This won't sit well with a lot of posters here, but I think one reason for that is the relative success of the two programs in recent years. The cynic in me always has believed that if you're going to have a mediocre team, it better have in-state kids on it. If a team is winning, the home states of the major contributors isn't as important.
Another way to look at it -- only slightly less cynical -- is that people who are looking for reasons to be unhappy with a program and/or coach that isn't winning "enough," and not recruiting decent in-state kids is a good one.
Interesting thoughts. My personal opinion is it is a false argument to say that anyone has ever complained that McCaffery doesn't take enough Iowa players. And the record proves it, imo. You know who Iowa recruited as well as I so I don't have to remind about the two years we took no Iowa kid on scholarship.
But something like 1 1/2 years ago McCaffery had two instate players commit at nearly the same time, Bohannon and Kriener. And that started the complaining about signing instate players.
That argument has been walked back some recently thanks to Bohannon's success and Kriener's potential. I haven't mentioned Pemsl as he committed early. But there were plenty of posts about how we needed to dump him due to his career ending injuries.
As to the argument that Iowa takes too many? LOL, yeah I'd take a Jok again. I'm glad Uthoff returned to Iowa. And I'm looking forward to the future with our young guys. What's left? Woody? People that know basketball a little know how valuable he was. Not many guys left and most holdovers from the previous coaches recruiting.
As to what Iowa State does. We've already seen an interest in Iowa high school kids from your current coach. Your previous coach had other ideas on where to locate players. Hey, it's personal preference. I do enjoy thinking about how we've got guys from Dubuque, Marion, Bettendorf, Spirit Lake...and more coming. I think it is pretty neat but can separate that pleasure from winning, which I don't care where the guys come from if they can win games and be good students.
So to conclude, I offer a different take. This board has predominantly three types of posters.
Iowa fans. Homers if you want to call us that. Kool-Aid drinkers, black and gold glasses wearers, optimists, whatever the current term. Usually posters who end up being questioned about their IQ or ability to see things with less than clouded vision. Oddly enough, posters who have ended up correct about what results were coming ab out nine times out of ten.
Complainers. And yes, they have a right to be critical as do all of us. But one would think that after awhile being constantly wrong would get tiring.
Iowa State fans. Amazingly they prowl the board and seem to believe this is the Iowa vs Iowa State board. And they've done a great job if their idea was to alienate fans who would see Iowa State as an alternative to root for when not playing the Hawkeyes. They've po'd posters like me, permanently. I'd pay Iowa Taxes, and I live out of state, to help finance a paving of the Iowa State Campus to turn it into a landfill. Understand, even if a Hawkeye fans FEELS like mentioning Iowa State such as the OP did in this thread, I no longer believe that even qualifies as an invite for the Mustard and Ketchup loving types to reply. No longer, Lone Clone, even you.
I guess the board is lucky, or not, if I had all the money to burn that I needed I'd make Kakert a rich man and buy this thing. I'd have full time agents moderating the board and if they sniffed a State fan the order would be to launch the hackers onto the them and destroy their lives!
But, I'm getting ahead of myself...I mean, I'm just kind of enjoying a little pipe dream (comments about what is in the pipe accepted).
Down with State. Go Hawkeyes. And keep getting the talented instate players no matter the complainers who's record of being correct is about 10% of the time.
