Hard pass on "young blood". If you look at the bottom of your list, you see how well "young blood" plays in this league filled with top-tier coaches.
AD’s tweet calling out ISU fans
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Hard pass on "young blood". If you look at the bottom of your list, you see how well "young blood" plays in this league filled with top-tier coaches.
Did Fran say that SP doesn’t stack up or was he talking in general terms?
I don't have a lot of disagreement with this list, but I don't know how Smart deserves to be above Prohm on it. Texas has a huge recruiting advantage over ISU and he has all the money he can possibly ever spend and he still has a worse record at UT than Prohm does at ISU (both overall and in conference play).
I’d agree with Prohm 8th on the list.
And with the exception of Beard, that is a lot of experience among the 7 guys ahead of him.
Kruger's resume is impressive, but he seems to be slipping. He's probably one of the few coaches Prohm has a winning record against.
I have had a lot of respect for Lon for a long, long time, but I have to agree that something is wrong and I'm not sure if he can bring them back. I would love to see him have OU competitive again - just behind ISU, hopefully.
He didn't say anything about Prohm. He was relaying a conversation with Boynton about how Boynton was saying how great the league coaches are saying I look down one game and it Self, next game it is Huggins, Kruger has been to the Final Four, Beard has been to the championship game. etc.
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CycloneErik
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He can address me that way. It's fine.
No tournament, and off with his head.
If Pollard doesn't like those standards, he's replaceable, too.
Smart is a weird one to rank. I think he’s a great coach but the fit at Texas was always bad. It hasn’t worked out and he will he gone but I won’t go so far to say he’s a bad coach.
Shaka Smart is a bad fit at UT. He is best with a blue collar team that goes all out pressing and run and gun. Problem is, the guys he can get at UT are not that. They get high level guys that are NBA talents. Tough to turn down talent like that when you can get them, but it doesn't really fit his style.
He was speaking about OSU's Boynton, and how he is one of very few black head coaches and the pressure he faces representing the black community. He mentioned how every night he has to face a great coach on the other bench.
I gave Smart the edge for his accomplishments while at VCU.
For me, it's still down. It's NCAA tournament or bust. Will it be up from this year? Well yes, I imagine it'll be tough to match this dumpster fire.
agreed, prohms only good season at Murray St was his 1st year with Kennedy’s recruits. Sounds familiar?
104 - 29 record at Murray State, yet his only good year was his first year? Stupid take, his first year was his best year but had solid years every year there...
Going 29-6 and a perfect 16-0 in conference is apparently not a good year since they got upset in their conference championship game and didn't make the dance. They ended up going to the NIT quarterfinals. And that was his last year there, so I don't know how he could have been any further from Kennedy's recruits.
Jamie is pedestrian, which is fine, but he is whiny. This tweet was a terrible look, and embodies his thin skin and was a super drawn out and petty I told you so, made even worse because as many have pointed out, it wasn't even a concrete defense of strategy given our lack of execution in the TCU game.
Those who speak to Pollard's growth of ISU AD spend, facilities, etc, yes he's done some good things, but he's actually had tailwinds. 1. Our baseline was so low. Our facilities and spend was minor league, so easy to be better. 2. Spend, facilities have increased everywhere given the tv growth in the last 15 years. Growing isn't commendable if everyone is growing, it's status quo. Out pacing others in your given success criteria is success.
I liken it to an investment manager. Sure he returned 15% last year, but the broader market returned 20%. We should be grading on alpha, or lack thereof, not return.
Long story short, if he left and we hired a more dynamic forward looking AD, I'd be in favor, but I'd thank him for his steady and solid years of service on the way out.
P.s. I hate this entertainment district idea. I think he's severely overestimating Power and Light, Epicenter (in Charlotte) and similar districts. I'd much rather simply provide space for food trucks, beer trucks, to make a brewery style, more casual, less gaudy, less capital intensive solution which can scale up, and more importantly DOWN as 9 out of 10 days this place will be a ghost town. I'm all in on a hotel near campus however and believe that has merit in the Iowa State Center.
Those who speak to Pollard's growth of ISU AD spend, facilities, etc, yes he's done some good things, but he's actually had tailwinds. 1. Our baseline was so low. Our facilities and spend was minor league, so easy to be better. 2. Spend, facilities have increased everywhere given the tv growth in the last 15 years. Growing isn't commendable if everyone is growing, it's status quo. Out pacing others in your given success criteria is success.
I liken it to an investment manager. Sure he returned 15% last year, but the broader market returned 20%. We should be grading on alpha, or lack thereof, not return.
Long story short, if he left and we hired a more dynamic forward looking AD, I'd be in favor, but I'd thank him for his steady and solid years of service on the way out.
P.s. I hate this entertainment district idea. I think he's severely overestimating Power and Light, Epicenter (in Charlotte) and similar districts. I'd much rather simply provide space for food trucks, beer trucks, to make a brewery style, more casual, less gaudy, less capital intensive solution which can scale up, and more importantly DOWN as 9 out of 10 days this place will be a ghost town. I'm all in on a hotel near campus however and believe that has merit in the Iowa State Center.
I don't suppose Prohm did any of the recruiting while on Kennedy's staff?
