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Greeley said:
all speculation but... if Larry and the bench stays with a Graves hire you have a team that is a contender for the Valley title. A green light for Miller. Hungry players like Vorst, Gray, Shetler, Hunderlius. Explosive talent in Daughtry and a potential Valley MVP in Larry you could have a really good team. Not a national team likely but, with a recruit and transfer or two, a potential NCAA Valley champ.
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Miller’s light should be sent back to D2.
 

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Greeley said:
As good a coach as Shertz was he did not develop the bench in game action except garbage time. That being said both Daughtry and Shetler looked like explosive players. Who knows with Miller if he is a go to guy. Vorst got few minutes but always showed something. Gray was a double figure scorer at Niagra. If, a big if, they get Larry back only Deen with Bradley looks like a better returner. Valley will be down why not the Sycamores with Graves as contenders with an addition or two
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I have felt the whole time he sacrificed the future of the program by not even trying to develop the bench in favor of personal gain. Looks like it worked.
 
bigsportsfan said:
I have felt the whole time he sacrificed the future of the program by not even trying to develop the bench in favor of personal gain. Looks like it worked.
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Na, guy won 32 games in a season and gave everybody associated with the university a hell of a ride. He played every second to win and I respect that. In this day and age if you AREN'T doing that you shouldn't be coaching at this level.
 
I think we need some young go getter to help out at COC with fresh new ideas, we need marketing now, this is fresh we need to take advantage. I had an old timer sitting next to me at the game that said just imagine if every ISU fan that’s been to an NIT game would donate 25 to 100 bucks what we could do with that money. Plus get some big money donors.
 

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EvilleSycamore said:
I haven’t looked much at coaches till just now. I will say my two choices right now would be Terry Johnson at Purdue. He has stood out at both Ohio State and Purdue as a developer of talent and he has the potential to bring high MVC caliber talent with him. The second is Jordan Fee from Gannon. D-2 coach of the year, his offense makes Schertz’s offense look like the slowdown Lansing ran. And the biggest comparison he coached Zach Hobbs to become one of his leading scorers with almost 90 three pointers this year in just one year with him and Schertz couldn’t get him to hit the broad side of Hulman Center in two years. That tells me he also develops players instead of just being good at identifying good players like Schertz did.
In the meantime I hope Graves is spending every second whispering in the ears and camping on the porches of starting 5, recruits, and this years freshmen! Then pray ISU is offering up the money to stay cause you know Schertz and Chaifetz already are.
We haven’t said much about it, but I also see keeping Coach Tone in the system. He has taken our recruiting to new levels and proved he is da man when it comes to finding talent.
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Fee would be a good hire. I dont like hiring assistant coaches from good teams. This is not football. Football is a different story. Most folks would be amazed at how much control and work the HC does and has in college basketball, Top assistants are just along for the ride most of the time. They stick with the HC or follow him wherever he goes. Unless they have 20 years on staff or so. Painter and Brian Dutcher come to mind. I am sure there are some others but not as many as we would think. I will take an inexperienced HC all day over a career assistant 100% of the time. Just me.
 

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True Blue said:
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I dont see anything. It says it’s been deleted
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It's not. The guy screwed up the quote. It's a link to Rothstein's twatter where he says Pannone has pulled himself out of the Fresno State running. He was apparently in the Top 2 with Vince (Don't call me Donnie Damnit!) Walberg.
 
How much would people pay for table for dinner with Bird and some of our more influential alumni? They wouldn’t have to give money just time to help us raise it. There are so many things we have not done it’s sad. Now is our chance to elevate the program. Maybe with all of this we are the ones who used JS. But we need marketing . On socials everyone is talking about ISU. Get help from Pat McAfee. Has anyone tried reaching out to him? We are missing all over the place we must capitalize NOW!
 
SycamoreTree said:
How much would people pay for table for dinner with Bird and some of our more influential alumni? They wouldn’t have to give money just time to help us raise it. There are so many things we have not done it’s sad. Now is our chance to elevate the program. Maybe with all of this we are the ones who used JS. But we need marketing . On socials everyone is talking about ISU. Get help from Pat McAfee. Has anyone tried reaching out to him? We are missing all over the place we must capitalize NOW!
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You all have to understand something… First of all, Todd Hein and John Newton individually have been running our collective - without them who knows we still might not have anything off the ground. They were not early adopters as far as the P5’s are concerned but as far as mids are concerned they got to work pretty early! 6 months ago our NIL was around $100k and today it’s near $220k I believe. So they’ve doubled it in 6 months all while private donors committed $800k+ by some estimates to keep the head coach. So the two efforts were sort of working against eachother quite a bit - but besides the point. Yes those guys need help and yes from an organization standpoint things are going to need to improve! They get it.

Tuesday - a meeting is set with the NIL and RJL Solutions to try and address the promotion, marketing pieces that are lacking.

Thursday - a meeting with some of the larger NIL/CoachFund donors is set to take place. Likely to rally the troop because most of those coach fund donations had an opt out clause if JS wasn’t the coach. So the ask is going to be - can you stay committed to help continue to build upon this success!

A group of younger alumni locally that don’t have the same capacity to give as some of our larger donors that are frequently hit up is organizing to help drive some of these events - a master plan if you will to make a more coordinated effort. The hope with some of these younger alums is that we can donate our time and energy to help make up what our bank accounts can’t really move the needle too much.

So hopefully in the near future we can help get this thing humming - a lot of good conversations are taking place. So your patience is appreciated and if you think you can help in anyway please reach out to me.

Thanks!
 
SycamoreStateofMind said:
You all have to understand something… First of all, Todd Hein and John Newton individually have been running our collective - without them who knows we still might not have anything off the ground. They were not early adopters as far as the P5’s are concerned but as far as mids are concerned they got to work pretty early! 6 months ago our NIL was around $100k and today it’s near $220k I believe. So they’ve doubled it in 6 months all while private donors committed $800k+ by some estimates to keep the head coach. So the two efforts were sort of working against eachother quite a bit - but besides the point. Yes those guys need help and yes from an organization standpoint things are going to need to improve! They get it.

Tuesday - a meeting is set with the NIL and RJL Solutions to try and address the promotion, marketing pieces that are lacking.

Thursday - a meeting with some of the larger NIL/CoachFund donors is set to take place. Likely to rally the troop because most of those coach fund donations had an opt out clause if JS wasn’t the coach. So the ask is going to be - can you stay committed to help continue to build upon this success!

A group of younger alumni locally that don’t have the same capacity to give as some of our larger donors that are frequently hit up is organizing to help drive some of these events - a master plan if you will to make a more coordinated effort. The hope with some of these younger alums is that we can donate our time and energy to help make up what our bank accounts can’t really move the needle too much.

So hopefully in the near future we can help get this thing humming - a lot of good conversations are taking place. So your patience is appreciated and if you think you can help in anyway please reach out to me.

Thanks!
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That’s awesome, the old saying you don’t know what you don’t know. But that’s exactly what needs to happen if you can’t donate money donate time between the two we can get this thing where it needs to be. Glad they are reacting while the iron is hot.
 
SycamoreTree said:
That’s awesome, the old saying you don’t know what you don’t know. But that’s exactly what needs to happen if you can’t donate money donate time between the two we can get this thing where it needs to be. Glad they are reacting while the iron is hot.
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Oh you’re good it’s been posted in some other thread there’s just been so much content it’s hard for people to keep up with what’s been said and what’s going on…

I’m hoping this meeting on Tuesday really brings some positive change quickly. I will try to report what I can back to the forum.
 

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BlueBleeder said:
@SycamoreStateofMind I want to get involved. I fall into the category of not having much money to spare, but I want nothing more than this school and our athletics to be successful. Let me know ways I can assist
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I will let you know - DM me your email and I will email you a meeting invite once we have a date set and have some early details ironed out. Thanks for your support!

Scratch that - I have your email!
 
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