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

[Hawk&Balls]

I act like a woman so you'll leave me alone

 

[26.2]

As much as I hate @The Dad I have to back him up here. He didn't end up bringing her, but he WOULD HAVE if I hadn't shamed the fuck outta him for even mentioning it. Make no mistake though if I hadn't she would've been with him.

#notallheroeswearcapes

So you're telling me he DIDN"T take his daughter golfing with his buddies?????
Fuck I wrote that one in pen in my book.

 

[Finnegan]

This guy does his homework.......

Men’s college basketball transfer portal winners and losers, from Michigan to Memphis - The Athletic

Iowa
Portal additions: Bennett Stirtz, Alvaro Folgueiras, Brendan Hausen, Tavion Banks, Isaia Howard, Cam Manyawu, Kael Combs

Ben McCollum’s best teams at Northwest Missouri State had a star point guard and a stretch big. Last year at Drake, McCollum had the star point guard in Bennett Stirtz but was missing the stretch big. McCollum got Stirtz, the top transfer in our rankings, to follow him to Iowa, and now he has his stretch big in Folgueiras, who was the Horizon League player of the year at Robert Morris and went for 15 points, 10 boards and four assists in an NCAA Tournament loss to Alabama. Folgueiras should be perfect in McCollum’s system and help open the floor for Stirtz. McCollum also got his Mitch Mascari replacement in Kansas State transfer Hausen, who made 90 3s this past season.

McCollum had four other Drake rotation guys follow him along with Stirtz, most notably Manyawu and Banks. Both are slightly undersized for the high-major level but have the athleticism to make up for it. McCollum was convinced last preseason that Howard would eventually end up at the high-major level, so pencil him into the 2025-26 the breakout list. As McCollum proved in his first year at Drake, continuity matters when it comes to his system. Iowa is still looking for one more guard to round out its rotation, but with the talent of Stirtz, the history of McCollum and the addition of a player like Folgueiras, I’m tempted to put the Hawkeyes in my next Top 25.

 

[YugoslavianMountainHound]

Chief of Staff? Are they just making stuff up now? What's next? Sergeant at Arms?

The sergeant at arms was blackmailed into leaving his post.

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

 

[26.2]

This guy does his homework.......

Men’s college basketball transfer portal winners and losers, from Michigan to Memphis - The Athletic

Fuck we are gonna win the big 10!

 

[BBK]

Fuck we are gonna win the big 10!

If it happens, you and I are going to snoodle at the sculpture park

 

[26.2]

If it happens, you and I are going to snoodle at the sculpture park

You have my 100% guarantee we are gonna fukken PARTY together if that happens

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Oh, I promise we are adding another guard that knows the system really well.

 

[KitKatApples]

You have my 100% guarantee we are gonna fukken PARTY together if that happens

Rager?

 

[26.2]

Rager?

Oh most definitely

 

[KitKatApples]

 

[Stomper15]

I’m guessing that’s the GM type role.

I don't think so.

That job was just posted last Friday and remains open. Also a shitty salary.

Job Opportunities

hawkeyesports.com

 

[HiawathaHawk]

 

[douglasbader]

I don't think so.

That job was just posted last Friday and remains open. Also a shitty salary.

Job Opportunities

hawkeyesports.com

$150k+ isn't shitty for that given what these guys usually get.

 

[26.2]

If it happens, you and I are going to snoodle at the sculpture park

You're talking the Seattle sculpture park, correct?

 

[BBK]

Kezza Giffa sounds like a name of a Veermok on Naboo

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Everyone leaving seems to be committing to shitty teams other than Dix/Freeman. Great job Fran.

 

[Talkin' Goat]

Tadjo to Santa Clara

 

[Fletch]

Harding somehow got to TCU

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Likely on an airplane

 

[Herbie2]

Harding somehow got to TCU

The last time they had a winning conference record was the 2000-2001 season.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Likely on an airplane

You cannot possibly know that

 

[Hawk&Balls]

Hence, likely

 

[RecreationalGynecologist]

Seargent

 

[Gushawk]

Kezza Giffa sounds like a name of a Veermok on Naboo

The Kezza, the Giffa, the Old Dirty Bastard, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon the Chef, U-God, Ghost Face Killah, and M-E-T-H-O-D Man!

 

[Gushawk]

 

[nikolausp]

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Halo is more interested in high cal cookin

 

[Lil Scamp]

Halo is more interested in high cal cookin

I could 100% go for some stoned Ripken vittles right now

 

[rodg12]

 

[Mysterio]

there now some people can be happy theres a carryover from mccaffery's staff

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Despite graduating from a defunct high school that produced nothing but losers, I heard that Denning is really good at organizing the camps and other events

 

[douglasbader]

Sort of funny Denning gets to stay and Gatens was told "no thanks".

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Sort of funny Denning gets to stay and Gatens was told "no thanks".

Gatens could have stayed in a much lower role

 

[WestMifflin]

Despite graduating from a defunct high school that produced nothing but losers, I heard that Denning is really good at organizing the camps and other events

TIL NU High doesn't exist anymore.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

TIL NU High doesn't exist anymore.

I mean, it never really did, if you played sports in the NICL.

 

[WestMifflin]

I mean, it never really did, if you played sports in the NICL.

Serves them right. Our student sections were brutal. It was wild! Our towns hated each other.

 

[Mr. Hawk]

I mean, it never really did, if you played sports in the NICL.

They had more track state championships than that rest of the NICL combined, and in the generation before that, won the conference at football a majority of years for decades.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

They had more track state championships than that rest of the NICL combined.

Congrats on supporting sexual diversity before it was trendy.

 

[Mysterio]

gatens doesnt appear to be the hot commodity many iowa fans think he was

 

[L. Wade Childress]

gatens doesnt appear to be the hot commodity many iowa fans think he was

How old are his kids?

Probably not in a big rush to do anything.

 

[BBK]

Gatens could have stayed in a much lower role

I heard that too. Did Dave tell you that at the thing the other night?

 

[Geese]

gatens doesnt appear to be the hot commodity many iowa fans think he was

Iowa fans think he's a hot commodity? Huh did not know that.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I heard that too. Did Dave tell you that at the thing the other night?

Dan*

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

They had more track state championships than that rest of the NICL combined, and in the generation before that, won the conference at football a majority of years for decades.

Nobody gives a shit about the 50s and 60s.

 

[The Incredible Hawk]

TIL NU High doesn't exist anymore.

It closed in 2012.

 

[Saul Berkley]

gatens doesnt appear to be the hot commodity many iowa fans think he was

I haven't paid attention to what Fran is doing at Penn but surprised Gatens didn't get an offer there. Although I'm sure it would pay far less.

 

[Mr. Hawk]

Nobody gives a shit about the 50s and 60s.

The track championships (many sequential) were in the late 80's through the 90's, and, iirc, the school with classes of around 60 kids held the Drake relays 4x400 record for about a decade (competing against 4A and 5A schools). I'd also guess between 1987 and 2000 they had more DI football players on rosters than the rest of the conference combined, and a state BB title in 2008.

And we probably shouldn't even get into professional achievements

 

[KitKatApples]

@Mr. Hawk is layin knowledge on fools