McDonald’s All Americans who became Cyclones…

[JVAR]

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The thing on Harper is crazy. The murder actually happened when he was 17 before he was a McDonalds All American and he was an accessory. The victim was a family friend and he was arrested nine years later.

Family shocked by accusations against former SC basketball star

Jerome Harper, is one of three men accused of killing a Columbia hotel owner in 1999. Johnny Fletcher Junior has already admitting to pulling the trigger and says Harper and a man named Jacques Hickman were also involved.

www.wistv.com

 

[danvillecyclone]

Jerome Harper, Omaha and Fizer

Harper never played but did enroll and practiced and now is in prison for life for murder

So would this make the cyclones bio on Omaha #3?

 

[ianoconnor]

Jerome Harper, Omaha and Fizer

Harper never played but did enroll and practiced and now is in prison for life for murder

This was before my time. Did he kill someone while at ISU?

*Edit: now I see someone posted an article about it!

 

[BCClone]

I'm all for taking low-hanging shots at Iowa, but saying this about a guy that ISU actually did recruit, sign, and enrolled doesn't exactly send the message you think it does.

Was he in prison when recruited him? No, that’s only Iowa that goes there.

 

[HFCS]

Jerome Harper, Omaha and Fizer

Harper never played but did enroll and practiced and now is in prison for life for murder

Yeah college sports!

 

[cyclonez7]

A damn shame Ivan wasn't an all American

Maybe he was a McDonald's All-Russian

 

[tim_redd]

I think Brackens was ranked like 27th and a 5 star but didn't get an invite that year. Not sure why.

Wasn't Craig a 5th year prep school guy and not eligible?

 

[nfrine]

Johnny Orr always talked about Kansas having multiple McDAAs. He said he had guys that ate at McDonald's.

 

[t-noah]

brackins was not a mcdonalds all american. jerome harper was the 3rd but he never played

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I had to look Harper up. I got the same summary, here

 

[NWICY]

Jerome Harper, Omaha and Fizer

Harper never played but did enroll and practiced and now is in prison for life for murder

Well that is a life that went wrong.

 

[NWICY]

Johnny Orr always talked about Kansas having multiple McDAAs. He said he had guys that ate at McDonald's.

And robbed Burger King Mack the knife. Identified by the MBB poster hanging in the store. LOL

 

[Farnsworth]

Ah, now I remember. Brackins was good but not THAT good

He was pretty ****** good. And TJ was his recruiter.

 

[NorthCyd]

He was pretty ****** good. And TJ was his recruiter.

Yeah. He was a first round draft pick. Not a great professional career, but a really good college player. Unfortunately McDermott hadn't learned how to coach talent at that point.

 

[Jriddge28]

Harper would play at Beyer a bit when he was in Ames. He was ironically pretty approachable and would play pickup with anyone regardless of skill level.

Pretty friendly guy on the surface. Just goes to show you never know what people really have going on.

 

[UnCytely]

Royce White WAS a MAA. But he was a senior transfer, so it likely doesn't "count", when we are usually talking about MAAs who commit as freshmen.

There was a guy, I forget his name. He was a MAA, but ended up going to Indian Hills junior college. He committed to ISU as a JuCo transfer, and was going to come on the one condition that Fizer comes back for his senior year. He was a really good true-center, and one can only imagine how good we would have been had he come here and Fizer returned as a senior. We would have given Duke a run for their money, and that was the Duke team that had Carlos Boozer. Alas, Fizer went pro, and so did he.

 

[CyCrazy]

Royce White WAS a MAA. But he was a senior transfer, so it likely doesn't "count", when we are usually talking about MAAs who commit as freshmen.

There was a guy, I forget his name. He was a MAA, but ended up going to Indian Hills junior college. He committed to ISU as a JuCo transfer, and was going to come on the one condition that Fizer comes back for his senior year. He was a really good true-center, and one can only imagine how good we would have been had he come here and Fizer returned as a senior. We would have given Duke a run for their money, and that was the Duke team that had Carlos Boozer. Alas, Fizer went pro, and so did he.

Good thing is we got the younger Boozer.

 

[CycloneErik]

Royce White WAS a MAA. But he was a senior transfer, so it likely doesn't "count", when we are usually talking about MAAs who commit as freshmen.

There was a guy, I forget his name. He was a MAA, but ended up going to Indian Hills junior college. He committed to ISU as a JuCo transfer, and was going to come on the one condition that Fizer comes back for his senior year. He was a really good true-center, and one can only imagine how good we would have been had he come here and Fizer returned as a senior. We would have given Duke a run for their money, and that was the Duke team that had Carlos Boozer. Alas, Fizer went pro, and so did he.

That's Ernest Brown, I think.

 

[Cyforce]

Royce White WAS a MAA. But he was a senior transfer, so it likely doesn't "count", when we are usually talking about MAAs who commit as freshmen.

There was a guy, I forget his name. He was a MAA, but ended up going to Indian Hills junior college. He committed to ISU as a JuCo transfer, and was going to come on the one condition that Fizer comes back for his senior year. He was a really good true-center, and one can only imagine how good we would have been had he come here and Fizer returned as a senior. We would have given Duke a run for their money, and that was the Duke team that had Carlos Boozer. Alas, Fizer went pro, and so did he.

If you start with RW a senior transfer there's really no reason to read anything else you wrote.

 

[CycloneVet]

brackins was not a mcdonalds all american. jerome harper was the 3rd but he never played

And he killed a guy I believe. I’m sure the penal team was good

 

[UnCytely]

That's Ernest Brown, I think.

Bingo.