As I’ve said before this most likely won’t be a good test case for ISU v Hoiberg recruiting battles if Lipsey continues to blow up as predicted. The real test is going to be when that next Peter Jok or Jared Uthoff comes around. Whenever that may be. a high 3 star low 4 star that is definitely a P5 player but not a 5 star top 20 kid.
Tamin Lipsey recruiting thread
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A hawk fan bringing up something to an Iowa State fan thinking it will spark anger or annoyance only to change the subject when the tables are turned? I don't believe you...
Get your point but many top notch players want to just go and play for a guy who knows all about the NBA & Fred pretty much has that covered from all angles. I’ll just keep dreaming that Tamin wants to be a Cyclone & the new mayor of AMES!
Any guess on how many posts will be on this thread until the day he signs? He's a FRESHMAN.
Ole Roy, Coach K, Cal, and Slimy Self (or whoever KU has at that point) are going to be able to say everything a young man needs to hear about the NBA, unfortunately.
Have no doubt whatsoever it really did (does). But that is before.....well, ya know. Hope we still have a good chance, tho.
I had a son with zero connections to wrestling know where a nationally recruited wrestler was going before most everyone else.....because they went to the same school. I'd discount the ISU prediction because the kid has years to change his mind, but not because it came from classmates who happen to wrestle.
That's a lot of kids that didn't pan out. I thought Fred never missed on a recruit unless they were paid to go to another school
.There are some great one there (5 by my count ) fair share of misses also.
I know it’s the group think here, which is why so many of them loved Iowa wrestling when gable was there, and now root for penn st because of Cael.
But Fred was terrible with the bulls. He has serious rehab to do. He may be able to parlay a friendship into another job, someday. But that’s a ways in future.
This thread won't make it that long, first sign of success for Fred and it'll get ugly in here. I'm guessing it'll be shut down long before he signs.
Fred will be back in the NBA by the time this kid actually gets to college
I agree 1st chance to get back in the league he is gonna jump imo
I think one of three things happen.
(1.) I agree with @Cat Stevens for once on this one. Fred has some major resuscitation of his coaching reputation to do after failing badly in Chicago and the, "I ******* hated recruiting" incident. Nationally, he is a nice guy, but maybe too nice, who had a good run at Iowa State, but one Prohm has continued without too much trouble and was awful with the Chicago Bulls. So say Fred comes into Nebraska, has success (on par with his run in Ames)... Then he is off to another NBA job for proving it once again in college in short order.
Example -- Fred Hoiberg at Iowa State
(2.) Fred is meh. He was innovative in 2010 with the pace-and-space offense and transfer recruiting, but the game has caught up with him. He has even less success attracting high school talent to Lincoln than he had to Ames, where he was hit-or-miss but had at least some really good ones. The Nebraska program maybe sneaks into the NCAA tournament but is no threat to anybody, and elite recruits like Lipsey are never interested. Fred might be in Lincoln a good while, or at least until Nebraska wants to try again on basketball.
Example -- Tim Miles
(3.) The game really passed him by and his lack of effort at recruiting/the comparative difficulty of the transfer market means Fred never gets anything of note going. The general sleaziness of you-know-who and failed recruiting contribute to the breakdown greatly.
Example -- Chris Mullin
I don't hate Fred but I want to beat his ass on the court and on the recruiting trail.
I could be wrong but I think Lefty Moore is more of an ISU guy than a Fred guy.
I’m not sure. I think lefty was sitting with the hoibergs during the NCAA conference in DSM.
Personally, if I was a top 10 recruit, I would collect all the bag money from Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, etc. and the walk on at ISU so ISU is able to provide another scholarship to one more player
Indeed. Lipsey's high school gym has Hoiberg's picture "hanging in the rafters". Fred's not doing his job very well at all if he doesn't try to use that connection.
I think half the posters in this thread just took down the pictures of Hoiberg they had hanging above their beds.
