Graham Couch: Iowa Basketball is a mid-major roster

http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...te-cyclones-agree-10-year-20-million-contract

It looks like it was right after the 2011 season and before their bowl game that year. His record at that point would have been 18-19 overall and 9-16 in the Big 12. The extension put his buyout at $7.5M and would decrease $750K each year.

Based on that extension and what he had accomplished at ISU, I find it hard any any ISU fan to mock Fran's extension.

18-19 at that time after 3 years was promising. It's not like it was year 8. Hell what was Campbell's record when he just got extended? Do you think that was dumb of Pollard?
 
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Bottom line is none of us know how either team will perform next year. Both teams coming off horrible seasons.

I understand Cyclone fans being optimistic......but we're all talking out our rear ends at this point.

Just sayin...
 
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...te-cyclones-agree-10-year-20-million-contract

It looks like it was right after the 2011 season and before their bowl game that year. His record at that point would have been 18-19 overall and 9-16 in the Big 12. The extension put his buyout at $7.5M and would decrease $750K each year.

Based on that extension and what he had accomplished at ISU, I find it hard any any ISU fan to mock Fran's extension.
I think it's still the fact that we took a risk throwing an extension at what we thought was a rising guy, saw that it wasn't working out, and moved on.

What in the past couple years has Fran done to warrant keeping his own job, nonetheless silently extending it? Again: we moved on from our underacheiving coach. Ya'll didn't. Big difference in extending at year 3 or so instead of, like, 8.
 
Bottom line is none of us know how either team will perform next year. Both teams coming off horrible seasons.

I understand Cyclone fans being optimistic......but we're all talking out our rear ends at this point.

Just sayin...

I know ISU will be better than Iowa in basketball next year
 
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The ISU AD budget in FY 2012 was $47M.

The Iowa AD budget was about $129M in FY 2017.

One of the extensions was peanuts for the respective schools and it wasn't ISU.
Even if it’s peanuts for Iowa that doesn’t mean it’s good.
 
Even if it’s peanuts for Iowa that doesn’t mean it’s good.

And neither was the ISU extension of Rhoads which was widely celebrated by ISU fans.

I mean at that time there were a lot of ISU fans that thought Rhoads was a better coach than KF.
 
And neither was the ISU extension of Rhoads which widely celebrated by ISU fans.
Very realistic rumors of Rhoads and Wisconsin so it’s tough to blame. Has Fran been approached by any high level schools in the same realm as Wisconsin is in football? Like a Louisville?
 
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Very realistic rumors of Rhoads and Wisconsin so it’s tough to blame. Has Fran been approached by any high level schools in the same realm as Wisconsin is in football? Like a Louisville?

No clue.
 
The Indiana and PSU games came on the heals of the loss to ISU, by that time I think the team had all but given up. Which is not good for the coaching staff. Once that happened I feel like they stopped playing for each other. Coach or no coach if people do not like one another or feel confident in them things fall apart. Add in the early season Baer injury, Pemsl injury, Transfer by Williams, and Connor being hurt, things unravelled quickly.

Wagner not wanting to be there was obvious after Christmas, Ellingson was not good for the BT and Uhl mailed it in.

ISU had worse injuries, but they took a toll for Iowa too, as did the lack of upper classmen leadership.

They pretty much played the same way the entire season. From getting rolled by Lafayette and South Dakota State in the Caymans, they never exerted effort on defense. All season. Every game. Same thing. It was hideous to watch.
 
Iowa State will have the better basketball season, but too many Iowans to overcome in Iowa City to win in Carver.
 

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