Iowa Adds JUCO RB

guffus said:
He also had a couple of pit stops at Oklahoma and Iowa Western. Here is his story in more detail

It began in Sioux City at Bishop Heelan Catholic High, where during his junior and senior seasons he rushed for a combined 5,572 yards and 82 touchdowns. He had 3,238 yards and 51 touchdowns as a senior.

That earned him a scholarship at Iowa, where in 2009 Wegher rushed for 641 yards and a school freshman record eight touchdowns. He added 113 yards and a touchdown in a 24-14 Orange Bowl victory over Georgia Tech.

This is where the story takes a major turn. Wegher left before his sophomore season for what he called personal reasons that never were disclosed. He transferred to Oklahoma, but was ruled academically ineligible before playing a down.

That led to a brief stop at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, where Wegher also was declared academically ineligible.

During this time Wegher was arrested in Akron, Iowa, and charged with domestic abuse assault. He allegedly pushed his brother, Cole, so hard that Cole's head struck a kitchen counter sink, according to a 2012 story in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

Wegher also reportedly was arrested for public intoxication and charged with eluding police in Council Bluffs.

"I was just being a kid," Wegher said without elaborating.” I didn't have life figured out."

Wegher began figuring life out in Sioux City, where he worked at a mining and then construction company to support his son who was born during this time.

But after three years of not playing football, Wegher decided it was time to return. So he met with Morningside coach Steve Ryan and asked for another chance.

Wegher didn't disappoint. He set an NAIA record season record with 2,610 yards rushing. In two seasons, he became the school's all-time leading rusher with 3,815 yards and 52 touchdowns.
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I still don't have life figured out, but I've never been charged with domestic assault, public intoxication, or eluding the police.
 
Adam said:
Wehger was possibly one of the most fantastic RB's I can ever remember at a high school level. He was flat out amazing. Speed, power and elusiveness he really had it all. I was stoked when he signed with Iowa. I thought for sure he would help Iowa to several great years. He showed nicely his Freshman year and without doubt proved that if he played for at least 3 years we would be comparing him to the greats. I was crushed when I found out that he was a complete head case. It is quite a shame. The kid had NFL talent and the body to make it there. He squandered quite an opportunity.
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Brandon may have been football's equivilent of Sam Okey. Okey was equal parts Gerry Wright, Jess Settles, Sam Dekker and Mo Peterson. He was that good. He should have had a 10-12 year NBA career, easily. But he had a fondness for the B side of college life. And he clashed with Dick Bennett which cost him a chance to potentially play on Wisconsin's 2000 Final Four team. He was eligible at Iowa for one semester during Davis's last season when he was already trying to rotate too many bigs. A broken hand limited his Iowa career to five games. Sam putzed around the CBA for a while, continuing his fondness for hard partying. Where is he now? Last I heard he was a hairdresser in Wausau.
 
MoseSchrute said:
I still don't have life figured out, but I've never been charged with domestic assault, public intoxication, or eluding the police.
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His first mistake was being in Council Bluffs. My sister, who lives in Omaha, avoids it like the plague.

Going through on I-80 it looks like all grain elevators, railroad tracks, and semi dispatching companies.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Brandon may have been football's equivilent of Sam Okey. Okey was equal parts Gerry Wright, Jess Settles, Sam Dekker and Mo Peterson. He was that good. He should have had a 10-12 year NBA career, easily. But he had a fondness for the B side of college life. And he clashed with Dick Bennett which cost him a chance to potentially play on Wisconsin's 2000 Final Four team. He was eligible at Iowa for one semester during Davis's last season when he was already trying to rotate too many bigs. A broken hand limited his Iowa career to five games. Sam putzed around the CBA for a while, continuing his fondness for hard partying. Where is he now? Last I heard he was a hairdresser in Wausau.
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Wausau is an up-and-coming party town. Well, kind of an up-and-coming party town. As party towns in North Central Wisconsin go, anyway.

OK, it has more than one radio station. That has to count for something. And it's got Rib Mountain. And some cheese shops.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
Wausau is an up-and-coming party town. Well, kind of an up-and-coming party town. As party towns in North Central Wisconsin go, anyway.

OK, it has more than one radio station. That has to count for something. And it's got Rib Mountain. And some cheese shops.
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You don't have to go all the way to Wausau to experience that kind of Wisconsicana. By the time you take exit 26 to Belmont (US 151) you have all the criteria that you mention covered!:p
Platteville has multiple radio stations, the Miner's Mound, (big letter M on the side of the hill and visible from Field of Dreams in the right conditions) and Belmont has two first class cheese factories, for those who indulge in dairy.

If Okey were up and coming today he would have ended up at a blue blood school. He handed Raef Lafrentz his lunch when they squared off against each other in summer pickup games.
 
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Northside Hawk said:
His first mistake was being in Council Bluffs. My sister, who lives in Omaha, avoids it like the plague.

Going through on I-80 it looks like all grain elevators, railroad tracks, and semi dispatching companies.
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It's not as bad as it used to be. There are some less than stellar parts of course(mostly visible from the interstate), but you will not get shot to death, whereas your chance of that is much higher in Omaha.
 
MoseSchrute said:
It's not as bad as it used to be. There are some less than stellar parts of course(mostly visible from the interstate), but you will not get shot to death, whereas your chance of that is much higher in Omaha.
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I'm sure there's some nice areas on the east and northeast sides of town. Any city that grew as a railroad terminus is going to have a hard grimy look to it. And Council Bluffs certainly qualifies.

Has Omaha become that dangerous? My sister used to say avoid "North O" and you should be fine. And we did when we visited.
 
Northside Hawk said:
His first mistake was being in Council Bluffs. My sister, who lives in Omaha, avoids it like the plague.

Going through on I-80 it looks like all grain elevators, railroad tracks, and semi dispatching companies.
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Wegher was a douche long before he got to Council Bluffs.

I had the unfortunate distinction of being at the same parties as him in Sioux City back in the day. Total meat head, “I can do whatever I want to whoever I want because my daddy’s rich and he’ll buy my way out of everything” type of kid. Total, 100% shit bird.

A lot of people don’t know the whole story of what happened to the kid and why things went south. He was at Iowa when he knocked his girlfriend up, Megan Glisar. She was a track and field athlete at Iowa (later Morningside, coincidentally) at the time. She tried to get child support and when she got nowhere because Wegher didn’t have a job (dad owns a huge construction company) she went after dad’s money and shit hit the fan. After that is when he left Iowa, went back home and back to being a douchebag in Sioux City and got in all the trouble that everyone hears about with beating up his brother, etc. and made his “comeback” at Morningside after IWCC and Oklahoma flopped.

The hilarious part is that all if a sudden when he was going to be playing in the NFL, Glisar has a miraculous change of heart and now Wegher was good enough to marry. For their kids’ sake I hope it works but last I heard she was doing graduate work to be an audiologist and I just can’t see Wegher making anything out of himself. What I do see is her supporting him in life and that rarely goes well, especially when he’s a loser to start with.
 
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Northside Hawk said:
Brandon may have been football's equivilent of Sam Okey. Okey was equal parts Gerry Wright, Jess Settles, Sam Dekker and Mo Peterson. He was that good. He should have had a 10-12 year NBA career, easily. But he had a fondness for the B side of college life. And he clashed with Dick Bennett which cost him a chance to potentially play on Wisconsin's 2000 Final Four team. He was eligible at Iowa for one semester during Davis's last season when he was already trying to rotate too many bigs. A broken hand limited his Iowa career to five games. Sam putzed around the CBA for a while, continuing his fondness for hard partying. Where is he now? Last I heard he was a hairdresser in Wausau.
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Wow I haven't thought of Mr Okey for a long time... Yeah coming out of HS he had some serious hype and potential. I'd have forgotten about him if never reminded of him again I bet. Blast from the past there wow
 
Hawkfnntn said:
Wow I haven't thought of Mr Okey for a long time... Yeah coming out of HS he had some serious hype and potential. I'd have forgotten about him if never reminded of him again I bet. Blast from the past there wow
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He came from tiny Cassville, population now under 1,000. Cassville is about 35 miles from Dubuque. He may be the best basketball player to ever come out of Southwest Wisconsin. He was probably better than Dubuque's Kevin Kunnert, who also starred at Iowa just before Lute Olson arrived and was involved in the infamous Kermit Washington Rudy T incident.

AAU was just getting into full swing when Okey was in high school. But he destroyed the leagues he did play in. Five star camps, like the one Howie Garfinkel used to run (and where Al Lorenzen made his name on a national level) were still in Vogue in the nineties. Going up against Mc Donald's all Americans Okey more than held his own. He was probably one of the top fifteen freshmen in the country when he enrolled at Wisconsin. But the Badgers made a coaching change, bringing in Dick Bennett, who's style didn't exactly mesh with Okey's open court skills. Jess Settles and Chris Kingsbury made many trips to Cassville in the summer of 1994, but to no avail-until he was a senior in college.
 
Fryowa said:
Wegher was a douche long before he got to Council Bluffs.

I had the unfortunate distinction of being at the same parties as him in Sioux City back in the day. Total meat head, “I can do whatever I want to whoever I want because my daddy’s rich and he’ll buy my way out of everything” type of kid. Total, 100% shit bird.

A lot of people don’t know the whole story of what happened to the kid and why things went south. He was at Iowa when he knocked his girlfriend up, Megan Glisar. She was a track and field athlete at Iowa (later Morningside, coincidentally) at the time. She tried to get child support and when she got nowhere because Wegher didn’t have a job (dad owns a huge construction company) she went after dad’s money and shit hit the fan. After that is when he left Iowa, went back home and back to being a douchebag in Sioux City and got in all the trouble that everyone hears about with beating up his brother, etc. and made his “comeback” at Morningside after IWCC and Oklahoma flopped.

The hilarious part is that all if a sudden when he was going to be playing in the NFL, Glisar has a miraculous change of heart and now Wegher was good enough to marry. For their kids’ sake I hope it works but last I heard she was doing graduate work to be an audiologist and I just can’t see Wegher making anything out of himself. What I do see is her supporting him in life and that rarely goes well, especially when he’s a loser to start with.
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Wow you are being really harsh on this kid. I don't know him, but you just trashed him beyond belief. Maybe someday you could do the right thing and share your feelings with him to his face. Then he would have a chance to respond, rather than reading it on an anonymous message board
 
ChosenChildren said:
Wow you are being really harsh on this kid. I don't know him, but you just trashed him beyond belief. Maybe someday you could do the right thing and share your feelings with him to his face. Then he would have a chance to respond, rather than reading it on an anonymous message board
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I’ve met the guy in person enough to know how much of a douche he is. He acts like an entitled little bitch and talked to girls like they’d do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, and every guy in the room got a stare down like he was daring them to look at him wrong. Chest-puffing dick bag and you can smell the sleaze coming off him. If I acted like that I’d not be surprised if anyone called me out on it. If he reads it on a message board someday and is upset (trust me he won’t be), he deserves to eat a shit sandwich. It’d humble a normal person, especially if it’s true. Which it is.

As far as what I wrote in my post about his child support dodging and assaults, google it. Nothing I wrote was untrue.

If you don’t like my post, I can’t help that. If you want me to apologize, or repent or something, you’re SOL.
 
Fryowa said:
I’ve met the guy in person enough to know how much of a douche he is. He acts like an entitled little bitch and talked to girls like they’d do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, and every guy in the room got a stare down like he was daring them to look at him wrong. Chest-puffing dick bag and you can smell the sleaze coming off him. If I acted like that I’d not be surprised if anyone called me out on it. If he reads it on a message board someday and is upset (trust me he won’t be), he deserves to eat a shit sandwich. It’d humble a normal person, especially if it’s true. Which it is.

As far as what I wrote in my post about his child support dodging and assaults, google it. Nothing I wrote was untrue.

If you don’t like my post, I can’t help that. If you want me to apologize, or repent or something, you’re SOL.
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My friend from NW Iowa tells basically the same story. He is what he is, and it's no secret.
 
$ and physical gifts are a tough combo to grow up with. (I would bet). I know talentless people with $ who are shit stains, men and women. Hate to say it, but you probably need to look no further than the parents and the upbringing.
 
4thngoal said:
$ and physical gifts are a tough combo to grow up with. (I would bet). I know talentless people with $ who are shit stains, men and women. Hate to say it, but you probably need to look no further than the parents and the upbringing.
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Gifts/no gifts, bad parents or good parents, rich or broke is no excuse for being a puke. My boss is worth 8 figures and you’d never know he was worth 5. Lives in a house that even I could afford and let’s just say I’m in the “5 figures” category. He’d never met my parents (or any other family of mine) but showed up in Sioux City an hour and 10 minutes after I called him to say my mom died and that I wouldn’t be at work the next day. He lives an hour away. Drove me home and sent his kids all the way there to go get my pickup. Never even thought twice. Didn’t want me driving home alone because my mom died a few years before and there’s no family left except me. My boss’s dad was even richer than he is and just as good of a dude.

Growing up with money and bad parenting isn’t an excuse or even an explanation for being an asshole. You’re just an asshole and that’s it.
 
Fryowa said:
Gifts/no gifts, bad parents or good parents, rich or broke is no excuse for being a puke. My boss is worth 8 figures and you’d never know he was worth 5. Lives in a house that even I could afford and let’s just say I’m in the “5 figures” category. He’d never met my parents (or any other family of mine) but showed up in Sioux City an hour and 10 minutes after I called him to say my mom died and that I wouldn’t be at work the next day. He lives an hour away. Drove me home and sent his kids all the way there to go get my pickup. Never even thought twice. Didn’t want me driving home alone because my mom died a few years before and there’s no family left except me. My boss’s dad was even richer than he is and just as good of a dude.

Growing up with money and bad parenting isn’t an excuse or even an explanation for being an asshole. You’re just an asshole and that’s it.
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It certainly is an explanation.
Nature vs nurture.
You already said that your boss has a little coin and had his kids help him in a act of kindness.
Do you think an asshole had that instilled in them?
The question is not if we are all gifted, the question is what gifts and how we use them.
 
4thngoal said:
It certainly is an explanation.
Nature vs nurture.
You already said that your boss has a little coin and had his kids help him in a act of kindness.
Do you think an asshole had that instilled in them?
The question is not if we are all gifted, the question is what gifts and how we use them.
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I meant rich/privileged va not.
 
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