Are Brecht and Wick on scholarship? I expect Brecht is on baseball schollie and I think Wick is a walk on. If Brecht still plays football next year I think he showed some good potential. Wick made a couple of nice catches on good routes. I have no idea of his speed but if he runs really good routes and has really good hands he could add value especially against zone defenses.
Pretty sure Brecht is on fball.
With the amount of WRs currently in the portal, Iowa will land some. They have obviously done a good job targeting some of the top guys, but landing them is an entirely different story.
Wick did absolutely nothing this year. If we have to hear about how he is tearing our defense up again during spring, we are absolutely screwed.
Believe someone noted in another thread Brecht is on football scholarship which is a NCAA policy to prevent giving more effective scholarships to football teams. Or something like that. I thought Brecht showed improvement as year went on. Hoping that if he stays healthy he can make a bigger leap forward. Should help if we have more consistent QB play too.
Jacobs is apparently not all gone, depending upon who you listen to for prognostication. If he gets a Georgia offer it is certainly bye bye. With that said, it depends on if you trust those sources.
I hope you're right but Iowa doesn't have a great track record for being on the fortunate end of these developments
Why is Iowa a tough place to recruit receivers to? Is it location or philosophy? Iowa State, Kansas State, Minnesota are all very similar to Iowa and they all get very good receivers.
Time for the Swarm to shell out some cash. However, slippery slope. If you shell out to keep Jacobs, each year you’ll have more and more players enter the portal just to get a “raise” from their current school.
Iowa has done decently with running backs and developing TEs, but skill positions have always been an issue l, whether that is due to lack of recruiting base or selling the offense.
I think he is going to stay down south, looks most likely for a Texas school
Niko 13 brings up the point I keep coming back to. Western Michigan sends receivers to the NFL. So do other MAC schools. The only rational excuse for not being able to recruit receivers to Iowa City is the offensive scheme. The evidence is undeniable. It's not the weather. It's not the water. It's not the cornfields. It's the ridiculous offensive scheme that, for the last three years, has been run by a less than stellar QB.
As Squeeze said.
Sounds like the Freshman LB from Nebraska that had a sack against Iowa will be in Iowa City this weekend.
Wow, props to you for making a good point. So as to this, it would IMO be better to spend that money on a highly rated underclassmen looking for PT
I think it is also for whatever reason, they don't do a good job of identifying WR talent. Seems like almost every other position they find guys that are little under the radar and end up being good players. They miss on so many developmental WRs that it has to be they either don't know what to look for or the WR coach isn't a good developer of talent.
You're going to have to be more specific than this.
Wicks has not proven he is a Big Ten level WR. I think they take 2 in the portal. Sounds like All the TE is a lock. Vines is going to get better. Brect showed flashes late. FWIW, Ohio State had Bostick at a camp but he didn't get an offer. He was thought of pretty highly, good speed and hands. He could be very good in a year.
Kirk did mention not everyone entering portal was totally certain. Hope he does what’s right for him, but I also hope what is right for him is to stay!
They probably know of others either transferring or medically retiring like maybe Davidkov or Britt etc.
Fair.You're going to have to be more specific than this.
A few of my students who are homer-ish Husker fans were talking up Hausmann before he opted to enter the portal.
If you count TEs…
Read what I said, Wick made a couple of nice catches on a couple of nice routes against zone. Unless he has speed he probably wont be real successful against man coverage unless you scheme in on a lbkr.
