Prohm is not the man for the job. The writing has been on the wall for a while, but the start to this season confirms it. The man is in way over his head. Cut bait at the end of the year.
Steve Prohm
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Someone making blanket statements based on their emotional immaturity after every loss doesn't mean anything outside of being unable to accept disappointment.
Using that weakness as a way to say years later that you were correct on anything is simply a ******* joke.
Cool prohm sucks regardless of whatever the **** you're trying to say.
It really sucks. I think most of us on here want Prohm to succeed; seems like a great guy and good ambassador for ISU. At the end of the day though, this is college basketball and its about wins and losses.
And in hindsight, last year ended up underperforming too. This isn't a snap reaction to a few bad games, this has been a trend for years. We have squandered a mountain of momentum from the Hoiberg years.
Go get Fred back...if for nothing more than to **** Nebraska over.
Pundits were saying we had the best talent in the Big 12 last year. In hindsight I'd say we were probably 2nd behind Tech. Went 9-9 with many head shaking losses.
Pollard won’t be firing Prohm anytime soon. Pollard laid the groundwork to blame this season on THT and Wiggington. Go back and listen to the CF interview with Pollard this past summer if you don’t know what I’m talking about. It would take back-to-back disastrous years in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. While we are officially on our way for that in 2019-2020, the bar is so low now that it won’t take much for Pollard to argue progress. I think it takes missing the tournament three straight seasons, so spring 2022 is it.
To address the original poster, he is one of the worst in the conference (8th, 9th, or 10th) but that isn’t necessarily as bad as it sounds. It’s a well coached conference, but we deserve better.
To address the original poster, he is one of the worst in the conference (8th, 9th, or 10th) but that isn’t necessarily as bad as it sounds. It’s a well coached conference, but we deserve better.
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Steve is a great person. I wanted him to succeed soooooooo bad. Right now this product is embarrassing and unacceptable. He needs to show some fire or move on.
10 years ago I’d agree..But the vision isu and pollard has for the near future he can’t sell with the way the b-ball program is right now.. Prohm has had this program for 5 years now? It’s his baby...and he’s the one recruiting. Programs lose players early all the time...Granted losing 2 in one year and 3 in 2 years isn’t normal.. but the 2019 class is all on Prohm and right now it looks like he went 0-4..and that is extremely bad folks. All Prohm had to do is land 1 stud in last years class and this team would probably be fine..but they struck out on all 4 and it might just cost Prohm his job.
From the little I know, I like Steve as a person. As others have said, he seems to be a good ambassador for the university. He came into a difficult situation, following maybe the most beloved son of ISU ever. Standing in Fred’s shadow has to be tough. He also is a pretty good recruiter. Part of this team’s issues are that two guys left early for the draft. That makes it tough to assemble a roster.
That said, I see no improvement in the team. Our offensive sets aren’t especially good. Our OOB plays never seem to produce. His substitutions make no sense. And he uses timeouts terribly - tonight there were two occasions when we hit a big three and he called a TO right after, basically cooling us off and taking the crowd out of it.
The Iowa game was tough to stomach. This was inexcusable. If we don’t finish .500 in league play, time to fire Coach Prohm.
That said, I see no improvement in the team. Our offensive sets aren’t especially good. Our OOB plays never seem to produce. His substitutions make no sense. And he uses timeouts terribly - tonight there were two occasions when we hit a big three and he called a TO right after, basically cooling us off and taking the crowd out of it.
The Iowa game was tough to stomach. This was inexcusable. If we don’t finish .500 in league play, time to fire Coach Prohm.
.500 in league play? Lol...try just winning 2-3 games.
Maybe we can find another "Creighton" to take CSP off our hands?
Has that chance with Alabama at the end of last season. I got mocked on here for encouraging that to happen.....
There are plenty of successful coaches who are comparatively weak on x&o stuff but good recruiters, and vice-verse. In Prohm’s case it might be worthwhile to think about a Juwan Howard/Phil Martelli type situation but that’s obviously a bit sad considering he’s been a head coach for years. The problem with Prohm is that his teams basically quit with alarming frequency. Didn’t see tonight’s game but I would assume that’s what happened. That comes from the top. He’s not a motivator of men. His teams have no identity because he has no identity.
