Fran McCaffery and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Transfer Portal

[ScottyP]

Fran is winning the portal now, deserves that extension.

The college basketball transfer portal deadline winners, losers

A few programs can breathe easy after the portal deadline came and went without a star hitting the transfer portal. Others were not so lucky...

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According to the writer:

Winning = "it could have been so much worse"

 

[qwerty]

According to the writer:

Winning = "it could have been so much worse"

Well yeah, Patrick could have come back

 

[GoHawks]

Now that we've retained the key components I'm sure the additions will come rolling in

 

[cyclone82]

Now that we've retained the key components I'm sure the additions will come rolling in

lol…. Another delusional sukeye fluff piece. Freeman is the only legitimate P5 player in that group….. yet they fought off suitors for Dix and sandlot…. Please !

 

[HFCS]

Oh I know there's not money in WBB. I'm not trying to argue that. My point is that as a fan I would rather have them put money in a program that is a lot more likely to be successful. With the crazy TV money they can afford to lose a few million on the women's program. The men's team isn't getting 4 and 5 star recruits/high level transfers no matter what happens.

Yeah you might as well put mbb in chryo-sleep until they have the courage to fire Fran.

Any nil would get you further in wrestling and wbb, and very obviously football.

If they ever roll the dice on getting an above average coach mid 21st century then try to build it.

 

[HFCS]

Funny how hawk fans and media quickly forgot that they blamed bad Iowa MBB attendance not for on court performance but that Iowa City is further from Des Moines. Then CC comes around and Iowa is selling out every home women's game. Iowa fans are fair weather fans at a very minimum. CC was the flash in the pan that had the fans come to Iowa WBB games, there will be residual demand next year but that spike will fall off in the coming 2-3 seasons and they will be back to similar crowds pre-Clark.

Pretty sure CR/IC and Iowa side of quad cities is comparable population to dm anyway. It’s not like Hilton is in central Des Moines.

Growing up in western Iowa it’s pretty obvious the eastern side of the state is more populated, even the small towns are more numerous and closer together. The two programs (ISU/Iowa) are on level playing field for geography compared to a lot of states, Washington is the extreme opposite example and the main reason wsu got relegated.

Being close to Chicago helps their fb attendance. I would meet family at Kinnick for games all the time when I lived in Chicago, easy road trip.

 

[cyclone82]

Yeah you might as well put mbb in chryo-sleep until they have the courage to fire Fran.

Any nil would get you further in wrestling and wbb, and very obviously football.

If they ever roll the dice on getting an above average coach mid 21st century then try to build it.

WBB at sukeyeville is not a profit generator, maybe, maybe this year they were close…. But those “sellouts” were with very drastically reduced ticket prices.
They will quickly return to irrelevant status next season, coming off 2 straight championship game appearances and they are not even ranked in the early pre rankings, not much momentum there with out the wicked witch .

 

[CascadeClone]

Well yeah, Patrick could have come back

This is a FANTASTIC burn.

POTY nominee

 

[ScottyP]

Well yeah, Patrick could have come back

Addition by subtraction

 

[ScottyP]

I'm really bummed that Gary Barta retired. That NIT win would have gotten Fran another extension.

 

[peteypie]

Well yeah, Patrick could have come back

Kind of forgot, they won't have a McCaffrey that needs to eat up minutes this year. They may be better just because of no need for nepotism.

 

[exCyDing]

According to the writer:

Winning = "it could have been so much worse"

Hey, the retained a good portion of the core players that went 19-15 and made it to the second round in a post-season tournament!

 

[CyPunch]

Swiiiiiing and a miss. Fran going to be in scramble mode with two open scholarships + Mulvey and Brauns still rostered.

 

[LLCoolCY]

Swiiiiiing and a miss. Fran going to be in scramble mode with two open scholarships + Mulvey and Brauns still rostered.

Twitter rumor that Cross actually silently committed to TCU on his visit but his agent talked him into visiting SMU with a larger NIL package and committing there.
EIU fans can't even console themselves by claiming Fran finishing 2nd again. Rough.

 

[Acylum]

EIU fans can't even console themselves by claiming Fran finishing 2nd again.

You’re selling them short.

 

[FerShizzle]

Swiiiiiing and a miss. Fran going to be in scramble mode with two open scholarships + Mulvey and Brauns still rostered.

They’ve already moved on to another swing and a miss.

 

[LarryISU]

They’ve already moved on to another swing and a miss.

How does this kid from UCLA garner so much attention? They won what, 10 games? Maybe 12? So they weren't good and that tells you they aren't getting good coaching and development. The Portal has coaches fighting over hopes and prayers. What a world!

 

[chadly82]

They’ve already moved on to another swing and a miss.

They should offer him a scholarship and the $207 that SWARM beer made the collective last month

 

[exCYtable]

This is classic reading on pages 7 and 8. Franisdaman is a weird dude and even the mods called him out. Typical hawkhomer thinks he is right all the time, but the 54,000+ posts being online 24/7 is called "obsessed".

Amarion Nimmers Practice Highlights are IMPRESSIVE. On Aug 3, enters Transfer Portal

interesting; this is the first time I have heard that Nimmers played zero defense in high school. granted they were just the highlights and we didn't see the lowlights, but weren't you at least a little impressed in what you saw in his highlights posted in the original post? Yes, certainly see...

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Franisdaman is annoying AF and needs to get out of his mom's basement. Every time I go to that site the front page is 75 percent his threads he started.

 

[nfrine]

How does this kid from UCLA garner so much attention? They won what, 10 games? Maybe 12? So they weren't good and that tells you they aren't getting good coaching and development. The Portal has coaches fighting over hopes and prayers. What a world!

That will change big time if he joins EIU....right?

Does check a lot of boxes....