I believe I posted where I read it.OP heard from his Iowa State friends???? I think if you are transferring, you are in the portal now. You cannot afford to wait as many players as there are in the portal at this moment.
I have been following the Hawks on internet message boards for about 20 years - people like to start (upsetting) rumors and then watch people fret and worry.
Every once in a (very long) while, perhaps sometimes by coincidence only, one such rumor will turn out to be true, so people that are otherwise very reasonable and level headed have a hard time not ignoring the stupidity.
In reality, the type of people with this type of inside information are not generally running to message boards to spread it. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just saying it's very rare for it to happen.
In the case of this particular rumor, somewhere somebody is getting a good kick out of this.
He would end up with a Bakari Evelyn type guard
Lol. He can hit it as hard as he wants...
You would need a Chirs Beard/Eric Musselman type coach to come here, even though you know they will move on in four to six years. That's the only way it has happened at Iowa since the 1950's and that's the only way it will happen.Lol. He can hit it as hard as he wants...
How you gonna get anybody to decide to come here when our current roster are dropping like flies, admittedly for different reasons???
Iowa fans think we should be able to recruit better...
Iowa fans think we should be making deep tourney runs...
Iowa fans don’t apparently realize that we’re Iowa. This program is not anything even remotely resembling a marquee destination for a high school basketball player and it never will be. I’m sorry, I love the Hawks but the ceiling here is upper half in the conference on average and upper 1/4th in a good year once in a while. If we didn’t have Garza this year (which was Fran winning the lottery), we would have been fighting it out with Minnesota and NW for 13th. This was a unicorn year.
So when you say Fran should hit the portal and hit it hard, what exactly would you say to a really good player to get them to come here? Let’s be real. What is there appealing about Iowa basketball in 2022 that’s going to make an impact player decide to sign? We have a really cool Elvis impersonator that comes to watch our games and you get free tickets to watch Spencer Lee wrestle?
Im genuinely curious as to what people think could (legally) be used as persuasion to come here. We are who we are.
Calipari pays better than Fran.I get the nunge and weiskamp reasons for leaving but to me this is a head scratcher CJ would have been the #1 scoring option next year couldn’t ask for more to pad your stats for the pros,coming off the bench at Kentucky to be a 3 point specialist seems like a step backwards
Whether he likes it or not it's the future. Every offseason is going to be thousands of players in free agency scrambling rosters. He better adapt.I wonder if this was why Fran said he doesn't like the portal?