No I meant if Foster would choose to go somewhere else, I have no idea what Fran is going to do in regards to recruiting. He's throwing all his eggs into one basket here.
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Oh, sorry. Misunderstood.
As far as Fran, he'd offer some tall, goofy-looking white kid.
I bet he signs in the fall
I'd be a bit shocked if he did. Only because it feels like he's waiting on a Duke offer. With that said, his list of top 5 schools doesn't really make me think that will ever come. I'm guessing he probably knows that at this point. So, hell, maybe he does sign in November.
He's not going to get a Duke offer
Even if he get's a Duke or UNC offer. He is not ready for that level for a few years. My guess if he ended up at Duke he would be recruited over. He has all the tools but he is not ready for a one and done type deal. So he would sit the bench for a while at a school like that. Iowa, Iowa State, Baylor, and Va Tech would all have him in the lineup fairly quickly. Just my take.
He sure seems like a 4 to me, maybe a bit more dynamic than Jacobson. A Foster/Conditt front court would be amazing with the guards we usually have.
He likes to play outside, but he's 7 feet tall. He's got some guard abilities as well.
I think his only shot was to have played the AAU circuit this year and blown the staff away. Obviously, that didn't happen and away went shot.
ISU is in the top 5-7 of a number of top 100 prospects with only 2 schollys (though I do think Prohm is looking to add 3 expecting attrition) thus if Xavier were to choose to go elsewhere I still feel confident ISU will have a top level talent class in 2020 with the current targets.
Looking at the early preps where ISU is in the final cut are wings and guards other than XF, which has me thinking that the staff seems to be confident in their chances for XF. For a while now the main targets have been Foster and Jacobson at PF, that doesn't mean a late riser couldn't be identified and added in the post, just the staff doesn't appear focused there today.
Not sure if many of you know but his G/F goes to ISU and he is on campus almost every weekend that he does not have basketball stuff going on during school year. He has been seen playing pick up ball with isu players while in town also. ISU is looking good at this point
Unsubstantiated rumor! -Tom Kakert, dip **** Iowa writer
I don’t know if those two could guard effectively together. They are very similar defensively. Would have to be a trade off somewhere or hope that Foster is good enough offensively to force a favorable match up.
I thought I read somewhere that XF can extend his defense to the line.
If one of them can can handle that, leaving the other as a rim protector, then you have a pretty good defense... sort of the system that ugh Baylor has run for so long.
Neither team was really any good in 2011 -- not even worth debating. Fun maybe... I know I enjoyed that year and seeing DG play well... but not good.
And I hear the rest of your point. I thought that was why I put "some might find those rankings on here preposterous." I did not elucidate my own feelings, but I generally agree that we were ahead of them as a program from 2013 through 2016 when both programs were actually pretty good (or even very good) and rolling through good eras for each. It was actually a pretty special time for basketball in the state for the two high-major programs.
Both teams sucked in 2017, and 2018 has evidence either way even if I think the preponderance of it is on our side. I think 2019 will be interesting to see.
I didn't convey my sarcasm well. Tom Kakart, writes for the Iowa Rivals site, last week said that Foster's GF in Ames is just essentially a rumor, hasn't been proven. He's a reason why that fan base is living in denial about where they stand in his recruitment.
Well, no, I'm not the smartest guy, but this seems a little harsh.
