Miles Bridges tweet
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It's like playing 7-degrees of Kevin Bacon. It always comes back to Chizik! Bridges> Fred> Fred's Replacement> Pollard> Pollard's Past Hires> Chizik.
On any given Cyclone Fanatic thread you can usually get to Chizik in about 6 posts, whether its a football, or basketball thread. Politics & GLobal Warming threads usually take 7.
By who? a kid from iowa, that played in iowa, and only coached at lower level schools in the midwest (n. dakota/iowa/nebraska) with limited success... with that kind of worldly experience he should have been a home run hire for a conference like the big12, right?
It was. Both he and Chizik were highly regarded when they were hired. I can't say I can blame JP for two hires that I thought were good at the time.
I was actually in favor of keeping Wayne Morgan around for another year or two, rather than hiring McDermott.
Seems a tad cocky..
“They say I’d fit in really well (at ISU),” he said. “They’ll run their offense around me every play.” - See more at: http://amestrib.com/hines-hoops/catching-miles-bridges-16-mi#sthash.lTCz9V5v.dpuf
Anyways.. want!
Maybe Fred renegotiates a deal with huge NBA buyout and says he'll stay for a while and he comes... This could be a blessing in disguise!
.....or not. Who knows.
We do it with Niang. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if our coaches told him that.
Call me crazy but if I were an accomplished elite offensive player I would want the offense run through me rather than around me.
Just sayin.
Just sayin.
There were a number of power 5 schools going after his services, including two from our own conference kstate and Colorado to name a few. And had just led uni to three straight tournament bids. But don't let facts get in the way.
I was excited when JP hired McDermott. I thought it was a home run hire.
Upon further inspection though, it was obvious that McDermott was not a Big XII ready coach. Winning 3 mid-major conference tournaments is not that impressive when you consider McDermott went 0-3 in the NCAA Tournament at UNI. Fortunately for ISU, JP has matured as an AD and gotten better at his job.
McD was a better option than most of the other finalists. McD came in last second from what I remember. I think most other options that year were fired at their school a few years later.