Official 2015 Hoiberg NBA Speculation Thread
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This is worse and the timing is going to be so bad. The transfer game is all but done for this year and any coach coming in is going to be behind on the 2016 class.
well. this. sucks. and yes, it is going to cripple isu athletics. fred leaving is devastating because of all the interviews and stories from national media playing up his loyalty to isu, his "dream" job coaching in ames, and it was his "schtick" being the mayor. he leaves- i say we strip "the mayor" from him. if fred won't stay we won't be able to find someone to maintain a highly successful program here. isu will always be a stepping stone.
i hope he stays, but his silence has been deafening and i would now be shocked if he stays.
The process does too in the sense that if Fred does decide to stay there is that lingering feeling that at the end of any season from here on out he's a goner. It'll kill the transfer game the most. Opposing coaches will be able to tell the players "Why transfer to ISU? There is no guarantee that after you sit a year you will be playing for Fred".
No. We chose to believe that. He led us to believe that he was very happy in Ames. No reason to doubt that. There were always bits and pieces of evidence that he was intrigued by the NBA.
It's always been a dream and goal of his to Coach in the NBA and that was made clear from Day 1.
At this point, if he chooses to stay, he'll probably make a stronger statement than "I will be ISU's coach for the 2015-16 season"
Did Fred ever actually use the words "ISU is my dream job"? I'm honestly asking because I don't know. There is a world of difference between saying that as compared to saying "coaching at ISU has been a dream of mine".
Yeah, I don't care about any of that. I don't need to hear a bunch of meaningless ********. He knows what he's doing to ISU with this move. There is nothing he can say that will fix that and there's nothing that's going to make the move less harsh. He likes ISU, just not enough to stay. That's all fine, just save me the horse ****.
Words won't matter though. Not after this. The last few days will be used against him on the recruiting trail for as long as he remains here, if he chooses to stay.
This. You don't leave a dream job after 5 years to go onto the next job.
People wanted to think Fred was different than the typical coach. But he's not. He continually leveraged the AD for more money, he said he wanted to hang banners, he has flirted with the NBA on more than one occasion all while professing his love for Iowa State. And all of that is fine but let's not pretend Fred is different than his other coaching peers. I know we all want to believe differently but it's just not true.
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