We'll put it this way - which of their losses wouldn't we have taken? Maybe Minnesota? Maybe one of the home ones? They aren't as terrible as some people here like to think.
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We'll put it this way - which of their losses wouldn't we have taken? Maybe Minnesota? Maybe one of the home ones? They aren't as terrible as some people here like to think.
I wouldn't take a drubbing in conference play whatsoever.
They're a decent team. Have some length causes problems and some good spot up shooters. Cook is good so long as he can shove himself to the hoop.
I guess all I'm trying to say is they're likely an NCAA tournament team and saying its a team filled with mid-major talent-level recruits is not accurate.
Have a lot of their players been recruited by other P6 programs?
I don't follow recruiting...I don't see a lot of variance in skills on their team but what they have seems to work well together so whatever.
Tyrese wasn't highly recruited while Zion had a Kansas offer. I'd call Tyrese a P6 player despite the lack of offers.
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Have a lot of Iowa's players been recruited by other major programs? And do you see a variance in skill sets among them? I don't. But it must mesh well.
Tyrese was a diamond but he can do many things, like dribble up the court without looking like it's kind of difficult for him.
Well there’s Hawkeye nation.com waiting right over there for you. If you want to fluff their balls im sure they would love it there.
Sweet. Cool. Anyone that follows basketball would know that Iowa has a decent team this year and it really shouldn't take much debate. Anyone denying it just chooses to ignore it. And I'd strongly prefer they go 0-34 every year.
I just don’t really give a ****. If they are decent **** them. If they suck **** them. Decent or not their style of garbage ball is pathetic and their coach is a dickhole. Ask Dolph.
They will always suck and I wish their fans and them nothing but the worst. The world would be better off without them.
I absolutely subscribe to that theory- You won't win every game when you're turning around a program, but a close loss sets you and the fanbase back a lot less than a blowout. 5-7 but getting blown out in a bunch of games makes it a lot harder to sell 'hope' for next year both to fans and recruits than 5-7 and 'a few plays away from 9-3'. Fans (and recruits) can convince themselves that even just a reasonable increase in talent or execution can make the difference between a down year and a magical year.
my post said they have 4 P6 players and the rest are UNI level. What players that I didn't bold would you consider P6?
If Bohannon played like he did tonight, then sure. He doesn't usually play that well however.
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Well, I don't know if I'm the most visible dual ISU/UNI fan on here, but I know I've mentioned many times before that I am one, which I make no apologies for, so I almost feel obligated to answer the OP.
Can't speak much to the inner workings of the AD with me living in Colorado, so I'll defer to 1UNI2ISU on that one. I do know that Troy Dannen had more than worn out his welcome by the time he left.
For football, count me in as one of the fans who wants Farley gone; this last season I ended up paying almost no attention to the results, since we (UNI) got blown out in the very first game of the season, which follows past seasons trends of getting our a$$ kicked against a good but beatable non-conference opponent, winning a game we have no business winning, followed up by losing a game we have no business losing, which ends up in hosting a first round game in the playoffs against an overmatched team, before going on the road and losing in the second round. Rinse, repeat, recycle, season after season. It gets old, and I'm ready for a change. However, as long as he wins just enough I expect him to stay there.
As for basketball, I really can't add much more than what is written above, other than to write that the current junior class, IMO the source for most of the ills with UNI BB, was a much better class on paper than it's turned out to be so far. PG Juwan McCloud, who transferred to a Division II team, was a very good recruit who just didn't out. There goes someone that was relied upon to be the PG for three or four years. Luke McDonnell was getting some Big Ten interest, including from TOE, before he signed with UNI. He's having a decent season finally, but didn't see the floor much at all his first two years. The margin of error for MVC schools when it comes to misses in recruiting is much narrower than it is for Power 5 schools. I'm patient enough for now to want to give Ben Jacobson the chance to dig the program out of the hole it's currently in, as I do think he's the best coach in UNI history, and it's not even close, but the program is clearly trending downward, and if we 3-8 versus Division I competition in the non-conference next year the way we did this season, I think his seat will get hot and deservedly so. I'm not happy with this season, but the only senior is Wyatt Lohaus, so most of the pieces are coming back with a decent recruiting class coming in.
I had tears of happiness in my eyes during the final two minutes of regulation watching that game, in part because I thought it was so cool that my two favorite teams were both going to be in the Sweet 16, which quickly turned to absolute horror during the meltdown in the last 45 seconds of the game or whatever it was.
I couldn't even watch the overtimes. I had to turn off the TV. To this day, if someone offered me a million dollars to watch the last 11 minutes of the game, both regulation and the overtimes, I would turn them down flat.
And just to be clear, I would feel the same way if ISU ever lost a game that way. H*ll, after the 2001 debacle against You Know Who, I had to shut off CBS every single damn time they showed the YKW coach being carried off the floor because of the physiological reaction my body had every time I saw it.
Agree. I wouldn't mind if UNI crawled back under its rock.
I'm pretty sure I'd quit watching sports if something of that magnitude happened to one of my teams. Has to be one of the worst collapses in the history of sport.
Yeah, it sucked. Big time.
On a semi-related note, I couldn't watch the rest of the first round games on the day when we lost to f*ckin' UAB back in 2015. I was so pissed off after that game that I wanted nothing to do with basketball for the rest of the day.
Although I have no love lost for UNI sports, I'm empathetic for (most) fanbases that would have to experience such a collapse.
An additional layer to the situation was, only 2 days before, UNI had that half-court buzzer beater to upset Texas. To go from that to the A&M finish in roughly a 48-hour span must have been a bizarre mood-swing.
