http://football.hawkmania.com/2008/02/23/so-much-for-clean-slates/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:23:14 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://football.hawkmania.com/2008/02/23/so-much-for-clean-slates/#comment-54 Ohio Hawk Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:36:50 +0000 http://football.hawkmania.com/2008/02/23/so-much-for-clean-slates/#comment-54 I am also very disappointed in these new developments! It disappoints me that two (2) young men would not learn from the mistakes of others. The Cedar Rapids Gazette is already reporting that both have been suspended from the team. A lot of the problems have seemed to stem from the 2006 and 2007 recruiting class. Does anyone else see a correlation from Iowa's success in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 to the off the field problems? We did not seem to have the issues with the 2 and 3 star recruits that built the Ferentz program (Sanders, Kaeding, Gallery, Greenway, Clark). We have opened the door to more 3, 4 and 5 star recruits because of our past success. I see the same things happening in other large universities. We live in Ohio and have seen multiple incidents with Ohio State over the past couple of year. We can only hope the message will get through to the remaining players. I am also very disappointed in these new developments! It disappoints me that two (2) young men would not learn from the mistakes of others. The Cedar Rapids Gazette is already reporting that both have been suspended from the team. A lot of the problems have seemed to stem from the 2006 and 2007 recruiting class. Does anyone else see a correlation from Iowa’s success in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 to the off the field problems? We did not seem to have the issues with the 2 and 3 star recruits that built the Ferentz program (Sanders, Kaeding, Gallery, Greenway, Clark). We have opened the door to more 3, 4 and 5 star recruits because of our past success. I see the same things happening in other large universities. We live in Ohio and have seen multiple incidents with Ohio State over the past couple of year. We can only hope the message will get through to the remaining players.

]]> http://football.hawkmania.com/2008/02/23/so-much-for-clean-slates/#comment-53 Jon Walter Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:26:55 +0000 http://football.hawkmania.com/2008/02/23/so-much-for-clean-slates/#comment-53 It is disappointing. After Douglas, who I thought was going to be a great player for Iowa, definitely an impact player, got in trouble you know, what are we supposed to do? We all said, well that is a shame, someone will pick it up. Never happened. We keep losing our "good" players. Whether through crime as in Douglas, Bowman, and now Cleveland... or through injury as in Moweaki, Klinkenborg (mattress hands). I am not all that bothered by this incident, it more ingrains in my the sense that our recruiting process has kind of fallen off from years past. Where are the stand up kind of recruits that used to populate the ranks of the Hawkeyes? I am not saying we don't have a whole group of great players, but every soon-to-be star has fallen off in some way, shape, or form. It is disappointing. After Douglas, who I thought was going to be a great player for Iowa, definitely an impact player, got in trouble you know, what are we supposed to do? We all said, well that is a shame, someone will pick it up. Never happened. We keep losing our “good” players. Whether through crime as in Douglas, Bowman, and now Cleveland… or through injury as in Moweaki, Klinkenborg (mattress hands). I am not all that bothered by this incident, it more ingrains in my the sense that our recruiting process has kind of fallen off from years past. Where are the stand up kind of recruits that used to populate the ranks of the Hawkeyes? I am not saying we don’t have a whole group of great players, but every soon-to-be star has fallen off in some way, shape, or form.

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