*** Official Iowa State Season Thread ***
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Steve Prohm now 18-46 in conference play with his own players.
And 40-59 overall in conference play after inheriting a Top 5 team. It takes a giant ineptitude of coaching to have had 8 NBA PLAYERS on your teams and still have that terrible of a record. Must be some really bad luck...
And 40-59 overall in conference play after inheriting a Top 5 team. It takes a giant ineptitude of coaching to have had 8 NBA PLAYERS on your teams and still have that terrible of a record. Must be some really bad luck...
It was pretty bad. Four years of losing and an utterly boring style of play wears you down.
I think you guys missed the point, however, in wanting to debate if it was worse than now.
That’s not the point.
The point is I still don’t laugh at Greg’s tenure in Ames. It still hurts. This one will probably hurt, too, looking back at it, given the depths we are plundering.
'Unlucky" was a lazy, access saving, excuse for what we are seeing on the court, and on the sidelines.
Just waiting to see what the timeline will be for JP's decision.
Is the WSU rumor dead? Haven't heard anything on this for a couple of weeks.
Just waiting to see what the timeline will be for JP's decision.
Is the WSU rumor dead? Haven't heard anything on this for a couple of weeks.
I know there’s a thread on the Fran Fade year after year, but how about the Prohm Plunge of the Iowa State basketball program
Yeah luck has nothing to do with this. The man isn’t a head coach. Liked him when he was hired because I wanted to be positive, and he stepped into some tough shoes, but he knew that when he took the job too. Jeez, I think you could throw a good mid-major coach out there and X&O more wins than Prohm has muster up.
At the end of the day, he’s a millionaire CEO of a basketball program that use to be at the top and now is on of the worst in the power 5. Any CEO is fired for that performance, this will be no different.
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McDermott managed to at least go 4-12 in conference every year. This year after 10 games, I don’t see any that we’ve won so far.
CycloneErik
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Again, missing the point. This isn't about who found a lower rock bottom.
This is about still not finding the McDermott era funny.
Probably not going to someday find this one funny either.
We never made the tourney. We never did anything of note. It was just a dull grind in terrible uniforms.
I really do like most the players on this team, even if they aren't put in any sort of reasonable situation to find success.
Many have expressed fear it's going to be complete doom and gloom for the next head coach of Cyclone basketball, yet I just don't see it that way. We have a fan base totally locked into athletics and will be ready to throw money and enthusiasm at any fresh look for our basketball team.
I don't care who the new hire is by JP, a decent hire as the new head coach should be able to easily find immediate success with....
Many have expressed fear it's going to be complete doom and gloom for the next head coach of Cyclone basketball, yet I just don't see it that way. We have a fan base totally locked into athletics and will be ready to throw money and enthusiasm at any fresh look for our basketball team.
I don't care who the new hire is by JP, a decent hire as the new head coach should be able to easily find immediate success with....
- minimizing defections (just don't leave one position group or class completely empty)
- bring 1 or 2 of his own top commits with him (coaching changes tend to be an easy out of a NLI)
- have the freakin' wild west of transfers readily available with the 1-time transfer exception in place (selling a fresh start on a Big 12 team with top competition should be far easier than having to convince a kid our coach isn't a lame duck)
Fran Fade begins in Franuary every season.
Prohm Plunge started June 8, 2015 and hasn’t subsided.
It’s going to take years. Quite frankly there are only 3 players on this team that would be in the rotation (Top 9) for a NCAA Tournament squad. If any of those three transfer then you have to start completely from nothing. It’s a minimum 2-3 year rebuild at this point.
