re: -It’s finally over- He’s Gone

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If we hire a mid major coach it's a crap shoot. There are 100 guys with insanely awesome mid major records that are awful in major conference ball.

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That's almost certainly what we'll end up doing though.

Prohm is the only candidate that makes sense that gets me excited, and I think that'll be a tough get.

C.M. Newton coached at like Transylvania
Wimp was a Newton assistant
Hobbs was a Wimp assistant
Gottfried came from Murray
Grant came from VCU
Avery came from ESPN

We don't exactly have a history of impressive pulls, and while Avery is making a lot, I don't think like 500k more is going to be enough to make a coach move down here.

Avery is making what 900K more than Prohm? Iowa State will probably raise Prohm significantly after this season. I think we'd need to offer like 3.5 to get him here, and that's after footing Avery's buyout if he doesn't leave on his own.

I agree that hiring a mid-major is something of a crap shoot. But you do it till you get it right. Kermit Davis was at Middle Tennessee since 2002. Why the hell didn’t someone call him up? Look at him in year 1 in Oxford. Prohm was at Murray State. Nick Saban was at Toledo. The key is give them a 4 year contract with the understanding that if you earn it, we’ll take care of you. But you aren’t getting a raise or an extension until year 3 when we’ve seen the product for a couple of years. But if you’re the next Coach K, in year 3 we’ll back the Brinks truck up. We aren’t Kentucky, we’re not going to hire Roy Williams away from UNC like we can in football. We’ve got to find our diamond in the rough and let him grow and develop.

Need a whole new coaching staff

Give me:
Musselman
Prohm
#3
#4
#5

Yes to Donovan

Musselman or bust... I think we all know which it will be for Bama hoops. :(

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Prohm got his first head coach job at Murray State in 2011. He went 31-2, 21-10, 23-11, 29-6. He won his league every year but only won his tourney in year 1 to make the NCAAs. 

At Iowa State he’s gone 23-12, 24-11, 13-18 and so far he’s 19-6. He made the Sweet Sixteen in year 1 and the round of 32 in year 2. He’s making $2 million currently

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I'll take Musselman over Prohm.

It will be a very interesting 8-10 weeks

I think the positive is that if Finebaum's report and others who have corroborated is true, then Avery does want out. Regardless of whether the Pelicans gig works out or not, it's likely that if he gets an opportunity to go back to the NBA in some capacity he will leave. That is the best case scenario for himself, his family, and the University at this point.

No thank you. He would remind me of the Anthony Grant era