Allowing you to keep digging a deeper hole by commingling the points.
The main point of this thread (AFTER the great news about JW) + subtracting a bunch of the side tangents like comparing NCAA football to NCAA basketball (because hoops players are also recruited as ATH's too and it's apples to apples right?):
1. Fran missed on getting a lead #1 PG in this class
2. As a fall, fall, fall, fall back option, he offered Jordan and he accepted basically on the spot.
3. There are concerns about Fran's ability to land a stud PG which many believe is a key ingredient to a successful March run.
4. All of the Hawkeye sites / news pubs were identifying how big of a need this was for the Spring signing period
5. Fran has missed on at least 10 "stud" PGs. The reason why I refer to them as studs -- the major talent evaluators have all agreed that these guys project to be great players. Why? Not based on high school basketball stats, but based on a multitutde of things. Size, athletitsm, shot, weight, ability to rim protector, shot blocking ability etc.
6. Now that Jordan is here, he is getting singled out by a lot of people because instead of getting a #1 they got a fall back option who lacks athletism, the ability to guard at the next level (to be debated), size, quickness, etc. A lot of the things that allowed a kid like Jordan to succeed in high school are things that will be exposed at the next level. For instance, not every player of the year in college is going to play in the NBA. Different games, different levels.
Back to what you said here -- do you really, really, really want the best player in Iowa High School Hoops to be on your Iowa Hawkeye B1G, NCAA Basketball team? Just because they are rated the best player in Iowa, does that really make them a B1G calibur athlete? Many on here are hoping to break through and hit that next level of success in college basketball. So I just want to be clear here -- the best player in Iowa always is worthy of a scholly?
Let's take the past 3 Mr. Iowa Baskebtall for example.
Mr. Iowa Basketball players the past 4 years:
2016 -- Jordo Boho - College Hoops: Iowa
2015-- Daniel Tillo -- College Hoops: Nope -- College offer from Iowa? Nope
https://n.rivals.com/goldrush/content/prospects/8779
2014: Wyatt Lohaus-- College Hoops: UNI -- College offer from Iowa? Nope.
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/maple/140391
2013: Jok (had all of the physical attributes that the scouts wanted to see, colleges were scared of his injury history and Iowa stood by him and never rescinded their scholly)