Charlie is even wearing the correct colors.
Edit: I see someone else noticed this, too lol.
I’d like to congratulate St. Peter’s for achieving more in 3 days than we’ve achieved in 23 years…
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Edit: I see someone else noticed this, too lol.
The truly unhappy on here never have the guts to address their issues directly with Barta or, heaven forbid, actually call McCaffery on his weekly call-in show to voice their displeasure. No, they just like to inflict it on the rest of us on this board who are already in the dumps about the loss. We get it....McCaffery sucks, the players suck, Iowa basketball sucks. If you truly feel that way, why torture yourselves by following this team? A lot of you say Iowa has sucked since before you were born. That's a lifetime of pain you've inflicted on yourselves. Must be masochists if you sincerely feel that way.
When is Frans next call in show? Do you think they’d actually let people ask him things like “why does Patrick get more minutes than Kris?” I have never tuned in for this so I don’t know how it works, but my guess is they don’t allow more than 1-2 callers to ask tough questions… they want people like our resident weirdo to call in complimenting everything and talking about some positive tweet he saw somewhere.
Great! Now you have a new team you can follow. Don’t let the door hit you on the ….. on your way out!
Half of those schools are better jobs than Iowa so not really the insult you're trying to convey.
Oh, boy, Superfan here really came up with a zinger. LOL.
Sure, let's make these two lists to unequivocally prove that Iowa is among the "have-nots" of college basketball. That'll really make everyone feel better. LOL.
I have way more important ways to waste time. Like communicating with your types. Most of us understand it is a game, which is why we aren't having trouble providing honest (although painful) evaluation. I also have a few names for you.
No one outside the state of Iowa has known Iowa basketball has existed for the past 23 years! We have been and remain completely irrelevant on the national stage.
I would agree with you if it weren't for a few individuals performers.
Which is all the more infuriating I think is the point. Same in football. How can Iowa put so many top level talented individual players on the court/field and not achieve anything of significance as a team? Boils down to coaching.
Of the Power 5 conferences (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big 12, Pac 12) then add in the Big East (4 titles this century), there are a total of 76 teams. 63 of those teams (83%) have made the Sweet 16 in the 21st century. Iowa is one of the 13 who haven’t made it.
Here's what I don't understand...have these teams we face in the NCAA tournament not seen Fran's "body of work"? I would think Fran's "body of work" would get us to the sweet sixteen, right?
Honestly, I think Fran did a great job from February to the NCAA tournament. In the tourney...they just didn't shoot well enough to win. Richmond forced us to make threes by sagging everyone, and we just didn't make them. Should we have done something different when they weren't falling over the first 25 minutes...yes. Let your All America eat is what I would have done. If we go down with Keegan shooting 25 times or having the ball in his hands every possession...I'm ok with that. We didn't do it though.
Honestly, I think Fran did a great job from February to the NCAA tournament. In the tourney...they just didn't shoot well enough to win. Richmond forced us to make threes by sagging everyone, and we just didn't make them. Should we have done something different when they weren't falling over the first 25 minutes...yes. Let your All America eat is what I would have done. If we go down with Keegan shooting 25 times or having the ball in his hands every possession...I'm ok with that. We didn't do it though.
I’m with you, Outrage Roy. I miss Iowa basketball. My childhood of the 1980s and early 1990s seems like a distant memory.
Because it is.
Why stop there? How about >50% (6/11) of the current AAC members and 40% of the MO Valley (50% if you count MO St, who was also last in the Sweet 16 in 1999 under coach you-know-who.
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