Has recruiting well run dry for Hawks?

ketelmeister · 01-23-2008, 09:58 PM

Interesting to see latest recruits for Iowa. They are competiting with UNI for Jake Reisen 6-2 lb (who has yet to commit) and were the only school to offer Adam Robinson 5-9 running back. Both are players from the state of Iowa. Looks very similar to Dan McCarney's recruiting in his later years at Iowa State. This is not to say these players won't deliver, just an observation.

kingcy · 01-23-2008, 10:03 PM

The Linclon kid is a weird pick-up for them. They also got that QB from southern Iowa, I think because he won a state football title and people were talking about him.

travman23 · 01-23-2008, 10:03 PM

Marty and Miller had some guy on last month that talked about the recruiting and said it was not going well, especially at RB where they had a big need.

SouthernHawk · 01-23-2008, 10:09 PM

Iowa has 10 three star recruits, and did pretty well from the state of Florida. The Illinois well may be dry, but I think after the past 3 seasons, for Iowa to pull in a top 50 class is pretty impressive. The class is ranked higher than the team has been.

ajk4st8 · 01-23-2008, 10:10 PM

Iowa did not recruit to their need... runningback.

cytheguy · 01-23-2008, 10:11 PM

It appears they have 13 3-star recruits, which isn't bad at all. But nothing like they've had the last three years. It'll be interesting to see how Kirk's last three years worth of recruits do this year and next, since most of them will have had a few years to develop. If they do well, this could be Kirk's only down year recruiting wise. We'll just have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, I'm more concerned with our own recruiting class right now. One more decommit would not be good.

DJKHawk · 01-23-2008, 10:11 PM

I don't think you can really judge something like this based on Iowa's last two commits. Looking at the entire class, it seems like an average Iowa class. The team ranking will probably be in the 40s or 50s, which (with the exception being the 2005 class) is probably the norm for Iowa. And BTW, I think Iowa really likes Adam Robinson (the Lincoln guy) at CB, which could be the reason why we picked him up. We're probably set with quite a few guys at RB, so I doubt he'll see much playing time there. Also, that QB from southern Iowa is James Vandenburg out of Keokuk. Looks like a good throwing QB from what I've seen.

EDIT -- And by "set" at RB, I mean we have quite a few commits, and could possibly have one more soon. Inexperience will definitely be a factor.

ketelmeister · 01-23-2008, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by DJKHawk

I don't think you can really judge something like this based on Iowa's last two commits. Looking at the entire class, it seems like an average Iowa class. The team ranking will probably be in the 40s or 50s, which (with the exception being the 2005 class) is probably the norm for Iowa. And BTW, I think Iowa really likes Adam Robinson (the Lincoln guy) at CB, which could be the reason why we picked him up. We're probably set with quite a few guys at RB, so I doubt he'll see much playing time there. Also, that QB from southern Iowa is James Vandenburg out of Keokuk. Looks like a good throwing QB from what I've seen.

EDIT -- And by "set" at RB, I mean we have quite a few commits, and could possibly have one more soon. Inexperience will definitely be a factor.

I'm not worried about Iowa States class. The boards are not having an easy time keeping up with the names. We won't know some of them until signing day. Not to worry.

ripvdub · 01-23-2008, 10:31 PM

DJK Hawk... I was a hawk fan before wised up and I went to college at ISU. Do you wanna but my "gold Ryan Bowen jersey" or my "Tavian Banks #22 banana peel jersey"? Just asking, they're just sittin around collecting dust.

acody · 01-23-2008, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by SouthernHawk

Iowa has 10 three star recruits, and did pretty well from the state of Florida. The Illinois well may be dry, but I think after the past 3 seasons, for Iowa to pull in a top 50 class is pretty impressive. The class is ranked higher than the team has been.

Could you just go away? Way away to whatever hawk board is out there?

DJKHawk · 01-23-2008, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by ripvdub

DJK Hawk... I was a hawk fan before wised up and I went to college at ISU. Do you wanna but my "gold Ryan Bowen jersey" or my "Tavian Banks #22 banana peel jersey"? Just asking, they're just sittin around collecting dust.

Thanks but no thanks. Those banana peel jerseys are ugly (all Iowa fans seem to agree on that one), and I'm not much of a jersey-wearer, so I'll pass on the gold one too. But thanks for asking.

ketelmeister · 01-24-2008, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by acody

Could you just go away? Way away to whatever hawk board is out there?

Actually SoHawk is a good guy...eventually he will come over from the dark side. As for Iowa, their recruiting does look like DMs to me. They are filling squares instead of really working to find the size and speed guys that they need. Look at their average size the last three years, it's not very big. Chizik is getting guys that the top schools want to steal. That speaks volumes of what we are after.

sodakjoe · 01-24-2008, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by acody

Could you just go away? Way away to whatever hawk board is out there?

wonkadog · 01-24-2008, 09:46 AM

I'd rather have SouthernHawk bring some more of his buddies over here. I think it's fun debating with Hawk fans and seeing their "crazy" predictions!

Indyclone · 01-24-2008, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by ketelmeister

Actually SoHawk is a good guy...eventually he will come over from the dark side. As for Iowa, their recruiting does look like DMs to me. They are filling squares instead of really working to find the size and speed guys that they need. Look at their average size the last three years, it's not very big. Chizik is getting guys that the top schools want to steal. That speaks volumes of what we are after.

To say they aren't getting size and speed is nuts. Their OL's are around 300 and they do have some fast WR, the problem with that is they don't have anyone to get them the ball and if JC does they probably won't catch it, but they do have size and speed.