I know this topic has probably been discussed previously and I'm not trying to bring up a negative issue after our football team is finally starting to resemble a decent Big 10 team, but this kid is pretty damn good. He's now Illinois All Time Leading Rusher and people are saying he's probably heading to IOWA of all places! I happen to live close to this area and I'm tired of trying to explain to people why Illinois is not involved in his recruitment. I understand that we can not take every Illinois kid, but it seems to me these are the type of kids that our program needs to take a chance on. We have to start re-building state pride in our program within our states High School programs. In my eyes if he's good enough to go to IOWA then we should be fighting to land him. Just my 2 cents....