Beneventi looking around

makes me feel a little uneasy pulling an offer from a kid who had already committed. That's the recruiting game but it still sucks. At least it was early enough that he's got a few months to look for other schools.
 
Clark said:
makes me feel a little uneasy pulling an offer from a kid who had already committed. That's the recruiting game but it still sucks. At least it was early enough that he's got a few months to look for other schools.
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It isn't something that I'd want to see happen alot. At the same time you can't give out scholarships to kids who stopped developing and might not deserve them any longer. It isn't like it was pulled cause we oversigned, it was because of his performance.
 
i don't recall iowa ever doing this before (where there wasn't multiple law infractions). in fact never. even kept with kids who blew knees out, etc.

brian ferentz - that would take some stones to meet a kid like this and deliver this news. kudos for at least delivering the message the right way.
 
Clark said:
makes me feel a little uneasy pulling an offer from a kid who had already committed. That's the recruiting game but it still sucks. At least it was early enough that he's got a few months to look for other schools.
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I would normally agree, and this is not something that happens normally at Iowa. But, if you go back to the link at the start of this thread, it says:

"Once I committed, I ended my recruiting and was focused solely on Iowa," the 6-foot-6, 200-pound Beneventi said. "But after offering another quarterback and then changing to possibly taking two quarterbacks when originally it was planned for one, I've decided to open my process up again.

I understand that he "opened his process" after Iowa offered two more QBs, but he also has never closed his process to the best of my knowledge. That comes with some risk, and this is what happens.
 
Not sure I want this precedence started at Iowa. It is better, IMO, to just let him come and when he finds out he's 4th on the depth chart he'd transfer anyway. That way you don't look like the bad guy for pulling an offer on a commit. Odds are we aren't getting a 5* player with this newly opened Scholly anyways.
 
Pretty unusual move for Iowa indeed......can't think of anything similar in recent times other than a prospect or two that might have gotten in trouble between offer time and joining the team......T. Young, M. Malloy, etc.


From BPGH, 12/10/2014.............

"Pulling a scholarship from a committed player is basically unheard of at Iowa. The coaches raised some eyebrows when they pulled a scholarship from safety recruit Jyaz Jones last year, but there was considerable disagreement over whether he actually had an unconditional offer at the time he announced his commitment. Otherwise, we can't remember anyone having a scholarship pulled in the seven years we've been doing this."
 
bogeyman said:
Not sure I want this precedence started at Iowa. It is better, IMO, to just let him come and when he finds out he's 4th on the depth chart he'd transfer anyway. That way you don't look like the bad guy for pulling an offer on a commit. Odds are we aren't getting a 5* player with this newly opened Scholly anyways.
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No, we aren't going to get a 5-star guy with that open scholly. But we might get a 2- or 3-star guy that we can develop to be ready a year earlier than if we wait to let a kid transfer out on his own. That's just a waste of a scholarship, and there's no good reason for it in that case. It's one thing to honor a scholarship for a kid who blows out his knee or something. But if a kid just completely tanks in terms of performance, there's nothing wrong with pulling the offer. Especially when he was looking at other options already, anyway. It's not like we totally blindsided him and left him with no other options.
 
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