ISU's Oliver to Step Down

SacHornetFan · Post by **SacHornetFan** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:18 pm

http://isubengals.collegesports.com/spo ... 06aac.html

ISU's coach Doug Oliver to step down as Men's Hoops coach at the end of the year.

Thoughts?

CelticCat · Post by **CelticCat** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:36 pm

Must've gotten tired of having to worry about the football team.

bozbobcat · Post by **bozbobcat** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:46 pm

My guess is that Doug Oliver has been on the hot seat at ISU for quite some time. He was able to string a few 13-13 seasons together and somehow finish in third in the conference for a couple years. But other times the team has not been good at all. I think he is also tired and maybe felt personally that it would be time to step away and move on to something else at the end of the season.

Ponycat · Post by **Ponycat** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:23 pm

I think you could see the writing on the wall when his assistant Coach's son decided to go to MSU over playing for his dad at ISU

catbooster · Post by **catbooster** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:06 pm

Ponycat wrote:I think you could see the writing on the wall when his assistant Coach's son decided to go to MSU over playing for his dad at ISU

I thought that showed good judgement. When Casey signed up to play for his Dad, I remember talking with friends and we felt that he was setting himself up to be a target for criticism by doing that.

Long story short - if you play a lot, it's because you're the coach's son. If you don't play much, you'd have never been on the team if you weren't the coach's son. It's a no win situation (at least among a segment of the fan base).

As a coach, I think you are setting yourself up for similar criticism as well.

Disclaimer: I am hoping this will not turn into another thread about Casey and/or Mick. I am not making any judgement about whether the criticisms of those two are valid or not. I just think it is a valid example everyone here is familiar with.