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My fear is that the timing is off for the Hawks, and someday Woods ends up as a head coach somewhere else, and his o-coordinator is Betts and his d-coordinator is Bell. All three of those guys seems like the real deal - uncommon coaches and leaders.

I'm starting to hate the Big Ten. They are heavily contributing to the fall of college sports. At least a lot of the aspects that I love. I live in the Seattle area and flipped the TV on the other night. Rutgers was playing at Washington. It was 10 pm PST. 10 pm! Rutgers vs. Washington. Big...

Only sort of. My point is why does Iowa need to follow the model everyone else does? Use a search firm, hire a mid-major coach who got his team to the sweet 16 that month, hope you can compete against the teams who ultimately hire away that level of coach (if they turn out to be successful) and...

Why is it a gimmick?

That's my point with BJ. Not that I'm considering it a likely scenario - but can you imagine a better CEO/GM in terms of soliciting funds for Iowa's basketball payroll? Iowa is supposedly in the $1.5M range. BJ could exceed that in a week with a handful of phone calls and quick trips to take the...

Yeah, it'd have be like a $20M, 5 year contract and mostly he'd have to be super excited to do it. It's not a realistic idea. At the same time, like you said, he has big time money already and maybe that'd be a dream job to him.

Hey, not here to flame. I feel like we are all sitting bedside during Hawkeye Nation's dying moments, so why don't the 13 of us still here enjoy each other's company? I mostly thought that it was a fun hypothetical convo. I get your Russian citizenship stance, too. But let me ask you...

I think she's holding out for a head NBA job, but I think it is an interesting hypothetical. It's like the scene in Moneyball when Bill Beane is telling his scouts that it's not a level playing field. The A's can't compete by trying to play by the same rules. Play the Yankees game in the front...

Yeah, no idea if she'd be interested in Iowa. Goetz would have to sell it. It'd be an outside the box, let's be pioneers together, if you take us to a sweet 16 these fans will build a statue of you and name their kids after you kind of pitch...there'd also be a shot for some real mojo across the...

Let me ask you this. If she was a man with the same resume (many years under Poppovich), would Portland have still picked Chauncey Billups over her? She had the better resume. It's pretty clear in the time since that Portland likely made the wrong decision (in three years, .329 winning...

It'd be a gimmick to hire someone many consider one of the greatest coaches out there? Or would it be Iowa smartly exposing a huge inefficiency in the market to hire a caliber of coach it normally wouldn't be able to compete for? Curious who you think may immediately generate more NIL money?

Nope

I was listening to some podcast on a jog recently, and I'm pretty sure Dochterman threw out Becky Hammon as a fun, random candidate for the next Iowa coach. I think it was more of a conversation starter than anything - but nothing more was said about it. I started spitballin' on a text thread...

I'm with you KC. I like both Fran and Davis. I think they've actually had remarkably similar tenures. If you remove the first 2 or 3 years for each (which you could argue they weren't completely responsible for), I think it is really difficult to figure out who was better. Fran gets credit for...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Big Ten basketball in the 1980s and early 90s was shark infested waters. Tom Davis ran a clean program, and yet was pretty goddamn competitive with teams that were bought and paid for (like Michigan's Fab Five). He also would have won Iowa's only Big Ten title in a 45 year...

Iowa was out there like two weeks in advance that year. Fumbling the ball 4 times in the first half was the biggest factor.

(Going off Fryowa's Kirk/Hayden time period)... I think I'd call them most painful losses. These two are above the rest in my opinion. 2015 Michigan State and 2009 Ohio State. Both came down to the wire. One play breaks a different way and Iowa is Big Ten Champs. The only other one I can...

It does feel like we are heading towards another coaching search, doesn't it? The buyout is less than $4M. If Iowa doesn't make the BTT, the season is over on March 9. It might be best for all parties if a deal could be reached shortly after that. Fran might say the only deal he'll accept is...

I'd like to see college football look out for the fans a little more moving forward. I know, probably a pipe dream. I think that starts with prioritizing traditional/regional rivalries. And I'd like to see the playoffs mirror FCS more or less. Start rolling with them soon after Thanksgiving...