Rugamba makes it official - he's transferring
- Thread starter Blair Sanderson
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I'm hopeful that this means good things for the Iowa secondary. Ragumba showed a lot of promise.
If this transfer is happening because he wants more playing time than he thinks he'll be getting, then we can reasonably conclude that the young guys are looking good.
Best of luck to Manny wherever he ends up.
If this transfer is happening because he wants more playing time than he thinks he'll be getting, then we can reasonably conclude that the young guys are looking good.
Best of luck to Manny wherever he ends up.
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Sounds like a wise decision that should benefit Manny as well as the Hawkeye team he leaves behind by opening another scholarship. Best of luck to everyone.
One to Sargent, which is why I mentioned him. Not sure on the other.
There might still be one more scholarship that opens up between now and August.
I don't see it, but no one knows at this point. Iowa has Hooker, Snyder, Gervase and Stone at safety. It's a good position to be in. Snyder is coming off two ACL injuries. I know he's a full go at this point, but I don't know how anyone can write down 12 starts 100% certain for him this year. I like Stone's abilities playing the ball, but think Iowa has a lot of good options at corner. Hankins, Ojemudia, Creamer, and the freshmen coming in this year give Iowa a lot of good athletes at corner. Stone is in position to reasonable be a 2-year starter at safety, Gervase and Snyder are seniors. If Hooker had a huge year, he could be NFL bound. But that is a big if.
Stone is a safety all the way. We have OJ and Hankins as guys who have quality experience ... and we have a whole plethora of guys who could emerge (Creamer, Johnson, Roberts, or Brents). Experienced depth may end up being an issue at CB ... however, I don't anticipate that talent will be an issue.
Besides, I anticipate that Phil will likely lean heavily upon or safeties when using sub-packages.
Boswell wasn't on my list either. We'll have to see how those guys develop. Creamer has allegedly been "on the rise" ... Roberts was a protege of Jovon Johnson ... and Johnson and Brents were pretty highly sought-after guys from the Indianapolis area. I've heard that Turner has talent ... but that he's pretty raw. As for Boswell, I don't know yet what to make about him. He's supposed to have some legit speed - and he's gotten his name of the depth chart a few times ... but I haven't heard much else about him.
Cedric Boswell is no longer on the team officially left in early June.
Other than the gifted INT that fell into his hands against Michigan, what did he really do?
That's such a sh!tty thing to say...
Total misrepresentation of that play. He showed great effort in ripping the ball away from the receiver; hardly a gift. He also had a couple very physical PBUs in that game.
The Purdue game last year convinced me that Manny was not the future at CB.
They both were abused that game. I like Hankins and whichever young player steps up.
How quick you guys forget as a true freshman manny beat out a future all American..
Too bad Manny did put things together and make use of his potential. I hope OJ does because he could. Not sure he has the mentality or drive for it right now. I know some of the newcomers are ready to push for time.
Manny had some potential. If you don’t want to compete for your job, leave. You need to compete, fight for your spot every day. If you can’t do that you’re at the wrong school
Josh Jackson played well in spot duty as a sophomore and blossomed into an All-American as a junior. Manny played very little the last few games of the year and I believe he saw the roster did not look good for his playing time. I wish him well wherever he winds up, but I don't think his leaving makes much difference in Iowa's prospects the next two years.
I've seen both Morehouse and Dochterman tweet about this today. I think Phil's comment about Manny was in regards to last season and they are taking it out of context. This is what he actually said........
Q. Seemed like Manny had a pretty up-and-down year last year. Do you agree with that, and how has he kind of responded this spring?
PHIL PARKER: I think it’s a challenge as a true freshman to come in and play against Michigan and having a great year, and a lot of people patting you on the back, and I think maybe he might have lost his focus a little bit, not as detailed, maybe not as much of a time commitment. I’m not really sure. But you’re right, up and down a little bit. But I thought for this spring, at times I think he’s been really good, and he’s working his tail off.
His job is to go ahead and prove that he’s a starter, and obviously he’s a starter at nickel, but he wants to be a starter in regular base defense.
Thanks ... I was out of the country then ... I must have missed it. Good to know ... I figured that he would have been the next guy to go (in some senses, it's good to know that I was right).
What that tells me is that he was #3 during the spring. It also tells me that Phil was speculating about why Manny had a bit of a dip in performance in '17 .... inferences that we could probably make are that:
- Phil probably guessed that Manny may not have spent as much time prepping as he should have. That links to the time-commitment comment.
- Phil probably also guessed that Manny may not have been as detail oriented as he should have been when working and prepping ... consequently, he didn't make the improvements he should have.
- Lastly, Phil probably attributed the above issues to Manny being a little immature and getting caught up with all the hype that surrounded the successes of his true freshman campaign. Sometimes players get a little bit of an entitled vibe and think that they can own the starting spot solely based on their past achievements. This is exactly what happened with Jerminic Smith going from the '15 season to the '16 season.
If Manny was moving up the ladder and making a better push for the #2 CB spot ... then he'd probably have remained on the squad. However, given his departure ... my guess is that he was still probably, at best, a #3 ... and he was probably catching himself looking over his shoulder at all the young guys who just entered the program.
Given how Phil seemed to be recruiting CBs over the past 2 years ... it suggests to me that he was probably expecting some of the attrition we ended up seeing.
It appears that the difference was Jackson’s unmatched work ethic and time commitment. Even now I’m Green Bay, I’ve seen a couple things discussing his dedication to film and constant improvement.
Seems like a classic case of hard work beating talent when talent doesn’t work hard and a microcosm of what the Iowa program is all about and strives to be.
Agree, if we have multiple injuries at CB or LB'er the Hawks are in for a long season.
