Is Iowa viewed more as a FB or BB school?

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

This poll is how you think Iowa is viewed nationally…by non-Hawkeyes.

This could be the opinion of random sports fans, die-hard college-town fans and sports writers from across the country.

They can only pick from those two options and must choose one, not both.

How do you think they would label Iowa?



*since it’s BB season I’m posting the poll on this board

 

[Bishop1971]

Hard pick. Was a basketball school, now a football school but close.

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

Hard pick. Was a basketball school, now a football school but close.

I think that is probably true.

However, I also think all it would take is one good run during March madness, and the pendulum would swing back to Iowa being a basketball school.

 

[LaoHawk]

It's a basketball school for me cause I'm tired of the Ferentz era.

 

[Bishop1971]

I think that is probably true.

However, I also think all it would take is one good run during March madness, and the pendulum would swing back to Iowa being a basketball school.

I think the same thing. Iowa's been close to becoming a basketball school and would be fun again. The women have it going and the men are just so close.

 

[jonesy5960]

Nationally? That requires one program to have a consistently high level of success over time and the other to be somewhat irrelevant. I'm not sure that anyone thinks that much about Iowa in either sport. Some schools are easy like OSU and PSU because the level of national success in basketball pales in comparison to football. Indiana and Purdue are basketball schools. Neither program at Iowa has distinguished itself to stand high above the other.

 

[DewHawk]

IMO it is viewed as a football school

 

[QChawks]

Last BB conf title was what? 1980??

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

It's a basketball school for me cause I'm tired of the Ferentz era.

I can appreciate your sentiment. But how do you think the school is viewed on a national level?

 

[LaoHawk]

FB school cause Ferentz is more well known, esp the Wave introduction. Maybe the Student section should do a "WAVE" at the end of the basketball to opponents who lost at Carver?

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

Zero votes for BB school so far.

Come to think of it tho, I bet the overwhelming majority of folks who would label Iowa as a BB school reside in Lincoln. I doubt they visit this board very often.

 

[HawkBall23]

 

[General Tso]

I bet most of the outside world views Iowa athletics as cute

 

[WSC72]

C - Wrestling School

 

[NevadaHawk]

1) Football

2) Wrestling

3) Basketball

 

[hawkjt]

Football school.
Does not mean BB is not successful.
Wis and Mich are football but with good success in BB.
Florida has won national titles in both...but lean FB.

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

C - Wrestling School

That’s why I didn’t include it as an option.

 

[WSC72]

That’s why I didn’t include it as an option.

Fair enough.

Honestly I don’t think people outside of Iowa really think about Iowa FB or BB at all. Other than the Bugeaters.

 

[Birky]

There is no doubt it’s viewed nationally as a football school.

For example, nearly any college sports fan could immediately tell you, Iowa plays at Kinnick Stadium, who their coach is, that they produce linemen, and they wave to Children’s hospital.

I doubt any casual fan would no much more about Iowa basketball other than they are a respectable program, and maybe that their coach gets pissed off a lot.

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

Fair enough.

Honestly I don’t think people outside of Iowa really think about Iowa FB or BB at all. Other than the Bugeaters.

That’s the point, there isn’t a “for sure” answer, they’d have to think about it.

Just like with schools such as Pittsburgh, Baylor, South Carolina, West Virginia, California, etc.

 

[WSC72]

That’s the point, there isn’t a “for sure” answer, they’d have to think about it.

Just like with schools such as Pittsburgh, Baylor, South Carolina, West Virginia, California, etc.

West Virginia and South Carolina were exactly the schools I was going to compare Iowa to.

 

[Herky T Hawk]

Today football school. 1980, basketball school. 1960, both school.

 

[KcTo]

This poll is how you think Iowa is viewed nationally…by non-Hawkeyes.

This could be the opinion of random sports fans, die-hard college-town fans and sports writers from across the country.

They can only pick from those two options and must choose one, not both.

How do you think they would label Iowa?



*since it’s BB season I’m posting the poll on this board

if this question was put to the NBA or NFL,
it would be a no brainer,
= Football school

 

[dekhawk]

Football. Bowl games are like ncaa tournament games. Iowa has a lot of bowl appearances and bowl wins. Basketball has not done much since Dr Toms last sweet 16.

 

[The Deplorable Sleeping Dog]

We've had some great teams but Iowa has always been a football school. Iowa is known as a football state, although we are now producing a good quantity of P5 BBall players.

 

[blhawk]

Based on my interactions with people who have no Iowa ties I'd say that most consider Iowa pretty irrelevant in both.
The two seasons Kirk regularly brings up and hangs his hat on from the last decade culminated in a 35-0 rose bowl half time score and a 42-3 embarrassment in Indy when the nation was watching (hence the fake ID stuff)

That doesn't get much respect, along with finishing top 25 two out of every 5 years on average like Kirk has. Same with zero sweet 16s in a quarter century. In my experiences most people don't give a shit about Iowa in sports or otherwise

 

[blhawk]

1) Football

2) Wrestling

3) Basketball

Is that why Fran makes nearly 5x as much as Tom? Hell, I think Lisa makes like 150k more. I'm an Iowa wrestling fan but if we're talking nationwide people just don't GAF. The team national champ winner barely gets a mention on the big sports news shows

 

[IllQChawk]

Football school, you only half to win your bowl game, in basketball if you lose that 1st game, the season feels like a failure and Iowa Basketball has not done well in the basketball post season since forever...

 

[spiderland]

Things Iowa is viewed as on a national level:

* Medical School
* Writer’s School
* Wrestling School

Things Iowa is not viewed as on a national level:

* Pretty much everything else

 

[jberesford]

Outside of the perennial contenders like Duke, North Carolina and Kansas, I dont think there's really such a thing as a 'basketball' school anymore. You've also got places like Gonzaga and the Big East schools, but they don't even have football. The money and the marketability makes almost everyone a football school. It's just a bigger deal for almost everyone.

 

[LaQuintaHawkeye]

Iowa is known as a football state,

Really? How so?

 

[nck24]

No

 

[NevadaHawk]

Is that why Fran makes nearly 5x as much as Tom? Hell, I think Lisa makes like 150k more. I'm an Iowa wrestling fan but if we're talking nationwide people just don't GAF. The team national champ winner barely gets a mention on the big sports news shows

I didn't take the salaries our coaches are paid into consideration. I mostly thought of exposure and revenue as the main factors. Outside of the midwest wrestling does not have the appeal of the other two sports but Iowa itself has a long-standing history of excellence in the sport.

 

[Hawk-A-Doodle-Doo]

Yes.

Next question.

 

[The Deplorable Sleeping Dog]

Really? How so?

Have you spent much time with people from other states, particularly midwestern boys and men talking football? I have been sufficiently lucky to have two careers, debate and politics, totaling 32 years that allowed me weekly or more frequent opportunities to talk sports.

No one I ever met, and we are talking about thousands of people spent much time on Iowa BBall but everyone knew about Hayden, Kirk and Iowa football. I'm guessing if one took the time you could probably find a marketing survey or something.

Apparently, my opinion seems dominant since 97% of the people that answered said football school.

 

[EastIowaHawk]

Probably football or wrestling, but NATIONALLY? 95%of humans couldn't find us on a map and don't know Iowa exists.

 

[blhawk]

I didn't take the salaries our coaches are paid into consideration. I mostly thought of exposure and revenue as the main factors. Outside of the midwest wrestling does not have the appeal of the other two sports but Iowa itself has a long-standing history of excellence in the sport.

Oh yeah, I mean if it's just history of success it's not even a debate.

 

[Herklejerk]

Fans of a program that hasn't won a Big Ten regular season title since 1979; and hasn't been to the second weekend of the NCAA tourney since 1999 is seriously asking the question whether they are considered a "basketball school"?

Is it April 1st?

I've seen a lot of abysmally stupid things posted on this board (remember the "regional power" thread? lol) but man...the OP is right up there with stupidest.

 

[BioHawk]

Nationally? Neither. They are probably better respected in football than basketball though. And rightly so, football can at least point to a few major bowl wins and wins in big games in the last decade. Basketball hasn't had much post season success outside of winning the Big 10 tournament once, but nobody cares about that outside the Big 10 and even then nobody really cares about conference tournament wins more than a year after it's done.

 

[onlyTheObvious]

It’s neither. Haven’t been to even a sweet 16 in a generation. To even be talked about it would at bare minimum need to be multiple sweet 16’s and an elite 8 in the past half decade.

Football, never won the big ten championship game, never been to playoff.

Please just stop.

“Solid” in football and “average/underachieving” in basketball is what comes to mind for me.