Best Hawk coaches

westview

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MY friends and I were talking about who the best Iowa coaches were. We all agreed #1 Bucky O'Conner, #2 Ralph Miller, #3 Lute Olsen, and # 4 Tom Davis. I believe we had some good teams in the early to mid 40's. I can not remember the coaches name.
 
MY friends and I were talking about who the best Iowa coaches were. We all agreed #1 Bucky O'Conner, #2 Ralph Miller, #3 Lute Olsen, and # 4 Tom Davis. I believe we had some good teams in the early to mid 40's. I can not remember the coaches name.

I'm not sure Davis belongs on that list but I don't know who you'd replace him with. Good coach, loved his full-court strategy, he did a great job with Raveling's players, but did not consistently perform or recruit at a high level like the other coaches you list. All three of those were special leaders and spokesmen for Iowa basketball.
 
Has there ever been an Iowa assistant go on to do anything? I can only think of the dude on Bo Ryan's staff....Gary Close I think. Hard to believe we haven't hatched a head coach or two, but I can't think of anyone.
 
Has there ever been an Iowa assistant go on to do anything? I can only think of the dude on Bo Ryan's staff....Gary Close I think. Hard to believe we haven't hatched a head coach or two, but I can't think of anyone.

Well, there was this guy. He went on to do a lot of things, some honorable, some less so. Was even a head coach at a couple stops. Was forced out of the business a year or two ago. :eek:

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Mr. Davis for sure belongs on this list. Did some very good things with GR's recruits and got to the NCAA Tourney almost every year. Never lost a first round NCAA Tourney game. All-time wins at Iowa. Pressing and uptempo. Should have never got rid of him.
 
Wow, total brain freeze on BP. Thanks for the reminder.

You actually posed a good question and I am hard-pressed to come up with the names of any assistants who went on to do bigger and better things. Figured Lute would have some sort of a coaching tree but am not seeing it online.
 

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