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Ironman39

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Hawk48 said:
Maybe because recruits have noticed the lousy offense and very suspect QB's.
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That's part of it.

But it really has been strange that even 4-5 years ago, Iowa was missing out on its top targets for TE.

It was almost like these HS recruits were getting tired of seeing Iowa as TE U and wanted to go elsewhere to try to help those other teams have success with their help at TE.

Yes, that's an exaggeration, but honestly that explains it about as well as anything else.

It's like why the Iowa women's basketball team doesn't have top recruits in a bigger waiting line than at the soft serve stations at Carver, after the success of Caitlin Clark.

For whatever reason, good TEs just stopped wanting to go to Iowa, and it DID start happening before Iowa's offense truly became a national joke.

And I don't know that I can blame the staff, necessarily, for that, because I doubt that they shifted their recruiting strategy by any means either.


I will say, in current times, the Lester offense appears to be less-TE (receiver) friendly, so going forward that could only exacerbate the problem.
 
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Ironman39 said:
That's part of it.

But it really has been strange that even 4-5 years ago, Iowa was missing out on its top targets for TE.

It was almost like these HS recruits were getting tired of seeing Iowa as TE U and wanted to go elsewhere to try to help those other teams have success with their help at TE.

Yes, that's an exaggeration, but honestly that explains it about as well as anything else.

It's like why the Iowa women's basketball team doesn't have top recruits in a bigger waiting line than at the soft serve stations at Carver, after the success of Caitlin Clark.

For whatever reason, good TEs just stopped wanting to go to Iowa, and it DID start happening before Iowa's offense truly became a national joke.

And I don't know that I can blame the staff, necessarily, for that, because I doubt that they shifted their recruiting strategy by any means either.


I will say, in current times, the Lester offense appears to be less-TE (receiver) friendly, so going forward that could only exacerbate the problem.
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I would agree with your comments and add I do not think it is just tight ends. IMO, the major factors of all position(s) recruiting are Ferentz's age, Ferentz upcoming retirement (please), boring/embarrassing brand of football, Ferentz's reputation of overall control, getting pounded by good teams, not contending for championships, etc. I really do not think Iowa has a chance to up its program until Ferentz is gone. Again JMHO.
 
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Hawk48 said:
I would agree with your comments and add I do not think it is just tight ends. IMO, the major factors of all position(s) recruiting are Ferentz's age, Ferentz upcoming retirement (please), boring/embarrassing brand of football, Ferentz's reputation of overall control, getting pounded by good teams, not contending for championships, etc. I really do not think Iowa has a chance to up its program until Ferentz is gone. Again JMHO.
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lol idiot
 
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he’s athletic run after the catch and is bulking up. Reminds me more of Kittle than Hock
 
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Does anyone know how Addison Ostrenga's achilles recovery is coming along?

It is a long recovery period. Probably the longest of all injuries, with some players not returning to 100% for a good 18 months.
 
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Hawktech said:
Does anyone know how Addison Ostrenga's achilles recovery is coming along?

It is a long recovery period. Probably the longest of all injuries, with some players not returning to 100% for a good 18 months.
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I think the recovery is less than that by half now. The unknown is whether the explosiveness returns. It didn’t for Lachey with a very similar injury.
 
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I hope Ostrenga gets his speed back...

Lachey still got drafted and has a decent contract. Good for him.
 
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