If we are going to pick nits, there should not be a period after YOUR "You're".[/QUOTE]
The period should be inside the quotation mark if you really want to be technical about grammar.
Time to Crean some players for next year
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The period should be inside the quotation mark if you really want to be technical about grammar.
I’m not in favor of him being run off as you say. Not opposed to his minutes being cut to about 24 per game.
Good post. Iowa ranked 10th in the conference. Ratings are not everything I get it but this is how 247 Sports sees it.
https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Basketball/CompositeTeamRankings/?Conference=Big-Ten
Ok, you take Illinois and I'll take Iowa during FM's tenure. This year I've won 40% more conference games and 110% more games overall. In Fran's tenure, I've won 14 more games overall, 16 in the B1G, finished 6th on average vs your 9th, same amount of NCAA wins and double or 3 more NIT wins.
With those results with following recruiting. Iowa averaged 10th and 68th rated class in B1G and nationally respectively. Illinois averaged 5th and 38 with an outlier year of 14th and 110 one year, otherwise they've had 4 top 2 classes in B1G, 6 top 5 classes in B1G in Fran's tenure with three of those being Top 15 nationally. Iowa hasn't been Top 5 in B1G or Top 30 nationally under Fran at all according to 247.
But go ahead, you can have Illinois.
Exactly. Essentially zero difference— 1.5 more games won per year —but Illinois has fired two coaches and we extend ours and some talk about him like he’s indispensable. It’s freaking crazy.
No reasonable person would suggest that, but if he wants to get better as a player he should probably find a new coach to play for. His game is stagnant
Underwood...??? He leads the universe in technical fouls! Recruiting??? You better look into that again....Illinois is at 49th next year and Iowa is 56th.
1st ...the dude is awesome
2nd... He is single handling killing the Hawks in most games. He is on pace to have over 100 turnovers for the year....AS A POST PLAYER!! Fran has been way to lenient with him. He doesn't need to go but does need to concentrate on what he does best. 15 foot jumpers and handling the ball in transition is not them.
Amen! He has some of the most ridiculous turnovers I've ever seen. Post up moves and dunking, that's it, focus on that. Know your game.
Watch the start of each half against Rutgers. Watch who has turnovers and air balls. Our starters have been awful to start games and the second half. Lots of blame to go around.
Get back to good ball movement, way to much dribbling. Rutgers moved the ball very well and had lots of side to side along with inside out action. It’s a simple game. We dribble all over the place without doing anything.
Get back to good ball movement, way to much dribbling. Rutgers moved the ball very well and had lots of side to side along with inside out action. It’s a simple game. We dribble all over the place without doing anything.
No, Crean them after the season is over. The main problem with that is Fran and his assistants don't recruit worth a damn so who would they get to replace them? Another bunch of unathletic players. No, the one who needs to get Creaned is Fran and his band of stooges.
Agree 100% with you but to do what you mention you need guards to go north-south. Iowa dribbles east-west and in circles to simply keep from getting the ball stolen. When your 1's and 2's are 0 and I mean 0 threat to drive defense gets pretty easy. Stand in front of a guy and dare him to put it on the deck, crowd him so he can't get a shot and force him to kick it out. People act like it's a matter of shots falling and I could not disagree more. I saw very few maybe a handful of clean looks for guys. Moss won't take an open jumper in rhythm. Baer at least hunts his shots. I don't know even know what they are trying to do in the half court. Hell at this point go Princeton and use the shot clock to avoid getting the doors blown off.
