All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

[Panthers to the Bone]

2000-10 All-Decade Teams
First Team
#1: Ben Jacobson
#2: Grant Stout

The next vote is for the #3 spot, as Stout edged out Eric Coleman 35% to 25% of the vote. After this next vote, we will add one more individual. Any recommendations or votes? Chris Foster and Erik Crawford have been mentioned previously. Either one, yeah or ney.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Poll closes 10PM December 25th.

About the players listed in this poll...

Kwadzo Ahelegbe: 2nd Team All-MVC 2008-09, 2nd Team All-District NABC, MVC All-Defense Team 08-09, 1 NCAA Tourney Appearance, will finish his junior season with over 800 points, 200 rebounds, 250 assists.

Joe Breckenridge: 1st Team All-MVC 2000-01, 54.9% FG% (7th), 766 Rebounds (7th), 950+ Points

Eric Coleman: 2005 Freshman of the Year, 06-07 and 07-08 2nd Team All-MVC, Led team in points, rebounds, and assists his senior year, 1522 points (6th all-time), 997 rebounds (3rd), 55.9% FG% (5th), 115 blocked shots (3rd), 2 NCAA Appearances.

David Gruber: 1st Team All-MVC 2003-04, 1100+ Points, 600+ Rebounds, 12.7PPG/7.1RPG average, All-Time FG% Leader (60.2%), 1 NCAA Appearance

Adam Koch: 1st Team All-MVC 2008-09, 1st Team All-District NABC, 1 NCAA Tourney Appearance, will finish career with over 1000 points and 500 rebounds.

Brooks McKowen: 2004-05, 05-06, 06-07 Academic All-Conference, 425 Assists (2nd), 3 NCAA Appearances

Robbie Sieverding: 2001-02 1st Team All-MVC, 1402 Points (8th), 157 3FG (4th), 84% FT% (3rd), 265 assists (9th), 0 NCAA Appearances

[achrist70]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

This vote is harder than the first 2

[06panther10]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Cmon people. Coleman was a monster for four years. We gotta put him at number three.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

I am going to push the poll closing time to Saturday night at 10PM, so that those who aren't around today, due to Christmas, can still get a chance to vote!

[phoard]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

coleman was not that good of a player, he couldn't make a free throw to save his life. as of now i would take Eglseder over Coleman, coleman was a ok player on a good team, eglseder is a good (that can take a game over) player on what i think is going to be one of the best teams in panther history. just my two cents

[4N6]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Not being critical here. Bear with me. It seemed Coleman didn't improve as much from Freshman, to Sophomore, to Junior, to Senior as some players do. Anyone else have that opinion? But, he still had spirit, didn't he? Loved watchin' him most of the time.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

4N6-

Something that one might say is that Coleman led his team in points, rebounds, and assists in his senior year. Pretty good line, IMO. I don't know if he improved "as much...as some players do", but he was pretty solid. If he would have had a true point guard to get him the ball more (or create shots better), then maybe his senior year would have been even better than it was. Regardless, we have a great group of guys to choose from.

Something to also think about...are people considering just the body of work in the 2000's or for players like Sieverding and Breakenridge, are you considering their pre-2000's efforts?

[4N6]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

4N6-

Something that one might say is that Coleman led his team in points, rebounds, and assists in his senior year. Pretty good line, IMO. I don't know if he improved "as much...as some players do", but he was pretty solid. If he would have had a true point guard to get him the ball more (or create shots better), then maybe his senior year would have been even better than it was. Regardless, we have a great group of guys to choose from.

Something to also think about...are people considering just the body of work in the 2000's or for players like Sieverding and Breakenridge, are you considering their pre-2000's efforts?

PTTB ...

Hope I didn't come off as a non-fan of Coleman. I think he was a GREAT Panther. But, as good as he was as a Freshman (and I thought he was DAMN good) I was hoping he'd get even better as a Soph., better still as a Junior, etc.

Kinda like Brooks M. I remember sitting next to people in Milwaukee at the NCAA game, they knew little about UNI. Never heard of Brooks. I told them to watch #23 throughout the game, which they did. They were amazed, as was I. But ... as good as he was ... I felt he didn't IMPROVE as much as some do throughout their career. Maybe I'm not making sense. Just the same, with all the criticism of Brooks over the years, my track record will show me as one of his biggest fans.

Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here, waiting for my sons to arrive from Des Moines. Picking them up in Tampa. Later. Merry Christmas.

[GonzoCat]

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Cmon people. Coleman was a monster for four years. We gotta put him at number three.

You have to remember that Coleman, along with Brooks and Grace, have been panther nations 3 favorite whipping boys over the years. Anytime we didn't win a game in bb or fb it was one of those guys fault.

I didn't vote for Coleman for 3rd myself because I think that is too low for him.

[Newt99]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Cmon people. Coleman was a monster for four years. We gotta put him at number three.

Coleman was great, as was every player on this list. But if you think that Coleman is clearly the only choice, you must not ever have seen Sieverding play. He was like Benny J except better at creating his own shot. He put up ridiculous numbers despite having completely terrible teams around him, only playing three years, and fighting a pretty bad knee injury one season. I believe he was a senior in McDermott's first year as coach. If Robbie had been there a few years later who knows how good he and the Panthers could have been. He very well may have taken the number one spot in this poll, he was amazing to watch.

I'm not saying you can't vote for Coleman. I've always been one of Coleman's strongest supporters. Just saying that it isn't nearly as easy a choice as your "Cmon people" suggests.

[SMK4UNI]

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Had to go with Gruber. He may have only played a couple of years but those were very productive years. Not the tallest or most athletic but nobody had better footwork to get the basket and score. That whole team that won the 1st MVC tournament really helped make UNI what it is today.

[PantherFan]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Had to go with Gruber. He may have only played a couple of years but those were very productive years. Not the tallest or most athletic but nobody had better footwork to get the basket and score. That whole team that won the 1st MVC tournament really helped make UNI what it is today.

Yup. Played the last few games of his career with a cast on his broken left hand and was still effective (16 points, nine rebounds against Southern Illinois when they were going for an undefeated MVC season).

I voted for Gruber, but I could have been talked into Sieverding.

[Born-a-Panther]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

I voted for Gruber as well. He was just awesome all around.

[panther2317]

Re: All Decade Team Poll---#3 Player of 2000-10 Decade

Coleman is a popular pick and I think it was because he tried to dunk it a lot.

Gruber is the obvious choice here. Without him, we don't start going to NCAA's.