Another thriller in Iowa City

[arealcat]

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If you have the extra $100 laying around and are willing to part with it, why not donate it anyway for the betterment of UNI athletics? I'm assuming you'd rather use it for some hawkeye coozies and skinny jeans, however.

[1988]

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If you have the extra $100 laying around and are willing to part with it, why not donate it anyway for the betterment of UNI athletics? I'm assuming you'd rather use it for some hawkeye coozies and skinny jeans, however.

[Panther Fan]

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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

While it doesn't exactly say its why he cancelled UNI, this still is an intersesting quote given their current schedule-

“Once our program continues to improve, then you want to take them all on. You want to play, if you can get a home-and-home with Kansas or a Duke or a Carolina or a UCLA, Kentucky, anybody like that, get TV games, you’ve got to do that. You’ve got to see what your team is capable of doing and test them during the year and get your program exposure on national television.”

What "TV games" do they have outside the exempt tourney every school plays in and the ND game that's part of ACC challenge?

My browser is just showing gazette.com but it's an article from 10/17/11.

[9YRPLAN]

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I am going to spend my $100 on 1/3 of a pair of skinny jeans. Because I can.

[9YRPLAN]

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While it doesn't exactly say its why he cancelled UNI you his still is an intersesting quote given their current schedule-

“Once our program continues to improve, then you want to take them all on. You want to play, if you can get a home-and-home with Kansas or a Duke or a Carolina or a UCLA, Kentucky, anybody like that, get TV games, you’ve got to do that. You’ve got to see what your team is capable of doing and test them during the year and get your program exposure on national television.”

What "TV games" do they have outside the exempt tourney every school plays in and the ND game that's part of ACC challenge?

My browser is just showing gazette.com but it's an article from 10/17/11.

Isu will usually be a good match up. Fran hasn't even made the tournament yet. you say "except" as if those games don't count or something.

[Mudrafan]

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While it doesn't exactly say its why he cancelled UNI, this still is an intersesting quote given their current schedule-

“Once our program continues to improve, then you want to take them all on. You want to play, if you can get a home-and-home with Kansas or a Duke or a Carolina or a UCLA, Kentucky, anybody like that, get TV games, you’ve got to do that. You’ve got to see what your team is capable of doing and test them during the year and get your program exposure on national television.”

What "TV games" do they have outside the exempt tourney every school plays in and the ND game that's part of ACC challenge?

My browser is just showing gazette.com but it's an article from 10/17/11.

McFran is a "take your marbles & go home" type of guy. If he can't get Duke to return his call, he then goes & schedules NC Asheville instead. It's all garbage, all talk. Their schedule (outside of the Bahama tourney they fell into) is a momumental joke. And it's irrelevant what their schedule strength meter or whatever that reads. All you have to do is look down the list of games. Pure comedy.

[Panther Fan]

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Isu will usually be a good match up. Fran hasn't even made the tournament yet. you say "except" as if those games don't count or something.

Wait, I thought last year’s NIT run was the beginning of Iowa being good again?

Nothing on Iowa’s schedule represents “getting TV” games. Most programs play in an exempt tournament and the ACC/Big Ten challenge was set already set in 2011, along with playing Iowa State every year. So from the time Fran made that quote, about two months before a cop had to escort him off the McCleod Center floor, the other 8 games that were put on the schedule for this year were with opponents who have an average RPI of 198. And that’s benefiting from higher than normal RPI’s for UNO and Drake.

The coach who should get the most credit for Iowa’s SOS that you keep referring to is Fred Hoiberg. And playing in Ames was also a plus.

I understand that coaches need to balance their schedule, and you can't play Duke every game, but 8 games where you should have a comfortable half time lead is not great.

[9YRPLAN]

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This topic is reaching Iowa state levels of butthurt and little brother syndrome.

[Mudrafan]

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9-yr nerd...quit defending Iowa. This is not a freaking Iowa board! No one cares about Iowa here & no one gives a damn what your opinion of them is. Go defend them on the Iowa board...not here.

[Panther Fan]

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This topic is reaching Iowa state levels of butthurt and little brother syndrome.

Wouldn't be a discussion of Iowa unless 9YR is faced with facts and responds with his butthurt comment.

You stay classy Hawk fans.

[9YRPLAN]

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9-yr nerd...quit defending Iowa. This is not a freaking Iowa board! No one cares about Iowa here & no one gives a damn what your opinion of them is. Go defend them on the Iowa board...not here.

Except the person who started this thread and those that responded, right?

From what I've gathered, Iowa isn't good because they haven't played anyone, but yet they are good enough that they should be scheduling games with blue bloods. Makes sense.

[Catmandoo]

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I think Iowa has a very good team this year. Probably 4th best in the Big Ten, which should be the best or second-best conference in the country. They deserve a national ranking and although I dislike Fran, he's done a good job with this team.

That being said, with a schedule that includes NC Wilmington, Nebraska-Omaha, Maryland Eastern Shore, Abilene Christian, Penn, Fairleigh Dickinson and Arkansas Pine Bluff, if I were Fran I'd be embarassed and if I were a Hawkeye season ticket holder I'd be pissed. There's no reason to have 7 of those games on the schedule. I can't believe they didn't learn their lesson a year ago when they were left out of the NCAA tournament because of their weak non-conference strength of schedule. That's just piss poor administration to me.

[95UNIGRAD]

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I think Iowa has a very good team this year. Probably 4th best in the Big Ten, which should be the best or second-best conference in the country. They deserve a national ranking and although I dislike Fran, he's done a good job with this team.

That being said, with a schedule that includes NC Wilmington, Nebraska-Omaha, Maryland Eastern Shore, Abilene Christian, Penn, Fairleigh Dickinson and Arkansas Pine Bluff, if I were Fran I'd be embarassed and if I were a Hawkeye season ticket holder I'd be pissed. There's no reason to have 7 of those games on the schedule. I can't believe they didn't learn their lesson a year ago when they were left out of the NCAA tournament because of their weak non-conference strength of schedule. That's just piss poor administration to me.

Very true. And 9 yr., there isn't any "little brotherism" or whatever you want to call it going on here. People are very correctly pointing out that Iowa didn't want to come play us every year anymore because they were going to "beef up their schedule", and now they're continuing to play patsies and pad their record before the Big Ten schedule. Stop defending something that isn't defensible; it makes you sound like a desperate homer.

[Mudrafan]

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And yet...9-yr nerd continues to sit on this message board....day after day after day after day...watching for anything negative to be posted about his beloved Squaks. Then he pounces on it immediately. As soon as he is called an Iowa fan, he resorts to the dual-talk nonsense. Kick his ass off the board already so we can get back to discussing Panther athletics which is what this message board's name is.

[TH1974]

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And yet...9-yr nerd continues to sit on this message board....day after day after day after day...watching for anything negative to be posted about his beloved Squaks. Then he pounces on it immediately. As soon as he is called an Iowa fan, he resorts to the dual-talk nonsense. Kick his ass off the board already so we can get back to discussing Panther athletics which is what this message board's name is.

Wait. I thought you were going to leave years ago.