do you think hornacek would be able to put butts in the seats? only problem is him and jp have supposedly issues also.
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do you think hornacek would be able to put butts in the seats? only problem is him and jp have supposedly issues also.
Assistants do a ton of the recruiting. Craig Smith can coach, let the assistants do most of the recruiting. If you get good recruiters. Craig Smith is the better coach between him and TJ>
Lotta made up stuff gets posted in here, sometimes directly but mostly second hand wish casting. People have their agendas.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I haven’t been impressed at all by UNLV in the five or six games I’ve watched this season.
Little bit of credit to him there: In his second year, Nebraska had one of the best seasons in their history. He left after that year to be head coach at South Dakota, and Nebraska went back to being terrible.
I haven't really watched them at all this year. I was impressed last year the couple of times I watched them. I think they've been really hit with Covid and injuries just like Iowa State. The difference there is they didn't have a history of bad years and they still finished mid pack in their conference.
I think people forget that the reason Prohm is likely fired is because of how bad we were this year. If they had won like 3-4 conference games and won most of the non conference games he would absolutely be back.
I think the biggest thing is Fred was one of the first coaches to recruit heavily using the transfer pipeline. He had some of his best players come from other schools. It was a new concept back when Fred was HC. Now the college game is flooded with transfer players each year. He would be facing more competition when going after quality transfers this time around.
I am not saying Fred could not succeed this time around, he will just face some new challenges.
He’s so good at it now that he identifies transfers that could help bring in good players in the future.
Regardless of Covid or injuries, I just think Pollard would have a tough time selling the fan base on a new head coach coming off a losing season in a weak Mountain West Conference.
He only needs to sell the money people and the money people won’t have a hard time being sold.
The amount of off-ball motion in his half court offense will make cyclone fanatic cream themselves
More competition, but also way more transfers, and less stigma associated with transfers, which means more opportunities.
Plus, other than Royce, I wouldn't say any of the transfers he brought in would be incredibly sought after by the big programs. And even with Royce, he was recruited by Kentucky, and still picked a struggling program, because of Fred.
I'll be the first to admit I don't watch alot of UNLV or Utah State basktball but TJ gives me an AAU coach vibe while Smith seems like a great teacher/leader who can build a program.
Honestly at this point, just seeing a guy do a jump stop with a two handed pass would make most people on here cream.
Greg left Fred a lot of really key pieces in retrospect. The cupboard was not bare when Fred came. Time will tell if the new coach has the same luxury as Fred. Maybe Hunter is the next's guys Melvin Ejim, hard to know.
Melvin was already committed. So Fred had one of the all time best players in our history on the roster. That helps with a rebuild.
Scotty was also only a Junior in Fred's first year and was a big piece in the Royce White year the year after that. Also a huge help.
Diante Garrett was here and was amazing that first year. Now he was only here one year, but it showed what a good player could do in Fred's system and it helped us be pretty competitive for a lot of those games. ISU was bad in Fred's first year, but a lot of those games were at least competitive.
Then going into the Royce year...he still had Melvin and Scotty. Two huge pieces to go with Royce. If he didn't have those two, things might have gone quite differently for Fred in his time here.
Now hopefully....Hunter or Foster can be this coaches version of Melvin....maybe Bolton could be Diante Garrett and help us be competitive next year...and then maybe Hinson can be a guy that can help out for a couple years. Just need a few pieces to give hope for the next couple years, give the new guy time to build, and bridge to a new cycle of recruits and a couple key transfers.
Melvin was already committed. So Fred had one of the all time best players in our history on the roster. That helps with a rebuild.
Scotty was also only a Junior in Fred's first year and was a big piece in the Royce White year the year after that. Also a huge help.
Diante Garrett was here and was amazing that first year. Now he was only here one year, but it showed what a good player could do in Fred's system and it helped us be pretty competitive for a lot of those games. ISU was bad in Fred's first year, but a lot of those games were at least competitive.
Then going into the Royce year...he still had Melvin and Scotty. Two huge pieces to go with Royce. If he didn't have those two, things might have gone quite differently for Fred in his time here.
Now hopefully....Hunter or Foster can be this coaches version of Melvin....maybe Bolton could be Diante Garrett and help us be competitive next year...and then maybe Hinson can be a guy that can help out for a couple years. Just need a few pieces to give hope for the next couple years, give the new guy time to build, and bridge to a new cycle of recruits and a couple key transfers.
We need the Melvinator. Pay him double what he makes in Europe to come and coach toughness.
How differently would Ejim be thought of if Prohm had replaced Greg? Would Scotty be like Bolton this year, an off-guard filling in at pg, asked to do things he can’t do as a pg?
The next coach needs to be much better at utilizing their roster than we’ve had the last several years
