McDermott's wife also had cancer with a pretty grim outlook at the time (she beat it thank God) so a lot of what he did in that off-season was financially motivated to make sure his family would be taken care of. He interviewed for K-State on his way back from Dayton after UNI lost in the tournament and had several others scheduled when the Iowa State offer was made.
It just didn't work. There was no malice or anything, Greg just wasn't quite ready at that point which every UNI fan could have told you at the time. In the end, it worked out for everybody (except UNI)...
I would go the money too........can't fault him for that. And it worked out alright for UNI. In fact so well people were questioning who was really behind Greg's good years at UNI. No, in the end the only place it didn't work was ISU. Thanks to everything that is good Fred came back and struck gold.