BREAKING: Matt Campbell, Penn State in final stages
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If Campbell had left in a lateral move to a school on ISU level, you could say that lack of NIL and JP played a part in his decision. That is not the case here, he took a better job, I know that is difficult for some people to understand and live with, but when you get offered a job where you really can win a national championship, you have to jump at the opportunity. At his age he would be silly not to try for the brass ring and make millions more by doing so, sure he will be under more pressure, that comes with the job, but with more NIL funds and much better recruiting area to draw from it really makes the job easier than winning at ISU. The difference is he will be expected to beat the Michigan States and Purdues of the world, while going at least .500 against the ranked teams. Start beating Oregon, Michigan and Ohio State and Franklin was close to it, just couldn't pull it off, he will be loved.
Except anyone with any inside information on here when he left were certain that Jamie was a big reason. Just because they walked it back, doesn't mean it wasn't true.
Campbell might have had problems with Pollard over the way NIL was being handled, but that was not the primary reason he left. It that was the case, he would have been interviewing the moment the season ended, sending out feelers for a better job. The ESPN article about PSU stated that he sat down with the seniors individually after the season and wanted to know if they would be playing in the bowl game. He also met with all the players on the team and wanted to know if they were coming back next season or leaving. That does not sound like a coach that is looking to leave, but one that was planing on returning until a job opened up that was too good to pass up.
I disagree. If he goes 10-2, it doesn't matter where the losses are coming from. He has to make the CFP semifinal at a minimum. If he beats Oregon and loses to Michigan State, the fans will still be out for blood. It's crazy you think making the CFP is the goal in Happy Valley. Not even close.
Everyone here - whether they admit it or will instead follow the cult narrative - knows the role our AD played in letting CMC leave Iowa State. And yes, I am correctly using the term "letting".
Write that check next time then if you think that.
Write the check but it has to go to the general fund, can’t pick a specific sport
That’s some horrible logic, but I get the cope
Several things had CMC ready to leave, including JP/NIL. Once on the market, of course he landed a better job, with better NIL and a lack
Had he left in a lateral move, to another place in which there would be conflict over limited NIL, then one could conclude NIL/JP didn’t play a part of his decision
The real cult are you and the anti pollard people.
Except a lot of that information seemed to fall apart. It started as JP controlling all the FB specific NIL which wasn’t true, so the goalposts kept moving. By the time Blum and JP explained it, it basically came down to just simply not having enough NIL as an AD. This and all the NIL threads cover it as nauseum, but short of flat out coming up with more money for NIL and NIL-sponsoring services, diverting money from MBB, or defying donor intent when they give specifically for other sports like WBB or wrestling, there really wasn’t a whole lot Pollard could’ve done.
Give it to the Foundation and then specify where u want it to go. They will figure it out
Completely false. This has been explained a ton in response to the endless “why are they even spending any of the rev share on WBB? No wonder Campbell left” comments.
I think you might be confusing NIL and revenue sharing. The revenue sharing piece is controlled by the AD and is the 21 million that every school gets. The problem, I believe, is that if a company wanted to do an NIL deal with a football athlete using ISU logos, that money wouldn’t go to the athlete, but the revenue sharing pot. While other schools were coordinating deals with their athletes and corporate sponsors to pay their top athletes on top of their revenue sharing portion, ISU was trying to trying to consolidate those funds for themselves to control. This sounds like it also prevented coaches to raise funds for their programs for their athletes as well.
My understanding is that this happens with Audi Crooks. If Fareway wanted to use ISU gear in their ads, that money would have gone into the revenue sharing pot, and not directly to Audi. Fareway decided to go directly to Audi, and those ads don’t have ISU gear in them.
Now, with the new president, it sounds like he forced Jamie’s hand to allow coaches to peruse corporate deals to raise funds/coordinate NIL deals in addition to the revenue share piece. And it sounds like, at least for men’s basketball, there were sponsors sitting on the sideline because they wanted their money for a specific program/athlete and not the revenue sharing pot.
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