These hawkeyes have heart

[1inamillion]

Love the lunch pail effort of mulvey and Kingsbury. These examples along with the grit of these 2 and the rest of the team has pulled my enthusiasm back in. Give the head coach his due. He has kept the team together
This team, win or lose deserves great respect. Yesterday's game made it great to be a hawkeye.

 

[Beattheohiostate]

Absolutely agree. And include Brauns in there, and even Dembele. But yah, everybody who steps on the floor lately is giving it all they have, and there's enough talent there to cause some damage. After all, Iowa had Oregon on the ropes and missed a couple of shots at the very end of an 80-78 loss. Then Oregon goes to #11 Wisconsin and beats the Badgers.

This Iowa team is greater than the sum of its parts, and that's the kind of thing that does, indeed, make sports fun and Iowa men's basketball well worth watching.

 

[BlIIlken2]

 

[1inamillion]

Read man in the arena. These guys are more fun than watching prima Donna's. I love the guts and heart. Yesterday was not a moral victory. Lol. Let's keep fran.

 

[MikeyHawk]

Read man in the arena. These guys are more fun than watching prima Donna's. I love the guts and heart. Yesterday was not a moral victory. Lol. Let's keep fran.

what a strange fan base

 

[BlIIlken2]

Read man in the arena. These guys are more fun than watching prima Donna's. I love the guts and heart. Yesterday was not a moral victory. Lol. Let's keep fran.

I like winning. I watched a bad team beat another bad team yesterday. It was boring basketball. It’s year 64 of Fran. The cupboard shouldn’t be so bare.

I guess it was entertaining because it was evenly matched?

 

[TampaHawkfan]

Read man in the arena. These guys are more fun than watching prima Donna's. I love the guts and heart. Yesterday was not a moral victory. Lol. Let's keep fran.

I agree about those guys playing with heart, but keep Fran because these guys scraped out a home win against the last place team in the league? You're nuts.

That's about as big of an overreaction to a single win as I see with a meltdown over a bad loss.

 

[83Hawk]

When Iowa wins: keep Fran.
When Iowa loses: fire Fran.

 

[nu2u]

I’ve coached, assisted, officiated, volunteered, and watched several different amateur youth sports over the years. “They have/play with great heart” is the go-to almost universal comment you hear fans/parents say about teams with inferior talent and no chance to win anything meaningful.

 

[AmericaNeedsMe]

I’ve coached, assisted, officiated, volunteered, and watched several different amateur youth sports over the years. “They have/play with great heart” is the go-to almost universal comment you hear fans/parents say about teams with inferior talent and no chance to win anything meaningful.

 

[1inamillion]

I’ve coached, assisted, officiated, volunteered, and watched several different amateur youth sports over the years. “They have/play with great heart” is the go-to almost universal comment you hear fans/parents say about teams with inferior talent and no chance to win anything meaningful.

Lol. You obviously an expert. Lol

 

[Bierhalter]

Keep playing all those backups and end-of-bench reserves, Coach. It's what the fans want, for whatever reason.

 

[Terrykohawk]

Iowa wins and some fans still cannot stop complaining. Sad. Has this been a disappointing season? Of course. Is Fran gone after this year? Probably. Just accept that this team fights while missing key pieces. That is a compliment to the kids and yes, the coaches.

 

[BrotherHawkeye]

I like to think I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I like when Iowa wins and I want to start over next year with a new coach. Those are not mutually exclusive at this point. One more victory, two more victories, whatever, this season is not going to change the path forward for Iowa basketball. Iowa will have a new coach and he won't be worth a damn (to some).

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Love the lunch pail effort of mulvey and Kingsbury. These examples along with the grit of these 2 and the rest of the team has pulled my enthusiasm back in. Give the head coach his due. He has kept the team together
This team, win or lose deserves great respect. Yesterday's game made it great to be a hawkeye.

When Iowa wins: keep Fran.
When Iowa loses: fire Fran.

Spot on, 83. This is what absolutely perplexes me about the Iowa fan base. This Iowa team has shown anything but heart and grit throughout the season. They are about as Charmin soft as it gets and couldn’t defend a wet paper bag.

All of the sudden, after Iowa ekes out a win over a mediocre Washington team, out comes the sunshine band with a laughably ridiculous array of superlatives about how “gritty” and “tough” this Iowa team is. El oh freaking el.

Better give Fran a raise, extension, and larger buyout, amirite @Franisdaman? 😛

 

[1inamillion]

Spot on, 83. This is what absolutely perplexes me about the Iowa fan base. This Iowa team has shown anything but heart and grit throughout the season. They are about as Charmin soft as it gets and couldn’t defend a wet paper bag.

All of the sudden, after Iowa ekes out a win over a mediocre Washington team, out comes the sunshine band with a laughably ridiculous array of superlatives about how “gritty” and “tough” this Iowa team is. El oh freaking el.

Better give Fran a raise, extension, and larger buyout, amirite @Franisdaman? 😛

You have no understanding of grit nor heart
Lol

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

You have no understanding of grit nor heart
Lol

Boy, you got me. 🙄

 

[1inamillion]

Boy, you got me. 🙄

Good call

 

[HawkLogic]

I like winning. I watched a bad team beat another bad team yesterday. It was boring basketball. It’s year 64 of Fran. The cupboard shouldn’t be so bare.

I guess it was entertaining because it was evenly matched?

True, at times they look like a Lickliter squad and play like the Washington generals. Athletically they are always outclassed. I do like to see underdogs compete and have some success. The lack of talent and strange roster construction and lack of defense/rebounding that got those hawks to bottom feeder level is ALL on Fran. Hopefully the plug gets pulled on Fran...even for those happy with consistent medocrity that Fran has given Iowa fans, it is time to give another guy a chance. It isn't going to be hard to find someone younger, more energy, more marketing skills, more charisma, better at X'es and O's that will actually hire other good young coaches instead of Yes men and retreads like Fran's Dillard and Speraw.

 

[TampaHawkfan]

When Iowa wins: keep Fran.
When Iowa loses: fire Fran.

100%. There are folks on both sides of the aisle that majorly overreact to every game. I've been a message board guy for over 20 years, and that's really nothing new.

For me: We're talking about a coach that's won 4 NCAA games in 15 years, the product has been trending downwards the past few years, and attendance is suffering. Time to give someone else a shot.