Good to know that teams always live up to their talent. Oops, guess JP should have been fired after this year's 1st round exit?
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Good to know that teams always live up to their talent. Oops, guess JP should have been fired after this year's 1st round exit?
I've said this in other threads, but there's no reason why ISU should not settle for a proven coach already. If we hire TJ, then we are perhaps accepting mediocrity. No offense to him, but we need someone to come in who has already proven themselves. The ISU job is definitely more attractive than it was 5 or 6 years ago, and there's no way it can't get some attention from some better names.
I want to care about the coaching search but I just can't make myself. With the way this has all played out it's hard not to just concede that the program will go back downhill, although I really hope that's not the case.
Who do you suggest? Its pointless to say "don't hire TJ" without giving other realistic options.
I understand your sentiment here, but you're also letting your emotions get in the way of something that should be more objective if you were working for the ISU athletic department. if JP is any bit intelligent, he will go after a proven coach.
Let's start with Archie Miller. The guy makes less than $700K/year now and took Dayton to the Elite 8 a few years ago beating Ohio State, Stanford, and Syracuse. He was an assistant at Arizona for a few years - his last year they had 30 wins. and went to the Elite Eight.
You could double this guy's current salary and still be $700K - 800K under what Hoiberg was being paid.
If you wanted to pay more money, then I'd seriously consider someone like Jeff Hornacek too.
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Yup, he would turn down 3 Million a year to coach at Florida, to take 2.5(maybe) to coach at Iowa State. Seems like that will happen.
Dollar Bill = Pyramid = Memphis = Josh Pastner
Eagle = (too many) = (too many)
Washington = Romar (or Ernie Kent for WSU)
Did I miss any?
Admittedly, I have not been paying attention to that. However, what exactly is the reason for him turning down Florida?
From: http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2015/05/08/what-florida-not-hiring-uds-archie-miller-for.html
“I know that Archie understands he has a very special situation at Dayton and that it will not be left behind lightly,” Mike DeCourcy, long-time college basketball columnist for Sporting News, told me Friday morning. “It’s unrealistic, though, to think there are not positions that would compel him to think seriously about moving on. It’s impossible to say when one of those jobs might open.”
Understand teams don't always perform to their potential. If next years team is consistently underachieving, this board will be alive with criticism, by people who know more about the game than me. Reference BDJ this year, people surmised their was a problem, but the team and Fred handled it internally. Experts will know, with the players we have coming back, an underachieving problem within the team, not because a team gets lucky and upsets them. We know we have a top ten team, JP needs to give them the tools and support to succeed to their own stated level, I was giving him a chance to correct course, others have said its success or bust for JP, so be it, but lets give next years team the support they need to succeed!
Another one and I don't know how this would be but I'm going to throw it out. Tim Cluess of Iona. They averaged 80 points/game last year. His 5 years at Iona have all had 20+ win seasons and made the NCAA tournament a few of those times. He has a lot of NYC connections as well. Kind of an unknown but would be interesting. He'd probably make a really good assistant.
Has there been any discussion of Mark Jackson in other threads? I would imagine he wants to get back into coaching and I haven't heard his name seriously tied to other NBA jobs. Maybe not, just throwing something out there
I like how the next coach has to make the sweet 16 with this team that Hoiberg left. However, Fred could not even get past the field of 64 with this team. So JP is in trouble if he hires a guy that stuggles his first year. What if the new guy wins the big 12 tourney and gets a 3 seed and loses in the first round? JP deserves fired?
@BobbyLaGesse: Who are the candidates to replace Fred Hoiberg? http://t.co/yITj48yexK http://t.co/EUxJZp21k1
So TJ isn't a proven coach but you know he's mediocre? It's like you guys don't know that these "proven" coaches at mid majors are also huge gambles.
here's hoping in five years that we're laughing at these posts like we laugh at the people who hated the hoiberg hire.
