Just talked to Peterson's wrestling coach (who also coached Peterson's dad in HS) and he said that Peterson turned down the offer right away as Iowa doesn't have an ag program he's interested in. He's leaving right after the meet tonite to go to Iowa St. but he's not real thrilled about Iowa St. waiting till a couple days ago to offer considering he went to some of their camps and his dad played for them. Coach said that Illinois is his fav right now as they were the first to offer him, they have a good ag program, and they've been showing the most interest (they even sent a Butkus over to watch him wrestle in Muscatine this week). His dad liked Lovey as well.
Peterson turns down Iowa offer
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Best of luck to him. Can't go wrong with the other UI or ISU if his priority is getting an ag education.
Anyone living outside our cozy little world will wonder how... Iowa lost a recruit because they don’t have farm school? Thought they were farm school.
I always appreciate the recruits who are looking at their future career ambitions as much or more than their football aspirations.
Good luck my man!!
Good luck my man!!
Yea, I'm sure that would shock a lot of people on the national recruiting scene, IF this actually registered at the national level, which it won't. Good luck to the young man in making his choice based on his education. he'll have that to fall back on after four years in the purgatory that is Illini football.
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Ive always thought the best Ag Education a young lad could get was in Dad's hands-on classroom out in the field.
Can't play College Football then, but you'll learn more and it's a lot cheaper!
I think you can learn a lot more than a green thumb at a reputable ag program.Ive always thought the best Ag Education a young lad could get was in Dad's hands-on classroom out in the field.
Can't play College Football then, but you'll learn more and it's a lot cheaper!
Yep, you probably can. You can also learn about business and money. The kind of thing that tells you that you just wasted 100K on junior when he could have learned 90% of that at home working. You could make up the other 10% in a classroom with plenty of downtime between planting and harvest, assuming you don't have livestock.
I know a lot of Farmers, all great people. But in simpleton terms, it seems to me the most difficult part of being a Farmer is having the proper lineage. You don't need a Bachelor's Degree for any part of that equation.
Agree. If you want to be an operator there is no reason to go to College. Agricultural degrees will get you jobs with large companies like ADM, Cargill, DeKalb etc. These people aren't farming. Most are developing products or selling them.
I know a lot of farmers too. Many are sharp as knives and very good and conscientious about what they do.
However, I know a good many who do a poor job working the land they farm on ... terrible mismanagement of water resources, inadequate terracing, terrible erosion, and their use of pesticides, fungicides, and other chemicals can deleteriously impact the local water supply.
Don't get me started on large-scale pig farmers and the terrible things that can result from the pig slurry ... the Des Moines River can be a case study in what high nitrate levels and "bad bacteria" can do to the water supply.
I grew up spending a lot of time on farms and I still hunt on a friend's family farm around Bloomfield every December. If "mom and dad" are among the good farmers ... then I wholeheartedly agree that a lot of great things can be learned in that hands-on environment. However, there are simply so many bad practices out there too ... that there's still plenty of opportunity to implement new strategies that can be learned from local ag-programs.
I feel bad with how farmers can have their hands tied by big agribusiness too. It really can negatively impact a farmer's ability to work efficiently.
Sounds like he was pretty far down our list of wants and we were far down his. I am purely guessing here but I would guess the offer was made more out of respect/relationship with the coach than a real goal of getting him in black and gold.
In simpler terms an Ag degree doesn’t necessarily train you to be a farmer. There are also other lucrative jobs. See Soybeans post above
Correct. Too many people equate agriculture with being a hands in the dirt row crop grower. Its so much more than that.
If by lineage, you mean ability to inherit land, then I agree. I would think most jobs in ag are not farm jobs but jobs supporting the industry. I would much rather have one of those jobs if my net worth was comparable to that of a land-rich fellow.
Also provides opportunities for jobs in university research if that's an interest. There are a lot of applications for an ag education, including bioengineering.
Campbell is no different than all the past saviors at Isu. Iowa still has a better program, better facilities, more money and recruiting to show for it.
The more things change to more they stay the same.
Offers aren't made for favors or just for show. If they are offering him a week before signing day, they would accept it he committed.
Well, his salary went way up, but his buyout went way down.
My guess is that he has a handful of jobs he would leave for. If he is there in five years, that likely means things will not have gone as well as many are projecting. Of course, I could be wrong.
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