Leader in the clubhouse that has yet to be built.
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Neither of those guys have worked at UNI in over 15 years and have been crazy successful raising money in places that, until very recently in Bozeman, were not easy to raise money in.
SDSU was playing in a high school stadium when Sell got there and they've won two national titles and built $200M in facilities, he revived a struggling basketball program, invested in wrestling and kept their excellent women's sports well funded as he was fixing everything else.
Costello inherited a football program that went 7-4 every year and turned them into a program that passed Montana in the state, increased stadium capacity by 40% and built two new premium clubs. He's nailed three basketball hires and they're getting ready to do an arena upgrade. Has been a finalist for several jobs over the past couple years. He's ready.
Literally nothing to do with them having worked at UNI a lifetime, and 4 ADs, ago.
Not sure his family wants to leave the big metropolis of Lincoln to come back to Ames.
Not sure who the next AD will be, but some media have ALREADY started the Otz will leave speculation. (Eye roll)
Need to make Jeff Horncheck say no. His agent is very interested
I have it on good authority that Hardin's approach to the football program factored greatly into Woodley leaving for an assistant job at Rutgers after only one season.
That means nothing as to how he’d approach it at ISU. Drake is FCS non-scholarship with zero fanbase. Their marquee sport is basketball and you’re never going to make any money off FB at the level they play. They also have no desire to return to scholarship FB.
Basketball is their marquee program, and the Relays are the most important time of year for their AD.
I’d expect his approach to football would be discussed/vetted during his interview.
I doubt it given no contract extension beyond next season and JP's retirement signals to Bill that next season is truly his last. But my guess is that the new AD will be the decision maker for the new WBB HC even though they may not be in place yet. Just like JP did with the CJL hire (i.e. Bruce didn't hire her).
Thr Drake Relays, easily the most visible athletics event at drake, are an absolute shell of what they used to be. I would sure hope they look elsewhere. The number of steps backwards that event has taken are astonishing
