****Official Class of 2020 Recruiting Thread****
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Yet both Iowa and Iowa St women basketball seem to recruit women players from there really well. We have football players, track kids, soccer players, volleyball players from Minnesota.
I think the motivations of a 16 to 17 year old are beyond these generalizations.
Madison, WI is amazing city for a college kid and young people and goes way beyond anything Ames can offer.
Remember when you would freak out over positive posts on Michael Jacobson? Keep those earmuffs handy.
If Gunner meltdowns at the mention a past recruit, that player would have been a great pickup.
If you losers had it your way our starting 5 would be 5’9”, 5’10, 6’4”, 6’5”, 6’ 7” and then lose Your collective ***** when we get outreboubded by double digits every game.
I can’t tell if you are trolling. That marginal player is what has Colorado in many Top 25 early rankings and will be All PAC-12 1st Teamer this year. It has/will effect are recruiting in the Twin Cities but I don’t think Prohm will make that mistake/decision again. That was a Berry deal given his relationship with Wiggington.
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What about hockey players? We have had many hockey players from Minnesota.
How was taking Wigginton over Wright a mistake? Wigginton was/is better. Now, you can make the argument that having Wright for 4 years would be better than 2 years of Wigginton, but you wouldn't know for sure how long you will have each player when you recruit them.
Wigginton wasn’t the better college player.
That wasn’t particularly clear as recruits, but it was obvious that Wigginton was far more likely than Wright to have a shorter stay. He was the better run/jump athlete with better measurables.
Considering the scholarship chart at the time, we could have taken both easily.
Wright would have certainly been McNeill, who never made it to campus (and we all remember that story) and ended up busting pretty hard in Berkeley.
Wright is turning into a real nice player for CU.
[QUOTE="Why can't we recruit the state of Minnesota????[/QUOTE]
Not cold enough. Not enough snow.
Not cold enough. Not enough snow.
IMO Wright is a more complete player at this stage in his career then Lindell. Additionally I think Wright has shown the leadership traits of a terrific point guard and can consistently get you 13-18 points a game with a good Asst/TO ratio. Prohm saw great potentially in Wright and I think you see him relying more on those instincts with Halliburton, Jackson, etc.
I personally loved Lindell when he was the 2 and Tyrese was the one. He gave us quite the spark on offense, however something that he lacked was defensive ability. That just wasn't there in his two years for us and could've stemmed from his natural ability or maybe his ability to be coached up.
We have got to stop this McKinnley Wright discussion, close the book and move on.
Wigginton was the right choice at the time and had a excellent freshman season followed by an injury riddled second. They didn't take Wright because he was always the fall back to Sexton/Wiggington. Remember Wright had a lot of questions (size) about him being a P5 player, he did commit to Dayton originally after all, credit to him for exceeding expectations. 2 years ago If Prohm would have taken his commitment and pulled Lindell's offer CF would have been livid.
I wish him well playing for Colorado but just assuming he'd had the same success at ISU is wrong. Additionally, if you take both Lindell and McKinnley then you likely don't take Haliburton. Prohm will always win on PG decisions.
Wigginton was the right choice at the time and had a excellent freshman season followed by an injury riddled second. They didn't take Wright because he was always the fall back to Sexton/Wiggington. Remember Wright had a lot of questions (size) about him being a P5 player, he did commit to Dayton originally after all, credit to him for exceeding expectations. 2 years ago If Prohm would have taken his commitment and pulled Lindell's offer CF would have been livid.
I wish him well playing for Colorado but just assuming he'd had the same success at ISU is wrong. Additionally, if you take both Lindell and McKinnley then you likely don't take Haliburton. Prohm will always win on PG decisions.
Thank you. People need to start a new thread if they want to re-hash this. It''s beyond stupid.
To me, the only "mistake" with Lindell,was he wasn't a PG. Good player, it was a just square peg/round hole type of deal. Prohm is the PG guru but he misjudged LW's ability to play that position (you can say the same about Donovan Jackson, he actually whiffed on his first 2 PGs at ISU being able to play PG in the big 12). In the end though, we found a PG in NWB so it worked out. The program would not have any better off with Wright. Prohm got the better player, he just didn't get the better PG.
Yes, call for an end of the discussion, then proceed to discuss it for two paragraphs.
This wouldn’t be a discussion if not for those that meltdown at the mere mention of Wright. Posters like you, that repeatedly use “let’s not discuss it” as a guise for “I disagree”. It’s not the discussion that you want to silence, just the differing opinion.
Well, I for one, Would like to stop talking about McKinnley until he is on the Timberwolves Summer league team in 2.5 years.
I'm all for tangents, but it would be nice to have a 2020 recruiting thread about 2020 recruits.
