Kennyfromminne
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Let the avalanche begin
Calloway offer pulled too
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HawkGold
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hawkeyes87
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This is the opposite of his game strategy. That "strategy" is to sit back and hope it works out in the end. Recruiting strategy is apparently much more proactive- bail out at the first sign of trouble.
Kennyfromminne
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Nope. He's gonna get buried
SteveGarvey1
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I guess we'll soon find out.
It's the opposite in that respect. It's the exact same in the respect of how bad Kirk is at calculating odds on what gives the team the best chance for auccess.
Joshbrown
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Calloway retweeted the below:
These kids playing ball nowadays are jokes. I just have to shake my head and chuckle
If Calloway is this much of a drama queen primadonna it's probably for the best anyway.
You don't think Ohio State and Alabama are full-up with primadonnas?? You might want to introduce yourself to the millennial generation.
RobHowe
Administrator
No, it's not. But I can't catch everything.
1hawkeye1
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We can all thank Karan Higdon for this situation. He's the tool bag who flipped his commitment from Iowa to michigan on signing day leaving Iowa holding the bag with no RB recruits.
Now in order to hopefully avoid that situation, Iowa says to recruits, "Don't commit until you are damned sure. We'll stand by you if you stand by us. On the other hand, if you are still taking visits, then we gotta cover our bases by continuing our search."
It makes sense to me.
Now in order to hopefully avoid that situation, Iowa says to recruits, "Don't commit until you are damned sure. We'll stand by you if you stand by us. On the other hand, if you are still taking visits, then we gotta cover our bases by continuing our search."
It makes sense to me.
Fryowa
Administrator
Yep, I know they are. Mine was just a general statement on the way recruits make a media sensation out of themselves, and how they go to where they'll get the most twitter attention. And I fully understand that's the way of the world from here on out.
Fryowa
Administrator
What Harbaugh does with Twitter and the spectacle he makes out of recruiting is responsible much more so that Higdon himself.
It works, ask Rutgers. I don't have to be a fan of it, but it works.
SpiderRico
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That's KFs fault, pure and simple. Why would you only recruit one f'ing running back in a class for a team that relies so heavily on them and has a history of injury issues at that position? If it was because we told him he'd be the only one recruited, then that's just stupid. If I were the head coach of a college program, any recruit that was scared of competition wouldn't be recruited. So either way, that one was on KF and staff for not having any backup. Which is made all the worse when you realize that running back is probably one of the easiest positions to recruit. Had it been a top-flight DT/DE or a bona-fide left tackle, then that really sucks. But really, Eric Graham is the best we could come up with in the entire country? As lazy and uninspired on the recruiting trail as he is on game days!
This is one of the best things I've read on this issue...
Chevin used to have "Iowa Commit" in his Twitter profile page. He also used to have his Iowa commitment statement pinned to Twitter. Those are gone so he's gonna be #2 that jumps ship. Although we pretty much knew that given Eno's scholarship was pulled due to visits.
The weird thing is they are saying "we don't want you anymore". Unless they already had a backup plan in place, what's the point of pushing Eno away right now? As I type this I am realizing they probably do have someone else ready to commit.
Truer words have never been spoken though really... Or tweeted.. That is what it is in a nut shell. The schools/coaches use these kids to build these monstrosity of stadiums and football facilities and pad their pockets. The kids then get to go to school for free and hopefully get to be one of the small percentage of them that get to go on to the NFL. It's an extremely one sided boat when it comes to who's using who more so for the kids and their families to use what very little leverage or whatever you want to call it for them to be able to decide what they want to do the next 3,4 or 5 yrs of their life (when the coaches can jump ship at any time for any reason) then what can possibly be wrong with that.Calloway retweeted the below:
These kids playing ball nowadays are jokes. I just have to shake my head and chuckle
If Calloway is this much of a drama queen primadonna it's probably for the best anyway.
kicker22
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It's a surprise when the stars line up for a miracle season, we get recruits to commit that truthfully we have no business getting verbals from in the first place, and then we show them the door. I'd always stood behind KF as a coach, and gave him the benefit of the doubt when it came to the roller coaster of emotions from successful season to rough season and back again.
But, IMO, if this is truly on our staff, then in my opinion it shows that they are stuck in their ways and are unwilling to do what is needed to taking the next step to stay at a higher level, and I cannot support that.
But, IMO, if this is truly on our staff, then in my opinion it shows that they are stuck in their ways and are unwilling to do what is needed to taking the next step to stay at a higher level, and I cannot support that.
Kirk 'control freak' Ferentz
I wonder if any other schools send that out. I doubt any other schools live in the 80's like we do though
BigD
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Doesn't that depend on whether you're the love of her life? Were not with Eno we were a tweener to him. The five or six on a scale of ten. We were kinda cute to him and he got a lot of attention and appreciation from us. Unfortunately we have recently developed pimples and he decided no ones that nice and worth having. He's moving on to the Noxiema chick.
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