McDermott

[Luckycat]

Re: McDermott

Where we you to back me when I was the lone voice on here in support of him two years or so ago?!

Excuse me but you are far from the lone voice. Fortunately, there were several of us (and NO I can't name all) who were disappointed but did not spit out the hatred for Doug and Greg. We could see the big picture and put ourselves in the position of Jake, Greg, and Doug and did not turn on them like others did. Very happy for the whole family and wish Doug all the best. And yes, I do know the family quite well and they still have some Purple in their blood!

[UNIdad]

Re: McDermott

Where we you to back me when I was the lone voice on here in support of him two years or so ago?!

Excuse me but you are far from the lone voice. Fortunately, there were several of us (and NO I can't name all) who were disappointed but did not spit out the hatred for Doug and Greg. We could see the big picture and put ourselves in the position of Jake, Greg, and Doug and did not turn on them like others did. Very happy for the whole family and wish Doug all the best. And yes, I do know the family quite well and they still have some Purple in their blood!

The vitriolic posts tend to stand out in our memory. It is like folks who go to another team's website and leave thinking what jerks they are, even though there were actually a majority of reasonable posters. And the negative posters seem to have enough free time to post all the time.

[ban basketball]

Re: McDermott

Where we you to back me when I was the lone voice on here in support of him two years or so ago?!

Excuse me but you are far from the lone voice. Fortunately, there were several of us (and NO I can't name all) who were disappointed but did not spit out the hatred for Doug and Greg. We could see the big picture and put ourselves in the position of Jake, Greg, and Doug and did not turn on them like others did. Very happy for the whole family and wish Doug all the best. And yes, I do know the family quite well and they still have some Purple in their blood!

Hmmm...I don't recall anyone taking my side when the "booing debate" ensued on here.

I don't post much on basketball, so if you do a little search on here for McDermott and my name you'll easily find that there WAS a lone voice in support of the McDermotts during the whole "booing debate"/his choice to go play for his dad.

That should pretty much settle it.

[Luckycat]

Re: McDermott

The booing debate is just silly. I didn't like it, but sometimes it doesn't take much to turn a 20 year old into a five year old. What I disagreed with was/is the trashing of Dad and Doug and pounding hatred expressed by some on this board. No, I'm really not trying to re-start this old argument. I only brought it up because I want to clarify that there wasn't just one person who still supports Greg, Doug and the whole family.

[ban basketball]

Re: McDermott

The booing debate is just silly. I didn't like it, but sometimes it doesn't take much to turn a 20 year old into a five year old. What I disagreed with was/is the trashing of Dad and Doug and pounding hatred expressed by some on this board. No, I'm really not trying to re-start this old argument. I only brought it up because I want to clarify that there wasn't just one person who still supports Greg, Doug and the whole family.

Fair enough, but, and sadly enough, I'm afraid many of those booing fans, and certainly the ones defending them on here were much older than 20.

[BCPanther]

Re: McDermott

Wait, are we really fighting over who loves Dougie and Mac more??

This. Is. Weird.

[panther-state]

Re: McDermott

Holy hell. Can you tell it's July? Football is just barely a month away folks

[SteinPizza]

Re: McDermott

Wait, are we really fighting over who loves Dougie and Mac more??

This. Is. Weird.

I don't think so. What I think some of us are saying is that we think/thought that the over the top negativity was/is...um...ah...misinformed. That's about as polite as I can get, and it pains me to do it.

[CyCarp]

Re: McDermott

Call me bitter or whatever else you want, but I still couldn't care less about either.

['70 Grad]

Re: McDermott

Its all Dana Altman's fault. If he hadn't left for Oregon (or had left for Arkansas and stayed) we wouldn't have had the conversation.

I was on here at the time giving my appreciation to Greg for building the program up from the Weaver days, the NCAA games, and leaving our recruits alone that eventually beat Kansas. Would have been GREAT to have had Doug, but we beat Greg (both before & with Doug) several times. When Dad moved, what was going to happen, happened. Let's move on.

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: McDermott

People can feel however they want to about it; it's not right to tell someone they're not entitled to feel bitter that the situation worked out so well for a conference rival and not for their team. I feel bad that the McDermotts bear the brunt of that, but that frustration is real. Where would this program be right now if Greg hadn't gone to Creighton to set everything in motion? It goes way beyond one guy's impact on the floor for 4 years - success begets success and sets things up oh so nicely down the road.

[BCPanther]

Re: McDermott

People can feel however they want to about it; it's not right to tell someone they're not entitled to feel bitter that the situation worked out so well for a conference rival and not for their team. I feel bad that the McDermotts bear the brunt of that, but that frustration is real. Where would this program be right now if Greg hadn't gone to Creighton to set everything in motion? It goes way beyond one guy's impact on the floor for 4 years - success begets success and sets things up oh so nicely down the road.

This.

One guy plays a giant game of CYA and costs us league titles, NCAA appearances, national recognition, and literally millions of dollars.

But yeah, he's a great guy.

[ban basketball]

Re: McDermott

People can feel however they want to about it; it's not right to tell someone they're not entitled to feel bitter that the situation worked out so well for a conference rival and not for their team. I feel bad that the McDermotts bear the brunt of that, but that frustration is real. Where would this program be right now if Greg hadn't gone to Creighton to set everything in motion? It goes way beyond one guy's impact on the floor for 4 years - success begets success and sets things up oh so nicely down the road.

Well, then your comment begs the question: was it a wise move to up Jacobson's salary almost literally overnight (or was it actually overnight?) to a half a million dollars after one big win?

['70 Grad]

Re: McDermott

I'm not happy that it happened, and it did cost us big time; but what did you expect Greg to do? He would have been a fool to stay at ISU.

[CF84]

Re: McDermott

I'm not happy that it happened, and it did cost us big time; but what did you expect Greg to do? He would have been a fool to stay at ISU.

But Doug wasn't good enough to play for him at ISU but was at Creighton? Seems like he wasn't a very good judge of talent if he didn't know what he had in his own household. It's over, who cares, but no one can deny it was a huge setback to UNI basketball.