I was just bringing that up other schools will use that against us.. saying Iowa after lee first that's their guy... I personally feel lee may end up at the tackle spot before all said and done..
Where Does Iowa Stand With The Omaha Burke Recruits?
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Just looked at the rankings of 311 schools in US News and World Report and Little Brother finished at 124 and Iowa at 78. I am not looking any lower than 124, but I am sure they are at the very bottom of the conference. 2018 Best Colleges.
Lee might be better on defense looking at his absurd production on defense last year
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure schools like Alabama don't schedule an in home visit to say thanks but no thanks.
Iowa got the higher ranked qb. And a higher rated class than ISU.
I doubt they made that statement since AJ was probably the best 3-4 DE in that class.
Some scouting sites had aj as the number 2 prospect overall and one was making a case for him being the number one
Iowa lost 2 scholarship TEs after the '17 season and didn't replace them. There's a pretty decent chance that Fant will be in a position to leave early to the NFL after the '18 season if he has the sort of season we all believe he's capable of having. On top of all that, entering the '18 season, we'll have 3 JR TEs (Fant, Cook, and Wieting) who are likely contributors. Thus, after even if Fant doesn't leave early - those 3 guys will leave vacated spots on the roster after '19.
Given the discussion above and given the fact that Hickman is currently tall and very lanky ... in all likelihood, he'd have to physically develop in '19 and he'd enter the fray as a contributing RS FR in 2020. Consequently, the timing for Hickman is pretty perfect at Iowa.
Of course, as you rightly mentioned, competing teams will argue that Iowa already landed a TE in the '19 class. However, the problem with that logic is that Iowa is a team that will regularly rotate AT LEAST 3 TEs through a SINGLE game .... and play even more guys through the season. In 2017, Iowa extensively played Fant and Hockenson ... but they also played Pekar quite a bit too. On top of those guys, toward the end of the season, they also played Wieting when he was healthy. Lastly, given how Beyer emerged during bowl prep ... he saw quality reps in the bowl game too. Thus, through the season Iowa gave 5 guys quality reps ... and Wisnieski saw action through the season too (more in mop-up duty).
The point being ... Iowa PLAYS their tight-ends! Thus, irrespective of taking Lee ... Iowa's roster will likely be in need of 2 TEs in the '19 recruiting class.
Exactly. Even if they did, they sure as hell wouldn't make it their first stop.
You're now the only B1G school without accreditation. It was all a farce to pump up your own ego. Nice try and good luck to improving your academics in the future.
The comment was more a commentary on the overall academic reputation of Nebraska as a whole - compared to the other Big 10 schools.
However, if you're going to tout academic all-Americans ... what were their majors? Getting good grades is pretty easy if you have the sort of majors that your average athlete has. Compared to many places, Ferentz has established pretty cool record of encouraging his players to major in whatever excites them ... irrespective of how difficult it might be perceived. Iowa regularly has key players in the pre-med track. Folks in that track have caused the whole team to readjust practice times in order to accommodate their course schedule.
Purdy admitted that he didn't know if the Bama offer was committable.
https://www.seccountry.com/alabama/...state-texas-am-alabama-recruiting-signing-day
Saban had told the Princeton verbal that he was the guy they wanted. It was pretty clear that Purdy was an afterthought.
But far be it for me to get in the way of anyone's grand delusion that a high-quality QB who has no regional ties to central Iowa and has an actual committable offer from Nick Saban would instead choose Iowa St. It's kind of cute actually.
I have never seen the buffet cancer center ranked as the top or even top 5.
I’m sure somewhere it might have been but not by most/many.
I'm not entering this debate or claiming that Nebraska's Academic All American tradition doesn't warrant recognition, but how does a cancer research facility that opened in the last 6 months support your argument? How many of those Academic All Americans are currently employed/studying there?
5?
1?
0?
Forgot to discuss engineering.
Big 10 probably has 10 of the top engineering schools in the country. Iowa is good and underranked.
I’ve soent my career in engineering and can honestly say i’ve never met a nebby engineer i’d hire.
The irony with Wyldcard's post is that the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is considered a separate entity from the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL). A Nebraska fan touting their medical opportunities is akin to an Iowa fan touting ISU's excellence in engineering.
The cool thing about Iowa's medical school is that it is directly adjoined to the university. Consequently, students who are either interested in medicine or the medical sciences have ample opportunities to job shadow or apprentice in a medical lab ... all without leaving their home campus.
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