Don't blame Goetz

[ChosenChildren]

We just don't have the dollars right now to get the top coaches.

I'm worried that we will lose BOTH DeVries and mcCollum to other schools that will outbid Iowa.

 

[Hawkboys]

Who's responsible for getting the dollars, if not the AD?

 

[Sparky]

Exactly. Blame that worthless piece of shit Barta for the state Iowa Athletics are in.

 

[guffus]

Maybe Iowa should hire Drake's AD. Drake seems pretty good at finding good basketball coaches

 

[BaryGarta]

Who's responsible for getting the dollars, if not the AD?

This is an issue of NIL dollars, not potential salary. The NIL funds can't (yet) come directly from the athletic department.

 

[Hawkboys]

This is an issue of NIL dollars, not potential salary. The NIL funds can't (yet) come directly from the athletic department.

No, but they can push donors to donate to NIL instead of to the Athletic Department. I actually knew Barta on a personal level and he's a really nice guy. But he set the Athletic Department down about 25 notches nationally by not understanding and supporting this.

 

[PCHawk]

When you're Iowa, especially in this day and age, you can't fire a good coach in hopes to find someone better. You just have to count your blessings that you have a good coach.

 

[Dadman]

I just hope this isn’t Mr. Davis version 2.0

 

[Dadman]

Why the Fu*k wont this website let me type Dr ? It keeps changing it to Mr, I swear this has happened a dozen times!

 

[guffus]

Why the Fu*k wont this website let me type Dr ? It keeps changing it to Mr, I swear this has happened a dozen times!

Well as we all know, he's not a medical doctor. Dr Davis instead got his PHD in some obscure category, it was something like sports in colonial times. Maybe the website just thinks that is not worthy of being called doctor.

 

[InGoodCo]

Iowa has the money but doesn’t want to invest it in MBB. In what world does Indiana have more money than Iowa’s athletic department? Football tips the scale to iowa and Iowa will continue to put their lions share into FB. But they have the money to invest. They have the money to buy a coach. They don’t have fan buy in and based off first swing and miss, sure doesn’t seem like they see getting a top coach is a priority either. That blows my mind because there is untapped revenue if it’s done right. I imagine Beth doesn’t have enough to sell. Being at the bottom in every metric that matters in attracting a coach likely means we need to tamp the enthusiasm.

Take the school that just beat us for the coach. Indiana MBB generates a B1G high 31 million and their ticket sales this season was over 15 million.

Iowa hasn’t generated more then 4 mil in ticket sales since 2005. Quick math, that’s a lot of zeros of potential revenue they flush down the drain every year. Beth needs to hit a home run to bring back the fans, so far the outlook is cloudy.

She needs to get Mcollum.

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

lol. Don’t blame Goetz? She cut ties with a coach who would have made the same seed as WVU and then gets snubbed by him. Fran shouldn’t have been fired in the first place. She wanted to try to make a big move to show she can make decisions. Kirk has been given the leniency for worse. Fran Deserved Better. He’s looking for a new school to turn around as we lose every player and recruit we had.

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

When you're Iowa, especially in this day and age, you can't fire a good coach in hopes to find someone better. You just have to count your blessings that you have a good coach.

Which we had

 

[thedukeofearl]

Why the Fu*k wont this website let me type Dr ? It keeps changing it to Mr, I swear this has happened a dozen times!

Sane thing happened to me every time

 

[JoeyLabasForPresident]

Doctor Thomas Robert Davis is still kicking, maybe he'd like another shot?

 

[HawkeyeFever]

Which we had

Stop letting your boner for Fran outweigh your hopes for the program as a whole.

Iowa can (or at least should try) to do better.

 

[BigD]

Why the Fu*k wont this website let me type Dr ? It keeps changing it to Mr, I swear this has happened a dozen times!

I had a girlfriend that wanted to play a game called hospital. She was the nurse and I was the Dr. By the time we finished the game she kept calling me Mr.

 

[BigD]

Beth needs to get better with the portal. It would save a lot of time and money. Just send Fran to the Portal and exchange him for the Drake coach. If it doesn't work out just trade back. No limits on players why cant coaches just do the same thing. Does the President of the United States watch college basketball? I hope not Trump would probably confuse this for "the free trade agreement".

 

[BigD]

All the joking I've done tonight lets get real here. No matter what happens will it really matter? We aren't likely to be significantly relevant in either sport from here on out. Unless you think finishing in sixth or seventh place is relevant. When Kirk retires or get fired (which could happen in ten years when he is out there using a walker) who is going to take his place that will even move the dial?

My advice just put a warm body in the football program (this will be kirk in twenty years in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank) and focus all money in the basketball program. Less players to finance.

Sometimes when things look the bleakest you just have to learn how to laugh at it all. I am trying tonight.

Now I heard Chris Collins name being tossed around about three weeks ago............... oops.

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

Stop letting your boner for Fran outweigh your hopes for the program as a whole.

Iowa can (or at least should try) to do better.

If you can’t see that there isn’t anything available even in the same conversation then idk how you can expect “better”. Program wasn’t in a bad position going forward. My hopes for better days have nothing to do with how terribly this whole thing has been handled. Your boner for wanting better outweighs reality.