Cooper Dejean was the best athlete on the field yesterday for either team and you want to waste his talent waiting for Petras to find him? That would be stupid.
Cooper DeJean
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Cooper is the modern day equivalent of Nile Kinnick. He can do whatever he applies himself to in that field and be successful at a variety of positions to help his team win. I just hope they start utilizing him more in creative ways.
He might have the best ball skills on the team and that includes the offense.
The stupidest part is playing Petras.
And wasting your best athlete on defense when your offense is a complete f#$%ing joke is pretty damn stupid as well.
You never saw him play then. He was really freaking good for any level of football. Watch some tape and report back.
Odds are good the ball will be more on target to him on defense than from Petras.
Agreed. I have a coworker who’s an incessant pessimist about Iowa athletics. He’s been bitching all season about how X is going to transfer and it’s lunacy that a walk-on is starting in front of him. I’ve asked him several times if he’s actually watched Schulte play.
Well then, he played 1a at other positions as well and it translated to success at the college level. My previous comment was tongue in cheek but I would have to say he has grasped the college level play very well like many former Iowa Hawkeyes from small high schools.
QB is the most m difficult transition I will give you that. Cooper has one of the best traits when you talk to him or just observe his demeanor. He has what it takes “between the ears”.
It’s my opinion but, give him 1 year in a QB position and he would excel. Problem is now he’s valuable right now in position. We graduate too many seniors on defense after this year and he will be needed on that side of ball.
So many on here don't see that he's a generational talent. He could be our best player at 7 different positions. To think he couldn't be a much more effective QB for Iowa than what we've seen is having blinders.
A safety playing corner. Would he even start at OhioSt or Michigan or Illini with those players? Coop was a Hawk from the get-go but other choice was UNI. This is a recording of the myth of Riley Moss. Nice Iowa kid story but that's it. Reality vs myth but that is why we are homers.
No offense, but you are setting a pretty low standard of comparison.
This works vs bad teams and a drop back no big play at any cost D. Not so much vs the big boys and this is a big boy conference. But really a 5'9 not fast walk on from CR that was recruited by no one starting at saftey. Get real. If that is best you have, you better keep this watered-down schedule. The DM kid will transfer sitting behind that.
He was good running the ball. His arm was below average.
Outside of last Saturday, CD would have given the Hawks a much better chance to win then SP. I truly believe that.
Not a qb, not even close. Should double up as a receiver, would be the best one for the Hawks.
Coop is a good athlete. I don’t think he’s quite as good as the legend he’s made out to be. In time he maybe elevate his game to elite status but right now is just a solid player.
Good enough to keep a 5 star on the bench. One will be in the nfl next year and one will take over and be a star
And X needs to be starting next year.
Anyone who thinks that the offense is going to get DeJean away from Phil is crazy. Period.
CD threw and ran for over 9600 yards and had 127 TD's in 2 years in HS. 4 star by 247sports. 6'2" and 209 LBS. 2021 All American Bowl. He is a dude. You can take all of your opinions and put them in the trash. The Hawkeye staff even says "he's different". I don't care what level of football he played in HS. I've seen him 2 times in person when he was in HS and he was really damn good with the ball in his hands. He's shown that ability at the highest level of football in D1 (his interception return for a TD). I don't pass out legendary status easily, but he's a freaking talent. AND yes... I think he would be a starter at the schools mentioned previously. I think he is going to be better than Moss by a large margin when it's all said and done.
I hope that Iowa will have a few special packages for him at WR. He's so big and fast and has such great ball skills that he'd be a great weapon even as a decoy.
A different dude, legendary, generational talent as said in other post.
This brings me to identify past Hawkeyes I’ve watched in person in those terms. Guy’s who played early and at a high level only to carry on to next level.
Andre Tippit, Tim Dwight, Marshall Yanda, Tristan Wirfs. Plenty of others to consider.
You are correct!!!! I believe X will take over for Merriweather and be a shutdown corner on the short side of the field.
Do you even watch Iowa football?
Phil Parker has been developing walk-on safeties at Iowa since essentially day-one!
The end result is often NFL-caliber players.
Whether these kids were offered high-level D1 scholarships is immaterial if they ended up playing at such a high level.
Anyhow, as a counterpoint to your assertion ... Iowa's D held its own against Ohio State for much of the game. The problem is that the O put them in way too many bad situations for them to be successful.
Questioning Phil's track-record at this stage is pure lunacy.
Merriweather does not play corner. He's listed as the starting Strong Safety, though Schulte and Merriweather both have enough experience that they can flip pretty easily.
I would agree that it's likely that Nwankpa takes over for Merriweather next year. I would be shocked if X is not starting somewhere next year, either at one of the safety spots or at Cash. Not getting into a whole argument about whether he should be playing more this year.
I would like to see him get an ocassional series with the first team defense now. But I get why PP does not operate that way. X does have athletic abilities that no one else in the back end does. It takes time to grow into safety as mistakes there can result in TD's.
Having watched him in high school 4 times, I was stunned to hear you were not even looking at him at QB - or anyone else, evidently. Never doubted he would be a good defender, but he has difference maker potential as a QB.
Why are you surprised?
He's not going to get reps ahead of Moss because Moss is a team leader AND it helps build Moss's draft-stock (which continues to help our "brand").
Besides, we're already thin at DB ... and Cooper has the ability to play both CB and CASH ... pretty risky to endanger such a critical player.
He's already on the trajectory to be gone after 3 years ... so he's more than proving to be just a "good defender."
You mean the Moss who was the BIG DB of the year, and an All American last year, that Riley Moss?
Riley Moss, B1G DB of the year, All American.
Too much excitement for Iowa - Kirk hates that kinda crap.
Because he already had him do it, and he did it successfully with the crucial DB Desmond King.
The risk is not large. If that's the attitude we should have had Cooper flop down after his pic instead of running it in.
I would prefer him at QB but your suggestion also adds much more value than leaving him at db.
