Mass exodus at Iowa?

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

I believe this is a policy Pollard added. I read this last year when Wesley Johnson transferred. It is referred to here in this message board in response to an article in the DM Register that is no longer available.

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/1171888-post11.html

...seeing as though they would only grant his release to teams not on their future schedules or to another Big 12 team.

[MSUBear42]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Peterson is looking to Missouri State, so that theory is out the window.

With all due respect, Missouri State has one of the toughest admission standards in the Valley and has the best schools of business and finance in the state of Missouri.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

It looks like it is a policy...at least for basketball.

http://www.theindependent.com/articles/2009/03/26/sports/doc49cc5699abdb2522412206.txt

Eikmeier, who will have to sit out one season as a Division I transfer, said he’ll look at schools in the Mountain West, Missouri Valley and West Coast Conferences.

Iowa State won’t release Eikmeier to any Big 12 or Pac-10 school, or to teams on ISU’s future schedules such as Drake and Northern Iowa.

[williebat]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Forget about Eikmier. I really hope we get Antoine Cox from bollingbrook. I would take him over eikmeir or mann anyday.

[in_the_stands]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Hey MSUBear42, hear anything about Iowa's Jeff Peterson heading your way?

[Trapped in California]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Jake Kelly was released according the DSM Rag

Looks to be headed to IN ST, who just released Tyler Cutter.

[jman2004]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Kids good enough to get Big Ten offers don't want to play meatgrinder basketball. It works at small schools because those kids are just damn happy to get a chance to play Div 1 basketball and will work their butts off to just get the chance to play.

Big time recruits want to run and gun. McDermott is finding that out at ISU, if they are good enough to play in a BCS conference in basketball they don't want to play Meatgrinder basketball.

IMO run and gun is going to change the college game like the spread offense is changing college football.

I'm beginning to think you watch very little college basketball. You're really stuck on this "run and gun" thing. You have been all season, even used it as an excuse to NOT come and watch our conference champion Panthers . . . plenty of teams play this style of basketball across the country, and are playing it in the tournament.

You're right in the sense that the more successful teams are the top teams that have players that can get out and run the floor well, but that's a small portion of the college basketball world. Teams like the number 1, 2, and 3 seeds are those seeds for a reason. They have that talent. Much of the college basketball universe does NOT and thus, are forced to find other ways to compete. Slowing down the game is one such way, and PLENTY of college basketball teams do it. There's a difference between WANTING to gun it and having the talent to gun it successfully.

[jman2004]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

for you retards...Kelly is from Marshall, IL right across the river from TH. he went to carmel his last two years of high school to play in one of the best conferences in the country. his mom moved there as well because she was raising him as a single parent. she then moved to solon when jake came to iowa, as she already had a sister living here. his mom died tragically last summer and he has since decided to move back to TH to be closer to his dad.

kelly was a pretty good recruit out of high school, despite being a little overlooked due to the depth of his AAU team.

its really not a funny situation for Jake.

I agree with this and while calling everyone "retards" may lack some tact, I think people in here jumping to conclusions about the University of Iowa's men's basketball team, needed to hear it.

Kelly's situation is not in any way, a "rebellion" against Lickliter. It's a young man, going through some personal crap, wanting to move closer to family.

Indiana State will benefit from having him. I thought he was a decent player, one of the few Hawkeyes.

[in_the_stands]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

2nd hand, but from people who claim to have heard the Barta/Lick press conference this afternoon, Peterson and Palmer are definitely gone in addition to Kelly & Davis. At this time Peterson doesn't know where he's going to.

[MSUBear42]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Hey MSUBear42, hear anything about Iowa's Jeff Peterson heading your way?

I, personally, don't know anything about it besides the fact that he'd be an awesome player here (I was raised a hawk fan so know a little bit about him). That said, someone on our local sports radio show called in and said that Jeff had applied for admission to MSU recently.

Time will tell.





Side note, I never got to tell you guys congrats on an awesome basketball season!

[9YRPLAN]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

FYI, peterson is an A Finance student and qualified for a prestigious b-school scholly at iowa.

[in_the_stands]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

I, personally, don't know anything about it besides the fact that he'd be an awesome player here (I was raised a hawk fan so know a little bit about him). That said, someone on our local sports radio show called in and said that Jeff had applied for admission to MSU recently.

Time will tell.

Side note, I never got to tell you guys congrats on an awesome basketball season!

Thanks. FWIW, Peterson is officially available if you guys want him.

[Panther Fan]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Nice quotes from former player Dan Bohall in Keeler's column this morning-

"To me, it just seems the reason why Iowa isn't working, it's because it's like a mid-major trying to compete in the Big Ten, It's like Northern Iowa's basketball program jumping over to play in the Big Ten. It's just a different style of ball that needs players to be at a different level. And that's the reason why I think people are leaving - it's just that they're not satisfied with the way the season is (going) ... no one likes having a losing season.

The Big Ten is not the Horizon League, it's not a mid-major school. You're playing against athletic (teams). Look at Michigan State, look at the Big Ten, the players they have, the bodies — they're athletic, they're Big Ten players. It's just — the way Lickliter plays, his system is more of a mid-major system. It worked at Butler and it just doesn't work at Iowa and that's where the problems are coming in. I could be wrong, (but) from watching games and talking with the players, that's kind of the thought process."

[Blue42]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Nice quotes from former player Dan Bohall in Keeler's column this morning-

"To me, it just seems the reason why Iowa isn't working, it's because it's like a mid-major trying to compete in the Big Ten, It's like Northern Iowa's basketball program jumping over to play in the Big Ten. It's just a different style of ball that needs players to be at a different level. And that's the reason why I think people are leaving - it's just that they're not satisfied with the way the season is (going) ... no one likes having a losing season.

The Big Ten is not the Horizon League, it's not a mid-major school. You're playing against athletic (teams). Look at Michigan State, look at the Big Ten, the players they have, the bodies — they're athletic, they're Big Ten players. It's just — the way Lickliter plays, his system is more of a mid-major system. It worked at Butler and it just doesn't work at Iowa and that's where the problems are coming in. I could be wrong, (but) from watching games and talking with the players, that's kind of the thought process."

Bohall's a quitter and belonged in the Horizon League (maybe) himself.

[williebat]

Re: Mass exodus at Iowa?

Nice quotes from former player Dan Bohall in Keeler's column this morning-

"To me, it just seems the reason why Iowa isn't working, it's because it's like a mid-major trying to compete in the Big Ten, It's like Northern Iowa's basketball program jumping over to play in the Big Ten. It's just a different style of ball that needs players to be at a different level. And that's the reason why I think people are leaving - it's just that they're not satisfied with the way the season is (going) ... no one likes having a losing season.

The Big Ten is not the Horizon League, it's not a mid-major school. You're playing against athletic (teams). Look at Michigan State, look at the Big Ten, the players they have, the bodies — they're athletic, they're Big Ten players. It's just — the way Lickliter plays, his system is more of a mid-major system. It worked at Butler and it just doesn't work at Iowa and that's where the problems are coming in. I could be wrong, (but) from watching games and talking with the players, that's kind of the thought process."

What an idiot!!! I think that we proved we could compete in the BIG 10 with our game against purdue.