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I really hope the not liking Fredrick thing is as much of a joke as I think... There's a lot that I shake my head at on this board, but the one that gets me most is pretty much crossing off a recruit or saying you don't like an 18 year old who has done nothing in the college ranks yet. The...

I would agree as well. I think Fran is in on Carton to give himself a chance but have heard the Michigan offer was a big one. (of course, eye roll) but I do think family ties is what gives Iowa the best chance. His Grandpa played at Iowa and he's watched games with DJ all of his life is what...

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/iowa/football-recruiting/2018/04/18/iowa-hawkeyes-football-basketball-recruiting-2019-running-backs-jirehl-brock-tyler-goodson-dj-carton/527058002/ I've always known about the relationship with Mitchell from all kinds of sources dating back to...

isn't all out recruiting him*

Coach K and Fran literally have nothing in common except that they're maybe around the same age? and that they're basketball coaches. Nevermind the fact that all the neigh sayers on this board expect Iowa to be in the sweet 16 every year and Fran won the first NCAA game in 14 years when they...

The extension was signed before the season, albeit I don't understand why they didn't announce it at that time because the time it was announced was not the greatest time. If the extension was signed before the season I have no problem with that. Fran was coming off 7 seasons straight in the...

I don't know how that's an excuse? Everyone who's responded to this post says it's an "excuse". How is that an excuse? There's nothing false about the statement. The point of the post was to point out that the comparison between Painter and McCaffery is pretty fair if you consider everything...

Jordan Mitchell is actually more of a realistic option than I had ever thought of before. Ohio State is all out in recruiting him and Fran has once again built an early relationship that the prospect has taken note of.

I mean Alford was looking around for a change of scenery. Barta may have promoted it, but I don't think you can say he ran him out. My understanding of the extension is that it was done before the year even started which I think a lot of people on here would have supported after the "body of...

All valid points. I don't think pointing out where Iowa and Purdue were before both coaches got here are excuses however. That's more a less the point I was making. Fran's "body of work" does deserve the 1 down year as you pointed out. I also would point out that Alford came off Tom Davis, who...

I also wouldn't be surprised if we don't see Connor switch to baseball full time sometime in his college years. Wouldn't be surprised if it was when this class came in. I think Fran knows Connor's big league shot is in baseball.

Locure is worth a P6 offer for certain in my mind. I'm not sure why Fran is waiting, but there's still quite a few months left in the '19 class. I wouldn't be surprised after this weekend's tournament in Dallas if we don't see Fran pull the trigger. I do think that holding off has it's...

It's not an excuse. Tell me what in that sentence is false? Iowa basketball hasn't made it to the sweet 16 in 20 some odd years. We are not Iowa of the 1970's, not to mention basketball is not what it was in the 1970's. If you want to bask in those years, be my guest. You said that people...

Or people just understand where the Purdue basketball program was at before Painter (Purdue's most winningest coach in history of Purdue basketball) and where the Iowa basketball program was before McCaffery (Lickliter, probably the worst coach to ever be hired at the university).

Iowa has always been in contact with Locure. It doesn't mean anything in correlation with Carton. I think a lot of teams are probably doing this if they legit have interest in Locure and are recruiting Carton. Fran doesn't have all his eggs in the Carton basket (which is good), but a lot of...

Yeah but that's always a possibility to give them scholarships on a yearly basis. I mean CM could have the scholarship this year and not the next. Scholarship are yearly based, I'm sure you know that, but giving CM and PM scholarships right now is the right thing to do and isn't stunting Iowa's...

You are right, 15 players on the roster and 13 active players. My mistake. So you basically just have "scholarship players" including PMac and CM to get you to 15.

You can still oversign by 2 if you really want even if you put CM and PM on scholarships. I'm just saying hypothetically how big the roster would be and what the perceives to future recruits if you take both CM and PM on walk-on and pay their tuition. Not to mention juggling playing time. Other...

Sorry my math was off by one player I believe. 12 scholarships, 5 maybe 4 "walk-ons" with PMac and CM. So 16-17 total, with 14 players having either gotten playing time at Iowa or are ranked high enough they should be getting playing time at Iowa.

I look at it this way. Say he doesn't give Patrick and Connor scholarships. He pays for their tuitions and he has 5 open scholarships with 10 players already on the roster for this late '18 period and the '19 class. If he fills all 5 scholarship players that's 15 total players on the roster...