Actually, going off of people's attitudes on here, you're the one who needs more to be excited. The rest of us seem to be pretty excited already.
If he doesn't bring in some super-recruit this year, then so what? A lot of coaches don't bring their recruits with them, especially when they leave under good circumstances. Coach didn't have any reason to want to stick it to Sienna, unlike Alford when he left. Plenty of coaches ask their recruits to stick with their commitments to the original school.
And the best coaches are able to put together a class in year one.
But, we are not the ones that need energizing. We already are committed enough to spend our time on message boards in the off-season. It is the fan that has come to competely disregard the program that needs to be swayed and top recruits who haven't seen Iowa in the post season since they started high school.
Yeah we get it, you don't think this was a good hire. You've been against it from the beginning, always throwing a bucket of cold water, even when it's unnecessary.
A lot of those coaches who put together a class in year one don't inherit the entire class from the previous coach, as McCaffery is. He's got one scholarship to play with, and that's not much. Especially considering that we have a pretty good class already, and we're only graduating one player next year (Cole). McCaffery doesn't have a whole lot of wiggle room in Year One. This isn't the same situation as Lickliter had, when Gary went with Alford and Iowa had graduated several seniors. Lick had schollies to work with and didn't use them. McCaffery doesn't have that same opportunity.
McCaffery does not have the same kind of name recognition as a Roy Williams, Tom Izzo, etc. He's not going to beat those kinds of coaches for a kid when he's swooping in at the last minute. Very few coaches can, and none of those coaches were realistic candidates for this job.
