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ColumbusHawk

ColumbusHawk

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Both Kentucky & UCONN are large state universities like Iowa. However, neither team has a starter from the home state. I don't know what it means. I find it very interesting. Illinois has the most starters.

Maybe the Hawks have too many Iowa kids on the roster. I'm in no way saying that the Hawks shouldn't recruit Iowa kids. However, a state that borders Iowa has numerous starters in the title game.

Give me you thoughts!
 
I agree -- forget the Iowa kids. Fran and the rest of the staff need to go into places like Chicago, Flint, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Memphis, Philadelphia, Newark, Boston, Detroit and grab all the five-star recruits they can, slip em a little bus and burger money, get em to Iowa City, fudge their high school transcripts and get them wearing the Black and Gold. Load up with a bunch of one-and-doners. No reason John "Greasy John" Calipari should get them all.

We'd become title contenders in a year or so. It would even improve our chances of beating Mayor Fred and Moo U.
 
LawVHawk said:
I agree -- forget the Iowa kids. Fran and the rest of the staff need to go into places like Chicago, Flint, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Memphis, Philadelphia, Newark, Boston, Detroit and grab all the five-star recruits they can, slip em a little bus and burger money, get em to Iowa City, fudge their high school transcripts and get them wearing the Black and Gold. Load up with a bunch of one-and-doners. No reason John "Greasy John" Calipari should get them all.

We'd become title contenders in a year or so. It would even improve our chances of beating Mayor Fred and Moo U.
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100%. + Iowa has the cache to get this done.
 
ColumbusHawk said:
Both Kentucky & UCONN are large state universities like Iowa. However, neither team has a starter from the home state. I don't know what it means. I find it very interesting. Illinois has the most starters.

Maybe the Hawks have too many Iowa kids on the roster. I'm in no way saying that the Hawks shouldn't recruit Iowa kids. However, a state that borders Iowa has numerous starters in the title game.

Give me you thoughts!
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My thoughts are the coaches and school should recruit the kids with the best combination of academics and athletic skill along with not being felons to be.

They need to be at least good students and hopefully great bball players because you play to win.
 
uihawk82 said:
My thoughts are the coaches and school should recruit the kids with the best combination of academics and athletic skill along with not being felons to be.

They need to be at least good students and hopefully great bball players because you play to win.
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I agree with this except the part about caring if they're good students. :)
 
Double digit national titles between the two.. I wouldn't mind a little more similarity myself. I'm tired of losing, and I don't watch Iowa sports because our players are good students. Sorry, but that's the way I feel. I'd rather win. Just as long as our players get good enough grades to stay eligible, and the product on the floor is good, that's what I care about.

It doesn't bother me if Iowa doesn't have a single Iowan on the team.. Look at a lot of the players on our 30-win 1987 team.. Michigan, Illinois, etc. Do any of us think less of those players because they weren't Iowans? They were HAWKEYES.

Our coaches need to get the best players they can, regardless of where they come from: Iowa, Illinois, Zimbabwe, Neptune, wherever. I don't see the point in recruiting IA players if they are not Big 10 talents.
 
Plus why is this a conversation when none of our current commits are from iowa and our only 2015 commit is exactly the type of player you guys are talking about from inner city chicago.
 
I was just answering the OP with my thoughts, which he asked for. To recruit Iowa kids or not.. My thought is only recruit them if they are Big 10 quality. To me, it's not about "where" our recruits come from, but rather how good they are.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
I was just answering the OP with my thoughts, which he asked for. To recruit Iowa kids or not.. My thought is only recruit them if they are Big 10 quality. To me, it's not about "where" our recruits come from, but rather how good they are.
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I would modify your post to say "Final Four caliber," not simply Big 10 quality. I'm tired of Iowa coaches setting the bar too low on the players they bring to campus.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
Double digit national titles between the two.. I wouldn't mind a little more similarity myself. I'm tired of losing, and I don't watch Iowa sports because our players are good students. Sorry, but that's the way I feel. I'd rather win. Just as long as our players get good enough grades to stay eligible, and the product on the floor is good, that's what I care about.

It doesn't bother me if Iowa doesn't have a single Iowan on the team.. Look at a lot of the players on our 30-win 1987 team.. Michigan, Illinois, etc. Do any of us think less of those players because they weren't Iowans? They were HAWKEYES.

Our coaches need to get the best players they can, regardless of where they come from: Iowa, Illinois, Zimbabwe, Neptune, wherever. I don't see the point in recruiting IA players if they are not Big 10 talents.
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Yeah , Neptune, with the higher gravitational field they should be able to jump to the moon, they could take an inbound pass, take one step , jump and dunk at the other end.
 
WindsorHawk said:
We can agree to disagree. We've had some guys like this and it didn't work out very well...2 come to mind right away. We don't have to get straight A students but I want guys that have character.
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Totally agree. I was embarrassed for ISU to read of their bad graduation rate for football players last year.

If a player qualifies and stays eligible that is all we should ask.
 
Maybe its the tavern hok in me but I just don't care about the academics side. I like the team not the university.
 
PCHawk said:
Maybe its the tavern hok in me but I just don't care about the academics side. I like the team not the university.
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This is me. Education is a good thing (obviously) but I watch Iowa for the sports, plain and simple. Like I said, just as long as the players do enough in the classroom to qualify and stay eligible.

I'm just a sports fan. If the concept of a "student athlete" gets lost somewhere along the way in the coming years, players start getting paid, etc., I will still be an Iowa fan regardless.
 
LawVHawk said:
I would modify your post to say "Final Four caliber," not simply Big 10 quality. I'm tired of Iowa coaches setting the bar too low on the players they bring to campus.
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who would you suggest the iowa coaches should be targeting?

who should iowa model it's recruiting efforts on?

What iowa needs to do, just like any team needs to do, is find a point guard - everything starts and ends with point guard play/guard play - always has, always will. Iowa's most successful teams have had point guards who were high level - ronnie lester, bj armstrong, fred brown.......

just look at the guard play of uconn and the teams that have success year in and year out in the tourney.
 
There are Pro Sports for those that dont care about Grades or Character.Im proud of the programs Iowa runs. As you saw with the Pierce thing That will get a coach in trouble quick at Iowa. Would like a few for more wins Yea. But not at any price
 
LASBUR said:
There are Pro Sports for those that dont care about Grades or Character.Im proud of the programs Iowa runs. As you saw with the Pierce thing That will get a coach in trouble quick at Iowa. Would like a few for more wins Yea. But not at any price
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Mainly if you handle it the way Alford did. I don't think that would fly too well just about anywhere. Even UCLA's fans didn't seem to happy about it when they found out what went down.
 
1977Hawkeye said:
Mainly if you handle it the way Alford did. I don't think that would fly too well just about anywhere. Even UCLA's fans didn't seem to happy about it when they found out what went down.
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They shut up when UCLA started winning, and I can't imagine many cared after the Pac-12 tournament...
 
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