It's a ****** year for everyone. There's no reason to fire a coach during a pandemic prior to the season ending. It would accomplish nothing. Not a damn thing. TJ can't take the job until the end of the season anyway.
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It's a ****** year for everyone. There's no reason to fire a coach during a pandemic prior to the season ending. It would accomplish nothing. Not a damn thing. TJ can't take the job until the end of the season anyway.
He isn't setting the world on fire and yes......we can do better. I fear however there is a very good chance that JP is going to go with the comfortable hire that's the least abrasive because he is a familiar face and probably the cheapest option. Heck of a deal.......but here we are.
uh... what? Ok... what exactly have you seen from Walker and Foster that make you think to keep them? Just that they haven't had enough playing time to tell if they are going to be good or not?
Solo would be a great 4th or 5th option. Jackson would be an above average "glue guy" on a decent team. We're trying to build a team here.
CycloneErik
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No reason? Oh, that's far, far from correct.
The selling point is that he's been here and knows what it takes to win here. Fit does have its benefit and is an intangible you can't really measure.
I'm generally of the opinion that there should be a full coaching search, and he should be on that list. If we do an honest search and TJ comes out on top, i'm good with it. But I don't think it'd be a good thing if we just knee jerk hired him without considering anyone else.
Yeah, and if he beat San Jose St. twice that will even his conference record at 7-7. Then 6 of those wins would be against teams with a combined conference record of 6-38. Doesn't exactly jump out as whoa........"let's get him"! But here we are.
Well if it is over 80% then only one or two guys are staying. I would find that a bit abnormal but with the new transfer rule who knows. They aren’t bad kids and some of them are high major talent. But they haven’t been around a culture of winning. After awhile you learn to accept losing behavior. Plenty of examples of that type of behavior in the last 3-4 games.
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He doesn't. It was a rumor started by people who couldn't accept the fact that he took the Chicago job as way to cope with it. It's absolutely false that he or Carol hated living in Ames or would never want to move back.
Edit: the people who have marked this post dumb are the individuals who still haven't gotten over Fred taking the Bulls job nearly 6 years after the fact.
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Well whoever Jamie hires, it needs to be a splash of excitement. Because the program is hanging by a thread.
It would stop all the speculation and squash the fan revolt. Everyone can just move on.
I’m honestly concerned if we whiff into the next coach.
This. Need someone who will be able to sell tickets and bring back excitement. Football funds a good chunk of the department, but football can't get us out of the hole that COVID has left without basketball.
But the fan revolt doesn't matter. 1300 can attend home games. Who the **** cares if fans are pissed off on twitter.
By next October, we'll all think TJ has an NCAA tournament team. LIKE WE ALWAYS DO.
The problem is we won't know what kind of search there is. And that is why I am so against TJ.
Which is probably a good thing for our basketball team because he'll probably be wildly successful and I'll spend the next 5 years hoping he doesn't leave.
