Iowa Football Recruiting
- Thread starter CyTexMex
- Start date
Not trolling. Just going off what I heard. I know someone who has had 15 user names and spends half his life on his big brother's message board has a hard time understanding these things.
You know what's gonna be hilarious when iowa state starts winning more then 8 games
Think about it hard enough and you can figure it out.
I would say yes. There are a few factors to this. They raise a recruits rankings based on their offers; this held a lot less weight a few years ago (unless a guy had Bama or OSU).
Also, there is such a high importance to slap a rating on a recruit that gets a P5 offer. Instead spending time with research and talking to coaches, they watch the tape and quickly make a rough guess. Their rough guesses are usually higher because everyone looks good on a highlight.
A guy like Llewellyn, who 247 didn't have anything on, got a 85 within a few days after he got his ISU offer. In 2015, he probably would have gone unranked for a while and even after he committed. They would wait to see him at a camp and do more eval. After some eval, they moved him up to an 88. Unranked to 88 with NO football or camps is a crazy bump.
Also, 247 rarely give big downgrades. So even if they whiff on a guy, they won't downgrade him much because it's human nature to stay away from moving a 4 star to a low 3 star.
So yea, the market needs instant gratification, so they need to do quick evals on guys they've never heard of. So A LOT of error.
Yeah it’s crazy that coach campbells great eye for talent is consistently the first one in on some very talented players. Check the players that have committed early to ISU only to be plucked away by blue bloods later on in the recruiting cycle.
Campbell chose to have Will McDonald over John Waggoner and a blind man can see how much better McDonald is
So going back to your original post about this, comparing different years based on average recruit ranking really doesn't work. You can't compare Rhoads and CMC's classes based off of average recruit ranking very easily just like you can't compare past Iowa classes to this current ISU class based off of average recruit ranking.
If you don’t think isu’s OL was dominated then why didn’t isu run more than 3 plays in Iowa territory after isu’s first drive.
It is fine that you think this just understand what that says about your overall football knowledge.
This sounds no different that what isu fans have been saying the last 10-15 years. Nothing though has actually changed.
Except for the fact that our current head coach has had 3 years in a row where his teams have been in and out of the top-25, which has never been done before I believe.
Plus, his crowning achievement thus far of finishing the year in the receiving votes section of the top 25 poll.
and he still hasn’t won more than 8 games let alone do it consistently.
