I think Perkins is the only black guard to make it four years in close to a decade and I only count 4 total in 14 years.
At this point I don't know why Fran even bothers to recruit black guards.
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Dasonte Bowen has entered the Transfer Portal (Commits to St. Bonaventure). He was supposed to be "the" PG that Fran finally landed
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At this point I don't know why Fran even bothers to recruit black guards.
No, He had plenty of high major offers from good programs.
One of the better sets of offers Fran had won against.
It’s the annual watch the March Madness tourney and see unbelievable guard play from teams lowly to highly ranked seeds and wonder why the hell can’t Iowa find guards like that?!!!
Cant recruit guards to the state of Iowa, unless it's to Ames. Or Drake. But only those two places.
It's not Frans fault.
Fran wants a jbo point guard all due respect to jabo great scorer and passer but no defense once he seen that joe aaron and desonte could not hit the three consistenly time for the bench
Even though all 3 played there guts out on defense jabo had a pass there
Brock will get 30+ minutes next year. Fran is always hard on freshman guards. I can't see why Fran would not play Brock next year. He does everything Fran likes. The only problem is his size on D but we all know what Fran thinks about D.
I agree and Brock is smart elite passer gets the team in the offensive he maybe undersized on defense but he is a willing defender
Note: willing defender is such a bad term these days when i played you defend or you sit!
I think he had an offer from Maryland poetic justice if he goes there and burns us
Don’t leave out UNI. They’ve had some really good guards the past decade. A lot
better than Iowa.
Tyler made the right choice. I don't know why any HS PG would want to play in his system.
He had a nice little season at Indian Hills. Shot over 40% from the 3.
Meh.... Another PG failure by Fran. I'm excited for the next PG he can bring in to do nothing and leave a year later. Excellent work
Please. All but one of the black players left for more playing time, plain and simple, it’s not a color issue. Moss left to go to Kansas, hard to argue with that. The White guys left because (1) lack of talent (2) Kentucky and (3) his father’s death.
Bowen never showed a worthiness for more playing time, and he got plenty of opportunities. PMac had nothing to do with it, Dix and Harding were better players.
I don’t know the stats. But I’m guessing that Fran has far fewer transfer outs than most coaches.
No one is saying they didn't leave for more playing time.
The question is should they have gotten more pt at Iowa.
Some of them yes, some no, some we don't know.
But what we do know is Fran would rather play poor athletes that can shoot vs guys who can defend and drive the ball.
this. Not being able to execute or defend the dribble drive in today's game is a bad strategy.
Well, exactly. The accusation was that they left for race related reasons. I have a hard time arguing any of those black players (or white) deserved more playing time. I just don’t see race being an issue. The only good player that left was Moss, who actually ended up playing less at Kansas.
Some of them definitely did and would have played for most other coaches with those rosters.
He’s dribbles a lot and needs to cut that down.
Bryce Cartwright is the best PG Fran has brought in and he transferred in.
I think he was shown the door when the gambling issue was brought to Fran's attention. Too bad, because he had some silid games
To be completely fair, there may be some admission differences between Iowa and some of those small schools. However, I do the same thing watching games. "How the hell does Mcneese St have 3 PG's all better than what we have?".
Lol you must've missed his defense and shooting. Good passer though
Williams was the starting point guard when the season began last fall but lost that role six games in to freshman Jordan Bohannon. A terrific defender at 6-foot-5, Williams struggled as a shooter and averaged 2.4 points and 1.6 assists while playing in all 34 games.
Harding is Missouri Valley talent. Iowa needs to do better than this.
I've said this for sometime now.
Take the names off the jersey and coach. If you looked at this roster, who left, who hasn't, it is a bit perplexing. You can be the nicest guy in the world but the relationship that carries the most weight is a kids ass with the seat. Kids don't stay when they don't understand what does and doesn't warrant playing time.
Who fran plays has been a serious ? from day one.
I've come to believe this wholeheartedly. I don't believe it's a "racism" issue - I'm pretty sure Fran would be happy to play a black PG if he was also a good shooter. It just seems like most of the ones he's recruited have turned out to NOT be good shooters, and they find themselves on the bench. Then they transfer.
