Hunter Rawlins.....
The ass who declared Ray Thompson ineligible. Ray was eligible by NCAA Standards, and BigTen Standards. However, Hunter wanted to show the World that the Hawkeyes were squeaky clean because of the Sports Agent misdeeds, Ronnie Harmon and all that......
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...ion-sports-agents-norby-walters-ronnie-harmon
Mr. Davis wasn't informed until the day before traveling to the game site. He was royally pissed, along with Northside, Myself and every Hawkeye fan on Earth.....
Ray would have stopped Rodney Monroe for certain. Ray was expert playing defense. He had very long arms, hanging almost to his knees.....
Hunter soon left for Dartmouth. Probably wanted to get out of town quickly.....
That was Roy Marble, BJ Armstrong, and Eddie Hortons last season. I always thought that we should have won the National Championship Mr. Davis's first year, and have gone deep when Roy, BJ, and Eddie were seniors.....
Ths Hawkeyes have a curse on them concerning the Final Four and National Championship game.
We played in the title game in1956 against The San Francisco Dons with Bill Russel playing center.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955–56_Iowa_Hawkeyes_men's_basketball_team
We dropped the ball on Connie Hawkins because a gangster type said hello to him at Madison Square Garden during Christmas break. He was a freshman. He was the best college basketball player in America. Had we represented him in court, we would have been Final Four-bound at least 2 years.....
1980, in the Final Four against Louisville Roger Burkman slammed Ronnie Lester to the floor reinjuring his knee. The injury he suffered late in a game against Dayton when we were 20 points ahead.....
http://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sp...jon-darsee-ronnie-lester-lute-olson/25249399/
I still have the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, when we beat Georgetown to make the Final Four, with the headline:
Best Team in the East: Iowa
Alas