Cash decomits

[longtimer]

Just have a tough time recruiting QBs

 

[NCHawker]

I wasn't too impressed when I read about him. I think Iowa's too far from home anyway geographicly land culturally. And sometimes a school finds another player...then let the other one (cash) decommit and save face.

 

[99topdawg]

We can let someone else develop them and then buy them when they get good.

 

[Gander Hawk]

Iowa has an awfully full QB room right now if that had anything to do with it.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

From what tidbits I have caught online so far it sounds like this was in the making for a while and that it was mutual. Not that Iowa recruited over him or anything, more that he wasn't singing the commitment song as loudly as KF wanted him to, so there was a bit of a mutual break up. You gotta have a QB that is 100% committed so he can recruit and attract others to join. Jake Christensen, for all his shortcomings as an actual QB, was a great leader and recruiter in this regard.

Its early. There are still a lot of QBs available for that cycle. And as Gander noted, we have a deep QB room right now. Frankly, with the portal, high school kids have become less and less important. In Lester I trust.

 

[Zstatman]

With the most loaded QB room in Hawkeye history, this is no surprise. The surprise may be that it took this long.

Plus, we learned this year, there are lots of QBs with game experience that will be entering the portal every year. If our west coast offense is as advertised, we will have zero problem bringing good QBs in.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

With the most loaded QB room in Hawkeye history, this is no surprise. The surprise may be that it took this long.

Plus, we learned this year, there are lots of QBs with game experience that will be entering the portal every year. If our west coast offense is as advertised, we will have zero problem bringing good QBs in.

While I don't think many of us like the changes that have come about with the free wheeling transfer portal and wild wild west NIL situation, it does make it easier for schools like Iowa to fill holes when there are transfers or decommits. KF will always want to run a developmental program, and that is the more economic way of doing it (high school talent is much cheaper than good portal talent), but if Iowa has needs at a key position, it can take a cast off from a really big school or bribe a star from a smaller school to leave. Indeed, the new system may benefit the middle class of college most. The Blue Bloods have always filled their rosters with 4 and 5 stars. Now they are just paying a lot to do that. But, with the House settlement, there is some level of equity in what is being spent, so Iowa can buy talent it may not have been able to attract in the past.

 

[HawkPowerlifter]

I'm hearing Ball State....that leads me to believe that the quarterback room was crowded enough that he felt like he was not going to compete or was down on the depth chart enough he wasn't going to see time in the future.

 

[BigD]

I wasn't too impressed when I read about him. I think Iowa's too far from home anyway geographicly land culturally. And sometimes a school finds another player...then let the other one (cash) decommit and save face.

Now, now, we don't need to be too negative to this young fella. This is a good sign that competition is improving and may be a bit stiffer, also the difficulty level of the offense is much more complex. Checkers too chess................. war games.