Kasper has a grand total of 6 catches in 4 years. And you'd take him over a RS Freshman who didn't play a down (Smith) and another guy in Buie who was injured all year? Smith was a four star who a lot of the coaches think has a bright future and the same could be said for Buie. Buie was ahead of Howard on the depth chart this year until he couldn't go.
Kaspers been hurt too and buried behind other 4 and 5 star WRs on Oregons roster. Yes I'd roll the dice and take Kasper and his potential over the potential of our other guys. He's 6'6 215 lbs and can jump out of the gym. Kasper coulda went about anywhere he wanted coming out of HS hence going to Oregon. None of our guys had an offer sheet like he did. If all the players involved are 100% healthy I'm taking Kasper over the rest
Hawks recruited him. From what I've read he's a super primadonna. I'll take RVZ over him any day of the week. Vander Zee is going to be a name we'll remember years from now, book it.
Nwankpa had a pretty good offer sheet and he wasn't exactly a gem. Lutmer had 2 other offers, both local FCS schools. USD and SDSU.
Hmm.
We dont play MSU next year, so we dont have to worry about that "one" game that a portal player looks to make a statement with.........regardless, I hope he does well.
Same, I hope he does great.
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IDC if a WR is a primadonna or not. Many of the good ones are. DJK was too and he's arguably as good of a WR as we've ever had and KF made it work. And there's no way Kasper is worse of one then DJK. You can't teach 6'6 210 and what all Kasper has to work with. RVZ might be the exception to what I said on our roster he looks to be really good if we'd just use him more. The rest though I'd trade in a NY minute.
I think some people are over valuing what an Iowa offer to a WR is compared to Oregon and others. Smiths best offer besides Iowa woulda been between ISU and MN. Mostly he had MAC offers and his home state schools in IL and NW didn't offer. I'm not saying he won't be a decent player but the odds aren't crazy high that he'll be a difference maker either. But since he's a Hawk I hope he proves me wrong
Nobody outside of Kasper and BYU has any real idea of the amount of money he got to go there. He might have gone there as much for opportunity as anything at this point.
Is Iowa in the position to be that picky about who they bring in at the WR position? We just had a WR portal kid we were after from Kent state tell us no to go to Cincinnati instead... At this point if a WR would be willing to say yes we can't tell em no. Especially an Iowa legacy kid like Kasper. RVZ missed much of last yr with injuries we aren't about to kick him to the curb. Injuries are a part of football that's a risk you gotta be willing to stomach
Glad to hear that! Could have been ugly.
