You are right and wrong in your post.
You are right that I’m mad at the way DONU recruited Jones. They took him for granted that he would just commit right after he was offered. Jan 2018, Frost and Chinander show up at LC. Frost was trying to shore up the offer to Max Duggan who as we know went to TCU. Frost and Chin have the allowable contact with Jones and told his coach they hope he comes to Junior day the next month. Jones goes to Junior Day and basically gets the cold shoulder or for a better analogy gets treated like that 3rd cousin you didn’t want to come to Thanksgiving but is treated like if you threw him the neck bone he’d show up and do whatever you wanted. FF to his Junior year, Jones has an awesome season, all along Iowa is showing up week after week to the games and his school during the week. Junior season ends, Jones commits to Iowa and Jones gets elevated to a 4 star and top 100 on 247. Jones then becomes a composite 4 star. 3 weeks after he commits to Iowa, Chin and the new Dline coach show up to LC to offer Jones. What they don’t know is Jones has shutdown his recruitment, and while grateful for the offer, currently will not consider or visit other schools. This might change but from some extremely reliable sources will not and he currently won’t take any officials after his Iowa official. DONU is still contacting him on a regular basis and trying to flip him, again this is most likely a futile attempt at this point. This is a 4 star kid inside of 60 miles from campus, and it was taken for granted that he would just commit as soon as he was offered. No football athlete of that caliber west of Highway 59 in Iowa should be ignored or taken for granted by DONU, save for a straight drop back passing QB which would never fit in. The only thing worse is ignoring or playing cool on a recruit from Omaha. As the crows fly Jones lives 3 miles farther from campus then Noah Fant and we all saw how that worked out for us. When the Super Six comes out this year, Jones will probably be at 1st or 2nd on that list behind only Watts from Burke. Yesterday Jones got invited to the AllAmerican game in Dallas next January. Iowa should have never been allowed to slip in and grab him. He checks off every box this program has ever wanted in a player and as of right now, they blew it with him.
You’re also right that I took a shot at South Dakota, even though I didn’t intend too, and after reading my initial post I absolutely took a shot. After reading my subsequent posts I was still taking a shot while trying to explain my self. I’m much better in person trying to argue my opinions then when I’m typing on my phone. I was wrong plain and simple and apologize and admit that I was wrong.
You are wrong, and you’re wrong because of the response that I am upset that everyone is so excited about Hutmacher potentially coming. I hope he comes here, and I want him to be great. I do however believe we need to back off the hype. This board is building this kid up so much that anything short and he’ll be vilified. It’s not fair to him and not right period. He could turn out to be better then Suh ever was or he could be the next Kabongo. Before we give him the Outland/Lombardi he should at least be allowed to commit here or turn us down. Back before it cost to post on this board I watched and commented on the future of David Horn. He was supposed to be the next great Omaha Central Iback who picked up all the awards on his way to the NFL and we all remember how that turned out.