The WRs that Got Away

[sober_teacher]

Did Brecht come to Iowa on a football scholarship or baseball scholarship? Football you say? Hmmm. And he took up 2 years of limited scholarship space as a WR (i.e. more than Wetjen & Drew Stevens)? It's irrelevant to whether he panned out in football that he's good at baseball. The fact remains he came to Iowa as a highly rated scholarship WR and didn't pan out. That shouldn't be difficult to understand.

He was a 3* recruit, rated 5.7 by rivals out of high school. Far from a blue chip prospect.

And per ncaa rules, as a dual sport athlete he counted against football not baseball. Same thing happened with kueter for football/wrestling.

 

[jonesy5960]

Did Brecht come to Iowa on a football scholarship or baseball scholarship? Football you say? Hmmm. And he took up 2 years of limited scholarship space as a WR (i.e. more than Wetjen & Drew Stevens)? It's irrelevant to whether he panned out in football that he's good at baseball. The fact remains he came to Iowa as a highly rated scholarship WR and didn't pan out. That shouldn't be difficult to understand.

Not highly rated now matter how much you insist otherwise. He was the 111th rated wide receiver in his class and he showed why when he couldn't track a football. He was the 14th ranked prospect in the state of Iowa for Pete's sake.

 

[hawkeyeinmo]

Did Brecht come to Iowa on a football scholarship or baseball scholarship? Football you say? Hmmm. And he took up 2 years of limited scholarship space as a WR (i.e. more than Wetjen & Drew Stevens)? It's irrelevant to whether he panned out in football that he's good at baseball. The fact remains he came to Iowa as a highly rated scholarship WR and didn't pan out. That shouldn't be difficult to understand.

Someone needs to sit you down and explain how the scholarship system works when athletes play multiple sports. You should know the answer what sport is REQUIRED to be responsible for Brecht’s scholarship. Football of course. Pretty obvious why this would be the case.

 

[IowasLaw]

Not highly rated now matter how much you insist otherwise. He was the 111th rated wide receiver in his class and he showed why when he couldn't track a football. He was the 14th ranked prospect in the state of Iowa for Pete's sake.

Wait, let me get this straight...Brecht was "not highly rated no matter what," yet also managed to have offers to play WR from Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, etc. Remind me, which WRs from the current team had those kind of offers? None. So it was wrong for fans to have high hopes for Brecht?

And clearly Brecht taking a WR scholarship doesn't count because, per hawkeyeinmo, it's "required." Got it.

The irrelevant mental jujutzu some clowns will go through in arguing with themselves cracks me up. Is your point that Brecht was NOT a WR that got away, per the thread title? If not, what are you talking about?

 

[jonesy5960]

Wait, let me get this straight...Brecht was "not highly rated no matter what," had offers to play WR from Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, etc. Remind me, which WRs from the current team had those kind of offers? None?

Ummm... He was a mediocre to bad football player. The only reason he saw the field as a freshman was because Iowa had one of the worst WR rooms in the country.

Alex Mota had a better offer list than Brecht. He's tearing it up too so far.

 

[sober_teacher]

Wait, let me get this straight...Brecht was "not highly rated no matter what," yet also managed to have offers to play WR from Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, etc. Remind me, which WRs from the current team had those kind of offers? None. So it was wrong for fans to have high hopes for Brecht?

And clearly Brecht taking a WR scholarship doesn't count because, per hawkeyeinmo, it's "required." Got it.

The irrelevant mental jujutzu some clowns will go through in arguing with themselves cracks me up. Is your point that Brecht was NOT a WR that got away, per the thread title? If not, what are you talking about?

Yes he had a solid offer list and was an above averagely rated recruit.

You’re trying to paint this as some sort of terrible screwup by the coaches when it really wasn’t. It was widely known that he was 1) playing both football and baseball - per ncaa rules that meant he counted towards football scholarship wise, but 2) it was was pretty much expected he was going to end up switching full time to baseball eventually as his pro prospects were simply MUCH better on the diamond than the gridiron.

 

[sober_teacher]

Ummm... He was a mediocre to bad football player. The only reason he saw the field as a freshman was because Iowa had one of the worst WR rooms in the country.

Alex Mota had a better offer list than Brecht. He's tearing it up too so far.

Just to add on, Brody redshirted his first year as well.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Wait, let me get this straight...Brecht was "not highly rated no matter what," yet also managed to have offers to play WR from Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, etc. Remind me, which WRs from the current team had those kind of offers? None. So it was wrong for fans to have high hopes for Brecht?

And clearly Brecht taking a WR scholarship doesn't count because, per hawkeyeinmo, it's "required." Got it.

The irrelevant mental jujutzu some clowns will go through in arguing with themselves cracks me up. Is your point that Brecht was NOT a WR that got away, per the thread title? If not, what are you talking about?

Iowa > your opinion of Iowa

 

[BurgHawk87]

The irrelevant mental jujutzu some clowns will go through in arguing with themselves cracks me up. Is your point that Brecht was NOT a WR that got away, per the thread title? If not, what are you talking about?

The only correct point you've made is that none of the listed wide receivers have done anything football related since leaving. So no, none of them got away. Congrats on being right for once.