Coach Frankenstein's Creation?

[DanL53]

Someday in ten or fifteen years we'll need a new coach. By then we should be advanced enough to reanimate, or clone, aspects from all our past coaches. Pick five or less qualities or strategies, or quirks...whatever, (to save some for others) from past coaches that you would like to revive, or maybe keep buried.

1) Bounce pass. (Dr. Tom) Revive

2) Sweat Pants. (George) Keep buried

3) The Four Corners. (Lute) A likely controversial Revive!

4) The shot/pass (Dr. Tom) Revive

5) Play Fast but not Stupid (Fran) Keep Alive

 

[perryhawk]

1) Lutes coaching teams up abilitiy to play defense.
2) Lutes coaching teams ability to be disciplined.
3) Georges recruiting ability/success.
4) Dr. Tom's development of players (both big guys and guards).
5) Fran's trajectory of the program.

 

[twindman]

Miller's defense, I think. Wasn't he coaching against belly button defense from the Drake coach? Seems like Miller's teams were pretty tough on D, but that was a long time ago.....

 

[froggy67]

Was it Maury John that was the Drake coach? Miller's D didn't exactly shine in the NCAA tournament game against Jacksonville and Artis Gilmore. So damn close, and that team had the talent to make some noise too.

 

[youcantguardme]

Was it Maury John that was the Drake coach? Miller's D didn't exactly shine in the NCAA tournament game against Jacksonville and Artis Gilmore. So damn close, and that team had the talent to make some noise too.

Think they made noise but doubtful they beat UCLA. It would of been fun trying though.

 

[froggy67]

Don't think I said anything about beating UCLA. Hawk-I-Bob posted a pic of Gary Olson, Gerry Jones and George Peeples when Iowa upset #1 UCLA. I remember George Peeples.

 

[SSG T]

George Raveling's recruiting.
Ralph Miller's everything else.

 

[HeRKeYHoPeFuL]

Keep buried: Seated head in hands photo op (Lickliter)

 

[Suterman]

1) Raveling Recruiting
2) Lute's Coaching and demeanor.
3) Dr. Tom's press
4) Frans eye for talent and fire.
5) Lick's Defense
6) Ralph's downplaying of the dribble in favor of a faster, more effective pass.

 

[hawkguy77]

1) Raveling Recruiting
2) Lute's Coaching and demeanor.
3) Dr. Tom's press
4) Frans eye for talent and fire.
5) Lick's Defense
6) Ralph's downplaying of the dribble in favor of a faster, more effective pass.

Lick's defense would not even enter my mind on this list. He won a couple of low-scoring games, but we suffered some epic beatdowns with his defense. The one Minnesota game I recall was especially difficult to watch.

 

[HeRKeYHoPeFuL]

Lick's defense would not even enter my mind on this list. He won a couple of low-scoring games, but we suffered some epic beatdowns with his defense. The one Minnesota game I recall was especially difficult to watch.

Agree, I recall that sometimes Lick's best defensive play was mostly to pass around the perimeter on offense only to see someone throw up a 3 as the shot clock expired while everyone ran back to stop any fast breaks.

 

[Buffalo43]

Agree, I recall that sometimes Lick's best defensive play was mostly to pass around the perimeter on offense only to see someone throw up a 3 as the shot clock expired while everyone ran back to stop any fast breaks.

Less possessions for other team was his idea of defense

 

[newjeru]

1) Raveling Recruiting
2) Lute's Coaching and demeanor.
3) Dr. Tom's press
4) Frans eye for talent and fire.
5) Lick's Defense
6) Ralph's downplaying of the dribble in favor of a faster, more effective pass.

Take out Lick's D and put in Rav's rebounding and I am with you

 

[mtdew_fever]

Alford's mojo

 

[Buffalo43]

Alfords hair

 

[hooper56]

1) Raveling Recruiting
2) Lute's Coaching and demeanor.
3) Dr. Tom's press
4) Frans eye for talent and fire.
5) Lick's Defense
6) Ralph's downplaying of the dribble in favor of a faster, more effective pass.

Ya know, Dr Tom DID have a good press and he ran it the entire game. But Fran's press is very effective but he is strategic about when he applies it, and I bet it creates more turnovers. But that is just a guess.

 

[nu2u]

Someday in ten or fifteen years we'll need a new coach. By then we should be advanced enough to reanimate, or clone, aspects from all our past coaches. Pick five or less qualities or strategies, or quirks...whatever, (to save some for others) from past coaches that you would like to revive, or maybe keep buried.

1) Bounce pass. (Dr. Tom) Revive

2) Sweat Pants. (George) Keep buried

3) The Four Corners. (Lute) A likely controversial Revive!

4) The shot/pass (Dr. Tom) Revive

5) Play Fast but not Stupid (Fran) Keep Alive

I did not reply to your earlier thread but I first became an Iowa BB fan sitting by the radio during Lute Olson's 1980 dream team and F4 run (damn you Pembrook Burroughs!).

But it was the innovative style of play introduced by Tom Davis that I associate with Hawkeye basketball. The relentless full court pressure, two-pass breaks, run and attack, everybody hit the boards, platoon substitutions - nuts out, wear 'em down, let the best players innovate, exciting basketball.

The bounce pass has (regretfully) become a lost art, the jump pass has been abandoned, tenacious rebounding is less emphasized but Fran is implementing a similar style even if it is less frenetic.

Really excited to see what Fran and staff can do with a very deep roster.

 

[Fan In Black]

Another vote for Ravelings rebounding.

 

[bagdropper]

I thought Davis' press was a liability once the opposition improved.

If I could Frankenstein Raveling's recruiting with Fran everything else, we'd have a helluva program.

 

[TampaHawkfan]

Ya know, Dr Tom DID have a good press and he ran it the entire game. But Fran's press is very effective but he is strategic about when he applies it, and I bet it creates more turnovers. But that is just a guess.

Agreed on strategically applying pressure.

Yeah, Dr. Tom's press was very effective at times, but sometimes it seemed like for every steal and easy bucket it generated, that it allowed two easy ones going the other way. Opponents would adapt. So I still wonder about the net effect, did it help more than it hurt? That 1998 NIT game against Georgia comes to mind.. I don't know how many fast break points they had in that game but it had to be a lot. And trying to press Duke in the NCAA tour

Of course it tended to sometimes get teams playing faster than they were used to. The press was its best, I think, when Dr. Tom had the depth and talent to press all game long and wear out the opponent - see the 1986-87 team. That team could hang a 16-2 run on you in the blink of an eye once they got it rolling. The system seem near as effective with lesser talent. Could say that for any system, though.

 

[TampaHawkfan]

Another vote for Ravelings rebounding.

I don't recall this too much, a little early for me, but Dr. Tom's teams seemed to usually be pretty good in this facet as well.

 

[Fan In Black]

I don't recall this too much, a little early for me, but Dr. Tom's teams seemed to usually be pretty good in this facet as well.

It was one of George's staples...like the Davis press. He wrote a couple of books about rebounding.

 

[hooper56]

George Raveling literally wrote the book on rebounding. It is titled "War on the Boards" and it was the bible.