Pope said:

Campbell, Milan, and Audi are all getting life changing money, but they all will have to meet what I'd consider unrealistic expectations. Don't blame any of them for getting the $ while they can, but I'm guessing all three will miss the true enjoyment of the game that they had back in Ames.

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Insane cope. Good work.

Campbell wasn’t exactly doing it for free. These coaches long ago stopped GAF about fan-think.

I doubt Milan will have any regrets getting paid $6 million to play at a blue blood, while in a cushier role

CyGuy5 said:

Football was pretty miserable considering they returned almost everything from a team that “played” for a conference title and then proceeded to lose to Colorado, Cincinnati, and a team quarterbacked by Jeff Sims

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The good news is we didn't even have to fire that guy!

AllInForISU said:

How do you figure?

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Say the portal opened on the same day as the deadline for deciding whether to stay in the draft. On that day, a few thousand players enter the portal, including all the big names. Would Milan be getting $6 million offers? Maybe something more in line with what ISU could afford? Close enough to keep him a Cyclone? We'll never know, but the way the system is currently set up there was zero chance of him returning.

Maybe, as some on here have said, he actually wanted to move on from ISU. That he didn't want to be the #1 option on a new, younger team. Well, that's still different than this being strictly a money decision.

KennyPratt42 said:

I have memories both based on growing up in the Ames area and going to undergrad at Iowa St.

-Kildee Hall (my dad was an animal science prof and I had several classes in

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What years and which courses did he teach? Trying to figure out if he was one of my profs.

Edit: Thanks KP42, your dad started a year or two after my time.

Campbell, Milan, and Audi are all getting life changing money, but they all will have to meet what I'd consider unrealistic expectations. Don't blame any of them for getting the $ while they can, but I'm guessing all three will miss the true enjoyment of the game that they had back in Ames.

CyGuy5 said:

Football was pretty miserable considering they returned almost everything from a team that “played” for a conference title and then proceeded to lose to Colorado, Cincinnati, and a team quarterbacked by Jeff Sims

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When you look at things impartially, Campbell was pretty overrated in the end. A good HC. Not a great HC. He had 10 years to finally get this program over the hump and couldn't do it. I'll never get over having a team with three NFL starters including an MVP-level QB and he couldn't manage more than 7 wins. Change is good.

CyGuy5 said:

Football was pretty miserable considering they returned almost everything from a team that “played” for a conference title and then proceeded to lose to Colorado, Cincinnati, and a team quarterbacked by Jeff Sims

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You start following ISU FB in 2018?

Man, that's a lot of money. Being a hero at ISU would be cool, but if I'm Milan, I think I'm taking that bag as well, it's literally life-changing money. College sports and the NIL money is about to jump the shark I think, because this is unsustainable. So Milan's timing with this is ideal, he may end up being one of the highest paid college athletes of all time if they put the brakes on the runaway NIL train.

loyalsons4evertrue said:

Let's recap Iowa State's 2025-26 athletics year:

Football loses it's winningest HC in program history thus resulting in the decimation of our roster.

Gymnastics program gets cut...bad optics by JP and co.

Joshua Jefferson gets a no contact injury that possibly prevents Iowa State from going further than the Sweet 16.

WBB max exodus.

Milan opts for the draft, realizes he can make way more money by staying in college by going to a blue blood like Kentucky and he's now "Milan Momcilovic, Kentucky".


So yes, this athletics year has sucked. Our seasons weren't necessarily "unsuccessful" by any means but we've been kicked in the cojones repeatedly this year.

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Or you could look at the positives:

- We had another elite hoops season. JJeffs injury doesn't wreck what was accomplished over the entire season. And we'll be placing another outstanding, AA player in the NBA with JJeff being a 1st rounder.

- We just signed TJ to a huge extension that pays him elite money among all hoops coaches.

- TJ just signed what will probably be his best portal haul. And he did so batting 1.000 with all 5 top targets committing on the same weekend. Any other coach pull that off?

- We hired what most football insiders in the know consider one of the best young up-and-coming football coaches in JR. And JR went on to sign a lot of good players in the portal. And I'll add that I think we're a sleeper in football next season.

- We have a new president who's aggressively pursuing untapped revenue streams enabling us to pay out more in NIL. Obviously that played a roll in TJ's running the table.

- We have a lot coming back in hoops even with the departures. And that coupled with the new guys should make for another really fun, successful season with another NCAA Tourny and hopefully a deep run.

I'll finish by saying it's as if some on here really believe no other school deals with adversity of any kind with their teams (coaches and players leaving, a situation like we have in WBB, injuries etc). Every school has stuff like this to deal with at various times. And the way you know who the truly good programs are is if they keep the train a rollin'. The men's hoops train ain't slowing down because Milan Moneybags left. Our hoops brand is elite right now.

And I'll go on to make a somewhat bold prediction that when it's all said and done, JR will surpass what Campbell accomplished here. Book it.

Walking out of the MU view was pretty great. Hanging out on central campus on a nice day. Both are tough to beat.

FriendlySpartan said:

I think this is just such a funny post as most on here have been bemoaning how college sports is now the haves and have nots (P2 vs the rest) and then you have posts like this desiring even more unequal rev share and creating a permanent separation of the top which just takes what’s happening today and makes it so you don’t get an Indiana, or Miami, or others who rise up.

So in reality you don’t want more parity, or any type of balance as people claim you just want more people to be along side you with zero chance to ever compete.

Wild take, I get it, it’s very British of you all but I understand. Just nice to have people say it

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Very much part of it.

ScottyP said:

Wicks throws hard but his stuff is poor.

He didn’t have a single swing and miss until the third inning.

I just don’t see any potential for him to click. Does he even have a plus pitch?

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Had an elite change that the incredible pitch lab destroyed by having him add velocity. He was so much better when the fastball sat at 92 with movement to play off the 87 mph change.

Now the fastball has flattened out and the change doesn't have anywhere to slot into.

Bigman38 said:

Monza will be interesting, they're full throttle something like 70% of the lap.

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Hopefully they figure out something by then.

So we have a few races that might be stinkers. How is that any different than normal?

FinalFourCy said:

Football and MBB were miserable?

There was a lull in the football season but overall it wasn’t miserable.
Basketball was great although clearly Jefferson getting hurt in round 1 sucked

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Football was pretty miserable considering they returned almost everything from a team that “played” for a conference title and then proceeded to lose to Colorado, Cincinnati, and a team quarterbacked by Jeff Sims

aeroclone said:

Agree with this. I enjoyed Yellowstone, 1883, and 1923. I'm looking forward to starting Dutton Ranch. But I quit Marshalls after 2 episodes. It just wasn't good. It didn't even feel like a Yellowstone series.

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Sheridan just doesn't work on network TV where he has to stay within FCC rules of language and violence.