2 Iowa football players to transfer

[paMANther]

http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2009/02/25/news/breaking_news/doc49a5aa491b739962194602.txt

Maybe we could pick up one of these guys?????????

[Mountain Panther]

Re: 2 Iowa football players to transfer

I usually don't get too excited about this stuff when it's this early in the process, but if we get two shut-down defensive backs, we are going DEEP in the playoffs.

[TravelingPanther]

Re: 2 Iowa football players to transfer

One is from Florida, one from Ohio...I wonder if they want to head back home.

[06panther10]

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DB is one place that we difinitely need some more talent. But I wouldn't exactly say these guys are exactly going to be shut down corners, because from what I heard they just got beat out at their positions, and that is the reason for the transfer.

But, you never know.

[9YRPLAN]

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if UNI would get morrow, it would potentially be one of the best incoming transfers ever. 4-star out of ohio, chose iowa over michigan, penn state, and other big schools. greenwood redshirted his first year, so they ended up in the same class, and greenwood has been starting since...but morrow playing sparingly as a true frosh.

myself and MANY other iowa fans were upset over this because many feel that greenwood is the weak link in the secondary and that morrow never got a shot. he has not used his redshirt, so i doubt he ends up in FCS though.

tillison is more of a tweener now because he moved to LB. big loss for iowa, though, in my opinion. could play multiple positions and was a good special teams player. either would be a great pickup for UNI, although Tillison has had some off the field issues. he straightened up and played in every game last year.

[06panther10]

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So he was beaten out by Greenwood? How good could he be, because Greenwood is NOT a great player.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I'm not an Iowa fan, but I am a Greenwood fan. I really wish UNI could have gotten him.

[Purrrrrfect]

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any transfers at 4th quarter Offensive Coordinator? jk

[jegbomb52]

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Ya, best transfter EVER, because he is a 4 star that went to Iowa. He could rank right up there with the ranks of Chris Gustafson, Richard Pope, Dru Grigson. Probably the three highest ranked high school players that ever played at UNI, I think Gustafson was even a 5 star in his day. Do you know what they all had in common? They all flopped.

Let them go to Western Illinois or Deleware.

[06panther10]

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I think Whitney Lewis was ranked in the top 10 in the nation in HS, and he had trouble finding a spot at UNI.

[Cap'n Cat]

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That one guy has an awesome ass.

[SteinPizza]

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tillison is more of a tweener now because he moved to LB. big loss for iowa, though, in my opinion. could play multiple positions and was a good special teams player. either would be a great pickup for UNI, although Tillison has had some off the field issues. he straightened up and played in every game last year.

Another consideration with Tillison is that he's from the Tampa area. The area around Seffner has produced some great high school players in recent years. It would be nice to establish some kind of connection there.

I agree with Jeg though. Just because a guy is a 4 star, 5 star, whatever...doesn't mean he's automatically a great college player, or that he'd be great at UNI. It's the only public measure of a high school kid, along with who offered. That said, there are so many variables after high school that projecting a transfer's success based on Rivals rankings is a crap shoot, and don't read too much into it.

[9YRPLAN]

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my point was that a large contingent of iowa fans feel that morrow would be better than greenwood if given the chance. he never was, and that doesnt sit well with iowa fans who know the current staff's history when it comes to incumbents keeping their starting spots.

[9YRPLAN]

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i dont think they do it on purpose, but there are several examples of questionable personnel decisions. (JC, Grigsby, shada)

[SteinPizza]

Re: 2 Iowa football players to transfer

i dont think they do it on purpose, but there are several examples of questionable personnel decisions. (JC, Grigsby, shada)

I can see that. Wasn't it Herb Grigsby who got caught by a FREAKIN' SAFETY on what should've been a long TD two years ago vs. Syracuse? A Safety catching supposedly the world's fastest man? Sarcasm intended...I have friends who follow Iowa recruiting in a die hard way, and live and die by "star" rankings. To hear them tell it, Herb Grigsby could beat Carl Lewis. I had to rub that in.

Shada was OK, but Iowa's never been able to recruit good corners. Benny Sapp has been their best in a long while, and only played one year. That's why I'm skeptical that any Iowa DB is automatically going to come here and set the MVFC season interception record. I'd still take him as a transfer, as we obviously need help at D back.