How can Iowa get these recruits?

Tiggerhawk,
Let me help you out a little.
Iowa has 8 men's basketball Big Ten titles - Illinois has 17.
Illinois has 28 NCAA tourney appearances and 5 final fours. Iowa has 1 final four.
Illinois has been to 1 National Championship game and lost to North Carolina. Iowa hasn't been yet.
Football: Iowa 1 National Championship in '58. Illinois has 5, last one in '51.
Illinois leads the all-time series 38-29-2.
Iowa 11 Big Ten football championships - Illinois 15.
Hate the Illini all you want, but don't let that skew the truth.
 
tiggerhawk said:
Bizarre.

As openers, Illinois has NEVER won a National Championship in basketball--either men or women, or in Football...and probably never will. (in the modern era, until Alford & Lickliter ran our program into the ground, the Hawkeye men had a slight edge on the Ilwhinney in head-to-head competition, the same number of Big Ten titles, more NCAA appearances & more NCAA tournament wins. And while the Iowa women rank with Ohio State & Purdue in BT wins, championships, NCAA tournament appearances, in thirty years Illannoy women have shared ONE BT title. And in the modern era, Hawkeye football has more wins, more titles, more top finishes, more bowl wins.

If you want to talk about BT hoops winners, why on earth mention Illannoy instead of Michigan State...or in the is decade Wisconsin.

As for Texas, like Illinois they have never won a national championship either. Fewer NCAA tournnament appearances, fewer NCAA tournament victories, fewer Final Fours than Iowa.

If you are going to talk about the Big 12, why not talk about the Big6-Big 8-Big 12 school that has actually won national championships--Kansas (the only other Big 12 school that ever won was Oklahoma once).

Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma--not exactly a list of high school hoops hotbeds. More like the state of Iowa actually.

The name that OUGHT to catch your attention here is Wisconsin. Unlike an academic cesspool like KS State or an institution with considerably lower admissions requirements and standards like Kansas or Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin draws from a relatively small recruiting base and like Iowa has to find kids who can get admitted under more stringent terms--and still wins.

But back when Iowa was winning under O'Connor, Miller, Olson & Davis, Wisky was fighting Northwestern to escape last place in the BT ear after year. The explanation is quite simple: when Iowa was hiring Alford, the Badgers brought in Bo Ryan.

We are now at a point where it may take some time for us to learn whether Fran McCaffery is Iowa's hire of a Bo Ryan equivalent.
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Read the OP.
 
Anybody else realize that Wisconsin plays the type of slowdown ball you all seem to indicate can't work for recruiting?
 
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