Coach Steve Prohm stepping away from Murray St.
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No. Prohm was worse and it’s not close IMO
Greg McDermott coached here too. He was worse than Wayne Morgan in every objective and subjective assessment. Just terrible, no matter how well he did at UNI previously or Creighton once he left ISU.
Wayne Morgan didn’t, at the very least, get tossed on the Phantom 3. That in itself should put him as the worst coach at ISU.
Give me an example how Prohm is worse than McDermott or Morgan over his career ant ISU other than “I felt like he was”. I get his last year was the worst winning percentage ever, but overall he had more success than either.
He needed to do a much better job holding teams’ feet to the fire with Jeff Beverly midrange jumpers and Merrill Holden sweeping hook shots. Immeasurable talent. As Spatola would say, “WET”
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He's a hell of a coach. I follow NWMSU too and they were lucky he stuck around as long as he did. I was surprised he took the Drake job. Maybe with NIL money it's a decent mid-major job now. For years it was a terrible program though.
And Lickliter was National Coach of the Year at Butler too.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.If forced to hire one tomorrow to coach at ISU, who do you hire?
Hiring/extensions, aka betting on future success, is largely heuristic.
Wayne wasn't going to be a long term solution, but the glorified streetball was at least fun to watch
He didn't run the program into the ground either. It was like watching Orr's teams except with better players. At least Hilton Magic still was a thing when he coached. Blaylock and Stinson had the place rocking.
I was a teen during the Stinson/Blalock years, and it was a lot of fun to watch.
In retrospect I do have a bit of a beef with Wayne for not getting that 03-04 team to the tournament.
Stinson, Blalock, Sullivan, Vroman, Homan, Jefferson, Staple. Missed opportunity.
They couldn't play D or win on the road. He had more success with that group than LE had though. Tim Barnes leaving school probably cost the team a few wins. I'm not sure there has ever been a quicker player in ISU history. Great ball handler too. A veteran PG was really what that team lacked.
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So basically a "Footloose" type deal: no wicked popular music & dancing.
i tried to get him to chug a beer in the student lots. he politely declined
