Izzo knew he couldn't afford a T

[HawksMN]

Izzo is flat out a great coach guys. He got his players to play with guts last night. Every one of them down to the 11th man.

Our guys came out gutless and got punched. Never recovered. Ballgame.

 

[hawkforlife9]

Fran has been a head coach for 10 years longer than Izzo.

Not in the BIG, a totally different beast.

 

[clicheusername3]

Not in the BIG, a totally different beast.

That's like saying I can only ride my bike, because your bike doesn't have the same tires and pedals as my bike does. Refs are refs, coaches are coaches.

 

[Cydkar]

That's like saying I can only ride my bike, because your bike doesn't have the same tires and pedals as my bike does. Refs are refs, coaches are coaches.

It's more like comparing riding a bike up a hill or riding it on flat pavement. It's different.

 

[fsanford]

At the end of the day team is a reflection of its coach

Izzo tough minded but usually not too demonstrative, team just plays ball, and is tough minded

Fran, loses his cool more times than not, and his team loses their composure in close games.
Interesting that Fran says his team needs to be more tough mentally. good advice.

 

[Eda]

SIAP:
This thread is redonkulous. The ref T'd up Fran entirely too quickly and failed to T up Izzo for the same reason he T'd up Fran.

It was a huge FAIL by the refs.

 

[ForeverHawk]

Somebody needs to put a lid on Fran. I love his program and what he has brought to the Iowa fans, anyone in that arena last night has to agree Carver hasn't been that loud in probably over a decade. But to those who say why scrutinize or scapegoat Fran over just 2 points, you have to ask yourself why simply give 2 freethrows to a top ten team in a dog fight like this? The refs are going to miss their calls, the players are going to make their mistakes that cost us points, but why simply give the opponent two uncontested shots on the goal? Really? I think by now Fran needs to put a lid on whatever language he is using to get his point across, and channel that energy on coaching our boys to play some good tough big ten basketball. Stop giving away points to teams like MSU and Vadgers. And as a PS, Fran (as well as everyone else in that arena) was right to be miffed by that call, appling picked up his dribble at the 3 point line- watch the replay on espn.com. How bout having those 2 points back also?

Unfortunately, I believe two blatantly missed calls cost Iowa 7 pts. last night. The obvious missed travel call MSU scored two on the layup, then they got two on the technical FT's. Then late in the second half, on the obvious missed over and back call with the scored tied, Iowa fouled on that possession. MSU made one FT, missed the second, got the rebound and made a basket. 7 point swing off of two bad calls. You make the correct travel call, you wipe two points off the board and Fran never gets T'd up, you make the correct over and back call, you take 3 pts off the board and Iowa has the ball in a tied game or with the lead with I think less than a minute to go. These no-calls were big! I realize refs miss calls every game, as well as make phantom calls. But these two were so obvious it makes me wonder how they missed them. With that being said, missed FT's were the killer!