It has definitely been an exciting 72 hours. After going 9 months without commits, we got 7 guys in a matter of 3 days.
My hat's off to Seth Wallace, for taking the bull by the horns on recruiting. Of the 9 commits we got since three coaches were fired and Brian Ferentz was promoted, Wallace was the lead recruiter on 5 of them and Phil Parker was the lead recruiter on another 2.
Granted, many of these last minute guys were 2** fallback type recruits, we were striking out right and left all fall, and Wallace scrambled to make the best of a bad situation. The question is, what was the rest of our coaching staff doing in the last few weeks? Brian? Woods? Morgan picked up the only other late in-state offer we sent out (Wieland), but I could have been lead recruiter on him and he would have committed to Iowa.
We turned over a lot of our coaching staff this winter...but I have to ask if Woods is pulling his weight? On the recruiting end, he's not getting it done. He is credited for landing just 1 of our 22 commits this year. From a coaching standpoint, he wasn't getting it done as LB coach once Jim Reid left (Woods was a "co-LB coach"), so was unceremoniously switched to TE coach last year. Even with having zero WRs and a QB who wouldn't throw the ball more than 5 yards, our TEs had one of the worst years at the U of Iowa in quite some time.
If our RBs/Special teams coach is gonna get the axe despite being one of our best recruiters and coaching some of our best units, how are Woods and Brian getting free passes?
