I'd love to see that purple hok be humbled. Long time coming for the *******.
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I'd love to see that purple hok be humbled. Long time coming for the *******.
Case in point:
I like Clayton and am very happy for him, but if he stays at ISU there is zero chance he is conference player of the year.
Hence, the wallflower role.
In a four guard system, being the 6th guard should see some PT though.
Not when your coach only choses to play 5 guards on a regular basis. CSP likes splitting time with his top 5 guards and it has worked out well. He is not going to pull a Fran and go 14 deep. It just doesn't work well doing that.
UNI can't fall far enough in basketball. I hope they stink up the MVC cellar forever, screw them.
Halliburton>>>>Green
I'm so glad everything worked out the way it did.
I'm so glad everything worked out the way it did.
That conference lost all its luster when Creighton and WSU left. It has to make it harder for the remaining schools to sell the MVC to recruits. It's like the Horizon league now.
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That's interesting, since Harris worked under Jamie Pollard for 10 years at ISU, and Pollard seems to be pretty darn good at day-to-day operations.
Neither is Barta...but he's good at looking busy and accomplishing nothing but defending himself from lawsuits.
Doesn't Jacobsen require the ability to defend though and do any of those Iowa players have that ability?
They haven't been the same since that soul-crushing loss to A&M in the tournament a few years ago.
Oh man, I still can’t believe they lost that. That was literally a program killing loss.
I've always wondered if there's something to bad losses like that.
UNI had that collapse against A&M.
Nebraska football got beat down in that Black Friday loss at Colorado.
Miami had the Fiesta Bowl loss to OSU.
Heck, our basketball program wasn't the same for a decade after the ******* loss (I know there were more factors than that affecting our program, but still).
I was going to say the same thing. The timing obviously coincides with losing a lot of talent off that team and not replacing it to that level, but I swear that loss changed the program. Jacobson was considered one of the best tacticians in CBB until there were 60 seconds left in that game. That loss seemed to strip a lot away from him and the program. Even as a casual observer/kind of a hater due to purple hawks, that was painful to watch. It had to be an absolute soul crusher for anyone affiliated with UNI bball.
Well, coaches learn and change. Nearly two years ago he chose to add two scrub forwards so that we could better play two “bigs”.
Playing 2 guards off the bench in a four guard system isn’t going 14 deep.
I know they've still won some bowl games and all since then, but OU getting absolutely curb stomped in the 04/05 Orange Bowl by USC left them hungover and vulnerable for a couple of seasons and they got clowned a few times in bowls.
I find it funny that Iowa has had all these mid major players yet they are 17-5 and beat us. I hate Iowa as much as the next guy, but it either means that McCaffery is one of the best X's and O's coaches in the country to overcome his recruiting or maybe these guys are better than you're giving them credit for. Weiskamp has a chance to be a very good B1G player. Garza is already an above average 5. Bohannon is a great fit for their offense, which is a top 10 KenPom offense. If these are UNI players and went to UNI they'd win 28 games.
It’s more luck than anything, and if you haven’t noticed over the last 20 years, midmajor talent can generally knock off mediocre P6s like UConn, Pitt, and Oregon, and pull off home upsets. Of course they aren’t as bad as the jokes, but that doesn’t change the UNI comparison. What games of Iowa’s would many of the past UNI tournament teams not win?
Fran is pretty lucky that his collection of Tavernhawks plus Cook and Garza mesh well on offense, and that refs fall for their flopping. He should get creditr nD getting them to find a path to competing. And he’s owned Prohm twice in Iowa City, but Fran has the benefit of it being their Super Bowl.
