We had to play in Auburn Hills! The refs screwed us!
Chris Babb got hurt! That bracket was wide open!
Georges broke his foot! We were like a buzzsaw! We were going to win a national title!
What happened happened. Reality counts more than speculative fiction. Giving Larry and Fred credit for the most absolutely rosy and optimistic potential of those teams, when college basketball is homicidal in its level of competitiveness and team quality after the first weekend of the NCAA tournament (and bad enough in the first one), is pretty silly.
I think that is the fundamental problem here. People act like Fred won a national title or at least made a Final Four OR, with a few more chances a better luck, would have done so in short order. No doubt about it. I am sorry, but giving the guy credit for far more than he did is ridiculous. The record books say what they did. Fred never beat anything more than a #6.
Prohm is coaching against the ghost of stuff that never happened.
Georges breaking his foot sucked but we rallied and beat UNC and Hogue more than made up for Georges and his own typical production against UConn. I swear people forget that Hogue went nuts against UConn. By far his best game in an ISU uniform.

