While the competition has been better lately, a “competitive series” seems like a little bit of a stretch. Doesn’t Iowa have an almost 2-1 win-loss margin? All in all, this is a guaranteed bowl game every year for ISU, and a trap game for Iowa. Let’s face it, Hawkeye fans don’t get excited about winning [...]

Sanjispammer, You want KOK back don’t you? Admit it, you want him back… just like if we got rid of Kirk, you would want him back wouldn’t you. Yeah, it can never be worse than it is right now. We have just gotta fire somebody! Somebody’s gotta pay! Those overbloated salaries have to produce national [...]

The biggest problem this year was definitely scheduling. What if Iowa had played some of these teams in the preseason and “learn how to ” then? Iowa didn’t need to play teams that they were going to beat by 20, 30, 40 points. Fran gave us all a big lecture last year about how they [...]

Sanji, let’s just tell it like it is. Fran undervalued his own team, thinking he needed to play non-conference pushovers to get to 20 wins. It not only hurt us in the eyes of the selection committee, but it also hurt us in the close games in the Big Ten. This is a team that [...]

I agree with Travis, if Iowa doesn’t make it in, it is completely on Fran. He underestimated his team’s ability to perform, and because he didn’t believe the team was good enough to win against stiffer competition, he scheduled a bunch of “easy wins” in the non-conference season. If the selection committee doesn’t put Iowa [...]

Does coach not know how to motivate these guys? Dropping a 19-pt lead when you should be on the gas pedal coming out of half seems like a lack of motivation. Up 19 you shouldn’t be tentative, everyone should be in easy attack mode. Sounds like yet another case of Iowa players thinking they are [...]

Oh wait. Where was the drop-off? The end of the Tom Davis era? Good thing the Sanjis of the 90s got their way and got us a much better coach. Oh wait – three much better coaches.

If you are right, Delbert, it is a sad reflection on how soft our society’s kids have become. I am not saying that Fran is a good coach by any means (nor am I saying he is bad), but it is a poor reflection on an athlete who cannot step up and meet a challenge, [...]

The biggest mystery about this season to me is why anyone thought that it would be any different than it has been. The Hawkeyes didn’t exactly light up the B1G last year, and they came out with some very impressive, albeit close, wins. The B1G is even better than it was last year, and Iowa’s [...]

Oh Sanjispam, isn’t this much better than a 20 win season under Coach Tom Davis? I would so love to have this for our football team’s 14th rebuilding year from now after we oust KF (if it was possible to oust him this year). Seriously though, we need to give basketball a little more time. [...]

Thank you for clarifying… I agree that we disagree. Even with the resources to hire a new coach (we have had three basketball coaches in 14 years, 2 in the last six), I would rather have had Tom Davis “mediocrity,” as opposed to the basement dwelling that the other two (hopefully not three), coaches have [...]

“Yes, that could absolutely happen once Ferentz is gone – but it’s less likely. Iowa now has the money to change things if necessary” What was your point here? Maybe it is ambiguous, but I thought you were saying that getting rid of Ferentz wouldn’t turn out the same as getting rid of Davis (an [...]

You could characterize Dr. Tom as a middle-of the league coach if you define middle of the league anywhere from third to eighth place; however, this is a coach who in 13 years had one second place finish (with players he recruited 96-97), four third place finishes, two fourth place finishes, and three 5th place [...]

Mike, While I agree that the sports are different, it doesn’t change the premise: that “the grass is greener” mentality has contributed greatly to the worst years that Iowa basketball has ever seen. That the basketball standard in Iowa has been lowered so much that Hawkeye fandom is actually thrilled now with the prospect of [...]

Sanji,.. wow, this is getting to be like the Sanjispam page. If you hate Hawkeye Football so much pick another team to follow, you can bandwagon back in 10 years when KF retires, or in two years when we’re playing for B1G Championship. Until then, save the vitriol and don’t go to the games, and [...]

A couple of observations: this Iowa team just isn’t that good… yet. I still think they will be, but I think some soft scheduling and lofty talk have heightened expectations beyond reality. This is very talented team that is still very inconsistent. This season is going to be a roller coaster. What do you think [...]

I know much has been made of the Hawkeyes not playing tough opponents pre-conference this year. In reality though, how does this pre-conference schedule measure up to the 2004-05 season? Or, in pre-conference scheduling under Davis, Alford, or Lickliter? Are Fran’s schedules deliberately easy, or is it more about just who happened to be good [...]

Michaela, I will say that I am consistent in my support of good, ethical, classy coaches. I was upset that Tom Davis was shown the door. He had more success in his final season (people say that he was declining) than the program has had since he left. I would much rather he had left [...]

5th most powerful doesn’t mean 5th best… I mean look at the politicians in our country…

Scott, I don’t want to be negative, but I was curious if there had been any kind of analysis done on our non-conference schedule since McCaffery arrived at Iowa? Other than the over-publicized softening of the schedule by refusing to play at Northern Iowa, opting instead for a quiet “classic” in DesMoines, has the McCaffery [...]