More wins next year: football or basketball?
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I say basketball comes close to doubling up football. Around 20 wins for BB.
Basketball but it will be a rebuilding season for basketball. I think football will get to 10 wins.
20, and it will be fun to watch a new group of guys come together. Now let's enjoy this great season and hope for a great finish.
Why not? Next year is a long ways away. You look at what we have coming back as the players they are now. That's the wrong way to look at it. Guys get better. No one saw Uthoff becoming an All American candidate this year. Jok first team Big Ten. I could keep going. Guys get better every year in college basketball. No reason to be doom and gloom before next year's team has even played a game.
Wanted you to elaborate. Tons of moving parts and new pieces to mend together, I am very excited for the future, next year is a wild card for me.
10 football wins, but 15 wins in BB. Of couse half those wins will be against weak non conference teams
To me there's just too much unknown with next year to have reasonable discussions about. Who knows what we'll be getting at PG? I honestly could see us better in a lot more areas next year. One thing I will say is that next years team will definitely be different then this years. Look at last years team. One of the best rebounding teams in the country. Exceptional on the offensive glass. Compare that to this year where they are more of a 3 point shooting team. One thing I really like about Fran is how he gets the best available talent in recruiting and then is able to mesh it all together. I look at a guy like Woody who really shouldn't fit Fran's system but Fran gets the most out of him.
I intend to stick with around twenty and a fight for our lives to get an NCAA invite until I am wrong. 
Reasonable? That's for real life and knowing the proper time to change the address and name.
Reasonable? That's for real life and knowing the proper time to change the address and name.
obviously I was kidding/dreaming
But you can't be serious!?! "6.5"-7 wins...really? Hell we ought to have 7 wins our first 7 games
C'mon man. It's no fun if I have to spell it out for ya.
At least 10-11 foosball wins....then do the math.
Can we first enjoy the rest of this season before offering doom and gloom for next season?
Haha we should.. I am just going off of history where when the expectations are high the results are low.. Non Iowa fans probably have Iowa fans at 9-3 or 10-2 next year!obviously I was kidding/dreaming
But you can't be serious!?! "6.5"-7 wins...really? Hell we ought to have 7 wins our first 7 games
I think next year will be up and down, and a lot of fun to watch. I suspect Fran will have a pretty easy preconference schedule to build confidence with 9-10 wins. Fran isn't about to have a losing record in the Big, so add another 9 wins. Then it is a matter of how many can we win in the BTT to hopefully make the inside of the bubble.
It will be a rebuild of sorts... BUT We return 10 players who will have over a year of playing together. Not new to each other, but playing together.
Tell me that doesn't mean something? Then tell me who else has that many returning....? I think we good with just that....
Plus a very solid recruiting class. I think Fran will do much better than expected.
It'll be tough to get to 8 or 9 wins in preconference BB, which is where I see the FB team finishing. But then I don't know what the preconference season is comprised of next year, so.....Iowa will beat ISU and UNI, so there is 2, and then they have the obligatory Weak Sisters of the Poor, so there is 6 or 7 more wins. And then a surprise win or 2, so yes, Iowa will have a better preconference record then the FB team will in total.
Just trying to build on what inevitably is still guesswork. But some bits and pieces of the puzzle:
We should have an easier Big Ten schedule. We will play Rutgers, Illinois and Maryland twice for sure. If the right guys go pro that's not so bad. The two other teams must come from: Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Northwestern. Bottom line we could have the easiest schedule in the Big Ten in 2016/17.
Nonconference, who knows. But in 2012/13 we had a weak nonconference and McCaffery said during the season he thought that would be good for a young team, but that maybe it was too weak after all. So, I've a feeling we don't stock up too tough in 2016/17.
Some regurgitated stuff from another post a few days ago but:
2016/17 One senior in Peter Jok, vs 2012/13 season and one senior, Eric May. Advantage strong for 16/17. (2012/13 we enjoyed 25 wins.)
16/17 Juniors Dom Uhl, Dale Jones. 12/13 Marble, Basabe, McCabe. Advantage (to me) exactly one Devyn Marble. The other guys equal out.
At this point I'm thinking Jok, Uhl and Jones could be stronger than Marble, Basabe, May, with McCabe being a non-impact bench guy.
Takes us to sophomores, freshmen and the problem. White, Olaseni, Oglesby, Gesell, Clemmons, Ingram, Meyer, Woodbury, compared to Baer, Ellingson, Williams, Fleming, Wagner, Moss, Hutton, Cook, Kriener, Pemsl and Bohannon. How do we measure? Sure, White was known. The rest really wasn't and many of the new guys next year aren't.
I just really don't see how anyone, if anyone actually was, could claim to know this team could be "great". But at the same time, I don't see how anyone can be certain of doom and gloom? Based on what? The unknown? I can only compare (if anyone actually is) the idea of panicking to the solution of sleeping with a light on...helps if you are afraid of the dark.
We should have an easier Big Ten schedule. We will play Rutgers, Illinois and Maryland twice for sure. If the right guys go pro that's not so bad. The two other teams must come from: Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Northwestern. Bottom line we could have the easiest schedule in the Big Ten in 2016/17.
Nonconference, who knows. But in 2012/13 we had a weak nonconference and McCaffery said during the season he thought that would be good for a young team, but that maybe it was too weak after all. So, I've a feeling we don't stock up too tough in 2016/17.
Some regurgitated stuff from another post a few days ago but:
2016/17 One senior in Peter Jok, vs 2012/13 season and one senior, Eric May. Advantage strong for 16/17. (2012/13 we enjoyed 25 wins.)
16/17 Juniors Dom Uhl, Dale Jones. 12/13 Marble, Basabe, McCabe. Advantage (to me) exactly one Devyn Marble. The other guys equal out.
At this point I'm thinking Jok, Uhl and Jones could be stronger than Marble, Basabe, May, with McCabe being a non-impact bench guy.
Takes us to sophomores, freshmen and the problem. White, Olaseni, Oglesby, Gesell, Clemmons, Ingram, Meyer, Woodbury, compared to Baer, Ellingson, Williams, Fleming, Wagner, Moss, Hutton, Cook, Kriener, Pemsl and Bohannon. How do we measure? Sure, White was known. The rest really wasn't and many of the new guys next year aren't.
I just really don't see how anyone, if anyone actually was, could claim to know this team could be "great". But at the same time, I don't see how anyone can be certain of doom and gloom? Based on what? The unknown? I can only compare (if anyone actually is) the idea of panicking to the solution of sleeping with a light on...helps if you are afraid of the dark.
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