Carson Hinzman has made several visits to Iowa, but this one was different.
His fourth trip to Iowa City was an official visit and it also affording the four star offensive lineman to meet the Hawkeyes new offensive line coach, George Barnett, for the first time.
“I really like him and think he’s a great guy,” Hinzman said following his official visit. “He’s more of a thinker and measured in his manner. I think he had Coach Polasek have the same type of passion for coaching the position, but they express it differently.”
What also stood out to the 6-foot-5 and 280 pound member of the Class of 2022 was the time that the Iowa head coach spent with him on the visit.
“I think I spent more time with Coach Ferentz than any other recruit, which I thought was crazy.”
Iowa also had another weapon to use in recruiting Hinzman, who projects to potentially play center in college, and that was to have All American center Tyler Linderbaum host him on his visit.
“I was hosted by Tyler Linderbaum and it was great to just listen to him and hear what he had to say about Iowa and the program.”
The Hawkeye center left a huge impression on Hinzman simply by showing interest and learning more about him as a person.
“I really liked it because on a couple of other visits the guys didn’t make too much of an effort to get to know the player. He really made the effort to do that with me and the other guys and that was really cool,” he said.
Hinzman has now completed four official visits during the month of June. He made trips to his home state school, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and now Iowa. He said Alabama is trying to get him and his family to visit in July or perhaps later this summer, but he is unsure if that will take place.
His hope is that he will be able to make the difficult choice of which college to attend before the start of his senior season.
“I think I would like to get things done the start of my senior year, but I tend to be a little indecisive, so we will see how it goes. It’s going to be a tough decision.”
