Tough day for EIU hoops hopes
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Never understood why Cronin left Cincinnati to coach in an empty Pauley Pavillian when Cinci fans come out and pack the gym
UCLA is a blue blood, however dormant they may currently be.
So was Army in the 1960’s. They are not a blue blood anymore.
UCLA is a lot like my lawn during the drought last summer. I thought I'd let it go dormant, but it passed dormant and advanced to dead.
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Just saw that Iowa hosted two recruits for their game against Minnesota this past Sunday.
Can you imagine bringing someone in to that mausoleum on Super Bowl Sunday, in front of tens of hundreds of fans, and then saying "What do you think? Do you want to be a Hawkeye?"
Then again, Fran really knows how to make a pitch to goofy looking guys like this, so maybe it'll work.
Can you imagine bringing someone in to that mausoleum on Super Bowl Sunday, in front of tens of hundreds of fans, and then saying "What do you think? Do you want to be a Hawkeye?"
Then again, Fran really knows how to make a pitch to goofy looking guys like this, so maybe it'll work.
The Des Moines metro area has a population of 740k. Add a few tens of thousands more for Ames and other surrounding cities within driving distance, but it's not a "pool" over one MM.
The LA metro area has a population of 13 million. Including interior regions like Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura pushes that closer to 18 million.
Yet that piddly Iowa population manages to pack Iowa State's Jack Trice and Hilton meanwhile UCLA can barely get anybody at all to come to their football and basketball games.
Why is UCLA a "better get" again? Mostly a rhetorical question here, but I wonder sometimes. Southwest Ohio is bigger than central Iowa but the same would be true with Cincinnati.
The LA metro area has a population of 13 million. Including interior regions like Riverside, San Bernardino, Ontario, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura pushes that closer to 18 million.
Yet that piddly Iowa population manages to pack Iowa State's Jack Trice and Hilton meanwhile UCLA can barely get anybody at all to come to their football and basketball games.
Why is UCLA a "better get" again? Mostly a rhetorical question here, but I wonder sometimes. Southwest Ohio is bigger than central Iowa but the same would be true with Cincinnati.
If Ben Johnson is not out recruiting Fran then they got a huge problem.
Iowa’s athletic department should have been proactive and made it a red out for Iowa fans too. So then it wouldn’t look as bad when the visitor fans outnumber the home fans when they pan over the crowd.
Surprised they found seats with all the people around them. You sure this isn’t from practice? There is no one else in the photos, lol.
Fran certainly has a type and these two definitely fit that mold.
Indiana isn’t anymore either. Been a good 3+ decades.
idk... they are still a blue blood and only a handful of successful seasons from being "back"
How malleable is the list of blue bloods?
Kentucky, Kansas, Duke and NC seem to be the unquestioned mainstays.
But would Duke have been considered one before K‘s career?
UCLA and Indiana have been mediocre for a long time, UCLA is a little harder to drop completely due to the magnitude of their accomplishments.
While they’re more “new money” I’ve seen enough to include UConn on the list now
Kentucky, Kansas, Duke and NC seem to be the unquestioned mainstays.
But would Duke have been considered one before K‘s career?
UCLA and Indiana have been mediocre for a long time, UCLA is a little harder to drop completely due to the magnitude of their accomplishments.
While they’re more “new money” I’ve seen enough to include UConn on the list now
I do miss the "ginger" era though....
L - O -L at that "carver cone" in the first pic.....
Their last championship was nearly 30 years ago. Their second last was nearly 50 years ago. They had a helluva run 60 years ago.
I question the "once a blue blood, always a blue blood" premise.