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Relax, Hawkeye fans

You are going to get a very good men's basketball coach within the next week or so.

How do I know this? I don't. But I do know that Iowa is paying Parker Executive Search a healthy sum to help facilitate this process. Dan Parker, the boss of that Atlanta firm, steered Tubby Smith from Kentucky to Minnesota. You may have noticed that no one has confused Minnesota with Kansas or North Carolina when it comes to basketball.

The Bruce Pearl stuff was fluff. The Rick Majerus stuff was Majerus-induced, whether Majerus cops to it or not. This is a big country, and the Big Ten still carries a lot of weight in coaching circles. The person that takes the Iowa job won't necessarily come from a mid-major. He could be in the Big East or SEC or ACC right now. And if he is from a mid-major, that doesn't mean he won't be a terrific coach.

Iowa got from under Steve Alford's contract, and with the prospect of another 3,000 or so tickets per game being snapped up next season just on good feelings alone, Iowa will have money to spend on a coach. I don't doubt it will be a good one. Relax and wait. Next season doesn't start for another seven months, anyway.
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