couple of mid majors.
OT Koen Hinzman: Offers from Cincinnati, Arkansas, Houston and Kansas State in addition to 6 mid-majors.
OL Drew Aagesen: Offers from Michigan State, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin and Minnesota in addition to Six Mid-majors.
S Jordan Crider: Offers from Kentucky and 5 mid-majors.
DB Jason Wooden: Only P4 offer was from Iowa State, but had 8 offers from mid-majors and most of them recruited him at WR. We're turning him into a CB.
TE Joe Vinyard: Offers from Baylor, and 15 Mid-majors or FCS teams.
The players not on this list include RB Isaiah Hansen (who is ranked as our second Highest recruit by On3 behind Slagel), DL Zivad Robinson, WR Blake Moser, QB Cash Hollingshead, OLB Josh McCarthy and TE/FB Joey Massey and even most of those guys have multiple Mid-major or FCS offers. The lone exceptions are Hansen, Massey and Hollingshead who each have just a couple of other offers.
demoncore1031
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I think most of the newer commits are kids that just camped at ISU and got offered, so the coaching staff liked what they saw. I imagine some of these kids are gonna get better offers in the coming weeks. I really hope we can keep Moser if his recruiting blows up. We could use his speed at WR.
Overall I like this recruiting class. Yes we have missed on a number of guys but we got some good ones, particularly on the o-line.
No different than any Campbell class
I would expect more of that, kids today have figured out to commit and then still keep looking for a better deal. If it appears they flip, if not they take the offer from ISU. Only way to change that is to finish the season with 7 or 8 wins.
Judging from Campbells last four or five classes I wouldn’t say his first recruiting effort is that bad. Campbell had a few four stars from his best class in 2022 that now play for Bowling Green and Rhode Island.
How's it going..... you know the scene from Major League were everyone is reading names out of the newspaper
Coach gets a pass for 2027 due to coming in late. He'll be judged by the 2028 class.
6 of 14 have other high major offers. 8 don’t have another high major offer. Thats Paul Rhoads level recruiting. Again though, hard to recruit when you haven’t coached a game yet. Thats why the 28 class will be the one to watch.
I expect Robinson, Konkey and Jones to not make their visits this week. I think most of the current players scheduled for 19th will also be replaced.
I expect to land young and possibly Jordan, if he doesn't commit to KSU this weekend, this week.
We'll probably see several more campers from the 11th commit. Seems like they need a few LBs, DEs and CBs to fill the class
I expect to land young and possibly Jordan, if he doesn't commit to KSU this weekend, this week.
We'll probably see several more campers from the 11th commit. Seems like they need a few LBs, DEs and CBs to fill the class
Not concerned until Jimmy starts talking about airport proximity
Something something pistol whipping 'The reality of it is when you're working with 19 and 20 year old kids'.
these "commitments" don't mean anything until they sign. even then, they don't mean that much anymore. kids are "committing" to their best offer on the table until something better comes along.
Some recent commits
Jaxen Proden - not ranked. One other offer (d2)
Special Henry - not ranked. Dozen g5 offers.
Dontrell young - not ranked. Wake Forest & g5 offers
Jaxen Proden - not ranked. One other offer (d2)
Special Henry - not ranked. Dozen g5 offers.
Dontrell young - not ranked. Wake Forest & g5 offers
Its not surprising but a lot of the offers include one P5 and a lot of G5 or all G5. It's his first year and he isn't a household name with recruits or a history at ISU to sell. The success of this class and probably the next 2 will come down to can he find players that fit his system and find people that are overlooked and have the ability to play in the B12. It almost always does at ISU, it will be interesting to watch.
By the end of the Campbell era he could find a couple 4 stars in a class(sometimes a 4 star that other passed on for a reason like Dominique Orange that turned out well), I would say 75% of the rest of the class 3 stars that had solid P4 recruitment and 20-25% of the class that had mostly G5 competitors. Rogers will need some years of success before he can be in that situation.
By the end of the Campbell era he could find a couple 4 stars in a class(sometimes a 4 star that other passed on for a reason like Dominique Orange that turned out well), I would say 75% of the rest of the class 3 stars that had solid P4 recruitment and 20-25% of the class that had mostly G5 competitors. Rogers will need some years of success before he can be in that situation.
Like freshman classes matter anymore. Half these guys will transfer out chasing money or playing time.
