QuadCityHawkeye
Well-Known Member
No and it's not close. We all drank the Kool-Aid but quality basketball teams don't **** their pants late in the season. They don't play awful basketball 4 times in a row in Feb, and they don't come out of a week off looking the same as they did in previous losses. They don't roll over at home and play stupid basketball.
This is the same thing we all saw in 2013. A team with talent who runs out of gas and stumbles to the finish. Something is seriously wrong here and I have to think part of it is staff related. No I don't want to fire Fran but there is a trend here especially in big games. Even last year in the Big Ten Tourney Iowa played like garbage in a loss to Penn State. This has been 3 years in a row now Iowa has stumbled late in the season. The Davidson win was fantastic but you can't say things have been exactly up to par late in the season under Fran. Does his yelling have some sort of affect on these guys because they haven't responded to the wrath and we've seen a lot of it lately. I love Fran's passion but it's foolish to think he might not have these kids playing tight and timid out of fear.
I don't know exactly what it is, but I can tell you right now this Iowa team isn't even a top 5 one in my lifetime and I'm 39. This level of play the last 4 games proves that. Tom Davis had teams with more focus and basketball IQ.
Hopefully Iowa gets hot and makes me look stupid but I think this team peaked in Jan.
This is the same thing we all saw in 2013. A team with talent who runs out of gas and stumbles to the finish. Something is seriously wrong here and I have to think part of it is staff related. No I don't want to fire Fran but there is a trend here especially in big games. Even last year in the Big Ten Tourney Iowa played like garbage in a loss to Penn State. This has been 3 years in a row now Iowa has stumbled late in the season. The Davidson win was fantastic but you can't say things have been exactly up to par late in the season under Fran. Does his yelling have some sort of affect on these guys because they haven't responded to the wrath and we've seen a lot of it lately. I love Fran's passion but it's foolish to think he might not have these kids playing tight and timid out of fear.
I don't know exactly what it is, but I can tell you right now this Iowa team isn't even a top 5 one in my lifetime and I'm 39. This level of play the last 4 games proves that. Tom Davis had teams with more focus and basketball IQ.
Hopefully Iowa gets hot and makes me look stupid but I think this team peaked in Jan.