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One day down, four to go?! Time for a 5 day heater!

What's the cat and mouse game for him? He has a contract and will continue coaching until told otherwise.

Yep, if Fran isn't coaching at Iowa next year, the only real discussion next week will be Goetz saying we'd like to call it a retirement and have an amicable final press conference together. And Fran responding with either a screw you, here's the keys to my office and my university phone....or...

So just gotta find a Hall of Fame coach who wants to come to Iowa for $2M a year (i.e. like a third of market value)?

I haven't read that much on him yet, but I think I saw that McCollum describes his style as playing to what he has available on the roster and trying to maximize it from there. The little I've read, I am intrigued. I think there are some elements with him that can be found in outstanding...

Seems like Iowa is considered a solid 6 seed right now. If the BT tourney goes chalk, other than Iowa, and Iowa wins out, it would include wins against Michigan State (NET 21), Ohio State (18), UCLA (6) and USC (5). That would seem to easily make them a 5 seed. Does it even put a #4 seed in...

...and again, my point isn't that one coach is vastly superior to the other, or that I am putting Davis on some kind of pedestal. But there also seems to be some kind of narrative that Davis was just dialing it in during a relatively easy period of Big Ten basketball. And I'll stress again that...

It also wasn't a level playing field in terms of who Davis could get into Iowa compared to other Big Ten schools. Davis had to deal with Hunter Rawlings and a challenging era at Iowa, which had stricter requirements than the teams Davis was competing against. Fran never had to lose players to...

The point I was making was pushing back on the posts that said Fran was clearly the better coach. And also the factually inaccurate post that said Davis only won 6 first round games at Iowa.

Fran is 4-3 in the opening round of NCAA tournament games at Iowa. Davis was 9-0 in the first round at Iowa.

Tom Davis isn't getting quite the respect he deserves on here. It's starting to piss me off a little. I think you can make an argument that both he and Fran have been very good coaches. Iowa has been lucky to have both of them. Since not all of us remember Davis' career that well, let's recall...

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...