What do you do?

[FallOf81]

Say you're coach Prohm and have made enough money to secure yourself and family for many years.
You're also a great man, and most agree it's a shame he couldn't have succeeded.
Do you take a greatly reduced buyout and tell ISU fans it wasn't about the money and wish us well?
Or.....

 

[dirtyninety]

Find another job

man, I like to be first reply. you beat me.

 

[madguy30]

 

[CycloneErik]

Who cares if he's a good guy?
We're not gonna be buddies. Be good at the job. That's what matters.

Now bring on the bizarro moral equivalencies.....

 

[Drew0311]

I think he will find a new job and save face like McDermott. This just isn’t the job for him. He will do well in the mountain west or something

 

[BCClone]

Always better to land on your feet. Take another job and still make decent money and prove you can still win as a coach.

 

[larrysarmy]

I think he will find a new job and save face like McDermott. This just isn’t the job for him. He will do well in the mountain west or something

It will be as an assistant. No way it’s HC

 

[CyLyte2]

Who is hiring Steve Prohm? He’s going to be money ahead to take the buyout.

 

[tim_redd]

Pray to whatever Cyclone deity you believe in that some school in the OVC/MVC/CUSA or wherever needs a coach and think that Prohm is the right fit.

 

[Rabbuk]

I don't care as long as he leaves.

 

[Malone]

Forfeit buyout. Go be a life coach or social worker. Empower more Lards and Dubars

 

[1UNI2ISU]

There's zero chance he's a head coach right away after this. He's taking every dime he's owed and heading for a bench in the SEC somewhere to rehabilitate his image until he gets another OVC level job, which he will also fail at.

 

[dirtyninety]

I think he will find a new job and save face like McDermott. This just isn’t the job for him. He will do well in the mountain west or something

ISU BB is an interesting job.....I really like Prohm and McDermott both.....just a bad fit. Why? I don't know. I won't ponder kemo sabe, but it is almost like they recruit a level higher than they can cohesively coach. Hoiberg could manage because he was exceptional in that particular position.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with 18 year olds who have been told they are great and going pro since they were 10 years old.

 

[fsanford]

Say you're coach Prohm and have made enough money to secure yourself and family for many years.
You're also a great man, and most agree it's a shame he couldn't have succeeded.
Do you take a greatly reduced buyout and tell ISU fans it wasn't about the money and wish us well?
Or.....

It was ISU that offered Prohm the contract, you take what both sides agreed upon.
He probably has seen his last head job.

 

[CyLyte2]

McDermott and Prohm are not the same. The circumstances they walked into were night and day different. If McDermott had been dealt Prohm’s hand we’d be enjoying consistent success. Prohm is a bad coach. McDermott is not.

 

[Neptune78]

The only question at this point for me is-- When does JP make a decision? Fire CSP a day after our loss in the Big12 tourney, or wait hoping Prohm finds something else and we avoid the buyout.

 

[FallOf81]

SO much riding on the next hire. Gotta sell massive Hilton improvements. Entertainment district winter business.

 

[cycloneworld]

We gave him a contract. He signed said contract. ISU fires him and gives him his buyout per the contract terms. Him and ISU move on.

These posts and threads about “resigning” or “walking away” or “doing the right thing” are asinine. No one save for a very few exceptions are walking away from millions of buyout dollars that are contractually owed to you.

 

[mynameisjonas]

Prohm is taking the buyout. He would be stupid not to. Weird thread.

 

[dahliaclone]

It’s scary to think we really could be worse next year. We have to cut ties with Prohm which I do believe will happen. 100%.

the thought of Hilton empty another year under Prohm is something that simply can’t happen. Now we just need to make a hire that fires up fans and the players.