Hoiberg interview on ISU in Sweet 16
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believe what you want. The fragility of our fanbase on this subject is funny. It obviously makes everyone feel better, so that's good.
I would hope most Bulls fans realize how much the injuries to key players affected this years results, and they still have a shot at the play-offs. It would be like us losing Niang, Morris, Nader and other players for big chunks out of the year. But you're probably right, many NBA fans don't care about the facts, only results.
If you're referring to the Minny interview, that wasn't serious. He was "talking" and leveraging. I have been called up by different companies/departments and "interviewed" by their request. As a professional curtesy I talked to them, however didn't intend on leaving my current position. I did that in case I had/wanted to do that in the future rather than burn that bridge. Fred had contracts, so can even leverage that into the convos. We've been over this numerous times in the past--he wasn't serious about another NCAA job.
Furthermore in that interview, he again mentioned how he didn't miss the recruiting calls. I don't think he'd want that again.
I have no idea and neither do you. Do you really think it isn't in hoibergs beat interest to float the story that there was only one job he wanted instead of the fact that he didn't like his job?
Was it a big distraction when Hoiberg's family was sitting behind their bench in Denver? Didn't think so.
Fred Hoiburg owes ISU absolutely nothing. When he was a nationally recruited player out of high school he turned down national programs like Arizona and Nebraska to stay in Ames and play for a coach with a middling record. While he was here he helped ISU return to the NCAA tournament. What did ISU do? They fired his coach when he was a senior. Still he did not transfer and instead helped the next coach get established.
While he was a professional player he left nothing but good publicity and promotion for Ames and ISU. Charged us absolutely nothing for the positive pub. After he ended his NBA career he asked ISU to coach theCyclones when we had a vacancy. ISU turned him down and hired McDoormat. It was only after GM left a broken program that we turned to Fred. Fred single handedly dragged ISU out of the gutter and put it back on the national map.
The man has heart challenges. He cannot promise his own children he will be there when they come home from school that night. Yet some selfish people cannot understand that he may actually have more than one item on his bucket list. I commend him for pursuing his dream of coaching an NBA team. He did not leave this place in the lurch like the last coach. Instead he left a talented roster with promising prospects. He answered every query and call from Coach Prohm. Would he do what he has done if he did not have a special place in his heart for ISU? Not every great ISU alumni spends the rest of his life as an employee of ISU. Fred will always be a true Cyclone. The difference is Fred has life opportunities most of us could only dream about. He also understands that life is finite and unpredictable.
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Seriously, if jsb is this obsessed with Hoiberg that she gets this "stalkerish" over him after he "dumped" us, I really feel bad for all of her high school boyfriends that got tired of putting up with her **** and are still having to deal with it years later. jsb is the reason why restraining orders were created.
No issues with Fred leaving .
I don't like your statement about JO being an average coach . Btw, it's not not like it had been a long time since we were in the NCAAs before Fred played . Thinking we were there the year before, or at least two seasons before . So please don't throw JO under the bus .
If the Bulls eventually Tim Floyd (fire) Fred and the ISU job is not open (Because Prohm is tearing it up) at that time I'd have no issues with him coaching anywhere in college EXCEPT another Big XII school or EIU.
