Official Announcement of TJ as the New Iowa State Mens BBall Coach
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Hard to do when a lot of guys graduate and transfer. They also weren‘t good before TJ came.
They were better than 8-10 though.
You don’t need to point to the 80’s to be disappointed as a UNLV fan. Just 3 years ago and the fact it was better than this year, and given the possible transfers, likely better than Year 3. They were squarely looking at McD territory. The UNLV version.
You should be happy about that. It likely lowered the buyout. Assuming JP got help negotiating
The timeline would suggest he threw out a fly or a crappie jig as opposed to a trawler sized net. If he reached out to any coaches that are currently in the tournament (and he should have) they would've most likely said to wait until they were out of the tournament.
He would've avoided a lot of this criticism if he had waited until after Monday's games to make the announcement.
The optics on this look bad and I think that's what most people who are complaining are unhappy with...it appears this was all a foregone conclusion but Pollard is trying to lead us to believe it wasn't.
UNLV fans can suck a fat one. I don't give 2 whoops in hell what they say or think.
I would venture a guess they know more about UNLV basketball than we do!
Conversely they don't know **** about ISU. People may have not liked the hire or how it went down but TJ is a Cyclone now and hasn't even coached one game as a HC. In time we might find out it is was a mistake or it was home run but I'll form my own opinion from that. Until then I'll be damned if I allow some douche bag fan base tell me how to feel about.
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I'd also venture to guess that the loudest ones aren't the entirety of their fanbase, just as with ours. And some it is trying to make themselves feel better about hitting the reset button for the second time in three years.
Probably not, but there will be a lot of posters who claim they know.
public university so we have to. You don’t think the newspaper guys are going to dig that up?
Yeah, it clearly was to me. Funny that say Campbell never leaked early. Or McDermott. The whole thing feels staged frankly, and I don’t care for that. If you want TJ just be straight up with it.
I haven’t been vocal for it against him, I’ll root for him to succeed. I just want to be in The tourney often enough.
Not gonna get an argument from someone who would stand outside for 6 hours before a random non-con game at Hilton
I've already stated in multiple threads that I was so-so on TJ. 'Stated' that I wanted Fred, but felt it was a pipe dream and would never happen. And look...I can see why you and others think it was staged, too. I get that. But its all about moving forward and supporting whomever JP hired for me. Doesn't need to be any straighter up than that.
I know I've been pretty vocal about not loving the decision. But this is such an important point. I will keep watching every single game I can and root for him and the team every step of the way.
