The problem isn’t having the McCaffery’s on the team. They’re scholarship-worthy. I know the nepotism freaks will disagree but it’s true.
The problem is he can’t recruit at a high enough level to play the way he wants to play. He could adjust his style of play to match what he can recruit but I don’t see that happening.
I think having them negatively effects recruiting some but putting aside my disagreement with you on Connor (and maybe Patrick but I'll agree to a wait and see) can you please elaborate on this? What do you think is high enough level? Are you talking stars or athletes. I don't necessarily give a shit on number of stars a recruit has next to his name but I can turn on any MAC game and see a bunch of kids that would run circles around Iowa players. Given the chance I suspect the athlete who may turn the ball over 3-5 times a game gives us a better chance to win than the less athletic smart kids.
Fran is always in on the type of athletes who appear to be good players but can never close. His fallbacks options are really bothersome though. Using our defensive backs as an example, Iowa offers many highly rated kids and then also recruits athletes from inner cities that have MAC offers as secondary targets and then fills out the roster with Tommy Soybeans. Connor and the Murray twins should be the the soybeans, not primary or secondary members of the class.
There is no reason you cant get some really athletic black kids to come to Iowa to play basketball. Iowa State does it. Iowa football convinces kids to move from Georgia and Florida to Iowa. We can't get a bunch of kids from Chicago and Detroit?