please God...please

99topdawg said:
I remember Alford being a great at preparation and great game coach in games that you knew he had targeted (UCONN, etc.). I'm a little leery of that one, although it would mean that we are in the sweet 16 against a very beatable team.
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^^ disagree.. More often than not Alford was not good at making in game adjustments. His Iowa teams lost a lot of leads and close games down the stretch.
 
lightning1 said:
I would go to church every Sunday for 2 months, if the Lord could see fit to grant me an Iowa smack down of the UCLA Alfrauds. I'll sing in the choir. I'll stand in the church doorway, holding the doors open for every man, woman and child coming to and from.
That's not asking too much, God. Consider it a divine justice for that faux Christian, greasy haired hypocrite!
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Two whole months? If that doesn't get God's attention...
 
UCLA plays 3 guards and 2 forwards. Those 5 starters played 30, 31, 37, 38 and 39 minutes today. Playing 5 guys 30 plus minutes with no center...sounds like an Iowa win to me. Press. Pound the boards. And don't let Alford breathe.
 
CalvaryHawk said:
Two whole months? If that doesn't get God's attention...
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It doesn't seem like much until you take into consideration how much I've been absent over the past 35 years. If I made 8 in a row.....it would be considered a minor miracle. God likes miracles. Or so I'm told.
 
99topdawg said:
I remember Alford being a great at preparation and great game coach in games that you knew he had targeted (UCONN, etc.). I'm a little leery of that one, although it would mean that we are in the sweet 16 against a very beatable team.
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I'm sure if ucla loses it won't be alfordS Fault...
 
99topdawg said:
I also remember him tanking a heck of a lot more games that shouldn't have been lost, but if you go back, he would occasionally pull a rabbit out of the hat and knock off someone when you knew he either wanted it or needed it.
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It seems he's been doing that ever since he's been in this years tourney.....and that $hit comes to an end if we can get past the 'Zags
 
ColumbusHawk said:
Poor boy! I feel sorry for you. Not even close to the greatest thing ever in Iowa basketball. B1G Championships & Final Four appearances far surpass a victory against UCLA. Heck, it wouldn't even be Iowa's best victory against UCLA. In '65, Ralph Miller & the Hawks blew out eventual national champion UCLA in Chicago Stadium.

From the age of fifteen through twenty-seven, I saw three B1G Championships & a Final Four appearance in another year. In contrast, you've only seen the Hawks seriously challenge for the B1G once. I remember Ralph & Lute. You probably think Tom Davis was the greatest thing that ever happened to Iowa basketball. Actually, there were several more B1G Championships & two more Final Four appearances by the time I was twenty-seven. However, I was too young to remember them. However, I heard countless stories about them.
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You are going to die a lot sooner than me. Now who's sorry for who? :)
 
lightning1 said:
I would go to church every Sunday for 2 months, if the Lord could see fit to grant me an Iowa smack down of the UCLA Alfrauds. I'll sing in the choir. I'll stand in the church doorway, holding the doors open for every man, woman and child coming to and from.
That's not asking too much, God. Consider it a divine justice for that faux Christian, greasy haired hypocrite!
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What happened in another ten months? you go back being "the Shining"?
 
sioux34 said:
You and I have very different memories of Alf.
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Nobody misses Alford but his UCLA team looked really good against UAB. Fred Hoiberg, the "God, Mayor, and all time greatest coach" ever was thoroughly out coached by Alford.

I was hoping like hell for UAB to win because, like many others, it would be horrible to get sent home by UCLA so we damn well better beat them.
 
sioux34 said:
False equivalency much Columbus?

Do you not remember Alf sitting by watching the lead evaporate against NW State? He did nothing to stop the bleeding at the end of that game. No time outs were called, no substitutions were made, 13 points were allowed to evaporate and by the time the last second three went through the net, it was a forgone conclusion that the Hawks would loose, as we had seen the same thing happen again and again during the Frauds tenure at Iowa.
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Agreed but if "lost leads" is the category we are going to judge coaches, what team has lost more double digit leads in the past few years than Iowa?
 
I do not want to play Alford and lose. We have to win that game like no other. But I have an even worse fear now, that we'll lose to the Zags 'cause everyone keeps talking about playing Stevo in the Sweet 16 - we just jinxed ourselves!
 
imported_PawkHawk1 said:
I do not want to play Alford and lose. We have to win that game like no other. But I have an even worse fear now, that we'll lose to the Zags 'cause everyone keeps talking about playing Stevo in the Sweet 16 - we just jinxed ourselves!
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If the players are on here looking forward to playing UCLA, we have a problem.
 
I went to UCLA for grad school and have two friends with close ties to the program and major boosters, and a third who scouts the West Coast professionally. None knew much about Steve's Iowa reputation prior to his arrival in Westwood. Talked to all three at length in recent weeks and they said the same things independently:

"Arrogant". "High-handed to people in the Morgan Center and out in public". "Not getting it done in recruiting, doesn't have the right assistants, weak AAU strategy, no 'fixer'" "Widely considered a d-bag, dramatic contrast with Mora"

They all felt he is a decent coach, but because he's failed to develop "personal equity" among administration, boosters and fans he's left himself zero margin for error. 10-15% chance of surviving two years unless he pulls a rabbit out of his hat in this year's NCAA.

They were surprised he was such a doosh: "you're at a storied program, you've proven nothing here yet, wouldn't you show some humility?"

Again - these are people WITHOUT our baggage and pre-knowledge of Alford.
 
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