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jbird said:
Nope.......if he was playing there in 2012, that would have been almost 30 years after our first round loss to Ohio under Donewald.
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Of course, he could possibly have been on an Ohio team that beat ISU around 2012 in a regular seawson game, but when I see a reference to a Bobcat win over the Redbirds, I jump to the conclusion that it's a reference to the infamous first round NCAA Tournament loss.

Maybe I shouldn't read too much into this, but if Toledo is not on the verge of head coaching turnover, an encouraging thing is that he is willing to move to Blo-No for what would be considered a lateral Assistant Coaching move. For those unaware of Toledo's location, it is not only a University city in its own right but it is also anout 60 miles south of Detroit, so he is moving to ISU from a market that has professional teams in all major sports. Maybe he wouldn't do that unless he saw the opportunity to accomplish something worth the move. Just speculation; it could turn out that he lost a bet.
 
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jbird said:
Of course, he could possibly have been on an Ohio team that beat ISU around 2012 in a regular seawson game, but when I see a reference to a Bobcat win over the Redbirds, I jump to the conclusion that it's a reference to the infamous first round NCAA Tournament loss.

Maybe I shouldn't read too much into this, but if Toledo is not on the verge of head coaching turnover, an encouraging thing is that he is willing to move to Blo-No for what would be considered a lateral Assistant Coaching move. For those unaware of Toledo's location, it is not only a University city in its own right but it is also anout 60 miles south of Detroit, so he is moving to ISU from a market that has professional teams in all major sports. Maybe he wouldn't do that unless he saw the opportunity to accomplish something worth the move. Just speculation; it could turn out that he lost a bet.
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I had similar thoughts - he left a top MAC program to come to the current state of affairs at Old State U. That says something about Coach Ryan, or the ISU reputation, or both, and/or something else. Opportunity. Hope. Toledo Coach Kowalczyk is in pretty good shape I think, their program is pretty solid.

I'm hoping for another coach announcement yet this week. Coach Ryan shows up Monday in the dark, greeted by Lewis, and a couple days later locks up Offut. Couple more days and he's ready to announce another assistant and now we got three guys to get out there and recruit.
 
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That will happen when the person leaving brings positivity and winning to the program. It will happen here someday.
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It already did for Yak, Ford, Oliver. Would’ve happened to Ward if not for the tragic day. Sorry we weren’t glowing for Duhon or Chad Dollar.
 
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Dmills said:

Seems like Offutt has already gotten started recruiting. He follows Ruffin.
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From Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, a "suburb" of Madison, played on some pretty good teams in HS. We've had some football players from SP altho blanking on them for now.

Josh Dinga now in FB. Seems like some other D lineman recently. Whatever.
 
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Ruffin would be a nice "sign of the times" in the fit of the recruiting footprint, he being a Milwaukee-ish (I know Madison is a different idea) young man. I really hope the next two assistant hires include a Chicago-rooted/AAU guy or high-end CPS/Arch high school HC and then nab some D2 Mizzou coach that can beat the ground around the Loo & KC.
 
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