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Originally Posted by JoeHawki
i don't believe alford really dug iowa a big hole. He could recruit. i think he just did not do a very good job of getting his teams ready for games. in some case may have not handled his players very well. He also made some questional moves during games. I think if he had stayed, iowa would have finally made it to the NCAAs on a regular basis. I think if anything Coach Neal was his best recruting job ever. I think their stint with the Lobos, shows that the man can still recruit and is a better coach now, then when he was at iowa. i give neal some of that credit too.
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Are you serious? alford couldn't recruit his way out of a wet paper bag....it was Noodles that could recruit and he wasn't at Iowa early enough to save alfords job.
alford was at Iowa for 10 yrs....10 Mother F'ing Years!!!!!!!! And we made it to the NCAA's twice or was it three times? What makes you think that we would have made it more than 20% of the time going forward? alford and NEAL did a great job of going in to a midmajor and hiring an asst. out of Houston that brought some real nice 3 star and one 4 star players with him. He also took D Gary from Iowa. When you play in a midmajor, one or two players can make a HUGE difference during the regular season but look at his lack of success in the tournaments. In 2008 (1st yr) the team went 24-9 but lost in the 1st round of the
NIT. In 2009, the team went 22-12 and lost in the 2nd round of the
NIT. Last year, the team went 30-5 and still lost in the 2nd round of the NCAAs. That's a ton of success for a midmajor but almost meaningless to a major conference program.
Please stop bringing that clown up or I'm going to have a frickin heart attack.