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Greg McElroy defends Iowa after Kadyn Proctor comments: ‘It’s all about relationships’

Former Alabama tackle Kadyn Proctor raised some eyebrows following his transfer to Iowa when he commended the Iowa staff on keeping in touch with and encouraging him throughout his freshman year at Alabama.
Proctor, a Des Moines native, explained his decision: “It was so easy for me to pick them when I did enter the transfer portal. Because we still had those relationships. Even after I was doing bad in the SEC and struggling, they hit me up and said, ‘We’re proud of you. You’re gonna get through this.’ And that’s what ultimately helped me with my decision because they still believed in me.”
What sounded like clear-cut tampering to some throughout the college football world, however, sounds like something else entirely to former Alabama quarterback and current college football pundit Greg McElroy.
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“A lot of people are all bent out of shape about the tampering,” McElroy said, per Athlon Sports. “Y’all — it’s about relationships. It’s all about relationships. Iowa stayed in touch with Kadyn Proctor, maybe he was a little homesick. He’s now going to go home.”
Tampering has been a talking point among coaches for as long as the transfer portal has been effective in college football. What Alabama fans are wondering is: When do relationships become transactional with regards to players like Proctor?
What is tampering?
In a Powerpoint posted by the NCAA entitled “Transfers, Tampering, and Trends,” the body lays out the distinction between impermissible contact and tampering.
All tampering is a case of impermissible contact — but not all impermissible contact rises to tampering. The slide reads:
“Pursuant to Bylaw 13.1.1.3, any communication with an enrolled student-athlete is impermissible. Although communication is impermissible, not every instance rises to the level of tampering.”
Some of the “factors to consider” according to the Powerpoint include:
- Results (did the student transfer)
- Pre-existing relationship (former coaches talking to students)
- Timing of events (when did the student transfer and how did initial contact happen?)
The transfer portal is still, for all intents and purposes, a nascent being in the world of college sports, so the rules are still being ironed out. But there are those who believe if Iowa was reaching out to Proctor, even if it was to encourage him, then there were ulterior motives to doing so.

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Nigerian governor visits Iowa county fair to learn agriculture strategies

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) – On Wednesday, the governor of the state of Benue in Nigeria visited the Buchanan County Fair to learn more about Iowa’s agriculture.
The state is working to improve their farming systems and is using Iowa as a model to strive for.
Benue is known as the Food Basket of Nigeria but Governor Hyacinth Alia said its agriculture industry isn’t producing up to its full potential and is a hundred years behind Iowa in farming.
“Agriculture, it’s not just meant for sustenance. It is a full-fledged business. So why are we not cashing in on that? We are we not taking advantage of what we have if we have the soil? If we have the water?” Alia said.
That’s why he and his delegates came to visit Iowa – to learn how to increase its output of crops and livestock.
“This is quite a very new learning curve,” Alia said.
Alia said he was surprised to learn just how big some cattle breeds grow in only a year.
He said the cows in Benue are dwarves, so introducing a larger breed could mean more harvestable meat.
“Having one that could be new. Something that would be more productive and something that the livestock farmers would also benefit from and get more from, even commercially,” Alia said.
The delegation also had the chance to visit with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig to talk about strategies to improve crop seedlings to grow more produce and better animal feed.
Alia said he hopes to use Iowa as a model to make Benue’s agriculture even better for both its farmers and the rest of its six million population.
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