Cyclones Take Down Hawkeyes, 72-60 - Iowa State University Athletics
AMES, Iowa (AP) -- Curtis Stinson scored 20 points, Rahshon Clark added 17 and Jiri Hubalek finished with 13 points and eight rebounds to lead Iowa State to a 72-60
Tyrese Hunter explains decision to enter transfer portal and leave Iowa State
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That Morris kid is playing well lately. He may take Hunter’s starting PG position
Their arena is outstanding, and I think it holds 22k and is sold out all the time.
Tyrese Hunter lost both parents at a young age so I will never criticize his decision. We were lucky to get a good season out of him. He committed to a coach who went on to have a 2-22 season, and it was a big win for TJ to keep his commitment.
Technically it won’t die until Tuesday is done with. It was always, and because people are fans, going to go on until he came back for the game at Hilton. After Tuesday, it needs to be done with.
If Hunter stays at UT we’ll do this a couple of more times. He’s not leaving early for the league. If he tries, it would be a terrible decision. Needs to stack that NIL money and then make a good living overseas.
I think he’s athletic enough to play PG as a back up in the league but his poor three point shooting and being so turnover prone will keep him off a roster.
They should just be starting the way they finish games with Carr and Rice in the backcourt.
Hopefully the end result is players can just say they needed/wanted more money and not feel guilty about it. They're pros now. NBA free agents don't feel a need to fib that money has zero impact on their free agent signings and neither should any of these pro athlete college free agents.
We all know what he said his supposed reasons were, but if Texas was the highest bidder I understand the decision.
I mean Prohm had silky smooth lips from constant application of chap stick whereas I don't recall ever seeing Beard apply any lip ointment.
Box score is on Iowas website. Haluska played 38 minutes. 16 points. 4 rebounds. 4/13 from the floor. 0-4 from 3. And 8-10 free throws.
I agree. People could rationalize this. Especially if you grew up with the adversity that Hunter did. It would be exactly the same thing as when kids leave college early because it’s life changing money for them and their family.
But when you lie about it - or are even cryptic about it - you immediately open the door to suspicion.
Nah. Some rando might have floated it or something, but there is currently no reason for them to even think about it, and it would take an apocalyptic change to the college sports landscape for it to even border on making sense.
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What does it really change, though? Even if he would have said, "yeah I wanted to get paid, and Iowa State didn't offer as much as Texas did" people would just call him a mercenary and be mad at him, just the same. Nothing he could have said would have changed the narrative that Cyclone fans have. At the end of the day, he was leaving for Texas, and Texas is hated for jilting the Big 12 (among other things). That's his biggest crime. And a good number of fans were going to hate him no matter what, just because of the school he was leaving for.
Everything else is just window dressing. "He lied!" "He dissed us!" "Poor character!" They're all just coping mechanisms for people who have been hurt. It's the EXACT same reaction you'd get with a romantic partner leaving for another person.
And it's not necessarily wrong to feel that way. It's natural to feel personally wounded. The attachment that fans feel towards their team, borders on familial. And so we have to be honest, there's no scenario that could have transpired where Hunter transferred to Texas, that would have been acceptable. There's no combination of magic words and phrases that would have resulted in people being okay with it. All of this, ex post facto warbling about "if only he'd just been honest about his reason for leaving" is disingenuous.
Well yeah if you’re gonna get all rational about it. Geez.
