I laugh how they ran Dr. Tom out for not taking them to the next level, yet are okay with Fran who is one-two levels below Dr. Tom. Good thing the stain of Lick is still entrenched with that fanbase, so I see Fran getting chased out when he doesn't do anything with his sons (who they think are 5-star recruits) after playing there.
Seemingly never ending Iowa MBB thread (still going.....)
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I laugh how they ran Dr. Tom out for not taking them to the next level, yet are okay with Fran who is one-two levels below Dr. Tom. Good thing the stain of Lick is still entrenched with that fanbase, so I see Fran getting chased out when he doesn't do anything with his sons (who they think are 5-star recruits) after playing there.
Is Connor McCaffrey. PG? Is he even a SG? Why do most Iowa fans think he will play PG in college?
From what I have seen, I think he's a baseball player. He usually runs and stands in the corner every basketball game I have seen him in. I think he is a small forward at the moment. Haven't seen anything to convince me he could play point guard,
To be fair, ISU did the exact same thing with McCarney. We just didn't bottom out as bad.
All I know is he's gonna be a good one.
He'll be a good enough combo to go with the little guy they have now. They complement each other.
Iowa's always been UNI lite, but they're going to be a UNI All-Star team soon. They're making it tough on their peer in Cedar Falls getting guys like Gessell 2.0, Baer, Pemsel, McCaffery, etc. A lot of solid basketball players. Westkamp too.
Congrats Cyclone fans on your conference tournament championship!
ISU has won more conference tourney games in the last 3 days than Fran has in his 7 years. Thoughts @FrostyMitchellMilitia?
Saw the McCaffery boys at the state finals. Connor had some points, seemed to shoot a lot of free throws. He was guarded most of the game by a player seven inches shorter than him, Valley player #2. At one point, #2 blocked him from behind but they called a BS foul.
I'm not sure if you call it playing point guard when you dribble it up the floor sometimes with no one defending you and then don't really run the offense. When they wanted to dribble out some clock they had Lane do it.
The Curry kid from Valley looked solid, too bad he has had the leg injury issues.
The younger Fran spawn looked a little more athletic, although his numbers not as good.
I'm not sure if you call it playing point guard when you dribble it up the floor sometimes with no one defending you and then don't really run the offense. When they wanted to dribble out some clock they had Lane do it.
The Curry kid from Valley looked solid, too bad he has had the leg injury issues.
The younger Fran spawn looked a little more athletic, although his numbers not as good.
Fran will have about 10 small forwards on the roster by Pat's time, I seriously have no idea what his recruiting strategy is these days other than not getting any PG's.
Lol. Look at this gem:
Iowans by and large are an insufferable bunch of dipsh*t sports fans. If I weren't burdened with caring about Hawkeye athletics I'd relish being away from all you knuckleheads in a part of the country that couldn't give two licks about any college from a state that starts with 'I.' If I didn't bleed black and gold I wouldn't necessarily hate both sides equally as much as forget about them immediately.
But alas, here I am. And here they are.
So screw that second-rate ag school with their little brother mentality, their corner-cutting basketball program, and their subsidized train-wreck of a football program that leeches off the success and finances that in a perfect world would funnel only to Iowa City. Oh, to be Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Nebraska... I hope little bro loses every game in every sport until their sorry-ass campus gets swallowed up by the void of irrelevance from whence they came. The Big 12 can't die soon enough
Tony Kornheiser was going off on this in his podcast this week. No one showed up and no one cared. Not only in the arena, but also on TV. Having your own network is great as long as people think to search it out. All the rest of the P5 conferences had some games on ESPN so they were easier to find.
It's only going to get worse next year when the Big10 goes to MSG but have to move their tourney up a week to avoid the Big East already playing there. Big10 will be playing along side their mid-major brethren.
I just wanted to come back in here and say that I still wouldn't take Baer over anyone on our team. Not even one-armed Stu.
What time is the NIT selection show and do they do the 'live living room look ins' like they do for the NCAA tourney? Will the be at Fran's residence?
How did ISU cut corners? We keep hearing Iowa is doing it the right way, I guess the right way had nothing to do with winning. I guess the right way is getting recruits and building a roster of kids that have been Iowa fans their whole life. I guess doing it the right way requires a rebuild 5 years in, and I am not even sure what they are rebuilding from. To build a program you have to develop kids, is Fran doing that. To build a program you have to get kids that have ability to become better and not peak as Freshman, is Fran doing that.
Don't for a second think Iowa fans haven't talked themselves into having a chance at the field of 68 today. I have already seen arguments that the Omaha loss isn''t bad.
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