Official Announcement of TJ as the New Iowa State Mens BBall Coach

[Stormin]

I wonder where mynameisjonas is tonight. I’m assuming really pissed still over the T.J. hire.

mynameisjonas. He is still pissed about the “process” of hiring TJ. Probably wants to give Prohm credit for this Sweet Sixteen.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Someone randomly liked one of my posts in this thread on page 2 lol so I had to do a little recreational reading and whew boy!!!!

 

[OrangeCarrot]

Someone randomly liked one of my posts in this thread on page 2 lol so I had to do a little recreational reading and whew boy!!!!

I’ve been trying to run out the clock at work and stumbled upon this mess of a thread. Lol

 

[Sigmapolis]

The idiots with the bad takes on TJ were exactly the ones you'd suspect.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

The idiots with the bad takes on TJ were exactly the ones you'd suspect.

All I'm saying is I owned up to my bad take sometime when this thread was resurrected last time or another thread when it was called out.

 

[Cyforce]

Sorry for having expectations. Sorry for using facts and data. Sorry for being offended by an absurdly lazy and nepotistic hiring process where we hired a guy that NOBODY ELSE is even after.

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Just for a little perspective. I used T Rank to compare the career averages for each coach in the Big XII. Smart, Beard, Phrom and TJ are the only coaches that had info available at the mid major level. I included a break down of their averages at each level. Chris Beard made the biggest improvement from his one year at ARL. He improved by 48 spots. TJ will have to improve by 54 places to match Steve Prohm's ISU career average.

I hope for the best for everyone involved, but this is a big leap of faith.

Would it be possible for you to update this?

 

[Sigmapolis]

Would it be possible for you to update this?

All rankings from Torvik

Prohm at Murray St. (first tenure not counting the return) = averaged 96.25
Prohm at Iowa St. (including all of his seasons in Ames) = averaged 66.17
Prohm at Iowa St. (removing first two seasons with Hoiberg guys) = averaged 89.75

Improved by 30.08 spots with Fred's guys included. Improved 6.5 without them.

TJ at South Dakota St. and UNLV = averaged 121
TJ at Iowa St. = averaged 26

Improved by 95 spots.

 

[madguy30]

So how is this going?

 

[brett108]

This is going to be the best first three years of any coach at ISU in men’s basketball. It turns out it was TJ not the Mayor.

 

[madguy30]

This is going to be the best first three years of any coach at ISU in men’s basketball. It turns out it was TJ not the Mayor.

Floyd deserves mention.

 

[3TrueFans]

Would it be possible for you to update this?

@joefrog had a horrendously bad take?! This is my shocked face.

 

[rosshm16]

So how is this going?

He is doing alright.

 

[danvillecyclone]

It’s only because he was able to bring Gilbert along.

/S

 

[Gunnerclone]

This is going to be the best first three years of any coach at ISU in men’s basketball. It turns out it was TJ not the Mayor.

Bad day for National search firm proper searches.

 

[madguy30]

@joefrog had a horrendously bad take?! This is my shocked face.

Is it petty to go through and try to slim this down to a Top Ten Takes type of deal with quotes?

I'll answer my own question: yes, it is petty.

But would it be pretty entertaining? Isn't petty entertaining!?

 

[cyclonehomer]

The idiots with the bad takes on TJ were exactly the ones you'd suspect.

Never been happier to be more wrong in my life. TJ has been a revelation since basically day 1.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

I won't call out the person that posted this list suggesting TJ didn't belong with this group. Lots of people - including me - wondered if TJ could measure up. What I found curious is the status of all of these coaches. In reality only Self, Drew, and debatably Dixon have measured up to TJ. Smart has, too, but is no longer in the conference.

Mar 18, 2021

Self... still going strong
Huggins... fired
Kruger... retired
Beard... hired away by Texa$ then fired
Drew.... still going strong
Weber... resigned after 3 bad seasons
Shaka .... Left Texas under pressure. Has Marquette in the top ten.
Boynton... Still at OSU but struggling
Dixon.... Still going strong but TCU seems to have peaked. (?)

......Otzelberger..... from 2-22 to 22-6. Back to back sweet 16s.

 

[Helser 83]

Someone randomly liked one of my posts in this thread on page 2 lol so I had to do a little recreational reading and whew boy!!!!

So probably no Rot in the previous 1100 posts. Well that's comforting at least.

 

[ebState]

......Otzelberger..... from 2-22 to 22-6. Back to back sweet 16s.

Do I need to lay off the booze or...?

 

[NorthCyd]

Do I need to lay off the booze or...?