Saturday, January 08, 2005

Coaching under pressure

No coach in America should be as motivated as Steve Alford.

The rewards for a successful season are twofold: Keep your job in Iowa City and potentially get your dream job in Bloomington.

The bar for "success" is making the NCAA's. Get there and Steve will have his choice of Big Ten jobs.

Miss the NCAA's, and he could be out of work.

So it's amazing that after a great 12-1 start, the Hawkeyes stumble into the Big Ten season losing two games they would have won a month ago.

Not the way to impress the present or future boss.

This should be an interesting diversion the next 8 weeks.

Peterclone

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