CaliRdBrd
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Agreed.This is not in anyway a knock on the current ISU roster, but sometimes you got the great talent and other times your talent is not the best in the league. Some years getting the most out of what one has is all we should expect.
I have a good friend who has coached at different times high school football, basketball and junior high basketball. The team he was most proud of only won 7 games in high school basketball. He still believes the talent level was at zero wins. He also says it was one of, if not the most difficult year coaching. The thing he was most proud of and why he ranks that team so high is because the kids had tremendous hearts. They played as hard as they could, as smart as they could and as a team.
And I will add I have followed those kids on later in life and they all are pretty successful.
As a coach, and this is just my opinion, you have to at times adjust your approach, adjust your system and make it fit what you have in front of you. And, try to appeal to them to get as much out of them as they can do. As long as they play hard, work hard and do as best as they can, I will ask and expect no more.
We are what we are and it may take awhile to get out of the cellar, but as long as ISU basketball ball keeps heading up and trying to improve I will be satisfied with the results
Sorry rant over.
I’d like to add that ISU getting a game-changing talent is unrealistic. The only way we get the kind of player we need is if we get lucky with a 2-star talent that blossoms into a 4-star talent. The problem with that scenario is that “blossom” player will be immediately poached by P5 schools.
Pedon is in a near impossible situation…not unlike all mid-major coaches.