promise of Head Coach in waiting be the only wayWhy would anyone leave Wisconsin for Iowa?
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promise of Head Coach in waiting be the only wayWhy would anyone leave Wisconsin for Iowa?
This team might be worse than the Lick teams. It is more talented, but may be worse coached.So we moved on from trying to get BJ Armstrong to come and coach? Aren't we supposed to go after Andre Woolridge first and then Deano? I'm guessing Jeff Horner will have his name listed soon as we work our way through our best PGs of the last 30 years.
Basketball isn't like wrestling where former elite athletes make pretty good coaches. Sometimes they do, but often the best coaches are guys that weren't the best athletes, but were smart players at smaller schools. Having said that, Deano may end up being a good coach, but he hasn't proven anything yet. If we do hire him and we're wrong, it could put us back to the level that Lick had us at. No recruit alive or in the future remembers when Iowa was a fairly regular participant in the tourney. We can't risk a coaching hire setting us back another half decade. Plus, Barta has already had two chances at hiring a head basketball coach. I don't think that he should get a third.
It's too bad that Don Nelson is too old now, because I would have thrown a dump truck of money at him back when we hired Lick to get him to coach us for a few years before handing the program over to an assistant in waiting. Maybe Donnie wants to be a college head coach instead of an NBA GM. Yeah, that's probably not going to happen.
I like the Dean Oliver idea. Need a new AD, too. The entire athletic department is stale. Tired.
It's not really the same scenario. Hoiberg was in a NBA front office, had NBA experience, and Iowa State showed a real willingness to recruit guys with red flags. Iowa won't do that. Plus, Hoiberg was smart enough to jump on the transfer train before it became popular. There's no real angle like that for Oliver to exploit.
Two of Fran's assistants have been head coaches.Hoiberg had his issues, but more importantly he hired good assistant coaches. Some even had head coaching experience, which in turn really helped.
I lived in Madison for several years so your question is considered by myself to be very stupid. Unless you're an ultra-liberal meatball.Why would anyone leave Wisconsin for Iowa?
I lived in Madison for several years so your question is considered by myself to be very stupid. Unless you're an ultra-liberal meatball.
The is the Basketball board. We are discussing basketball programs.
How about Kevin Gamble?I know it’s been discussed here before, but Dean Oliver is an assistant at Wisconsin this year and is very close with DJ Carton. I think this offseason Iowa is much more likely to change some assistants than go with a new head coach, and if that’s the case Dean would be my first choice to replace an assistant. We need an assistant that will teach team and individual defense, and I think he would be great for that. It would also make our chances with Carton much better than what they already are. Just my two cents.
Kevin gamble coaching.Tough Hawk no.But Dean sounds waay cool.Sir, you couldn't be more accurate. Just about everything about Iowa's mens athletics is as stale as last month's loaf of bread. There needs to be a house cleaning, starting with Mr. Barta. Wrestling seems to be coming back, and Heller has revived baseball. Other than that, it's the same old same old.
Iowa needs someone to breathe new life into Herky's aging carcass. It's long, long overdue.
Fran won't get rid of any assistants. That would be a big hit to his ego, and he couldnt deal with that.
I'd take one or the other at this point.It's like when people thought BJ Armstrong should be our head coach ... I don't care if a coach played here or not ... I want someone who can recruit and coach ... Pretty simple ...
Hard to argue you’re point.I'd take one or the other at this point.
I agree with you on Dean Oliver at this point in time Rusty. Down the road maybe, but not at this point in time. I actually like Fran and have thought he's done a decent job up until now. I'm not as knowledgeable about basketball as I am football and have no idea if anyone is in charge of solely team defense or if they all are as a collective? Either way, something has to change... Should Fran be fired? I don't think so at this point in time, however, the defense needs to be addressed in the upcoming offseason. If it's a complete crash and burn like this year seems to be then I would think/hope the heat turns up quite a bit. I remember being a kid during the Lickliter years and this season has seemed as bad as some of those. Then again, that was many years ago and my memory could well be flawed.It's like when people thought BJ Armstrong should be our head coach ... I don't care if a coach played here or not ... I want someone who can recruit and coach ... Pretty simple ...
You can go back! The Way Back Machine is available at most retailers now!I grew up in the 80's we had BJ Armstrong, Roy Marble, Kevin Gamble and seemed to be in the tourney every year. Football was at or near the top when we had Chuck Long Larry Station and Ronnie Harmon. wrestling won national championships every year. Damn I wish we go back to those days