Wow what an interesting 24 hours I woke up yesterday morning didn't really think any of it then I got on Hawkeye report and next thing I know people with close sources are saying Lickliter is out. Now I personally was stunned by this I figured with the 4 recruits coming in he would at least get another year but its looking more likely that is not going to happen. So what happened in these meetings with Barta and what players were part of these meetings that may have said they would transfer if Lick was brought back. The thing that really makes me think is if this wasn't true Gary Barta would have said this wasn't true he hasn't said a thing in defense of Lick except for a statement that told us nothing. I think we all have to resign to the fact that on Tuesday Todd Lickliter will be fired as the head Basketball coach at Iowa.
So now where does this leave the basketball program the last two hires we have had gone to the mid major ranks to get a coach and so far both didn't work out. I don't think to many people are going to want to come to Iowa there are a number of options out there and obviously you call the big guys Bruce Pearl and Kevin Stallings but I just don't see them wanting to move down. To me an interesting guy could be Steve Forbes he has great ties to Iowa and is a great recruiter, he is an assistant coach for Bruce Pearl. We could also possibly go with a more experienced guy like Billy Gillesspie who has turned 2 basketball programs around but off the court has his issues, another guy that will probably be fired in the next couple of days is Ernie Kent at Oregon he has always got a lot of players out of the state of Illinois and has a pretty good track record.
For Iowa to be competitive we need to be able to recruit Chicago we aren't that far from there and should be able to get more players here. I guess it will be an interesting few weeks I think Lickliter is out of a job this is the only thing I am about 90 percent sure of if Barta comes out and says he's keeping him I would be stunned. The next thing we will have to figure out is who is going to be our coach and if that coach can get the recruits to stay, and the players on our team to stay this is just a big mess right now I don't know what direction this program should go but it should be interesting to watch. There is a real possibility that if Lickliter is fired players are going to leave but there is also a possibility if he stays that players might leave to. Basically right now we need to just wait and see what happens.
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