Higdon flipping is one thing, but no other RB committments?

Well Smith cheated and got kicked out of his SAT test or else he'd have been in this class too... It sucks. May not matter this year but if they don't get a couple and hit a home run with one next yr....
 
Not a big surprise and really not anything new. Two years ago they signed a bunch of WRs at the expense of their OL. Two of those WRs are already gone.
 
RB Eric Graham out of Alabama has signed with the Hawkeyes. Due to grade concerns, Iowa was his only offer. It sounds like the coaches were fully aware that Higdon was likely gone and offered Graham this morning as soon as Higdon to UM was confirmed.
 
thejumper5 said:
RB Eric Graham out of Alabama has signed with the Hawkeyes. Due to grade concerns, Iowa was his only offer. It sounds like the coaches were fully aware that Higdon was likely gone and offered Graham this morning as soon as Higdon to UM was confirmed.
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He is listed on Rivals as 5'11" 200 lb with a 4.41 40. On ESPN, he's listed at 5'8" 190 and a 4.73. Big difference. Who knows what we're getting.
 
Graham is most likely a non-entity. He's a distraction that's going to get used to pull attention away from this staff's failures. There are a billion kids at every school with zero offers. Iowa found one.
 
Well - this kid's video looks alright. He looks faster than 4.73 but not sure 4.41 is legit either....runs strong.....guess we will see. He is a built kid. He is a Hawkeye now so I am a fan of his.
The Higdon issue is about integrity - the kid is free to do what he feels is best for him, but for him to do what he did shows a lack of it.....honestly he should have never taken the visit if he was in Iowa's camp.
 
Integrity shmintegrity. Please STFU.
That's recruiting. We lost a kid to a better coach and better program fair and square.
Good god, how annoying is it when some Iowa fans love to fall back on "integrity" angle lol.
 
thejumper5 said:
RB Eric Graham out of Alabama has signed with the Hawkeyes. Due to grade concerns, Iowa was his only offer. It sounds like the coaches were fully aware that Higdon was likely gone and offered Graham this morning as soon as Higdon to UM was confirmed.
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Yeah it actually sounds like the staff had their bases covered with this one.
 
ForeverHawk said:
How could this possibly be true for this class? Utter failure by this coaching staff.
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The utter failure is you being able to look at the big picture:

1. Iowa had limited scholarships available
2. They probably promised him that he would be the only RB coming in.
3. They had other areas of need that had to be developed for the future...OL/DL/LB. You can be successful with a freshman RB. You will not be successful with a freshmane OL/DL/LB. Thus the reason to give out extra schollies to the other spots. You can give out extra RB schollies next year when we will have 22 seniors graduating plus any other changes.
4. We were told that Higdon was a "high character" person. Obviously not!
5. Planet Pluto and Venus were lined up within 2 degrees of each other, which is usually a sign of peace and tranquility. So I probably wouldn't have signed a 2nd one either, knowing that :)
 
GotTimDodge said:
Integrity shmintegrity. Please STFU.
That's recruiting. We lost a kid to a better coach and better program fair and square.
Good god, how annoying is it when some Iowa fans love to fall back on "integrity" angle lol.
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For some of us, it's not a fall back position. I tend to blame parenting. By the time I was 18, my parents had taught me to take my time, go through the process needed to make a good decision, make my decision and stick with it. I think it's the parents getting caught up in the process as much as the kids and they are doing their children no favors.
 
ShemHawk said:
For some of us, it's not a fall back position. I tend to blame parenting. By the time I was 18, my parents had taught me to take my time, go through the process needed to make a good decision, make my decision and stick with it. I think it's the parents getting caught up in the process as much as the kids and they are doing their children no favors.
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It's bad parenting until Iowa flips a kid. What most of you fellas fail to grasp while spouting this type of nonsense is that your experience doesn't include deciding whether to play college football for Iowa or a historic, top rated institution like Michigan. It sucks, but it's also understandable. If the kid didn't contact the coaching staff like some have alluded, then that is another matter.
 
TGRHWK1 said:
Well - this kid's video looks alright. He looks faster than 4.73 but not sure 4.41 is legit either....runs strong.....guess we will see. He is a built kid. He is a Hawkeye now so I am a fan of his.
The Higdon issue is about integrity - the kid is free to do what he feels is best for him, but for him to do what he did shows a lack of it.....honestly he should have never taken the visit if he was in Iowa's camp.
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High school kids change their mind all of the time now. It is the coaches fault not the kids. Back in the day a commitment was honored by other coaches. Now with social media coaches get a kick out of making someone flip schools after being committed.
 
ShemHawk said:
For some of us, it's not a fall back position. I tend to blame parenting. By the time I was 18, my parents had taught me to take my time, go through the process needed to make a good decision, make my decision and stick with it. I think it's the parents getting caught up in the process as much as the kids and they are doing their children no favors.
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It comes down to what the kids want to do...The parents can give their advice but the kid is going to go where he wants to go. Even the crazy mom last year in the SEC who forged a LOI didn't get her kid to go where she wanted him to.

If the kid gets a better offer after he is committed than he should take the better offer. You would take a higher paying job if an offer came out of left field too.
 
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