Originally posted by cruhawk:
Originally posted by IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life:
As a program, Iowa actually has a winning record in baseball history. Iowa's record is 1,984-1,720-28. So Iowa baseball has won 53.3% of their games in the programs history.
Iowa has three NCAA Tournaments: 1972, 1975, 1990
Iowa has one College World Series: 1972
Duane Banks only had FOUR losing seasons at Iowa and they all appear to be in the 90's: 91,92,94,97
Banks had some teams that if they had the records today would certainly be Borderline and/or NCAA Trny teams....
1977: 40-14
1979: 32-12
1980: 31-14
1981: 44-21
1985: 40-20
1989: 37-20
Banks had some 1st and 2nd place conference teams that didn't even make the NCAA tournament.
In comparison, the 1972 CWS team was 25-15, 1975 regional team was 27-13, and the 1990 regional team was 38-19 (22-6 in the Big Ten).
Iowa never had a winning record with Scott Broghamer and the closest to was three games under .500
I believe that Broghamer set the program back, Banks was able to win at Iowa. Dahm had some marginal success at Iowa and brought them to a level above where Broghamer had them IMO. Under Broghamer things were worse in the Big Ten than they were with Dahm.
Thoughts?
Any of those '77-'89 records would have landed Iowa in the NCAA tourney today.
Actually no they wouldn't have and frankly it wouldn't even be close. What IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life neglected to do when looking up the records was actually look at the schedules we played. Prior to 1988, the B1G conference schedule was only 16-18 games a season. Let's take a look at your 1981 season that saw 44 wins. 25 of those 44 wins were against Division II, Division III and NAIA programs. Iowa would have won the Division III National Championship that season with series sweeps of Central, Wartburg, Loras, UW-Plattville, Luther, Monmouth, UW-Lacrosse, Evangel. Their Undefeated Division III season was ruined by a split with Coe. But don't worry, they swept both series with NE Missouri and SE Missouri in Division II and swept William Penn in the NAIA. In 1981 Iowa played more games against Iowa Conference opponents than they did against B1G Conference opponents. They were only 8-6 against a total of four opponents in the B1G that year.
The 1985 season saw 40 total wins. Unfortunately 24 of those wins were once again over teams from Division II, Division III and the NAIA which means Iowa had a losing record against teams from NCAA Division I. Series sweeps over Evangel, SE Missouri, UM-St. Louis, Washington(St Louis, not Pac12's UDub), New Mexico-Highlands, William Penn, Mankato St., Wartburg, NW Missouri, St. Ambrose, Coe, Augustana, and a split with Grandview highlighted that season.
Similar comparisons can be made for each of the other teams listed above if you actually break down the game by game record.
70% of the wins by Iowa baseball during the 1970s until about 1988 when a 28-29 game B1G schedule was adopted were against the following programs combined:
Cochise, Minot St. Cornell(IA), Western Illinois, UNI, Upper Iowa, Coe, Grand Canyon, Drake, Loras, UW-Lacrosse, UW-Plattville, Grandview, UM-St. Louis, Mankato State, Milton College, Western Colorado, Wartburg, SE Missouri, NE Missouri, NW Missouri, Illinois Central, St. Ambrose, Augustana, William Penn, New Mexico-Highlands, Lewis, Central, UN-Omaha, Monmouth, Baker, Washington U.-St. Louis, Iowa State and Missouri Western.
On the positive side, the Hawkeyes absolutely dominated the Iowa Conference during this 17 year stretch. And I mean dominated!!!!
Duane Banks coached teams only had B1G winning season records in 15 of his 27 seasons and only 3 winning B1G records after 1988 when the conference moved from 16-18 conference games per season to 28-29. So that means 3 winning B1G records in 10 seasons for Duane under the current conference format. Duane has a career losing record against B1G opponents which means the Iowa program since 1970 has a cumulative losing record in B1G play.
Sorry folks, Iowa baseball has no tradition to sell. Iowa's pitch to a new coach needs to be you can build your own tradition. We only have 7 total B1G Championships which only puts us 2 more than both Chicago(hasn't played since 1946) and Wisconsin(hasen't played since 1991). So at least we are guaranteed to not be at the bottom. Thank goodness for Purdue, Northwestern and Indiana or we would really look bad.
This post was edited on 6/14 9:47 AM by 73chief
