Time for a Real Discussion About Caitlin Clark

[WartburgClone]

Didn't somebody's football team lose to a MAC team this year because they were sick?

Reddit Hoks were also claiming Hoks were sick for Ohio State and K-State losses. Truly amazing that Hoks can never admit they got outplayed and/or outcoached.

Going off-topic, is Marriedin76 another one of your alt accounts?

 

[cycloneML]

More whininess from the regime.

'I'm assuming they're ashamed': Zach Johnson vents on WM Phoenix Open chaos

Zach Johnson has made 15 starts at the WM Phoenix Open. But this year's rowdy environment has him questioning a return.

golf.com

 

[qwerty]

More whininess from the regime.

'I'm assuming they're ashamed': Zach Johnson vents on WM Phoenix Open chaos

Zach Johnson has made 15 starts at the WM Phoenix Open. But this year's rowdy environment has him questioning a return.

golf.com

But throwing full cans of beer at your own cheerleaders is completely acceptable fan behavior . . . .

 

[brycy]

Doesn't it make more sense to break the record on national TV instead of Peacock? I understand wanting to do it at Carver, but on Peacock with limited people watching.

 

[clonedude]

Doesn't it make more sense to break the record on national TV instead of Peacock? I understand wanting to do it at Carver, but on Peacock with limited people watching.

Oh darn…. you mean I won’t be able to watch it? What am I going to do?

I’d rather have a root canal anyway.

 

[qwerty]

Doesn't it make more sense to break the record on national TV instead of Peacock? I understand wanting to do it at Carver, but on Peacock with limited people watching.

I am assuming all news outlets (worldwide, not just U.S.) will break into their programming to announce it and show it live. It is that life changing, makes the moon landing seem like a walk to the park.

 

[Jdk]

Oh darn…. you mean I won’t be able to watch it? What am I going to do?

I’d rather have a root canal anyway.

I would rather watch a Bluey episode than cc spreading her chicken wings

 

[qwerty]

Not about Clark per se, but her mentor, Frau Bluder

Iowa coach lambasts Nebraska's music during FTs

The music during the free throws appeared to be played during the second half, when Caitlin Clark took four consecutive free throws.

theathletic.com

 

[Jdk]

Not about Clark per se, but her mentor, Frau Bluder

Iowa coach lambasts Nebraska's music during FTs

The music during the free throws appeared to be played during the second half, when Caitlin Clark took four consecutive free throws.

theathletic.com

Were they playing turn out the lights the parties over

 

[cycloner29]

So ESPN is now comparing Clark and JuJu Watkins from USC freshman season. Seems Watkins is having a better freshman scoring season than Clark. After seeing highlights of Watkins throughout the season, I gotta say people will start saying, “ Caitlin who?” the few seasons, if Watkins doesn’t jump to the WNBA.

 

[BCClone]

So ESPN is now comparing Clark and JuJu Watkins from USC freshman season. Seems Watkins is having a better freshman scoring season than Clark. After seeing highlights of Watkins throughout the season, I gotta say people will start saying, “ Caitlin who?” the few seasons, if she doesn’t jump to the WNBA.

Clark announced she’s going WNBA after this year.

 

[Gunnerclone]

So is Bluder going to be reprimanded by the B1G Conference?

It’s women’s basketball, no one actually cares. It all feels very performative. And that’s not just a dig at Iowa. All of it.

 

[BCClone]

I meant Watkins. Sorry about that.

Women’s rules are 4 years out of HS, IIRC.

 

[Three4Cy]

Women’s rules are 4 years out of HS, IIRC.

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[Three4Cy]

Clark announced she’s going WNBA after this year.

When?

This is from December 2023.

“It’s a hard decision because, in my eyes, it’s like a win-win,” Clark told Krzyzewski. “I can go and live out a life of a dream. Or I can stay [at Iowa] and be in college, start working on my master’s or start working on another degree and still play college basketball with some of my best friends. That’s what makes it so hard. Both seem so amazing.”

https://www.si.com/college/2023/12/...plains-coach-k-upcoming-wnba-decision-win-win

 

[BCClone]

When?

This is from December 2023.

“It’s a hard decision because, in my eyes, it’s like a win-win,” Clark told Krzyzewski. “I can go and live out a life of a dream. Or I can stay [at Iowa] and be in college, start working on my master’s or start working on another degree and still play college basketball with some of my best friends. That’s what makes it so hard. Both seem so amazing.”

https://www.si.com/college/2023/12/...plains-coach-k-upcoming-wnba-decision-win-win

Wife showed me something on social media a couple weeks or so ago.

 

[Three4Cy]

Wife showed me something on social media a couple weeks or so ago.

If she were going to the WNBA, it would have been all over Iowa media, and there has been nothing. No DMR, no local news, and they didn't even mention it during the Iowa/Nebby game on Sunday.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So ESPN is now comparing Clark and JuJu Watkins from USC freshman season. Seems Watkins is having a better freshman scoring season than Clark. After seeing highlights of Watkins throughout the season, I gotta say people will start saying, “ Caitlin who?” the few seasons, if Watkins doesn’t jump to the WNBA.

Safe bet right now that we won't get a continuous feed of JuJu on our local sports coverage.

 

[1776]

We literally had the most distracting offseason that I can ever remember. AND it all played out like a month before the season started. One of our losses was due to a lot of players being extremely sick. Adjustments may have been made but I don't attribute any of the early season failures to Coach Campbell. I for one hope he stays at ISU for a very long time.

Getting embarrassed at home by Kansas should never be acceptable. No excuses about being sick or young and inexperienced this week.

whatever team that was that played Ohio doesn't exist anymore. We were still figuring it out, learning positions, slept walked into the game, coaches were not prepared and willing to adapt to what Ohio was doing and we had a crap ton of people sick.

Play them now, we win easy. but that is the way it is..

Just to add, the Texas game is the only game where Iowa State averaged anything around 0.6 yards per carry (0.4 ypc). Against Iowa, they averaged 2.8, Ohio was 1.7. Not that those numbers are good (and I thought they ran way too much against Ohio until I learned how sick Rocco apparently was), but to repeat numbers over and over again that aren't close to accurate is pretty dishonest (even if you think it's just hyperbole).

But we are just a middling football team.

Not the 2nd coming of Michael Jordan. MJ wins titles when sick, surely CC would as well?

Just because you aren't in one of the P2 conferences doesn't mean that you are a middling football team.

And yes the being sick excuse is bs to use.

 

[throwittoblythe]

I am assuming all news outlets (worldwide, not just U.S.) will break into their programming to announce it and show it live. It is that life changing, makes the moon landing seem like a walk to the park.

This is one of the rare cases where they will engage the Emergency Management System, right? So we'll all get the blaring alert on our phones. Severe weather, amber alerts, nuclear holocaust, and CC breaking the scoring record...all meet the protocols to use it.

In order to recognize the achievement, the governor will declare that all flags be flown at double-staff. That's right, all government buildings with a flag out front must double the length of their flag pole to bestow the honor onto CC.