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Nepotism

Saying CMac turned into an adequate 3 point shooter is like saying saying Brian Ferentz was an adequate offensive coordinator. The guy shot 27%, 33% and 33% from three his last three seasons.
33% isn’t great, but it’s respectable for a point guard. He also had a great A/T ratio, great FT% and was a decent rebounder.

Honest truth is that he was a top 100 ranked recruit and fans were thrilled to get him. A lot of projection of hate for Fran on to Conner and PMac.
 
33% isn’t great, but it’s respectable for a point guard. He also had a great A/T ratio, great FT% and was a decent rebounder.

Honest truth is that he was a top 100 ranked recruit and fans were thrilled to get him. A lot of projection of hate for Fran on to Conner and PMac.
He was a good free throw shooter his last year. How’d he shoot from the line in the season that mattered the most?!? Where he played over a top 5 NBA draft pick? He shot 27% from 3, 33% from the field, and 58% from the free throw line. Spin that for me!
 
That’s a good point and there a couple people on here that doesn’t register with. They point to Brock Harding and compare his numbers to Bohannon. I’ll just say Harding (and CMac) get a lot more wide open threes than a guy high on the scouting report like Bohannon or Payton Sandfort.
Part of the pt duty is to attract defenders creating mismatches or making non guarded shooters. CM didn’t attract defenders.
 
He was a good free throw shooter his last year. How’d he shoot from the line in the season that mattered the most?!? Where he played over a top 5 NBA draft pick? He shot 27% from 3, 33% from the field, and 58% from the free throw line. Spin that for me!
Ok, here you go.

Post #50 in the linked thread below

 
They didn’t have a pt guard and he actually did.
Yes, some his freshman year. But that was about it.

A lot of 3 and 4.

Almost never guarded the opponent's PG after his freshman year. One's position is defined by who they guard
 
You must have watched different games. CM played pt a lot especially late in games.

There is official and what was used most everything fed thru him. Hawks were usually 4 on five as they let him go.
He’s either Brian Ferentz or a troll. Maybe both. 🤷‍♂️
 
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You must have watched different games. CM played pt a lot especially late in games.

There is official and what was used most everything fed thru him. Hawks were usually 4 on five as they let him go.
Again, Connor was guarding mostly 4's and 3's. And 4's and 3's were defending him.

JBo was "defending" the point
 
Somehow I doubt we would be having this discussion if Devries had been our hire.
Well, mostly because Tucker is already an established and successful D1 player, but honestly, after hearing how last year went at WVU, I think we dodged a bullet.
 
Saying CMac turned into an adequate 3 point shooter is like saying saying Brian Ferentz was an adequate offensive coordinator. The guy shot 27%, 33% and 33% from three his last three seasons.
33% is higher than Payton Sandfort this year- and certainly not a great percentage but not bad either. To compare to Brian Ferentz is ludicrous. He did improve quite a bit - that was the point.
 
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33% is higher than Payton Sandfort this year- and certainly not a great percentage but not bad either. To compare to Brian Ferentz is ludicrous. He did improve quite a bit - that was the point.
Yea. Because Payton was the number one guy on the scouting report for opposing defenses. He never got clean looks. All Cmac got were open, wide open looks.
 
Yea. Because Payton was the number one guy on the scouting report for opposing defenses. He never got clean looks. All Cmac got were open, wide open looks.
He actually was 34% two of the years. Again, not great but given where he started I thought it was ADEQUATE. Better than multiple years by guys like PMAc, Perkins, JoBo (one year), Bowen, etc.
 
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I didn’t have a huge issue with Connor. Every team needs that player that’s the tough guy and brings fire. Doesn’t mean he needed to start, especially at the expense of Murray, but I liked his fire.

Patrick was a whole other story. He was the laziest and the worst rebounding post player I’ve ever seen.
 
I didn’t have a huge issue with Connor. Every team needs that player that’s the tough guy and brings fire. Doesn’t mean he needed to start, especially at the expense of Murray, but I liked his fire.

Patrick was a whole other story. He was the laziest and the worst rebounding post player I’ve ever seen.
Post player?
 
Cant be worse than lick jr
I feel bad for him because he had no business playing anything above D-III ball. I averaged more points a game in high school than him and Upper Iowa was the only college who asked me to play basketball for them and they were terrible.
 
Yes, some his freshman year. But that was about it.

A lot of 3 and 4.

Almost never guarded the opponent's PG after his freshman year. One's position is defined by who they guard
Couldn't guard any position. Couldn't jump. Couldn't shoot even though he wasn't guarded. Played 4 on 5 any time he was on the court. Our studs worst stats were when he was with them due to the extra attention they received. Once again, there's a reason he had no options to get paid to play. Very rare for a 4 or 5 year starter to have nobody want him.
 
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He was a good free throw shooter his last year. How’d he shoot from the line in the season that mattered the most?!? Where he played over a top 5 NBA draft pick? He shot 27% from 3, 33% from the field, and 58% from the free throw line. Spin that for me!
I didn’t realize Keagan was a top 5 NBA draft pick that year. Yet, he came back and played another year. . . You like to cherry pick numbers and change subjects when you are wrong. You seem bitter.
 
I didn’t realize Keagan was a top 5 NBA draft pick that year. Yet, he came back and played another year. . . You like to cherry pick numbers and change subjects when you are wrong. You seem bitter.
Let’s stay on the subject of nepotism. Fran played his kids to the detriment of his team. Didn’t recruit guys to compete against his kids. And couldn’t win when it mattered. Point blank period. Fran wasted a lot of talent.
 
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Let’s stay on the subject of nepotism. Fran played his kids to the detriment of his team. Didn’t recruit guys to compete against his kids. And couldn’t win when it mattered. Point blank period. Fran wasted a lot of talent.
Sorry if I’m using facts instead of emotions.
 
CMAC was about the same level of talent as Kingsbury. Only difference was he had Fran's complete trust. CMAC Basketball career ended as soon as he got out of Iowa---anyone with talent plays overseas, CMAC went directly into coaching.

NO CMAC wouldn't have played the minutes he did if his father wasn't coach. CMAC started over Keegan every game of Keegan's Freshman year. , . There were many,many minutes of both CMAC and PMAC playing together. Fran had a rule regarding his two boys, Always one playing, sometimes both playing together, almost never both on bench---that only occurred in a blowout

Keegan and Kris being on the court together only happended a few minutes total in there careers. When Fran recruited them, he said Keegan would play the 4, and Kris the 3.....that never happened because PMAC was playing the 3. Kris sat on bench Freshman year because if he'd played, he'd of taken PT away from PMAC and CMAC.

Anyway the way to prevent Nepotism is don't put your boys on the team and give them preferential treatment. Fran got fired and partly because he spent a few years maximizing McCaffery Family time instead of doing his job and recruiting/playing the best lineups possible. He had a chance to recruit over CMAC and PMAC and he didn't.
Agree, Fran playing his boys over Keegan and Kris showed his nepotism. 2 frickin NBA players and he plays his kids instead.
 
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