The source-less twitter burner accounts seem to think it’s going to happen
Devries Rumors Getting Louder
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The source-less twitter burner accounts seem to think it’s going to happen
Love it, but it has to be fake news. No one releases this information mid season.
100%. Fran usually starts 3-4 guys that are defensive minuses....you might be able to cover for a single weak defender, but when you have 3 or 4 of then out there at one time, no way. Harding as soon as you put him on the court is the smallest guy, big problem on switches, needs help when he gets backed down in paint. He doesn't bring enough to the table on offense to make up for being a defensive liability.
That’s unsanitary, not to mention disrespectful to the coffees.I might take a dump after my afternoon coffee.
Fran upper half= Alford’s “March Situations”"Upper half finishes"
Just the use of that phrase like it's supposed to be some kind of legitimate standard says everything that needs to be said about the state of the program.
You in 2 years with new coach.
Of course skin color doesn't make one a better basketball player. It just happens to be blacks are better at basketball than other races and it's not even close.
No, I think 15 years is proof enough. Between his temper tantrums, playing his sons over NBA talent and failure to advance in the NCAA Tourney, never having even remotely a decent defense, we have all seen enough.
Basketball is an easy pickup game in the streets. Golf, tennis, hockey, etc aren't. Inner city kids (more blacks than whites) do pick up games.
So if Fran is back Iowa will have a majority black roster next year for the first time since the late 80s.
Why do we want him gone then?
If you guys want to see what Fran ball with a bunch of athletic black guys would look like just watch Rutgers.
Hint... it's still just lots of scoring and bad defense.
There's a reason you see Tom Izzo constantly chewing his players out about defensive mistakes. It's because you have to fvcking coach to get results.
Hint... it's still just lots of scoring and bad defense.
There's a reason you see Tom Izzo constantly chewing his players out about defensive mistakes. It's because you have to fvcking coach to get results.
The problem with this framing is that it assumes the nil issue is completely independent of Fran and out of his control and that's just not the case. He's a bad/disinterested fundraiser who doesn't click personally with a lot of people and he has very strict strict ideas on how he wants the NIL money allocated that makes it harder to operate in the current climate. Iowa isn't going to be Indiana or anything like that but if you got a big name native son like DeVries in there the money situation would improve dramatically.
I didn’t say anything about race in my post.
Just because the new recruits are black doesn’t mean they are physically ideal basketball players. That’s caveman logic. We have had plenty of black players who were undersized (Bowen, Toussaint) or just not very athletic (Dembele, Ogundele).
Dembele is basically a traffic cone on defense. There is a HUGE difference athletically between him and Traore.
So, maybe the new crop of recruits are going to be better defensively. But it’s asinine to say that, because they’re black, they will be good defensively
Exactly right. It’s not going to matter with Fran.
Well my apologies to you sir. I made the mistake of lumping you in with the "black = defense" crowd.
I agree with your points.
My point is it's largely irrelevant with Fran because any group of players he has will still be immersed in a culture of indifference to defense and it's virtually impossible for a team to be connected defensively in that environment.
I look at it this way. Frans problem is his indifference to defense. The lack of athletic defenders is just a symptom not the cause.
How much do we know about DeVries being able to recruit athletes good enough to win at the P4 level ?
Probably slightly more than we would know about any other realistic candidate.
BirdistheWord
HB Legend
She needs to put her stamp on the program, running BIF out of town was a tap in. She has some work to do.
