Oh my god there are some real dumbasses in this fanbase.
Jalynn Bristow Transferring
- Thread starter undersized_post
- Start date
People thinking like you led us to hire Steve Prohm. Just leave the hiring to Jamie Pollard. No one is suggesting that Bill choose his successor. And you shouldn’t have the right to exclude anyone either.
I do believe that both of the coaches you mention make considerably more than CBF - he has not demanded large increases (for example Bluder makes about 600K more than him). If JP wants to stay in the same budget whenever CBF does decide to retire he will be looking at assistants or mid-major candidates.
Is there any scenario where Jodi Steyer is not the first call that JP makes when BF retires? Unless of course Jodi retires as well.
I do think that would be a good choice but do not see that happening - she has turned down multiple head coaching opportunities. JMO but do not see her here past the CBF era.
Agreed. If Steyer and Schaben wanted head coaching jobs, they wouldn't still be here. Steyer is around 57 and Schaben is around 51. They are probably both hoping Billy gets the job when Bill retires, in which case I'm sure they'd both stay on and coach here until they decide to retire.
If they are on IPERS, normal retirement age for people who have been employed by the state over 20 years is 62, or when years of service plus age is 88. Due to the rule of 88, Steyer hits normal retirement age for IPERS in around 4 years (she started in 2002) and Schaben will hit normal retirement age in about 5 years (she started back in 1997), assuming both continue to be employed at ISU for that length of time.
Last edited:
If JP's goal is to elevate the program beyond what Bill has done so far (contend more so for conference titles, more S16 runs and beyond), one would think he would hire outside of the existing staff even if Bill pushes Billy to be his successor. Have no idea why you'd think that would lead to another Prohm-like hire.
All depends on what kind of money they will offer. Offer below Big 12 average and you get someone off the current staff or someone from a mid major, then if could end up a Prohm like hire. Might not also....
Continuing to carry on about BFs replacement in a player transfer thread is just lazy.
Reaching on a mediocre mid major coach who was fortunate enough to fall into ready made success at the job in the near term. The warning signs were there that Prohm was just lucky. He left Murray State in time. Stayed too long in Iowa State. Prohm showing his poor coaching once again in his second stay at Murray State.
Sometimes being so adamantly opposed to someone else makes a person make an irrational decision to advance someone else. If Billy wants to apply so be it. And he presents his case for employment. But many just categorically rejected TJ because he had no experience as HC. And yet he was the better coach and would have been a better choice than Prohm IMO. Trust Pollard. Not the people who think they know better.
Did you miss when ISU was playing more and more man the last few years? Surprising that he went back to a zone defense when he had a freshman dominated team with limitations on defense...er...I guess it wasn't.
I see a lot of people sad to see her go rather than "good with Jalynn Bristow's departure."
Need to keep in mind that due to the timing of Fred's departure, the pool of available candidates was significantly shrunk for ISU. The pool of candidates that included Prohm, B.Drew, Underwood, etc. was not the quality it could have been if Fred departed a couple of months earlier.
Regarding Otz's candidacy at that time, JP and Otz will be the first to admit that Otz was better served in the long term to not have got the ISU HC job at that time.
Let's hope the timing of Bill's retirement will enable a full comprehensive search in the MAR/APR timeframe and not in the summer like when Fred departed.
