What would you do with McDermott?

[URBCLONE]

Fire him after the Big 12 Tournament.

This program is being run into the ground. What does another sub-.500 season do for ISU BB?
Why did a coach who had never won a conference title nor a NCAA Tournament game deserve a contract until 2015?
How does another year of a half-filled Hilton Coliseum help to turn this program around?
What reason is there to expect that more time is the answer to this program's problems?

 

[cyclone79]

Honor his contract. Give him 5 more years. There is nothing wrong with being in the bottom 1/3 of the conference.

 

[woodie]

give gmac a scholly and let him try out for defensive tasckle on our football team.maybe wally burnham could teach him how to play football.he doesn't have much utility for coaching basketball.

 

[Enginerd]

I would do exactly what ISU is doing:

Ride the contract out until you can afford to buy it out. Who knows, the guy may decide to toughen up along the way.

 

[Enginerd]

Honor his contract. Give him 5 more years. There is nothing wrong with being in the bottom 1/6 of the conference.

Corrected

 

[Tornado man]

I can't believe the mileage Gmac has gotten out of the K-State win. John and Eric were still talking more about that on tonight's post-game than Texas...

 

[TD37]

1. He hasn't forgot how to coach. What he did at UNI and wherever he was before, was amazing.
2. This year was like a year one (go ahead, rip into me). He had so many new faces, with a new offensive system. He essentially became our "new" coach this year by recruiting a different type of player and running a new system.
3. Finding a new coach is just as big of a risk as keeping McDermott. If the next coach doesn't work out, we'd be in big trouble.

1 - If what he did at UNI is so awesome, how is there program just as good now?
2 - Please tell me why McD would wait until after this season and until after all his talent is gone to switch offenses. Please some please tell me what offense we ran? a stagnant motion?
3 - So if we give McD another year... I guarantee we see the same results. If he can't with talent, how do you expect to win w/o it?

 

[URBCLONE]

1. He hasn't forgot how to coach. What he did at UNI and wherever he was before, was amazing.
2. This year was like a year one (go ahead, rip into me). He had so many new faces, with a new offensive system. He essentially became our "new" coach this year by recruiting a different type of player and running a new system.
3. Finding a new coach is just as big of a risk as keeping McDermott. If the next coach doesn't work out, we'd be in big trouble.

1 - If what he did at UNI is so awesome, how is there program just as good now?
2 - Please tell me why McD would wait until after this season and until after all his talent is gone to switch offenses. Please some please tell me what offense we ran? a stagnant motion?
3 - So if we give McD another year... I guarantee we see the same results. If he can't with talent, how do you expect to win w/o it?

Great questions! And the answer is that it doesn't matter because GM is a good guy with integrity. Wins and losses - irrelevant. Talent or lack therof - irrelevent. Our duty as fans is to shut up and support blindly whatever product is put on the court as long as the program has 'integrity'.

 

[CYnI]

What would I do with Greg Mc Dermott?
Close my lips and give him, the staff, the assistants all the support I can so together we achieve better results.

 

[rholtgraves]

He has shown time and again that he doesn't make good game time decisions. He inexplicably takes people out of the game when they are doing well. Just look at last night; we scored seven straight points to get the lead back down to 1 and then he switches up the line-up that brought us back in the game. Also he doesn't know how to coach in close games which is why we lost so many of them. We should have lost the KState game in regulation. We had the ball with what? 30 some seconds, no Brackins, had closed out a game well all season, and had two timeouts. SO you think he would have called a timeout and set up a play but no we freakin panic and turn it over giving Kstate a chance to win it in regulation.

 

[CyBobby]

No freaking way does Mac go back to UNI. Would you take a 4x pay cut to take a lesser job at your work? I doubt it.

Words of Wisdom for sure..................Paycut NO ... NO .... HELL NO.......

 

[BigBake]

Would anyone be suprised if the UNI job became available if GM would jump at it?

If Jacobson takes another job I wouldn't be suprised at all. GM is aleady pitching in the top of the 9th down 0-4 with bases loaded and a 3 balls on the batter.
Plus his son is going there.

This idea keeps getting floated but it's ridiculous. UNI is not going hire and their fans would not accept the hiring of Mac.

He has thus far failed miserably at ISU while their program has excelled. There is no way they accept our leftovers.

Would Mac go back to a mid major...sure. You can bet it won't be UNI though.

 

[Stormin]

G-Mac's first year he did pretty well. Morgan would have tanked with Stinson and Blalock gone........and they would have left. Morgan's team lacked discipline. It was the same story at Long Beach State when Morgan was there.

This year would have been much different with a healthy VanderBeeken, and if Staiger had stayed. Add in that Dendy was gone for a few games, Christopherson had mono, Boozer gets injured for the year. And you can see that we just lost too much.

I wouldn't pull the plug just yet. Loved Strap and CB. But at times CB could just disappear. And if this team could hit their FT's they would be in the NCAA's.

 

[CYKOFAN]

GMac would have done better than Morgan that first year? Wow, what is that based on? Morgan went 2-1 against GMac's best 3 UNI teams, beat 9 ranked teams to GMac's 1, and went 5-2 in tournaments GMac can't even get us in to. And discipline? Morgan had one player get in trouble (George) and kicked him off immediately. Taylor got in trouble 3 times before GMac gave him the boot. Stinson didn't practice hard one day and didn't get to start against #2 Kansas (a game we won by the way). GMac lays the law down to Colvin then caves on the punishment when he needed him for games. Tell me again how Morgan had no discipline. But keep living in that fantasy world where Morgan was a bad coach and GMac is a good coach, despite all the facts that prove the contrary.

 

[Wesley]

I thought he was a lock for five more years because we had no money.:notworthy:

 

[ISUonthemove]

1. He hasn't forgot how to coach. What he did at UNI and wherever he was before, was amazing.
2. This year was like a year one (go ahead, rip into me). He had so many new faces, with a new offensive system. He essentially became our "new" coach this year by recruiting a different type of player and running a new system.
3. Finding a new coach is just as big of a risk as keeping McDermott. If the next coach doesn't work out, we'd be in big trouble.

1 - If what he did at UNI is so awesome, how is there program just as good now?
2 - Please tell me why McD would wait until after this season and until after all his talent is gone to switch offenses. Please some please tell me what offense we ran? a stagnant motion?
3 - So if we give McD another year... I guarantee we see the same results. If he can't with talent, how do you expect to win w/o it?

Mac took UNI from absolutely bottom of the MVC to the NCAA Tournament 4 times in 6 years, I believe. In years where the MVC didn't suck like it does now. He was competing against So IL, Creighton and Wichita St.

I'm not saying Mac is going to turn this around. I even thought he should be fired just a couple weeks ago. After thinking about it more, why take that huge of a risk in another hire? Do we really want to be paying for essentially, 3 coaches at one time?

 

[Wesley]

What would I do with Greg Mc Dermott?
Close my lips and give him, the staff, the assistants all the support I can so together we achieve better results.

That would be good for about 15 wins......

 

[clones_jer]

Mac took UNI from absolutely bottom of the MVC to the NCAA Tournament 4 times in 6 years, I believe. In years where the MVC didn't suck like it does now. He was competing against So IL, Creighton and Wichita St.

I'm not saying Mac is going to turn this around. I even thought he should be fired just a couple weeks ago. After thinking about it more, why take that huge of a risk in another hire? Do we really want to be paying for essentially, 3 coaches at one time?

what's the "huge risk"? that we won't win a single game in the Big 12?

 

[clones_jer]

What would I do with Greg Mc Dermott?
Close my lips and give him, the staff, the assistants all the support I can so together we achieve better results.

make sure you close both sets.

 

[CYKOFAN]

GMac did have good success at UNI, though he never won a conference title or NCAA game. He also blew a huge lead in the conerence his last year to finish 2nd or 3rd. But who was always with GMac when he had his success at UNI and also at NDS? And who has quickly taken UNI to new heights GMac didn't achieve? Maybe the best thing GMac did as a coach was hire Jacobsen, and it's too bad he didn't bring him along when he came to ISU.