twinlaker
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Not sure if serious? The Hawks are in no position to turn down any post season bid.
READ THIS COLUMN BY HLAS (RE: Iowa and the CBI)
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Not sure if serious? The Hawks are in no position to turn down any post season bid.
tm3308
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Since when is Iowa good enough to turn it down? Thanks to the Big Ten, we'd turn down an invite even if we were 0-31 or 31-0. I don't call maintaining the status quo "progress". That's the antithesis of progress.
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DwayneTwill
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Fortunately the conference as a whole is above the CBI. Cooler heads have prevailed.
RocketHawk
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If the kids want to play accept the offer. If Gattens wants a couple more games as a Hawk, who are you to say your above their offer.
tm3308
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Which is crap. It'd be in the better interest of the teams like Iowa, or Penn State, etc. to accept a bid to a postseason tournament, regardless of what tier it is. Any postseason tournament is progress for those kinds of programs. If Michigan State or Ohio State wouldn't want a bid, fine, more power to them. But it could actually be helpful to the programs that have fallen on tough times.
WindsorHawk
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Every game gives the young guys more experience and the seniors another game as a Hawk. If we can play another game then play another game IMO.
ssckelley
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No sitting at home yet another post season is not progress. If Iowa has qualified to play in a post season tournament then they should play in it. Years from now when Iowa is making the NCAA tournament again on a consistent basis then they have the luxury of turning down tournaments like this.
bcl20
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This thinking makes no sense to me. What is the team going to learn in a CBI game against some scrub team that they didn't know before?
bcl20
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The record and results from the season are more indicative of success then the subjective process behind the selection of a post season tournament. We were good enough to make a post season, we just aren't because we don't want to, that's progress.
Herkyalert
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Fantastic article.
WindsorHawk
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They learn countless things...how to prepare for a new opponent, in game adjustments, practices, film sessions, time with the coaches, etc. There are many more things which could be added to this list.
I understand the point of view from anyone not wanting to play in a 3rd or 4th tier tournament. I just disagree. The biggest thing may be the one and done nature of postseason play. The sophomores on the team have experienced this 3 times. The freshmen 2 times. All of these experiences were in the BTT against conference teams. Even 1 more game in any tournament adds to this experience...especially against teams (even "scrub" teams) outside of the BT.
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bcl20
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I am indifferent to exhibition games.
bcl20
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No one cares.
