How good we Jerry Moses?

[EvilBetty]

I watched the first half of the insight bowl while cleaning my house tonight. they interviewed jerry on the sidelines to talk about j.j. (one of my favorite all-time iowa staters). Reporter said he was the best player ever to come out of the state of iowa with over 100 collegiate suitors.

is that legit? what what was his connection to ISU for the clones to land him?

 

[Gerbs]

Let me mayor coach

 

[JP4CY]

I watched the first half of the insight bowl while cleaning my house tonight. they interviewed jerry on the sidelines to talk about j.j. (one of my favorite all-time iowa staters). Reporter said he was the best player ever to come out of the state of iowa with over 100 collegiate suitors.

is that legit? what what was his connection to ISU for the clones to land him?

Is that what you call it?

 

[jsb]

He was really, really good. I thought I read he was top recruit in the country.

 

[CyBraveBear]

I was to young to remember him playing but worked with him a bit at Hy—Vee in Waterloo when I was in high school. Nicest guy you could ever meet.

 

[theshadow]

Reporter said he was the best player ever to come out of the state of iowa with over 100 collegiate suitors.

is that legit? what what was his connection to ISU for the clones to land him?

Legit. At that time, he was the most highly-recruited prep ever in the state of Iowa. Coaches would park in front of the house at all hours. Family had their phone disconnected just to stop it from ringing.

2x first-team all-state in football
2x all-state in basketball
High jump of 6-6 (indoor) and 6-4 (outdoor)
State indoor champ in sprint hurdles
14.5 outdoor in the 120y (110m) hurdles
Ran on the 880y (4x2) relay that won at Drake

It's too bad he struggled with injuries.

 

[Jriddge28]

Random story - When I was a Freshman, JJ was a year older and offered out of nowhere to give a friend and I ride home from class. Just saw us walking and offered us a ride. We knew he was a football player but he handn’t risen to fame yet, so we didn’t really know who he was. He was a genuinely good guy.

 

[MuskieCy]

He was the real deal.

3 of the top 5 are Cyclones????????? Must be a mistake.

Iowa high school football great Jerry Moses dies

Jerry Moses Sr., one of the greatest Iowa high school football players of all time, died Tuesday.

www.desmoinesregister.com

 

[Steve]

Legit. At that time, he was the most highly-recruited prep ever in the state of Iowa. Coaches would park in front of the house at all hours. Family had their phone disconnected just to stop it from ringing.

2x first-team all-state in football
2x all-state in basketball
High jump of 6-6 (indoor) and 6-4 (outdoor)
State indoor champ in sprint hurdles
14.5 outdoor in the 120y (110m) hurdles
Ran on the 880y (4x2) relay that won at Drake

It's too bad he struggled with injuries.

A couple other things that I heard about while he was at ISU. One is that after Majors had a commitment, he arranged to have him hide out in a motel as signing day approached. The big schools were trying to come in and steal him away, but they couldn’t find him.
Another is that his biggest strength was said to be his vision on the field. Coaches said that they had never seen a RB find the right hole and running lane as well as Moses.

 

[Naddafinga]

I have family who went to school at East and watched them during their incredible football years. Jerry Moses is a name to this day that comes up when talking about football. I can't speak as someone who personally saw him play but people I know who did said he was simply incredible. The real deal.

 

[ruxCYtable]

I watched the first half of the insight bowl while cleaning my house tonight. they interviewed jerry on the sidelines to talk about j.j. (one of my favorite all-time iowa staters). Reporter said he was the best player ever to come out of the state of iowa with over 100 collegiate suitors.

is that legit? what what was his connection to ISU for the clones to land him?

I'm too young to remember him playing, but my dad said had he not been injured he would have been one of the greatest Cyclones of all time.

 

[mramseyISU]

JJ's mom and dad ran the Y-care before/after school when my oldest was in kindergarten. They were two of the nicest people you could ever meet. Jerry was always throwing a football to the kids when I got there to drop off or pick up. I don't know how his arm didn't fall off.

 

[Cyclad]

I watched the first half of the insight bowl while cleaning my house tonight. they interviewed jerry on the sidelines to talk about j.j. (one of my favorite all-time iowa staters). Reporter said he was the best player ever to come out of the state of iowa with over 100 collegiate suitors.

is that legit? what what was his connection to ISU for the clones to land him?

I knew Jerry extremely well. Played together in HS, roomed together at the State BB tourney, worked with his wife for many years. Attended his funeral.
Great guy and fabulous athlete. Always had a smile on his face. When asked how good he was, I always answer - he could have been the first black player at Alabama. He turned them down, the next year they signed their first black player. Also - I have a close friend who was a sports writer. He interviewed Johnny Majors after he was fired at Tennessee. Majors told him in the interview that Jerry was the best player he ever recruited ( remember, he had Tony Dorset). If I remember right, Jerry high jumped6’6” as a sophomore. The world lost a good person when he died. I could go on and on.

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

How good do we Jerry Moses?

 

[clonebb]

He was okay.