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Official 2015 Hoiberg NBA Speculation Thread

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mtowncyclone13 said:
It's odd that no media members will call JP and ask if Fred is leaving. it's like they want to dance around the issue as to not make the athletic department mad. Not sure if that's a product of the media members individually or the small town mentality of needing to get along with everyone.
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It's sad that the local media is so good old boys club that there isn't a young go-getter out there to go and ring Fred's doorbell. It makes for good TV anyway.
 
cloneteach said:
That isn't squashing jack ****. I would love to end my career in the job I'm in now. That doesn't mean I'm going to not listen to someone offering twice the money.

Fred really doesn't have anything to gain by saying anything either way. Honestly, what if he passes up the Bulls job and Cleveland fires Blatt? Can he say no to that? Fred has played this extremely well. People would rake him over the coals if he said he was staying and then backtracked on his word.
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People are trying to make the claim that Hoiberg has always been silent about this stuff before. Not true. The quote above was from Hoiberg right after he signed his new contract in April 2014, and it absolutely killed off legitimate NBA speculation last year. If saying the above doesn't mean jack **** then why not repeat it again now? He won't because he knows it would be a lie to say it now. I think this is how he actually felt last year--too bad things have changed for him.
 
greatshu said:
Why worry? We can't control what he wants to do with his life. It's his decision and he doesn't owe us anything. He already have us a gift of excitement and brought back Hilton Magic.

Worrying about this whole deal is like worrying about whether your gf/bf is going to cheat on you. If he decides to leave, we will wish him the best and hope he'll be back again when his NBA career is over.
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Not worried, just very sad to see him go.

(Stage #4 of Loss and Grief: Depression)
 
Cpech56 said:
That's not because their trying to hide anything but rather their too scared to grow a pair and be the first one to let the cat out of the bag. Their assuming the Bulls job will open at which point Fred will take the job but also at the same time understand there's still a very small chance that it wont open for some odd reason and he'll remain at ISU. Their dipping their hands in the cookie jar but their too scared to take a cookie because Grandma's right around the corner.
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They're, they're, they're, they're and they're.
 
EatemupISU said:
People are trying to make the claim that Hoiberg has always been silent about this stuff before. Not true. The quote above was from Hoiberg right after he signed his new contract in April 2014, and it absolutely killed off legitimate NBA speculation last year. If saying the above doesn't mean jack **** then why not repeat it again now? He won't because he knows it would be a lie to say it now. I think this is how he actually felt last year--too bad things have changed for him.
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He Gone

(Stage #5 of Loss and Grief: Acceptance)
 
RubyClone said:
Well, to be fair, Calipari has played the NBA game already and currently makes more than most NBA coaches. He has 6.5 million reason to make a blanket statement.
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I get that. Really, I do. But I guess that I must simply be a very different sort of person. To me, 2mil and 6mil doesn't come down to the difference of green in my account.

For me, coaching in my hometown, for my alma mater where I played, and basically having a lifetime welcome and legendary status, where the actual mayer calls me "The Mayor" more than makes up that difference.

To each his own.
 
Gunnerclone said:
It's sad that the local media is so good old boys club that there isn't a young go-getter out there to go and ring Fred's doorbell. It makes for good TV anyway.
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I think they would...

They just don't know if he's in Minneapolis, Chicago, New Orleans or Orlando.
 
EatemupISU said:
Incorrect. He squashed the rumors pretty soundly last year when he said this:

“I’d love to end my career here,†Hoiberg said in a phone interview with the Ames Tribune. “I’ve got something special in Ames. My kids get to see their grandparents every day if they want to, and that’s stuff you can’t replace. To look up in the crowd (during games) and there’s my parents, my in-laws, my brother, my sister-in-law, my other brother drives over from Omaha a lot, just to have that family support, you can’t replace that.“I’m very happy here. My kids love it. I’d love to spend the rest of my career here.†- See more at: http://amestrib.com/sports/men-s-basketball-hoiberg-gets-raise-isu#sthash.b0gtayAr.dpuf
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In the same article Pollard says "the NBA stuff is a whole separate animal and whether he wants to coach in the NBA, which he's never indicated to me, that's a decision he'd have to make. But I thought Pollard recently said something to the effect that from day 1 Hoiberg has been up front about wanting to go to the NBA. These two statements don't say the same thing to me.
 
DesignerClone said:
I get that. Really, I do. But I guess that I must simply be a very different sort of person. To me, 2mil and 6mil doesn't come down to the difference of green in my account.

For me, coaching in my hometown, for my alma mater where I played, and basically having a lifetime welcome and legendary status, where the actual mayer calls me "The Mayor" more than makes up that difference.

To each his own.
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Actually - it's a bit more of the idea that Fred apparently really wants to try his hand at the NBA, where as Calipari already has (and failed). I'd be hard pressed to summarily dismiss overtures that would 2x or 3x my income. Yes - at some point you're just piling money into an account. He's living just fine as is.

And people tend to forget, Fred as much attachment as we can make of Fred and ISU. He has every bit as much, if not more, to the NBA between 10 playing and however many more in the front office.
 
EatemupISU said:
People are trying to make the claim that Hoiberg has always been silent about this stuff before. Not true. The quote above was from Hoiberg right after he signed his new contract in April 2014, and it absolutely killed off legitimate NBA speculation last year. If saying the above doesn't mean jack **** then why not repeat it again now? He won't because he knows it would be a lie to say it now. I think this is how he actually felt last year--too bad things have changed for him.
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He said that last year when he made a decision. He hasn't made a decision yet. I wouldn't want him to say something like that until he made a decision.
 
KnappShack said:
Looks like we've started correcting grammar now. Can anyone confirm if "He gone" is grammatically correct?
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It's not that it's grammatically incorrect. It's that it's an obnoxious little phrase that is getting repeated ad ******* nauseum. HASHTAG HE GONE.
 
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