PODCAST: The latest on Fred Hoiberg/the NBA
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that is what I believe too and stated yesterday....just saw some speak of "players wavering" and wondered if I missed anything "real"....I would be shocked if any of our guys, outside of Giourges T don't return
George will be back just read
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st.../?hootPostID=5a7fe0cd6590d4b0aff83c53ab10ec11
If all of this Hoiberg-to-the-NBA drama shakes out to be true, I'm left with questions. I don't mind that Hoiberg's ultimate goal is to coach in the NBA. That's fine--after all, successful people are goal-driven.
However, if that's your goal--and it couldn't have been a secret to Jamie Pollard--then why use your alma mater as nothing more than a stepping stone? If you truly love your university (and hasn't he made noise to that effect?), why would you do that?
Get your handful of years of experience/pad your resume somewhere else--and then jump to your ultimate goal. Don't dump on your university.
I'll take 5 years of Holberg bringing us out of the gutter, making ISU relevant again, winning, and having fun......only to be dumped
Then to not have ever had Holberg be the coach. But that's just me.
Let's be fair, Fred has not dumped on Iowa State. He's put it solidly on the map.
True, getting dumped stings, but we have to be rational about this.
Are you effing kidding me? You would have preferred that Fred resurrected some random program, such as Texas Tech and then went to the NBA?
It hurts that Fred is likely gone. I don't want him to go, but he's leaving the program a much better place than he found it. I'll thank him for that.
There is not a University anywhere that has a lower standing in athletics history than ISU. This will be the last straw for some folk. I'm devastated.
I'm practically to the point where I hope it happens and he finally goes. Even if we dodge it this year, it'll continue to be a yearly cycle, unless he makes some sort of public commitment - which he is unlikely to do.
Winning cures a lot of ills. Specifically, players will come to places and coaches that win, and even with the distractions we'll get some solid players. But it feels like we're just getting lucky with as much as this has to hamper recruiting. Some say it already has considerably.
I just saw Fred Hoiberg in Chicago. He slipped on a banana peel outside of Union Station. He's definitely staying at ISU now...
Roy is from North Carolina, went to school at UNC and was an assistant under Smith...so not a very good analogy given our current situation...
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Entertaining listen.
Agree with most except for Rob's statement that any previous ISU coach coach this group of talent to the Final Four.
Greg McDermott, along with Diante Garrett, Brackins, Justin Hamilton, Lucca Steiger, JVB, and others disagree.
Agree with most except for Rob's statement that any previous ISU coach coach this group of talent to the Final Four.
Greg McDermott, along with Diante Garrett, Brackins, Justin Hamilton, Lucca Steiger, JVB, and others disagree.
I agree but right now if feels like he did it all for the short term and personal gain. The class of 20014 was a bust, 2015 is short on talent and the class of 16 isn't looking to good right now. There is going to be one more year of good times then a lot of rebuilding to do. Granted it is not as bad when he took over but its not leaving the shelves full either.
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