Iowa clearly can’t win without a “big name” coach.

Just a minute.

I’ll admit to hoping Pearl would come to Iowa last spring, but after seeing his credibility go up in smoke coupled with the rebuilding that Fran has already gotten out of the team, Bloodpunch made the right choice. I wouldn’t want Pearl to replace Fran, even if it meant we’d go to the NCAA tournament for sure next year.

Does “Business Insider” just let any schmo write articles a la Bleacher Report?

That made my brain hurt.

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Thats right. You heard it here first!!!

“But if the Hawkeyes finish near the bottom of the Big 10 again, things could change…”

“The desire to return the program to prominence may make the cost of buying out McCaffery and hiring Pearl worthwhile…”

I can do this!!!

“If Tom Izzo is revealed in the next two years to be, in fact, a space alien, that could jeopardize his position as head coach at Michigan State.”

“The giant meteor that may be flaming its way toward earth could cause delays in this year’s Masters golf tournament.”

“Business Insider’s Cork Gaines may in fact be a computer program that generates meaningless, unreported content.”

I guess we’re all supposed to humor him?

And the guy put out a pretty bad album a few years ago, so he’s slowly working his way through failure in all mediums:

Gaines’s next project? An inaccurate and poor TV show. Somebody get Jon Miller and Steve Deace on the line.

If Iowa hadn’t fired Lickliter last year and had instead stuck with the team this past year with similar results, would anyone be interested in Bruce Pearl?

Seven paragraphs, nineteen sentences. I count at least seven or eight idiotic notions. However, I felt like giving them an official count of five hundred million idiotic notions for one of the worst sentences in the history of the English language.

Still, Iowa has a long history of big-time coaches that includes Lute Olsen, George Raveling and Davis.

Dismiss all facts and look at the shiny names! Look at the shiny names.

Pearls of wisdom.

Which is an oxymoron because he got fired. See what I did there?

That, and the fran-graphs are irreplaceable, so there’s that.

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/274411-tressel-out-meyer-in-at-ohio-state?eref=fromSI&eref=fromSI

Its from the Orland Sentinel. Yes, you’re reading it right. It say’s that Tressel will be out and Urban Meyer will take his job.

its so bad its funny

And former resident of Saint Petersburg, Fl…. I follow his Rays blog, Rays Index, to the tune of daily reads and regular comments. I love the dude when he writes about the Rays. He’s usually very insightful and level headed, but this article… No. Just no. I wouldn’t 100% write him off due to this article, if he decides to start writing about Hawkeye sports more often, I hope he stays away from bullshit articles like this. He would be an excellent Hawkeye blogger if he took the time. And, as mentioned above, he is an Iowa alum, so he may not be 100% disconnected from Hawkeye sports. However, if he wants to be taken seriously as a Hawkeye, he’s going to have to step up his game. At this point, I think Cork will have to deal with this Hawkeye/Rays fan reading only his Rays material.