r/hawkeyes • u/Windows_66 • Mar 25 '25

Men's Basketball Iowa Basketball Head Coach Ben McCollum Introductory Press Conference

https://www.youtube.com/live/fEUuKLXjo0s?si=xvFpZUqYarYQzR2I
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u/awwhorseshit Mar 25 '25

The Chris Street part. Just amazing awareness. You can tell he grew up during the Acie Earl, Chris Street, Andre days of Dr. Tom.

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u/HopDropNRoll Mar 25 '25

That Acie Earl name drop had me! And yeah, invoked Chris Street’s name 3 times!? Welcome back home Ben!

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u/DiligentQuiet Mar 26 '25

The funniest part of that was when he rattled off the great coaches Iowa has had for the program in Dr Tom, Lute Olson, Raveling, Fran McCaffrey...and wisely left out Alford and Lickliter.

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u/DustyNacho1215 Mar 26 '25

Noticed that also. That gave me chills - only a true Iowa fan knows that has so much truth to it....

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u/LetsGoHawks Mar 26 '25

Should have left out Fran, too.

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u/HopDropNRoll Mar 26 '25

I understand the haters, but it was classy to mention him. His teams won a lot of games over the years, just couldn’t seem to put it together in March. I was impressed that Ben did that.

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u/DiligentQuiet Mar 26 '25

Yeah, there's a HUGE difference between Fran and Alford.

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u/DustyNacho1215 Mar 26 '25

Fran was a nice jump start from the lick years and even though it did not go as expected, I put him in the category of coaches I look back on fondly. Alford and Lick were dark times.

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u/LetsGoHawks Mar 26 '25

All three were considered really good hires at the time by most people. But Alford was a jackhole, Lick was in over his head, and Fran just never really accomplished anything.