CR Gazette Letter to Editor: "Foul disparity helped ISU beat UI" (THREAD BUMP)

[carvers4math]

Re: CR Gazette Letter to Editor: "Foul disparity helped ISU beat UI"

I like you, Carvers, but this is serious fail. You totally skipped the best part of that letter. The letter was written to suggest that the official needing to catch a flight made him decide to ignore Fran's timeout call because he didn't think he could get to his Saturday 11 a.m. game if the game went to OT.

I was just about crying I was laughing so hard reading that one.

Well, I just assumed that was his lame attempt to make it relevant a couple of weeks after the fact, or lessen the sour grapes aspect, but it was all fail anyway.:biglaugh:

 

[Dandy]

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Did the "foul disparity" cause Zach McCabe to brick the wide-open, game-tying three pointer attempt?

 

[Cyclophile1]

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I love my Earl Gray steeped in the bittersweet tears of Hawkeye fans.

 

[Dandy]

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I nominate this............. thee Greatest Post of the YEAR......................

Greatest Post of the Year goes to the Fred Hoiberg and Rashad Vaughn gif created by Stumpy. (Rashad Vaughn thread post #2321)
http://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/mens-basketball/164978-rashad-vaughn-59.html

 

[CycloneErik]

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Did the "foul disparity" cause Zach McCabe to brick the wide-open, game-tying three pointer attempt?

No. Our unfair advantages in talent and coaching did that.

 

[CRcyclone6]

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pretty good response in today's Gazette.

 

[benjay]

Re: CR Gazette Letter to Editor: "Foul disparity helped ISU beat UI"

pretty good response in today's Gazette.

your lack of link is.... troubling

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

Re: CR Gazette Letter to Editor: "Foul disparity helped ISU beat UI"

Well... Iowa has had the 8th most amount of free throw attempts and is 4th in free throws made...

Iowa State is not even in the top 40.

Such an injustice Iowa has undergone in losing to ISU.

 

[CyArob]

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your lack of link is.... troubling

Time to move past Iowa loss to ISU | TheGazette

I assume it's this one.

 

[CRcyclone6]

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Time to move past Iowa loss to ISU | TheGazette

I assume it's this one.

yes. thank you.

 

[bringmagicback]

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i dont see how the officials missed this. everyone knows you have to have equal foul shots

 

[ST8R]

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[h=4]Team Stat Comparison[/h]

	NEB	IOWA
Points	57	67
FG Made-Attempted	20-67 (.299)	22-48 (.458)
3P Made-Attempted	5-18 (.278)	1-6 (.167)
FT Made-Attempted	12-18 (.667)	22-39 (.564)
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant)	28 (0/0)	17 (0/0)

 

[cyrocksmypants]

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Someone should copy and paste so the website doesn't get more hits from people reading it....

 

[CyHans]

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Back in the Tom Davis era their philosophy was to make more free throws than the opponent attempted and UI was very successful at it. Seems a little like sour grapes to even bring something like this up.

 

[CarolinaCy]

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Back in the Tom Davis era their philosophy was to make more free throws than the opponent attempted and UI was very successful at it. Seems a little like sour grapes to even bring something like this up.

That's pretty much every team/coaches philosophy.

 

[CyFan61]

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Two excellent Iowa basketball teams (Iowa State and the University of Iowa) met and played at Iowa City Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Dec. 12. It was a tossup in who might win.

From my perspective, it wasn’t that Iowa State won the game, but the University of Iowa lost the game. I believe there was one big factor why the University of Iowa lost — fouls called on the behalf of each team were way out of proportion. Iowa State had 13 foul shots vs. the University of Iowa’s 13 foul shots.

One could look at this and see Iowa State earned 10 points vs. the University of Iowa earning 12. Had there been a close balance in “callsâ€￾ going into the final minutes, the University of Iowa may have been less than 17 points behind with a little over a minute to play.

You cannot play the game over, but I believe this was a big factor in the University of Iowa’s loss. Coach Fran McCaffrey might have thought it wouldn’t do our team any good bringing this to the attention of the referees at this point in time.

David H. Burke (probably)

Cedar Rapids

 

[3TrueFans]

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I support this kind of thread necromancy.

 

[Dingus]

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What's with both Iowa and Iowa State fans constantly insisting that the other school is 'little brother'? It's such a lame put down and gets really annoying after a while.

 

[cyclones12321]

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Let alone that game was alot farther apart than 15. We kinda slowed down in the last 5 minutes

 

[Wesley]

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What an Idiot.

If a visiting team has more free throws than the home team, they are usually doing more inside work.