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Fred regrets leaving college?

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People keep thinking the results of this year may make him regret leaving ISU. He does not regret leaving ISU. He loved his time in Ames and did great things, but he's wanted to coach in the NBA and continues to want to do that. It's no secret the 24/7 recruiting wore on him.
 
I don't think he regrets leaving college, however, I think he might regret going to the Bulls.
 
CyArob said:
I don't think he regrets leaving college, however, I think he might regret going to the Bulls.
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Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt that he wishes he'd have stayed one more year and then gone to the T-Wolves.

That said, we're better off this way.
 
Some of the comments on this article, I get the feeling some of the Bulls fans don't like him:

Hoiberg is Mark Trestman. Inevitably soon, the Bulls will need a John Fox.

The only hope that I see for Hoiberg is if he gets a strong Lead assistant coach (Doug Collins) who can prevent the Jimmy Butler's of the world from walking all over him, like a carpet.

Hey, all that matters is that the players like the coach and don't feel pressured to play defense or even play particularly hard on offense, like that nasty Coach Thibodeau used to make them play.
 
there has to be a part of him that misses it, but he wanted to be challenged and he's being challenged.

probably would have been a lot harder for him if ISU would have beat UVA and played in the united center with fred watching while his players cut down the nets.

Fred put ISU back on the map - Prohm hopefully can continue the success, maybe some day down the road Fred is back in Ames.
 
CyJack13 said:
Some of the comments on this article, I get the feeling some of the Bulls fans don't like him:

Hoiberg is Mark Trestman. Inevitably soon, the Bulls will need a John Fox.

The only hope that I see for Hoiberg is if he gets a strong Lead assistant coach (Doug Collins) who can prevent the Jimmy Butler's of the world from walking all over him, like a carpet.

Hey, all that matters is that the players like the coach and don't feel pressured to play defense or even play particularly hard on offense, like that nasty Coach Thibodeau used to make them play.
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search his name on Twitter and you'll see the kind of dislike the Bulls fans have for him.

I'd love to know how he really felt about his move. Anything he says now is PR because he and the Bulls know the fans are ******. I don't think he regrets leaving Iowa state but I wonder if he wishes he'd gone to another college.
 
The Bulls roster isn't built for the style of play Hoiberg knows. The roster ISU had was. That may lead to some regrets but overall I'm sure he's happy in the NBA. He probably wishes he was in Minnesota though. He was just quoted a couple weeks ago saying "I don't miss 10PM recruiting calls."
 
he's going to have 5 months off to do whatever he wants while the rest of cbb coaches are doing booster events, chasing recruits, and texting 16 yr olds at midnight. maybe he'll upgrade his lakehouse with some spare change from his 5M this year. i doubt he regrets anything.
 
brokenloginagain said:
he's going to have 5 months off to do whatever he wants while the rest of cbb coaches are doing booster events, chasing recruits, and texting 16 yr olds at midnight. maybe he'll upgrade his lakehouse with some spare change from his 5M this year. i doubt he regrets anything.
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somehow I think he won't be doing nothing for 5 months. He will be recruiting free agents, for one.
 
ribsnwhiskey said:
$25 million = no ragrets

Chicago sports fans suck.
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its not like he couldn't make that money with the wolves or another college program.

Its funny to me that people argue that it isn't about the money for him and they also argue the opposite.
 
brokenloginagain said:
he's going to have 5 months off to do whatever he wants while the rest of cbb coaches are doing booster events, chasing recruits, and texting 16 yr olds at midnight. maybe he'll upgrade his lakehouse with some spare change from his 5M this year. i doubt he regrets anything.
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I think people underestimate the benefit of all the non-basketball ******** disappearing when you make the move from college basketball to the NBA. A couple of pre-draft meetings with the front office, do a few interviews here and there, stop in Vegas for the summer league for a week, check in on your guys once ever few weeks and other than that you set your summer schedule.
 
mj4cy said:
People keep thinking the results of this year may make him regret leaving ISU. He does not regret leaving ISU. He loved his time in Ames and did great things, but he's wanted to coach in the NBA and continues to want to do that. It's no secret the 24/7 recruiting wore on him.
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I just have never believed this for a nano-second. Not with Fred and not with any NCAA to NBA move.

-5 recent NBA coaches of the year have been fired within 5 years of winning the award.
-ISU played 18 games outside Ames/DesMoines.
-NBA teams play roughly 50 games on the road including preseason and playoffs.
-100 games vs roughly 30.
-Assistants can help you recruit, assistants don't generally coach games for you.
-Outside of blueblood programs the media scrutiny is drastically higher.
-NBA players regularly call out and disrespect coaches.
-NCAA coaches generally are in charge of which players they recruit/sign and most often are not in charge of personnel in the NBA.

There are all kinds of reasons coaches make the jump, money, prestige and challenge being the obvious ones. But I just can't wrap my mind around the idea of recruiting being so hard that it outbalances all those other elements making an NBA job harder.
 
jsb can pretty much just ruin any discussion in a Hoiberg thread. You'd think they were dating, he told her he was going to marry her, and then bolted.
 
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