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Give him 1 more year....

MadBr said:
I was just amazed how much new post get attacked and how negative it gets. It is like being at a playground in grade school and you wandered into the wrong area. First post and I got ripped and than questioned about my credits without any real thought process. Very scary if that is what ISU now produces. I will make sure that there won't be another generation of my family going there if that is really what it is like now.
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so you won't be supportive of your family members attending ISU because you made a bad post on a message board an got ripped for it. that is sound logic!!
 
Re: Well, I've been around as long as you

farcyted said:
and you can't compare coaching today with Johnnie's era. It is much tougher today. In the old Big 8, we competed with the rest of the league financially and had better facilities than most. Coaching is probably equal. There are some excellent coaches in the Big 12. Johinnie's style and abilities led to a huge homecourt advanyage, but Johnnie couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bad on the road. Today, it is more about talent more than it is coaching and if you don't massage the right AAU handlers and live on the edge, you probably are going to have second rate talent. (see Kansas State). Johnnie didn't have nearly the scrunity that Pollard and GMac have to operate under today.

Now, for Pollard, he has made one bad hire (Chizzy), but seems to have overcome that. Probably a second bad one in GMac, but he has also done things at ISU that no other AD has done. At this point I would hate to lose him.
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Also, don't forget that I'm pretty sure we made Orr the highest paid coach in the nation when we hired him. Talk about commitment.
 
A few months ago, I was considering entering a law school. What I found out is that almost every law school that I saw listed was ranked very high in athletics. They have a huge advantage: negotiating coaching contracts, finding ways to get rid of bad coaches, protecting players who commit crimes, avoiding sanctions, manipulating the media, finding new ways to cheat, getting preferential TV contracts, etc. .

We never come out ahead in any of these areas. We need to hire a legal counsellor as our next AD.
 
hoosman said:
A few months ago, I was considering entering a law school. What I found out is that almost every law school that I saw listed was ranked very high in athletics. They have a huge advantage: negotiating contracts, finding ways to get rid of bad coaches, protecting players who commit crimes, avoiding sanctions, manipulating the media, finding new ways to cheat, getting preferential TV contracts, etc. .

We never come out ahead in any of these areas. We need to hire a legal counsellor as our next AD.
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Yeah, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, University of Chicago, all have great athletic departments.
 
How about Penn State, North Carolina, UConn, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Notre Dame, Indiana, LSU, Syacuse, Louisville, Ohio State, Michigan, Duke, Kansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, Florida State, Miami, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Oregon, West Virginia ...
 
6 of the top 10 and 3 of the top 4 have little in the way of athletic programs on a national stage outside perhaps crew or lacrosse.

Either way, I assume your post was sarcastic to begin with.
 
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