I never said Northwestern couldn't ever be successful. Its absolutely is a harder place to recruit just based on admissions. I can't imagine Northwestern taking a lot of transfers or jucos.
COLUMN: My perspective on Fred Hoiberg/Nebraska
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No Tech recruit gives a flying **** about anything Tech pre-Chris Beard. Nobody is going to Tech because they went to the sweet 16 in 1996.
My take on the Hoiberg/Nebraska situation.
Hoibergs an unemployed coach
Nebraska needs a coach
Nebraska will pay Hoiberg to coach
Hoibergs an unemployed coach
Nebraska needs a coach
Nebraska will pay Hoiberg to coach
Yeah, we'll forget about the Bobby Knight era. They also probably don't care that they were in the Elite Eight last year.
Tech has had success in my lifetime and I’m 37. Tony Battie, Darvin Ham.
They have had a few NCAA tourney teams. Nobody being recruited today was even alive when those guys were at Tech.
Are you seriously arguing that Tech isn't, at the very least, an average program?!?
They were a tournament team for a good chunk of Knight's tenure as well.
People must be letting the Gillispie era cloud their memories.
My entire point is that unless you have Final Four and National Championship banners the history of the program is pretty much meaningless. It's about the current coach and the future.
Coaches are hired guns--no more and no less. Their only loyalty is to whoever signs their checks.
Lon Kruger and I had classes together at K-State. Kruger was both a great player and coach. His jersey hangs in the rafters of the Octagon. He now coaches at Oklahoma. I neither hate nor love that fact. I do not wish him well nor ill will except when the Sooners are playing the Cats. Lon was hired to do a job in Norman. He owes it to his employer to do his best. I would be disappointed if he did anything less.
Why should ISU fans feel any differently about Fred Hoiberg? The fairy tale is in your heads and not Fred's. When you peel away all the emotions, basketball is just a business. It is also a lot more fun with the emotions.
Lon Kruger and I had classes together at K-State. Kruger was both a great player and coach. His jersey hangs in the rafters of the Octagon. He now coaches at Oklahoma. I neither hate nor love that fact. I do not wish him well nor ill will except when the Sooners are playing the Cats. Lon was hired to do a job in Norman. He owes it to his employer to do his best. I would be disappointed if he did anything less.
Why should ISU fans feel any differently about Fred Hoiberg? The fairy tale is in your heads and not Fred's. When you peel away all the emotions, basketball is just a business. It is also a lot more fun with the emotions.
And just what was Kruger's fancy nickname at KSU? That's why.
*who the **** made this?
I’ve got a well earned reputation to live up to
And this is my big moment. For years I’ve predicted he’d be back in college and no one believed me. I WAS RIGHT!
You also predicted the only football coach we’d be able to hire was a position coach, so slow your roll, Nostradamus.
Lon last coached at KState in the 80’s.
He also wasn’t a hometown boy American Dream idyllic life.
It only counts when I’m right. And you’ve got to admit that I’ve been more right than any insider on this
