None of his WV kids have committed elsewhere and his top recruit just listed IU as one of his final targets.
Where do you get the idea that most of the top portal guys aren't interested in playing for DeVries? We literally just hosted two top 10 transfers last night and are expected to host Flory Bidunga sometime this week who is a top 15 portal guy? On top of bringing in another top 10 portal guy in his son Tucker.
This stuff is definitely not for the faint of heart. Or for the people who think information or context is to be had. Or for the people who think there is necessarily meaning to the things conventional wisdom says are meaningful.
They miight have other reasons to stay, but a bit unusual that 0/3 would follow....
If he goes 0/3 sure, but I've seen zero indication that none of them are following him.
Maybe Enright views himself as more of a system guy, a valuable piece to help his team in whatever role necessary?
No, not if that isn’t your model. I could see Iowa hiring more of a system guy, winning with more “mediocre” players, and trying to build Iowa up like a Wisconsin type.
when hasn't the sky been falling on here?
I’m guessing Dolson chose DeVries because he liked his “style”, and DeVries was equally interested in bringing his “style” to IU. It sounds like Dolson was interested in McCollum at one point, but the interest at that time was not mutual.
Think only 2 of his WVU commits reopened and 1 stuck with WVU. Coyle had Alex Lasley on today and he said Dix is completing his visit today and Enright is on campus today. So that means the Iowa folks are hand-wringing that he didn't commit before leaving Iowa City and is in Btown today.
I've not seen any credible reporting about anything related to the coach search process, including who was interested in IU and how and who Dolson targeted.
Goodman said Dolson talked to McCollum twice, or more than once, or something, so I'd not say McCollum wasn't interested, or he'd not have had a 2nd conversation.
Goodman wasn't proven to be accurate multiple times (not restricted to the IU search); at a minimum, he never shared enough context to assess what was really going on in the process.
@kkott Not shooting at you with this, there's just been so much contradictory information. That alone tells you people were misinformed with their reporting.
Odih and MacLean de-committed instantly from WVU and Hawthorne de-committed about a week later. Hawthorne is the higher rated of the 3 and just today put out a final list with Kentucky, West Virginia, Dayton, and IU. Hawthorne was a 300 rated recruit coming into the season before blowing up at prep school and has obviously gotten more attention since then. Makes sense that he's taking his time and re-evaluating his decision.
Dolson said he wanted someone who knew how to navigate the portal. Well so far its not a great beginning.
The problem is we will need 11 players and so far got none. It could backfire who knows. That is the risk you take on a guy who really is not proven on the P5 level yet
Kind of hard to sell recruits when there are no players on the roster. But IU went the mid major route and assumed the risk of a coach being in over his head.
Says you. Unless your definition of navigating the portal is doing everything in the first few days. I don't think that's how it works.
I agree Goodman isn't 100% reliable, but he knows more than the internet experts here. I'm just saying 2 conversations indicates to me McCollum didn't reject IU out of hand. No idea when we contacted Devries. I 1000% don't buy that CDD shut his son down, or that there was anything "inked" much before the last week of the season. My guess is Dolson took note in the Bahamas where IU stunk and WVU impressed and reached out around the time of CMWs announcement and they talked remotely in the weeks after that and then met and finalized things after WVU was eliminated from the B12 tourney.
People are making the same kind of comments about the woman's team. Relax folks,the portal just opened.
But you said it is unusual that 0/3 have followed, when there is zero evidence that that ends up being true. How many X recruits have committed to Texas? How many Drake recruits have committed to Iowa? Can we wait until they decide before we start to panic that they have not committed here yet? Maybe, just maybe, CDD thinks he can get better guys at IU than the kids that committed to him at WV and wants to see who we get after the 1st portal wave subsides and then he can see what needs he needs filled and he uses HS kids for that.
It's April 1st lol. The F4 hasn't even started.
I hear you, but (1) I can't tell you how low a bar I think "the internet experts here" are; (2) the inability to give any context is a tell on the shallowness of any purported "reporting"; (3) I don't agree that we know "Dolson had 2 conversations with McCollum", especially if we don't know when, what, how those conversations occurred, who else Dolson "talked to", etc.
And even if none of the three follow, that doesn't necessarily mean anything either.
We have literally had 2 visits--both last night, realx, there are about 1700 kids in the portal as of today, and guessing we may see another 3-500 before it is all said and done. If CDD just started offering anyone and everyone to fill a roster I would be more worried.
Wrong, unless you want people to ignore the obvious import of your post and that instead you meant something other than what you plainly said.
