DREW COOK I.C. REGINA
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CRHawk2002
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This is great news. Keep in mind Cook still had two years before he may be eligible to play. Assuming they RS him his first year. I don't think it will be a challenge for him to be at least up to 230 by then.
eveningnewsteam
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Then go recruit a tight end not a class 1A qb from Iowa
Signed Dallas Clark, DJK, Marvin McNutt, and all of the other Iowa players that played a different position in HS and went on to have great careers.
Eda
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Ermuhgawd! You're right. I don't know why; I just had a derp moment.
damnfinn
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Chad Greenway says HELLO
and Ed Hikel and Micah Hyde along with about 15 other great players in KF era.
tm3308
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Honestly, you might be underselling it here.
IIRC, didn't Nelson, Steinbach and Gallery all come to Iowa as tight ends? Bob Sanders was a RB, IIRC. Hyde, Hinkel, DJK, Greenway, Hitchens, Roth, DJK, McNutt, Clark. Didn't King and/or Kroul come in from different positions, too?
22hawkeyes
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In recent times we have had over a dozen high school qb's on the team at the same time
HawkeyeWalker
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Do you know how many current and former hawks were hs qbs but played different positions....a lot. There's a reason for this.
superfan12
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I remember reading about Iowa likes HS QB's because they are usually the most athletic kids on the team.
HawksRule98
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Yeah, who wants a stud athlete from our own back yard that grew up idolizing the Hawks and whose dad was a All-American and All-Pro TE. We can certainly do better.
tm3308
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This is most often true at smaller schools, where they want to make sure the best athlete always has the ball in his hands. Bigger schools don't always have to do that to get their best players the ball. Like Keokuk or Heelan a few years ago; Wegher and James Hurt were the best athletes on those teams, but they had Vandy and McCabe to play QB.
HawksRule98
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Calling Hurt and Wegher the best athletes on their high school teams is more than a little bit of a stretch. James Hurt never saw any type of success or playing time at any level of college athletics, while Vandy was a 2 year starter in the B1G and spent about 2 weeks in an NFL camp. Say what you want to about McCabe, but he was a 4 year contributor at the B1G level, while Wegher currently toils away at Morningside after a career rushing total of about 600 yards while basically running behind an NFL offensive line during his one season here.
tm3308
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Hurt was a better athlete than Vandy; the reason Vandy stuck and Hurt didn't was that Vandy played a position where athleticism doesn't come at as high of a premium. And Wegher didn't end up at Morningside for lack of talent.
We aren't talking about how certain guys' careers panned out in terms of production. We're talking about athleticism. Wegher and Hurt were absolutely better athletes than McCabe and Vandy.
HawkeyeShane
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Wegher had to go to a smaller school to make his dream of getting "every girl on campus pregnant" come true...
HawkeyeMHA
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I'd be willing to try...
docholihawk
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Let's hope he's one and a half times as good as his dad or more.
