Help is on the way

[atemp]

....May and Cougill. Oh wait it's hard to recruit players to Iowa City, but not a hell hole like West Lafayette.

Also, how many Big Ten Basketball Programs have Basketball only practice facilities? Two: Michigan State and Illinois. This isn't the reason Iowa Basketball is struggling as administrators would lead you to believe. Indiana is building one, but their athletic program is about to go bankrupt.

[Gushawk]

Painter's doing a nice job. He's got proximity to talent on his side, but that doesn't explain everything.

[atemp]

Painter's doing a nice job. He's got proximity to talent on his side, but that doesn't explain everything.

proximity argument falls flat...

[kaugie01]

....May and Cougill. Oh wait it's hard to recruit players to Iowa City, but not a hell hole like West Lafayette.

Also, how many Big Ten Basketball Programs have Basketball only practice facilities? Two: Michigan State and Illinois. This isn't the reason Iowa Basketball is struggling as administrators would lead you to believe. Indiana is building one, but their athletic program is about to go bankrupt.

I have been out of the loop on this, and have really only seen this argument on message boards. Have administrators been trying to say this? (link?)

[PipeDaddy]

Guys, it isn't proximity. It isn't the practice facility (or lack of). It's the fact that Iowa has become a crappy basketball program with no tradition and piss poor fan support.

Dean Smith would come in and have trouble recruiting guys right now.

[kaugie01]

Guys, it isn't proximity. It isn't the practice facility (or lack of). It's the fact that Iowa has become a crappy basketball program with no tradition and piss poor fan support.

Dean Smith would come in and have trouble recruiting guys right now.

Perhaps a good question for debate would be how exactly to instill (or get back) tradition?

[PipeDaddy]

Guys, it isn't proximity. It isn't the practice facility (or lack of). It's the fact that Iowa has become a crappy basketball program with no tradition and piss poor fan support.

Dean Smith would come in and have trouble recruiting guys right now.

Perhaps a good question for debate would be how exactly to instill (or get back) tradition?

Hold a ceremony at half court burning Steve Alford in effigy?

[Heavens]

Start selling beer at the games.

[Gushawk]

There are guys who can come in and recruit to moribund programs, but the question is whether we'd want the baggage that comes with most of them. It's a bit of a catch-22. Lick is a great guy and a good coach...I just don't know that he has what it takes to rebuild a dormant program essentially from scratch.

[Mo T]

There are guys who can come in and recruit to moribund programs, but the question is whether we'd want the baggage that comes with most of them.

We already tried that in the 80's. It did and didn't work.