When Lickliter was let go, he had a decent recruiting class coming in. Who was the post player he had recruited that ended up going somewhere else.
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For the life of me, I can't think of a good player that he recruited other than Gatens, Tate and Cole.
he recruited a 6’9” power forward…..Cody Larson
…. signed with Florida, got in trouble, then finished with South Dakota State. Kind of a head case. His sister, Tagyn Larson, signed with Iowa WBB but also transferred to SDSU after her freshman year.
I went back and looked. Aaron Fuller was a solid Lick recruit, but he transferred out. I always thought Eric May was solid too.
May, Marble, McCabe were all Lickliter recruits, but signed with Fran (I believe).
Fuller was good, but I think he was just ready to get away or a change/something new. Anthony Tucker wasn’t the worst player when he put the bottle down.
*May was a SO when Fran arrived.
Lickliter had a few good players during his 3 years at Iowa. The one's that I remember while going to the games were: Aaron Fuller, Anthony Tucker, Eric May, Jake Kelly, Matt Gatens, and Brennan Cougill, most of the rest were border garbage. Remember 2 game wonder......David Palmer? I believe if I remember right he went off coming off the bench and help beat a good Wisconsin and Indiana teams. Will at least one team wore red. Never to be seen again.
Remember Devan Bawinkel? He lit it up in a few gamesLickliter had a few good players during his 3 years at Iowa. The one's that I remember while going to the games were: Aaron Fuller, Anthony Tucker, Eric May, Jake Kelly, Matt Gatens, and Brennan Cougill, most of the rest were border garbage. Remember 2 game wonder......David Palmer? I believe if I remember right he went off coming off the bench and help beat a good Wisconsin and Indiana teams. Will at least one team wore red. Never to be seen again.
Lickliter had a few good players during his 3 years at Iowa. The one's that I remember while going to the games were: Aaron Fuller, Anthony Tucker, Eric May, Jake Kelly, Matt Gatens, and Brennan Cougill, most of the rest were border garbage. Remember 2 game wonder......David Palmer? I believe if I remember right he went off coming off the bench and help beat a good Wisconsin and Indiana teams. Will at least one team wore red. Never to be seen again.
I remember the mystery of David Palmer.
One of the biggest issues was that the best player(s) continued to transfer out year after year.
2007 -Tyler Smith (before Lick even got here. Not sure you can count that one)
2008-Tony Freeman
2009-Jake Kelly/Jeff Peterson
2010-Gatens/Cole/Fuller (all threatened to or did).
Can you blame them? Lickliter would probably be a good Iowa class A high school coach, where he could possibly start his son.
I was listening to the Hawkeye game last week, and Dolph kept saying Tony Freeman. Half the time he was trying to refer to Tony Perkins; the other half Owen Freeman.
I only listened to about 8 minutes of game time, and he must have said it at least 20 times. Bobby tried using the correct name to respectfully correct him before finally just telling him it's Tony Perkins, not Freeman.
Eric May...didn't he have monster jam capability, am I thinking of the right guy?
Cougill was terrible. Palmer was definitely a mystery. Lick definitely didn't like being asked or challenged on it either.Lickliter had a few good players during his 3 years at Iowa. The one's that I remember while going to the games were: Aaron Fuller, Anthony Tucker, Eric May, Jake Kelly, Matt Gatens, and Brennan Cougill, most of the rest were border garbage. Remember 2 game wonder......David Palmer? I believe if I remember right he went off coming off the bench and help beat a good Wisconsin and Indiana teams. Will at least one team wore red. Never to be seen again.
Cody Larson from Sioux Falls. He switched to Florida and then eventually SDSU after getting into some trouble. He and Brust de-committed. Marble and McCabe stayed with Fran. At least that's how I remember things shaking out.
Yeah he had some ups, but eventually had some back issues or some injury. He wasn’t “Thunder” Doug Thomas, but he could throw it down for a 6’5” white guy.
Made the B1G all freshman team and was a pretty good QB at Wahlert. One of those pure athletes.
Shoot thanks for the corrections. Recruited by Alford but played for Lick.
I now remember Fuller who I think played for ASU. Brust I never count because he never played.
I thought little Lick was playing in the Iowa/Nebraska game but it was actually Fred Hoiberg's son.
Ugh. My memory is fading. I'll see myself out of this one.
You are correct. At least I had Pac-12? Haha.
There is a funny article of Lickliter's time after he was fired and the 2 games Palmer had was mentioned. Apparently reporters would ask why not play Palmer more and Lick would respond "I've been over this a hundred times"
of course he didnt go over it even once
Cody Larson is the name you're looking for, I think. IIRC he went to Florida instead, and don't think he did much there.
Not sure why this is being brought up now, a decade and a half later. That incoming class wasn't going to save the program from Lickliter's ineptitude.
Also have to keep in mind that, if rumors were true, that Gatens and maybe others were threatening to leave if Lick was retained. It was a revolving door of players leaving the program under his watch. Even if that incoming class was very good, the personnel losses would have offset that.
You probably thought that because he was from Arizona.
That may have actually been it. Thanks for making me feel less crazy.
I think he transferred to Southern California.
Heard story from credible source that is true. Gatens dad went to barta and said Matt is gone if Lick comes back. Straw that broke the camels back with threat of local golden boy leaving. Guess Creighton was an option with Matt being good friends and aau teammate with grant Gibbs there. Other believe it or not was New Mexico as both gatens got along well with Alford.
For this I’ll always be forever grateful to the gatens family. As we saw over the years how spineless barta was good chance he keeps Lick another year and doesn’t want to admit his first major hire was a disaster.
That whole post-Davis to Fran is just sad. I wish timing would have been better for Iowa to either get Dana Altman or Doug McDermott. Decent chance either would still be here...
Lickliter had the nasty habit of losing exactly the one player he could least afford to lose every season. He also pissed off the HS coaches of Illinois in general. Was a lazy recruiter, but could always count on little lick for a laugh or two every game.
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Who was the .Lick player who almost froze to death, or something like that?Lickliter had a few good players during his 3 years at Iowa. The one's that I remember while going to the games were: Aaron Fuller, Anthony Tucker, Eric May, Jake Kelly, Matt Gatens, and Brennan Cougill, most of the rest were border garbage. Remember 2 game wonder......David Palmer? I believe if I remember right he went off coming off the bench and help beat a good Wisconsin and Indiana teams. Will at least one team wore red. Never to be seen again.
I was watching the Creighton game. They have a player named Miller whose dad played in the pros. For some reason, I was thinking it was Miller not Larson who Lickliter recruited
Anthony Tucker? One of his public intox charges he was found passed out/unconscious in an alley, in December.
https://www.thegazette.com/iowa-haw...hony-tucker-arrested-for-public-intoxication/
During those years, i wished the seats at CHA were recliners. Could have caught up on my sleep and not missed a thing.
Yep. I don't need to be thinking about those years. I think my brain had blacked out a lot of that. Some of those players... Man. Had totally forgotten about most of them. Almost feels like it didn't happen. Dark days indeed.
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