Another thriller in Iowa City

[9YRPLAN]

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Mudra, give me some non-elite high major teams that play more than one or two tough road games every season. Given your knowledge of basketball and really anything sports related I'll check back in a week or so.

The bottom line is that it rarely happens and even less so for a team that hasn't made the tourney in 7 years.

[orangetennis]

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who cares???

[Mudrafan]

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who cares???

UNI fans, Iowa fans & pretending dual fans IE: 9-yr

[Geno4UNI]

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I believe the point is that the reasoning that Fran gave to stop the round robin scheduling with UNI & Drake was so Iowa could be freed up to schedule games with the likes of the Dukes and North Carolinas of the world. Maybe he has tried but I doesn't reflect in the scheduling I have seen. It looks more and more like big brother taking his ball and running home because little brother won a few games.

[dan_beeding]

This again?

[9YRPLAN]

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I believe the point is that the reasoning that Fran gave to stop the round robin scheduling with UNI & Drake was so Iowa could be freed up to schedule games with the likes of the Dukes and North Carolinas of the world. Maybe he has tried but I doesn't reflect in the scheduling I have seen. It looks more and more like big brother taking his ball and running home because little brother won a few games.

Feel free to make things up, but the bottom line is that Iowas "embarrassing" schedule has them at 26 in the rpi with a very tough conference schedule coming up.

[BCPanther]

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We should have scheduled like Iowa did this year. There was no reason to play the schedule we did with what we had coming back. Play 8 home games in the non-con and get some wins to build some confidence. Putting this team on the road for a month was a really, really poor decision. I know Jake wants to be in the running for an at-large, but at the same time you have to be in a position to have some momentum going into league play.

I still think we win 11 or 12 league games and finish 2nd or 3rd (because the league is so awful), but if we would have allowed this team to build some confidence and get some wins that number could have been 13 or 14. I expect at least two horrible losses in the league slate that could have been avoided with some confidence building wins.

Why not get with Iowa to schedule on a year like this, they played Fairleigh Dickinson on a Monday, keep them in town and play them on Wednesday. They played UAPB yesterday, why not keep them around and play them tonight??

I like good non-con games too, but its just not realistic to get teams to come here anymore. We've had too much success.

[ubuntuCAT]

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We should have scheduled like Iowa did this year. There was no reason to play the schedule we did with what we had coming back. Play 8 home games in the non-con and get some wins to build some confidence. Putting this team on the road for a month was a really, really poor decision. I know Jake wants to be in the running for an at-large, but at the same time you have to be in a position to have some momentum going into league play.

I still think we win 11 or 12 league games and finish 2nd or 3rd (because the league is so awful), but if we would have allowed this team to build some confidence and get some wins that number could have been 13 or 14. I expect at least two horrible losses in the league slate that could have been avoided with some confidence building wins.

Why not get with Iowa to schedule on a year like this, they played Fairleigh Dickinson on a Monday, keep them in town and play them on Wednesday. They played UAPB yesterday, why not keep them around and play them tonight??

I like good non-con games too, but its just not realistic to get teams to come here anymore. We've had too much success.

Can we afford to buy a bunch of cupcakes?

[BCPanther]

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Can we afford to buy a bunch of cupcakes?

We've shown the ability to buy 3 or 4 in the past. This year we bought one, unless you also want to count the $10k we gave to Coe.

[Geno4UNI]

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Feel free to make things up, but the bottom line is that Iowas "embarrassing" schedule has them at 26 in the rpi with a very tough conference schedule coming up.

Only wish it was made up. It was what Fran said was the reason when they cancelled the series with UNI & Drake. It was on "On Press Row" radio show. Sorry dual flake.

[UNIPNTHR]

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Panther Mens Basketball??????? Nice thread....

[9YRPLAN]

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Only wish it was made up. It was what Fran said was the reason when they cancelled the series with UNI & Drake. It was on "On Press Row" radio show. Sorry dual flake.

No, he didn't. In fact those teams see Iowa as Iowa sees uni. They simply aren't coming to iowa city. You are a lying liar.

[Geno4UNI]

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No, he didn't. In fact those teams see Iowa as Iowa sees uni. They simply aren't coming to iowa city. You are a lying liar.

Typical Iowa a$$hol* fan. Thinks he knows everything and doesn't know s**t.

[Mudrafan]

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Typical Iowa a$$hol* fan. Thinks he knows everything and doesn't know s**t.

He'll continue spewing his rah-rah Iowa nonsense until the admins of this board finally wake up & kick him off. Based on past history, that will never happen as evidently, they are also dualing pianos.

[9YRPLAN]

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If you can produce a legitimate link or quote proving that by monday I will donate another $100 to the PSC