CMC is going to have to significantly up his recruiting at ISU to get to a consistent 9-3, 10-2 type seasons. It isn't easy to do at all.
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CMC is going to have to significantly up his recruiting at ISU to get to a consistent 9-3, 10-2 type seasons. It isn't easy to do at all.
ISU does not have a strong track record of developing WRs. Not sure that is exactly controversial.
Second best coach of all time. Most revered though.
I think we have a chance to get 9-3 or 10-2 this year. Do that and recruiting will increase greatly. We are getting more attention nationally than I can ever remember us getting. A big season and we will be on radars we've never been on before.
He might, but to consistently finish at those kind of records you need recruiting classes in the 20s.
CMC hasn't been there long and we just had a receiver drafted. I think we will be just fine.
Maybe so, but it is still way too early to say that ISU has a strong track record of developing WRs.
I think after our big year this year we will put together some big time recruiting classes. I'm not talking Alabama or Clemson, but big time for the state of Iowa.
Fair, we have some talent there so we will know for sure in the next 2 or 3 years.
So we are basing that 100% off of getting drafted?
I think I’d base it more on how they produce on Saturday, but I understand there are a few other parameters.
Have you seen the production our WRs have put up under Campbell? If that's not development is he just that great at recruiting the position?
Nope, he took over in 1999. Took him a few years to get the program back on its feet. Since 2001, he has averaged 8.5 wins. That is a long time of having continued success.
After more thought, I might actually put Fry in third place.
I would rank them as:
1) Evy
2) Howard Jones
3) Fry
4) Ferentz
Took him a few years to get the program back after replacing the legendary Hayden Fry but Campbell won 8 games in his second year replacing Paul Rhoads?
Kirk Ferentz, averaging .5 more wins per year at Iowa (since 2001) than Matt Campbell at ISU (since 2017).
KF took over a bad 3-8 team. It took him three years to get to a bowl game. Campbell took over a 3-9 team and it took him two years to get to a bowl game. What's the problem here?
