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Message: [QUOTE="ISUnorth, post: 5245026, member: 11911"] Thanks for that response, I appreciate the info especially since signing with another Big 12 team is sort of insult on top of injury and you are being a good sport in sharing your thoughts. It seems like a really good get for ISU but I wonder how she will actually fit in real play with a diva like Crooks wanting 20 shots a game next year. But, this is another Big 12 teams and she's from KC so she knows what she is getting into and that includes the not everyone's cup of tea coach. She went out on top without completely emptying the fuel tank. ISU has a two year window to do something in the Crooks/Brown/Williams junior and senior seasons. It will be their best and last shot before the wheels fall off. Fennelly turns 68 this spring and speculation is he may go out with the 2026-2027 season. The juniors to be total 8 of the 13 on the roster and the 2024 and 2025 HS classes are lackluster as I expect 2026 to be. I think we will be looking at a completely empty cupboard come 2027 if Fennelly just rides the Crooks team out as a retiring coach. Every coach change now can be a mass exodus but if your entire base graduates and the recruited classes suck because kids think you are retiring than it is sort of preordained that the new coach won't have much to even try and retain.*** Of course, he wants ISU to hire his son which, unless they home run 2026 recruiting for HS and portal seems pretty unlikely. [I]*** And why I've sort of come to admire Iowa's Bluder retiring the way she did. She left a decent base and two good incoming recruiting classes for Jensen to work with and recruit to.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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