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The Prohm disaster year is the only year that counts in basketball...and simultaneously our Fiesta Bowl win season is the only year that doesn't count in football.

Which is it? Either the disaster counts and our best football season is totally normal other than having one non-conf game cancelled...or there was no disaster year in basketball because 2020 didn't count for football.

If Iowa would have had tournament success that you can bet your ass we would be hearing about it
 
We were missing some easy looks early vs Texas last night (granted we did make SOME shots). Worried (for a shot time) that an Iowa-like game was going to manifest last night.

We made just enough to keep the flood gates closed tbh. The biggest thing in both games that was missing early is that we weren’t turning either team over right away.
 
Big 12 is so bad they had two different teams win the last two National Championships
I'll go back to
2019...Big12 Texas Tech lost (in OT) in the National Title Game
2020...Covid year. Didn't have the tourney but Big12 Kansas was the Number 1 overall seed if they had played it.
2021...Big12 Baylor wins National Title
2022...Big12 Kansas wins the National title
2023...Hawkeye dweebs still being morons
 
The Hok fans are quite funny. There is a poster that thinks the McCaffrey boys are quite valuable to the team.
Quote:
"Let's get past this nepotism garbage. Both Connor and Patrick are legitimate D-1 players. Quite frankly next to Kris and maybe Filip, Connor is pretty high on the list of most important players to this team."
 
Totally happy to let them think that.

As much as I hate Iowa, them being successful rest of the year only helps us. And I don’t want Fran’s seat to get hot. Let them wallow in mediocrity forever if they please.
Yep that’s where I’m at too
 
The Hok fans are quite funny. There is a poster that thinks the McCaffrey boys are quite valuable to the team.
Quote:
"Let's get past this nepotism garbage. Both Connor and Patrick are legitimate D-1 players. Quite frankly next to Kris and maybe Filip, Connor is pretty high on the list of most important players to this team."

Connor is a very solid bench player as of this year but it took five seasons of heavy minutes/starting and being a grown 24 year old adult playing against 18 year olds to get there.
 
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The Hok fans are quite funny. There is a poster that thinks the McCaffrey boys are quite valuable to the team.
Quote:
"Let's get past this nepotism garbage. Both Connor and Patrick are legitimate D-1 players. Quite frankly next to Kris and maybe Filip, Connor is pretty high on the list of most important players to this team."
Connor has been an asset this year basically because teams haven’t respected his improvement in his three point shot.

I wouldn’t be beating my chest about a 6th year senior who finally has figured things out and has a career scoring average of 4.4 though.
 
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Connor is a very solid bench player as of this year but it took five seasons of heavy minutes/starting and being a grown 23 year old adult playing against 18 year olds to get there.

Connor is a D3 level talent.
 
Connor is a D3 level talent.

Of course he is.

Any D3 player who got starter minutes for 5 years might be a serviceable bench player in his 6th season as an almost 25 year old man playing against teenagers.

Some D3 players might actually be pretty awesome in year 6 if they got to start for five years in a major conference.
 
The Go Iowa Awesome site, formerly Hawkeye Report, has a great thread where some Fran critics are pointing to reality and others claiming Iowa and Iowa State have identical success past 20 years. Hilarious stuff, might as well claim ISU football has had equal success as Iowa even though we’ve only finished ranked maybe a quarter of what they have.
That site was trash before and got pushed off the cliff.
 
The Iowa game was such a fluke. Everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong. It would be nice to get another shot at them, but we’re not going to the NIT.
I know CF doesn’t do “post of the year” superlatives, but I’d like to nominate this one anyway.
 
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I just can't wait until 10 teams from the Big Ten make the tourney. Most of them in the 7-12 range. And all of them get beat first round.

Quite literally, the ONLY team that will 'for sure' win their first game is Purdue. They'll very likely be the only team higher than a 5 seed as well.
 
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I just can't wait until 10 teams from the Big Ten make the tourney. Most of them in the 7-12 range. And all of them get beat first round.

Quite literally, the ONLY team that will 'for sure' win their first game is Purdue. They'll very likely be the only team higher than a 5 seed as well.

That's MOST seasons the past decade.
 

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