Rick Coleman and Rob Brooks

[9YRPLAN]

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i would say that roughly 96.3% of iowa fans have felt sorry for uni after their playoff losses.

[Blue42]

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i would say that roughly 96.3% of iowa fans have felt sorry for uni after their playoff losses.

Who cares?

[9YRPLAN]

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Cat80

kaboom

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I've been thinking, and I didn't have a chance to watch the NIU game, but do you think it's possible that Coleman didn't talk about UNI fun facts in the Iowa game b/c he used them up in his broadcast vs. NIU. We are getting more games on tv, with Coleman being the consistent guy on the call. Think he was trying to keep the Panther fans informed on Iowa...just like he may talk up Siena to give us Panther fans some information on the team we don't know?

I honestly don't know, but do you think it's possible this could have been the case?
(I'm really trying to not jump to conclusions )

[9YRPLAN]

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that theory does not support the foregone conclusion that rick hates UNI.

[UNIpanther99]

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that theory does not support the foregone conclusion that rick hates UNI.

I don't think anyone here thinks he "hates" UNI. I just think he looks at us as the filler between the Hawk highlights and the high school scores in his newscasts.

[panther2317]

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Come on, Rick doesn't give final scores. They just want highlights from the game and the "last score we had" like they do during Friday Night Heroes.

[GoCatz!]

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Wow....this is unbelievable. While I agree that there seemed to be a "slight" bias with the commentary of the last game, have we become this fickle of a fanbase? A local station FINALLY buys into broadcasting a healthy chunk of our games (albeit on a digital subchannel) and yet the first thing we do is start to rip apart the men they assigned to it. I have a feeling if somehow Jim Nance and Bob Knight were magically paired together for the broadcast...there would still be b*****ing on here about it.

I will take another angle at this thing. Thank you KWWL for finally doing this. Keep it up. Next step is to preempt your NBC feed and show the games on the flagship station so all of the folks without digital signals can watch.

[Panther-Sheik]

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that theory does not support the foregone conclusion that rick hates UNI.

Wow....this is unbelievable. While I agree that there seemed to be a "slight" bias with the commentary of the last game, have we become this fickle of a fanbase? A local station FINALLY buys into broadcasting a healthy chunk of our games (albeit on a digital subchannel) and yet the first thing we do is start to rip apart the men they assigned to it. I have a feeling if somehow Jim Nance and Bob Knight were magically paired together for the broadcast...there would still be b*****ing on here about it.

I will take another angle at this thing. Thank you KWWL for finally doing this. Keep it up. Next step is to preempt your NBC feed and show the games on the flagship station so all of the folks without digital signals can watch.

I think both of you are taking the extreme...at least from my opinion on the matter. First, I am very thankful that KWWL and Learfield are on board with UNI. This is a great stride for UNI athletics. That doesn't mean they are beyond critique, however. I also don't believe (nor do I think most believe) that Rick "hates UNI". As has been said, he is an Iowa grad and he follows Iowa very closely and it shows in his newscasts and also the telecast the other night. He has every right to be an Iowa fan...although I think we would all like the local sports guy to actually know a little more and give some better props to the local team...UNI. However, when it comes to broadcasting UNI games on the UNI network, having Rick Coleman do the color is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. I think they can and should try to find a person vested in UNI to do the games on the UNI network...that only makes sense. If Bobby Knight and / or Jim Nance were doing the game on CBS or ESPN I would expect a more even analysis of both teams. If, however, they are doing the game on the UNI network I would expect the same thing I am expecting of Rick Coleman or anyone else that does color commentary. When Bob Hogue (sp?) did the games on the Iowa Television Network back in the '80's he put a very good light on Iowa...as he should have. Had he been an Ohio State supporter who knew more about tOSU and showed as much with annecdotes during the Iowa v. tOSU games, Iowa fans (me included at that time in my life) would have been put off by it. All many of us are saying and wanting is a UNI person to do UNI broadcasts on the UNI network. I really don't think that is too much to ask.

[TommyT]

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Wow....this is unbelievable. While I agree that there seemed to be a "slight" bias with the commentary of the last game, have we become this fickle of a fanbase? A local station FINALLY buys into broadcasting a healthy chunk of our games (albeit on a digital subchannel) and yet the first thing we do is start to rip apart the men they assigned to it. I have a feeling if somehow Jim Nance and Bob Knight were magically paired together for the broadcast...there would still be b*****ing on here about it.

I will take another angle at this thing. Thank you KWWL for finally doing this. Keep it up. Next step is to preempt your NBC feed and show the games on the flagship station so all of the folks without digital signals can watch.

#1 Screw Jim "there are too many mid-major's in the tournament" Nance.

#2 We should feel lucky that they put any product out for us? I guess that putting 6 games on tv for a team that has been to the NCAA's 4 times in 6 years should be a no-brainer, but thank KWWL for putting their people on without asking them if they really know anything about the team they are broadcasting for.

[Cat80]

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Cat80

kaboom

Basketball and football are different equations. Different divisions. However, I must admit it would have been a better story had the Hawks defeated Northwestern. We must have different definitions of what it takes for each of us to 'feel sorry' for someone or something.

[JayJ79]

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off topic, but someone mentioned the SI cover (might have been in another thread).

Every time I stop into HyVee (which is numerous times each week), I see their display chock full of the SI issue touting the Hawkeye's "perfect season".

And I'm fairly certain they haven't sold a single issue off that display.

[Newsbreaker]

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off topic, but someone mentioned the SI cover (might have been in another thread).

Every time I stop into HyVee (which is numerous times each week), I see their display chock full of the SI issue touting the Hawkeye's "perfect season".

And I'm fairly certain they haven't sold a single issue off that display.

That was a perfect storm. The first pressing sold out almost instantly, and then something like 50,000 copies were sent to Iowa.

By the time they got here, the team had lost.

[JayJ79]

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That was a perfect storm. The first pressing sold out almost instantly, and then something like 50,000 copies were sent to Iowa.

By the time they got here, the team had lost.

still funny.

[Newsbreaker]

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ISU finds a way to put their game against Iowa on network TV stations in HD. We can't get ours to most of the state. Incredible.