Fennelley signs extension

[PlanoClone]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Excited to share with Cyclone fans that we signed another outstanding coach to a contract extension. <a href="https://twitter.com/ISUCoachFen?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@ISUCoachFen</a> has agreed to an extension through 2025. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/notretiringanytimesoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#notretiringanytimesoon</a></p>&mdash; Jamie Pollard (@IASTATEAD) <a href="">March 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[PlanoClone]

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[Cyfan1965]

 

[AgronAlum]

Sorry for the poor job of embedding the tweet.

Just paste the link text. Don’t use the image/media button. It’ll convert when you post.

 

[Walden4Prez]

GREAT news!

This guy truly is a legend.

I have had the opportunity to meet him on a couple of occasions when my daughter attended his basketball camp. The camp is run by assistants and players, but Bill is always there in the background, helping out with the little tasks.

As the end of each camp he gathers everyone in and gives a speech to the girls. I know I am always ready to run through a wall for the guy when he is done. He then sticks around for autographs, pictures, etc.

Top notch.

 

[mj4cy]

He's got some good young talent so glad he'll see that through at least.

 

[huntt26]

I feel like all of the coaches, Jamie's contract and the conference TV deal is all up around the same time.

 

[Dandy]

2025 is going to be a massive year for ISU athletics.

 

[PlanoClone]

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Thought that's what I did I'll continue to practice.

 

[DeereClone]

I feel like all of the coaches, Jamie's contract and the conference TV deal is all up around the same time.

2025 is going to be a massive year for ISU athletics.

2024-2025 is only a big deal because it is currently 2019

If you have any intention at all of continuing on with your current coaches, you extend their contracts out 4-5 years for recruiting.

Hopefully everyone will get another extension next year or the year after again, making 2026-2027 big years for us.

 

[RonBurgundy]

Good news. But am I confused? I thought BF already had a "lifetime" contract. No?

 

[alarson]

2024-2025 is only a big deal because it is currently 2019.

That year is big because the big 12 grant of rights expires in 2025.

However, you are correct, all of these contracts will hit a point where we need to extend them or not well before then (at very least by 2021/2022)

Makes me wonder when theyre planning on setting down together and with ESPN to get that tv contract renegotiation going, which will probably be what determines if the GOR gets extended another 10-15 years. Most schools are probably going to be in the same situation with their contracts where theyre going to want to have the big 12 deal locked down before they start signing their contracts that go that far beyond the end of the GOR.

 

[alarson]

Good news. But am I confused? I thought BF already had a "lifetime" contract. No?

It was unofficially a lifetime contract because it was extended so far out, but officially just through 2022 i believe.

 

[mred]

It was unofficially a lifetime contract because it was extended so far out, but officially just through 2022 i believe.

His original "lifetime contract" was a 12-year deal signed in 2007 that would have expired this year. In 2017, he signed an extension through 2022, so this is the second 3-year extension on that original 12-year deal.

 

[acoustimac]

 

[mred]

I saw mention that next year will be BF's 25th at ISU. I wondered if that was over half of ISU's seasons, and it is: there were 22 seasons of ISU wbb before him, so he officially had coached over 50% of ISU's seasons once the 17-18 season started.

(Fennelly vs ISU total)

Seasons: 24/46 (52%)
Games: 767/1357 (56%)
Wins: 505/742 (68%)
Losses: 262/615 (43%)

If he were to coach out the remainder of this new contract and ISU averages a 19-13 record (a reasonable estimate looking at the past 10 seasons):
Seasons: 30/52 (58%)
Games: 959/1549 (62%)
Wins: 619/856 (72%)
Losses: 340/693 (49%)

One more 19-13 season after that, and he'd coach in exactly 50% of ISU's losses (in 31 seasons compared to the 18 before him).

 

[BoxsterCy]

If you have any intention at all of continuing on with your current coaches, you extend their contracts out 4-5 years for recruiting.

QFT!

 

[jdoggivjc]

I saw mention that next year will be BF's 25th at ISU. I wondered if that was over half of ISU's seasons, and it is: there were 22 seasons of ISU wbb before him, so he officially had coached over 50% of ISU's seasons once the 17-18 season started.

(Fennelly vs ISU total)

Seasons: 24/46 (52%)
Games: 767/1357 (56%)
Wins: 505/742 (68%)
Losses: 262/615 (43%)

If he were to coach out the remainder of this new contract and ISU averages a 19-13 record (a reasonable estimate looking at the past 10 seasons):
Seasons: 30/52 (58%)
Games: 959/1549 (62%)
Wins: 619/856 (72%)
Losses: 340/693 (49%)

One more 19-13 season after that, and he'd coach in exactly 50% of ISU's losses (in 31 seasons compared to the 18 before him).

At first the losses thing sounds awful - until you realize that he’s coached more than 2/3 of ISU’s seasons.

 

[casey1973]

Well he's a legend for sure and has done an amazing job at ISU. I also would have been excited to see a opportunity for a new coach to come in with some different coaching styles. Go Cyclones!

 

[Buster28]

At first the losses thing sounds awful - until you realize that he’s coached more than 2/3 of ISU’s seasons.

Or you realize how far under .500 the program was upon Fennelly's arrival and marvel at the fact that ISU is now 127 games OVER .500. Fennelly said a friend of his said he was committing "professional suicide" by taking the Iowa State job. I'd like to know exactly when it was that person ate crow.