Weird, there’s a different, much better way to approach that aspect of the game. I wonder if there’s other areas? I probably haven’t watched enough or studied the analytics enough to know.
And obviously Fran can’t get a step up in support. He had a couple player of the year guys, had good seeding seasons, won the big ten tournament. Yet here we are. Thinking that’s as good as it gets isn’t insane, thinking that others might think it could be better but that makes them sports idiots, is.
Why are all of your arguments here refutations of things people aren’t saying?
It’s incredible.
Because we’re literally talking about something that hasn’t happened. Part of being a successful college basketball coach is getting financial support. Does Iowa basketball have good financial support?
It seems to me you’re just scared to say that Fran should be fired. I’m sure if he just hired a defensive coach things will change.
If Iowa fucking state with arguably the worse resources for any major program anywhere can do what they’ve done then Iowa should be able to have a sweet 16 run more than every few decades
No. Shit.
They play in a better arena with a much better atmosphere. ISU is a better job.
I think you should be. If he takes Iowa to the sweet 16 I’ll be happy to be wrong. I don’t think it’s possible with him at this point, and anything short of that is a disappointing season at this point.
Eat shit, faggot.
Are you saying you want him to go for a walk while Jack is on a leisurely cruise?!
Twice - Tennessee play-in in 2014. Which ironically would have been the easiest road to the Sweet Sixteen Fran has had.
It didn't used to be
It still isn’t. Some of you need to get a grip.
Just because Fran cant do it, doesn't mean that no one can. JFC look at all the shitty schools who have advanced in the tournament over the last 14 years
that’s why things don’t change. People like to complain, but no will actually step up and help us win. So just enjoy having a good but stale program. We are exactly repeating the Davis era without the off the court issues.
lol that Fran “can’t” do it. He HASNT done it, but we’ve had good enough teams.
Ok Fran hasn't done it, if you really want to bitch about semantics.
What were the off the court issues for Davis?
it’s not semantics.
well, four of his best recruits didn’t make it to graduation, and 3 of them only lasted one year. Walker never played a game.
Among active power coaches, Tad Boyle has been at Colorado for 14 years with none. Him, Fran and Brownell were hired the same year. Brownell made one S16 but only made the tournament 3 times and lost R1 the other two prior to this year.
If he can just do it once, he’ll tie Johnny Orr.
Now that some of you have discovered women's sports for the first time, the next step is to become functionally literate.
Two sweet 16s with an elite 8 appearance is light years better than Francis.
So 1/3 of our tournament appearances under Fran ended with losses to double digit seeds. Neat.
In addition to the Hawkeyes I am a fan of: