Even in their glory years with Garza I remember seeing they’d be matched against Oregon and it was the easiest upset pick of my bracket. They just are so soft.
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Going into the year it was 8 tournaments in 11 seasons, given they would have had a berth in 2020
That’s very good for a program like Iowa. They easily could take a step back
And probably at a lowish seed. Even 8/15 for how much hype they get is really pedestrian.
His brother is a legend at Iowa and he grew up in eastern Iowa. Makes you wonder much sense. I think it’s a bad move by him since nil isn’t gettin my any better
I would take the Creighton job every day of the week over Iowa.
No football and Kirk's replacement (soon), if a good candidate, will want a LARGE % of the NIL.
No football and Kirk's replacement (soon), if a good candidate, will want a LARGE % of the NIL.
DeVries is essentially the same age as Fran was when we was hired at Iowa. I’d argue Fran had accomplished more at that point than DeVries has.
Not saying he’d be a bad hire, but it’s no slam dunk either.
Not saying he’d be a bad hire, but it’s no slam dunk either.
And apparently he felt the need to run from a rebuild at Drake for a season (or so) knowing full-well he was going to be the head coach at Iowa. To me, that speaks to the confidence he has in his own coaching and/or recruiting. Or, perhaps, all these narratives are changing to explain him taking the Iowa job today. Who really knows. At the end of the day, I don’t see him as a significant impediment to what goes on in Ames from a recruiting or overall program perception perspective.
While fit is important, I think Iowans put too much emphasis on the “IA Native!” “Local Connection!” aspects.
ISU fans are guilty of it as well. McD is an IA native and completely flopped here. TJ is a WI guy and first came here from a random JuCo in Florida. You have to be open because you never know what background your “right fit” guy will have.
It's because he's a UNI grad. Checks out that he's a Hawkeye fan.
That's why I don't get too upset about our team sucking in 2020 and 2021. Those seasons were easy to forget and a good 2020 season would have been wasted. Kind of the same thing in 2021, we couldn't go to games, so not really a huge bad memory.
He wouldve had almost his whole team back next year how would that be a rebuild.
Brodie was gone and there was no way he was keeping Overton. Hanging on to Wright and Garland was questionable as well.
It was going to be Tucker and Enright and hoping the portal pieces fit.
News said over 5 million. So they would owe Fran 4.2 million and West Virgina 5? So 9-10 million to get rid of Fran and get Devries.
