The first half of football we struggle on offense and people will be on CF saying they wish he had taken the KU job.
Tom Manning a candidate for KU FB job
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Whoever ends up accepting the KU football job needs to look at the contract Heupel got at Tennessee, and the contract that Mark Stoops has at Kentucky.
-Heupel got a 6 year deal, that will automatically add a 7th if the football program should receive any NCAA punishment for the recruiting violations that led to Pruitt getting ousted.
-For Mark Stoops, every time Kentucky wins seven games in the regular season, his contract is automatically extended by one year.
Les was getting 2.7M annually from Kansas. If someone like Willie Fritz or Jeff Monken can walk into that job and get 7 years guaranteed at around 2.4M with automatic extensions and bonuses built in, that becomes a very attractive offer.
-Heupel got a 6 year deal, that will automatically add a 7th if the football program should receive any NCAA punishment for the recruiting violations that led to Pruitt getting ousted.
-For Mark Stoops, every time Kentucky wins seven games in the regular season, his contract is automatically extended by one year.
Les was getting 2.7M annually from Kansas. If someone like Willie Fritz or Jeff Monken can walk into that job and get 7 years guaranteed at around 2.4M with automatic extensions and bonuses built in, that becomes a very attractive offer.
There is going to be a day that Manning has a great opportunity to get his first HC job. I can't think of a worse situation to pick than the one at KU.
Has KU done anything to improve football facilities? It seems like an awful job until that is done.
I would argue that there are quite a few Group of 5 jobs I would take as a HC over Kansas. Without LOTS of time and support there is no way you can turn it around there.
it would be the most iowa state thing ever
This is true. And you also don’t want to get your ass kicked by your former mentor once a season
See Manning taking a Bowling Green/Toledo type job within the next few years.
Much easier to use a MAC job a career stepping stone than KU.
Much easier to use a MAC job a career stepping stone than KU.
I wouldn't take that job if I were him. There's are better jobs he can take out there that actually care about football.
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I know what Snyder did at K-State. That said, the Jayhawk job right now feels like nothing more than career suicide.
Reminds me of SEVERAL years ago when my friends and I decided to go to the Kansas game at Kansas. Took our tailgating bus. We were the only ones in the parking lot for hours upon hours just getting drunk by ourselves. Started to wonder if we were in the wrong parking lot. We were not.
I believe they removed the track around the football field, so that was a start. And I know some KU fan said they had invested some money in facilities recently, back when we initially got the news that the job had opened up.
Millions of dollars for five years, versus waiting a year for millions and millions of dollars for twenty-plus. Hmm.
Snyder has a case for being the greatest coach in the history of the sport.
I think Manning is a good coach, but I don't think betting on a repeat of Snyderism in Lawrence is a wise move.
The second half of the NC game, when Alabama comes back to make it close. “Too conservative!”, they’ll all say.
