I agree Houston would be a better job today but I don't see that happening. McHale may be his buddy but he will have no say in who his successor is. Saunders is also his buddy and he will likely be in complete control when the next Wolves coach is hired. As a fan of the Wolves and Hawkeyes...
I would give Hayden an edge because he broke the stranglehold that OSU & Michigan had on the Rose Bowl.
Barry gets an edge becasue he left the program in better shape than Hayden did.
Hard to pick between two great coaches.
6 Top 10s at MSU is really impressive but it was the last one was in 1966 I believe. I thought Alvarez had more than 3 but those are the facts. Even John Cooper only had 3 Top 10s in the AP poll(5 in the Coaches poll).
Before anybody else points it out I know none of those guys made the...
How many B1G coaches have had four Top 10 national finishes at schools other than Michigan, Ohio State or Penn State? I am not counting Nebraska's Big 8/Big 12 years. I struggled to find one in the last 50 years.
Hint: Hayden Fry had 2.
I hope Beatherd's parents are able to provide the perspective that football is a lot of fun but that he should be focused on his intellectual and social development with the goal of putting himself in the position to find employment doing something other than playing football. If he is on-track...
It is hard to recruit high caliber marching band members to Iowa City. The state of Iowa produces very few and we are forced to go out of state in order to compete. Our failure to have trumpet players to move to the next level after they graduate has made it particularly difficult to recruit...
I don't know or care who was the better recruit but I think JO is a one-dimensional player who is a below average B1G athlete. If he can come off the bench and make a few big shots that would be great but ideally we would have someone in that role that could physically compete a more...