ColumbusHawk
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Interesting tidbit about Lickliter from Keeler's blog.
Lickliter stayed the course, but his heart never left Hinkle Fieldhouse. I was on the Drake campus in late February 2008, when Keno’s Bulldogs were the toast of the basketball world, when Lickliter left a message on my cellphone that he’d like to have a quick word. I found this to be odd (as a rule, the higher paid the coach, the less likely the phone call is a pleasant one), as I’d left the Hawkeyes for dead a few weeks earlier and hadn’t written a peep about Iowa hoops in ages.
When I called him back, Lickliter spent the next few minutes explaining that he didn’t appreciate or agree with the assessments he’d read in the previous Sunday’s column. But here’s the kicker: The column wasn’t about Iowa at all. It was about Butler.
Lickliter wasn’t so much testy as disappointed, we agreed to disagree, and left it at that. But the conversation was curious, to say the least. The timing, even moreso.
Lickliter stayed the course, but his heart never left Hinkle Fieldhouse. I was on the Drake campus in late February 2008, when Keno’s Bulldogs were the toast of the basketball world, when Lickliter left a message on my cellphone that he’d like to have a quick word. I found this to be odd (as a rule, the higher paid the coach, the less likely the phone call is a pleasant one), as I’d left the Hawkeyes for dead a few weeks earlier and hadn’t written a peep about Iowa hoops in ages.
When I called him back, Lickliter spent the next few minutes explaining that he didn’t appreciate or agree with the assessments he’d read in the previous Sunday’s column. But here’s the kicker: The column wasn’t about Iowa at all. It was about Butler.
Lickliter wasn’t so much testy as disappointed, we agreed to disagree, and left it at that. But the conversation was curious, to say the least. The timing, even moreso.
