He's gone. Not a huge loss imo. lacks speed.
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He's gone. Not a huge loss imo. lacks speed.
Weird.
I was posting here about the Penn State job being absolutely ideal for Campbell since it opened up.
That was largely predicated on his public statements about how much a place like Ames was the right environment for his family.
Commuting in from Palos Verdes to University Park is pretty different from Gilbert to Ames.
Ebel is an interesting case. Mentioned specifically by Rogers as a guy he recruited out of high school at SDSU. Goes in the portal but probably isn’t going up level. Hmmm….
This one is big to me. As a freshman he had 1 sack and 1 forced fumble.
His style of play and frame remind me of Enyi Uwazurike. I think Jace Gilbert can become an excellent player for the defense in the years to come and like this one a lot. He's a lot more naturally talented than Ike Ezeuogo, that guy I won't even blink at hitting the portal. His pass rush ability was absolutely brutal.
I'm not disagreeing with you on this. There just isn't much left to recruit unless we poach players from other teams going through what we are.
I think you keep this class of HS players small and rely on transfers going forward this year. At this point, most of these HS commits aren't going to mean much the next few years anyways.
Why is everyone poo-pooing these guys leaving? These slow guys, that are poor in coverage, and what not, just helped ISU win more games than anytime in the team's history.
If you don’t think the new staff is telling some of these guys to look for other opportunities I don’t know what to tell you.
Sorry you don't like my honest opinion on a LB. He was good against the run the last half of the season, but he's still slow. And that was exploited numerous times.
That has been a big issue with our linebackers recently. I could be misremembering but when was the last interception from a linebacker? We need speed and agility.
Most of our guys had some limitations. They still contributed to the best record in our history.
Of course they did. It’s not an insult. It’s just the truth. Rewatch the Arkansas State game. It was apparent how slow we were on defense.
Agree. Yes, he made some big plays.... but that's because he gambled WAY too much and over pursued a ton. And because of that was caught out of position a bunch... but also when he guessed right he would make a play.
And we got gashed if he guessed wrong. Good linebackers don’t guess. They know what’s coming and put themselves in position to stop the play. They get beat if the offense executes their jobs sometimes.
I wonder how this is shaking out vs expectations of people close to the program.
Better? Worse?
Maybe JP read this right and brought in his guy immediately?
Maybe he believed the program was a personality cult and it was the Iowa State Campbells and not Cyclones?
Or maybe he knew Campbell was holding guys who would earn more elsewhere and it was always going to be $$ only?
Would be interesting to hear.
Either way it makes college football far less interesting to watch for me, but in a Kardashian world it plays
I'm simple. Does "in the portal" mean "leaving" or just "might end up leaving"?
