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On the topic of recruiting!

Thank you to all of you for providing all this information about the history of ISU football. It has been really nice to read about it all. Recruiting is a very big thing. As you all know. I'm not going to add any more here because I just wrote a long post on my thoughts on another NEW thread about DESPERATION ect.....If you are interested in my thoughts just read it there. I'm excited for the game today. If we win that will be soo cool. If we don't it'll be ok because I don't expect them to win.

Go Bengals
 
Reborn2010 said:
Thank you to all of you for providing all this information about the history of ISU football. It has been really nice to read about it all. Recruiting is a very big thing. As you all know. I'm not going to add any more here because I just wrote a long post on my thoughts on another NEW thread about DESPERATION ect.....If you are interested in my thoughts just read it there. I'm excited for the game today. If we win that will be soo cool. If we don't it'll be ok because I don't expect them to win.

Go Bengals
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Yes I agree thank you to the others who have contributed some outstanding and informative posts on this thread
 
I thought that the APR ruling is such that we were on APR probation for five years, but that's all ended now isn't it? Because I do believe that the APR probation started in 2011, which was Kramer's first year here, just after Zamberlin left. Which means that this is the sixth year he's been here, and the APR hell should all be over with. It's just that the younger kids we are now able to recruit will take a little time to develop, but the juniors and seniors on the team were recruited when we had all of the APR restrictions, and therefore we don't have the depth there that other teams in the Big Sky have. And normally the underclassmen don't get near the amount of playing time that the upperclassmen would, unless they're really an exceptional athlete. The way that Cub explained the APR situation is similar to how Blackfoot explained it one time. Also, I'm pretty sure that Don Bailey told me a couple years ago that because of the APR sanctions, that ISU couldn't take a JC transfer unless he had a 3.5 gpa, and we couldn't take a Division 1-A transfer unless he had a 3.0 gpa. I'm sure that Tingey well understands the detrimental effect that APR has put ISU through, and therefore he's not so hard on Kramer that other AD's would be on a coach that has a losing record at their sixth year at a school.

I'm home now watching the NAU game on my laptop -- suffering through another Bengal loss.
 
boisebengal said:
I thought that the APR ruling is such that we were on APR probation for five years, but that's all ended now isn't it? Because I do believe that the APR probation started in 2011, which was Kramer's first year here, just after Zamberlin left. Which means that this is the sixth year he's been here, and the APR hell should all be over with. It's just that the younger kids we are now able to recruit will take a little time to develop, but the juniors and seniors on the team were recruited when we had all of the APR restrictions, and therefore we don't have the depth there that other teams in the Big Sky have. And normally the underclassmen don't get near the amount of playing time that the upperclassmen would, unless they're really an exceptional athlete. The way that Cub explained the APR situation is similar to how Blackfoot explained it one time. Also, I'm pretty sure that Don Bailey told me a couple years ago that because of the APR sanctions, that ISU couldn't take a JC transfer unless he had a 3.5 gpa, and we couldn't take a Division 1-A transfer unless he had a 3.0 gpa. I'm sure that Tingey well understands the detrimental effect that APR has put ISU through, and therefore he's not so hard on Kramer that other AD's would be on a coach that has a losing record at their sixth year at a school.

I'm home now watching the NAU game on my laptop -- suffering through another Bengal loss.
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That's a great informative post boisebengal. I understand this to be the first year we are out from the ncaa shadows. But your so correct there was a lot of lost scholarships in that 5 year stretch. We only have I think 6 seniors on this team. We gotta be patient I think. We have new life now from the probation era. We have full allotment of scholarships available now as of 2016. I think there is obviously stop the university academic standard that the football program has I think it is refered to as the "academic key hole" by coach Kramer, it must mean that a player has to fit into that keyhole before he can be recruited. But it will make a difference to see full allotment of scholarships from here on out.
 
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