We’re hiring a coach with a losing record this season and it is apparently because he is besties with our AD, who hasn’t bothered to conduct a search. Some of us not comfortable with good old boy cronyism
Report: T.J. Otzelberger headed for Iowa State
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We’re hiring a coach with a losing record this season and it is apparently because he is besties with our AD, who hasn’t bothered to conduct a search. Some of us not comfortable with good old boy cronyism
You should be able to see plenty of improvement in year 2. Especially in basketball.
Now make sure to stretch your butts, because the amount of smoke the CF staff will blow up our ***** is going to be off the charts!
This will be us:
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So pollard paid $8m to cover Prohm and TJ buyouts. Wtf.
I mean, not even bothering to interview other candidates could be considered dereliction of duty. Do your ****ing job, JP!
I REALLY, REALLY hope the rumors end up not being true.
Prohm's first season we had the talent to have a 30-5 type of season and went 23-12.lol
I suppose he may have had time to interview the Clone cone guy and decided TJ was better than him.
I still think UNLV will waive the buyout.
This may go down as one of the worst moves in college basketball history.
Yeah I'm not buying ISU paid that much for both buyouts from their own funds. Either buyouts were somehow negotiated down, or donor money helped the bill (despite what Pollard said in his video earlier).
Now make sure to stretch your butts, because the amount of smoke the CF staff will blow up our ***** is going to be off the charts!
This will be us:
I will say that until this week, they did a much better job not telling us how great TJ would be.
Fair enough. Hate might be a little strong. As you state, if this is true.
If he can turn this around, I think we may avoid the coaching carousel for quite some time.
Seeing their celebration of this news, could they pay us to take him?
I haven't read the posts between my post and this one so excuse me if this has been previously discussed.
I think JP has had multiple discussions with Prohm and agents for other coaches. JP may have had three to four possible options depending how the end of the season worked out. Prohm was probably aware that these options were being assembled. Before Prohm's last game was completed, some options may have already been discarded and all JP had to do was to settle a few final things a little further. For example, if Otz was willing to work within the limits of a compensation package that we could handle but the agents for the other coaches were not, then it's a quick decision. However, if an agent thought their coach might still be interested, then there would have be an interview with the actual coach.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Otz had something in his contract that reduced his buy-out for Iowa State. Finally, I personally think that Allison has a real affinity for her alma mater and that helped a lot.
In conclusion I don't think JP waited for Monday night to start looking. I think he was very close to the possible end(s) by that time and I think he got the overall best deal he could possibly get when trying to balance all the factors.
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Every coach that has been successful at Iowa State has done so relatively quickly.
Floyd, Eustachy, Wayne, Fred, and Prohm all made the NCAA’s in year 2. If we are more than 2 years away that’s 4 years in a row of ineptitude and will utterly bury this program. My opinion obviously.
This season has sapped my fandom unlike anything in my life. The idea we shouldn’t be concerned until year 4 means this program has truly cratered.
