Steve Prohm says he'll meet with Jamie Pollard to discuss his future next week...

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WhoISthis

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I truly believe we can get to 100 pages by Saturday.

There's still time for 'Fred vs. Steve' and 'TJ's recruiting vs. McDermott's failures' flare ups to fill in any gaps in speculations revolving around what company's name was on the cargo plane.
Have we talked about the possibility he comes back but with a new staff? Steve is liked by JP and the administration and some donors. He’d need to go above 0.500 in conference play and NCAA tournament or bust. He likely knows that’s not happening, but let’s give it a try.
 

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While I don't dispute either point... I still think as far as point number two goes, you could insert ANY coach's name in that sentence. No matter what their prior record was anywhere else.

It's all a roll of the dice. That is my tidbit of wisdom. We're going to hire a coach, for better or worse (can't really be worse) but you get what I'm saying. There is nothing I can do about who we hire.

I have my personal favorite candidate, and it isn't TJ... BUT, no matter who we hire, he's our coach and I want us to win.

The biggest "roll of the dice" thing ever is how McD worked out pretty well for Creighton.

It just was not working here AT ALL.
 
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Don't want to pay the buyout until next year? Hire a new coach and make Prohm co-head coach. Reassign responsibilities and make Prohm the primary coach for the walk-ons and the new coach would be in charge of all the scholarship players. Then fire Prohm next year at the lower buyout.
 

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I most certainly do not want TJ, seems like a good guy, but he hasn't proven much to me.

TJ because he was in on Monte, Naz, Burton, Nader and Thomas's recruitment and he's going to continue coaching them right now is a different scenario than TJ now. (feel free to correct me if he didn't recruit some of those guys, just an example)
 

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Your assuming the donor doesn’t just keep it in their bank account which is what likely happens if they don’t do the buyout.

This is just absolutely moronic. Prohm had a better resume when he was hired than he does now. It didn’t have P5 experience but optimism and potential is better than seeing the turd that is Prohms time here.

So Prohms sweet 16 appearance, 3 NCAA bids, and Big12 tournament championships hurt his resume? Interesting
 
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So, a few things I've learned today in CF:
- Everything good that happened with ISU BB during Prohm's tenure is solely due to Fred, TJ, and/or dumb luck
- Everything bad that's happened during Prohm's tenure is solely due to his terrible job at coaching (despite "bad luck" arguments some have made, this is the only one of these items on which I can mostly get on board)
- Everything that's resulted in good results at TJ's stops at SDSU and UNLV is solely due to his coaching
- Everything that's resulted in poor results during TJ's tenure at SDSU and UNLV is solely due to the poor situation in which he found himself
- If "jhb" owns his own business, a lot of us would like to sign up for jobs, due to the ability to keep our jobs regardless of results! (hope you can take a joke!)
- Yes, BB, we need news to end this insanity!

Did I miss anything of note?
 

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He might be a great fit, I dunno. I'd rather get a proven coach though.

I'm not going to be crazy mad, but I don't see it as the right move.

I've been pretty happy with every coaching move. With Chizik I heard things almost right away that made me think we got the wrong guy or maybe even a bad person...but with the rest I was happy with the hire and patient. I was very patient with Prohm even early this year but you can't go on a 20 game losing streak a few years removed from being in the top 25 most for a long stretch of years.
 

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Have we talked about the possibility he comes back but with a new staff? Steve is liked by JP and the administration and some donors. He’d need to go above 0.500 in conference play and NCAA tournament or bust. He likely knows that’s not happening, but let’s give it a try.
LOL!!
 

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JFC. Based on what standard exactly is TJ a substandard Coach?
Because not a single other Big12 team would have him as a coaching candidate. Very doubtful he would be a candidate for any Big10 job either. He has no record of rebuilding things on his own, and he had the player of the year handed to him at his first job.

Can you even name the identity of his teams? You can't even compare him to Smith at Utah State.
 

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Because not a single other Big12 team would have him as a coaching candidate. Very doubtful he would be a candidate for any Big10 job either. He has no record of rebuilding things on his own, and he had the player of the year handed to him at his first job.

Can you even name the identity of his teams? You can't even compare him to Smith at Utah State.

I was shocked at the way the jackals came at me when I suggested his success at SDSU is hard to judge because of how dominant Daum was in a small conference. I didn't even dismiss it, just said it was hard to measure.

I thought I was posting a boring obvious post...I might as well have posted that Grayer couldn't dunk well.
 
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I'm not going to be crazy mad, but I don't see it as the right move.

I've been pretty happy with every coaching move. With Chizik I heard things almost right away that made me think we got the wrong guy or maybe even a bad person...but with the rest I was happy with the hire and patient. I was very patient with Prohm even early this year but you can't go on a 20 game losing streak a few years removed from being in the top 25 most for a long stretch of years.

This is just a much bigger hire in terms of getting it right than it was when Fred left. I think a more credible case for TJ could have been made post-Hoiberg than this time. Pollard can't mess this one up, the stakes are higher with the program where it is.
 
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