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Rosenfels as Head Coach?

Gunnerclone said:
...the only shot might be something completely new and untried...

I've realized we can't do the things that 95% of coaches out there do or have experience doing and be successful. We either need some insane recruiting strategy or we need some kind of insane gameplan or we need something that no one has ever seen before. Period.
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Even just having something that is completely different than the other teams in the B12 are running. We're Iowa State. Defenses don't prepare for us in the off-season. They'll be working on how they can use their defense to contain Baylor & TCU & TT. They're preparing their defense against their offenses. So we should run something that they haven't spent weeks fine-tuning their defense to do. Make them implement a completely different game plan against us and we might have a chance.
 
Gunnerclone said:
I'd be fine with it. It's not the optimal but for the situation we're in, the only shot might be something completely new and untried. Pretty much every scenario I run ends up with some guy that ends up being Rhoads 2.0. The Sage scenario returns "this is so ******* crazy it just might work, or fail miserably", but at least it's not Rhoads 2.0.

I've realized we can't do the things that 95% of coaches out there do or have experience doing and be successful. We either need some insane recruiting strategy or we need some kind of insane gameplan or we need something that no one has ever seen before. Period.
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Chuck Pagano will probably be available, he can bring his sweet special teams trick plays to ISU.
 
I like crazy ideas, but I'm not sure how interested Rosenfels is in coaching. He might have found himself an assistant position somewhere if he was interested in coaching. Like Kliff Kingsbury did. Austin Flynn seems interested in coaching, but he has not been moving up the coaching ladder like an ambitious coach might be expected to.
 
Sigmapolis said:
If he had gone the front office or coaching route, like Fred did, I would be all for it. Seems his heart was in media and broadcasting, however. Not the background I would want there.
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Agreed with this. Fred had a goal of becoming a coach and after his playing career, surrounded himself basketball minds. Sage did not. Even then, I would rather go after someone who has a coaching background vs someone who does not. Even though Fred has been the most successful coach JP has hired, he was probably the most criticized at the time of hire because of his lack of coaching experience.
 
thrillcat said:
Even just having something that is completely different than the other teams in the B12 are running. We're Iowa State. Defenses don't prepare for us in the off-season. They'll be working on how they can use their defense to contain Baylor & TCU & TT. They're preparing their defense against their offenses. So we should run something that they haven't spent weeks fine-tuning their defense to do. Make them implement a completely different game plan against us and we might have a chance.
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Should be a prerequisite for the job. When it stops working in 3 years. Reinvent.
 
SCNCY said:
Agreed with this. Fred had a goal of becoming a coach and after his playing career, surrounded himself basketball minds. Sage did not. Even then, I would rather go after someone who has a coaching background vs someone who does not. Even though Fred has been the most successful coach JP has hired, he was probably the most criticized at the time of hire because of his lack of coaching experience.
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To add to the JP comments; with this being possibly his last chance at a hire given how unhappy people are becoming with him, I don't think he can afford a risky hire like Fred was again either at this point.
 
Running a small program with 12 players is a lot different than running a program with 85. I think it can work and you can learn on the fly as a basketball coach but a football coach I'm not so sure. I think he would have to put in some time as an assistant.
 
I want a head coach that has a burning desire to be head coach and a burning desire to win. I don't see where Sage has that since he is not currently involved anywhere in coaching.
 
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Why does everyone jump to Sage as head coach? No coaching experience.

Austin Flynn has coaching experience and would be a better choice, but even he is probably not ready to jump up to a Power 5 conference school head coach position.
 
great comments! thanks for having fun with this
 
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VTXCyRyD said:
Why does everyone jump to Sage as head coach? No coaching experience.

Austin Flynn has coaching experience and would be a better choice, but even he is probably not ready to jump up to a Power 5 conference school head coach position.
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Does it really matter? Let the kids dream.
 
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