The Fran fade
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Mods please remove the password from this thread for the Hawk fans. I would really like to get their perspective on the CJ thing.
It blows my mind how Fran refuses to target guards. He loves the slow lengthy kids but clearly guard play has been their weakness for years. Joe T is not good and neither is Ulis.
Iowa fandom is high on everyone. You don't get to go to Iowa unless you are AA material. The process we are watching unfold in Iowa City right now is not about if anyone is good. They all are. This is the selection process of who get's to be the star, the center piece.
Obviously that will be Connor with Patrick as the understudy. The Uhlis talk is something Fran and staff propagated to not make it look like Connor was gifted the position.
But make no mistake, as Iowa's football season loses its shine (should be right after they visit Ames) you will see stories start to get published about the Connor, how he postponed baseball career, now it's his team, blah blah.
You can google it, but he was Henry #8's chancellor and a devout Catholic. When Henry #8 invented the Anglican Church to OK his divorces, More didn't go along with it and was beheaded. That's pretty devout.
Not to be confused with St Thomas Aquinas. Or the OG St Thomas. Or St Thomas of Onalaska.
If you are going to have hope, you have to have SOMETHING to believe in that is at least plausible.
I seriously think they are like those people that define their teams as athletic with the baseline being 5 random students at the U of I, not a power conference basketball team.
When you use an average power conference team, you could say Joe T. is above average athletically, and whichever of Pat Mac or Murray that is playing the 4, you could MAYBE say they are above average athletically for a 4. Otherwise, relative to the typical power conference team they are very unathletic.
It is important to point out that the Big 10 as a whole was pretty unathletic as a whole. Illinois was completely overwhelming the conference athletically, both with their guard play and Cockburn. Then Loyola has no problem with their quickness. It doesn't mean the teams weren't good, but even their good teams - Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Purdue, were very underwhelming in terms of the number of explosive athletes they put on the court.
Mulvey somehow looks less athletic than Woodbury.
Interested to know how Mulvey ended up picking Iowa? I am quoting a small segment from the following link (https://www.si.com/college/syracuse/recruiting/riley-mulvey-to-iowa-whats-next-for-syracuse)
"The Hawkeyes had been the favorite for quite a while as Iowa's head coach was a friend of the Mulvey family." I guess it really is ALL about family with the Hoks.
"The Hawkeyes had been the favorite for quite a while as Iowa's head coach was a friend of the Mulvey family." I guess it really is ALL about family with the Hoks.
A while was 6 years and $6.5 million. And that was 20-30 years ago.
Connor McCaffrey "liked" this tweet
"Fran McCaffery: Probably Only a Little Below Just Under Being a Hall of Fame Coach"
Imagine that kid against Izzo's brawlers and whatever 7-foot Samsqwanch starts at the 5 for Purdue this year.