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AHawk1

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HawkeyeCoachEJ Coach Eric Johnson
Good luck to all our upcoming #NFLdraft picks over the next cpl of days including @AJaClay & @TSash #Iowa #GoHawks #Hawkeyes
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Looks like Ballard's not a real fav. of the coaches currently.

HawkeyeCoachEJ Coach Eric Johnson
Good recruiting/draft article. #Iowa knows who we r recruiting & we develop them once they get here. The Best/Worst of Recruiting & Developing NFL Draft Picks College Football Matrix #Hawkeyes #GoHawks

That article should be a great recruiting tool
 


I would not read too much into that tweet.. The reason he only mentions clayborn and sash is because they are only 2 with twitter accounts..
 




AHawk1 said:
HawkeyeCoachEJ Coach Eric Johnson
Good luck to all our upcoming #NFLdraft picks over the next cpl of days including @AJaClay & @TSash #Iowa #GoHawks #Hawkeyes
2 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Looks like Ballard's not a real fav. of the coaches currently.

HawkeyeCoachEJ Coach Eric Johnson
Good recruiting/draft article. #Iowa knows who we r recruiting & we develop them once they get here. The Best/Worst of Recruiting & Developing NFL Draft Picks College Football Matrix #Hawkeyes #GoHawks

That article should be a great recruiting tool
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That article will be a good recruiting tool for the players Iowa gets. It basically says the top recruiting programs turn out the most pros, but if you are a guy in the next tier, Iowa should be somewhere you really consider. What we wouldn't want to see is a list of each team by highest ranked players and whether Iowa got them in the league. That is where Iowa hasn't had as much success.
 


CAARHawk said:
That article will be a good recruiting tool for the players Iowa gets. It basically says the top recruiting programs turn out the most pros, but if you are a guy in the next tier, Iowa should be somewhere you really consider. What we wouldn't want to see is a list of each team by highest ranked players and whether Iowa got them in the league. That is where Iowa hasn't had as much success.
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I don't necessarily agree with this. Iowa does ok, not great at sending their highest regarded recruits to the NFL. Not necessarily Iowa's fault. But if you look at the Alabama, Auburns, USC who has 90% of each recruiting class as 4* or better they don't do a great job of sending their top talent to the NFL either and they have a lot of highly regarded recruits that ride the pine or leave that we just never hear about because we don't over analyze them like we do Iowa.
 


hawkfarmer said:
I don't necessarily agree with this. Iowa does ok, not great at sending their highest regarded recruits to the NFL. Not necessarily Iowa's fault. But if you look at the Alabama, Auburns, USC who has 90% of each recruiting class as 4* or better they don't do a great job of sending their top talent to the NFL either and they have a lot of highly regarded recruits that ride the pine or leave that we just never hear about because we don't over analyze them like we do Iowa.
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The Hawks have done a much better job lately with Bulaga, Ballard, Clayborn, and Edds.

But, overall they have had 27 4* and higher recruits between 2002-2009 and only 7 of those guys made it to the league or have a decent chance of making it (I added Davis, and Neilson), and as you see by the list above, most of those players are in a recent tight cluster. I think the recent trend is VERY GOOD, but remember, this guy's list was from 2002, so you have to look over the entire span, not just recent history.

All of this being said, I think a lot of the problems stem from recruiting the wrong guys earlier in the decade and injuries.

But looking at the USC list is pretty funny. I mean how did some of those guys think they were EVER going get on the field there! High School kids are stupid.
 
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CAARHawk said:
That article will be a good recruiting tool for the players Iowa gets. It basically says the top recruiting programs turn out the most pros, but if you are a guy in the next tier, Iowa should be somewhere you really consider. What we wouldn't want to see is a list of each team by highest ranked players and whether Iowa got them in the league. That is where Iowa hasn't had as much success.
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Coaches are not responsible for the development and success of players nearly as much as the players themselves.
Coaches provide the guidance and the drills and do what they can to give YOU the best opportunity to achieve the success you want.
IOWA is one if not THE best at doing this. And unfortunately for most kids that means some pretty tight anal retentive rules that the coaches cannot waffle on to maintain their edge and not have it affect the other players chances.
5 star ,no star doesn't matter you have to WANT to reach YOUR goal to achieve it.
Kids want to be kids and do wat they want and thats fine but the coach has a responsibility to the other players and its up to the individual what you want to achieve.
DJK has great potential and he got a chance to show SOME of it but not what he really had. And obviously he never really figured out what was going on although he did mature some over time.
JJ Watt has a great story but that guy should've came to IC and played for KF and Co.
In HS 1 in 100 kids with the potential to be great succeed because of their drive. The rest fail for various reasons that all boil down to how bad a person wants the goal. In college its no different just a little closer to the top.
 




wow, very interesting to see how the Big 12 underperforms in developing talent and how its obvious how Iowa does a great job in making NFL-ready kids.
 








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