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I guess we will see what he can do with this team this year - then we can decide how much better things are looking around here. As for now I think the verdict is still out.
 
Was Herdes in the running for the ISU job a few years ago???

I really like USI's new Head Coach..... Rodney Watson...... He was an Asst Coach At Southern Illinois for a while.... He grew up in Marshall or Paris or something like that. He said he told the SIU team every year that ISU was the best place to watch a game.
 
I'm not positive...

but I think Herdes was on the long list of candidates; am pretty sure HE wanted to be on the short list of candidates.

As to Morgan's note:
"Morgan I guess we will see what he can do with this team this year - then we can decide how much better things are looking around here. As for now I think the verdict is still out."

My point was THANK GOD we don't have an MBB coach who'll tinker with players grades...

I'll take a team that plays hards; does the best they can in school AND represents STATE in the 'right light,' over a program that cuts corners, cheats, has poor school citizens JUST FOR WINS.
 

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Morgan said:
I guess we will see what he can do with this team this year - then we can decide how much better things are looking around here. As for now I think the verdict is still out.
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In terms of W's and L's, I guess you're right. A little bit of a pessimist, but right nonetheless. However, the totality of last season was as masterful a job of coaching as I've ever seen. No, we didn't win a lot, but McKenna took a team that was in disarray at the beginning of the season after losing its starting backcourt, then lost its first six games of the season, and he managed to hold them together, ending the season with a very positive last month. Most teams would have packed it in when they were 4-19, and most coaches would have started on next year about that time. McKenna didn't jump ship when everyone else did (myself included - sorry about that), and he got the guys to get better and better as the season went on. To me, that was a genuinely fantastic job of keeping the team focused and moving in the right direction, regardless of what was going on around them.

Now, this year, we should see how it goes with a full complement of players for the whole season. I expect lots of wins this year, and I'll be very surprised if it doesn't happen. At this point, McKenna was the right hire, and I'm glad Prettyman got him...

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I find it revolting that a coach would say "if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying." What a disgusting example to set. That's a person I wouldn't want my children playing for or being associated with in any way.
 
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I couldn't have said it better myself, Thanks Bob!
 
ITF back up a tad kid - I didn't suggest that he was the wrong hire or I had a problem with him, I don't think it's really fair to judge either way. I mean you raise some very good points about the way the team kept playing hard and you like to see that. It's a new system here and you have to give it time to work, let him get his players in here and we will see what happens for sure.

I am just saying these guys won 11 games last year - I am not sure why people are so quick to dismiss that. Because we finished strong? The Mo Val was abysmal last year, the worst it has been in the last 10 years I would say. I wouldn't quite call it the "best coaching job I have ever seen".
 

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I wasn't calling you out, Morgan, just opining on my own. And I really do think it was a masterful coaching job, because most coaches/teams would have pissed on the fire and called in the dogs - the hunt was over. Lord knows we've had enough teams do that at ISU. The fact that he kept it together was way above what most would be able to do. He had the kids bought into the program and kept 'em there. Not many coaches can do that when you're 4-19. That's what I meant by masterful...
 
And that's fair enough, can't really disagree with that. I didn't really have a problem with your post - I was just making sure that you understood that I wasn't taking a positive or negative stance toward coach with my post, simply saying that he will not be judged so much for what happened last season rather by what he is able to do with the team this season. These next 2 years will be VERY important for the future of ISU basketball and I hope Mac is the guy to turn this thing around!
 

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