Anyone else hearing that JP has already decided Prohm is coming back?
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CycloneErik
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I expect we will see several this offseason. Especially without there being a 1 year waiting penalty.
Fair enough. Then it’s the donors that are stupid. Haha. If you are going to spend $15+ million on buyouts, why not take an extra $5 million and go offer someone $5 million per year and really make a splash.
If there really is $15 mil in buyout money (I highly doubt there is). Add $5 million for a total of $20 mil. Use $5 mil for Prohm buyout. Use the remaining $15 mil for an additional $3 mil/5 years on a deal. Add in the $2.5 mil currently used for Prohm’s salary. That’s $5.5 million per year for someone which we could make someone the 3rd highest paid coach in college basketball.
Or I guess hire Nebraska’s coach with similar money...
ABQ is not like poor rural NM. It’s pretty darn nice, and the scenery is something else.
There are two parts to this equation. I don’t think you understand how far this program has gone down. JP needs something more than some guy. Butts in seats, excitement from the fan base. The 20 people here that are in fantasyland about John Bielien and Thad Matta aren’t representative of what is going to get some excitement and optimism in to the program.
It’s weird to me how people are looking at this. You get one of your own. You always take one of your own at ISU. We’re a small family as it is.
I'll be honest - I never understood the FH haters after he left. I wanted him to stay too, but he clearly wanted to try his hand in the NBA. He's a former player for many years, plus front office worker and scout. This is a given. Why wouldn't you want to coach a bunch of people who can actually play at the highest level, and by the way you don't have to recruit?
Didn't work out for him ultimately and he came back to college. Maybe he had a change of heart. Things happen - people change all the time in their lives.
I'd welcome him back and see what he can do again. Hopefully if he came back, it would be good things. And yeah, no - we aren't getting Thad Matta or Bielien or something like that. Maybe when Fred left it's more of a reality but uh, no. Not happening.
Didn't work out for him ultimately and he came back to college. Maybe he had a change of heart. Things happen - people change all the time in their lives.
I'd welcome him back and see what he can do again. Hopefully if he came back, it would be good things. And yeah, no - we aren't getting Thad Matta or Bielien or something like that. Maybe when Fred left it's more of a reality but uh, no. Not happening.
I'll second this. Albuquerque is a nice mountain/desert city.
Rest of the state is a wasteland, though.
Right? You just take a bunch of money and rub it together and every coach in America is knocking down the door to get to Ames.
Disagree, the Sangre De Crista mountains have some amazing skiing and snowboarding. When they opened up Taos to snowboards I was like the 10th person in the lift line. I learned to ride big mountains at Angel Fire and Red River.
Cloudcroft in the south is also an amazing place visually.
OK ... NOW you're on to somethin'!
I love how people think JP is just like some cold calling salesman.
I wouldnt say its all a wasteland.
I quite enjoyed going to white sands and then driving up to cloudcroft when i visited las cruces (which itself is a nice little college town)
Uhhhh. Our BB coach ain't making more than our FB coach who rocks it and pays the bills for the BB coach. .
