you're right, thank goodness I dont settle for vastly underperforming
Bill Fennelly
- Thread starter AltoonaFish
- Start date
Man, after reading that, can’t really argue that it’s been pretty mediocre for 15 years. How much mileage can you get from the “300 fans in 1996” argument? It’s been 30 years!
I don't see Bill going out that way and second if he quit midseason, you just name an interim to finish out the season and do your coaching search after the season is over and qualified candidates are available to talk.
This is my concern that in September he retires for medical reasons.
Not exactly a fair comparison but I get where you are going with it. Fran never took Iowa to a Sweet 16. If you include 2010 ISU WBB has been to 2 Sweet 16's.
I don't disagree that the results have been lackluster lately and the program is at a point where it needs a reset. However, as long as Audi and AJ stay (I am hoping there aren't too many more leaving especially keeping Addy and Jada would be important) you give Bill this last season as a farewell and hit the reset button when we were already going to be do that with the roster regardless with all the juniors we had this season.
I think some may be going a bit off the deep end with where the WBB has been at over the past 10 years. Especially now in the NIL area there is an even bigger gap between the top 8 or so programs in the country to the teams in the 15-25ish range. The schools that spend a lot of NIL money are the same teams that were already competing for national titles over the past decade or so. ISU is never going to compete in that group as we will never be able to commit that kind of NIL money. You are seeing lately in the men's game what happens when blueblood schools have to compete with other programs that can compete with them in NIL. The playing field is more even in the men's game currently but pretty much the opposite has happened in the women's game as the gap seems to be growing not shrinking. Bottom line would you rather ISU use it's already limited NIL funds to compete more in WBB or use that to stay competitive while not using that towards FB and MBB? It sucks but that is just reality at this point.
May as well rip the Band-Aid off now and start to rebuild... Bill will be leaving sometime sooner rather than later anyway.
(No, I'm not trying to be a Bill hater or discredit his accomplishments)
(No, I'm not trying to be a Bill hater or discredit his accomplishments)
I don't think that unless some medical issue comes up he would not do that. Even though we have not had the success the last few years many of us want I feel Bill has a great love for ISU and our program.
Great comeback. Without refuting the facts obviously.
I assume you're referring to the 1 random reddit user who says 12 players told Bill they're leaving?
Quartet of Cyclones enter transfer portal
Four members of the 2025-26 Iowa State women’s basketball will look to play basketball outside of Ames for the 2026-27 season. The quartet tallied a combined 1,012 minutes over the course of the season. Johnston native Aili Tanke, a 5-11 sophomore guard, entered the portal Monday evening. Over...
What facts? Good comeback from a dork who’s a newbie
CycloneErik
Well-Known Member
So are the portal announcements fake news?Quartet of Cyclones enter transfer portal
Four members of the 2025-26 Iowa State women’s basketball will look to play basketball outside of Ames for the 2026-27 season. The quartet tallied a combined 1,012 minutes over the course of the season. Johnston native Aili Tanke, a 5-11 sophomore guard, entered the portal Monday evening. Over...sports.yahoo.com
No, but they sure don't look like anything out of the ordinary anywhere.
Chipping away at a good legacy because pollard isn't going to hire your son... Rough way for it to end
I heard Addy told Bill in his office. He just sat there and shook his head with his arms crossed.
This is feeling like the Bud Kilmer halftime locker room scene.
I have a request. Let’s try something different recruiting wise? Maybe like recruit athletic players and a couple shooters. Versus an entire roster of the same thing.
I see Addy is out. Are we talking more starters or just the reserves already announced?
