Just how stupid are you? You really didn't know that was a joke about Recker being a porn star? And, Range wasn't otherwise a good kid. He knocked up a girl in Galesburg and also had some domestic violence issues before he was on campus. He didn't attend many classes and it was his academics that got him kicked off the team. How long ago did Fermino play for Iowa? It was 20 years ago? He played 1 season in Alford's first year when , with no recruiting prospects left over from Dr. Tom, Alford had to really scramble to field a team. How can Alford be responsible for some one 20 years later? And, you evidently do not know anything about what was happening between Iowa and Bowlsby and Dr. Tom. Let's just say that Bowlsby landed at Stanford right away when he left Iowa and Dr. Tom didn't land anywhere for years and then it was at Drake. Bowlsby Later became the Commissioner of the Big 12 Conference.Davis was insubordinate, disrespectful and he refused to follow the directions that Bowlsby gave him. If you don't think that Bowlsby communicated with Iowa's key contributors before he fired Davis, yes fired, you would be wrong. Davis needed to go. Many fans were unhappy, others were happy. Davis went to the University President and cried how he didn't want to be paid off for his final year. He wanted to fulfill his contract as if that was a thing of honor for him. It had nothing to do with honor. It had everything with sticking it to Bowlsby and his dismissal became a non renewal of his contract rather than him being fired. Davis knew that would screw over the recruiting but he didn't care.
I'm not stupid. I clearly just know far less about gay porn than you. Hence your knowledge that "Life as a G" really had not assumed a whole new meaning later in Guy's life.
Dr. Davis "needed to go"? Schools like Iowa, not Duke, Kansas, UCLA etc... that fire their career winningest coaches invite disaster; and disaster is what we got and applied with a most heavy hand at that. Dr. Davis' last season, now 21 seasons past, was our last Sweet 16. The real world implication of your words has proven to be "Iowa doesn't need to go to the Sweet 16 anymore". Dr. Davis won more NCAA games in his last season at Iowa than his successor did in the next eight, or his successor's next three, or
his successor's next five seasons. Dr. Davis' last eight seasons, so we're past George's recruits, featured more NCAA qualifications, more NCAA wins, and more Big Ten winning records than the entire 8 season Alford era. Let's not forget Alford begat Lickliter. That was like going from slow motion murder through the cumulative effect of small arsenic doses to program rodenticide. Todd Lickliter was the real world result of your thinking. In a way, I guess we did find levels of success previously unknown to the Davis era so you kind of got your wish for a new level.
Speaking of rodents, I brought up Rod and Joe because they had the same flaws you attributed to Joey. Rod and Joe couldn't stay eligible for more than one season either, although Joey might have we just will never know because he was immediately driven off by Bowlsby. Its like poker "I'll see your dullard and raise you two".
IDK if Range "knocked up a girl" but you view that as a
moral failing? Maybe that opinion derives from your apparently superior knowledge of gay porn actors. Let's be clear from the home team perspective, that's not a moral failing its mostly just really bad luck. Heterosexual teenagers have been having sex and getting pregnant since long before history began telling the story of man. Many of us would probably take a "but for the grace" approach to the teen pregnancy. I think you just made up the domestic abuse story.
Dr. Davis didn't "land" somewhere? Seriously? He was a 61 year old millionaire golf enthusiast that lived on a golf course when he left Iowa. To my knowledge, and I have some knowledge on this subject, he never sought employment elsewhere. I do know that Drake reached out to him, he never sought that job.
Bowlsby on the other hand was the quintessential bureaucrat looking for the next better job every minute he was at Iowa. Was he looking out for Iowa when he blew off Bob Stoops? Every minute of the early Bowlsby years was spent getting out from under the shadow of Evy's big coaches and Iowa celebrity names. Spend some time with Duane Banks, Dan Gable or Hayden Fry in their moments of candor and you'll get a very clear understanding of what I mean.
The school could not and would not pay out the final year of Dr. Davis' contract. That is another myth Bowlsby spun in the press after Dr. Davis refused public comment. Bowlsby went to the donors for buy out money and received a very unenthusiastic response-a polite way to hear what Bowlsby heard.
You are entitled to your opinion. Haven't the last twenty years proved B grade programs need to hang on to coaches like Dr. Davis with the tenacity of grim death itself? Twenty years later we have not recovered nor reached the same level of success Dr. Davis left behind. History has judged your opinion harshly, perhaps you should consider rethinking it.
The thing that makes the defense of Bowlsby so utterly wrong is Bowlsby's number one weapon against Dr. Davis was complaining about sketchy basketball recruits. So he chased off Dr. Davis and brought us Steve Alford and his parade of malcontents, illiterates and criminals-whose first two recruits were as sketchy as anyone Dr. Davis ever brought into Iowa.
You also do not get your own facts. Iowa fans have always been unrealistic but it wasn't the fans that brought down Dr. Davis. It wasn't the donors. In a way it wasn't entirely even Bowlsby by himself but Bowlsby did his best to push Dr. Davis out from his very first year on the job as AD. You are not in the ball park about the proverbial behind the scene politics of the Davis separation with Iowa. Truly not in the ball park.
