FootballScoop.com says Rhoads is gone*

[Trice]

http://footballscoop.com/news/paul-rhoads-has-been-dismissed-at-iowa-state/

Just to add my own thoughts, I'm very saddened by this. Paul is one of us and the type of guy we need to be successful here. Like Dan McCarney he took us to places we hadn't been before. But it's been three straight bad years and this year was perhaps the most painful because of at least three lost opportunities for wins. It probably had to happen.

It sucks for all of us but that's the business. We have the right to dream of having more success than we currently do, to be a Kansas State or an Oklahoma State or a Baylor. And now we get to try again to see if we can achieve it.

But I hope we can all thank Paul Rhoads and his staff for what he did for the program.

 

[HFCS]

Who are the best "power football" ball control offensive coaches out there among OCs and non P5 HCs? That's my list.

I don't care if it's a stepping stone coach, we have the players on offense to win that way next year if we get that type of coach.

 

[madguy30]

Great guy and exactly what ISU needs for a coach from a passion/dedication standpoint, so it's unfortunate from that view.

But yesterday's final 1:30 was means for someone not to be a head coach at pretty much any level.

This should be an interesting week and off-season if true.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

I have a feeling that we are going to get a surprise hire to replace Rhoads. Leath knows exactly how important this is. This could be a Johnny Orr-type situation for the football program where we just outbid another Power Five program to take their guy from them.

We better otherwise it will be more of the same.

 

[JackTrice3]

Paul Rhoads Terminated

The people have spoken!

Thank God

 

[CyJack13]

Excellent news! Glad Pollard stepped up to the plate on this one

 

[HFCS]

Great guy and exactly what ISU needs for a coach from a passion/dedication standpoint, so it's unfortunate from that view.

But yesterday's final 1:30 was means for someone not to be a head coach at pretty much any level.

This should be an interesting week and off-season if true.

The Toledo game also helps to make that 90 seconds seem like it is not a fluke.

 

[jsb]

No one should be celebrating this; he poured his heart and soul into the program. He's a fellow Iowan and you know he genuinely loved Ames Iowa.

This is a business decision. The time has come for a new direction. Thank you for your service to our university, Paul.

you need a message board timeout, mister

why exactly?

Because I think its OK to feel bad that a necessary decision has been made?

Iowa State football has been a **** show for its entire history. Rhoads was about the level of all of the rest of the 'losers' that coached here. In some ways (wins over ranked teams, conference wins on the road), Rhoads was better than the others.

The last 3 years have been bad. I don't disagree with the decision to fire him, but I sure as hell don't think this is some great victory for Iowa State. We'll likely end up with another coach who will follow the exact same road as the rest of them.

 

[gocubs2118]

Excellent news! Glad Pollard stepped up to the plate on this one

I'm sure he was pushed to do this, especially since it came before the season ended.

 

[SouthTulsaPoke]

Re: Paul Rhoads has been fired....

This is your AD trying to save his own neck. Good luck finding a better coach with all the openings this year.

 

[clonedude]

I just hope JP spends whatever it is he can afford to on a new coaching staff. This is not the time to penny pinch again. Not with the program that makes all the money for the rest of your programs.

He saved over a million a year with bringing Prohm on board versus Hoiberg, but he better not think he can do the same thing with the new football coach. I'd say he needs to offer someone at least 3 million a year for football. You can't go to the discount shelf for a new football coach these days.

 

[CyArob]

Hey hey hey goodbye

 

[ISUAgronomist]

I'm sure he was pushed to do this, especially since it came before the season ended.

I bet too.

 

[DoctorUncle]

Either way, CPR gets rich. Pollard should go out with the bad rubbish.

 

[peteypie]

Re: Paul Rhoads has been fired....

This is your AD trying to save his own neck. Good luck finding a better coach with all the openings this year.

Did you watch the KSU game, specifically the second half? I'm pretty sure most high school coaches would have done better.

 

[LutherBlue]

Please be true. Looks like a reprible site:skeptical:

What in the f*** is this word?

 

[BCClone]

Re: Paul Rhoads has been fired....

This is your AD trying to save his own neck. Good luck finding a better coach with all the openings this year.

Not quite. There are better ones. And the prohm hire said we are willing to put some money out there. Guessing a donor wrote a check.

 

[dosry5]

Maybe we'll get white helmets now!

 

[jsb]

I have a feeling that we are going to get a surprise hire to replace Rhoads. Leath knows exactly how important this is. This could be a Johnny Orr-type situation for the football program where we just outbid another Power Five program to take their guy from them.

Oh please. I'd like your delusional brain. There are a ton of much, much, much more appealing Power 5 job openings. A good, established coach isn't going to say "Iowa State has facilities that are comparable with a mid-range power 5 job' or "Iowa State has loyal fans". A good established coach is going to see that the road to winning is a lot faster at a place like Maryland or Illinois or Missouri.

We'll be lucky to get an FCS head coach or a D-1 coordinator. Get prepared for a position coach.

Just remember that we had a top 10 basketball team coming back and the best we could manage is a low-major head coach and our second choice was a great assistant, who had only been to the NCAA tournament with one of his teams once.

 

[CyArob]

Now we need to keep all of our players on board.