KCRG-Gazette webcast -- It's cold in Minnesota and Iowa

Don't know what to make out of the the running back from Kenosha, Wis., who decommitted from Iowa after he watched Wisconsin beat Ohio State and then re-affirmed his commitment to Iowa to only decommit probably, really, because he's from Wisconsin and Bret Bielema kept recruiting him after he committed to Iowa because that's how NCAA football recruiting goes.

Longest sentence I've ever written.

Gazette reporter Scott Dochterman had KF radio duty tonight and wrote this after Ferentz was asked about supposed reason. Might be bogus. This report isn't coming from us. Who knows. Kid might've been looking for an out.

Hey, recruiting headlines are written in invisible ink. They're not real until Feb. 2. It's all fair game. How it goes. One recruit doesn't make a program, I assume everyone knows that. Iowa likely will sign a full 25 this season. Bielema probably will try to steal another Iowa recruit. Kirk Ferentz might try to get one from him. How it goes in NCAA football recruiting, which profligates piracy by ignoring the need for an early signing period.

Iowa has lost four games this season. It'll lose three or four times that in recruiting. If you don't have the stomach for it, wait until Feb. 2 and just see who Iowa signed.

Judging by reax on messageboards and here, it seems most Iowa fans are down with this and understand that an 18-year-old kid whose home-state school became a killing machine in 2010 under the strength of an army of running backs might want to stay close to home.

Lots of sincere things were said to reaffirm Melvin Gordon's commitment after it was reported he visited Madison during the Badgers' victory over Ohio State, but nothing is official until the fax crackles and whirs on Feb. 2.

Recruiting is fiction until Feb. 2. Fiction. That's just the way it is. Ferentz knows this and you know Bielema does.

Maybe that's a wildly cynical and simple view of how this works. But remember, until the fax crackles and whirs, this whole deal that is recruiting is open to interpretation.

Be open to the possibilities, but be steeled for the disappointments.

Here's this week's webcast.