Depends on the order of things.
But they would have left in a second if they were offered 1-2-3-400% or even bigger raises. The discrepancy in salary is what makes this different. I don't know the numbers in the 80s but let's say Iowa offers him 300k and SC offers 600k.Thats easier to see why a guy wouldn't jump for a job he may last 2-3 years at if he isn't successful. If SC offered him 2 million and Iowa offered him 200k he wouldnt have cared if he left and got fired after 2 years. They weren't never in that situation so we like to pretend they would have been blindly loyal. They wouldnt have. Hayden even said he considered going to SC and the weren't offering him nearly the raise these kids are being offered. And please keep in mind Johnny left Michigan because he said they wouldn't pay him enough. It's the same reason Bill Freider left and took the Arizona State job.
Most coaches, especially the younger ones, are ultra competitive, and have a drive to be the best. Sometimes that takes priority over "loyalty."
I’m okay with different priorities. But if you are saying that you would pay 85 cents a day to watch Iowa State play in the final 4 then I can’t relate. I’m also not sure how much stock I put in complaints by those same people in the future.
But they didn't, and I think it was good for both of them. I just don't think chasing the NC, bigger jobs, more money is *NOT* always the wisest decision in life. If you have a great job, have a nice life, have enough money to live comfortably, etc. ENJOY LIFE!
This was my biggest fear when the media #'s came out and there was such a high disparity. Obviously the future of the non-revenue sports will be killed because of it, but my biggest fear is football, because it takes so much money and because of Title IV. Conferences that don't have football will have an easier time competing in basketball. Eventually I see the Big 12 either just gear their spending towards basketball and admit they are going to be 2nd level conference in football or hope the SEC and Big end up at like 24 teams each.
No I wouldn't had some medical bills due to an i injury and the extra money I have ill put into a down market. There's also a part of me that understands all of this was going to be inevitable but I'm not contributing. I think the overall quality of the games has gone down big time the last few years. I think it's a bad product. Obviously that's just my opinion.
I get that, but chasing what is supposedly an easier path to the NC is not showing you are better or the best. Staying in one place, busting your ass, making a difference, etc. is a better way to show you are the BEST IMO. Seriously, anybody think Chizik is a better coach than Matt Campbell because Chizik won the NC @ Auburn? I don't, and I don't even think it is close.
I'll bet national perception would rank Chizik ahead of Campbell.
It's what he does on every game thread too. Total hok troll loser.
I would have agreed with you 5 years ago but continuity means nothing now. A coach is in rebuilding mode when he's at his 10th year at a school now annually. You can do the same thing job hopping every year. Ask Chris Beard. Continuity doesn't exist in today's college sports. It used to be what separated the haves and have not's in any sport. It's a different world. Roster turnover makes it obsolete.
I can't afford to donate. I work 2 jobs and still barely scraping by. It shouldn't be up to us to have to buy players for our favorite college sports programs.
No more than it should be for us to donate to our high school alma maters. Paying these players seems to be where we draw the line. Id have done anything to not have to have paid for college. People who sit in the arena circle and even the parquet live in a different world than the average fan.
That'll keep someone busy deleting the threads non donors start. Your idea can work though, a few weeks back CF did a very good job of quickly removing threads about a certain central Iowa business.
Well that was a heck of a pull I had to Google that one. I was working out of state at that time.
