McCaffery says he's not into recruiting 'projects'

IOWA CITY - Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said Thursday he's open to recruiting players at all positions next year.

"I have two scholarships left and what I will do with those scholarships is recruit the best possible player that I can get," he said. "Now you look at our teams and we kind of need a big guy. That's true. But you improve your team with talent.

"In a perfect world you'd say well, I need a 6-6 guy, and a 6-10 guy or a 6-3 guy and a 6-7 guy. But it doesn't always work that way. If there was a guard out that we really liked and thought he could help our team, we'd recruit him."

McCaffery also said he will recruit players that will help the team immediately, not down the road. That includes post players.

"I probably should say front-court player because in a perfect world he'd be 6-10 or bigger," he said. "But one thing about me is I'm not going to bring a guy in who is 6-11 if he can't play. I'm not into recruiting projects. I don't think at the University of Iowa we should be recruiting projects. We need somebody that can help us.

"Sometimes that person is 6-7 rather than 6-11. Well, what I'm going to bring in is somebody that can help us immediately."