Tough day for EIU hoops hopes

No team in history of college basketball can take a 20 point blowout to a 10 point loss in the final minutes like Iowa. That's a strong reason Beth should consider a lifetime contract for Fran.
for NET rankings, there is no difference between being in a contested game that balloons out late to a 10 point loss and what iowa just did. iowa will pull this magic act 4-5 more times this season. its their brand along with shooting FTs. gross. long live mad fran.
 
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B1G NET Rankings.... Woof

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So, the 5th best B1G team just lost miserably on its home court to the 9th best team. Wonder if NET will make a rational adjustment? Our win will end up being Quad 3. How pitiful!

Come on, Fran! Put together a competitive team!! What if they end up getting a really good coach after this year's scrap show? We all know B1G schools have the money.
 
for NET rankings, there is no difference between being in a contested game that balloons out late to a 10 point loss and what iowa just did. iowa will pull this magic act 4-5 more times this season. its their brand along with shooting FTs. gross. long live mad fran.

I'm guessing the sports books take this into consideration when setting the point spread.
 
I wonder if that's a stat that could be found. Most career ejections....

I figured Huggy made the top ten at least.

Tried looking up this and not found much. Saw an article from 2018 detailing his ejections to that point which was 5, he then got one against up in 19, and another against KU in big 12 tourney so he has at least 7.
 
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Fran is going to get canned. They’ll look past him being a total embarrassment when he’s having some success. But being a total clown while also being awful will get you run.
There’s probably a reason Patrick isn’t coming back next season and why his youngest son isn’t committing to Iowa as well.
 
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Fran is going to get canned. They’ll look past him being a total embarrassment when he’s having some success. But being a total clown while also being awful will get you run.
yep. i am abount 90% certain we are watching his last season play out. its not like he is beloved among iowa basketball fans. most are ready to move on.
 
yep. i am abount 90% certain we are watching his last season play out. its not like he is beloved among iowa basketball fans. most are ready to move on.
What does his contract look like, I wonder? Curious how much it's going to cost them, if they want to fire him, or are they hoping he's going to step down on his own?
 
Maybe they'll announce it mid-season like they did with Brian.

Contract: He's signed through 2027-28 and I think makes like $2m/year.

edit: More like $3.5m per
 
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Go Iowa Awesome is that…Awesome!! The torches are lit and pitchforks are getting sharpened! Best part is that the douche poster Franisdaman over there is keeping stats for Clark now. Biggest two faced individual on that site!
 
I'm guessing the sports books take this into consideration when setting the point spread.

They may early, but I was able to make some money on live betting their game against Purdue. You knew that when they were down 30 that it wasn’t going to stay that way when Purdue took their foot off the gas.
 
Wow I was way off.

Does he get all that if they can him? Is ~$14 million a lot to Iowa Athletics?
 
Go Iowa Awesome is that…Awesome!! The torches are lit and pitchforks are getting sharpened! Best part is that the douche poster Franisdaman over there is keeping stats for Clark now. Biggest two faced individual on that site!
meh. they will move on to being mad at kirk, or mad at whatever made CC mad, or mad at the AD soon enough. they are always mad.
 
Iowa kind of had a tough deal coming into the game. They had to play probably the best team in the country on Monday then go on the road to Hilton on Thursday. I'm sure if they didn't have to play on Monday it would have been a better game.
Ahhhh ….Purdont , is not the best team in the country…. They may have been ranked, but not better than AZ or Kansas
 

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