I'm not gonna make too many excuses for our recruiting but Iowa carries more cache than kstate dudes.
No it doesn't. If it does, it shouldn't. How many coaches in this country are scared of being out recruited by Iowa? lol, Iowa.
I haven't looked this up, but I'd be willing to bet that their recruiting rankings have been better than ours every year for the last 30 years.
There haven't been recruiting rankings for that long. Snyder 1.0 definitely out recruited Iowa, the rankings didn't exist then but you can see the statuses of the programs and the number of players in the league to see we were 'crutin better. The rankings started in '02 and then and '04 we had top 15 classes.
After '04 we didn't recruit for crap and yeah they have been better than us since then, but that isn't due to some magical pull to Iowa City, Iowa, it's just as isolated as Manhattan, that's like my friend kashi says is all about the coaches at each program. Minnesota, Missouri, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma State are some pretty obvious examples of this.