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Why? Him leaving, playing at Indiana State has lead to him being signed by Green Bay practice squad, then activated to the roster, and now seeing time on the field as a receiver for Aaron Rodgers. Things happen for a reason.
What are you saying? Great athlete, great attitude, great special teams player, but we wouldn't give him a WR opportunity or even a scholarship. So he left. It makes us look like idiots.
Agree that it wasn't exactly like Willies or countless others, but in many ways it was even more horrendous. We can say he didn't get a WR opportunity because of others, but let's remember that the WR room was extremely weak during most of his time at Iowa.Were the staff at Iowa Western where he was a backup seldom used WR before walking on at Iowa also “idiots”? Good for DD but I don’t understand how him transferring, packing on another 20-30 pounds to play fullback at Indiana State then making an NFL roster as a TE makes “us” look like idiots. Are you saying this is proof he should have seen the field at WR during his time at Iowa? Sure, I wish he would have stayed at Iowa and continue to do what he did, go from a 200 pound WR to a 245 FB. Congrats to him.
Agree that it wasn't exactly like Willies or countless others, but in many ways it was even more horrendous. We can say he didn't get a WR opportunity because of others, but let's remember that the WR room was extremely weak during most of his time at Iowa.
But the additional travesty is that while being a walk-on for several years, he was an outstanding special teams player and teammate. And then, for his last year, as a reward for his dedication and success, we flat refused to give him a scholarship. So he left. He was treated pathetically and stupidly.
Agree that it wasn't exactly like Willies or countless others, but in many ways it was even more horrendous. We can say he didn't get a WR opportunity because of others, but let's remember that the WR room was extremely weak during most of his time at Iowa.
But the additional travesty is that while being a walk-on for several years, he was an outstanding special teams player and teammate. And then, for his last year, as a reward for his dedication and success, we flat refused to give him a scholarship. So he left. He was treated pathetically and stupidly.
Or he wasn’t good enough to see the field at the time, but he didn’t let that discourage him, and he kept working until he earned himself a spot with the right team.What are you saying? Great athlete, great attitude, great special teams player, but we wouldn't give him a WR opportunity or even a scholarship. So he left. It makes us look like idiots.
He left to become a fullback at Indiana state to see the field. Maybe Iowa told him to do certain things and he didn’t, a la Derby. Played there for two years then didn’t get drafted. Signed and released by Indianapolis then Green Bay signed him fall, 2020 to their practice team. Got activated late in the season as a tight end and saw action the last two games. Iowa has 85 scholarships to hand out to players at certain positions. He wasn’t in the mix for one of those. But continue to say Iowa is the stupid idiot for not giving him one. I’ll reserve my judgment for who the idiot is.What are you saying? Great athlete, great attitude, great special teams player, but we wouldn't give him a WR opportunity or even a scholarship. So he left. It makes us look like idiots.
I'm the nfl today.
Yet from another post, he didn't "make it" elsewhere as a WR (fullback at IndSt and TE tryout for Colts). I guess I'd back off a bit, you're not making your pointAgree that it wasn't exactly like Willies or countless others, but in many ways it was even more horrendous. We can say he didn't get a WR opportunity because of others, but let's remember that the WR room was extremely weak during most of his time at Iowa.
But the additional travesty is that while being a walk-on for several years, he was an outstanding special teams player and teammate. And then, for his last year, as a reward for his dedication and success, we flat refused to give him a scholarship. So he left. He was treated pathetically and stupidly.
What a road for Dafney. Recruited as WR at Iowa, only impact was special teams.
Transferred to Indiana State, became all-MVFC at Fullback.
Gets into camp with the Colts at TE, then makes the Packers practice squad in October, catches a TD pass from HOFer Aaron Rodgers in January.
Congrats to Dominique! He earned it.
He left to become a fullback at Indiana state to see the field. Maybe Iowa told him to do certain things and he didn’t, a la Derby. Played there for two years then didn’t get drafted. Signed and released by Indianapolis then Green Bay signed him fall, 2020 to their practice team. Got activated late in the season as a tight end and saw action the last two games. Iowa has 85 scholarships to hand out to players at certain positions. He wasn’t in the mix for one of those. But continue to say Iowa is the stupid idiot for not giving him one. I’ll reserve my judgment for who the idiot is.
Agree that it wasn't exactly like Willies or countless others, but in many ways it was even more horrendous. We can say he didn't get a WR opportunity because of others, but let's remember that the WR room was extremely weak during most of his time at Iowa.
But the additional travesty is that while being a walk-on for several years, he was an outstanding special teams player and teammate. And then, for his last year, as a reward for his dedication and success, we flat refused to give him a scholarship. So he left. He was treated pathetically and stupidly.
Drake Kulick never got a scholarship.No, he apparently wasn't in the mix for one of those. And that's my point. Why not ? He had proven himself at Iowa as a "player" and a high level contributor. If WR wasn't the right position, why was he not switched as 2 other teams have done?
The 85 limit can't used as an excuse to not do the right thing, both for the kid and the program. Good roster management finds a way. I challenge you to name even one walk-on player during the KF regime
who had contributed as much prior to his last year but wasn't given even a 1 year scholarship.
Regarding scholarship players in general, there hasn't been a roster, including the current one, where 6-8
awards could have been pre-identified as poor choices. In fact the year Dafney left, there were 2 fifth- year scholarship players who weren't good enough to get on the field in their final game.
Reminded me of Tarpinian against Michigan.Dafney knocking the Bears KR on his butt looks like something I've seen at Kinnick.
What a road for Dafney. Recruited as WR at Iowa, only impact was special teams.
Transferred to Indiana State, became all-MVFC at Fullback.
Gets into camp with the Colts at TE, then makes the Packers practice squad in October, catches a TD pass from HOFer Aaron Rodgers in January.
Congrats to Dominique! He earned it.
And MUCH bigger than he was while at Iowa. Pretty amazing how he has transformed his body. It's not very often that you see a WR get that much bigger and convert to TE -- and excel in the NFL. I actually didn't believe it was him at first because he was so huge. Wondered if it might have been someone else by the same last name. Then saw his face and it was obviously him. But dude's body doesn't even resemble the way he looked as a WR. Impressive transformation, and it allowed him to find a roster spot. Good for him.I went to UNI game when they played Indy State and DD was running the wild cat offense when Indy State got into that formation. He is a big dude.
I would never say you look like an idiot!What are you saying? Great athlete, great attitude, great special teams player, but we wouldn't give him a WR opportunity or even a scholarship. So he left. It makes us look like idiots.
Or he wasn’t good enough to see the field at the time, but he didn’t let that discourage him, and he kept working until he earned himself a spot with the right team.
Add in some guys are late bloomers, grow up, and fill out at a different time line than other players that come in and are already developed to the max.I’m not a football player anymore (was mediocre in HS), but across life in general, some of my most valuable life lessons have come from events that didn’t work out the way I wanted them to. In some cases, I didn’t work hard enough or wasn’t good enough for what it was I wanted. In other cases, I had to respond to feedback from others, even if I disagreed.
A personal example - my oldest got cut from his HS JV baseball team freshman year. He was really disappointed, but he used the sting of rejection + the free time by not being on the team in-season to hit the weight room and continue to throw and he added 45 pounds in a year and 10 mph to his fastball. He then made it as a sophomore - not because they were idiots and treated him poorly as a freshman, but because he made himself better.
This is what’s lost when I hear complaints about players who were great, but didn’t play as early as some people would have preferred. I’m sure if you got with coaches over a beer, they’d point back to some mistakes, but the successful guys you see are not always the same guys they were a year prior when they were smaller, lighter, less experienced. Sometimes you put a guy in at the right time.
Basically what I am seeing is Aaron Rodger is throwing to....
.... And these players combined for 4 TD's against the Bears
- An UDFA player who was a WR turned FB turned TE from the Missouri Valley
- Another UDFA TE from the Missouri Valley
- And yet another UDFA WR from a crappy school who don't even know their school colors