Fran gets 1 more year

I0WA

I0WA

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For me to keep my faith in him. Only thing Ive been "MAD" about again is having to watch ISU every March the last 3 years while the Hawks are sitting at home. Don't get me wrong, I understand the hardships he's going through right now but it sickens me to see stupid "congrats" to ISU threads on this board when the Hawks should be playing on CBS now but Fran couldn't focus his team for the last month. Look where Fred has ISU in the same amount of time Fran has been here. I can only hope that Barta gives him the boot if 1.) We don't finish in the top 4 of the B1G 2.) If we don't get to atleast the Sweet 16 next year 3.) If we go 0-2 against MSU and Wisky again. For me Fran is on his full count, he better get a hit or he's out. - Sincerely P'Od Hawkeye fan :mad:. PS If you want to give praise to the Clowns the site is www.cyclonefanatic.com
 
I'm very disappointed as well how our season unfolded. I don't like ISU, but I have to give it to them. They are doing the things that I thought we might able to do this time of year (or least more than what we seen). I hope our players are watching and mentally preparing how they will step up their game like ISU has done this year.
 
HaydenHawk56 said:
I'm very disappointed as well how our season unfolded. I don't like ISU, but I have to give it to them. They are doing the things that I thought we might able to do this time of year (or least more than what we seen). I hope our players are watching and mentally preparing how they will step up their game like ISU has done this year.
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I'm not mad about ISU winning, Im more upset about how our team finished and I felt like Fran didn't handle it well. Probably should have posted this Tuesday, but seeing all these "Congrats ISU" post set me off. I have full support for the Hawks but this last month for me has made me pretty angry. I hope we can turn things around because even though we made the tourney (kinda) this team when playing focused could beat almost anyone but Fran couldn't get the ship back on course
 
I0WA said:
I'm not mad about ISU winning, Im more upset about how our team finished and I felt like Fran didn't handle it well. Probably should have posted this Tuesday, but seeing all these "Congrats ISU" post set me off. I have full support for the Hawks but this last month for me has made me pretty angry. I hope we can turn things around because even though we made the tourney (kinda) this team when playing focused could beat almost anyone but Fran couldn't get the ship back on course
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There is nothing Fran coulda done. It wasn't an X&O problem. It was deep deep locker room issues that woulda derailed any team. Graduation is gonna cure some of those problems.

Next year will be better.
 
I0WA said:
I'm not mad about ISU winning, Im more upset about how our team finished and I felt like Fran didn't handle it well. Probably should have posted this Tuesday, but seeing all these "Congrats ISU" post set me off. I have full support for the Hawks but this last month for me has made me pretty angry. I hope we can turn things around because even though we made the tourney (kinda) this team when playing focused could beat almost anyone but Fran couldn't get the ship back on course
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I think Fran, all things considered, slightly under-performed this year. I never felt this team was a final 4 team or really a top 10 team. But, I hoped Iowa would have been playing today or yesterday and I expected Iowa to finish the season around 23-10.

The red flags are there. We shall see if Fran can erase them in the near future.
 
I0WA said:
For me to keep my faith in him. Only thing Ive been "MAD" about again is having to watch ISU every March the last 3 years while the Hawks are sitting at home. Don't get me wrong, I understand the hardships he's going through right now but it sickens me to see stupid "congrats" to ISU threads on this board when the Hawks should be playing on CBS now but Fran couldn't focus his team for the last month. Look where Fred has ISU in the same amount of time Fran has been here. I can only hope that Barta gives him the boot if 1.) We don't finish in the top 4 of the B1G 2.) If we don't get to atleast the Sweet 16 next year 3.) If we go 0-2 against MSU and Wisky again. For me Fran is on his full count, he better get a hit or he's out. - Sincerely P'Od Hawkeye fan :mad:. PS If you want to give praise to the Clowns the site is www.cyclonefanatic.com
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We played through all of March last year. Idiot.
 
HaydenHawk56 said:
I think Fran, all things considered, slightly under-performed this year. I never felt this team was a final 4 team or really a top 10 team. But, I hoped Iowa would have been playing today or yesterday and I expected Iowa to finish the season around 23-10.

The red flags are there. We shall see if Fran can erase them in the near future.
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All things considered? No, all things considered this year's senior class was recruited by Lickliter in the darkest of dark eras of Iowa basketball. Fran is moving toward the right track, but he ain't there yet. This team was close and had he closed on Paige and been able to keep Brust, things would have turned out a lot differently. But given the tire fire he inherited, meh, whatevs. We just don't have a legit baller who you can go to late in games and no amount of X and O work can overcome that fact.
 
I'm as disappointed in how this season unfolded as the next guy, but I don't hang a lot of the blame on the head coach. I don't normally call out players, but I feel at least three of our starters underperformed significantly down the stretch. No idea why and probably never will know, but I sincerely hope it wasn't something as trivial as taking twitter away from them. What I do know is that a team that seemed poised to make some loud noise on the national scale this year, folded meekly when the chips were down.
 
The issue is that he already had his original contract extended prematurely. And now he made the tournament which I think was everyone's expectation but little did I know that my expectation was to make the 2nd round, not just the tourney in some gimmick way created to generate tv revenue.
 
ibahawkeye said:
The issue is that he already had his original contract extended prematurely. And now he made the tournament which I think was everyone's expectation but little did I know that my expectation was to make the 2nd round, not just the tourney in some gimmick way created to generate tv revenue.
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Is it really Fran's fault that they have the first four play in system?
 
MisterLucky said:
I'm as disappointed in how this season unfolded as the next guy, but I don't hang a lot of the blame on the head coach. I don't normally call out players, but I feel at least three of our starters underperformed significantly down the stretch. No idea why and probably never will know, but I sincerely hope it wasn't something as trivial as taking twitter away from them. What I do know is that a team that seemed poised to make some loud noise on the national scale this year, folded meekly when the chips were down.
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The team has consistently folded over the past few years. They don't have a clutch player who you want to turn the rock over to in that last 20 seconds of a game. It is what it is.
 
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