Steve Prohm releases statement

[jmb]

Here is the statement Coach Prohm released on his twitter.

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I wish it would have ended better for all. I don't think anyone wanted this outcome. Good guy.

 

[CyLyte2]

so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”

Does someone want to explain that?

 

[CyLyte2]

I wish someone would've told Prohm that scripture doesn't belong in the locker room. Save that stuff for when you're coaching at a small private school. It's Coaching 101 on how not to divide a locker room.

I hope the next guy continues that. You only divide the locker room if you recruit guys that have a problem with it. Gee, I wonder.....?

 

[Cyched]

Isn’t religion a cave topic? Let’s not go down that road.

 

[ISUChippewa]

I wish someone would've told Prohm that scripture doesn't belong in the locker room. Save that stuff for when you're coaching at a small private school. It's Coaching 101 on how not to divide a locker room.

Seriously. That's your biggest takeaway?

 

[KnappShack]

Was hoping for a heel turn.

Missed opportunity

 

[Bestaluckcy]

I have been a Cyclone basketball fan since Maury John was coach. I think back in the seventies one of our coaches (may have been Earle Bruce) said, there are two categories of coaches. The ones whom have been fired and the ones that are going to be fired. After all these years, there is a lot of truth in that summation. The few exceptions are the ones that got out of town before the posse showed up. It’s a business. That’s why it has become customary to negotiate the buyout at the same time a coach is hired. Thank you Coach Prohm for your efforts and especially the championships. Not all ISU coaches do that.

 

[Trice]

We haven't talked about it much lately, but there was a pretty vocal contingent on here for a long time that was "Rhoads sucks good riddance don't let the door hit you on the way out," which was rather unfortunate.

The last real contact I can remember Rhoads had with the fanbase was doing a postmortem podcast with somebody (maybe CW), and it was very much a "this is what went wrong in the program under my watch."

Compared that to how we treat McCarney... CW does a podcast with him to tell old war stories, plenty of instances of people describing his tenure and accomplishments with gooey nostalgia, and Campbell brings him back to speak to the team now and honors his legacy in both small and large ways (e.g., the uniform designs).

We have some work to do with Rhoads in that sense.



Hence why I put quotes around those words to indicate their imprecision and ward off negative connotations.

I think most of this discrepancy can be explained by the fact that Mac is retired now. He wasn't nearly as engaged when he was still coaching, for obvious reasons.

 

[JP4CY]

Isn’t religion a cave topic? Let’s not go down that road.

Well, he's a troll.

 

[KnappShack]

Mac fizzled out at the end, but his legacy didn’t need to be rehabilitated. Nothing we’ve seen the past few years is possible if Mac hadn’t pulled our program out of the gutter.

Mac and Prohm are almost mirror images.

Mac took over a program with no facilities. No tradition. It would've been easier to start a program from scratch.

Prohm...well he murdered Hilton Magic.

 

[cycloner29]

Seriously. That's your biggest takeaway?

Cyclowns is an obvious troll here. New member on here 4 days ago 9 messages and -8 reaction score (and growing). Mods need to pull the plug on him now.

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Seriously. That's your biggest takeaway?

Look at the poster's name. They're a troll.

 

[CyLyte2]

I have been a Cyclone basketball fan since Maury John was coach. I think back in the seventies one of our coaches (may have been Earle Bruce) said, there are two categories of coaches. The ones whom have been fired and the ones that are going to be fired. After all these years, there is a lot of truth in that summation. The few exceptions are the ones that got out of town before the posse showed up. It’s a business. That’s why it has become customary to negotiate the buyout at the same time a coach is hired. Thank you Coach Prohm for your efforts and especially the championships. Not all ISU coaches do that.

That's the absolute fact of it. The odds of Pollard hitting on another Campbell are slim. No matter who he hires.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Class response from a class individual. I wish Prohm nothing but the best.

 

[Cyclown]

Cyclowns is an obvious troll here. New member on here 4 days ago 9 messages and -8 reaction score (and growing). Mods need to pull the plug on him now.

Please don't accuse me of being a troll and advocate that I be removed from here. What I commented on was front and center of what was posted. It's fine if you don't agree with me. Let's drop it.

 

[JP4CY]

Please don't accuse me of being a troll and advocate that I be removed from here. What I commented on was front and center of what was posted. It's fine if you don't agree with me. Let's drop it.

You're a troll.

 

[cygrads]

I hope CSP becomes an assistant for a really good coach, learns and then gets another HC job because with a little learning he will be a very good HC.

 

[ThePUNisher96]

Here is the statement Coach Prohm released on his twitter.

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I loved Prohm as a person and am sad that this didn't work out. He really was the kind of person you wanted to succeed because of who they were.

 

[Cloneon]

So, curious. Which is the thread which hammers those claiming the donors with a buyout? If there was one message JP sent out more firmly than anything is the manner in which this program is run. I'm sure I'm part of many who've always known that. But, to those of you so full of yourself that you know better, you should be ashamed and, quite frankly, embarrassed.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I hope the next guy continues that. You only divide the locker room if you recruit guys that have a problem with it. Gee, I wonder.....?

You trying to say that Jesus Christ isn't capable of a double double?