*****Offical 2022 Recruiting Thread*****
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He decommitted from Yale to pursue track in college instead of football.
From what I have seen lately, looks like Laughery might be leaning Illinois.
Maybe Iowa can pull off a miracle and land a couple studs in Nwankpa and Hinzman.
Maybe Iowa can pull off a miracle and land a couple studs in Nwankpa and Hinzman.
I say this without knowing a ton about his prowess in other sports, but is Smith a great athlete, or just really fast?
I live in Ankeny, so I’m pretty in tune with the athletes in Central Iowa. It seems every time I’d see a highlight, it was just him out running everybody.
I am open to being educated. Just going by what I remember.
He’s a very good athlete. I watched him play multiple times last year. He obviously has great speed, but he’s agile, has a great first step, and his awareness is very good. I think the issue with Iowa not taking him was his size.
I probably get too excited after watching anyone's highlight clips however sign this kid up on the football field! Not a plodding TE prospect by any means, lines up all over field, high points ball, pretty good wheels, willing blocker and played defense (LB, CB, S) and covered kickoffs as well. Maybe a Krieger-Coble type TE?
That's right, I remember he really, really wanted an Iowa offer but we never pulled trigger. Size question? Was he also the sprinter?
I’ll go with your assessment.
My only exposure were highlights of some long runs, and about half of the Ankeny v Waukee last year, where I didn’t notice him, but Ankeny did that to a lot of good players last year.
There are some outliers yes, but, your edit is far from true.
Ahhh the “Stars don’t matter” crowd.. I love it.
That remains to be seen. 247 has Laughery CB'd to Iowa and that includes one of their main guys, Allen Trieu.
On top of this, there's a long way to go before signing day.
Remember when Harrison Barnes literally had the ISU band at Ames High to commit live to Roy Williams and UNC?
Good times.
Yea that really doesn't seem like sound reasoning. Of course a kid is going to announce his decision in the area where he lives. He's not going to drive out of state to hold his announcement.
Which was hilarious
Just received an offer. 4 star from Florida. Maybe has a connection to Betts?
Patterson also plans to take an OV to Iowa. Sounds like we’re in this fight.
HIC I think we all hope we have some chance. BTW just got back to town yesterday and had dinner last night with a group of Clones in Ankeny with the kids who are on CF (always fun) but they said they read I put a “hit” on Twins so I went and looked it up and I guess you did too. I know he said it before which is laughable but brought it up again. WTF is that? I called today my personal lawyer. Anyway, on what counts, let’s get some recruits.
Let’s not talk about it. Also, I pay no mind to it. He’s blown it out of proportion, so I wouldn’t pay attention to it. Let’s keep talk of Twins and CF out of this.
Oh fair enough I just was wondering if something happened that I missed. Everybody I was with said I must be from The Godfather or Goodfellas putting hits out. They obviously just mocked him as a loser but making sure.
It’s fine. I don’t want to talk about Twins. Let’s talk about recruiting.
Totally agree. Just wondering if I missed something since on and off the grid the last couple weeks and was at dinner with some CF people who are friends and clients. Trust me, it was and he is a joke I just wanted to make sure I didn’t miss something. But when I walked in with my kids and a buddy asked “are you carrying?” I was like WTF. All good. Actually good laughs. Anyway, who is on the board now?
This RB they just offered makes it appear that Iowa has a shot. Any target that wants to take an OV definitely has interest in you.
30 offers. Wow! Getting an official visit would be an accomplishment.
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