This greatest class in school history is being completely overblown. He has exactly #1 Top 150 guy in this class. Blackwell is #151 currently. The average rating of the four players is 91. We have that high of a class because we have 4 commits. Rankings are weighted on the quantity not just the quality. If you go by the average rating of 91 we have between the 40-45th best class in America. Still solid but certainly not they type of class that contains 2-3 starters.
This is why Prohm must go........
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This greatest class in school history is being completely overblown. He has exactly #1 Top 150 guy in this class. Blackwell is #151 currently. The average rating of the four players is 91. We have that high of a class because we have 4 commits. Rankings are weighted on the quantity not just the quality. If you go by the average rating of 91 we have between the 40-45th best class in America. Still solid but certainly not they type of class that contains 2-3 starters.
I would look at the average star ranking. You can skew overall ranking with the number of recruits. Also, there are still players to sign so they will undoubtedly go down. The THT, Haliburton, Griffin, Conditt class was better than this one easily.
Maybe we're used to coaches that fit into something like this:
If you can't be elite then be entertaining - Johnny Orr
If you win a ton you can be a total ass - Larry
If you aren't elite and aren't entertaining you have no hope - McD
Probably more in there, but Prohm seems to be pretty close to one of these
If you can't be elite then be entertaining - Johnny Orr
If you win a ton you can be a total ass - Larry
If you aren't elite and aren't entertaining you have no hope - McD
Probably more in there, but Prohm seems to be pretty close to one of these
Wow if you think the incoming class is the greatest in school history you are either a troll not very knowledgeable. I thought I read it is currently the 6th rated class in the Big 12.
would *one of the best* make you feel better?
go up a few posts and check out the rankings.
A lot of people are saying this team is not very talented but I disagree. In no way is this one of greatest teams to put on the Cardinal and Gold but they are good enough to at least compete. I envisioned this team being a bubble/NIT team at worst. The product we have received has been far from that. Even teams that lack tremendous talent usually play hard. They make up for their athletic shortcomings with hard work, effort, and minimizing mistakes and this team has done everything but that. And that is a direct representation of coaching. Players who believe in their coaching staff ingrain themselves in their methods. A lot of people have criticized Fred's time at ISU on this forum but one thing you could never say is that his teams didn't play hard and play for each other. You could see how hard his teams competed, even when he inherited the roster that McDermott left behind for him.
it really depends on how you want to look at the rankings. if you use 247's Average Rating (per player), then it's only ISU's 5th best class since 2012. Far from best ever.
I love Fred, but some of his teams got a little too confident at times and played lazy. Most of the time they would wake up and give us a monster comeback victory.
Schematically there is no comparison to what we used to have with Doc, Charlie Henry and CFH and the current staff.
Agreed. It seems I remember Floyd having a number of top 25 classes, but I don't care to spend the time to research it.
I may have missed the answer earlier in the thread, but Stanz said in a recent podcast that if George doesn't start in the next game there will need to be serious questions asked.
Well, he didn't start and led all re-bounders in his 19 minutes. Why is he not starting?
Well, he didn't start and led all re-bounders in his 19 minutes. Why is he not starting?
It's an advantage to have your best players coming off the bench said no one ever except on this site.
For the life of me I couldn't figure out why Jacobson was our featured offensive player for that five or six minute stretch in the first half.
Agreed and with the way things are going, George should be getting as many minutes as possible to prepare for the future.
Pretty sure the the 11/12 and 12/13 teams had 'hero ball' thrown at them quite a bit, and wasn't there literally something where people didn't think Royce was sweating enough?
Prohm's extension really isn't that bad for ISU. 3 years at $2.3 million and 50% buyout only adds about $3.4 million to a buyout. Plus, he was only contracted through 2022 which is rare in the coaching industry to have a contract with less than 3 years left on it.
If we were to fire him after this year (which will never happen), I believe we would owe him about $5.7 million which isn't terrible by college coaching contracts. If we fired him after next year (more likely if we suck again), we'd own him about $4.5 million. Again, not ideal, but manageable.
I hope so. I dreamt last night CSP resigned......immediately.
So what your saying is .... we have to be bad again next season just to save a $1.2 million? or that we only have to spend $1.2 million more after this season to give us somthing to look forward to in 2020 2021?
