What to do with Coach Prohm Poll..
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Is part of that hope he is going to sell a statement he is not going to be running the search? As his track record w the basketball program is not stellar.
He hired the one of the best coaches in Iowa State history. Yes he missed on GMAC but that was not a bad hire as he was getting a P6 job that year. Prohm was definitely questionable and will turn out to be outright terrible but there is plenty of smoke that Prohm may not have been Pollard's primary choice and that Leath stepped in. But that hire is on Jamie. So its not as bad as you make it out to be from a hire perspective.
They could. JP is always working the donors mespecially on the entertainment center.
I thought it was pretty much confirmed that Pollard just wanted to hire TJ and Leath wanted somebody else. Leath offered Bryce Drew, who ended up taking Vanderbilt instead, and then offered it to Prohm.
I am going to blame this one on Leath -- yet another reason to dislike him.
Any chance we could put the basketball program under the Campbell umbrella?
I like it!
Any chance we could put the basketball program under the Campbell umbrella?
We joke, but I'm not so sure he couldn't do better than what we see now.
I agree. They have looked like they did last night ever since Morris/Thomas/Naz/Burton finished playing. They look totally clueless. Standing around, lost on defense, no effort. Does he ever yell at his players?
Even if this is true, Pollard should get the blame (or credit if it went well). Coaching hires are pretty much a crapshoot but Prohm will likely go down as his worst one by far. Even the ones that didn't work out were pretty good hires - Chizik, Campbell, GMAC were all very solid and made a ton of sense. Rhoads was out of no where but kinda worked. Hoiberg was way out of no where and it worked great. Prohm clearly isn't ready for big time college basketball.
Go back and look at JP's shorts lists:
Brian Kelly, Jim Harbaugh, Bryce Drew (didn't work out), Brad Underwood - all would have been awesome for Iowa State. He did pick the turd between Chizik, Kelly, and Harbaugh but none of those three were staying at ISU very long (and Pollard learned from that). And then look at his hires: Rhoads was marginal and couldn't sustain some initial success (not really Pollard's fault). Campbell will be far and away the greatest coach in Iowa State history. GMAC didn't work but had other P6 offers, Hoiberg is arguably the best coach in ISU basketball history for sustained success. And Prohm was a complete failure.
That's pretty damn good for an AD if you look around the country.
Pollard has hired three men's basketball coaches and three football coaches.
He has also fired a basketball coach and two football coaches, one of them (McCarney) an ISU legend.
I'll give Pollard credit -- he is a survivor. Not many ADs last long enough to have that many bites at the apple.
Fired McCarney
Chizik left for Auburn
Fired Rhoads
Campbell is hopefully a lifer
Fired Morgan
McDermott left for Creighton
Hoiberg left for Chicago
Still have Prohm
...yep, looks like it.
I have no doubt that with the right staff Campbell could get decent results out of the mbb program.
My knowledge base outside of FB, MBB, and a little WBB and VB is pretty limited.
I know a lot of you guys on here like wrestling, which is great, but it was never my thing.
Two years too late though, right? JP never pulls the trigger when he should. Rhoads should of been gone a year earlier as well.
I thought Fred essentially begged for the job and Pollard passed on him for GMAC?
No brainer after GMAC left for Creighton. I don't think Pollard had to work too hard.
Let's be serious other than the Campbell hire its been rough overall for Pollard and remember we lost 2 great coaches that were Alumni, Sanderson and Kindler Gymnastics now winning NCAA titles at OU.
No brainer after GMAC left for Creighton. I don't think Pollard had to work too hard.
Let's be serious other than the Campbell hire its been rough overall for Pollard and remember we lost 2 great coaches that were Alumni, Sanderson and Kindler Gymnastics now winning NCAA titles at OU.
Wait, what? You aren't giving Pollard credit for the guts it took to hire Fred Hoiberg? That's insane.
