Steve Prohm isn’t The Mayor, but he isn’t all that different from Fred Hoiberg.
Both men are young, offensive-minded coaches. Both won with a very specific recruiting path. Both are seemingly loved within the basketball coaching fraternity.
And now, after Iowa State announced Prohm as its next men’s basketball coach on Monday, it will will be up to him to sustain - and build upon - what Hoiberg accomplished the last five seasons.
Prohm is walking into a plum gig. It’s not every day a coach takes over likely preseason top 10 team with legitimate Final Four hopes.