It appears the Iowa Coach has a history of this kind of thing. This is from a CR Gazette article from March. There is also a quote from the coach about this issue on the page that explains what the "Let's be mad" thing means.
Let's Be MAD Again - Iowa Basketball
"Fran McCaffery got to know the Settles family. Somehow, when Settles visited Notre Dame, McCaffery timed it so the small-town Iowa kid got to meet actress Julia Roberts. Still, it didn’t work. Settles went on to score 1,611 points and grab 747 rebounds for some pretty good Tom Davis teams in the mid- to late-1990s."