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hawkeye2188 said:
Hopefully they are on the hawks schedule twice next year instead of once like this year : p
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Nope, second year of the schedule rotation...Iowa will only play PSU at Jordan Center next year and entertain Wisky at Carver...two must wins if the Hawks are to make real progress record-wise.

FYI: Kyle Rowley,7ft soph out of NW is transferring. Destination unknown,but he wants more playing time.
He was a top 100 player out of Lake Forest Academy.
 
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JHHawk said:
Nope, second year of the schedule rotation...Iowa will only play PSU at Jordan Center next year and entertain Wisky at Carver...two must wins if the Hawks are to make real progress record-wise.

FYI: Kyle Rowley,7ft soph out of NW is transferring. Destination unknown,but he wants more playing time.
He was a top 100 player out of Lake Forest Academy.
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If he can move he could be a good pickup.
 
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JHHawk said:
FYI: Kyle Rowley,7ft soph out of NW is transferring. Destination unknown,but he wants more playing time.
He was a top 100 player out of Lake Forest Academy.
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If he is smart it will be to a Div 2 program so he doesn't waste a year before sitting on a different bench for a different coach. As a player, the guy is a stiff. A very good example of how badly the internet wannabes can misjudge a still-physically developing & maturing adolescent who has not been playing against decent competition or guys within 6 inches of his size.

NW has a coach who may be of comparable stature to Izzo & Ryan, but only now is beginning to get any serious consideration from top prospects. Carmody took a gamble on Rowley when getting any solid kids was still tough--it was only a year after his first breakthrough with Michael Thompson (Coble was the typical very smart kid attracted to NW academically but was not on any of the blue chip lists; same with Nash).

But this has a great deal of relevance to the Hawkeyes, a program with much more of a solid history than NW--the only Div I high major that has NEVER received a bid to the NCAA tournament. McCaffrey is a guy very much in the same mold as Carmody---very smart, player's coach, good guy, understands the place of athletics in a university with emphasis upon academic goals, seems to have a history of recruiting good citizen-good student players.

McCaffrey should not have to take on "projects" like Rowley, Gorney, Brommer, Archie. One advantage this time is that our new coach is coming in with a solid, sufficeintly deep base of high Division 1 talent--Gatens, May, Fuller, Payne, Cougill, Larson, McCabe, Marble, Brust--none of them seniors, none of them considered a "difference maker". Meaning within two years we will have a good idea of whether McCaffrey can have Iowa back competing in the upper echelon of the Big Ten, getting selected to the NCAA field again. The early indications are that the guy is going to do just that.
 


tiggerhawk McCaffrey should not have to take on "projects" like Rowley said:
Not sure everyone would agree that your list of players are all high D1 talent. Also, not sure we really have any early indicators. The indicators we have is that he has chosen one assistant who is pretty young and mostly gained his coaching experience under the HC at the low mid major level.

Now, if FM goes out and finds some impressive late signees we will have some better indicators pointing to success. If he hires a top flight recruiter with a history of pulling in high D1 talent, that will be a better indicator. If the team wins some early season games, that will be an indicator of success.

As it stands now, his past record gives us cause for optimism, but he hasn't actually done anything yet at Iowa that would stand as an early indicator of success at this level. As I have stated elsewhere, my hope is he can go find us a Kenny Hasbrouk type player who can make an immediate impact.
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I could see McCamey going, i get the feeling that he thinks he deserves it and is too good to play in college
 






McCamey from IL, Battle from PSU, Moore from Purdue and Johnson from Purdue ALL coming back to big ten next year
 






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