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Does Iowa Football Have a Recruiting Problem?

Iowa football recruiting director Tyler Barnes is an active presence on social media and is usually beaming with positivity about the football players looking to continue their athletic careers at the University of Iowa. However, on July 1, less than one week removed from Iowa’s big summer recruiting weekend in which it hosted several of its top prospects for the class of 2022, Barnes took to Twitter to vent about the recent uptick in negative recruiting targeted towards the Hawkeye football program of late.

The amount of negative recruiting I’ve heard this last month is laughable…

Recruits, if a school has to negative recruit nonstop against 1 of your top choices, stop & think for a second why they are wasting all that time rather than trying to show you what they are truly about.