Report: T.J. Otzelberger headed for Iowa State

Trice

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So are we going to have to wait a few days for this to be official with Iowa's minimum job posting time, or is that no longer a thing?

There can be occasional exceptions for certain hires. Athletics pretty routinely gets excepted.
 

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Let’s hope his comments about it being a long rebuild are less foretelling.

No **** it’s a long rebuild, you extended a bad coach and then two years later replaced him with a risky hire that hadn’t proved he can win in the MWC let alone rebuild a Big 12 program

And we had an example of someone who could rebuild in 1 year just a decade ago.
 

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only if you are a crybaby and hate ISU. JP isn’t going anywhere so your trashing of him will only make yourself, ISU fans, and our sports programs look bad to outside viewers including recruits. So, I don’t know what to tell you. Get on board and be a fan or don’t be a fan. Maybe the second is the best plan for a while.
Sometimes being a good steward of the program isn’t supporting those making millions, as was the case with Prohm. That may be true with JP.
 
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cyclone87

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Everything I’ve seen is reporting the same story/source. Hard to tell if it is accurate or not when everything spreads like wildfire especially fake news
 

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And TJ was integral in that. Fred wouldn’t come without him.

Oh, I think he would have. But I do think you are right that TJ was a part of that.

He could be fine. I just don't think it is a good choice. And unlike a lot of you, I actually will have to attend all the home games ;)
 

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alotta speculation

one part of me is there is no way this would be announced 8 hours after his video today

other part of me is thinking this was in the works 2 weeks ago cause they’re butt buddies

Jamie TOLD US it was going to be fast. That entire video today was a warning that it was going to be TJ.

I predicted earlier tonight it would be announced on Thursday.
 
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If it is TJ, than I will support him. I can see a way he could be successful at ISU with the right assistants, and he might be able to hang on to some of the guys coming in, and keep some of the other guys from leaving. It will be a tough job, but Prohm is the guy that created this mess. As far as not being an X and O guy, I was never impressed with Prohm as a floor coach. TJ can't be any worse. I don't understand all the hate on here for him.
 

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While I would like a full coaching search it was likely going to result in TJ beating out the canidates we've been debating the past month geeting it over now is for the best.
TJ will get a head start on assembling the best staff from all the avaialble canidates, talk to the current players (and Hunter/Nunn) and convince the ones he wants to stay and start contacting transfers this week. I do think TJ can have early success with a couple of good hires/keeping players. Let's see how it goes.
Better than delaying for the look of a search.
 

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