Where are the sanctimonious Iowa fans calling out Rebel on his making light of a high school kids injuries?
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They are googling sanctimonious right now. Sounds like a rash or something.
Chris still not understand that everything is ISU/Iowa to Hawkeye fans/players
JFC Wade, Fran signed a Felon once.
This guy gets it...and yet he doesn't. Fran isn't going to change...he is in his 12th year and the transfer portal isn't his thing. What he doesn't get is that recruiting in basketball has changed...you now must use the transfer portal if you want to remain competitive...and you must be able to integrate disparate parts into a cohesive team...every year.
Fran got lucky the past couple of years with Garza...without Garza they don't even sniff the dance. And yet, let's sign Fran for a 6 year contract...
Shhhhhh.... don't tell them. Maybe this will end up as the equivalent of the KU football program, handing out free money to underwhelming coaches
He should be playing this summer. Meniscus is not a big deal.
I think there's a point in which he's correct in general - with so many transfers being the norm, you are going to see some teams that perform WAY below the sum of their parts. While ISU was not a talented team, it had guys that were legitimate power conference players and couldn't fall ass backwards into a single respectable win.
But where a lot of people are wrong is thinking this is simply an alternative, or a something you can use a little bit to supplement a roster full of veteran guys. What Iowa had last year isn't going to exist hardly ever, anywhere. A situation that combines multiple years of a roster where guys are happy with how good the team is and their own roles, yet not good enough to bolt for the pros is going to be incredibly rare.
Hawk fans are in for such a letdown. They really are using the baseline projecting next year thinking they were a legit top 10 or even 5 team. They weren't close. It's not losing in the round of 32. It's being completely exposed that you don't belong on the same court as a team that was shown to not be all that good themselves. It's showing that a team that overwhelmed your conference with it's athleticism looked very ordinary athletically against a Missouri Valley Team.
Face it, prior to this tournament, there hadn't been a significant number of interconference data points to accurately judge how good conferences were since December of 2019. So really people were just guessing how good each conference was leading up to the tournament. And it was clear that most of us guessed wrong, and drastically overrated the Big 10.
Rational Hawkeye fans knew it was coming. Iowa State has way too much to sell to be bad for more than a couple years. Iowa caught lightning in a bottle and Iowa State caught some bad breaks. It happens but it's all 100% correctable.