Be thankful you don't know kilroy/bobtarn/dragonhawk. He was king of using random obscure data sets. Dead giveaway on kilroy post:
Player x RSJR 4star 6-1 192 will be taking over when Player Y RSSR 3 star 6-2 184........
I'm not in the perpetual "fire KF" crowd I'm more in the "I was born in '85 and have really only known 1 coach for my entire life who we can all agree plays a pretty vanilla brand of football, im not as affraid of change as those of you who constantly reference the pre Hayden years anytime change is brought up". KF is a good coach and a better man but at this point he is destined for 1 of two things, he will either leave while some say he could have stayed or he will leave when we all say he stayed a couple years too long. Change foe change sake isn't good, change after 22 years isn't change for change sake, the teams that know how to beat us could write a manual on what we do and when we are going to do it.
I kind of remember that guy now. Didn't pay much attention since his observations were usually kind of silly.
You are the same age as my boy. You're still in the "young man in a hurry" stage of your life. That's not an insult, almost every man's life has that phase. At your age life has been mostly about changes, graduate HS, then college, maybe transferred schools, jumped around in a few jobs, maybe have some young kids at home, maybe a few really shitty break ups where you had to reframe your life on short notice.
I was about your age when the fire Dr. Davis shit started. Like many of the younger guys I could see mostly just upside in getting a younger coach with new ideas. A guy that had done some winning at a mid major. A man from my generation, a coach on the rise, even though personally I knew Dr. Davis was an outstanding man, a good role model and teacher. But, damn it, why couldn't Iowa break through to that top 16 kind of program from more of a top 30 kind of program. Didn't really want to see Dr. Davis go but I was OK with the idea of a trade up to a younger, sportier model.
Well, we got our hot young coach, fresh off a Sweet 16 with Missouri State or SW Missouri (don't know when the name changed) when we hired Steve Alford. And Alford did indeed take Iowa to a new level, the gutter. So, after only 8 seasons the combination of not winning, a carousel roster and a truly astounding degree of personal arrogance, entitlement and condescension Alford was run out of town. I was all for that change because: A) I found Alford to be a genuinely lousy person that attracted others like him-hence the roster carousel and B) More importantly, I did not think it was possible for Iowa, a historically successful program that had not yet hit the complete dumpster, to get any worse than the Alford results.
Then we hired Todd Lickliter. Todd is a good guy-the anti Alford in that respect. Todd had been to two Sweet 16s in the previous six seasons at Butler and was NCoY when we hired him. Todd proved it was possible for Iowa basketball to not only get worse but catastrophically worse. Todd couldn't even see over the gutter into which Alford drug us. So Lick was gone after three years.
Now, another
ten years later, although its looking good at this point, Iowa basketball has still not met or exceeded Dr. Davis' last season (now 20 years ago) much less his best season. Look around the country and count up the programs that have a better record either recently or over the last 22 seasons than Iowa football. Not many, especially in this and the previous five seasons-which might be the best evidence of where the program is, not living on distant glories of an aging and longer successful coach, but what has the coach done lately.
So whenever you find yourself bored with a game plan or pissed at a close loss to a Blue Blood program, or whatever voodoo they've got going in Evanston, and you think our program needs change, and brother I have been there, look down: there's a long long way to fall.
