These Minnesota recruits, or any of our highly touted recruits, will not be at a disadvantage if they chose to play at Iowa State over other big time programs. That wasn't always the case when we were at the bottom of the B12 and had average coaching for the most part.
Hoiball
Now we have a coach who played in the league for 10 years. Players love playing for coaches who have that experience and know what it's like to play against the best.
Not only did Freddy just play in the league, he was part of the front office and has contacts with every GM in the NBA. That's valuable especially when you're going after guys such as Rashad who is definitely a potential one and done type of talent.
Roster potential
For the guys we're recruiting who want to play for a winning team and a chance to compete in March, ISU's got all the potential in the world. Next year we will have 3 top 100 guys (MM, MT, Georges) in our starting lineup.
Georges is a winner and will be one of the best players in all of college basketball by his senior year. (Soph)
Monte is a play maker at the point and is everything you want at that position. Has all of the intangibles, a great leader, and can straight up ball too. Underrated IMO. (Frosh)
Matt Thomas is labeled the best shooter in the '13 class (besides maybe Frankamp:skeptical

but is not limited to just that part of his game. Great mid range pull up game and is just an athlete. Very solid passer, good defender, and rebounds well too. (Frosh)
These guys are obviously young and inexperienced, but so are most big time schools who are always shipping guys to the league. Keep in mind I didn't even mention SDW, Clayton, etc.
If you take Rashad Vaughn and Reid Travis and plug them into that rotation Iowa State has just as good of a chance as anyone at a championship run. So what are the negatives of coming to Ames?