Not a bad 4 players. Hand and Gunderson are guards I would take right now. I had classes with Many of them.
Bill Fennelly
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The only thing I get remotely emotional about is the amount of hate and idiocy that appears on here about the WBB program when struggles happen. Trolls crawl out of the woodwork who never post when good things are happening. I’m not passionate about Fennelly AT ALL. I’m passionate about the team and program.
And all three of those players would earn a starting spot in our roster this year. Those girls were tough!
That comment was a compliment compared to your comments regarding the current coaching staff.
I'd say Top 40. We way overstate the attendance as being some sort of secret sauce that will magically draw top regional recruits to ISU. Sure, it can be factor but how often have fans here had to say "How could she choose that other school, they only have a handful of fans in the stands!"
Theresa Becker made less than $40,000 / year and hasn’t been in the public eye for > 30 years. She doesn’t deserve your derision. If you don’t understand the difference between she and CBF, I’m sad for you.
Most of my criticism of CBF begins with a statement of fact. The Fen Faithful don’t appreciate my interpretations and I’m more than happy to play the villain.
Having said that, I’ll be away for a couple weeks. I have year-end staff discussions to schedule, a new work management system to learn and departmental meetings next week. Hopefully the team gets back to their winning ways and discussion returns to more pleasant topics. Go State!
You're the last person that should be telling someone they're being rude on this message board.
Tenderloin withdrawal is a b*tch.
CBF has been good for the women's bb team for so many years. No one can deny that. But some on here say we could do so much worse by giving examples of past coaches. But what about the chances of doing so much better? I just think his time has come. We have a tremendous fan base thanks to him and I beleve we could attract some awfully good coaches here.
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"I am too important and have too much self gratification to attend to. I will be sooooo busy. My genius will be unable to educate you further."
I think we get lots of applicants no doubt. We pay well enough we get some real good applicants. Bill will decide when his time is up. I think he has earned that.
I guess I am cheering on the ladies to be successful regardless who coaches them. I will continue to do that with all our teams.
This is a tough stretch we are seeing right now, we need to get a win Wednesday and build on that. One game at a time, win and survive and hope we get a fresh Addy and AJ back for a run at the end.
I choose to be in Hilton on Wednesday night a cheer on all Cyclones, players and coaches and help them get a W. Hopefully many more Cyclone Fans do the same.
Go Cyclones
Steyer-johnson is a hard listen.
I might be assigning too much philosophical value to an internet argument, but you hit the crux of the issue here. Are you a person who thinks good-but-not-great is worth sustaining at the cost of pursuing excellence? Or are you a person who thinks pursuing excellence is worth risking that baseline (with the chance that baseline remains anyway)?
I think is worth chatting about. BF has literally put ISU on the women’s basketball map. Some would say the game has passed him by and there is evidence to illustrate that. He believes in what he coaches and to a degree he’s right. Producing winning teams year after year is a testament to that. He’s had a lot of success in the Big 12 tournament as well. The big hit is once the team gets to the dance. I have no idea why the struggles appear there when some teams in our conference succeed. The one that always comes to mind is the last time ISU won the conference tournament and then fell flat in the dance. It takes someone at a higher paygrade and a ton more knowledge than me to figure out that type of thing. When I decided to retire I knew it was time to hand over the reins to the next generation. You just “know.” I have to think that’s where BF is right now. In the back of his head he’s thinking of taking this crew, hopefully, to a highly successful climax and then stepping away. The one thing I trust is that JP has a list in his desk drawer of the next head coach. And that list will contain names most of us will be excited about.
Agree with these comments. I just hope that when the change is made the ones on here who are negative posters give that new coach a few years to build the program. It will take time because as has been noted we lose most of the team after next year.
Defensive numbers are going to suffer when anytime the opponent's center roams further than 5 feet from the basket you are playing 5 on 4.
Wow...Mr. Negativity pouring it on...one could ask if being around a board associated with a coach you dislike so much is that traumatic why are you here?
