Are you being sarcastic? How is Iowa getting higher rated players an advantage for isu?Iowa still gets pretty much who they want instate
No, they don't get pretty much who they want in-state because of something called a scholarship limit. You can bet if they had 150 scholarships to give instead of 85, guys like Lalk, Ebertowski, Cotton, Jevohn Miller, Dagel and Lintz would all be iowa commits right now. But they can't offer all of those kids because they only have a few spots to fill and have to sign the kids that they think have the best chance of being great players.
Think of this: If Rhoads would have been at ISU a year earlier, recruiting in the fashion he is now, ISU would have probably offered Dominic Alvis from Logan. He's a guy that iowa offered late and is now second team as a RSFR. A kid like that who commits to ISU in the summer isn't switching to iowa in January...or at least not likely to. Same thing with Tanner Miller who was going to UNI before iowa snagged him last year.
Funny, I could argue that iowa has done better with one offer in-state kids and walk-ons than they have with 4* players. If they want to leave those Iowa kids to ISU and only go after the big name kids (Blythe and French), that's fine by me. ISU beat iowa 5 years in a row under McCarney using that same philosophy.