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On this day, 5 years ago (8/9/11), 4 star/89th ranked Gessell commits to the Hawks

I remember making a bet with a guy at work that Meyer would see more minutes than Woody during their freshman season... thank God, Meyer redshirted and the bet was off!
 
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Meyer wound up at Houston and played quite a bit with them last season. Didn't put up great numbers, but I believe he has another season.
 
Ronman said:
Meyer wound up at Houston and played quite a bit with them last season. Didn't put up great numbers, but I believe he has another season.
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Watched him play for Houston a few times last year he sees quite a bit of action but they never look for him maybe this year his teammates will actually pass him the ball
 
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Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem that long ago that some high school freshman from Mason City gave his verbal to the Hawkeyes. Time flies.
 
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It's certainly great to have a standard to which to hold our new guys up to. :) 89 wins in four years, second in the NIT followed by three NCAA invites? Would we have signed on for that on 8/10/2012? I would have.

But I do feel the next four years could be better. Thanks in no small part for the guys that came before and built this program up.
 
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EastIowaHawk said:
Great Hawkeye. I don't see any of our new guys (guards) being as good as Mike was-- at least not right away. Mike had HEART, and we'll have to wait to see who among the newbies can equal that. Thanks for the memories, Mike.
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I like our chances of scoring in the final 30 seconds of either half better this year. How many times did we watch the same replay last year?
 
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Franisdaman said:
8/9/2011: 4 Star Mike Gessell (6-2 PG; Rivals 89th best prospect in USA) joins 3 Star Kyle Meyer (6-9 center); soon IOWA would land the local kid (4 Star, 7-0 Center Adam Woodbury, Sioux City, Iowa, Rivals 50th best prospect in USA).

Wow, does time fly!

From ESPN, five years ago:

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...s/story/_/id/6844014/mike-gesell-commits-iowa
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Mike was a great Hawk, an outstanding player, and a fantastic ambassador for our program. His commitment and that of Woody were huge in turning our program around.
 
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That was a great day. Mike was a great Hawkeye and even better person.

His ability to give a genuine and gracious interview after a heartbreaking loss was admirable. He took losing better than most on this site despite being 20, 21 years old and it meaning 100X more to him than anyone on this site.

A lot of the nonsense criticism of Mike of here over the years was out of line and just plain mean spirited and wrong.
 
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Ronman said:
You mean like the day you claimed you knew anything about college basketball?
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You know what I'm talking about, Ronman. You have read the literally hundreds of posts especially over the past two years. Don't act stupid.
 
EZ2BJZ said:
Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem that long ago that some high school freshman from Mason City gave his verbal to the Hawkeyes. Time flies.
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If you are talking about who I think you are talking about (a smooth lefty shooter who could drop dimes with the best of them), we were at Iowa at the same time and I got to watch him grow and mature into one of the best point guards to ever put on an Iowa uniform. Of the two big name signings that year I am glad he stayed and Davis left.
 
Hawk40forever said:
If you are talking about who I think you are talking about (a smooth lefty shooter who could drop dimes with the best of them), we were at Iowa at the same time and I got to watch him grow and mature into one of the best point guards to ever put on an Iowa uniform. Of the two big name signings that year I am glad he stayed and Davis left.
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I was speaking about Jeff Horner. Dean Oliver committed as a sophomore if I recall correctly, but yes, I loved Dean-O.
 
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