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I have major issues regarding when a team schedules cupcakes. I don't disagree with you at all that "a cupcake is just as cupcakey in November as it is August", but the stakes are much higher in November then they are in August. You're generally not going to be losing to a cupcake (by...

I would guess they mean returning to the college game and not going to the pros.

My biggest issue with the SEC isn't necessarily the scheduling of the cupcakes, but rather the timing of the games. Absolutely no reason that any team should be scheduling cupcakes in the final 3rd of the season or after they've already got 9 or 10 games under their belt. I agree that it would...

I'm with you and am ok with cupcakes for a number of reasons. I completely agree that cash games are great for smaller schools budgets and needed for their survival. I also agree that while everyone (fans and rivals) calls out scheduling cupcakes 90% of the teams are doing it, so it's not that...

lots of early season night games. Not necessarily a bad thing cause it's generally unbearably hot that time of year, but shocked based on some of the opponents.

As a coach myself of multiple age groups I've realized that while it is our job to be role models and try to mold them into young adults and "good people" the amount of time we have with them fails in comparison to the time they are away from us and if their parents, or the crowd they run with...

Kind of a deceptive title to the list considering some are not what I'd call "returning". Not sure how a transfer and fits into the returning category, but I like where he's sitting.

I'd love to claim him as one of our own, but even for an Iowa guy I see him as just another player. Don't wish him ill will or anything like that, but not excited for him like I would be most local players or former Hawkeyes.

Definitely sad. Crazy how quickly things can change in the blink of an eye. Cherish every second.

Doesn't bother me the slightest. Ben's program. Ben calls the shots. It didn't bother me that he didn't bring Gatens on to his staff and it doesn't bother me that he's bringing on his son. We also just naturally assume that bringing on his son means he'd be favored over others day one...

Know very little about him, but eager to learn more. Glad to have him.

I didn't realize McCollum wanted the fans to recruit the players to stay so for that I stand corrected. I also wasn't pointing the finger at the three of them specifically, but the results simply weren't there the last two seasons and while its not solely on the players they are responsible for...

Just my two cents, but just because they were "the three main players that left" doesn't necessarily mean that we should retain them. They were "three main players" under Fran's system. To be honest, how do we know that in Ben's new system the guys that he brought in weren't seen as better...

Talent maybe, but Drake was a complete team that played defense. We didn't do that last year or prior to that. At full strength I'll take the team that plays hard on both ends and doesn't depend on simply outscoring opponents.

Sure we need bigs, but at this point I don't think you can prioritize one over the other. We've got too many spots to fill to focus solely on one position/need.

I wouldn't say great offensive players, but I'd say they all fit the same mold of being skinny and lengthy and fit the mold of a stereotypical perimeter player. Fran recruited shooters and when they were on the did exactly what Fran wanted them to do. That said I think those players were far...

I understand the competitive disadvantages we're going to experience and I agree that there is room for concern, but at the same time weren't we also under a competitive disadvantage with Fran at the helm where we ignored the importance of defense and rebounding to play a style in which we...

No you're absolutely right. My issue I guess isn't so much the build, although I'd love some absolute bruisers, but the fact that 89-90% of the roster make up is perimeter players. Guys that grow up on the perimeter simply aren't going to be used to banging in the paint all game long. That's...

Just my opinion, but every Drake player we add gets us that much closer to landing bigger fish. And I wouldn't write those guys off either. Can they win a bigten title, doubtful, but that's not to say they couldn't end up being role players in the new system. Got to start somewhere.

Honestly at this point I'd put my faith in "Drake's team" versus the Iowa team what we'd put out the past two years going into next season. After that however I'd hope that the "Drake team" changed the culture in Iowa City and we could continue to build a culture and program that could compete...