ISU players love T.J.
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Hercle Ivy is TJ or bust.
When is the last time we hired a coach with evidence they could win here? Johnny Orr?
I do think it is somewhat interesting, only Naz and Thomas have tweeted about Prohm being fired that I have seen. Of the guys Hoiberg that were on the team. Monte and Georges have tweeted a few times since Monday night.
You make a valid point.
But I'd say that we haven't hired a coach that was in trouble at a school a level down from Iowa State. Actually, Wayne Morgan had been fired at Long Beach State or some school out in California before he went to Syracuse or after he was at Syracuse. McDermott and Prohm had been very successful at their schools. Hoiberg was a complete question mark.
None of this means that TJ won't be successful. But there are legit question marks.
Monte was fairly close with Prohm. I've always gotten the feeling that Georges wasn't. I think Georges will be VERY happy with TJ.
“In trouble” lol TJ’s had one bad season that happened to be a pandemic year.
Not sure I can dismiss a pandemic year as an ISU football fan. I mean not even a little.
Then it will likely be fine. My opinion is that I wasn't impressed with his time in Vegas. My opinion isn't worth a whole lot though.
So do we need another thread pumping up TJ assuming he's going to do something that the guy that just went 0-fer in the league did extremely well?
Got news for people - Wisconsin produced 9 four and five star guys in the past 5 years. Prohm got two of them and got the best 3 star in Haliburton. You can be a great recruiter in Wisconsin, but unless you are going to beat out Duke for the Jalen Johnson types, and be better than Wisconsin and other Big 10 schools, you aren't going to get more talent out of Wisconsin on a regular basis than Prohm did.
Prohm got a top 40 guy from Canada.
That would be great if he could get such a good class to be competitive next year. But he had the top recruiting class in the MWC by a significant margin coming into this year and they aren't very good. So how will he fare in the Big 12? He can do a great job recruiting and still be toward the middle of the conference in recruiting rankings.
When it’s the one year you go below .500, I’d say there could be a correlation. They’re also in completely different situations. ISU was a veteran football team who was likely going to have a great year regardless of this virus. UNLV was the complete opposite.
Look around the country and find a great team this year that’s extremely young...I can’t really think of any.
I think that if this year would’ve been a good year for him, a lot more people would be very excited. He was meh this year and now only some people are excited.
Last year I don’t really think carries much weight as it was his first year. I also don’t think he fits well there at all. He’s a Midwest guy through and through.
Completely respect your opinion though.
You might have noticed the Louisiana game.
The thing about this year in sports is, teams with strong cores of of experience coming back flourished. Teams relying on newcomers? Look at the likes of the Duke, North Carolina and Kentucky basketball teams.
Does Georges get an extra year of eligibility? If not, I don’t really know why it matters if former players like the hire. Everyone likes the assistant coach. TJ was great in that role no doubt.
