How does Lisa Bluder retiring affect Iowa?

[@giizodamulla7492]

0 chance Stuelke transfers.She is Iowa born and bred and the new coach is part of the reason she developed so much from her freshman year.Lucy Olsen on the other hand could go either way

[@maxpower247]

Good points

[@bwtv147]

And beyond Olsen will Addison Deal still come to Iowa?

[@jaylenbarnes2.079]

I definitely wasn’t expecting Coach Bulder to retire, They should be fine with Jan Jensen as the head coach

[@maxpower247]

It was the last news I expecting to here today for sure

[@renoblomberg4054]

It's possible the Fever will try to pick her up as assistant coach, or the coach to replace Sides. The Fever coach is not doing well with Caitlin. She needs to let Caitlin play her game. Lisa Bruder will do that.

[@turtleislandlac1490]

Yes but Jan is 55. It would have been better for the long term to hire a younger coach. I realize they wanted stability in keeping their transfers and recruits but it's a short term fix.

[@bwtv147]

Impossible to predict. Angie Lee was a good assistant for C. Vivian Stringer but the team fell into malaise when Lee took over as head coach.

[@j.judith8159]

Max, You already said it! If Lisa Bluder & Iowa couldn’t win a natty with Clark; they’re not doing it without Clark and a mid Iowa roster! With Clark Iowa lost back to back championship games. I’ll say it again: Iowa will return to the ranks of the irrelevant, like they were in the pre-Caitlin Clark era.

[@chrisj6express]

Back to regular season and done, won’t even make the conference tournament with the new teams coming in

[@TheDisruptiveOne]

it can't be good for recruiting. Iowa fans really want Brynn McGaughy. I don't see how they can get her now.

[@nr30199]

Good decision she knew she wasn't going anywhere near the National Championship game again. 40 years is a good time to retire

[@rogerhartman5629]

Lisa Bluder is a great coach but Jan Jensen will do a great job too. Iowa will be just fine.

[@drcharliewallace]

Bluder was a good coach, but as you pointed out by her record pre-CC, not a great coach. She probably realized it would take 3-4 years max to get back to the final four as their recruiting has improved because of the CC affect. She probably just didn't want to coach into her late 60s. Makes sense.

[@nigeltufnel775]

A “good coach” with over 800 wins and #11 all time winningest coach.

[@newaulk]

There's only one other Coach for whom Caitlin Clark could have played - Muffet McGraw.

[@jerrysutphin2026]

With Uconn and South Carolina getting all the 5 star players I would quit too. It is a rigged system.

[@mongoslade277]

How is it rigged?? UConn hasn't won anything in 8 years and USC has the #1 recruiting class

[@barrypatrick5512]

Fever fans are calling for Christy Sides to be fired after her comments about CC, now this news…interesting!

[@fohponomalama5065]

Are you thinking Bluder might replace Sides?

[@maxpower247]

I don’t think they would fire her unless she misses the playoffs again. But the timing is weird…

[@JaeRell]

Fever fans? You mean Caitlin Clark fans, lol.

[@chrisj6express]

@@JaeRellexactly

[@glenndavis5349]

Doesn't effect anything.

[@jimstock7459]

Hannah would run circles around big and slow girl.

[@thedoranwilliamsshow6863]

I had not watched the video before the first comment. Now that I have, I believe Stulke and Olsen will stay. Iowa could be a Top 20 team with them. Also, Caitlin Clark was poorly coached. In a perfect world, her 30 foot bombs 💣 would be allowed by ANY coach. Even Geno. The only difference is, they would have to be lightly contested. Otherwise, you pass it off and then reset (A Paige Bueckers special ✨️). Also, she would play better defense, play off the ball and run the baseline as a decoy, become a better (And more frequent) spot up shooter and FOR GOD'S SAKE stop-and-pop on some drives instead of taking an extra dribble into a triple team only to fling the ball towards the rim looking for a foul. Merely decent coaching would've done that. Caitlin Clark would've been a big draw no matter the coach. Only difference is Caitlin at 27ppg, 6asts on 48-42-88splits,m and better defense would've been a much more dangerous weapon than we see now.

[@thedoranwilliamsshow6863]

Good riddance. Bad recruiter and even worse in-game coach. Caitlin Clark was headed to Uconn before deciding last minute to attend iowa. A real coach would've had her commitment before high school. Also, Caitlin Clark ran the team. Should not be like that. Look at the way she plays compared to how Paige Bueckers plays with Geno Auriemma. Two different galaxies. No matter the talent YOU KNOW that's Geno's team. Her control of the team makes Lindsay Gottlieb (No slouch herself in the horrible in game coach pantheon) look like 2005 Greg Popovich. Also, she's mean. For no reason whatsoever many times. She pissed on Ohio State fans and never apologized. Not even to the coach. I was completely out on her after that. On a positive note, players generally outperform their expectations with her. For some reason, Iowa's recent history of player development has been off the charts. And big ups to Lucy Olsen being a huge free-agent (Because that's what the heck it is nowadays) pickup. *Although one could argue that Lucy decided to transfer BECAUSE Bluder is retiring*

[@timsmythfilmsandanimations]

Caitlin was never going to UConn.

[@mongoslade277]

Caitlin Clark almost went to Notre Dame. Not UConn

[@RichardIILionheart]

Your post is so full of falsehoods and poor logic that it refutes itself. The only part that rings true is player development.

[@thedoranwilliamsshow6863]

@@RichardIILionheart Please expound

[@RichardII_Lionheart]

1) Was unable to land top 20 recruits for Iowa, but regularly landed three-stars and some of the top people from Iowa and surrounding states. Upcoming recruiting classes are looking pretty good by historical standards. Had her faults as in-game coach, but not nearly so bad as you make her out to have been. 2) Caitlin was never headed to Connecticut. When she was growing up, the Huskies were cream of the crop in women's basketball. She wanted Geno to recruit her, but he did not because he already had a commitment from Paige. Caitlin actually told Notre Dame she would go there, but changed her mind. 3) Clark was doubtless an outsized presence on the floor. College coaches are all too often control freaks. Bluder let Caitlin be Caitlin most of the time during games while coaching her hard during practices. Do you not think that Phil Jackson gave Michael Jordan more free reign than he gave to Steve Kerr. Same thing with Bluder and Clark. Would Caitlin have scored 3951 points had she played four years at Connecticut? No. But would she have been a better player at the end? Probably not. 4) If you really think that Bluder was not in control of her team, you are an idiot. You are confusing being a leader (which Bluder was) with having to dictate every play (which Bluder did not). 5) I have no idea where this idea of Bluder being mean comes from. I have never heard anyone who knows her, anyone who played for her, say anything remotely suggesting Bluder was a mean person or treated others badly. You say she pissed on Ohio State fans and never apologized. Do you mean when fans stormed the court and one knocked Caitlin to the ground? How is objecting to that "pissing on Ohio State fans"? The OSU athletic director apologized directly to Caitlin for the fans' conduct. Was he also pissing on OSU fans? 6) Finally something you wrote is true, but your compliment is backhanded at best. Yes, Iowa players generally outperform their expectations with Bluder as their coach. Is not the true definition of teaching and coaching: to get people to perform? Even Caitlin, as good as she was coming into college, improved every season to the point where she name is at or near the top of many NCAA records for both individual seasons and for her career. She has coached players to three national player of the year awards. She has three former players currently on WNBA rosters, plus several more playing in Europe. You say Iowa's player development has been off the charts, but for some reason you apparently cannot figure out. The reason is simple. Bluder was an excellent coach who cared about her players as people as well as their basketball performance. 7) One cannot at all reasonably argue that Lucy Olsen decided to transfer to Iowa because Bluder was retiring. No one, not even Bluder, knew she was retiring until after Olsen committed to the transfer. There has been no indication that Olsen has backed off from that commitment, nor that any other recruits for 2024 or 2025 have reconsidered their decisions.