Campbell turned down $68.5m NFL contract this off season
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He also probably saw the social media attacks on the Prohm family
Pat sajak makes $15 million a year filming wheel of fortune 48 days of the year. You would struggle to find someone who doesn't like that.
So much this. If you're happy, valued, supported, and validated, the money becomes secondary. It feels like working with young men plays into his mission more than the almighty dollar. And, ffs, you'd have to work hard to spend $4 mil in a year in Iowa.
It's generally a bad idea for anyone, a coach, or an AD, to guarantee they will NEVER leave or that the coach is there for LIFE. For multiple reasons.
1. It hurts your ability to negotiate, both ways. For things like assistant salaries, facilities upgrades... I know JP is actually pretty good about doing these things for CMC so far, but in general it's not a good tactic. If JP guaranteed he'd never fire CMC he'd be pretty obligated to give him whatever he wanted and any pressure from donors would be harder to handle. I don't see those things happened at ISU right now or any time soon, but in general not a good idea.
2. Things change. CMC seems to have a great relationship with JP, but what if JP retired or got a ridiculous amount of money to go to Wisconsins or something. CMC saying he's here forever might come back to bite him if the new AD ***** things up. Other factors can affect your willingness to stay even if you love it here now.
3. The curious case of Paul Rhoads. He looked like he was taking ISU to the levels CMC has actually taken them so far, JP gave him a 10 year contract, then the bottom fell out. I don't think CMC is going to collapse, but the AD has to make smart decisions in general.
I don't think a blue-blooded program is incompatible with a quality culture.
Alabama is so dominant because it has the best athletes *and* the best culture around.
Campbell is clearly a loyal guy and it's difficult to get him to leave a job he likes. I don't think JP gets enough credit for finding MC and selling him on ISU.
He thought that he could build Toledo into a midwestern Boise State. Jamie sold him on the vision that ISU is a better place to achieve not only for that plateau, but greater.
With all due respect, I can’t think of another P5 school with the combination of vastly underfulfilled history and yet fervent, incessant fan support out that that offers all the raw materials to build what he’s looking for.
Tom Osborne, another example of a Hall of Fame coach who stayed at one place (25 years at NE)! I'd forgotten about him!
We always bring up Bill Snyder, at least I do. He only coached at KSU for 25 years! 25 years, seemed much longer didn't it. There was that 4 year hiatus I suppose. Snyder, Kansas State University from 1989 to 2005, and again from 2009 to 2018!
I couldn't find Bill Schneider, haha.
They'll probably be writing about Campbell quotes in the coming years. Here is one of Coach Snyder's:
Coach Bill Snyder’s 16 Goals for Success | Nathan Magnuson
Coach Bill Snyder’s 16 Goals for Success | Nathan Magnuson
I’m left to assume the OP was asking if CMC has ever said that he was firmly entrenched.
But it does answer the question you asked, “Why did he leave Toledo”. It wasn’t because he ran out of “room for improvement”.
I truly wonder what it would take for him to leave? Was it simply the kids he had coming back this year? I think he could say that year after year with all the recruits he brings in? Was it just not the right fit and he would do it if it was the Browns? That guy is hard to read.
