Steve Prohm has learned that what worked for Fred Hoiberg isn’t going to be what works for him.
For the Hoiberg, a laissez faire locker room where players were allowed to color outside the lines at times was the best way for him to manage a locker room and a program. It was a system that Prohm, the Iowa State men’s basketball coach who inherited a successful upperclassmen roster accustomed to that type of environment, tried to maintain when taking over for Hoiberg in June.
Seven months into his tenure and amid a two-game losing streak and rising scrutiny, Prohm decided no longer.