I feel like he could have/should have made that move last year though.
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I feel like he could have/should have made that move last year though.
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I think Fran sticks it out 2 more years. Let’s his kid graduate from HS, give him a RS year in college and then move to get closer to him.
Well sure. A big reason Fran has survived has been relatively low attrition. That happens when most of your recruits either grew up in your house or had Hawkeye posters plastered all over their bedrooms. Freeman will get some calls. Not sure if he bleeds black and gold like many of the others.
Also happens when those who enter the portal don’t get picked up and have to return.
He is doing it the right way and does a good job recruiting Iowa fan boys and legacy players. That is what their fan base wants in a coach.
Never understood the black/white player ratio on his team. Unlike almost any other high-major program. What's behind that?
One, his kids. Two, he definitely doesn’t look like a guy who can bridge the culture differences.
Iowa Head Coaches have self-confessed "blind spots" when it comes to race. I think by "blind spots" they really mean their first filtering criteria for recruiting lists is skin color.
But you have to have a MBB fan base first. Plenty of pics of empty CHA this year.
It's not an accident that his college nickname was White Magic.
Two sons on the team and he spends a ton of time recruiting the state of Iowa and Southern Illinois, so mostly white kids that can shoot the ball.
Any of the Iowa writers on Selection Sunday when Iowa is announced to the NIT
They're already putting 90% of their time on the women's team. Another 10% isn't that much of a difference.
They wanted a 13 but got a 31, right?
********. Players want to play! So much better to play 3 games in the NIT than lose in the first round of the NCAA. I just wrote their column for them!
