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Originally Posted by hawkeye12345
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.
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Thank you, you are spot on...the only thing that was left behind was a broken program and Iowa hired the wrong coach to replace him. Not a bad coach, just the wrong type, Iowa needed someone who was a proven builder, not one that could step in and continue in a good program because Iowa was fooled by believing it had a "good" program in place. Iowa has many issues exposed when they started losing and it didn't happen overnight.