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Ouch Godspeed for your pup
Quite the bummer. But she was hurting so the golden needed em fixed so bit the bullet. It’s a long road and sleeping on an air mattress next to her so my wife can get some sleep I’m dragging ass. Wish I could support the Hawks in person. Won’t be until the fall unfortunately
 
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I think in context having Payton play the 4th at the start of season which did not work and is why Freeman and Krikke are now starting at the 4 and 5
Payton at the 4 wasn't the problem it was Krikke at the 5 and Patrick at the 3 that were the problems.

Now the interior defense will improve but overall the starting lineup probably got worse. The offense will definitely be worse because of lack of spacing.
 
Payton at the 4 wasn't the problem it was Krikke at the 5 and Patrick at the 3 that were the problems.

Now the interior defense will improve but overall the starting lineup probably got worse. The offense will definitely be worse because of lack of spacing.
Despite the weak opponent, Iowa played with much more “pep” today. I’m not ready to give up on the season yet. Unlike football, in hoops a team can lose some early in season and still have time to turn it around.
 
Despite the weak opponent, Iowa played with much more “pep” today. I’m not ready to give up on the season yet. Unlike football, in hoops a team can lose some early in season and still have time to turn it around.
If Fran is going to insist on playing those starters most of the minutes there's almost no upside for this team.
 
Quite the bummer. But she was hurting so the golden needed em fixed so bit the bullet. It’s a long road and sleeping on an air mattress next to her so my wife can get some sleep I’m dragging ass. Wish I could support the Hawks in person. Won’t be until the fall unfortunately
There’s a special place in Heaven for animal caregivers like you!
 
There’s a special place in Heaven for animal caregivers like you!
We have a shih tzu who helped our other golden who went blind all over our house and around the back yard. Was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen she was so sad when she passed. Now she has our 4 year old golden and is a quasi therapy dog. Won’t leave her side or mine as I’m up watching Law and Order at 3 am because I’m up giving pills at all times. Dogs are amazing and I love all of them. I’d do any thing to make them feel good we are everything to them and they are everything to me.
 
My God. Some people can complain about anything and everything. What's pathetic is that someone would actually start this post.
Fvck yourself that was embarrassing to look at. The optics and atmosphere made Carver look like Arrowhead.
 
So the Murray's and Garza and weiscamp and white are garbage. 2 players of the Year in cbb. You need a check up! Yikes. Weirdo.
Incredible with all that talent they couldn’t get any even average big ten guards to come along. Reason why there has been no success in the tourney.
 
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It's not the arena, it's clearly the fan bases, and the blue hairs are sucking up all the oxygen in the room. I love the fact that Beth "Getsit" is trying to change the culture.
Yep. Was gonna say, guess we can stop blaming Carver for the lack of attendance. People simply aren't turning out to watch this program these days. Just a lack of passion in general from the fanbase. Especially since it sounds like the women got a great turnout.
 
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Yep. Was gonna say, guess we can stop blaming Carver for the lack of attendance. People simply aren't turning out to watch this program these days. Just a lack of passion in general from the fanbase. Especially since it sounds like the women got a great turnout.

Fair weather fan base?
 
The engagement and energy between the two games was pretty drastic.

The defense seemed better for the men today, might have just been the lack of talent in the opponent
 
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What do we think the atmosphere would have been like if we were playing 10-1 Drake? Going to guess it would have been packed. But no, we’re going to bring in Florida A & M, a bottom feeder with zero interest of any kind for anyone. Bring in Creighton, play Drake, play a regional team that would pack the place. Florida A & M? No Thanks.
 
Fair weather fan base?
Program is stale..
ISU has a great home atmosphere (when they have a decent team) When they suck, lots of empty seats. Same for most teams.

Iowa men's bb sold out for the season not long ago., but there has to be hope and anticipation of big things to excite the fan base. Iowa men's bb has neither right now.
 
Program is stale..
ISU has a great home atmosphere (when they have a decent team) When they suck, lots of empty seats. Same for most teams.

Iowa men's bb sold out for the season not long ago., but there has to be hope and anticipation of big things to excite the fan base. Iowa men's bb has neither right now.
Iowa men’s basketball sold out of ice cream for the season?!? That’s crazy!!!
 
You can hear pin drops.
It didn’t help that most of the people around me were on average 55+ years old and would put fingers in their ears if my wife and I ever cheered “too loudly”. It’s like if you’re not going to cheer and participate in a game you paid to attend, stay at home and watch it on TV imo
 
It's not the arena, it's clearly the fan bases, and the blue hairs are sucking up all the oxygen in the room. I love the fact that Beth "Getsit" is trying to change the culture.
You do understand it's the "blue hairs" that go to most of the games (even during the Lick years), don't you?
 
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It didn’t help that most of the people around me were on average 55+ years old and would put fingers in their ears if my wife and I ever cheered “too loudly”. It’s like if you’re not going to cheer and participate in a game you paid to attend, stay at home and watch it on TV imo
Who are you to dictate which people should attend and how they should participate?
 
We are not good this year but “fairly garbage program for decades”??

You been a psychotic goofball for decades and my statement is much more accurate than yours. Meds dude,,,,get back on them.
What have we won
 
Fair weather fan base?
I think every fan base is like this to some extent. There's going to be more enthusiasm and hence more attendance, when the team wins at a high level.

It's just been soooooo LONG since this program has done anything noteworthy (Big 10 title, long NCAA tournament run).

As someone else said... Stale.
 
I think fans go to games to see either an exciting team or an exciting player. The women have both. The men have neither.

No Murray, Garza, Joe W, even JBo brought in some fans. Not really anyone for the fans to get fired up about.

And it looks like the team is going to struggle to find W's.

So, it's gonna be a dull year. 🤷‍♂️
 
I have 2 sick kids and started a crockpot dinner at Noon yesterday. It was a day filled with making sure the kids were ok and sitting on the couch with them. And I still had zero interest in watching the game. I actually watched an old season of Hell's Kitchen over the game. I did watch the women though.
 
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How can you say this is sold out and the lower bowl is damn near empty. Awful look.
Did not look good. But these tickets were a package deal I believe. They sold out within minutes. The people just didn't show up for the men. I actually think the demand for the women may have pushed out some people that would have showed for the men.
 
Did not look good. But these tickets were a package deal I believe. They sold out within minutes. The people just didn't show up for the men. I actually think the demand for the women may have pushed out some people that would have showed for the men.
Did not know that. Thanks that makes sense.
 
This lame doubleheader only exists because Fran is too scared to play UNI and Drake anymore.
 
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Did not look good. But these tickets were a package deal I believe. They sold out within minutes. The people just didn't show up for the men. I actually think the demand for the women may have pushed out some people that would have showed for the men.

Yes, the ticket demand was clearly from the womens fans, and they snatched them up on bunches. No one cares about the men.
 
How many losing seasons have we had? I don’t disagree we have not racked up a bunch of BT titles throughout the years but I was pushing back on the “garbage” comment.
I agree that “garbage” is strong but as has been said at length: middle-ish in the conference regular season and done first week of the tournament, if they get there. Folks have seen the movie enough.
 
What's the NIL situation with basketball? Rebraca and Krikke are solid but you'd think we could pull better talent than that in the portal.
 
The women were the show; the men an afterthought. Really, it's Clark that's the show.
I don't think interest in the women's team will go away when Clark leaves. But it will almost certainly fall off. How much remains to be seen. Hard to see them sustain this level of performance once she's gone.
 
The women were the show; the men an afterthought. Really, it's Clark that's the show.
I don't think interest in the women's team will go away when Clark leaves. But it will almost certainly fall off. How much remains to be seen. Hard to see them sustain this level of performance once she's gone.
There's a significant pertion of new fans that won't watch any women's basketball after Clark is gone.
 
What's the NIL situation with basketball? Rebraca and Krikke are solid but you'd think we could pull better talent than that in the portal.

You don’t know the NIL situation, but believe Iowa should be able to pull in better talent than Krikke and Rebraca? 🤔


The Swarm collective has said that any money not specifically donated to basketball will go towards football. That should give you a fairly reasonable idea about the NIL situation.
 
It'll be sad when Clark/ gabby/ kate and the gang are gone but the newcomers make it exciting as well. Really hope we land Greenway
 
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You don’t know the NIL situation, but believe Iowa should be able to pull in better talent than Krikke and Rebraca? 🤔


The Swarm collective has said that any money not specifically donated to basketball will go towards football. That should give you a fairly reasonable idea about the NIL situation.
Gotcha I just didn't know if people could say where it goes or if Brad splits certain %'s of NIL to all programs.
 
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