Iowa really is a basketball school

Nobody really cared much about Iowa basketball until the last couple of games in the NIT last year. There's some buzz about us this year and we'll likely be good but we're no basketball school.
 


bcl20 said:
Nobody really cared much about Iowa basketball until the last couple of games in the NIT last year. There's some buzz about us this year and we'll likely be good but we're no basketball school.
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Please hold off on your're opinion until after the football season and the Ullis commitment...
 


bcl20 said:
Nobody really cared much about Iowa basketball until the last couple of games in the NIT last year. There's some buzz about us this year and we'll likely be good but we're no basketball school.
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What? People started caring about basketball again before last season even began. What planet are you living on?
 


Yeah, on this forum. The general fan base didn't really care much until maybe halfway through last year. Not really enough to call us a basketball school.
 


bcl20 said:
Yeah, on this forum. The general fan base didn't really care much until maybe halfway through last year. Not really enough to call us a basketball school.
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Its nice you think you know what the general fan base thinks.
 


To bad it's being considered for abandonment from the Olympics. Can't believe it is not as popular as some of the other sports. Maybe it's an attendance/money thing.
 




There are only a few basketball schools: Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, UCLA are a few. Iowa will never really be a basketball school and honestly, I don't think that is a bad thing.
 




woodyk1 said:
Butler? Marquette? DePaul? :)
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I guess I consider basketball schools to be programs that overshadow their D1 football programs; not ones that don't have a D1 football program. Now, if we want to look to adding to your list Georgetown is another one to add.

Just clarifying my stance and I don't disagree with your list either.
 


sportstalent said:
I guess I consider basketball schools to be programs that overshadow their D1 football programs; not ones that don't have a D1 football program. Now, if we want to look to adding to your list Georgetown is another one to add.

Just clarifying my stance and I don't disagree with your list either.
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I was just having fun (note the DePaul choice), but Georgetown is a good one too! :)
 


woodyk1 said:
I was just having fun (note the DePaul choice), but Georgetown is a good one too! :)
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DePaul once was good, but recently, well they suck and I can't believe they continue to stick with Purnell, but they go from one overvalued coach to the next.
 


Enjoyed the exchange there as it is civil and good points were made. There is a lot to leaned from this. Often times some of the bantering and personal attacks that go on on sports forums are distractive and offer little to nothing to the forums. I've earnestly have tried not to get caught up in that in my time on this forum and all the years over on hawk forum. I try to enjoy and respect everyone's point of view. So what happened to the DePaul basketball program? It once was a great basketball school but is little spoken of any more. Anyone familiar with what happened there?
 


BigD said:
Enjoyed the exchange there as it is civil and good points were made. There is a lot to leaned from this. Often times some of the bantering and personal attacks that go on on sports forums are distractive and offer little to nothing to the forums. I've earnestly have tried not to get caught up in that in my time on this forum and all the years over on hawk forum. I try to enjoy and respect everyone's point of view. So what happened to the DePaul basketball program? It once was a great basketball school but is little spoken of any more. Anyone familiar with what happened there?
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Couple things really, they stopped getting local talent and on top of it they stuck with Joey Meyer far to long out of respect for his father. Since then, they have just not made good hires. Oliver Purnell looked like it would be a good hire on paper, given his background. I would say the biggest fail that DePaul did was join the Big East in 1995, I think they thought they were going to do well, but from there they just have fallen off the map and have stuck with bad coaches, overvalued coaches for far too long. DePaul may be able to do better with the combustion of the Big East conference, but time will tell.
 


sportstalent said:
There are only a few basketball schools: Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, UCLA are a few. Iowa will never really be a basketball school and honestly, I don't think that is a bad thing.
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Most of those schools would go crazy over their football team if they won. Duke is the exception, with the facilities they have and the lack of attention they give their football program they should not even be in the BCS.

I think Iowa is as much of a basketball school as anybody. Fran has the basketball program turned around and Carver will be rocking this season. When the students start getting behind it the games will be entertaining.
 


BigD said:
Enjoyed the exchange there as it is civil and good points were made. There is a lot to leaned from this. Often times some of the bantering and personal attacks that go on on sports forums are distractive and offer little to nothing to the forums. I've earnestly have tried not to get caught up in that in my time on this forum and all the years over on hawk forum. I try to enjoy and respect everyone's point of view. So what happened to the DePaul basketball program? It once was a great basketball school but is little spoken of any more. Anyone familiar with what happened there?
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DePaul is a sleeping giant, the only thing that has held them back is the lack of a facilities. Once they get that then it will be easy for them to recruit local talent that would like to stay home.
 


sportstalent said:
Couple things really, they stopped getting local talent and on top of it they stuck with Joey Meyer far to long out of respect for his father. Since then, they have just not made good hires. Oliver Purnell looked like it would be a good hire on paper, given his background. I would say the biggest fail that DePaul did was join the Big East in 1995, I think they thought they were going to do well, but from there they just have fallen off the map and have stuck with bad coaches, overvalued coaches for far too long. DePaul may be able to do better with the combustion of the Big East conference, but time will tell.
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DePaul didn't join the Big East in 1995. They were in Conference USA until 2005, their program had already fallen way off by the time they joined the Big East so that had nothing to do with the downfall of their basketball program.
 


hawkfan33 said:
DePaul didn't join the Big East in 1995. They were in Conference USA until 2005, their program had already fallen way off by the time they joined the Big East so that had nothing to do with the downfall of their basketball program.
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My bad on the date there and yes you are correct, but it definitely hasn't done anything to help them either, just made them look even worse in my opinion. I can't believe I was so off, guess everything on the web isn't true...I am having trouble coming to grips with this as I type.
 


I think there is a sizeable portion of fans that are 25-50 years old who are big basketball fans from the hey days in the 80's-90's. Iowa made the NCAA tournament 15 years out of 20.
 


sportstalent said:
There are only a few basketball schools: Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, UCLA are a few. Iowa will never really be a basketball school and honestly, I don't think that is a bad thing.
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This is going to be fun:

Syracuse, NC State, Maryland, Georgetown, Gonzaga, Minnesota, Butler, Wichita State, Purdue, New Mexico, Utah, Villanova, Providence, UCONN, UNLV, Cincinnati, Louisville, Dayton, Creighton, St. John's, St. Louis, San Diego State, Seton Hall, Temple, Vanderbilt, Xavier.

Off the top of my head.
 


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