Looks like Dante Eldridge is walking on at Iowa. Played last 2 years at Kirkwood; 5'9 guard.
Dante Eldridge
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Looks like Dante Eldridge is walking on at Iowa. Played last 2 years at Kirkwood; 5'9 guard.
He is the son of our new assistant coach, Courtney Eldridge.
It's a good pickup. At the very least Hawks need guys like Eldridge and Nimmers on the scout team to emulate some level of quickness. If one of them happens to earn a scholarship it's gravy.
Welcome aboard Dante
Welcome aboard Dante
He’s a walk-on
nepotism U at its finest, but Fran controls the PT and his boys come first
What area you talking about. Allowing the son of a coach to walk on to the team is nepotism? He certainly looks a lot better than Little Lick who got substantial minutes for the Hawks.
Looks like a waterbug on offense and a pest on D.
Substantial minutes? How many a game? How many in his Iowa career? I could care less but the fact of the matter was we didn't have a pg. Lickliter was bad and his kid had no place being on the team even as a walkon but to make it worse than it was is unnecessary.
Glad to have you back in IC and a member of the team Dante!
I really hope you are being sarcastic.
Nepotism -- The act of using your power or influence to get good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family.
What unfair advantage does he gain? Scholarship - no? Paying tuition - no? The opportunity to compete the same as any other walk-on -- no? Being held to same academic guidelines as every other athlete at Iowa -- no?
Like literally anybody can be a walk on. A coach can choose to limit the number of walk-ons or have try outs for walk-ons to ensure they can compete and won't be wasting everyone's time in practice but walk-ons are only promised an opportunity to compete. Nothing else.
The kid probably just wants to play with his dad and against higher level competition as I'm sure dozens of other coaches kids want to do.
Seriously the idea that this is nepotism is the dumbest thing ever
He’s not. He’s dumb, bordering on….you know.
Yes, and you can throw Izzo on the nepotism hit list as well. What a crock this whole notion of favoritism is. I have seen and heard Fran chew out his own sons for bad plays about as bad as anyone could be. He doesn't pull any punches for his boys and if anything is harder on them than the other players.
And 40% from the field is better than 34%, as shot by a scholarship player who won’t be mentioned.
A walk-on is a walk-on. If he can help on the scout team, great.
He'll be helpful at least. Hopefully will get the main contributors good run in practice.
That’s all you can ask for. The kid looks super quick, so I imagine he’ll push our guards to be better. Absolutely.
Well now we know why they hired Courtney as an assistant. Was this one of those NIL package deals?
I didn't notice any drives into a traffic jam of defenders or him sliding after a sudden stop. Hmmm...
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The depth we are building with walk on's helps a ton keeping practices competitive, especially with the added athletiicism of these guys. They have some upside too that normal walk ons wouldn't have. These trolls yelling nepotism don't understand. Maybe Fran's boys get a bit of a break in PT, but it's not a ton more than they deserve with a neutral coach, and I don't have any issue with it.
Just think about the top rotation practicing against a lineup of guys like Mulvey, Josh O, LL, Kingsbury, Eldridge, and Nimmers….and how much that helps both sides of the equation. That lineup will at times include guys like Dix, Payton, Bowen and more….very very healthy for the program.
That honestly made me laugh. The Iowa way... we will steal your walkon by hiring his dad!
For the record, no problem with this pickup. Looks to be a guy to give our guards fits in practice. What we need.
He will make our free ride guards look foolish in practice at times. The kind of player you hate to play against.
Thank you for this info. More minutes than I remember, should have been less but he was all we had.
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