And then have a guy like Robert Jones.It is the most Iowa State thing ever for the best recruit in school history to not be good enough to play and then transfer out
And then have a guy like Robert Jones.It is the most Iowa State thing ever for the best recruit in school history to not be good enough to play and then transfer out
for us old timers don’t forget john culbertsonSecond-biggest bust, corrected. You know the #1.
Sam Mack had the biggest bust I can rememberSecond-biggest bust, corrected. You know the #1.
He got his shot.Sam Mack had the biggest bust I can remember
Depends on what is meant by star. We've only had two McD AAs ever (Fizer, Omaha).Have we ever had any star that worked out?
Several successful 4 stars and even 3 stars of course
Kind of the new normal around here.The comments in this thread are stomach churning. Sound like bunch of d-bag Iowa fans.
Run off? That is what you said that incited me to dumb your post.Ask that of all the folks who say we found better players.
Rating is based on potential, not readiness to play immediately. Most freshmen can’t compete with upperclassmen. Omaha was beaten by Milan and Lipsey had no competition at PG last year.This is nonsensical. Are you seriously arguing that coaches don't evaluate the players to whom they offer scholarships?
You don’t know how they will turn out. They just were’t good enough to play as freshman in a top 10 team.Lol, "not every single one will pan out." As if we've whiffed on like one kid, instead of almost literally all of them.
What's the way to fix it?
I don't really have a problem with them being pros...but there's a reason no successful pro league in the entire world has a system where 100% of players are one year free agent contracts.
It's not college sports anymore, but it's not really pro sports either. Not pro sports in a way that makes sense.
Bring back the sit out year after transferring. Still allow guys to transfer if they want to, but it makes it much harder to just buy a team full of seniors with NIL money.
I don't think this kind of thing happens unless the blue bloods really start to fall off.
Cyclone fans are going to struggle this this concept, but the best programs are looking at old guys and we are one of those programs. You still need to look at HS kids so you can land the occasional generational talent (Lipsey), but otherwise you let other programs start kids to see who can actually play then you go and poach them. Like it or not, that is the path. You want to cheer for a team that just develops their own talent, head 2 hours to the East. See how well that is working. It is better to be the big dog at the food bowl and this coaching staff understands that.People can say whatever they want, but ISU had the highest rated recruiting class in its history less than 18 months ago and all but one of them are about to be gone. That is a failure. Either they whiffed on evaluation or they whiffed on development.
If this is how it's going to be, why bother recruiting high school kids at all? Isn't it a massive waste of time and effort? How can any recruit or parent take you seriously when almost every single freshman you've recruited, you've run off?
You do realize that if these rules were put in play it would hurt Iowa State, right? I don’t understand why so many people here are so against the transfer rules when that’s where TJ has made his living. If transfers had to sit out a year then we wouldn’t have made the tournament and the sweet 16 in TJ’s first year and sure as hell wouldn’t have had a top 10 team this year.Bring back the sit out year after transferring. Still allow guys to transfer if they want to, but it makes it much harder to just buy a team full of seniors with NIL money.