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Post by Yotes on Mar 14, 2017 16:16:11 GMT -6
I'm glad his Twitter profile has the disclaimer about not being president of the NCAA. |
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Post by Yotes on Mar 14, 2017 16:21:57 GMT -6
Wow!. Well, Iowa averaged over 13,800 per game last year (#19 in the country), so I guess its not THAT surprising. Although, often a large conference school in the NIT is disappointed, and attendance suffers. Obviously not the case here. Will be a tough environment! I'm going to make a sweeping generalization based off the one friend I have who is an Iowa fan. They don't ever seem bothered to participate in the NIT or crap bowl games, that is if they make a bowl in the given year. It's never an expectation to be among the best and just falling short of the NCAA tournament is more the natural order of things rather than failing to meet expectations that could have been set the past few years. Basically, this isn't Kentucky we're talking about here. |
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Post by iowaguy on Mar 14, 2017 19:50:33 GMT -6
With as young as Iowa is, most level headed fans expected NIT. Sure there are a few psycho's who are losing their minds that Iowa isn't in the NCAA's and want the coach fired. But that is a vocal minority.
Now next year is a different story. If NIT next year attendance will suffer.
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Post by usdtator on Mar 14, 2017 20:11:07 GMT -6
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Post by iowaguy on Mar 14, 2017 20:17:45 GMT -6
Wow!. Well, Iowa averaged over 13,800 per game last year (#19 in the country), so I guess its not THAT surprising. Although, often a large conference school in the NIT is disappointed, and attendance suffers. Obviously not the case here. Will be a tough environment! I'm going to make a sweeping generalization based off the one friend I have who is an Iowa fan. They don't ever seem bothered to participate in the NIT or crap bowl games, that is if they make a bowl in the given year. It's never an expectation to be among the best and just falling short of the NCAA tournament is more the natural order of things rather than failing to meet expectations that could have been set the past few years. Basically, this isn't Kentucky we're talking about here. Ok. I've seen the douche-baggery of USD fandom. Does anyone care to have a respectful conversation about the game tomorrow or just juvenile insults based on nothing but "generalizations based on one friend."? |
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Post by iowaguy on Mar 14, 2017 20:30:10 GMT -6
So now that the children are off to bed, what do you guys think has to happen in order for USD to win Wednesday night?
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Post by yoteforever on Mar 14, 2017 20:45:46 GMT -6
As I stated earlier, if Iowa comes in "down" because they felt they should have been in NCAA tourney, and USD plays defense the way we have the latter part of the year, I think it's going to be a hell of a game. If Iowa is firing on all cylinders then it's going to be a long night for USD.
Mooney is tough. Carlton Hurst will be given the task to try and lock down Jok, who is a fabulous player. Hurst is tough. The bottom line is this: USD is a decent team that can cause matchup problems for Iowa IF Iowa isn't sharp.
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Post by yoteforever on Mar 14, 2017 20:46:50 GMT -6
By the way iowaguy, thanks for coming here and wanting to engage in two way talk about the game. Good stuff.
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Post by Yotes on Mar 14, 2017 20:46:54 GMT -6
I'm going to make a sweeping generalization based off the one friend I have who is an Iowa fan. They don't ever seem bothered to participate in the NIT or crap bowl games, that is if they make a bowl in the given year. It's never an expectation to be among the best and just falling short of the NCAA tournament is more the natural order of things rather than failing to meet expectations that could have been set the past few years. Basically, this isn't Kentucky we're talking about here. Ok. I've seen the douche-baggery of USD fandom. Does anyone care to have a respectful conversation about the game tomorrow or just juvenile insults based on nothing but "generalizations based on one friend."? Expectations at Iowa aren't sky high, and being in the NIT isn't a disappointment for the program. Tell me I'm wrong. Someone stated that attendance may be below regular season numbers because it is just the NIT, but my exposure to the program suggests this isn't much of a letdown for the fans. I was open with my one-person sample size, I'm sorry if that's enough to set you off. |
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Post by iowaguy on Mar 14, 2017 20:56:40 GMT -6
Ok. I've seen the douche-baggery of USD fandom. Does anyone care to have a respectful conversation about the game tomorrow or just juvenile insults based on nothing but "generalizations based on one friend."? Expectations at Iowa aren't sky high, and being in the NIT isn't a disappointment for the program. Tell me I'm wrong. Someone stated that attendance may be below regular season numbers because it is just the NIT, but my exposure to the program suggests this isn't much of a letdown for the fans. I was open with my one-person sample size, I'm sorry if that's enough to set you off. When you use the terms "crap bowl games" and "NIT isn't disappointment enough" I think we all know what you meant, |
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Post by iowaguy on Mar 14, 2017 20:59:05 GMT -6
By the way iowaguy, thanks for coming here and wanting to engage in two way talk about the game. Good stuff. Thanks, I always enjoy hearing things from another perspective. I know every fanbase has its............degenerates. Good luck to you guys. I really think it's going to be a helluva game. |
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Post by yotebewithyou on Mar 14, 2017 22:01:53 GMT -6
So now that the children are off to bed, what do you guys think has to happen in order for USD to win Wednesday night? Mooney will have to go for 20-25, Flack will need to stay out of foul trouble and be hitting his jumpers (15 pts), Dickerson will need to hit some shots early and not try to do too much (he usually sits the final 10 minutes of the 2nd half). Tyler Hagedorn will need to hit some shots too. It's basically going to take our 3 best players having their best (or close to it) games of the year. I think the team is definitely focused though and I think the game will be decided in the last 10 minutes. I swear to god if we lose because we can't hit free throws down the stretch I'm going to turn into Coyote Fan |
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Post by usdcoyote on Mar 14, 2017 22:12:21 GMT -6
By the way iowaguy, thanks for coming here and wanting to engage in two way talk about the game. Good stuff. Thanks, I always enjoy hearing things from another perspective. I know every fanbase has its............degenerates. Good luck to you guys. I really think it's going to be a helluva game. Really looking forward to the game. I've been an Iowa fan since the days of BJ Armstrong, Roy marble, and Ed Horton. Iowa was playing really good at the end of the year, minus the big 10 tourney. Obviously we need an off game from Iowa in order to pull this off. Iowa might not be Kentucky but they aren't Rutgers either. Iowa has had some really successful teams. I will be shocked if they aren't in the big dance the next several years. |
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Post by kiyoat on Mar 15, 2017 7:27:22 GMT -6
By the way iowaguy, thanks for coming here and wanting to engage in two way talk about the game. Good stuff. Thanks, I always enjoy hearing things from another perspective. I know every fanbase has its............degenerates. Good luck to you guys. I really think it's going to be a helluva game. Personally, I didn't see anything that inflammatory in Yotes' post. He was basically saying the same thing you were: That Iowa fans will show up well for an NIT game because they don't consider themselves "too good" for the NIT, or are "shocked" that they fell to the NIT. Not a huge insult, IMO. I don't consider Yotes a "degenerate" or part of the "douchebaggery of USD fandom" as you have called him. If you're not careful we might mistake you for one of the thin-skinned Rabbit fans we deal with on this board. Thanks for the contributions, though. |
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Post by Yote 53 on Mar 15, 2017 7:43:58 GMT -6
Wow!. Well, Iowa averaged over 13,800 per game last year (#19 in the country), so I guess its not THAT surprising. Although, often a large conference school in the NIT is disappointed, and attendance suffers. Obviously not the case here. Will be a tough environment! I'm going to make a sweeping generalization based off the one friend I have who is an Iowa fan. They don't ever seem bothered to participate in the NIT or crap bowl games, that is if they make a bowl in the given year. It's never an expectation to be among the best and just falling short of the NCAA tournament is more the natural order of things rather than failing to meet expectations that could have been set the past few years.Basically, this isn't Kentucky we're talking about here. What? You could not be more wrong with that statement. The expectation at Iowa is to win the division, contend for conference titles, and a NYD bowl game in football. In basketball it was the NCAA tournament, every year. That was until the Todd Lickliter era when he destroyed the program. Fran is building the program back and had them up as high as a top 5 ranked team as recently as last season. As for this year's basketball team, Iowa fans expected a rebuilding year as the team is very young. An NIT bid was expected, an NCAA bid would have been gravy this season, and they almost got one if they had not been robbed by bad officiating in the Minnesota game. They were in the last 4 out and a win against Minnesota would have probably put them on the other side of the bubble. The Yotes are going to have their hands full tonight. Flack has to have a good game, Mooney is going to need to go off, and there will need to be a big time contribution from another player to beat Iowa and advance in the NIT. |
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