It means we like posts that can play on the wing and away from the paint, but they are still our posts. We have not yet seen if Nadar can play wing in the Big 12, and Williams is even less of a wing. Now, playing out there as a post, he should help clear the lane for Georges to work, as Ejim did this year.
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I'm an Edozie fan and love his back story. But, I don't know how Armadi gets cut before Edozie. Especially since Armadi was a IHCC guy.
Yeah, that could be. I have no doubt Fred had a good reason to make the decision he made, I just don't know what it is. On its face, Armadi looked like the better choice of the juco bigs.
Yes. When Bluford signed all we had were true freshman (Morris, Thomas), a RS Fr (SDW), and a little used soph (Naz). That's why it wasn't a bad sign or anything; without Kane if things hadn't panned out with the youngin's it was smart to have another possibility.
That's what I'd heard; Amardi was the only one not on campus yet or something to that effect. All else being equal, I doubt the coaching staff would have picked Bluford over Amardi with Kane signing on.
CycloneErik
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He wasn't. He was cut loose for Kane, because Amardi was the only guy not yet on campus.
Amardi would have been valuable when Georges broke his foot. Of course the Bubu scholly problem would not havce occurred if someone had not waited an extra week to move on his student policy...so did he let Bubu keep his scholly because Mom agreed to this approach?:v_SPIN:
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Might as well copy/paste/fill in the blank for our recruits going forward.
Was Brackins the last top 50 recruit ISU landed? Seems like the ball has to start bouncing our way with some of these (HS) guys.
I thought he was #41 but that must have been a non final ranking.
Either way, our "lack of success" or "failure" recruiting high school kids has been greatly exaggerated.
Not specifically by Dingus but just in general.
54 vs 50 is obviously pretty much the same thing.
It's not a question of failure or anything. But I don't see how you can argue that we've been as successful in convincing highy sought after HS kids to choose ISU as we have with top transfers and JUCOs.
Royce was a former 5* being recruited by UK; McKay was a top 10 JUCO who quickly transferred here. BDJ had to have been one of the top 10 sought after transfers, as I assume Kane was. Our excellent HS players have been guys that developed to a great degree (Ejim) or were under-ranked, and therefore under recruited coming out of HS (Niang, Morris, etc.) compared to what they clearly should have been.
I have to assume it's just a small sample size issue that will disappear in the next few years, but it just seems odd to me.
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Not as successful as something extremely successful can still be really, really good.
I think a lot of it is because we whiffed on almost all of our top 2014 high profile recruits. Custer being the exception. It does seem like high school recruiting is the one "world" Fred has yet to conquer. I realize that I'm saying that while Niang and Morris are on the roster and both of them turned out to be HUGE gets.
I'm not worried, just opining because I'm bored. I think how we do with our 2015 prospects will illuminate how successful, or not successful, we are going to be with top level high school recruiting.
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Vaguely seem to remember that Edozie was already in Ames and attending school. Armadi was not.
Oh, for sure. I'm not trying to complain about the players we bring in.
Not to beat a dead horse, but I guess my quesion can be put most succinctly as:
When we are going after a top tier transfer or JUCO, how confident are you that he ends up at ISU?
Now, when we are going after a top tier HS kid, how confident are you that he ends up a Cyclone?
It's the difference between those that I find perplexing.
