**2025 Iowa Offseason & Coaching Search Thread***

[douglasbader]

I live in Texas and have better sources than L. Stupid.

 

[BuffettHawk]

Could you share the name? I'm curious where Beth went on this search. PM works

I’m guessing Chris Jans.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

What's the news on Gatens?

He could be interviewing at Indiana for an assistant job

 

[CurdMan]

What's the news on Gatens?

Ben said no thanks

 

[douglasbader]

Who gives a shit about Gatens.

 

[Stomper15]

Who gives a shit about Gatens.

Love Gatens. He graduated and did it right.

I'm very happy with this hire. It was a smart move by Fran and Barta and I know he'll be a great coach because I really enjoyed Gatens' senior season when he played for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Matt Gatens is a high character guy. It's hard to be salty about this hire.

Glad to see gatens back, he was a great hawk during a dark period.

Spieraw was recruiting him previously, certainly plausible that Gatens was the guy recruiting him at Drake and pushed Fran for an offer

Matt Gatens was chewing Patrick McCaffery’s ass early in the game. I don’t know exactly for what, but then he sat down right next to Conor and you could tell Conor fully endorsed the ass reaming.

Gatens was so pissed at Patrick last night. Fran was screaming at him too. He was oblivious to it all.

 

[Herbie2]

Who gives a shit about Gatens.

I do.

 

[BillyBob]

Oh no not Matt Gatens noooooooooo

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Maybe he can find work at BK in Gatens Square

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

I live in Texas and have better sources than L. Stupid.

i’m partial to L. Tard Dumbass

 

[Herky823]

lol at including my post in that

 

[Dr. Zaius]

What's the news on Gatens?

McCollum didn’t hire him. He did talk to Matt but decided to move on

 

[Revolver]

Been following the Discord for potential portal info and good God it has turned into Rivals basically. I don’t know who this Tony Schneider guy is but he posts all the time and is horrible. He acts as though he is heavily involved in Swarm or at a minimum that he consults for them. He just said this about Dix visiting Creighton:
“Maybe he just wants to see the locker rooms and the campus for some of these guys they didn't take many visits the first time around”

long story short, if you don’t have access to the Discord you aren’t missing anything. If anything important pops up in there, someone will post it in here.

 

[Iowatheltics]

Update from TOS, when asked about JD & PS: Expects decisions this week. Thinks Dix going elsewhere, mainly Kansas, but we'll see. Pryce lean he is him coming back, but likes Nebrantska and Illinois. Some sources think he comes back, but wont say until they hear it first-hand.

 

[rodg12]

 

[Iowatheltics]

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Hopefully, his balls drop this offseason.

 

[Fair and Balanced]

they panicked. What I was told, everyone thought IU was going to wait for McCollum and he was going to take that job. Iowa went as far as offering the job to someone else before they realized McCollum was going to be available once IU hired DD. The coach with the original offer balked at our initial NIL commitment so that gave iowa time to talk to McCollum and get it done. Crazy stuff.

Just STFU.

 

[Fair and Balanced]

lol at including my post in that

You love Gatens so much you should probably marry him.

 

[Revolver]

lol at including my post in that

Same with mine. I just said he was chewing Patrick’s ass and that Connor seemed to agree with it.

I CARE!!!!!!!

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Hopefully, his balls drop this offseason.

He was highly recruited but not sure how many other choices he had with limited film and a bad ticker

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

He was highly recruited but not sure how many other choices he had with limited film and a bad ticker

If Traore ever gets to the line, he could shoot his free throws left handed.

 

[Iowatheltics]

He was highly recruited but not sure how many other choices he had with limited film and a bad ticker

Bad ticker?

 

[OlePeep]

He was highly recruited but not sure how many other choices he had with limited film and a bad ticker

This is the first revealing I’ve seen of his mystery illness/condition. Seems rather serious.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

pSVT?

 

[snips]

had to look that up

PSVT is a type of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) characterized by a sudden, rapid, and regular increase in heart rate that originates in the upper chambers of the heart (atria)

 

[CamelTones]

Thought it was blood clots in his lungs.

Also doesn’t sound like Traore or the Miami transfer are sticking despite not being in the portal.

 

[The Dad]

He was highly recruited but not sure how many other choices he had with limited film and a bad ticker

Maybe at some point he’ll help the team gathers some post season momentum.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I was under that impression, but as repeatedly mentioned here, I could be wrong. I thought that was common knowledge.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

pSVT?

I don’t think so. I was under the impression that surgery was not needed.

my daughter had surgery for WPW last October and she was able to play a full hoops season almost immediately after. Pretty amazing, really.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Maybe at some point he’ll help the team gathers some post season momentum.

we would probably lewis in the first round regardless

 

[Fair and Balanced]

Bad ticker?

Don’t encourage this nonsense.

 

[Iowatheltics]

From TOS late last year: "yeah, I think since it caused hospitalization, it was really kept under wraps. There was a podcast that Mulvey did a month or so back right after it happened and Mulvey said he was in the hospital for the "same thing that happened to me" the year before. Lots of speculation that it was shoulder or rhabdo related and a close source I know told me privately that he had heard that he was considering a medical redshirt."

If it was rhabdo my son had that and was in the hospital almost a week, he lifted the same body area three days straight. Heavy fluids in the hospital for four days then got out, he still pain in the chest area two weeks after and the doc's said take it easy for next few months. So I can see if above is true, how that could have sidelined Cooper. JMO

 

[Stomper15]

Seems like a weird thing to say -- "push the envelope"

 

[The Dad]

Seems like a weird thing to say -- "push the envelope"

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Even if the money is the same, I don’t blame either for going elsewhere. They didn’t grow up iowa fans like cooper- they wanted to play for Fran.

 

[Jim Tebow]

Great news re Koch. Koch and dix are the only guys i cared about getting back. Pris and traore - ok ill take em and think they can contribute as role players. The rest? Totally replaceable. Generally better to jettison. I guess kingsbury can also stay.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Great news re Koch. Koch and dix are the only guys i cared about getting back. Pris and traore - ok ill take em and think they can contribute as role players. The rest? Totally replaceable. Generally better to jettison. I guess kingsbury can also stay.

 

[Hawk24]

Seems like a weird thing to say -- "push the envelope"

The saying is supposed to be “push the outside of the envelope.” As in push the boundaries. The first time I ever heard it used was in “The Right Stuff.” But as with so many other phrases, more people get it wrong than right and that’s the version that becomes accepted.

 

[CamelTones]

I find it funny that he’s been pushing to get Pryce, Cooper and Josh back but doesn’t give 2 shits about Ladji who left the door open for Iowa. But Iowa appears to have closed the door and latched it as he walked out.

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Good

 

[Billy Butters]

I find it funny that he’s been pushing to get Pryce, Cooper and Josh back but doesn’t give 2 shits about Ladji who left the door open for Iowa. But Iowa appears to have closed the door and latched it as he walked out.

If Ladji was white he would be the most hated player ever. One of the slowest, least athletic players I have ever seen with a feel for the game to match. Even Mccollum admits there is no hope for that kid.

 

[Brad Wesley]

If Ladji was white he would be the most hated player ever. One of the slowest, least athletic players I have ever seen with a feel for the game to match. Even Mccollum admits there is no hope for that kid.

Coach him up. He must be confident he can find a better big man.

 

[WCFHawkeye]

Coach him up. He must be confident he can find a better big man.

I am confident he can find a better big man, and I don't know dick about fuck. I do know he sucked.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Decent outside shooter

 

[AZmessDAWG]

Coach him up. He must be confident he can find a better big man.

Coach him up? He’s horrible.

 

[BBK]

From everything we've learned about McCollum so far, it's pretty safe to assume he knows our roster pretty well

 

[RecreationalGynecologist]

I find it funny that he’s been pushing to get Pryce, Cooper and Josh back but doesn’t give 2 shits about Ladji who left the door open for Iowa. But Iowa appears to have closed the door and latched it as he walked out.

He's not a D1 basketball player skill-wise.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

He's not a D1 basketball player skill-wise.

don’t be stupid. Get rid of the long 2pt attempts and get him some defensive coaching and he’s a fine bench guy.

 

[Jim Tebow]

don’t be stupid. Get rid of the long 2pt attempts and get him some defensive coaching and he’s a fine bench guy.

agreed he can play d1. But he's a lower d1 center. Not a big ten power forward. i think he'd be an adequate 10-12th man for post depth at this point. But at this stage i'd rather have that spot taken by an underclassmen that could some day be more.