I would like to apologize

[hawkeye bb n fb fan]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college

Be a real man and go to the sports column and drown your sorrows instead of crying to us losers.

 

[FTCHawk]

So you're a boy who still can't control his emotions. Got it.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

Fair enough.

 

[ChiHawk1985]

I just don't understand why those who know they are emotionally psychotic even bother to come on the messageboard during a game. It's the same posters through and through that just go off the walls with every play of a game. It's really sad. But good on you for coming back to own up. The others wont.

 

[dmoore27]

Shows some class to apologize after cooling off. Just 1 lesson of many you'll learn as you get older.

 

[Hawksfor3]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Hey man, you rock! ALL of us have been there. Emotions are good and sometimes bad, but thanks for owning it. Let's enjoy the Hawks in the post-season!

 

[DanL53]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Credit where deserved it took some guts to apologize. Speaking for myself, accepted.

By comparison, I was a freshman at Iowa when we went to the Final Four in 1980. I grew up an Iowa fan in a family with some fairly close ties to the program, especially when Miller was around. I was spoiled with Big Ten Championships, amazing runs like the undefeated Big Ten season...

...even the short turn around it took Lute to bring us back.

In those days, Iowa was a top 20 program in the country, historically.

But even then, I can recall Indiana coming into Iowa City in the 1970's and putting a major hurting on us. Worse than today.

That was the day I took my best friend with me, as kids, to see the game at the Fieldhouse with my family. I don't know how he did it but in the car he lost his ticket, I mean just gone...couldn't find it anywhere. Fortunately somebody knew somebody in the ticket office and we all got in.

And from that day to today, there have been triumphs and heartaches in a sport where out of hundreds of teams only one gets crowned NCAA Champ. It's a tough sport to follow.

Ya gotta take the tough stuff with the good. I'm glad you aren't going to turn out like some of the old lemon suckers who only manage to pick off their scabs during the strong runs and then complain how much it hurts when the run ends.

You'll do fine.

 

[And1Hawk]

We had zero chance at the dance 2 weeks ago after losing to IL. Somehow we managed to win our way back into consideration but there was no margin for error. The error hit tonight. We'll move on.

 

[BondHawk]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Liar.

 

[hawkeye bb n fb fan]

Liar.

Whatever man

 

[iowaathletes]

We blew it. No ifs ans or buts.

 

[BigOHawk]

So, just curious if we had beaten Minny and lost like this tonight, would we still be dancing since so much had been made of the Minny screw job?

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Thanks, OP.

 

[DanL53]

So, just curious if we had beaten Minny and lost like this tonight, would we still be dancing since so much had been made of the Minny screw job?

We'll never know, but I think yes. I also think we are about where many thought we'd be...looking back and if we could just play this season over again with the experience we have now.....

 

[NI hawk]

Credit where deserved it took some guts to apologize. Speaking for myself, accepted.

By comparison, I was a freshman at Iowa when we went to the Final Four in 1980. I grew up an Iowa fan in a family with some fairly close ties to the program, especially when Miller was around. I was spoiled with Big Ten Championships, amazing runs like the undefeated Big Ten season...

...even the short turn around it took Lute to bring us back.

In those days, Iowa was a top 20 program in the country, historically.

But even then, I can recall Indiana coming into Iowa City in the 1970's and putting a major hurting on us. Worse than today.

That was the day I took my best friend with me, as kids, to see the game at the Fieldhouse with my family. I don't know how he did it but in the car he lost his ticket, I mean just gone...couldn't find it anywhere. Fortunately somebody knew somebody in the ticket office and we all got in.

And from that day to today, there have been triumphs and heartaches in a sport where out of hundreds of teams only one gets crowned NCAA Champ. It's a tough sport to follow.

Ya gotta take the tough stuff with the good. I'm glad you aren't going to turn out like some of the old lemon suckers who only manage to pick off their scabs during the strong runs and then complain how much it hurts when the run ends.

You'll do fine.

You are the same age as me. From 1979 to 89 was definitely a lot of fun. 10 NCAAs in 11 years.

 

[DanL53]

You are the same age as me. From 1979 to 89 was definitely a lot of fun. 10 NCAAs in 11 years.

I was just thinking the other day, I can remember a moment in 1983, during the NCAA's. I was listening to a game on the car radio, we were losing. I thought to myself, "What's the point? We've never won the whole thing!" Was that a Sweet Sixteen year? It must have been because I remember doing the math in my head, "1/16th chance to win it all and THAT'S supposed to be good?!?!"

Like I said, I was spoiled. Now I'd kill for a Sweet Sixteen. Who do I gotta kill? S..t, it's not even that easy.

But seven years ago 18 wins and the NIT seemed pretty far away.

Been doing this for too many decades to stop now. Maybe the fear the day I stop they win it all? What a miserable freagin' choice to be a college basketball fan...and one I'd do again, cause I saw a kid from Bettendorf, Iowa, stuff a put back this season that I won't ever forget.

Damn if he can bust his guts...I can keep mine down and take a loss now and then.

 

[NI hawk]

I was just thinking the other day, I can remember a moment in 1983, during the NCAA's. I was listening to a game on the car radio, we were losing. I thought to myself, "What's the point? We've never won the whole thing!" Was that a Sweet Sixteen year? It must have been because I remember doing the math in my head, "1/16th chance to win it all and THAT'S supposed to be good?!?!"

Like I said, I was spoiled. Now I'd kill for a Sweet Sixteen. Who do I gotta kill? S..t, it's not even that easy.

But seven years ago 18 wins and the NIT seemed pretty far away.

Been doing this for too many decades to stop now. Maybe the fear the day I stop they win it all? What a miserable freagin' choice to be a college basketball fan...and one I'd do again, cause I saw a kid from Bettendorf, Iowa, stuff a put back this season that I won't ever forget.

Damn if he can bust his guts...I can keep mine down and take a loss now and then.

1983 iowa lost by 1 to Villanova. Bobby Hansen and Mark Gannon senior years.

 

[DanL53]

1983 iowa lost by 1 to Villanova. Bobby Hansen and Mark Gannon senior years.

Remember Maxwell's, and Bushnell's Turtle? Fair disclosure I didn't make it for very long at Iowa....but I loved Maxwell's and could guzzle pitchers pretty darned well. Best days, skipping class, eating at Bushnell's, and real music as opposed to that Disco *&^% the Fieldhouse played.

 

[Rudolph]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

If IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life is your dad, you're waaaaaaaay ahead of him.

 

[Hawkeye3087]

They blew it. No ifs ans or buts.

FIFY

 

[TDJ7]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Whatever you say Lee Harvey

 

[Dauminator]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Forgiven. I can relate. I shattered my phone when the Packers threw away the NFC title against Seattle. And that's just the worst event. I know it doesn't help to say it's only a game. You can't stop a feeling from happening. I think it does help to remember that feelings are just meant to be felt and nothing more. It's OK to be pissed about last night. I sure didn't like it. But let it run its course without letting it affect the rest of you. Switch on an old NCAA PS2 game and crush Indiana on easy mode. Or find some other activity for a little while. It helps the perspective. Live and die while the game is on, but never forget that, win or lose, today's headlines wrap tomorrow's fish.

 

[hawkeyeinmo]

You are the same age as me. From 1979 to 89 was definitely a lot of fun. 10 NCAAs in 11 years.

Throw me into this age group. I was on the baseball team and my "daily" routine was go to class in morning, baseball practice, then go to field house and play pick up basketball for HOURS. Gotta feeling I may have thrown elbows with DanL and some others on here, Those games got competitive and at times there was some pretty good talent in the Fieldhouse. Those were good times Lute Final Four and Hayden walking on water.

 

[jasonrann]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

I'm 46 and still get pissed after a loss so don't sweat it. My expectations at the beginning of the season were no better than NIT, but I still rode the rollercoaster of emotion this season. I was at UNI from '88-92, it was a blast. Enjoy every minute of your college years bud, they go by way too fast. You will make friends that last a lifetime.

 

[DanL53]

Throw me into this age group. I was on the baseball team and my "daily" routine was go to class in morning, baseball practice, then go to field house and play pick up basketball for HOURS. Gotta feeling I may have thrown elbows with DanL and some others on here, Those games got competitive and at times there was some pretty good talent in the Fieldhouse. Those were good times Lute Final Four and Hayden walking on water.

To quote Acie Earl at the PTL, "I never foul!" I didn't throw elbows. But if things got rough I'd turn into my guy and go right through 'em. Never a charge. If a guy stood his ground he didn't get back up. I was one heck of a 5'11", 225 lb with no gut center. Couldn't shoot even with a shotgun but rebounded and defended. Space eater.

Then what seemed like two days after I came to Iowa City I discovered girls and booze (that's not true...I just figured out where they were...I already knew that's what I was looking for.) and now I have gaps in my memory but I think I was having a lot of fun. So I didn't play much sports, not for very long, or go to many classes and I'm a bad example of what a college student should be.

My biggest claim to fame was the time one of Hayden's assistants thought he caught me out partying and started giving me grief until he realized I wasn't even a football player. (One year of serious Machine Shop work between high school and the U of I had me built like a rock.)

Anyway, the next, much more successful attempt at college, I was blocking for some stupid flag football game....poor young guy rushing...I put my hands up into his rib cage and picked him up and threw him about two yards backwards! #$%@ that factory work does #$%# man...makes one strong. He and I made a deal after that...he didn't try to rush and I didn't throw him anywhere.

Now I'm old and fat. Somebody play "Glory Days", while I don't care...those were good times. Would only change one thing...more partying.

 

[jasonrann]

To quote Acie Earl at the PTL, "I never foul!" I didn't throw elbows. But if things got rough I'd turn into my guy and go right through 'em. Never a charge. If a guy stood his ground he didn't get back up. I was one heck of a 5'11", 225 lb with no gut center. Couldn't shoot even with a shotgun but rebounded and defended. Space eater.

Then what seemed like two days after I came to Iowa City I discovered girls and booze (that's not true...I just figured out where they were...I already knew that's what I was looking for.) and now I have gaps in my memory but I think I was having a lot of fun. So I didn't play much sports, not for very long, or go to many classes and I'm a bad example of what a college student should be.

My biggest claim to fame was the time one of Hayden's assistants thought he caught me out partying and started giving me grief until he realized I wasn't even a football player. (One year of serious Machine Shop work between high school and the U of I had me built like a rock.)

Anyway, the next, much more successful attempt at college, I was blocking for some stupid flag football game....poor young guy rushing...I put my hands up into his rib cage and picked him up and threw him about two yards backwards! #$%@ that factory work does #$%# man...makes one strong. He and I made a deal after that...he didn't try to rush and I didn't throw him anywhere.

Now I'm old and fat. Somebody play "Glory Days", while I don't care...those were good times. Would only change one thing...more partying.

This and I wasted a year and a half with a girlfriend. I should have had a lot more strange.

 

[hawkeyeinmo]

To quote Acie Earl at the PTL, "I never foul!" I didn't throw elbows. But if things got rough I'd turn into my guy and go right through 'em. Never a charge. If a guy stood his ground he didn't get back up. I was one heck of a 5'11", 225 lb with no gut center. Couldn't shoot even with a shotgun but rebounded and defended. Space eater.

Then what seemed like two days after I came to Iowa City I discovered girls and booze (that's not true...I just figured out where they were...I already knew that's what I was looking for.) and now I have gaps in my memory but I think I was having a lot of fun. So I didn't play much sports, not for very long, or go to many classes and I'm a bad example of what a college student should be.

My biggest claim to fame was the time one of Hayden's assistants thought he caught me out partying and started giving me grief until he realized I wasn't even a football player. (One year of serious Machine Shop work between high school and the U of I had me built like a rock.)

Anyway, the next, much more successful attempt at college, I was blocking for some stupid flag football game....poor young guy rushing...I put my hands up into his rib cage and picked him up and threw him about two yards backwards! #$%@ that factory work does #$%# man...makes one strong. He and I made a deal after that...he didn't try to rush and I didn't throw him anywhere.

Now I'm old and fat. Somebody play "Glory Days", while I don't care...those were good times. Would only change one thing...more partying.

Now I know we most likely played together. If I saw some "banger" that just wanted to rebound and throw the ball out to shooters I begged him to play on my team. I never saw a 3 point shot I didn't like and lamented that there was no 3 point circle for my HS playing days.......... Speaking of Flag Football,our baseball team had one of the best flag football teams in the country back then, beat Texas (among others) who was QB'd by none other than Roger Clemons, but lost to the Fighting Illini (I know, ugh) costing us to play for the national title.

 

[DanL53]

Now I know we most likely played together. If I saw some "banger" that just wanted to rebound and throw the ball out to shooters I begged him to play on my team. I never saw a 3 point shot I didn't like and lamented that there was no 3 point circle for my HS playing days.......... Speaking of Flag Football,our baseball team had one of the best flag football teams in the country back then, beat Texas (among others) who was QB'd by none other than Roger Clemons, but lost to the Fighting Illini (I know, ugh) costing us to play for the national title.

Maybe we did. Remember, I have memory gaps. I always wanted to be 6'8". So I took it out on the tall guys. I think I was the best under 6' center that never played in the NBA. My space. My ball. Izzo would have loved me. Funny thing because I can't stand to watch that kind of basketball and dream of the days when guys were lean and could run all day.

 

[Suterman]

Remember Maxwell's, and Bushnell's Turtle? Fair disclosure I didn't make it for very long at Iowa....but I loved Maxwell's and could guzzle pitchers pretty darned well. Best days, skipping class, eating at Bushnell's, and real music as opposed to that Disco *&^% the Fieldhouse played.

Maxwells was great. My band played there countless times. One of my favorite venues.

 

[Ronman]

1983 iowa lost by 1 to Villanova. Bobby Hansen and Mark Gannon senior years.

Lute Olson's last game at Iowa.

 

[kceasthawk]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Good for you for stepping up. Most of a realize at some point that even after these tough losses, you get up the next day, and your life goes on. As for what happened last night we got on the downhill side of a runaway train. Any team that shoots that well, is going to be tough to beat. Go back the last two weeks. Iowa wins twice on the road against ranked teams by shooting almost 60% from three. Jbo , Pemsl, and Moss played their asses off, but nobody else could throw it in the ocean. Baer had been on fire the last month, air balled his first two three's and basically stopped shooting. Bad timing, but it happens. Nothing that happened last night, dimmed my excitement for the future of this group of players.

 

[NI hawk]

Lute Olson's last game at Iowa.

Yep!

 

[bravehawks1]

This may be the best thread ever. Young man owns up and it turns in to a walk down memory lane. As a student from 81-85, might have bumped in to one of you guys. And talk of Bushnells, awesome!! Pick your sandwich options before the Subways of the world made it a trend. First two years on campus were in the fieldhouse, now that is a treat that kids don't get a chance to experience. Any of you guys ever get in a pickup game on the actual game floor? Talk about feeling like a real Hawk!!

 

[Rustys Dad]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Not sure of what you posted earlier ... but hey, we're all Hawks and sometimes they get the best of us ... I know in my younger years I would completely let my Hawk emotions take over ... Been there ... Kudos for calling yourself out ... And yeah, it was a tough game to watch ... Indiana simply couldn't miss ... And we ... flat out got it handed to us in the second half ... Go Hawks!

 

[HoustonREDHawk]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Better not to post for a while after a really disappointing loss. Any Hawk fan had to be really frustrated after yesterday's performance. I guess you can keep your tag for now.

I was a grad student at Iowa from 1976 - 1983, so I was lucky enough to see Lute Olson and Hayden Fry turn Iowa into a power in both BB and FB. Fans were incredibly into both sports in those years, and I hope younger fans get to see that kind of excitement over the next few years. Games in the Fieldhouse were deafening. One of the coolest sports days I have experienced was Iowa's win over mighty Georgetown to get to the final four, and then going to the late night rally in the Fieldhouse to welcome them back. That made me a Hawkeye fan for life, even though I grew up in Ohio and now live in Texas.

 

[Hawk_4shur]

for everything that I have said tonight. It was all out of line. I just couldn't wrap around my head how a team fighting for their tournament lives gets blown out. Yes I realize Indiana shot the hell out of the ball but still. Anyway, my comments regarding this team and Fran were all just me showing me emotion which was bad at the time. I hope Fran stays but could win a BTT game sometime and the future is good regarding the players, hopefully. So in conclusion, I'm sorry for everything tonight. I am a hawkeye through and through but maybe I just need to stay off here for a little while after tough losses and stuff and wait till I'm calmed down. By the way, I'm a freshman in college at UNI in Cedar Falls.

Everyone says apologies are hard ... and they are. What's harder is avoiding the stuff you need to apologize for in the first place.

Anyway, kudos for stepping up. Never forget that the other team works hard to win games too.

 

[bagdropper]

My 1st Hawkeye TV game was Jacksonville in 1970 in the sweet 16...crushing. It seemed like forever until I saw Iowa on TV after that. Remember, 3 channels back then.

Then the Schultz era (ugh), then the rebuild with Olson, and the crushing defeats leading up to 1979-1980. The Toledo loss (believe it was on their home floor if my memory is good).

I'll never forget the run in 1980...I remember VCU. I remember NC State. I remember Syracuse and hearing about this young coach named Boeheim and this monster center named Roosevelt Bowie and a young forward named Leo Rautins that were supposed to be so good.

Watched it at some new pizza place on Edgewood Road in CR on a rare Friday night off back then.

Then, Georgetown and John Thompson's Band of Brutes...they were on the uptick then but before the Ewing years. Iowa chipping away at the lead, then Steve Waite's drive and stuff with the foul to win it.

Then, Louisville, and the most crushing moment in my Hawkeye history.

Then, more crushing defeats, including the screw-job against Xavier McDaniel and Cliff Livingston against Wichita State (another home court tournament game...go figure). I remember Iowa losing to Idaho one year in what amounted to being a home court game for them too out west. Jerry Dennard wound up being an unsung hero that game, forced into key action in an overtime or two if my memory is good and doing good things, I want to say it was Stokes and Payne's frosh year season.

Then, 1987, and the second most crushing loss in my life, the UNLV collapse. Watching it on a TV at an apartment pool area in Clearwater FL drinking margaritas. It applied a shithammer on the whole vacation.

Iowa was good enough to win the title for certain 2 times - who knows about 1970, I was too young. But a lot of crushing defeats along the way. I remember the Oklahoma win and we were driving down there from Iowa and had just reached the point where WMT's signal was fading, so we pulled over to listen to the end of the game. The rest of the drive sailed by.

Sometimes, I think I'm cursed...but I have no regrets. Probably why I can absorb years like this year. I know Iowa is a "must have both talent and experience to do big things" program...just don't know if I'll see it again is all.

What the hell...Go Hawks!

 

[Hawk_4shur]

My 1st Hawkeye TV game was Jacksonville in 1970 in the sweet 16...crushing. It seemed like forever until I saw Iowa on TV after that. Remember, 3 channels back then.

Then the Schultz era (ugh), then the rebuild with Olson, and the crushing defeats leading up to 1979-1980. The Toledo loss (believe it was on their home floor if my memory is good).

I'll never forget the run in 1980...I remember VCU. I remember NC State. I remember Syracuse and hearing about this young coach named Boeheim and this monster center named Roosevelt Bowie and a young forward named Leo Rautins that were supposed to be so good.

Watched it at some new pizza place on Edgewood Road in CR on a rare Friday night off back then.

Then, Georgetown and John Thompson's Band of Brutes...they were on the uptick then but before the Ewing years. Iowa chipping away at the lead, then Steve Waite's drive and stuff with the foul to win it.

Then, Louisville, and the most crushing moment in my Hawkeye history.

Then, more crushing defeats, including the screw-job against Xavier McDaniel and Cliff Livingston against Wichita State (another home court tournament game...go figure). I remember Iowa losing to Idaho one year in what amounted to being a home court game for them too out west. Jerry Dennard wound up being an unsung hero that game, forced into key action in an overtime or two if my memory is good and doing good things, I want to say it was Stokes and Payne's frosh year season.

Then, 1987, and the second most crushing loss in my life, the UNLV collapse. Watching it on a TV at an apartment pool area in Clearwater FL drinking margaritas. It applied a shithammer on the whole vacation.

Iowa was good enough to win the title for certain 2 times - who knows about 1970, I was too young. But a lot of crushing defeats along the way. I remember the Oklahoma win and we were driving down there from Iowa and had just reached the point where WMT's signal was fading, so we pulled over to listen to the end of the game. The rest of the drive sailed by.

Sometimes, I think I'm cursed...but I have no regrets. Probably why I can absorb years like this year. I know Iowa is a "must have both talent and experience to do big things" program...just don't know if I'll see it again is all.

What the hell...Go Hawks!

Great post. I, literally, feel your pain.

I cried when Pembroke Burrows III tipped in that crappy shot to beat the greatest team in Iowa basketball history. I was 15, but would have cried at any age.

Completely devastated when my favorite Hawk BB player of all time (Ronnie Lester) went down after scoring the first 10 points against L'Ville.

Heartbroken when UNLV came back to defeat the 86 Hawks. I still can't believe it.

Being a sports fan is hard!

 

[bravehawks1]

Why did you bring up Pembroke? Six years old so took a nap to stay up late for 8:00 start if I recall. Cried myself to sleep that night cause there was no way "my hawks" could lose that night. 1980 season also a special one too