Other than playing his sons over better players and being married to a crazy woman who disrupts games, Fran seems a decent enough fellow. Not a good coach, however. I won’t watch and will wait to see a new coach before I decide to give to the NIL fund.
I agree with this for the most part. That said, our "better players" would not have moved the dial much.
Fran is a good person, a good speaker that is knowledgable about the game, and seems to care about his players a ton. But he has many issues as a coach that we've talked about ad nauseam.
Neither will keeping the current one.
Like it or not, we are in a new era of making college players professionals. (I don’t like it but I’m a tiny speck of sand in the shifting tide of time.) Successful coaches need to adapt.
I would add rebounding as the third flaw. Not rebounding on the defensive end doesn't fit getting out in transition and pushing the pace the way Fran wants to play. I have never understood it but it gets to the lack of overall fundamentals that you see from better coached teams.
i know nothing about that coach or program but on the face of it their getting rid of a final 4 coach seems insane. the acc is pretty good, maybe we should add this fired coach to our mix of candidates...
In 1967, I observed a Iowa HS basketball coach instruct a player of his to “rare back and fire the ball off the nose of his opponent if he was having trouble getting the ball in-bounds vs. a press”…
I have posted this multiple times and apologize if you have seen it previously. My high school coach in 1A high school basketball taught defense, pressing and rebounding first. We would do five on five drills against the 2nd team. Coach would chuck something up and if 1st team didn't recover the rebound or if the ball hit the floor, we ran our a$$e$ off. When a shot goes up, you get into someone, anyone. Not everyone wants to work, but you can win a TON of games that way. If you're not used to facing that defense in practice, you won't be ready for it in a game. At the very least, you're going to be uncomfortable.
And is a member of the Iowa HS Basketball H of F …..as a coach…..
Remember watching that game when Hill got hit in the face by that d-bag and ended up himself getting two technicals and ejected and the Iowa bench getting T’d up. Jadlow was very lucky Hill didn’t rearrange his face. Bob Knight was a total asshole. Iowa never got a fair game in Assembly Hall.
The Jadlow thing was pure BS. Hill would have killed him if there hadn't been intervention.
BTW, did you catch who shot the technicals? AJ Guyton. Wonder if he taught that ib pass to the face to his daughter?
Fran sucked before the players were being paid. Stop blaming NIL for everything.
Knight was such a great villain. The Darth Vader of Big Ten basketball. lol
He didn’t deserve to have the ball thrown into his face. The Indiana player who threw the ball and Coach Knight should have been immediately given a technical in each of those situations. Unfortunately the refs present lacked a spine and did the exact opposite.
Johnny Bright didn’t deserve to have his jaw broken intentionally in Stillwater either…the fact remains, stuff like this happens… guts this shit happened what…30 years ago or so?
I believe Brad Lohaus also had a ball thrown in his face by an Indiana player. Would have been 1987, according to Google.
Thanks for the rumors and hopefully FM will be gone and we get DD or Mc
Well, he also had Freeman his best player quit on him.
