Great Hawk! So rare to see a guy stick with a program for 4 years, especially a guy who never really got a chance to start. His production, per minute, has always been outstanding. Hope he gets a start on Tuesday!
On the HawkeyeSports app there was a link to listen to it live. Amazing walkoff and great patience in the 9th by Hawkeye batters. Also, the IA crowd there was amazing. Heard some great “Let’s go Hawks” chants
Thx for sharing that. Very cool. My first game was as a student in 1987. We beat KST pretty handily. I remember I was as interested in the co-eds as I was the game. And cheering ppl on who snuck bodas into the stadium. And I recall a guy was in the front row wearing a trench coat, and he...
why do WE talk about this all the time. FOR ONCE IN OUR LIVES (outside Davis’ first 2 seasons), we MIGHT have depth. That’s great. Don’t you know that Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, MSU, ad naseum ALL go THIRTEEN DEEP with 4-5 star guys, EVERY YEAR, for last 40+ years. Not a ‘problem’ for them.
Yet...
If you win the tip, half the time it gives you an extra possession per game, the other half of the time it does not. If the average point-per-possession is about 1.0, the winning the tip is worth 0.5 points. There is value to winning it!
This is true. Otherwise every $EC team would have 200 guys on ‘scholly’, using scholarship allotments from every other sport (think swimming, bowling, ping pong, etc) to field massive and unbeatable (money-making) basketball and football teams
I think Fran having the ‘ace in the hole’ covers everything. IF everyone stays (great), take his sons off scholly.
Look at it this way... a one-year scholly is worth what $20k to the McCafferys? But Fran’s success is worth astronomically more each year (think incentive bonuses, contract...