Never noticed Ben and Lute were from the same small ND town.
If Mcfran has the edge over jacobsen by half a year & it makes you feel better about the state of basketball under his leadership then you have a party. After that’s over, compare the budget for both programs and then reality will hit you. Even isu and their rinse and repeat meltdown today & they still have more ncaa tournament wins including the half year uni advantage. But you completely missed the point of the post
oh jfc... you really cant just admit you posted the wrong shit?
I wonder if NILs will make this (parity) more so in college basketball than football. Much easier to give it to 3-4 hs superstars than 30 for smaller schools.
I agree with this. Along with that, I just read that in the last 3 years, Purdue has lost to a 13, 15, and 16 seed. Can you imagine this board if that was Iowa? The only person that would enjoy that is Brian Ferentz.
You still have to have a system that tries to defend. Fran is Grinnell lite.I do have a question. When Fran got here, one of his things was to recruit players with length that can shoot. It seems that he still does this. What good is it to have players with length? I was thinking it should help their defense, so I looked online to see if I could find anything.
In a study done by UCLA by Bruin Sports Analytics, they wanted to find the relationship between wingspan and defense and shooting success. From the abstract:
Basketball Players' Long Wingspan Enhances Defensive Upside
The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between an NBA player's wingspan and their ability to shoot the basketball and perform defensively. Using regression analysis methodologies, the results of this study suggest that NBA players with a longer wingspan are able to perform better defensively.
Another study was done by a biological anthropologist at Cal Berkeley, who is now at the University of Zurich, who found the following, among other things:
And if you’re longer and you’re able to defend multiple positions, you’re more likely to be successful.
Wingspan’s Huge Role in Athletic Ability Revealed in NBA Study
"I’m definitely not surprised."www.inverse.com
This is really the issue. It isn't that Fran can't coach, etc. We didn't have the athletic players that would allow us to defend better. Hopefully some of the signees coming in can help that. But I think it's going to be an factor at a school like Iowa for more often than not.
And have wheels to move forward, backward, and side to side.
Yea, length doesn't help if you don't move your feet on dribble drives or close out on shooters
I completely agree and it was part of my point. In theory, we should have what it takes to defend, but what's missing? Coaching? The system? Quickness? I wasn't necessarily trying to rip on Fran, but he is the common denominator through the years.
