The make up of this team.....appears to be the version that works best for Fran's system. Yes, recruiting could tweak things for the better to have an athletic and lengthy post etc....but, long, athletic, skilled players who can really run, move quickly on defense, and beat the other team to rebounds appears to be the winning formula. No offense intended to stars of the past, I love my Hawkeyes, but I think this is what Fran is trying to recruit to. Sometimes in recruiting you just have to take the best player available?
Terms/comments like unselfishness, team players, etc sometimes get over used and are thrown around without enough thought....but they do seem to apply to this group.
Fran, JBO, Connor and more have endured ridiculous criticism during the year. Well documented on this board and shows that when things aren't going as well as we hoped there are some people/fans who choose to start trashing players and the coach. Some only see the surface, what's right in front of their eyes, and then their emotional rants are released....saying terrible things about our players and coach. They can't help themselves and then once that statement is made, they are defending it and find it very difficult to stop. In Connor's post game comments yesterday he talked about Fran and family being at young Jack's basketball games and some idiot fans yelling/chanting "Fire Fran" while they were in attendance. Can you imagine a freshman in HS trying to play a game and having fans yelling to fire your dad? Can you imagine being out as a family and having people yelling to have your husband/dad fired from his job? I am embarrassed for these people and I don't even know them. They have taken insensitivity and stupidity to a whole new level......it's just stunning. WTF
Terms/comments like unselfishness, team players, etc sometimes get over used and are thrown around without enough thought....but they do seem to apply to this group.
Fran, JBO, Connor and more have endured ridiculous criticism during the year. Well documented on this board and shows that when things aren't going as well as we hoped there are some people/fans who choose to start trashing players and the coach. Some only see the surface, what's right in front of their eyes, and then their emotional rants are released....saying terrible things about our players and coach. They can't help themselves and then once that statement is made, they are defending it and find it very difficult to stop. In Connor's post game comments yesterday he talked about Fran and family being at young Jack's basketball games and some idiot fans yelling/chanting "Fire Fran" while they were in attendance. Can you imagine a freshman in HS trying to play a game and having fans yelling to fire your dad? Can you imagine being out as a family and having people yelling to have your husband/dad fired from his job? I am embarrassed for these people and I don't even know them. They have taken insensitivity and stupidity to a whole new level......it's just stunning. WTF