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Stanley was such an enigma. He played with some stud WRs/TEs and had some great games. But also had some absolute stinkers too. If he coulda just had his bad games against Wisconsin back I bet he'd be looked at differently. I really liked him I thought the team all responded well to him. Just...

He was getting DNPs in the summer league as of a couple days ago when I looked him up. I don't know if he's hurt or just not good enough to be put out there. Either way he's not been playing and that sure doesn't bode well for him. I'm guessing he's going to have to make a decision between going...

I think Ben would like for one of them to separate themselves to make the decision easy. Maybe Koch already kinda has so far. I know it's early but if a guy is better sometimes it's just that obvious.

No doubt. starting lineup wise I think we'll have these guys 1-5 starting with the 3 spot kinda up for grabs to me yet. 3 of those spots could be non Drake guys. 2 for sure. Stirtz Hausen Koch/Banks/Thompson The battle for mins amongst those 3 will be interesting. AF Manyawu

I heard he had his knee worked on recently and is going to miss the start of the season so that sucks. Hope he'll be as good as new after that. He just got paid the most of any OL this off season too. Good for him he's a monster.

The days of watching AJ Edds (as good as he was) trying to cover WRs in space were tough to watch... Norm Parker God bless him on 3rd downs would have LBs covering WRs and it was probably the one major schematic thing that kept our defense from being better then they were back then.

Yeah we kinda had that back and forth before yrs ago. But that was back when offenses were less pass happy then they are now. Nowadays offenses throw more and quicker. It's tougher for Dls to get to the QBs and make an impact. LBs gotta be able to read and cover quick throws almost more so then...

I'm not sure what to expect. For a couple reasons. It's yr 1 obviously and with the roster being totally flipped it's just tough to know what's fair. The other reason is I'm not up on what all the other BIG schools have done this off season very much. I know Indiana is in a similar boat but as...

So yeah if that's the case it woulda been during his official visit that he took just a few weeks ago. He didn't wait long to commit after that at all. Which makes sense it's when they woulda all been together in person.

Tyler Tachman got to interview Thompson recently. He wrote an interesting article on it. How the reclassifying topic came up was from his mother apparently as an afterthought kinda. I'm not sure if it was during his visit or on the phone though I don't think Tachman said. But she'd brought up...

Which is exactly what a coach wants. 4 great options fighting over 2 spots. Or 3 spots if they want to play small ball which I think they will some. To me it's great that if Thompson is playing or starting early on that means he's really legit. He didn't commit to Iowa with any promise of a...

Offensively do we have a LT? Will the highly recruited Lauck step up cause I think everyone wishes he'd take that job and run with it. I think the WRs and RB situations will sort itself out they have lots of good options at both. TEs I'm not exactly high on Ostrenga/Ortworth but I don't get the...

Yup. Now he's living in central FL getting paid millions to coach with little to no expectations. Some dudes can just absolutely suck at their jobs and being a decent person and still win the game of life. He's one of em.

This tickles me so much. Good for Stewart ponying up. That was a wild ass take to have at the time and only looks worse now.

I believe it. 6'9 is still pretty damn tall. It's just average amongst the trees in the basketball realm. So yeah unless you're making a hell of a nice living due to being that tall the tradeoffs probably wouldn't be worth it. But I'm sayin this as an under avg 5'8 white dude who was barely able...

The Purdue folks who'd been after him harder for longer seemed to think he was a 1 and done potential kid. I'd seen a podcast where it'd been brought up. However that was under the thought of him being a 2026 kid not 2025. So obviously that's a pretty big difference. Now that they've been...

One angle to this I hadn't really thought of with landing him was that the odds are pretty high that he'll be a one and done player for us for a couple reasons. 1. If he's an absolute stud he'll go pro. No shocker there that's just how it goes. But the other reason is the NIL transfer portal...

Yeah as far as locally he wouldn't have had many 6'10 plus kids to bang with. But a kid like that woulda been doing the AAU thing and been going to those camps all over too playing against the top kids. Those summer camp AAU deals is when coaches largely do much of their evaluating. It's when...

Yikes even worse then I thought. I knew he didn't do shit but geez. I consider myself a fairly big hoops fan. I've followed it a long time. But I can't say I've ever heard of Radford before. That's a new one on me. Back to that Omaha kid. He was a really high 5 star kid. The ISU folks were...

Yup Foster he had his hair a wild blonde color. We dodged a bullet by missing out on him. That reminds me of Omaha Bieliew that Waukee kid that was the Sandforts teammate in HS that went to ISU for awhile but sucked and left to Wake Forest I think. He's done next to nothing so far