Rumor About Eno Lying To Iowa Staff

QuadCityHawkeye said:
It's being spread around by someone with ties to the athletic department saying that Eno is actively recruiting against Iowa now and is reaching out to kids to decommit.

I'll trust that source who said it as well.
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This is where slopes get slippery, when we start to accept rumor and hearsay as fact. I realize the urge to find someone to blame in these situations but they're rarely without gray area.
 
Got to love rumors, about as much as the people who try to make them look like fact just to prove their point....but lets face it these are rumors, and nothing more nothing else at this point
 
RobHowe said:
This is where slopes get slippery, when we start to accept rumor and hearsay as fact. I realize the urge to find someone to blame in these situations but they're rarely without gray area.
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Totally agree. I'm not sure why people can't just realize it really wasn't a good fit for either party and move on. I don't blame Eno for taking other visits if he wanted. I don't blame the coaching staff for moving on if they wanted. Everything else is just fluff really. Some get so bent out of shape about losing a recruit, and go all scorched earth on the coaches and don't acknowledge the fact the staff might have had sound reason to move away. Same goes for those who go scorched earth on the kid to make him out to be a villain and saying that is why the staff moved away.

The bottom line is Eno didn't have to take a visit if he KNEW Iowa was the right place for him. Iowa didn't have to pull his offer if they KNEW Iowa was the right place for him. It was obviously a very, very bad fit, and it is better both parties move on.
 
The thing that gets me is that even IF Eno is recruiting against Iowa at this point, the staff should have a strong enough connection with the current commitments that it shouldn't be an issue and this obviously isn't the case. IMO if Eno were recruiting against Iowa this would/should possibly affect those that have expressed interest or are on the fence as opposed to those that have committed.
 
I think at this point people have moved on from Eno's decommitment. I think the problem lies is the frustration with the string of decommitments that followed as a result. If Eno felt he wasn't a good fit at Iowa or Iowa didn't feel he was a good fit then by all means break the ties, but the ramifications this has caused is not something that bodes well for the program. Players decommit all the time for a number of reasons, the fact is however that regardless of the reason, the ripple effect shouldn't be as detrimental to the program if everything is fine within the system.

Yet people question why some on here are worked up. IMO there should be concern and its totally just for some to get upset about how this is playing itself out, because these downward recruiting trends should not going on in a program coming off the success that we had last year.
 
David79 said:
Also rumors Eno was bad mouthing Iowa coaches when he was at ASU and it got back to the staff.
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Rumors are rumors. The problem lies deeper than just Eno at this point. Eno's gone, regardless of the reason. The problem lies in the fact that we're losing additional recruits as a direct result of his departure and the fact that the publicity is not helping us at all. I stand pat with my stance that if a single recruit is persuading other recruits that have verbally committed to a university to decommit and look elsewhere, regardless of the reason, then there is something wrong internally with our recruiting system that is not being addressed.
 
QuadCityHawkeye said:
It's being spread around by someone with ties to the athletic department saying that Eno is actively recruiting against Iowa now and is reaching out to kids to decommit.

I'll trust that source who said it as well.
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Surprise surprise. He marketed for us when he was with us. You expected him not to do the opposite? This is exactly what I expected he'd do, why pulling the offer was a bad move, and why you hedge your bet by picking up somebody else instead of pulling the offer.

If the offer isn't pulled and he flips last minute, he doesn't have three months to dismantle your recruiting class.

Eno is replaceable -- the whole class is not.
 
ssckelley said:
Or find some 3 star black kid that can run really fast but can't catch the ball even when it hits them in the hands. Come on, this isn't a black or white thing as some of our best wide receivers ever were white (Dwight, Kasper, Happel, and Hinkel). In fact some of our best black receivers were not 4/5 star players, McNutt was a 3* quarterback IIRC, and I don't remember DJK or Martin-Manley being highly rated coming in.

Bottom line is we need receivers that can run good routes and can catch the damn ball. I don't care what color they are.
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Martin-Manley started his own business based off the fact he was a two-star.
 
I think we should get a pool going on who's next. This thing is in runaway train mode and I don't see it stopping. I'm not going to require tranquilizers like some of you folks, but it's the truth nonetheless.

Peyton Mansell, Matt Hankins, and Josh Turner are all good friends of Benjamin, so I'm calling those as first to go Two of them are from Texas (the only 2 left from Texas, by the way, where we were supposedly kicking ass with recruiting). Brandon Smith had visits scheduled before Eno got shit canned, so he's my pick for number 4.

The remaining kids are all Iowa and Illinois local yokels, and only one of them is a position player.

And for anyone who doesn't think this doesn't have the potential to be devastating, google and read up on what Mack Brown did to Texas. It ruined that football team and the Longhorns are going to be paying for it for a long, long time. I wonder what LeVar Woods is thinking about all this wasted effort.
 
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