Anyone else hearing that JP has already decided Prohm is coming back?
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Yup, it was Gibbs who was given the 6th year, and then Doug went off scholarship.
Creighton's Gibbs gets 6th year of eligibility
Creighton coach Greg McDermott received surprising news when he found out that senior guard Grant Gibbs received a sixth year of eligibility from the NCAA.
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Can someone help me with the TJ fan club? I think TJ is a really good guy who obviously has built a lot of relationships here which has his name in this conversation. Outside of Iowa St is there any other Major conference school even considering him? He has a long ways to go with UNLV right now, which essentially is a rebuild- very similar to us. His first job you could actually argue he underachieved. South Dakota state has been loaded for a long time and TJ was gifted a very talented team less David Jenkins who came in his 2nd season. State suffered one of their worst losses ever in the conference tournament as a one seed vs. an 8 in Sioux Falls, in one of the biggest Home court advantages in conference tournaments. I just think we aren’t thinking big enough. Rumor was SDSU offered Devries and he turned it down opening the door for Otz. I’m leaning to Devries and I don’t even have TJ as top 7. Great guy but I think he needs to show he can build a program.
How about Tod Kowalczyk. He is the head coach of Toledo and has fielded competitive teams wherever he has went. The last head we got from Toledo has been terrific. My Pollard will take another drink from the well. He is from Wisconsin so likely has connections in that state and Ohio.
There’s not really a TJ fan club. Just people that are like, “he’s just as much of a gamble as anyone else and he’s likely to be in the list because of obvious ties.”
There’s more of a TJ hate club if anything, that has tried to invent a “TJ fan club” to validate itself in its hate for TJ.
-thanks for coming to my TJ talk
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Fred must've told the players he's heading back to Ames
Or, Fred could be sniffing the Gopher job, again......
I'm not sure if people realized this when marking this "optimistic", but I was entirely kidding lol.Fred must've told the players he's heading back to Ames
I agree with you on this.. I'm not sure I've seen one person (at least on this site), that have been head over heels in love with TJ and think he's a home run hire.
There's a segment on here who are just in love with Otzelberger. No way to explain it...
Prohm managed to take a great program that was loaded and turn it into a Winless Conference Team in just a few seasons. This is ENTIRELY Prohm’s Team. Prohm will not lead us out of the Cellar. We are at Ken Trickey level in terms of Coaching. We are really bad.
I mean I talked with Doug personally on this one several times. #2 point mattered
Correct. Grant Gibbs was granted a 6th year but Creighton had no scholarships. So Greg pulled Doug's while he was in Russia
Grant Gibbs keeps walk-on Doug McDermott fed
SAN ANTONIO – How much does Creighton University think of former Linn-Mar basketball player Grant Gibbs? Enough to turn this …
www.thegazette.com
I think I can explain it. There is a hope that TJ can bring back the talent and play style that Hoiberg coached with. TJ was a big part of the recruiting at that time and TJ fans are hoping he can coach like Fred too.
I'm not as sure as they are that it will work though. Fred capitalized on transfers before the rest of the NCAA really caught on. He did also bring in good HS players as well, but transfers were always a big part of it. Now every major conference school looks at and is willing to bring in transfers, so the good ones are going to blue bloods more and more now.
I have very little idea how TJ coaches. I believe he runs an up tempo system. I know he was pretty good at SDSU, but that was with a great player in Mike Daum sitting in his lap when he got there.
UNLV has been less successful, but I don't know where the roster was when he showed up.
All in all, I think TJ fans are hoping that TJ can be a Hoiberg clone, even if that's not guaranteed.
Look, I’ve made my peace with TJ. I think most of his supporters are playing it better this time around. Last time this board was filled with influential people acting like TJ was the only choice. I remember podcasts telling us he was the only choice. I didn’t like it then and I don’t like it now.
But he’ll if he wants to be here, I should be fine with it! And I guarantee that I’ll be the one defending him when everyone else wants him fired.
