We don't know if Cantrell can throw worth a damn, but he looked great running the ball. Wouldn't mind seeing him move to RB if he stays.
***Official portal tracker thread***
- Thread starter demoncore1031
- Start date
I don't see Manske leaving. He's a lifelong ISU fan and Rocco leaving means the starting job is available. You don't think he will stay and fight for that job? If he loses out to Moberly this year then maybe he leaves next year. Or vice versa. Personally I believe that Manske will be our starter in the fall.
Of course we don't know who else we will have at QB just yet. Maybe one or two WSU QBs will be here.
Cyclonepride
Thought Police
Something, dude looks like he’s going a different speed than everyone else
You would lose that bet. I stayed over 35 years at one company and turned down a 70% pay raise 5 years in to stay at that company. It all worked out pretty well for me in the end though.This off-season and last off-season are night & day regarding the money floating around.
I don't blame anyone. Matt took a promotion/ bigger paycheck. My bet is every professional on this board has left a company for more $.
And no reason for players to not do the same. If another school is going to pay a player tens to hundreds of thousands more than ISU, I can't blame a kid for leaving.
Culture & money can coexist. It's call professionalism
Problem is, a lot of reports just guesses.
A lot of reports only say the media deal income from the B12, but then include all revenue paid for the B1G etc.
From my understanding the B1G is estimated to surpass 100M in TOTAL payout, (including bowl, NCAA, Media, etc) by the end of their new contract. I may be wrong, but that is the way I understood it at the time it was being reported. Problem is reports were all over the place, and I am not sure there is any that have see the actual deal and broken it down, just repeated what they saw other places. The B12 is paying an average of 31.5M per year from the Media deal alone, all in that number will be closer to 60M when all things are included.
I turned in late and thought we won…
But it turned out Monster Mudder Horseasourus wasn’t ahead 4 lengths coming into the finish…but was still out there for the next heat.
Needless to say I won’t be funding ISU’s NIL needs and now my 401k is gone as well.
Anyone looking for a roommate?
When is the last time you heard of a player anywhere being academically ineligible. All the teams also have amazing GPAs, all of them. Academics are no longer a concern. Not sure if this is just athletes or the overall grade inflation of the last 20 or so years.
A 70 percent pay raise is nice, but some context? If you were at a company for 35 years, your an old-timer like me. I'm early 60's and 5 years in was working Finance for a Fortune 10 company my salary was low $50's. So that raise would have been $35k. Sure, really good money.
Buy with P4 football players we could be talking hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Reports are Rocco was making $1.5M at Iowa State last season. Does he get $3M+ at PSU? I would expect guys like Brahmer, Neal, Williams, etc. will get at least double what ISU would have been willing to pay.
Yea, nobody on the inside cares. On the Williams/Blum podcast they mentioned TJ Finley has entered the portal and go to his 7th college (LSU, Auburn, Texas State, WKU, Tulane, GSU, ???)!! I would love to see his transcript.
Is he a PHD or is still working on his undergrad?
Still puzzling how wazzu was able to play a bowl game but the quitters in the last admin reported through their mouthpieces that it was impossible for Iowa state to play one...
Why? And it will get worse. I fully expect we'll see 40+ players on the existing Cyclone roster enter the portal. I hope it's less, but IMO just a sign of the times.
But for every guy leaving it opens a spot for Jimmy Rogers to bring in a guy who the staff feels is a better fit for their system.
Look around and there are a ton of programs losing 15+ players and they aren't going through a coaching change.
Didn’t Malcolm Gladwell give a lecture positing this was due to the prevalenace of “Hooked on Phonics” television commercials during the 1990s?
I think the word you needed was "expected"...not concerning. I guess it can be both, but when you know something is going to happen...and this loss of guys to transfer was as predictable as the sunrise...it shouldn't be THAT concerning.
WSU had a skeleton staff remain behind to coach...same offensive scheme, same defensive scheme...we did not have that luxury. It was not possible to install all new schemes in a few weeks, nor could the new staff coach using the old schemes.
