Interesting rumor developing on one of the Iowa State sites...that might have significance to UNI & every other MVC team...
-first - Texas head coach Shaka Smart just hired Iowa State assistant coach Neill Berry
That, of course leaves Iowa State with an open spot on their staff right at a bad time headed into the hottest recruiting period of the year.
https://www.burntorangenation.com/b...hires-former-iowa-state-assistant-neill-berry
-So Iowa State's head coach Steve Prohm will soon hire a new assistant.
Rumored to be at or near the top of the list is Northern Iowa's assistant Kyle Green - who has experience in Power Conferences and who has strong Iowa & midwest recruiting connections -
LINK
- The lure of a Big 12 spot and likely triple the salary is kinda hard to pass on, so if Kyle Green leaves UNI to go to Iowa State, in all likelihood, his son, 4-Star rated AJ Green, who is currently pledged to UNI, would then be very likely to ask for release and go to Iowa State.
- this isn't just some wacky speculation, the same site also knew in advance that Texas was going to hire away the Iowa State assistant & they were right-
LINK
- one more thing,
Iowa State head coach Steve Prohm recrutied AJ Green hard and really wanted him -
-if so, that would really hurt UNI's incoming recruiting class...
-what's additionally interesting is that TWICE BEFORE Kyle Green was on staff as an assistant at UNI then left for another job - once in 2003 to take an assistant spot at Marquette, then when that coaching staff got fired, he went back to UNI and actively
campaigned to get the Green Bay job (that instead went to Brian Wardle) then he did leave again to take
a DII head coaching job