Coaching is weird if you think about it. If anyone else acted like that in their line of work, they would be canned. In coaching its the norm, and you're thought to be a leader of young men/women.
Yes it needs its own thread… Mad Fran
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This was intense Iowa Men's Basketball head coach Fran McCaffery stared down the ref
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The most ridiculous part of all this is the fact that Iowa fans and media members are trying to justify this whole immature situation by saying “The players responded to this, they went on to win!”
As if your head coach blankly staring at an official for 30 seconds while the team sits in the huddle doing nothing, not getting coached, implored them to make 5 straight 3s and score 23 points in 90 seconds. What a joke.
As if your head coach blankly staring at an official for 30 seconds while the team sits in the huddle doing nothing, not getting coached, implored them to make 5 straight 3s and score 23 points in 90 seconds. What a joke.
I guess I see a great opportunity for entertainment. He is up there with WWE. These Francon threads are always more entertaining than people ******** about things going to the cave or NIL money at other schools. It would be very fun to see them second round of the tourney. TJ could give him the elbow grab hand shake and then a three stooges eye poke.
He wanted to get tossed. The worst part was he didn't get the reaction from the ref he wanted, so he stepped closer hoping to get him to bite. It's 14 year old behavior from a guy making almost $3mill a year.
And there was nobody holding MadFran back. That was his chance to be the paper tough guy.
Just wait till his sons are on the staff, they'll keep him in line.
I know that's coming in the next couple years.
You see I disagree. I’m not an Iowa fan persay but I have a tremendous amount of admiration for Fran McCaffery. He gets a lot of disdain much like your Bobby Knight’s, your Bobby Huggins, your Bill Self’s, but his moxie and passion is just contagiously drawn to. I like him.
and I guarantee any other coach that would have done that would have been T'd up. The refs know he has extreme behavior so in his instance they let him get away with stuff because they know there may be more serious stuff coming at them. It's kind of like when so of Bobby Huggins teams foul so much, you can't call everything
I was amazed at Izzo's coaching down the stretch. 3 straight MSU possession with a 10 point lead when Perkins drove into the lane an MSU defender left a shooter wide open on the 3 point line.
What was MSU doing on offense? Can't stall out a bit with a 13 point lead?
I think losing a 13 point lead with 1:30 left might be worse than the ISU/Tech game by quite a bit; that was just more of a slow car wreck.
People who disagree with this won’t take off Cyclone tinted glasses.
It’s the same thing, the only reason Campbells freak outs aren’t talked about more, is because it’s not right in front of you like basketball is. The fact that Campbell has had multiple freak outs get any attention is telling.
That being said, however, I love him as a coach. Probably the same reasons Hawkeye fans love Fran.
The only thing I'll disagree with is that when Campbell freaks out.... it almost always is an obvious call/no call that was blatantly called/missed. The replay shows that it was plain as day that Campbell was right.
The majority of times Fran freaks out... nobody really knows why... or the replay shows he's not correct.
Also... Fran has gone a little further sometimes by tossing a laptop, or a chair, etc.
