What coaches were a part of the HC discussion after Alford and Lick?

I liked Hlas' tweet the other day after the Iowa win against Minny. Something along the lines of McCaffery is now 46-46 at Iowa. Crean just reached 78-78 at Indiana.
 
Herkyalert said:
I remember some crazy times on both boards when Iowa was searching for new head coaches in hoops. Some of the names I remember were...

Post-Alford:
Rick Majerus (I remember a STRONG rumor that he was the guy late one night on HawkeyeInsider. I think Jon spoke about it? Anyway, that got me all excited and then the next day I think it was pretty much confirmed to not be true.)

Kevin Stallings (Heard he has some incident at the Amana Hawkeye Classic back in the day and would never be hired here. Can anyone confirm this?)

Gregg Marshall
Bruce Pearl
Lon Kruger
Mark Turgeon
Tom Crean
Kirk Speraw
Steve Lavin

Post-Lickliter:
Brian Gregory
Doug Wojcik
Bruce Pearl
Lon Kruger
BJ Armstrong
Steve Forbes
Kevin Gamble
Tony Barbee
Keno Davis
Brad Brownell
Kevin Stallings
Steve Lavin
Scott Drew

I think Wojcik was actually interviewed along with Fran, and Iowa wanted to interview Gregory but Dayton was still in the NIT.

If you have other names feel free to post them.
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Please delete BJ Armstrong and insert Les Jepsen.
 
I wanted Gregg Marshall both times around because I knew a few guys involved at WU and the rep around the region was the Marshall was legit

unlike Brownell, Marshall is one of those mid-major guys who can make the recruiting leap to a major conference. I hope he never gets a B1G job.

Fran is proving to be a good hire, but this summer's class is huge. we saw how some initial momentum and a good recruiting class or two can quickly peter out with Alford.
 
busabus114 said:
STEVE FORBES...so many clowns wanted steve effing forbes
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I know, I think I was flirting with the ban-hammer with the way I went after JM and the Forbes camp at the time.

All the Forbes fury was based on the PR by one dude and because Forbes was from Lone Tree and a player's Mom really loved Forbes. (Something makes me think that player actually didn't even sign with UT, might have been Josh Selby.)

Well, one show-cause penalty later and the guy is tearing up the JC ranks.
 
I was in the Bruce Pearl camp after Alford and vacillated between Gregory and Forbes after Lackluster was shown the door. So far Fran is proving to be a good choice.

Curious about Crean. Does anyone know for sure whether Iowa reached out to him after Alford and he turned us down? If he had been hired, anyone think he would have been able to recruit to Iowa City as well as he has to Bloomington, and whether he would have had the same success? This would have been well before the new practice facility was even on the drawing board.
 
LawVHawk said:
Curious about Crean. Does anyone know for sure whether Iowa reached out to him after Alford and he turned us down? If he had been hired, anyone think he would have been able to recruit to Iowa City as well as he has to Bloomington, and whether he would have had the same success? This would have been well before the new practice facility was even on the drawing board.
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most likely no

bobby knight once said that players are attracted to institutions more than coaches -- that if two coaches have similar win% and quality of program, the kid will lean towards the more storied program. knight was a psychopath, but I think on this he was right.

charisma and hard work recruiting can bring in a good class or two initially (alford with reiner-worley-evans, then brunner-horner-rhodes (who was a top-75 kid); stu jackson's '94 class; fran getting woody and gesell), but after that, it needs to be win% and health of the program. a mid-level B1G school like iowa (or say clemson or gt in the acc) doesn't have a natural draw with tradition or geography, so two lean recruiting years in a row can be enough to kill the momentum for 3-4 years.

that's why I think this summer's class is crucial for fran. a lean haul of 3-stars and woody-gesell look like an aberration. get some quality pieces, the upward trajectory of the program continues.
 
PalmettoHawkFan said:
most likely no

bobby knight once said that players are attracted to institutions more than coaches -- that if two coaches have similar win% and quality of program, the kid will lean towards the more storied program. knight was a psychopath, but I think on this he was right.

charisma and hard work recruiting can bring in a good class or two initially (alford with reiner-worley-evans, then brunner-horner-rhodes (who was a top-75 kid); stu jackson's '94 class; fran getting woody and gesell), but after that, it needs to be win% and health of the program. a mid-level B1G school like iowa (or say clemson or gt in the acc) doesn't have a natural draw with tradition or geography, so two lean recruiting years in a row can be enough to kill the momentum for 3-4 years.

that's why I think this summer's class is crucial for fran. a lean haul of 3-stars and woody-gesell look like an aberration. get some quality pieces, the upward trajectory of the program continues.
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I agree with this, and no knock on Crean as he is a good coach, but it does not take much to turn around the Indiana basketball program. Indiana is, and always will be, a Hoosier state.
 
I wanted pearl after Alford. I thought it was a pipe dream, but after talking to lohaus it was a lot closer to happening then people realize. When espn had the story that Tennessee granted permission for Iowa to talk to pearl, talks were already very serious. They were to the point of talking contract terms. Tennessee threw a bunch of perks at pearl in a last ditch effort and he ended up staying. It was close and I actually think barta thought he had him when he fired lickliter.
 
LawVHawk said:
I was in the Bruce Pearl camp after Alford and vacillated between Gregory and Forbes after Lackluster was shown the door. So far Fran is proving to be a good choice.

Curious about Crean. Does anyone know for sure whether Iowa reached out to him after Alford and he turned us down? If he had been hired, anyone think he would have been able to recruit to Iowa City as well as he has to Bloomington, and whether he would have had the same success? This would have been well before the new practice facility was even on the drawing board.
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I think he reached out to Iowa first. Not sure what happened but I remember hearing he might have had some unethical recruiting situations when he was at Marquette.
 
Whenever I'm really anger, I go online and read what some of these idiots write and feel better about myself.
 
I'll coach

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