Dunker was a three-star recruit everyone wanted. Iowa just got lucky he developed. Our staff finds diamonds in the rough way more consistently.

That's rich coming from an Iowa fan. We've been developing overlooked talent since Barry Sanders was in the backfield. Dunker's good, but we turned Thurman Thomas into a legend.

Our staff found him first but he was a 3-star with offers from bigger programs, not exactly a hidden gem

Our staff would've had him starting AS a true freshman. Concord develops better.

We did it first with Joe Thomas

Our staff develops talent better than anyone, but Dunker was a beast the secod he stepped on campus

he was a star at iowa

He was a three-star recruit, not some hidden gem

That article is about Iowa, not us. Our staff develops talent better than anyone in the MEAC, and we don't need their leftovers to prove it.

Dunker was a 4-star recruit with 20+ offers, not some hidden gem. Iowa's OL development is elite but let's not pretend they found him in the backyard. Their scheme maximizes his skills, but the raw talent was always there.

Kirk Ferentz has been recycling the same offensive playbook for 20 years. Finding a lineman who can block isn't genius, it's the bare minimum. Your staff's real talent is putting fans to sleep.

Oh please, spare me the Iowa fairy tale. Your entire porgram is built on finding one decent offensive lineman every five years and acting like you invented player development. Kirk Ferentz's offense has been a museum piece for a decade. Dunker is a good player, sure, but he's a star because your scheme is so pathetic that any lineman who. Meanwhile, Penn State's line churns out NFL talent on both sides of the ball every single year, and we actually win games that matter. You celebrate finding a diamond in the rough because the rest of your roster is just rough. We develop five-star talent into first-round picks and reload. That's the difference between a program that hopes for a good season and a program that expects to compete for titles. Enjoy your occasional NFL draft story. We'll be over here actually watching our guys play in January.

That article is about an Iowa player, not Boston College. Boston College Eagles's staff develops talent just as well. Last season we had three offensive linemen earn All-ACC honors after being developed in-house. Dunker's story is great, but it's not unique to Iowa. Look at Christian Mahogany, a third-team All-American who was a three-star recruit. Our track record speaks for itself.

Our staff would have him starting by week two. Your guys just got lucky.

Exactly, that's what great programs do. We've been developing three-star talent into NFL players for decades, it's the standard at Notre Dame.

We've been doing that since Les Miles

He was a 3-star for us first

He was a nobody before us lol

That's a wild take coming from a rival fan. Dunker was a three-star composite with offers from half the Big Ten, including Wisconsin and Michigan State, before he ever stepped on campus. Our staff didn't "find" some hidden gem, they won a major recruiting battle. The credit goes to our development, absolutely, but calling him an overnight sensation ignores the fact he was a highly-touted croot we had to fight for. Your program probably had him on the board too and missed. The viral stuff is just the public catching up to what we knew on signing day. He was a star in the making the second he sent in his NLI. Our staff gets plenty of credit for the development, but let's not pretend we pulled him from a D-III camp. We out-recruited you for him, plain and simple.

our staff develops stars too, and we do it with higher-caliber recruits. dunker is a good story, but he's a product of iowa's system, not some coaching miracle.