There is just no other way to say it. It's actually pretty inexcusable in year 14 of a coaching tenure. I'd prepare ourselves for day one of the conference tournament.
This is a bad basketball team
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I can't watch this team. Sloppy, badly coached, and lost.
Hey easy, they’re just going through some stuff.
Serious question though: does it feel like there might be some locker room drama going on or some other negativity going on for whatever reason? Some of the upperclassmen seem really out of sorts with their enthusiasm as opposed to prior years. Just my observation.
This is a team with no floor leader. No consistent clutch player.
Agreed. I am becoming even more apathetic, and I am devout Hawkeye fan of 65+ years.
Pressing against Michigan's scrubbs in the last 90 seconds
On top of everything previously mentioned we're built like a 1a hoops team. They lift? Really?
Freeman is our best player, Fran needs to recalibrate and build around him.
Freeman is our best player, Fran needs to recalibrate and build around him.
Well when you don’t play and actual pg you’ll have that. Perkins should be a 4-5 option on a team most likely a sub.
Fran better learn to live and die with Brock and get Bowen more minutes. They are the only two ball handlers/pg’s on this team.
No serious coach would play that lineup Fran put out there today.
That's an I don't have the guts to do what's right lineup.
Margaret will kill him if Patrick doesn't start and play at 20 minutes. How much longer can the apologists deny the nepotism?
Krikke is nearly as bad. That dude might be the worst defender to ever play college basketball.
Imagine failing over and over again the same way while not listening to thousands of people telling you you were doing it wrong.
I've been a fan better part of 4 decades (most of my life) and I'm right there with you.
I really have a strong feeling this will be Fran’s last year. He will become Iowa’s winningest coach. The timing is perfect. Patrick will be gone. Jack has one more year in high school and has said he’s not coming to Iowa. There’s no question Fran us a devout family man. With all he’s been through with his family, I just think the timing is perfect to step down.
I kinda hope so. Fran has done an okay job in his time here. That said, it feels like it's time to go another direction
A young energetic coach would be a nice change of pace.
One that currently coaches at Drake.
Agreed. Fran did a great job of pulling the program out of the grave that Lickliter dug for it... But he hasn't done much to build on it since. This is, what, his 14th year? That's a while. Unless you're coach K, you tend to wear out your welcome eventually, after that many years. A change of scenery is usually a good thing.
Fran doesn’t, and never really has, care about teaching defense. And it shows.
I was chuckling most of the game it was so bad
Who cares??? This is a Hawkeye board.
Izzo has allowed the program to slip ( some of it on him, some of all that has transpired at MSU). He really has only had a couple of good teams since he turned down the Cavs job.
Michigan State will be a Sweet 16 team again this year.
13+ years of the same shit .. and some fans will say Fran is the best we can do. He’s a .500 conference coach.
Every team faces roster turnover, young rosters … blah, blah… At the end of the day we have a coach who peaked at Iowa about 5 or 6 years ago. It doesn’t matter if we have the POY … or Murray brothers … or Weezy … or 10 freshmen … it’s the
S-A-M-E shit…
Every team faces roster turnover, young rosters … blah, blah… At the end of the day we have a coach who peaked at Iowa about 5 or 6 years ago. It doesn’t matter if we have the POY … or Murray brothers … or Weezy … or 10 freshmen … it’s the
S-A-M-E shit…
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I reached apathy when Garza’s group got bounced early in the tournament. Add in NiL and all the other crap, and I stopped watching. Occasionally I might have a game on in the background but I don’t think I have watched more than 5 basketball games from start to finish in the last 3 years.
All the crap luck wore me down over almost 50 years
Not even close. They’re terrible. Kids are turning the old man out.
As an outsider, my opinion is worthless, but FWIW this team has problems that aren't physical. They act like they don't want to be there.
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me at all. We've seen this scenario too many times to count. MSU plays above average competition at a below average level for the first few months and start rounding into shape, entering the tourney as a mid level seed and get to the Sweet Sixteen. Just like last year. Izzo can coach.
Yep, just like I said on another thread. Michigan State has the athletes, coach, and experience that will turn their season around just in time for the tournament.
It's an iffing down year, get over it, it happens to a lot of teams now and then. If you all can't handle it, why are you watching, and then coming on this message board and reaffirming what we all know!
There isn't a bigger Hawk fan then me, I live for Iowa basketball every year and have been as disappointed as most of you for the lack of NCAA success, but I enjoy the games and I'm hoping the freshman are the beginnings of an uptick in Iowa basketball in the coming years or as long as I'm on the right side of the grass. Don't have many more years left.
There isn't a bigger Hawk fan then me, I live for Iowa basketball every year and have been as disappointed as most of you for the lack of NCAA success, but I enjoy the games and I'm hoping the freshman are the beginnings of an uptick in Iowa basketball in the coming years or as long as I'm on the right side of the grass. Don't have many more years left.
