Rumor on another website that Florida transfer Devon Walker is in town this weekend. Anybody hear of this? He is a 6'6 wing who is a grad transfer. His stats suck but he was recruited pretty high out of HS. Has had some fairly big injuries that has set him back over his career at Florida. Might be a nice addition for one year.
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Randolfo
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Strange. I looked up his recruiting profile. He committed in 2012 as a 3 star forward with offers from other non-competitive SEC schools like Alabama and Georgia. He put up pedestrian numbers throughout his college career.
We need a point guard. We need a center. What we don't need is a 6'6 forward who puts up 4 pts a game. Very strange development. I get that we whiffed on Vital and Moore and about 10 grad transfers that we reached out to. But there's no sense using the scholarship on a player who doesn't play a position of need and isn't better than the guys we already have.
We need a point guard. We need a center. What we don't need is a 6'6 forward who puts up 4 pts a game. Very strange development. I get that we whiffed on Vital and Moore and about 10 grad transfers that we reached out to. But there's no sense using the scholarship on a player who doesn't play a position of need and isn't better than the guys we already have.
Stanzi
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Agreed. We have wing players galore. Fran might as well just bank the scholly. I still think it's super weird how we can't land a PG when it's obvious there will be a ton of playing time available. It's a bit frustrating really.
hawkdrummer1
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great, another 6'6" swing man. How bout a point guard, Fran?
BigD
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Add me to that list. As soon as I read 6'6" wing man I thought the same very thing that many of you have brought up here. Mr. White Magic needs to show us some Magic and land a top notch point guard. Since he played guard and was supposed to be so good at the position then what gives here??? If Shaq was a head coach somewhere do you think he would have trouble landing top centers???
SheagleHawk
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How about just an above avg guard?!? I don't understand how we can continually have one of the worst backcourts in the conference. Guys like Uthoff and Jok would've been so much for effective with a decent pg.
NikeHawk21
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It wouldn't matter though. Signing a grad transfer is the same as banking the scholly, as that scholly will be free for a 2017 recruit anyway. If he can help us out defensively, why not.
Florida wasn't good last year and he barely played for them. I'm not sure he'd be a rotation player for us
NikeHawk21
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I don't know much about him, heard he's had some injuries. The point is though signing a grad transfer wouldn't hurt us in terms of scholarship availability for next year. If Fran can convince him to come to Iowa as a role player for one year, and he believes he will mesh well with the team, then there's not a whole lot of risk here. Basically we bring in another player for a year, and still bank the scholarship for the following season.
I'm all about getting a grad transfer but I want it to be either someone good or a point guard
MelroseHawkins
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KarlChilders
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I don't think he was on campus but I could be incorrect. Blisters shore do hurt.