Wiggins Commits

[FinalFourCy]

Harrington and Momcilovic/Buchanan wouldn’t be here at the same time

He’s probably thinking of Yusef Gray Jr

Hopefully there are a lot of hits, and retention, over the three-year haul of Toure, Batemon, Wiggins, Gray, and Harrington

Getting a good senior guard in the portal would have been nice to help keep the cost of retaining the freshmen down next offseason

Presumably we’ll spend a good amount to keep starters in Milan and Buchanan, but after that, I’m guessing we mostly over-spend a little to keep most of Toure, Batemon, Pleta, and Williams. Ideally all, as it means they’re hits. Add Wiggins, Gray, and hopefully Pearson on the lower cost rookie deals for 2026-27. That may leave enough salary for a portal class of a Mulder/Bob Jones type in the frontcourt, and a Williams level in the backcourt

 

[CloniesForLife]

No brakes on this train


Iowa State is a beautiful campus, it's won all kinds of awards for such things. Growing up in Ames it's one of those things I didn't realize until I went and saw how ugly other campuses are.

It got me to go there. My buddy was going so I decided to go on a tour down there and loved campus. I knew nothing about ISU or Cyclone Athletics and now I'm a diehard

 

[JP4CY]

Can we not **** on a kid with starting/transferring/etc before he even steps foot on campus?

 

[Acylum]

Can we not **** on a kid with starting/transferring/etc before he even steps foot on campus?

Did you just get up from a long nap?

 

[Cychl82]

How so?

As a guess just like the post I was replying to, I can imagine it’s possible there may be a different strategy as the revenue and NIL changes. He’s constantly being creative so who knows.

 

[qwerty]

Did you just get up from a long nap?

Yes, Yes I did . . . . after a huge Easter meal.

 

[NENick]

Harrington and Momcilovic/Buchanan wouldn’t be here at the same time

Oops.

He’s probably thinking of Yusef Gray Jr

Nope, just skipped a year! Thanks for holding me up!

 

[ForeverIowan]

Junior - Batemon - #1 recruit from Wisconsin (2025)

Junior - Mitchell - Mr. Basketball Wisconsin (2025)

Soph - Wiggins - #1 recruit from Minnesota (2026)

Freshman - Harrington - #1 recruit from Iowa (2027)

That is a pretty dang good core ALREADY in the fold. Serious props to TJ and staff for absolutely locking down the midwest on the recruiting trail. So impressive!

 

[flycy]

I went to ISU during the Criner years. Season ticket holders got to, once a year, hold the ball on kickoffs, FGs or extra points.

Did you get to do it for two games, or once they got through all of you was it done?

 

[flycy]

I think this is an actual coach here people. So don’t say anything negative about the staff or of that specific play call.

The only thing to get negative on is people who actually think that is what is called.

 

[Thomasrickj]

Some of my best friends in college grew up in the Twin Cities. ISU was and continues to have great pipeline up there.

The Iowa State campus tour shows very well compared to the old urban campus in Minneapolis. Madison is also very popular but harder to get into and diehard gophers won't become Badgers, but are willing to become Cyclones

Yeah, I remember meeting a lot of people from the burbs of the Twin Cities as well throughout my time at ISU. A lot from the burbs of Chicago as well.

 

[cymac2408]

The only thing to get negative on is people who actually think that is what is called.

I hope you realize I was joking. Absolutely no one is making that play call.

 

[bosco]

I'll get excited if he starts as a freshman. Otherwise there is no point. He'll just transfer after never seeing the floor.

I don't think this is even throwing shade at anybody. It's just a statement of how things are nowadays.

 

[FinalFourCy]

I don't think this is even throwing shade at anybody. It's just a statement of how things are nowadays.

Are they transferring because they didn’t get PT, or because they’re not good enough? And if the latter, is that new?

High school misses have being purged for decades. What high school recruits that have transferred did we want to keep?

The biggest issue is that we’ve had a lot of high school guys that were going to be role players, at best, for this level

Nojus may be the first one that transferred and ends up being someone that is a good high major player

 

[Drew0311]

If we can keep these kids in free agency. We are set up great for the future with our coaches coaching ability

 

[syclonefan]

I don't our recruiting strategy has changed one bit - its just becoming even more effective.

TJ targets cultural fits from the midwest/border states, and just like getting the top 2 players out of wisconsin last year, we're starting off with the top kid in MN. First C Jones, B Jones, Heise, DWat, even Eli King or Kalscheur if you want to count that towards the "pipeline." All led by our stud assistant Kyle Green who's recruited that state his entire career!

Erik Crawford is also from Minnesota. Heck, Green probably even recruited Crawford. Green would have been an assistant during the year Crawford had to sit out when he transferred from Bowling Green to UNI.

UNI has recruited tons of players from the MSP/St. Paul area over the years.