Fran McCaffery is only under Contract thru 2023; Time for a lengthy extension
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I'm as frustrated as you and then some. We are down 60% of our preseason starters. If Garza returns next season Final 4 or Bust!
The bolded part is technically possible, and I doubt that it becomes an expectation... but I'm afraid the expectations for 2020-21 are already very inflated as it is.
Except there was no conference tourney most of TD's tenure and he did make a sweet 16 and team played helluva game vs eventual national champ. I was there. We need a sweet 16 bad
Explain this. Compare his salary to other big ten coaches and explain how he is overpaid. Go ahead, I challenge you. I double dog dare you!
Maybe other big ten coaches are overpaid too. I’m not sure there is another 60 year old coach still coaching that has never been to a sweet 16.
I am sure you are aware that Fran McCaffery has taken a team to the sweet sixteen.
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Absolutely wrong! Tom davis won the 1st round game every year he got in. Which is way more than fran has ever done.
Where'd you go? Some of us need your assistance in tracking down Fran's Sweet 16 appearance. Thanks in advance.
Fran is 3-1 in first round games at Iowa (assuming we count Tennessee as a 1st round game)
Way more!
No one is stopping you from being a fan of whatever team Bill is currently cheating at. In fact, most people here would be more than happy to help you pack your shit and drive you to the airport.
A huge raise is deserved as well.
Expect this all to happen soon after the season ends.
Who days he hadnt been extended but Barta just didn't announce it?
This year will make 5 trips out of 10 to the dance for Fran, at Iowa. If you look at Dr. Tom with his own recruits (say the 1989-90 season and after), he went 6 out of 10.
The main difference is that Davis had teams with his own players earn a 4 seed (1992-93, would've been higher with Chris Street), 6 (1995-96) and 5 (1998-99). Fran has yet to get higher than a 7.
Edge to Davis for sure, but it's closer than some realize.
Fran has done a good enough job to keep me at bay, but big raise and extension? Get past the first weekend of the big dance first and/or seriously content for a Big 10 regular season title.
Extend him a year or two? I'd be OK with that - but let's not go all Gary Barta and give the guy a lifetime contract because he's gotten us to the dance a few times as a middling seed. It's not like the incoming recruiting class he just landed is highly rated, either - we have to hope these guys outperform their rankings. Yeah it could happen, but I'm not ready to see Barta hand Fran a Ferentz-like contract just yet.
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- Tom Izzo, Michigan State: $4,157,562
- John Beilein, Michigan: $3,800,000
- Archie Miller, Indiana: $3,250,000
- Chris Holtmann, Ohio State: $3,013,750
- Brad Underwood, Illinois: $2,850,000
- Mark Turgeon, Maryland: $2,847,232
- Matt Painter, Purdue: $2,825,000
- Tim Miles, Nebraska: $2,375,000
- Greg Gard, Wisconsin: $2,350,000
- Fran McCaffery, Iowa: $2,300,000
- Richard Pitino, Minnesota: $2,188,141
- Steve Pikiell, Rutgers: $1,600,000
- Chris Collins, Northwestern: $1,507,154
- NOT LISTED: Patrick Chambers, Penn State
10th in pay but consistently in the top half of the league.
I'd rather have the top paid coach and a few league championships and final fours
or even a five seed or two and a sweet sixteen...
.....but I guess thrifty resonates with a lot of folks too.
smh
And that has what exactly to do with the post you quoted that is simply disputing the claims that Fran is overpaid?
A huge raise is deserved as well.
Expect this all to happen soon after the season ends.
NO!
Not sure you can just go buy a five seed or sweet 16. Georgia is paying Crean a boatload of money; not looking so great in year 2. We'll see how it works out...
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Like that's going to hurt Iowa's recruiting....LOL I'm sure other coaches are just beside them-selves for not recruiting a bunch of 3 star recruits..
But you say, he recruited Luka! Yes he did, he was the first power 5 coach to offer him a scholarship, nice find along with Aaron White, but there was absolutely no way in hell he envisioned Luka turning out as he has. Hard work and determination is what shaped Luka to what he is today, but he is a once in a generation player that Fran will find hard to replace.
You can also say that C.J. Fredrick, a player from Cincinnati, was a gift of the gods for Fran. How many quality players like C.J. are willing to walk on to a University because their coach had a connection with an uncle. Not many I'm guessing.
The one major fault I'm seeing now, is Fran didn't provide Luka enough bench support or 3 point shooters to help Luka out, but as I said, after recruiting Luka coach had no clue Luka would turn out like he has....of course isn't that always the Iowa way.
I love Bohannan, Wieskamp, Fredrick, Luka, Toussaint, Kriener, Nunge, Pemsl, and departed players of Baer, Cook, Dailey, and other players that have made Iowa their home, but the last 4 years have ended 19-15,14-19, 23-12, and so far this year 20-10. Good, but not great by any means.
Let's see Iowa put together a year that most blue bloods think is an average year and then our AD can agree with an extension and raise. Sounds good to me.
Like that's going to hurt Iowa's recruiting....LOL I'm sure other coaches are just beside them-selves for not recruiting a bunch of 3 star recruits..
But you say, he recruited Luka! Yes he did, he was the first power 5 coach to offer him a scholarship, nice find along with Aaron White, but there was absolutely no way in hell he envisioned Luka turning out as he has. Hard work and determination is what shaped Luka to what he is today, but he is a once in a generation player that Fran will find hard to replace.
You can also say that C.J. Fredrick, a player from Cincinnati, was a gift of the gods for Fran. How many quality players like C.J. are willing to walk on to a University because their coach had a connection with an uncle. Not many I'm guessing.
The one major fault I'm seeing now, is Fran didn't provide Luka enough bench support or 3 point shooters to help Luka out, but as I said, after recruiting Luka coach had no clue Luka would turn out like he has....of course isn't that always the Iowa way.
I love Bohannan, Wieskamp, Fredrick, Luka, Toussaint, Kriener, Nunge, Pemsl, and departed players of Baer, Cook, Dailey, and other players that have made Iowa their home, but the last 4 years have ended 19-15,14-19, 23-12, and so far this year 20-10. Good, but not great by any means.
Let's see Iowa put together a year that most blue bloods think is an average year and then our AD can agree with an extension and raise. Sounds good to me.
So many words just to say you don’t like Fran......
Like that's going to hurt Iowa's recruiting....LOL I'm sure other coaches are just beside them-selves for not recruiting a bunch of 3 star recruits..
But you say, he recruited Luka! Yes he did, he was the first power 5 coach to offer him a scholarship, nice find along with Aaron White, but there was absolutely no way in hell he envisioned Luka turning out as he has. Hard work and determination is what shaped Luka to what he is today, but he is a once in a generation player that Fran will find hard to replace.
You can also say that C.J. Fredrick, a player from Cincinnati, was a gift of the gods for Fran. How many quality players like C.J. are willing to walk on to a University because their coach had a connection with an uncle. Not many I'm guessing.
The one major fault I'm seeing now, is Fran didn't provide Luka enough bench support or 3 point shooters to help Luka out, but as I said, after recruiting Luka coach had no clue Luka would turn out like he has....of course isn't that always the Iowa way.
I love Bohannan, Wieskamp, Fredrick, Luka, Toussaint, Kriener, Nunge, Pemsl, and departed players of Baer, Cook, Dailey, and other players that have made Iowa their home, but the last 4 years have ended 19-15,14-19, 23-12, and so far this year 20-10. Good, but not great by any means.
Let's see Iowa put together a year that most blue bloods think is an average year and then our AD can agree with an extension and raise. Sounds good to me.
Let’s look at your “average year for a blue blood comment” as well. Let’s take the ultimate blue blood, Duke, and see what the average year looks like for them over the last 10 years. Duke has averaged 29.9 wins over the last 10 years.
So, in your mind, Fran doesn’t deserve a raise until he meets the threshold of 30 or so wins. Iowa’s done that once in its entire history. Sounded good when you were typing it out, yes? But, in reality, it makes 0 sense. Much like anything else you decide put out into the universe.
I mean it’s not like Iowa is down two starters, one which is the leading 3 pt shooter in Hawkeye history and will easily finish in the top 10 in B1G history.
You didn’t seriously think about that comment before typing it did you?
