They hate Pollard, absolutely despise him. He had the audacity to not bow down to the great Hawkeyes. That billboard is still living in their heads.
Down goes Iowa
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Iowa can still make it to the Final Four.
If they can find tickets.
If they can find tickets.
The blame Pollard narrative didn't start until after they lost to Richmond. Prior to it, many of them thought they got a great draw and were looking forward to seeing Iowa playing in April.
There is a loud refrain among fans and media people that this loss isn't on Fran, it's on the players.
Yeah, it's not on the guy making millions of dollars who recruited, coached, developed, and prepared every one of the players for the game yesterday. Can't be his fault, it has to be a bunch of 20 year olds. Jeez some of the guys lengths these guys will go to not blame the one guy whose responsibility it is blows my mind.
There are recent iowa graduates walking around who weren't even alive to see that.
It will leak in about 2 months that there was a secret extension given to him after they won the Little 14 tournament...
Then don’t come to the thread. It’s pretty simple.
Its this and its very strange to see, IMO.
When Larry went B2B big 12 season and tourney champs to lose in the first round, I can't think of a newspaper in Iowa that didn't want him fired. Iowa has the national media talking them up and their run at the end of regular season and B10 tourney... to poof out to a lowly team in round 1. The Iowa media response? anything but fire fran.
so report it so it gets moved quicker. I have been in the thread and didn't know it was in MBB instead of ISR, once I realized it... I moved it. Belly aching about it out here is strange.
Yeah, it was so unfair Iowa was forced to play the 6th place team in the Atlantic 10 Conference, on a court above ice, with a slippery basketball, in an arena with unusual sight lines. Those poor Hawkeye fans definitely got cheated.
If you're going to make excuses you may as well use them all in one shot.
wowza.... LSU had one less day of rest than we did.
Richmond played four games in four days and had the same rest period as Iowa.
Nothing is across the country from Iowa.... Nothing.
My only reply to that galaxy brain would be this: Were you concerned about playing in the BIG10 tourney on Saturday or Sunday, or did you enjoy the run and had fun?
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It probably was hard on Iowa playing.
Sarcasm meter is on....
Don't you understand? Out of the 68 teams in the tournament, the only one the NCAA didn't want in the final 4 is Iowa. And let's not forget "Hawkeye-envious" Pollard was on the committee.
The immaturity of fans to think that and wrap their existence around how a sports team does is truly baffling. Just accept the loss and move on with your life. It's not that difficult!
