BREAKING: Cameron Lard cleared, will be here this weekend
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Whar Lard, Thar Lard.....sorry had to. Glad he's here and looking forward to watching him play!
Glad this got sorted out, in the long run, pushing him back a year could be great for the program. With our lack of depth in the post, there was a 0% chance Lard would RS if he got here in time, now he basically has to be and we won't lose he and Young the same year. Having the scholarships a little more balance can hopefully avoid seasons like this year where we were replacing our top 3 frontcourt players.
As of now with Lard seemingly online.
Still three to give, or four baking in a reasonable expectation of attrition or injury.
Going to be quite the line change into next year.
Then again, NWB, Long, Young, Lard, McNeill, Wigginton, and Lewis sounds like a Generation Prohm that could be really good in 2-3 years after some growing pains next year.
Don't know why "growing pains" are always assumed, grad transfers have changed that dynamic completely.
This is the list of grad transfers to ISU since the first Hoiberg year...
Jake Anderson
DeAndre Kane
Bryce Dejean-Jones
Darrell Bowie
Merrill Holden
...which I would rate, in sequence...
a good wing on a bad team
simply awesome, an All-American
talented, but a world-class head case
a meh minute-filling 3.5
just lost his spot in the rotation
Kane is the exception. Anderson is probably #2 on that list. I loved me some Uncle Jake, but this has not historically been the deepest and most consistent vein for talent in the past five years. And this is before accounting for the fact that (1.) Fred was known for this and (2.) other teams have caught up to recruiting this market, which Fred previously went all Jonah Hill on and Moneyball'd us right back into national contention with transfers.
Prohm had plenty of PT to sell to posts this off-season and did as well as he did. I don't want to depend on this market for Big 12 ready posts. I am glad that Bowie and Holden are here, but I would rather we grow some of our own trees down low.
I am all for a hybrid roster construction at ISU -- history, from Orr on forward, says that ISU is going to have a mix of good high school recruits, JUCOs, and transfers when we are our best and competing for the conference and nationally. Willoughby, Cato, Tinsley, JVB, Christopherson, White, Babb, McGee, Clyburn, Kane, Nader, we all know the names of the good and great ones who wore something else before cardinal and gold. We are never going to be able to take top-tier high school talent out of the pond year after year. But there a lot of consistency issues in depending on grad transfers to fill out your front court rotation.
This year is a particular lesson towards that.
I'll take a Jake Anderson right now, great player who made winning plays.
Not a guy who fits the profiles because he truly was a "small forward ".
Can't wait for the retrospective "what if Lard wouldn't have redshirted" articles from these hacks after the season is over.
We got something like the opposite of the nut cup on Lard because the main reason he's on our team is because his eligibility questions.
Watching some of his highlights, he looks pretty long. Like one of those guys Baylor rolls out that kills us every year. Very excited about his future here.
Let me check my phony inside sources and I'll get back to you next year.
Not sure if posted somewhere else but her is some new footage "at least to me" of Cam.
Check out @CycloneSJ's Tweet:
Check out @CycloneSJ's Tweet:
I made that but didn't tweet it because I wanted to avoid being called creepy.
Both those games were from last year. They played against Advanced Prep. Advanced Prep had a ridiculous lineup so the competition shouldn't be a concern. Advanced Prep started
Trevon Duval: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/1139
Terrence Ferguson: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/477
Mark Vital: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/1233
Billy Preston: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/1232
Nysier Brooks: https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/5095
