I was putting out the obviousness of your friend's statement. The fact you didn't pick up on that isn't a good look for Iowa.
And your poor seeing has nothing to do with the Big Ten, it has to do with the talent (or lack there of) in the Iowa program. If it was truly because of how tough the Big Ten was, you would have made it past the first weekend once in the last two decades.
Heck you were given a 3 seed in the 2000s and lost in the first round. But that's because of how good the Big Ten is, right?
no that lost was the result of how bad a coach Alfraud was, 2 year later he gotta outta Iowa has fast as he could.
then they hired Licklighter only to see the team sink even lower that it ever was in it history as he avg'd 5 BT wins per season in his 3 years,
apathy had hit a career low. the fans were staying away in droves it was so bad that a arena that held 15,500 fans struggled to get 6000 people into the seats.
Fran took over a program that needed to get the fans to support and come to watch the games.
he did that by going from a 4-14 BT 1st season to a 9-9 BT season in his 3rd season, not only did he go from taking aa toxic waste site to winning in 3 years, the 3rd season saw Iowa win 25 games and reach the NIT Championship game, in year 2 he also guided Iowa to a 8-10 BT record and a NIT berth.
in the 2012 class he won a recruiting battle with Roy Williams by keeping top 50 instate Woodbury in state, this after seeing former Iowa players like Barnes and Paige to UNCHEATS.
he also landed top 100 Gesell out of Nebraska who chose Iowa over Stanford and Creighton, he didn't get his next 4* recruit in 16 in Cook, 4* Moss by EXPN and 4* Bohannon by ESPN.
now the Iowa program is getting looked at by the top 100 players where before there was nothing to look at. the program had fallen that low.
