1. Iowa never seems to have complete teams. General example in basketball, we have wing players, but not elite guards or a center. Football team has a quarterback, but no wide receivers, elite tailback, safeties, etc.
2. Coaching Conservative or very good coaching M through F, but not on gameday.
3. Injuries and Lack of depth.
4. Losing players to academics and ******* in hotel lobbies. Girl and boyfriend problems. Lack of chemistry.
5. Other teams have more elite players in their front lines and back lines.
6. When Iowa has a chance to step forward into elite status or taste it, they don't take advantage of it. Iowa then losses out on getting the big fish when they Iowa got embarrassed in the big games. Vicious cycle.
7. The University has made some bad coaching hires (Lick, Alford) and is forever married to its historically good/mediocre, but not great coaches (ala Ferentz). Mr. Davis is the outer in the marriage department (probably similar to Ferentz, but with less brass), but the way that situation was handled was very destructive to the basketball program. Mr. Davis retires at Iowa you have more NCAAs and probably a title by now. He should have had one when Minny cheated that year.
8. Gable is like Wooden. UCLA is not the same without Wooden and Iowa Wrestling is not the same without Gable.
9. Three or four teams control women's basketball and then there is everyone else. We get some pretty blonde girls playing under Bluder. UConn gets the street ballers.
10. Iowa needs to update its home environments to get more intemidating. Students need to be courtside, etc.
Bonus.....let's not forget this Iowa basketball team lost to a Division 3 (or D2 school whatever it was) school at the beginning of the year. Very good D3 school, but that should not happen on your own home court ever for a major D1 program (unless the flu breaks out or something).
