This is why Prohm must go........
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Do they? This was pretty much on par with the best offenses we've had here with a bunch of freshman minutes, without Wigginton for some of the year, without our best post for some of the year, and with a guy with a 100 Ortg taking up over 1/4 of our possessions.
I'll see if I can dig up the article but a national writer (Parrish?) spoke with coaches and ranked the best jobs in the country. ISU was 6th in the Big 12. That may not be reality but the fact that other coaches perceive it that was is significant.
We also pay Prohm in the bottom 1/3 of the league. So, compared to pay, he's exceeding expectations.
All of those who want Prohm gone - who are you hiring? Pollard has consistently demonstrated that he isn't paying $3-$5 million for anyone coming into ISU. So who?
We also pay Prohm in the bottom 1/3 of the league. So, compared to pay, he's exceeding expectations.
All of those who want Prohm gone - who are you hiring? Pollard has consistently demonstrated that he isn't paying $3-$5 million for anyone coming into ISU. So who?
Prohm has shown time and time again he cant coach, its a simple fact. Go back and watch the last 3 minutes of the arizona game, the kstate game at home and the TCU game at home. Nothing changed, stagnant basketball for minutes at a time, zero adjustments. No out of bounds plays, no easy plays to draw a foul or get a layup, nothing. Its horrible to watch.
Some may want to wait to take a breath until they pull their heads out of their butt's.
Oh how obvious, let's list losses and cite those as evidence as why someone cannot coach.
One realizes that for every coach or every team if you focus on Ls you are going to have some criticisms, right?
How about we look across every game, regardless of outcome.
Most likely, when you win 23 games playing in a power conference, you can coach. In other words, your assertion is silly (and I'm using the term "silly" because I'm in a kind mood this morning).
Unless a sure fire top 15 coach in America is ready to come in and kick ass, please stop daydreaming of Prohm leaving for Alabama and or any other university in America.
He’s doing just fine. Everyone calling for his head sound like Entitled Hawkeye fans wishing for Tom Davis or worse, Lute Olson to leave town.
He’s doing just fine. Everyone calling for his head sound like Entitled Hawkeye fans wishing for Tom Davis or worse, Lute Olson to leave town.
How quickly people forget the McDermott years. We've gone to 7 of 8 NCAA tournaments and won 4 conference tournament championships in 6 years. WTF happens if we actually start losing...good god.
Find me a game where there isnt a 3-4 minute scoring drought.
I actually think you provide a compelling case here. But for some of us, maybe many of us we recognize that age is not the only factor in experience. Sure Babb and Shayok are old, but haven't been under Prohm's system for 5 years. I see a difference between a Jess Settles and Shayok in experience in a system. Same with Jacobson.
Prohm was gifted a talented roster for sure, and those guys believe in this guy as our coach. And he was flexible to inherit Hoiberg's style so as to maximize their talent.
Doubling down on the post killed us against a lot of teams. But I will agree that mixing it up would've, (would have not would of), been worth a try. That dude was getting away with a lot.
Again, some of us don't hang last year's "success" all on Prohm, but 4-14 with the hole in the recruiting that he was left with really helps the narrative. Could he have added some jucos to minimize the depth of the hole? Sure, but then who of last year's freshmen would you choose to not take?
CSP has had some really good things to hang your hat on if you support him. If you choose to focus on Hoiberg then it will be impossible for you or others to support Prohm. I'm not 100% sure that Prohm is going to be an elite coach, but I'm not willing to give up on him yet. I really want to see how players he recruits look as seniors and how they operate. Some systems aren't built around one-and-done talent. I think we have seen evidence how Prohm coaches to the talent he has each year. In my mind he may be too flexible on that end and too rigid in the season or in game. But he is relatively young as a head coach.
Here's my take on this....Prohms only real adjustment that I noticed was taking out Jacobsen because he wasn't big enough or strong enough to guard Wesson. The officials set the tone inside though that our big guys were not allowed to hold their ground though and would get a foul for doing so. We cant play both bigs guys it just wont work IMO, but I did about go crazy seeing Wesson not be doubled in the 2nd half on every touch. That to me I will never understand about that game. Officiating aside, we had our chances and didn't rebound again and had bad turnovers down the stretch. As far as asking more of Prohm to get T'd up to fire guys up? In a close game with the struggle already being hard enough, it would do zero good other than to tell your guys in the huddle we just have to play through any of it.
