Fran will never get us past this point. In his first 8 years he's gotten us into just 2 NCAA tournaments, (3 if you want to include the play-in game which I don't since we lost). Lack of defense, bizarre substitution patterns, woeful recruiting, below average in game coaching are things have been consistent during his tenure and show no signs of changing.
During Fran's 9 years in recruiting, who has he landed aside from White, Garza, and Cook who weren't either from Iowa (Woodbury, Gesell, Jok, Uthoff, Wieskamp) or had strong ties to Iowa (Marble)? Now, couple that with the fact that his roster has been overloaded with bigs in a guards game. Then add in such recruiting misses as Brandon Hutton and Andrew Fleming (who are averaging 2.1 and 3.7 PPG playing in a lower division currently).
There's a reason Fran didn't get his first P5 coaching job until he was in his 50's...
