And not surprising, but it's fairly similar results that Iowa has had the previous 3 coaches as well. People like to mis-remember Mr. Davis's 11 and 12 win seasons because it doesn't fit their narrative with Fran. Basically this is what the Iowa program has been its entire existence. Again, you can point to a few key seasons here or there where the sun shined on a dog's ass. Throughout the history of Iowa basketball, by in large, Iowa has been stuck in that "every year, we're a bubble team trying to make it to the round of 16" throughout largely, most of its time of existence.
It sometimes just takes some honest eyes to see that Iowa has been chasing the same thing forever and has never found it outside of a few flashes of success. No one here also wants to recognize that coaches in the 80's didn't lose their best Jr.'s every season to either the NBA, or to wealthier schools with bags of money. Keegan and Kris Murray stay 4 years in the 1980's. Tyler Cook, Joe Wieskamp....they stay their senior years in the 80's and Iowa get's to see the fruit of it's labor the final year of their stars. Also, players like CJF, Isiah Moss, Tony Perkins etc. aren't leaving early to go get paid to play somewhere else when they are at the peak of their game.
When I look at the big picture and I look at Fran, I don't see a failure, I see pretty much in line with what most before him have been able to accomplish. We don't have a TON of success or history to leverage that Iowa is a better program than Fran is a coach.
