Chad Leistikow of the Des Moines Register interviews Fran.
Some excerpts:
Iowa has one of the most jam-packed frontcourts in college basketball.
“Fortunately, they’re all versatile,” McCaffery says. “We’ve got some guys that can stretch the floor. We’ve got some power guys. They all can score. They can all dribble it and pass it. We’ll just try to institute the best case of fairness possible.”
Time will help sort out McCaffery's conundrum.
An undervalued piece to the 2017-18 puzzle is this summer’s foreign trip. College hoops programs are allowed one of these every four years, and it’s that time again for the Hawkeyes. They’ll be in Switzerland, Italy and Germany from Aug. 6-17. They'll play four games and, most importantly, gear up for them with 10 extra NCAA-permitted practices totaling 30 hours.
This 2017-18 Hawkeye team isn’t one that would seem to need a lot of vocal motivation. It’s a driven group.
But rest assured, some "Wrath" will come.
“The key is to recruit guys who come to practice and want to get better and want to work hard,” McCaffery says. “I shouldn’t have to play games to motivate them.
“The turning over trash cans and stuff like that, it’s foolish. It just doesn’t do any good. Once or twice a year, I go off; they know it’s coming. They know. They know we’re not where we need to be right now. Especially if you have guys like Aaron White, Devyn Marble, Nicholas Baer, Tyler Cook — those are character guys.”
“I don’t have any guys that I say, ‘Oh, he’s a challenge.’ Every guy on that team is a character guy,” McCaffery says. “They want to be great. They want to be great teammates. And they want to win. Yeah, they all want some level of personal satisfaction or recognition. It’s only natural. But they’re all smart enough to know that if they do what they’re supposed to do, then that’ll come.”
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...awkeyes-tyler-cook-jordan-bohannon/420863001/
Some excerpts:
Iowa has one of the most jam-packed frontcourts in college basketball.
“Fortunately, they’re all versatile,” McCaffery says. “We’ve got some guys that can stretch the floor. We’ve got some power guys. They all can score. They can all dribble it and pass it. We’ll just try to institute the best case of fairness possible.”
Time will help sort out McCaffery's conundrum.
An undervalued piece to the 2017-18 puzzle is this summer’s foreign trip. College hoops programs are allowed one of these every four years, and it’s that time again for the Hawkeyes. They’ll be in Switzerland, Italy and Germany from Aug. 6-17. They'll play four games and, most importantly, gear up for them with 10 extra NCAA-permitted practices totaling 30 hours.
This 2017-18 Hawkeye team isn’t one that would seem to need a lot of vocal motivation. It’s a driven group.
But rest assured, some "Wrath" will come.
“The key is to recruit guys who come to practice and want to get better and want to work hard,” McCaffery says. “I shouldn’t have to play games to motivate them.
“The turning over trash cans and stuff like that, it’s foolish. It just doesn’t do any good. Once or twice a year, I go off; they know it’s coming. They know. They know we’re not where we need to be right now. Especially if you have guys like Aaron White, Devyn Marble, Nicholas Baer, Tyler Cook — those are character guys.”
“I don’t have any guys that I say, ‘Oh, he’s a challenge.’ Every guy on that team is a character guy,” McCaffery says. “They want to be great. They want to be great teammates. And they want to win. Yeah, they all want some level of personal satisfaction or recognition. It’s only natural. But they’re all smart enough to know that if they do what they’re supposed to do, then that’ll come.”
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...awkeyes-tyler-cook-jordan-bohannon/420863001/
