hawkeyemark
Well-Known Member
When it comes to recruiting, it's easy to IDENTIFY such players. It's quite another thing to have them sign a LOI. Fran has proven that he can identify talent; we know this as he's in early with a lot of these kinds of kids. He starts building relationships when such players are freshmen and sophomores, sometimes even younger. The problem is when the kid blossoms as a junior or senior, schools with track records of putting kids in the NBA can come in and... well, we all know what happens. I don't think it's a problem with Fran; he's in on the "ground floor" with these kids.
For those of you who don't agree, how many of Iowa's players have been one-and-done? Ricky Davis and ......... How many of Iowa's players have left early for the NBA? Even the classes that Raveling recruited that had arguably the best group of players in Iowa history... how many of them left early for the NBA?
Not an original thought here but I see the problem as Fran not recruiting with much of a plan B. If you can pull in one of these high level kids great but we play against a good many guards often from lesser conference programs who could really help us and open things up for Bohannon who can still help us assist and distribute the ball. Good point made earlier in the thread that the pace Fran wants to play at doesn't play to the type of personnel he puts on the floor. We have a coaching problem as much as a recruiting problem.