Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

[Trapped in California]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

That's nuts. Does the Mayor have any coaching experience??? This could potentially be the stupidest hire in ISU history. No offense to Fred, but come on!

He did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

Well if this works out for Iowa State, maybe someday we can replace Ben Jacobson with... Ben Jacobson.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

<Need rolling sarcasm icon>

That's my line.

[UNIpanther99]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

So how long before he leaves for Penn State?

[alleycat]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

So how long before he leaves for Penn State?

That was funny.

[Cat80]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

Wow. Pollard is planning to go out in a blaze of glory. This reminds me of all the hawk fans who always want B.J. Armstrong as the next coach every time the job opens up. The Clone fans are going to be extremely happy with this hire...until he loses his first game. I think Nick Nurse is pretty safe to stay on as associate head coach or whatever, they need somebody with some experience you would think. Hoiberg is extremely popular and famous in the greater Ames area, he will lock down all the best recruits around there. Perhaps he brings on Ronnie Harris as an assistant and Harrison Barnes asks out of his LOI with NC to play at ISU.

Funny, but it's been documented Harrison and his mother have no relationship with Harris.

[in_the_stands]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

I don't see how this can work. Of course it gets the ISU fan base buzzing, but at some point you have to win games. Gonna guess Pollard will never hire another BB coach at ISU.

[Trapped in California]

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Unless that hire is about 8 years from now, this is Pollard's last chance. That is unless Rhoades gets to the Big XII title game.

[UnderParPanther]

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wow, i loved hoiberg growing up and followed his career in the nba a bit, but really? head coach of ISU w/o out any coaching experience whatsoever? pollard better polish his resume IMO

[SteinPizza]

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wow, i loved hoiberg growing up and followed his career in the nba a bit, but really? head coach of ISU w/o out any coaching experience whatsoever? pollard better polish his resume IMO

Someone earlier said he was on the bench with the T'Wolves. According to Wikipedia, that's incorrect. He's VP of Basketball Operations, and has been in the front office since his NBA retirement. To your point Underpar, he has ZERO coaching experience.

This is a perfect analogy to Iowa hiring BJ Armstrong, who has a somewhat similar NBA front office background. Hiring BJ would've been stupid, and hiring Hoiberg may well be. It's ALL about recruiting...so who can he lure in as assistants? And, can he adapt to having to draw up Xs and Os?

P.S. Wikipedia already is updated with him being described as the current ISU Bball coach. Amazing.

[panther84]

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DM Register had a poll yesterday on who should replace Mac. The list included the mayor. Just goofing around I voted for the mayor. It showed the results and he was winning by a land slide. Apparantly Pollard used that poll to make his decision

[06panther10]

Re: Fred Hoiberg hired as ISU's new coach!

Only Iowa State would do this. LOL

Well, I'm sure the fans will like it initially.

Could be successful, who knows. But to hire a guy who has never coached a game in any capacity is a little strange to say the least.

[BCPanther]

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Good move by Pollard, IMO.

Even if he fails miserably Hilton will be full for three years. All Freddie has to do is win one game he shouldn't at Hilton and JP can live off 'Hilton Magic' for at least two years.

[cydave]

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Very risky hire, but hell, I'm excited. He really needs to put together a good staff.
It was just reported that TJ Otzelberger will be Associate Head Coach, which is awesome as he is a great recruiter.
It also looks like all players and recruits are staying with ISU and are very excited with the hire.
Nick Nurse will not be on the staff, and it doesn't look like Grayer will be either.

[run&blade]

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LOL, can they bring back Kenny Pratt as academic advisor?

What a joke, how many AD's at BCS schools get to hire 3 BBall coaches?