Is XF just taking the reins from Niang here or what's the deal? He's clearly made up his mind by now. The fact that he narrowed it down to two is hilarious. Just setting up the ultimate troll job here on the Hawks.
RECRUITING: Xavier Foster recaps official visit to Iowa State
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I don’t know if twins is right. But I do know that I don’t want foster if he is stupid enough to pick fran.
At this point even Foster is trolling Iowa. This is fantastic!
So I had to go take a peak at HR and HN...is there some area of those sites that I’m missing that is more in tune to recruiting? They don’t even seem to know that Providence just offered Ogundele. They’re really hitting Jerry Meyer’s Crystal Ball hard with Foster, that was put in over a year ago!
The school where I work is in the same conference as Osky. During lunch, I was sharing the news that Foster is down to EIU and ISU with a couple of my Hawkfan colleagues. One of them said that he talked with a friend who is friends of the Fosters and claimed that XF would NOT be choosing Iowa. Again, I trust Twins's sources over this one - but I believe this one to also be solid. Funny thing is, the other colleague (Hok alumnus) quickly brought up the fact that XF had foot surgery and that his recruitment has been "strange" and schools have backed away from him due to this injury. My interpretation: "You're pi$$ed about losing a recruiting battle to big brother & this explanation is just an excuse that you will use to push the narrative that FM backed away from recruiting Foster (i.e. 'we really didn't want him')." Usually this type of convo, coming from an alumnus, would have surprised me - but nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to Hokfan behavior.
I know we’ve been snake bitten in the past, but we really need to rid ourselves of this mentality
yeah but the printed story that Fran drove to Oskaloosa to personally tell the fosters he was taking comments from the Murray twins kind of shoots that idea down.
Agree...and eventually (I hope) we get to the point where those types of things end up surprising us rather than some of us (me) feeling like this is the way it works.
What quality basketball recruit have we lost to Iowa?
Don't forget kicked in the groin, punched in the gut and poked in the eye
Not suggesting we lose them to Iowa necessarily...but if you don't think we have lost out on big-time recruits while feeling we are "this" close to snagging them...maybe we follow different programs?
For people like me who haven't followed every twist and turn of this...why exactly are we so confident that his narrowing his choices to ISU and Iowa means a sure thing for us?
95% confidence level. Only reason its not 100% is because I'm never 100% confident in a 17 year olds decision
I guess my point is that there is a significant difference between losing a big recruit because of shady practices opposed to losing a guy to Fran...
I agree with that...and my point was that when on the cusp of gaining such a unique talent...it just seems something happens to prevent it. That is all...nothing related to this particular recruit or Iowa. Just many decades of following Iowa State.
