Wayne Morgan WATN

[Nuts4Cy]

I realize that Rob is putting together a Wayne Morgan Where Are They Now article and it's coming out soon. However, I saw this on twitter earlier today and thought it was an amazing recap of the entire Wayne Morgan era. It had interviews with a number of players, and even Bill Self. It's long, but well worth it. Being a student during the Wayne era, I can't wait to see what Rob & Chris put together here at CF.

http://carmonwilson.wixsite.com/cyc...2017/05/31/The-Wayne-Morgan-Era-In-retrospect

 

[CTTB78]

Didn't realize that it was only five days after Morgan was fired that Jamie announced the hiring of McDormatt.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Here I thought Wayne was now a sports anchor on the TV station WATN.

 

[Pat]

Didn't realize that it was only five days after Morgan was fired that Jamie announced the hiring of McDormatt.

McDermott was going to accept an offer from K-State, so Jamie had to move fast with a better deal. How's that for an alternate timeline: McDermott to KSU instead of Huggins for a year, and then Martin.

 

[tim_redd]

McDermott was going to accept an offer from K-State, so Jamie had to move fast with a better deal. How's that for an alternate timeline: McDermott to KSU instead of Huggins for a year, and then Martin.

And Iowa State hires Fred.

 

[Knownothing]

I always thought Wayne got a raw deal. I mean he was not the future as far as I could tell. However, his record at Iowa State was not bad. Plus he recruited Shawn Taggart who might be the biggest disappointment in Iowa State basketball history. Below average first year and then transferred to Memphis

 

[jsb]

I always thought Wayne got a raw deal. I mean he was not the future as far as I could tell. However, his record at Iowa State was not bad. Plus he recruited Shawn Taggart who might be the biggest disappointment in Iowa State basketball history. Below average first year and then transferred to Memphis

I've always felt like the scheduling thing was probably shady.

 

[madguy30]

Didn't realize that it was only five days after Morgan was fired that Jamie announced the hiring of McDormatt.

And just a few minutes into McDermott's introduction he mentioned looking forward to beating Iowa some more since that was his staple win every season, and I had a bad feeling about the hire.

 

[mb7299]

The records werent horrible when he was here but it was tough watching the way we played very disorganized and way to much isolation. Wish there had been a way to keep him as an assistant as that really was his strength. McDoormat truly killed my love of ISU, I literally didnt watch a full game for the years he was there and Im a huge Cyclone basketball fan but that was awful all the way around.

 

[Nuts4Cy]

Here I thought Wayne was now a sports anchor on the TV station WATN.

The first paragraph states that this was written in 2014...

 

[CapnCy]

McDermott was going to accept an offer from K-State, so Jamie had to move fast with a better deal. How's that for an alternate timeline: McDermott to KSU instead of Huggins for a year, and then Martin.

Yeah, that definitely would have been a "change the course of college basketball" type of thing....likely KSU would have taken their Woolridge slump and just been even further buried. Huggins for a year there really did change their basketball course back to the positive.

 

[jbindm]

The records werent horrible when he was here but it was tough watching the way we played very disorganized and way to much isolation. Wish there had been a way to keep him as an assistant as that really was his strength. McDoormat truly killed my love of ISU, I literally didnt watch a full game for the years he was there and Im a huge Cyclone basketball fan but that was awful all the way around.

Yep. I checked out for pretty much the entire McDermott era. I don't mind watching a bad team; I've said numerous times that Fred's first team was my favorite from his era because you could see guys buying into his program and benefiting from his system. Success was just a matter of time. But McDermott's teams were bad and mostly boring. You can be one or the other, but you better not be both.

Anyway, I'm straying away from the thread. I'm looking forward to the Wayne Morgan WATN. He's kind of a forgotten figure in ISU basketball history.

 

[TedKumsher]

I always thought Wayne got a raw deal. I mean he was not the future as far as I could tell. However, his record at Iowa State was not bad. Plus he recruited Shawn Taggart who might be the biggest disappointment in Iowa State basketball history. Below average first year and then transferred to Memphis

I always thought:
03-04 Sullivan, Homan, Vroman, Stinson, Blalock should have been better than NIT
04-05 Homan, Blalock, Stinson, Clark, Staple should have been better than 9-7 conference, 2nd round NCAA
05-06 Blalock, Stinson, Clark, Hubalek should have been better than 16-14, 6-10, lost first round of Big 12 tournament

 

[CascadeClone]

I always thought:
03-04 Sullivan, Homan, Vroman, Stinson, Blalock should have been better than NIT
04-05 Homan, Blalock, Stinson, Clark, Staple should have been better than 9-7 conference, 2nd round NCAA
05-06 Blalock, Stinson, Clark, Hubalek should have been better than 16-14, 6-10, lost first round of Big 12 tournament

100% agree. Graduate of the Ricardo Patton School of Doing Less with More.

WM was nice guy, great recruiter, good with the fanbase (imho), and a decent guy overall. But his teams played kinda like they never practiced together before.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Morgan's teams were great.

They'd dribble the ball between somebody's legs and make a SC Top 10 one play.

Then they would throw the ball out of bounds on an inbounds play the next one.

"Offense? What's that? Just go out there and have fun, boys!"

 

[Dandy]

I always thought Wayne got a raw deal. I mean he was not the future as far as I could tell. However, his record at Iowa State was not bad. Plus he recruited Shawn Taggart who might be the biggest disappointment in Iowa State basketball history. Below average first year and then transferred to Memphis

For me (showing my age) it has to be Chris Colvin.

 

[Bryce7]

100% agree. Graduate of the Ricardo Patton School of Doing Less with More.

WM was nice guy, great recruiter, good with the fanbase (imho), and a decent guy overall. But his teams played kinda like they never practiced together before.

Sounds like Tales of McD.

 

[FarminCy]

Sounds like Tales of McD.

Nah. Tales of McD was watching the team count in their head how many passes they made so they knew it was safe to shoot a bad shot with the shot clock running out.

Then watching Wesley Johnson score on a great play and then get benched for not following the pass count rule.

 

[LindenCy]

Yep. I checked out for pretty much the entire McDermott era. I don't mind watching a bad team; I've said numerous times that Fred's first team was my favorite from his era because you could see guys buying into his program and benefiting from his system. Success was just a matter of time. But McDermott's teams were bad and mostly boring. You can be one or the other, but you better not be both.

Anyway, I'm straying away from the thread. I'm looking forward to the Wayne Morgan WATN. He's kind of a forgotten figure in ISU basketball history.

I do owe the McDermott era some cheap and great season tickets to ISU bball, however!

 

[Cyclonic1]

If the author would learn the difference between there & their it would have been a lot easier to read.