While it’s true that every school can find a place for a good player, Iowa is uniquely positioned to make the pitch of not only being close to home, but also having had stretch 4s being consistently recruited and successfully utilized there. The best of these, Uthoff, had a rather similar skill set: great shooter, rebounder, shotblocker (outside in offensive player) who had great success at Iowa. Fran can also point to the fact that Uthoff has proven to be a fringe NBA player. Since Foster has all of these things plus what Uthoff lacked in his NBA bid- physicality, an obvious path can be sold that Iowa has experience in developing his kind of talent to an NBA level, and that from this perspective there’s no reason to go to any other team than the one he rooted for growing up (Iowa) for college.