There are two aspects of team sports that are really out of the control of coaches: chemistry and injuries.
While a coach can influence chemistry by who he does and doesn't recruit, injuries are a crap shoot. It also seems like you go relatively unhurt, or you lose someone every time you lace up the sneakers. Ask BF.
I think the difference between the WBB seasons in Ames and IC is injuries. SUI has, for the first time in forever, avoided the "Season ending torn ACL" bug, while ISU has it in spades. Throw in the lack of monsterously good teams in the 1011 (Really, could anyone in the 1011 beat Baylor?) and SUI has a shot at a conference title and a solid NCAA run.
It will be interesting if SUI fan will buy more than 50 tickets to the NCAA regiionals at Wells Fargo after SUI gets placed there. I'm betting it will be 25% of what ISU fans would have bought.
Perhaps next year BF will have better luck with the injury bug.
Peterclone
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