Sigh...you know, as a proud and admitted dual Cyclone/Panther fan myself, this guy is an absolute joke, and he's not even a good troll.
That being written, I am pretty pumped that young Bowen is going to be a Panther next season.
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Sigh...you know, as a proud and admitted dual Cyclone/Panther fan myself, this guy is an absolute joke, and he's not even a good troll.
That being written, I am pretty pumped that young Bowen is going to be a Panther next season.
I highly, highly doubt that UNI would let him out of his LOI, and nor should they, especially after the Doug McDermott fiasco.
I would say you can characterize anyone who was determined not good enough to play at a Big 12 level before our first exhibition game a reach, or at a minimum, a serious talent evaluation misstep.
While I can see the value in offering them a scholarship over someone like Born due to their physical upside, I think there is an argument to be made of "how much worse could it go than Leech and Anderson" in reference to Born.
I think Born is going to be very good in the MVC but lets not pretend Tony Bennett was flying across the country to sit in his living room like he was for AJ....
And I can guarantee that there is more to the story with those two transferring out before the season even started...
Again... there is a MASSIVE difference in a valley type talent catching fire for a game or two versus having to play a big boy conference grind.
Not letting kids out of a LOI is a slippery slope though... You hold a kid to the fire and that just becomes recruiting ammo for other schools.
State finals last year when foster and born went against each other. Foster had 12 pts to born’s 26.
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I love when people make statements like this because they are doing it just so there is no possible way for them to be wrong. If born does go off against p5 schools you can then just say told you so. He would not be able to do
It in a full p5 schedule. If he doesn’t play well you can say told you so. Thing is with your argument he can’t ever prove anything to you because he does not have the chance at that schedule
Somebody needs to call the ARL, that just seem really irresponsible.
That seems like animal hoarding. Why did the two best players bring so many pets?
Are you going every p6 teams board and letting them know they all missed out on a kid from Norwalk Iowa? I mean NONE of them offered. You should be making the rounds.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but going after another school's signed recruit is also a big no no and is in bad form.
Besides, I do not know why the idea of Born going to ISU instead of playing for the school that is giving him a scholarship is even a discussion to begin with. It is silly and stupid.
To go to a different MVC school, no they would not let him out. To step up to P6 level they absolutely would, or they'd get killed in recruiting.
I was at the Norwalk game last night and he scored 55 points including driving the lane and went up and dunked it with two hands. He's quick and has hops but IMO he needs to put on some weight over the next few years. He literally looks like he's 14 but he's almost unstoppable at this level.
It is a moot point/issue to begin with. There is absolutely no indication at this point in time that Bowen Born is looking to back out of his commitment. In fact, it has been reported that he was in the crowd on Sunday for the game against Loyola.
Again. This. Is. Silly.
If and when Tyrese declares for the draft, the open scholarship needs to go to a high level JUCO or transfer player, not to an incoming freshman who did not get an ISU offer in the first place.
I hate Coach Prohm and whine constantly about all things ISU basketball, but we should take more kids from Iowa no matter what the cost or effect on outcomes because I don’t know why.
Since some on this board are so obsessed with what a player looks I guarantee you that if this kid wasn’t white some of you would kill CSP for not offering.
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