Better than this last season? Or better than all of his previous seasons at Iowa?
Are you talking about mid season rankings or end of year results?
Better than this last season? Or better than all of his previous seasons at Iowa?
I'm talking about the end of season record that we just posted. Or better results than any 1 season Fran has coached til this point. What are you talking about when you say "better times ahead". If you are suggesting he will coach us to more than 20 wins again, I agree. Or you are suggesting he will do better than a 3rd place finish and 2nd rd appearance. I wanted clarification.Are you talking about mid season rankings or end of year results?
It's certainly possible but I wouldn't bet on it.Yes.
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I'm talking about the end of season record that we just posted. Or better results than any 1 season Fran has coached til this point. What are you talking about when you say "better times ahead". If you are suggesting he will coach us to more than 20 wins again, I agree. Or you are suggesting he will do better than a 3rd place finish and 2nd rd appearance. I wanted clarification.
As far as win totals, I'm not sure he will do better than the NIT Championship game run year. I would say he will almost certainly have better seeds in the NCAA tournament than a 7 and will at least make sweet 16s.
And for the record - I'm not jumping up and down about an 11 seed in the first four, and two 7 seeds, but considering where we were a couple years before that, I think Fran's done a good job of getting us back to respectability. It's a nice start. I'd like to see where he can take it from here instead of just firing the guy and keeping the revolving door spinning.
If a few years from now we're not able to do any better than what we've seen, than yeah, I'll be the first to admit that's as far as Fran can take us and that things may be feeling stale.. Time will tell.
"If a few years from now we're not able to do any better than what we've seen, than yeah, I'll be the first to admit that's as far as Fran can take us and that things may be feeling stale.. Time will tell."
This is where I am at.
Consistency is good and it's something to build on. But now that FM has the program on solid footing again, it's time to raise the stakes and win a B1G title. I look at Indiana and how wildly inconsistent they've been over the last 4-5 years. But in that time, they've also won 2 outright B1G titles. I'd take that over consistency any day....
It's not good enough. Not to keep spending money to support the program. Not for me.
No more or less than you are. Funny how that works.....But you have no problem wasting everyone's time on a free message board. Funny how that works...
But you have no problem wasting everyone's time on a free message board. Funny how that works...
No more or less than you are. Funny how that works.....
You're wasting my time here. It's important interwebs time and you're wasting it!Seriously? Dude, you've taken up serious bandwidth with your idiocy.
To me it will depend on recruiting if the next 3 years aren't better than the last 3. If it's worse I'll be ready to move on. If it's the same and recruiting sucks, I'll be ready to move on. If it's the same and recruiting is better, I'll be OK with it.
He is waiting for Iowa's version of Coach K......which given the odds will never happen.
Wait, Coach K took a team over that had been an NCAA finalist at 27-7 in 1977-78 and and an Elite 8 team at 24-9 in 1979-80 under Bill Foster and went 17-11 (NIT) in 80-81, 10-17 in 81-82, and 11-17 in 82-23. Coach K should have been fired after 3 years with what he did with the program.![]()