Wait, you need good grades to get into U of Illinois?
Besides that, a clerical error can always be corrected if both parties want to be together. Apparently, one party did not. All that assumes that it was a clerical error in the first place, which I lean against.
Memory can play tricks on me, but I believe Clark and Gilman were both projected 25 pounders coming into Iowa and it was generally believed Gilman would be the one going 133. Clark is bigger now, not so much as a HS senior.
The point is that from 141 and up, Iowa is generally getting its brains beat in recently - both by Cael with his top 10 studs and from other teams with much lower ranked recruiting classes. You guys rightfully crow about your lightweight prowess, but are decidedly silent about the rest of the room even though your recruits are far from plow horses.
Uh. Have you ever hired a person before?
Mike Evans the devil been known.6-6-6, sign of the beast.
Not following my instincts when hiring people (adults) is a lesson I learned awhile ago. However it has been my experience kids are not adults and they sometimes scramble around trying to figure things out. I give much more latitude to younger folks trying to find their path than I do some others.
At Iowa, when did obtaining AA status become the zenith? Just wondering?
I'd settle for a .500 record, to be completely honest.
It hasn't, but its pretty damn cool for any D-1 college athlete to be a 3 time AA. Lot of blood,sweat and hard physical work put into that feat. Cheers to all of them
Not trying to be a dick or anything. Even 59 inches is about as tall as Tomasello, isn't it?
I have no fault with that, but it's the second time he has bailed. Or did Illinois bail this time?
OT but as good a place as any: congrats on your Shut Up Because Sandusky award.
Thanks for the perspectives, guys. I've been coming toward this way of thinking, too. I now think of it as follows. Sometimes, with a big inflexible institution, the rules are only multiple choice. Rather than impossibly persuading the institution to create an "other" category just for you, it may be better to just shoehorn your situation into one of the existing answer choices. So, if such a hypothetical scenario reflects Mejia's scenario, then telling a screwy story to Illinois would be fine by me, given Perry's departure, etc. Still, Mejia did not tell the screwy story on Twitter elegantly. But maybe that's not nearly as big a deal as I made it, because telling screwy stories is hard. Normal people do not have much experience with it, and a kid would have even less experience. So the screwy-ness of the story, and its telling, might not reflect who the person really is.
This is just wild speculation, but one possibility is that "application error" is something that Mejia and Illinois mutually agreed upon, via wink wink, so that both sides can save face. Mejia can get his release, and Illinois can avoid the precedent and reputation of granting releases whenever even an assistant coach leaves. Everybody wins.
Ha! Got a smidgeon of a giggle out of me when I read your post. Bigger picture (not this thread)... going into conspiracy-theory mode happens a good bit on forums, it's what happens, right?
