I find it fascinating that the Tyler Cook to the NBA thread over on HN only has 25 posts, while the Lindell to the NBA post on CyFan is approaching 200 (as of 6:30 PM Thursday). Both announced about the exact same time. Are we just that much more passionate about our basketball program, or is Hawkeye Nation's traffic way down? Or something else?
Iowa vs Iowa State Message Boards: Cook vs Lindell
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Didn't even know about Cook and I'd assume there's plenty of Hawkeye 'faithful' who may not even know who that is so that might explain it.
There’s a huge age, economic, technology gap between the passionate hok fans and passionate cyclone fans. We’re an up and coming younger and increasingly urban/suburban fan base.
Iowa’s “fanatics” are like 50+ average age, live predominantly in flood prone areas, and consume their hok news via the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad City Times, and local TV news. I doubt Channel 2 in CR/IC broke in to Judge Judy to break the Cook news. Would have been pandemonium.
Check Hawkeye Heaven. That leader and his followers are real Hawks.
HR gets more traffic than HN.
So.....is next year officially a “rebuild” or “reload” year for the cyclones?
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So.....is next year officially a “rebuild” or “reload” year for the cyclones?[/QUOTE]
Ask in a year.
Tough to say.
The fans on your board who think Nixon sucks are idiots. Compare them to the many who said Shayok would suck, because it's equally stupid/jealous.
But with the huge volume of losses (shayok, nwb, lard, THT, LW) we have we need other newcomers than just Nixon to produce right away, Conditt to take the next step, bench guys to develop, and Solomon Young to be healthy all year. A lot of boxes to check but not impossible.
Haliburton has a very high ceiling and it would not shock me at all for him to be an All B12 level player.
I think you guys can put a pretty good starting 5 on the floor. After that we’ll have to see.
And anyone here who pretends to know about that (either positive or negative) is lying.
Nixon doesn’t suck but he has been a wildly inefficient player his entire career. It’s possible that he got much better while sitting out a year, but he’s a career 37% overall and 33% from three. That’s really bad.
Haliburton has potential, and I think he is a good player, but that is a MASSIVE step to take from a low volume role player to all Big XII. It’s not impossible, but is pretty unlikely to happen in just one offseason.
Leech is the one that I'm curious to see. He was looked at heavy and was way up on the boards before he lost a year to injury. If he can regain most of what he had, he could be that missing piece for next year. We are going to have more 4/5 players than usual but be lighter on guards for the first time in awhile.
