JUCO F Dewayne Benjamin
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Sucks that he's committed already, but I never read too much into any verbal commitments, they are about as useful as monopoly money is as real currency.
Until they sign on the dotted line, nothing is final.
Until they sign on the dotted line, nothing is final.
While I agree to some point - it is OREGON - home of NIKE! I remember reading an article about their football program and how they "bought" tradition. Nike's money made them the fashion god of the sports world and it has allowed them to reel in the recruits right and left. I'm sure the Oregon facilities and Nike Campus were too impressive/alluring to turn down.
I agree, but I imagine that will always be the case when we are recruiting so few guys for next year. We've only got 3 scholarships available (+maybe 1 if someone transfers?), and 1 of them has a commitment already, leaving 2 spots available. As opposed to last year when we had so many people graduating.
If he would visit, I feel like he would strongly consider leaving his options open. I am optimistically guessing that when he visited, he was amazed by the attention, and didn't really think about what he was doing. Of course, that's my optimistic approach to this situation
Ya, this and countless other examples go to show how hard it is to be a coach in Ames (FB & MBB), trying to compete with top schools and overcome geography, the lack of recruits/population and the overall "middle of cornfields" mentality that most outsiders have of ISU and the state in general.
Obviously losing recruits will happen when you target big time players, but it's depressing nonetheless when you consider how much excitement there was 6 months ago about this class. Obviously if RV chooses us, all will be good, but if we miss on him and Cunningham, we really missed an opportunity to take a step forward in recruiting.
I enjoy your approach of being depressed before any of those situations actually happen. I always get depressed about potentially bad news.
I actually had an initial first thought. I wonder if they "randomly" paired Amardi with him or maybe just inserted some negative recruiting.
Guess we'll never know. Hopefully Doc can pull some more strings and find the next JUCO.
That sucks that he committed. Really, really wanted him here. He looked like an absolute beast. Karma for Amardi maybe? Still wish we had Amardi here, obviously extremely excited for Kane but with the whole Bubu situation that went down it would of been awesome to still have Amardi.
