***2024-2025 Iowa Men’s Basketball Season Thread***

BBK

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We need 4 of the next 5 to stay alive for tournament consideration.

Our remaining schedule after that is brutal
 

kenos

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the only place this team is going after the BTT is to the year-end banquet

a couple will go to fran's office and be told iowa is no longer a good fit -- maybe dembele and tadjo (but pryce, freeman, and harding will stay)

fran will go pg shopping and maybe get another thelwell-level guy

next year's team will be more athletic and still find a way to give up 90 against anyone with a pulse
 

Wanderer

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I have three tickets and a parking spot in the dental lot for tomorrow game. Tickets are in the front row behind a basket. Fun place to watch. Next to Hawkeye Elvis! Make an offer.
 

Wanderer

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Ha. I get it’s not the hottest ticket in town. I’ll just go if no one wants. Just offering it up.
 

brantshawks

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Fuck, I wish I could make that happen this week. That sounds like a great night
 

AZmessDAWG

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We have band practice otherwise I wouldn’t.
 

Saul Berkley

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Assuming the Hawks miss the NCAA tournament, what is the more likely way for a Fran departure: He gets fired or he decides to "retire" and walk away?
 

WCFHawkeye

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Assuming the Hawks miss the NCAA tournament, what is the more likely way for a Fran departure: He gets fired or he decides to "retire" and walk away?
Large Marge is the decision-maker in that house. They go to Indianapolis when she is ready.
 

Talkin' Goat

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Assuming the Hawks miss the NCAA tournament, what is the more likely way for a Fran departure: He gets fired or he decides to "retire" and walk away?
I would assume BDB and Fran talk about a buyout that is less than the full contract buyout but more than him retiring and getting nothing. He gets to retire on his own terms (without getting fired) with an extra chunk of change and Iowa saves a little vs flat out firing him. Everyone walks away in a decent spot.
 

BillyBob

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Large Marge is the decision-maker in that house. They go to Indianapolis when she is ready.

I think Patrick will move home when he realizes the labor market doesn’t have many openings for someone who has to quit every few weeks for anxiety.
 

L. Wade Childress

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Fran could walk away right now with a pretty decent legacy. No sense in him ruining that, but again this is the same guy who thinks you can be competitive in the tournament without playing any defense or black guards.
 
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Assuming the Hawks miss the NCAA tournament, what is the more likely way for a Fran departure: He gets fired or he decides to "retire" and walk away?
The odds of him getting fired are the same as the odds Kirk get fired if we go 6-6 next year.
 

L. Wade Childress

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Yeah, but one of those programs didn’t sabotage it by giving his kid a role for which he was far under qualified.

oh wait.
 

Soda Popinski

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I have three tickets and a parking spot in the dental lot for tomorrow game. Tickets are in the front row behind a basket. Fun place to watch. Next to Hawkeye Elvis! Make an offer.
I thought he moved to California?
 

Lee Beevers

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Not sure. Hasn’t been to a game this year that I’ve gone to but have sat by him for years.
Do you think he was in support of construction workers doing the wave at lunchtime?
 
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