Report: T.J. Otzelberger headed for Iowa State
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We should have hired another once-in-a-lifetime Johnny! McDermott leaves and one day later Hoiberg is hired. Hoiberg leaves for Bulls and several days later Prohm is hired. Chiz is gone and a few days later Rhoads is hired. A couple days after Rhoads is gone, Campbell is hired. All arguably great hires. Prohm was a victim of his own recruiting success when many left early for pros. I was disappointed in his ability to develop bigs. JP had a great process of discerning change with Prohm and a great decision to move on. I hope Prohm considers himself always a Cyclone, just like Rhoads. Anyone expecting a process ignores the history. JP haters need to explain how he has made bad hires. Anyone who is involved in hiring knows the can't-fail candidate fails. At the end of the day, ISU is much better after he became AD. I doubt this was pre-arranged. Quality people would never work for someone with a reputation of working behind their staff's back. Welcome CTJO!
They are jumping for joy over these rumors. They can’t wait for TJ to leave Las Vegas. Not hard to find their fans on social media.
I think Otz is the bagman from what I've heard.
Juwan Howard apparently turned Jamie down, but he was higher on the list than Otz.
For a MWC school, this years UNLV team had solid talent:
- Jenkins followed TJ to UNLV and was a Summit League 1st teamer. He ended up being 3rd team all MWC this season
- Hamilton was a carryover player and potential MWC
- Diong their center was All-Defense 1st Team
What was it like on here when we found out Fred was leaving? I ask because it seems odd to me that the UNLV board is basically silent. A few posts all surrounding the Vegas Journal story...but no one can confirm anything or is hearing anything solid. Seems like if a coach was leaving there would be more action on a site.
pro football, nobody even denies they gave his dad a quarter million
JP wanted to hire him last time without a search or interviewing anyone else, so now he is not only making sure he gets his buddy, but also his method of not considering anyone else.
Not sure about this. i think he and Turgeon were fighting about the ISU job.
They’re all dippin dollars at the Spearmint Rhino this time of night
I hear you. But I think Jamie has been plotting this since February 1st.
He's a calculated guy who has given this considerable thought
Of course not, he wasn’t horrible like Prohm. Why do you ask?
Wayne was a big part of holding that roster together. No Wayne, no Stinson, Blalock, or Staple, and you’re looking at another bad year. Hopefully TJ has equal positive implications in regards to immediately improving the roster. That’s the leading (only) reason he’s a valid candidate.
Certainly TJ is in a much better spot to be worse than Wayne, but improve the record. With immediate transfers rules it’s easier to quickly rebuild now.
Guess we differ in that I don’t think our opening is as poor as you do. As a few have mentioned, The Athletic had an article today about the opening and had a lot of good things to say about the ISU BB job. Doesn’t mean that TJ was the wrong choice, just that we should have had some good candidates. It would appear TJ was the only candidate. Hope it works.
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No offense, but that does not sound like a talented roster. But certainly more info that I expected you to have lol. Touché
CMC had a lot of interest from at least Mizzou and I'd imagine others. He was a big get for Iowa State, iirc he and PJ Fleck were the two big candidates from that offseason?
