Possible Decommitment
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The fill-in here would've been one of Griffin or Lewis to develop into that role, but neither of them have at the pace we needed them to. Lewis has been okay the last few games, but that's effectively been in the 2-role as well.
The other thing that bothered me Tuesday is that it's obvious we only have one 1-guy: Haliburton. The others all struggled horribly to run the ball without him. It's pretty harsh to not have a serviceable backup PG at all.
Honestly, even that's not as bad as FAMU. UNI is at least a respected FCS program. It's bad, but not quite as bad.We were this close --
Agree, I think the dye is cast here for Prohm but they aren't going to play worse than they did the last couple times out. Halliburton will get you a few wins by himself no matter how bad Prohm manages this, my guess Prohm gets around 5-7 wins in conf and another year. Still going to be hard to win in Hilton if Halliburton plays for 6 or 7 teams in the league. Even McDermott teams, while they lost all the time, were for the most part competitive at home.
I see your point, but I would argue that the variations in outcome for an individual football game are lower than that for basketball and the depths of the talent differential between a P5 school and even a respectable FCS program are incredibly wide. Even a good QB cannot affect the game as much as one guy on fire from three can in basketball. Football is the ultimate team sports, so the depth of your roster matters more.
I guess it would have been more like losing to Drake --
...which we almost did.
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Now that is a better comparison, but even that one at least had the context is utterly-poor field and weather conditions. Those don't affect basketball games. But, again, those are still must-win games, as was FAMU. The difference is that they did win the football ones.
My biggest fear is that our players get stuck dwelling on it and let it takeover and kill the entire season for them. That's one problem that winning those games creates less of, no matter how you win.
The kicker there is gold. Mortifying, but gold. I was just about to respond with that until I scrolled down. Well done.
So you're criteria is we have to win the Big 12, or he should be fired? I agree we wont win the Big 12. We could be a tournament team though. We also might not. We don't know. We aren't even half way through this year, and you seem to know exactly how we will finish NEXT season?
One play goes differently at the end of the UNI game this year or the Drake game last year, and we lose those games. We were on a razor's edge.
One or two possessions goes better for us against FAMU and we win that game. We are "concerned," sure, but we probably put it out of mind and forget about it, a W is a W, just like we did with UNI and Drake with the football team.
My point is about how much everything swings on small things --
What do we think of Campbell now if he had a L to Drake and UNI on his record, if he went 7-6 last year (L to Drake) and 6-7 this year (L to UNI)?
Probably good, but not nearly as good as most of us do right now, and I already see the farmers coming for his assistants with their pitchforks on this forum. Who says they are not going after the man in charge if we lost to FCS schools?
Coach Prohm and his teams the next two years are not going to get judged completely based off of wins/losses and the overall record. It will be about the product they're putting on the floor. Are they competing every night? Are they developing continuity together? Are they representing Iowa State in a good way on and off the court? Are they playing for themselves or are they playing for the team / school / fans? If they do that, the results will likely look good, or at least respectable. Those types of teams usually find their way into the NCAA tournament.
I posted what i heard and that was that he decommitted. if I’m wrong I’ll own it and be happy about it. Kids a stud. That said, there’s a lot of time between now and fall 2020. Let’s not put his name in sharpie just yet.
Darius McNeill type of situation where ISU would have to let him out.
We can just move his mom up here and get her whatever treatments she needs in Rochester, MN. Win-win.
No one has. This is an on going situation that all parties know about. If he doesn't come, it won't be a surprise and it's well justified. It's not a McNeill situation.
And decommitted isn't the right word for it. He's not committed to Iowa State, he's signed with Iowa State. It is up to Iowa State to let him out of his LOI. If I were Iowa State, I'd tell him that we'll let you out in the spring if things aren't better with your mom. No need to rush into anything. But I'm sure Iowa State is preparing as if he is not going to be around.
If Gregg Marshall really did interview and money was the only hold up - that really, really, really sucks. Marshall would have been the home run of all home run hires.
This is also why firing Prohm isn't the greatest solution (right now) because if we aren't going to pay up for someone proven and established, we are going to be playing the lottery with the next coach as well. And Pollard has repeatedly demonstrated that he isn't opening the checkbook for a huge name.
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