Readers of the blog will know I stan for Fran McCaffery as much as anyone so this is hardly a case to put McCaffery on the hot seat for the 2019-20 basketball season. Also given Pat McCaffery will be a freshman on the team, it’s difficult to imagine Fran jumping ship before he graduates in 2023. Simply put, it’s difficult to imagine a scenario where Fran is no longer Iowa’s coach before then, barring multiple replays of 2017-18.
Whenever he’s done manning the sidelines of Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the first call Iowa’s athletic director should make needs to be B.