Agree, he was the top RB recruit in the country out of Waterloo East. ISU beat out the likes of Alabama to sign him. I think Jerry would have been one of the first black players at Bama if he went there.
Your pick for the best Player that never was
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Agree, he was the top RB recruit in the country out of Waterloo East. ISU beat out the likes of Alabama to sign him. I think Jerry would have been one of the first black players at Bama if he went there.
tyease thompson
greg coleman
if i recall, these two along with jason scales all played as true freshman. tt went to jail and coleman transferred.
safety anthony forest. looked pretty good in his early career, then ruled academically for the boise bowl (i think). never saw him after that. i think he was a sophomore. he was the guy who tried to kick the ball out of the back of the endzone against OU when they killed ISU in 02. not his best work, but other than that he was solid.
colins eboh. played as a true freshman at de? then disappeared.
david irving. he was going to be a beast this year. was.
greg coleman
if i recall, these two along with jason scales all played as true freshman. tt went to jail and coleman transferred.
safety anthony forest. looked pretty good in his early career, then ruled academically for the boise bowl (i think). never saw him after that. i think he was a sophomore. he was the guy who tried to kick the ball out of the back of the endzone against OU when they killed ISU in 02. not his best work, but other than that he was solid.
colins eboh. played as a true freshman at de? then disappeared.
david irving. he was going to be a beast this year. was.
Chris Brown was a safety(?) that was in on breaking Petersens collar bone. JJ bass would have seen the field a lot more, but had some problems in the locker room which had in an eternal dog house.
Scales had multiple knee injuries that probably put the hammer on his career. Although at the college level I don"t remember him having much in the speed department.
Injuries. Really weird ones too. Caught his foot in a hole on the practice field on year and lost a year with foot/ankle issues. Knee injuries his last two years. Freshman were ineligible at the time, so he only had three years to play.
I don't think you can understate how huge of a recruit he was. Waterloo East had the national record for consecutive games won. Bear Bryant was in Waterloo trying to recruit a black athlete to the South. He was one of, if not the, first black recruits for Alabama. Johnny Majors said that Moses was better than Tony Dorsett who he coached at Pitt. He still is, arguably, the best recruit the state ever had.
57 carries, 256 yds, no TDs is all he had.
I'm sure that someone else will be able to confirm this with more knowledge, but I found this snippet in the Waterloo paper about them both being honored at the high school. http://wcfcourier.com/sports/high-s...cle_409515a9-b713-56b9-9793-87cc36d59af6.html
If Jerry Moses is JJ's dad (which would make sense Jerry Junior = JJ), then Jerry gets a pass - because he spawned JJ. That makes up for a lot.
Who is the reason I've heard of Crohn's Disease; tough luck that he found out he had that while at Iowa State.
My answer to this question is a bit different: Hiawatha Rutland. He was the starter on the heels of the Davis brothers and Ennis Haywood, so I just assumed that he would be just as good. Nicht... Nicht.
