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I guess my optimistic take is that maybe he really impressed in interviews

Third down punt. Fifty yards of total Offense. No question.

Look, dude is old as hell, and obviously has some bad history, but if the NIL money is there, he's our only chance of ever seeing a national championship in basketball or football. Now of course, he will never come here, and Iowa would almost certainly never hire him, but if it were my decision...

IDK how to interpret Fran's temper, but he went out doing what he loves. Although, in super subdued manner.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1100-N-Dubuque-St-Iowa-City-IA-52245/76765554_zpid/ For posterity

Announcement likely coming this afternoon, Pete Thamel of ESPN with the scoop. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44251986/sources-iowa-set-dismiss-head-coach-fran-mccaffery

He certainly grew up in a time where the only way you would be a clown in the state of Iowa is if you had deep personal connections to the ag program there. Which is not dispositive. But growing up in Iowa with a clear love of sports? I'm not sure how a person like that isn't, or at least, wasn't.

The question about McCollom is what his goals are. Just like the situation at ClownU. If Iowa is McCollom's dream destination, it might not matter if there are "better" schools calling. Dude coached D2 for fifteen seasons. It's not like money is his only motivating factor. He's certainly had no...

If he doesn’t succeed totally agree, fans will sour quickly. But fans will absolutely trade in 25% of the offense we saw under Fran for 25% more wins, and I’d wager engagement and viewership actually increases—a lot. Now, can he make it work? IDK, but I trust him to win at Iowa at least as much...

That’s cool! Those seasons are just banners in the Knapp Center to me.

Watching Drake last night and the MVC Championship today… I just don’t know how Beth doesn’t make a push for him.

Pleasantly surprised. Always good to slap the Huskers.

Also, I’ve seen some rumblings about Indiana having serious interest in McCollum. I would wager they interview him, but would expect them to target a higher profile name. Still a live shot if he wows, I think especially so if he can win a game (especially two, though that’s a major long shot) in...

That would probably be my preference as well. Has the potential to both take the program in a (more) winning direction, and can maybe even develop in spite of the program’s NIL direction. His style of play would be a huge change of pace, so I’m not really sure exactly what to make of that, but I...

There's something to be said here for getting some children on scholarship and just shot putting them into the endzone from the twenty yard line.

A lot of people talking about how Davis would perform worse during Fran’s run. Anyone wanna stick their neck out and analyze the reverse, Fran during Davis’s run? My basketball takes are basically third grade tier, so I will abstain. I just want Iowa to be relevant in the dance with some amount...

I gave the basketball thread a quick read, did anyone make a thorough Greg Gard comparison? Not as if he blows Fran completely out of the water, but he’s been a bit more successful than Fran in the win loss column.

I think it's hard too, because being perennially "pretty good" is a great spot of a major Midwestern R1 research university. I doubt there's institutional interest in getting the funding necessary to be much more than that. Whole lot of money being average to above average in the Big Ten. Sort...

Apparently, yeah. LOL. Pretty prolific poster there. Or at least I thought so. Maybe I am thinking of a different message board? Or just a different poster entirely. Who knows. Like I said, I just occasionally lurk there.

We could start up a HawkeyeNation ExPat Discord, if we want to get with the times. I much prefer the forum format, though. A lot of forums have moved to Discord.