Higdon's announcement

[homes]

Heard him on the show as well. I thought he came off as a very smart and articulate kid. Said if the choice was about football and people/coaches, he would have gone to Iowa. Yet he knows that football might not always be an option, so he put his education above that and said he based his decision on where he would go if football wasn't an option. Can't argue with that as a undergrad from Meechegan >> Iowa.

Talk about feeding into the "we're just little ol' Iowa" BS. Do you think that if Brady Hoke was still the coach at Michigan that this kid would have flipped to Michigan on the last day? It's about academics? Right. I write this without malice towards the kid, it's his life, I'm just not buying his sudden revelation about the academics.

 

[kicker22]

I can't find it anything but hilarious when he says that if it was about football/people he'd pick Iowa, but chose Michigan because of the education. Amazing that someone see's Harbaugh and Michigan an inferior product to Kirk and Iowa. As bad as things have been in IA City lately, I totally forgot what's happened to Michigan.

Wonder who returns to normalcy first?

 

[ohhawk]

Talk about feeding into the "we're just little ol' Iowa" BS. Do you think that if Brady Hoke was still the coach at Michigan that this kid would have flipped to Michigan on the last day? It's about academics? Right. I write this without malice towards the kid, it's his life, I'm just not buying his sudden revelation about the academics.

There were several influences that factored into his decision but academics was high on the list as he has stated in earlier interviews as well. There was no "sudden revelation" as his aspirations as he has stated previously were in the medical profession.........4.0 student. The kid well knows there is life after football and he is smart enough to realize it as he stated in the radio program. If he's going to medical school in the end Michigan will carry more stars on his resume than Iowa.

Here's the real scoop (in detail) from someone very close to the situation. Very interesting story and one that speaks well to Iowa's efforts in several respects........

http://mgoblog.com/diaries/karan-higdon-commitment-story

 

[hawkeyebob62]

There were several influences that factored into his decision but academics was high on the list as he has stated in earlier interviews as well. There was no "sudden revelation" as his aspirations as he has stated previously were in the medical profession.........4.0 student. The kid well knows there is life after football and he is smart enough to realize it as he stated in the radio program. If he's going to medical school in the end Michigan will carry more stars on his resume than Iowa.

Here's the real scoop (in detail) from someone very close to the situation. Very interesting story and one that speaks well to Iowa's efforts in several respects........

http://mgoblog.com/diaries/karan-higdon-commitment-story

You DO realize that some of what he wrote in that piece is pretty close to NCAA "no-no", right? Like providing "fallback housing", etc. And if he REALLY wanted the kid to see "all the options", why did he not send the kids profile to several schools, instead of just Michigan? If folks think there was some "rotteness" involved, there's a reason: because there was.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

In that "blog", I particularly liked the part about calling the Michigan football office right when they opened, when he "normally" isn't awake.

 

[ihawkeye]

You DO realize that some of what he wrote in that piece is pretty close to NCAA "no-no", right? Like providing "fallback housing", etc. And if he REALLY wanted the kid to see "all the options", why did he not send the kids profile to several schools, instead of just Michigan? If folks think there was some "rotteness" involved, there's a reason: because there was.

But nothing will happen, nothing ever happens. The rich get richer.