TJ signs 10 year extension

[WISCY1895]

 

[gouglyearly]

are you on the payroll to defend Pollard?

Hmmm, agreeing with the poster and recognizing that no one is perfect triggered this response? Ok, hope you have a nice day.

 

[dahliaclone]

Hmmm, agreeing with the poster and recognizing that no one is perfect triggered this response? Ok, hope you have a nice day.

Hmmm, when you've been a member for 12 years and have a total of 16 messages, yeah...it's strange. You also have a nice day.

 

[lucas.ra789]

Henry made a correction. It's 4 mil regardless of who the AD is

 

[dahliaclone]

Henry made a correction. It's 4 mil regardless of who the AD did

oh my

 

[MeowingCows]

Definitely still low. Doesn't make much of a difference in "keeping TJ" really, but it does make a difference in our bank accounts. Expensive buyouts still find their way back to the university.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Any ISU fan who is being realistic understands we've been a basketball school for a long time. We need to have a healthy football program, and we have a great atmosphere, and had a hell of a run in the Campbell era.

Men's basketball is the program that has the highest national profile, highest level of success this century, is most consistently well attended, and the lowest tolerance for bad performances.

Hell, Jamie himself said it early in his tenure, that basketball needed to be the marquee program here, when Morgan was fired.

That got a lot quieter when the next few years after that were absolutely disastrous under McDermott and then realignment focused on football.

 

[BCoffClone]

UConn is probably the only one with a bigger difference. Duke and Arizona are a little less than double.

UConn technically not P4 in football though. Basically I wouldn't count any of the Big East schools since most of them don't even have a football team.

 

[Big_Sill]

Which buyout? The buyout the school has to pay the coach if they fire him early? Or the buyout the coach has to pay the school if he leaves early?

both

 

[bluestarcyclone]

both

Unless there was a major change it would almost certainly be just the buyout the coach has to pay. The 2025 contract had ISU owing the full amount remaining (though payable monthly as if the contract wasn't terminated as opposed to a lump sum)

 

[Big_Sill]

I disagree completely. No buyout amount is going to prevent a coach like TJ from leaving if he really wanted to. It'd make fans "feel"better, but the buyout value doesn't matter one iota.

I'll agree on your point. So the "10 years" is meaningless too if the buyout details are irrelevant and TJ is gonna leave if he wants to leave?

 

[dirtfarmer]

Wow, did not think we'd be able to go that high. Some (or one) donor must have stepped up big time.

Isn’t TJ friends with the Albaugh family?

That could help more than anything in the current environment for retention.

Whoever the donor(s) are: Thank You!!!!!

 

[Klubber]

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One of the all-time best Seinfeld eps.

 

[mustangcy]

Feels like ISU officially going all in on MBB, which I don't hate. Also, not sure what this means for football...

 

[Clonefan32]

10 years from now he will be coaching up AI robots making 15 million dollars a year.

 

[pourcyne]

i dont even know if i'll be alive in 10 years

This gives you a reason to live.

 

[pourcyne]

10 years from now he will be coaching up AI robots making 15 million dollars a year.

Yup.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Feels like ISU officially going all in on MBB, which I don't hate. Also, not sure what this means for football...

When your basketball coach makes double what your football coach does, it tells you exactly what it means for football...

 

[bluestarcyclone]

When your basketball coach makes double what your football coach does, it tells you exactly what it means for football...

I don't know that it says anything in particular.

Jamie has typically operated on a 'buy low and pay more when they achieve success' philosophy of hiring and pay. We haven't really gone out and made big splash hires, other than Chizik.

We happen to have just hired the football coach so it'd be expected to be low, and TJ has achieved a ton of success, so he'd be at the point where pollard would pay high.

 

[crs8975]

When it comes to salary, what will happen if Rogers comes out of the box swinging and football keeps winning. It might be easier to pay the bball coach more now than it will be down the road if that were to happen.