FIUFanatic said

fauowl said

Rick said

FIU4ever said

so far IT has shown that he can lure top quality players to consider FIU (a sunbelt school).

…he seems to have the "disease of I"

You nailed it!

He was on PTI this past week and although he had an FIU sign in the distance behind him during the interview, he never once mentioned FIU or Florida International.  He stated: I enjoy it here at the college level.  He never took advantage of being on national TV and promoting his team or school.  That is Isiah.  As stated earlier he was a part of Indiana basketball, but was the first Indiana player to leave early for the NBA. Isiah is about Isiah, and not FIU or any other place he will coach.

fauowl…just some factual information, FWIW,  on what took place at FIU during his TAPED INTERVIEW, to correct some erroneous assumption, just basing in what came across on ESPN.  While it's true what was aired on PTI  he didn't mention as much of FIU as it could, since they asked about Tiger Woods and the Knicks asw well  (though it was aired when he did mention FIU has the #17 ranked recruiting class, and that FIU could be a top 25 team like Gonzaga), the truth is that ESPN cut his response to a follow up question on what factors he (Isiah) thought contributed in bringing the #17 recruiting class to FIU.  In his response, Isiah went on to say a bunch of positive things about FIU the school, and not about him personally.  Unfortunatley, ESPN, cut that part for the "good 5 minutes" they had available. So, yes, he "took advantage of being on national TV and promoting FIU…", they just cut some of it.

illinoisowl said

FIUFanatic said

fauowl said

Rick said

FIU4ever said

so far IT has shown that he can lure top quality players to consider FIU (a sunbelt school).

…he seems to have the "disease of I"

You nailed it!

He was on PTI this past week and although he had an FIU sign in the distance behind him during the interview, he never once mentioned FIU or Florida International.  He stated: I enjoy it here at the college level.  He never took advantage of being on national TV and promoting his team or school.  That is Isiah.  As stated earlier he was a part of Indiana basketball, but was the first Indiana player to leave early for the NBA. Isiah is about Isiah, and not FIU or any other place he will coach.

fauowl…just some factual information, FWIW,  on what took place at FIU during his TAPED INTERVIEW, to correct some erroneous assumption, just basing in what came across on ESPN.  While it's true what was aired on PTI  he didn't mention as much of FIU as it could, since they asked about Tiger Woods and the Knicks asw well  (though it was aired when he did mention FIU has the #17 ranked recruiting class, and that FIU could be a top 25 team like Gonzaga), the truth is that ESPN cut his response to a follow up question on what factors he (Isiah) thought contributed in bringing the #17 recruiting class to FIU.  In his response, Isiah went on to say a bunch of positive things about FIU the school, and not about him personally.  Unfortunatley, ESPN, cut that part for the "good 5 minutes" they had available. So, yes, he "took advantage of being on national TV and promoting FIU…", they just cut some of it.

Interesting. One person says he never mentioned FIU and the other says he did several times and knows about the parts that ended on the cutting room floor, interesting (how would he know that?). Didn't Jarvis say FAU could be a top 25 team like Duke or was that part edited out for time's sake?