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[iahawks]

A top 50 recruit in basketball is not even close to the same as a top 50 recruit in football.

No crap. Waggoner is borderline top 400 in football and not even a four star.

 

[CycloneVet]

What exactly is Fran's style of play?

I know it involves the point guard sprinting up the court aimlessly with no plan

 

[CyTwins]

No crap. Waggoner is borderline top 400 in football and not even a four star.

So you consider Gesell a big recruit but Waggoner isn't? Interesting

 

[iahawks]

So you consider Gesell a big recruit but Waggoner isn't? Interesting

Gessell wasn't as big as Woodbury, but still a top 100 player.

 

[CycloneVet]

I find that really hard to believe. Woodbury was a top recruit and ISU would have taken him if he wanted to be a Cyclone.

I know for a fact Fred didnt want him.

 

[crash_zone]

Most kids in Iowa grow up in a household that cheers for the hawks....and if they don’t, most of their friends cheer for the hawks. Usually due to football.

That puts ISU at a disadvantage for getting them, even if they are the better basketball program. The family and peer pressure adds up.

 

[Redman97]

I'll feel better about this thread after a win Thursday.

 

[CyTwins]

Gessell wasn't as big as Woodbury, but still a top 100 player.

That didn't answer my question...

 

[Dandy]

I know for a fact Fred didnt want him.

Didn't Woodbury wear a Iowa shirt to his ISU visit?

 

[CycloneVet]

Didn't Woodbury wear a Iowa shirt to his ISU visit?

Yes took off his coat and had one on. Fred didnt talk to him at all and he was gone in 15 minutes. What a douchebag. Why bother going on a visit

 

[iahawks]

Yes took off his coat and had one on. Fred didnt talk to him at all and he was gone in 15 minutes. What a douchebag. Why bother going on a visit

So ISU at least had some interest to bring him in for a visit.

 

[FerShizzle]

Didn't Woodbury wear a Iowa shirt to his ISU visit?

Yep. And from what I've heard, it was the end of the visit. Then Fred and Georges proceeded to own basketball in the state of Iowa for 4 years. Can't believe we were ever seriously recruiting him.

 

[CyTwins]

So ISU at least had some interest to bring him in for a visit.

Correct

 

[CycloneVet]

So ISU at least had some interest to bring him in for a visit.

He wanted to come (Woodbury) so he could be a ****.

 

[intrepid27]

I was thinking Fred was talking to Jok his Junior year but then backed off. Didn't Jok have knee issues in high school?

 

[brokenloginagain]

Given the huge population growth in the des moines MSA the last 20 yrs, you'd think there'd be a few more DI prospects in central iowa that are cyclone kids.

Cedar Rapids/Eastern Iowa/Iowa Barnstormers produce so much more talent.

That's what's interesting to me. Where's the bball talent in central iowa?

 

[SCyclone]

What exactly is Fran's style of play?

 

[jsb]

Given the huge population growth in the des moines MSA the last 20 yrs, you'd think there'd be a few more DI prospects in central iowa that are cyclone kids.

Cedar Rapids/Eastern Iowa/Iowa Barnstormers produce so much more talent.

That's what's interesting to me. Where's the bball talent in central iowa?

Do we really care though? I have no desire to have Iowa kids just because they are from Iowa. And I don’t know that I want someone who wants to go to iowa. It shows s lack of basketball IQ.

 

[rholtgraves]

I do think ISU would have kept recruiting Jok. Jok probably would have recovered faster if he actually got a correct diagnosis right away. If I recall correctly, he injured his knee and then continued to try and play the rest of the season in his sophomore year before finding out it was a petalla tendon injury that required surgery.

 

[flycy]

Again, this is hindsight. Gessel and Woodbury were big recruits that just about any D1 program would have taken.

Disagree with both. Jok ISU would definitely have taken if not for textgate and Uthoff.