Barta sez decision on in-state basketball games could come soon

['70 Grad]

Re: Barta sez decision on in-state basketball games could come soon

[QUOTE=9YRPLAN;321914]they do not see the benefit of a big ten school traveling to an MVC school. it is still a perceived net negative...as a big ten school they are expected to win, and a loss looks bad.
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Thanks. This is a rational reason. I don't like it, but it is part of "you get to make your own schedule."

Nice to be able to afford to have as your #1 scheduling criteria = wins. No need to worry about ticket sales. Just another example of the rich slanting things to get richer (unless/until the revolution).

I used to also root for Iowa/ISU & even went to some bowl games before UNI started to make the playoffs. Now I am almost to the point of rooting against them, regardless of who they are playing.

*Longing for the days way back when, when ALL teams played basically half of their games on the road.*

[9YRPLAN]

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i dont know that the recent trend is necessarily bad though. the big boys will fill up the stadium regardless of opponent (especially early in the year), and the smaller FBS/FCS schools get important paychecks, a fun road trip, and a cool experience for the players.

['70 Grad]

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Agreed. But wouldn't (say a MAC school) make about the same with a home/home contract with a B1G TEN school. It would liven up their home schedule. One less travel date, charge a premium ticket price. The beer retailers, etc. in Iowa City would be unhappy, though!

[panther2317]

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The "Small-timed by officials"conversation shows the ignorance of all Iowa fans who believe that crap. Those were Big Ten officials.

That kind of BS is why even casual UNI fans throw up in their mouth a little when Hawk fans speak. I wish Iowa fan would just be able to say, "we got beat by a better team". They always have an excuse. It's cute how it's always that they played like crap,someone was hurt or the officials fault. It's never that they lost to a better team.

[Mudrafan]

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This is all contrived by Fran. There was a point in the game where he figured out that they were not going to win. He started to shift the blame from his team to everything else. UNI playing rough, refs against him, they are playing on the road, why are they playing on the road? Fran thinks they are a B10 team so how dare they have to play on the road. He started playing the leverage card. In reality, it makes him look like a pussy. He got together w/ Barta to ensure they schedule 12 non-conference wins from here on out. They scheduled the absolute bottom feeders of college basketball. This is done to build up false hope. It is a sure sign of a lack of character by him. Similar to UNI grads that are Iowa fans & turn their noses at their alma mater. They do it because it is easier. In reality, it is a character flaw.

[9YRPLAN]

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john higgins did twice as many MVC games as big ten games last year. he was the main issue for fran.

[9YRPLAN]

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This is all contrived by Fran. There was a point in the game where he figured out that they were not going to win. He started to shift the blame from his team to everything else. UNI playing rough, refs against him, they are playing on the road, why are they playing on the road? Fran thinks they are a B10 team so how dare they have to play on the road. He started playing the leverage card. In reality, it makes him look like a pussy. He got together w/ Barta to ensure they schedule 12 non-conference wins from here on out. They scheduled the absolute bottom feeders of college basketball. This is done to build up false hope. It is a sure sign of a lack of character by him. Similar to UNI grads that are Iowa fans & turn their noses at their alma mater. They do it because it is easier. In reality, it is a character flaw.

fran saw that it was a tie game and decided that it was over?

[UNIpanther99]

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Higgins lives in Omaha, so naturally he's going to work a few more MVC games than Big Ten. He is a highly respected national official who has the experience, seniority, and reputation to dictate where he will or won't go and how often. Unlike a new guy who pretty much has to go where they send him to get games. The Big Ten would probably love to have Higgins for several more games a year if they could.

Until Fran gets his "T" count down to something approaching normal numbers, he has no business criticizing officials or impugning their integrity. Hasn't he had more T's than the other Big Ten coaches combined the past couple years?

[PantherHawk]

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Bo Boroski or something like that did the game as well and he was a Big Ten official. He and Fran had a odd relationship since that game, idk why?

Regardless this decision was not Fran's calling, it was Barta getting pressure from the Donors in Des Moines. Several of them wanted a game in the Wells Fargo Arena and they even wanted to move the ISU game there for a while.

Regardless it sucks, it should be a tournament if anything, not this two game BS, allow each school to play each other and see who has the best record when its all said done. Split the money evenly.

[9YRPLAN]

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i dont know, i dont care. some coaches clap, some yell. it happens everywhere at every level. fran has been successful, jake has been successful.

i was just clarifying the comments made above..it was higgins that had the major problem with fran, and i highly doubt that after iowa cut a 7 point deficit to 1 point with 9 minutes left in the first half that Fran suddenly decided that he wasnt going to win.

plus i get sick of refs wanting to be the center of attention. college basketball is the worst, and higgins is the poster child in waiting after hightower retires.

[clenz]

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i dont know, i dont care. some coaches clap, some yell. it happens everywhere at every level. fran has been successful, jake has been successful.

i was just clarifying the comments made above..it was higgins that had the major problem with fran, and i highly doubt that after iowa cut a 7 point deficit to 1 point with 9 minutes left in the first half that Fran suddenly decided that he wasnt going to win.

plus i get sick of refs wanting to be the center of attention. college basketball is the worst, and higgins is the poster child in waiting after hightower retires.

I get sick of coaches that feel they need to be the center of attention and try to show the ref up, giving refs a reason (though they still shouldn't) to call the game even slightly impartially....

[9YRPLAN]

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I get sick of coaches that feel they need to be the center of attention and try to show the ref up, giving refs a reason (though they still shouldn't) to call the game even slightly impartially....

how do you watch college basketball?

[PantherHawk]

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College basketball is getting worse! Coaches need to lighten up and relax a little bit, Fran isn't the only coach in america getting technicals. NCAA needs to come down with some sort of system if a coach is out of line. I am sorry but seeing Bo Ryan yell at teddie V "get the **** out of my face" on national tv is not really something kids should be watching. Also the Pee Wee coach doesn't need to see that, because then he feels he can talk to officials that way as well.

But also the NCAA needs to get some new blood in there. I am sorry the Teddie Valentine, Eddie Hightowers of the world need to go. Some of these coaches see these guys 10-15 times a year! That is way too many times, and I believe some of these officials have sort leashes during the end of the year, because they are getting sick of the coaches. The NCAA needs to get some younger guys in officiating and move some of those guys around.

it is nice to see College football is finally taking steps to control the coaches, with the sideline rule. Hopefully some coaches will see that and control themselves.

[BCPanther]

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john higgins did twice as many MVC games as big ten games last year. he was the main issue for fran.

Higgins does more Big XII games than anything. Also, the Big Ten assigned the officials for that game, not UNI or the Valley.

[06panther10]

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Also Fran earned every single thing he got in that game. He practically begged for it. Every ref would have reacted the same exact way. Fran has earned every bit of his reputation, and its going to continue to follow him around as long as acts the way he does during games. Act like a disrespectful petulant child, you are going to get treated like one.

Also, it probably doesn't help his personal reputation, nor the reputation of his program when he then goes on to do what he did in the postgame conferences, insinuating that it was the officiating that cost Iowa the game.