Knowing that you spend much time scouring the internet for recruiting information, I was wondering how far down the list these coaches have had to go to sign this latest hidden gem? I mean all I hear about from you is all of these kids that we are in on, because of this great job of recruiting, and then the next thing I hear is they commit somewhere else. It should be fairly obvious that this staff is in desperation mode.

It isn’t that any of us think that Wayne was Coach K, noone has ever said that, The problem is that he came into a nightmare of a situation. Larry nearly destroyed the basketball program, and had it not been for the job that Wayne did, there may be nothing left for McDermott to overcoach to the point where the players don’t know what to do. Then he can call them out so they transfer.

Wayne kept this thing afloat, and to not credir him for doing that is short sighted and wrong.

The last coach I had this feeling about was McCarney. And, no matter how many examples of his mediocrity you could list, the only answers that people could come back with are “he’s a nice guy/great representative of ISU,” “It takes time to do things the right (whatever that means) way,” and “He has had some bad luck, but he wasn’t playing so it’s the players fault.”
Do those ring a bell? Why, yes, it was the mantra of the Greg McDermott supporters this past season. And, if you dared to question any facet of what was happening, you were not as good of a fan as the ones that couldn’t bring themselves to even approach candor when discussing the season. This also happened with McCarney, now even the most loyal Dan the man fans are amazed at how much better the level of coaching is under Chizik.
Of course Dan does have a job, one of the idiots on there Travman23 keeps pointing that out in why Morgan was evil is that he hasn’t gotten a job, so that automatically makes Danny better. But he always fails to mention how Danno begged, and pleaded with everyone he knew, and all that he could get is position coaching job.
Now, Wayne may never coach again, but who cares? Iowa State is done with him, so there is no need to continue to bash the guy.

Since Danny Mac never beat a good team when they were good, and spent the majority of his time looking up obscure statistics to try to confuse people, and doing every media interview he could to try to limit expectations, so he could keep the best job that he will ever have. Suffice to say that Greg has a lot to prove, however, I was pointing out the similarities in the mindsets of the supporters.

I am happy that the reign of Dan McCarney is over, and I am enjoying the efforts of Gene Chizik. The problem is that Iowa State has been a basketball school, with a reasonable amount of consistent success. We are now approaching year three (the big turnaround year in all of Greg’s previous stops), and there is no positive energy around the men’s basketball program at all.
Every other program, except tennis I guess, has something positive occurring that the fans can point to, and find reason to get excited. Men’s basketball, for so long the main program at Iowa State, has NOTHING to make people even think that we might even be decent. Watch the season ticket numbers, or lack thereof, and you will see the prevailing mood surrounding the program.