Talked to a co-worker who brought his son (a rising senior)and attended 4 football camps this summer. ISU, Iowa, KU, and KSU. His son is not D1 material, but has his sites set on going to a DII school. So he went to these camps to not only learn, but get in front of college coaches.
Not much, below, but here are some takeaways I got from him:
ISU and Iowa were very organized and little time wasted. KU was the least attended. He said their camp seemed somewhat disjointed, but he equated that to the disruptions of the stadium work, not necessarily to improper prep. He said K-State had coaches hollering at each other at times. They didn't have the stations prepped and coaches were arguing about who was to be at what spot.
ISU and Iowa had many other college coaches in attendance. The son scored a couple DII coaches contacts because of them being there. My co-worker said he noted at least 20 different school logos represented at ISU, and probably more. He said the 2 Kansas schools hardly had any other coaches there, which was disappointing to them.
Leipold of KU was the head coach who had the most "on the ground" time of any of the 4 head coaches. Ferentz only came out to talk at the end. Campbell and Kleiman were coming and going throughout.
KSU had the most college players helping and were generally put in charge of HS Freshmen and Sophomore campers. That subset of campers got the least amount of staff coaching.
In short, equally and most impressed with ISU and Iowa, ok with KU, and not overly impressed with KSU.
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