Dominique Blackman?

**Meinhardt4ISU** · 10-20-2009, 01:19 PM

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I was just trying to figure out where we would put this guy if we got him. Would we really need a JC QB? I think he could be a really nice TE for us. He has great size and speed. Anyone have an idea?

**Clones85'** · 10-20-2009, 01:22 PM

If I remember correct we recruited him out of high school

**Drive4cy** · 10-20-2009, 01:24 PM

Looks like a guy worth recruiting. Maybe a DE if offense doesn't work.

**cyhiphopp** · 10-20-2009, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Clones85'

If I remember correct we recruited him out of high school

Dominique Blackman - Yahoo! Sports

He signed with Washington out of HS, and it doesn't look like he had an ISU offer. Also wasn't on our list of interested QBs for 2008 either.

**cyhiphopp** · 10-20-2009, 01:30 PM

With our luck he will probably go to K-State and kill us next year. Ugh!

**thatguy** · 10-20-2009, 01:46 PM

We need to do what Gary Patterson does and take above average offensive players and turn them into great defensive players. Take QB's and RB's and turn them into DE's and LB's. Worked for Mangino at KU and Patterson at TCU. For schools that can't get 5 star DE's and LB's, this is a way to get talented guys on the field.

**CycloneErik** · 10-20-2009, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by thatguy

We need to do what Gary Patterson does and take above average offensive players and turn them into great defensive players. Take QB's and RB's and turn them into DE's and LB's. Worked for Mangino at KU and Patterson at TCU. For schools that can't get 5 star DE's and LB's, this is a way to get talented guys on the field.

I like the idea. It's pretty obvious that it gets some results.

**Bader** · 10-20-2009, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by thatguy

We need to do what Gary Patterson does and take above average offensive players and turn them into great defensive players. Take QB's and RB's and turn them into DE's and LB's. Worked for Mangino at KU and Patterson at TCU. For schools that can't get 5 star DE's and LB's, this is a way to get talented guys on the field.

The problem with Mangino is he does the exact opposite, and it's now showing

**thatguy** · 10-20-2009, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Bader

The problem with Mangino is he does the exact opposite, and it's now showing

No it isn't. When he first got to KU, he took a good size chunk of second string offensive players and turned them into DB's and LB's. That is how they stayed close in games, and clawed for a few points. Then got confidence, then won the Orange Bowl, then recruited big time players.
He built a D that could keep them in games and tried to win ugly. It worked very very well for him.

**cyhiphopp** · 10-20-2009, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by thatguy

We need to do what Gary Patterson does and take above average offensive players and turn them into great defensive players. Take QB's and RB's and turn them into DE's and LB's. Worked for Mangino at KU and Patterson at TCU. For schools that can't get 5 star DE's and LB's, this is a way to get talented guys on the field.

Originally Posted by CycloneErik

I like the idea. It's pretty obvious that it gets some results.

I like this idea as well. Look what happened when ISU moved Ellis Hobbs III from RB to CB.

**CloneIce** · 10-20-2009, 02:16 PM

Mangino is a real good coach (and an awesome looking dude too). There defense isn't down right now because of any coaching mistakes, they have just lost a lot of upperclassmen (and underclassmen to the draft) the last couple of years. Kansas isn't Oklahoma where they can reload their defense every year.

Can't wait to face them next year without Reesing or Meier, and Briscoe too if he heads to the draft like expected.