Coach Jake interview on 1700

[jegbomb52]

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I believe every word that Coach Jake is saying and think he is a Panther for many years to come. I think a lot of you are trying to guard yourselves from him leaving. If he leaves I will consider him a liar after all this talk.

[Codytwo]

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How old are Ben's kids? Maybe he'll leave for Wisconsin when his oldest son is a in freshmen in HS, Green will become head coach and Ben's son will commit here. Then Ben will get fired from Wisconsin after his son's senior year in HS, take the job at Marquette and have his son decommit from UNI to play for him there?

I think your story needs one adjustment. Instead of taking the job at Marquette, he'd be taking the job at Loyola.

[Final4PantherChica]

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Like it or not, from a national perspective Uni is not the top of the food chain for coaching. The ultimate challenge would be to have sustained success at a power conference. If jake wants money and a chance to wn it all he isn't going to stay at Uni.

The Wisconsin job wold be a perfect fit for him. That would be the one job I think he would in a second without Needing to even think it over.

Some jobs would be more of a challenge than getting Uni to number 11. If he was at a place like North Carolina or Kentucky they would expect it every year and more. If he didn't deliver he would be out.

UNI could win it all this year. Once in the Final4 anything can happen. Following the footsteps of a Hall of Fame coach is not very appealing to guys like coach Jacobson. He won't go to Wisky in my opinion.

[BCPanther]

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We're now up to 34 posts about Jake leaving because of something Marty Tirrell said. This is officially bizarro world.

[run&blade]

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UNI could win it all this year. Once in the Final4 anything can happen. Following the footsteps of a Hall of Fame coach is not very appealing to guys like coach Jacobson. He won't go to Wisky in my opinion.

That will be an interesting dynamic this time around. UNI will be expected to win at least one game, if not two games.

The national hammer is going to come down hard if UNI craps the bed in the opening round.

Personally just making it is a great season IMO, being in the position to be ridiculed nationally if they go one and done puts a lot of pressure on the team.

Lots of good teams with good seeds have lost their first game.

[Cat80]

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Let's not forget there's a big announcement regarding a coaching position at the end of the season. On another thread it was mentioned this could be endowing a coaching position. If it is endowing the Men's BB HC position, what better statement of commitment could a coach get from a UNI?

[ubuntuCAT]

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Let's not forget there's a big announcement regarding a coaching position at the end of the season. On another thread it was mentioned this could be endowing a coaching position. If it is endowing the Men's BB HC position, what better statement of commitment could a coach get from a UNI?

I guess it's possible but I just don't see a $5mil+ donation coming in to endow a head men's basketball coach.

[BCPanther]

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If we make a run, I kind of expect that Jake gets a bump up to the $1 million range. Not sure $5 mil does it.

I think it's football....

[06panther10]

Coach Jake interview on 1700

If we make a run, I kind of expect that Jake gets a bump up to the $1 million range. Not sure $5 mil does it.

I think it's football....

I have a hard time believing it would be football either to be honest. Farley makes close to $300K as it is, so that would have to be a massive donation as well.

Plus, out of all sports, fans seem to be the most restless with the football coaching staff, so now would be an odd tim for someone to give a multi million dollar donation to keep them around forever.

But who knows. I wonder what they are waiting for to announce this if it is already a done deal.

[PantherChic]

Darn the secret's out! I won Powerball a while back. I'm paying both football and basketball head coach salaries
I wish....

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[ubuntuCAT]

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My guess is wrestling

[Codytwo]

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I'm going with tennis.

[ubuntuCAT]

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Are there any tennis fans? Do we have any current tennis players from the USA? Seems like they are usually foreign.

[Codytwo]

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I just think it would take the least amount of money to endow that coaching position.

[Kyle]

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I believe every word that Coach Jake is saying and think he is a Panther for many years to come. I think a lot of you are trying to guard yourselves from him leaving. If he leaves I will consider him a liar after all this talk.

Give me a break.

All coaches give the same canned spiel when asked about future career plans. I have no idea when or if Jake will leave, but he only has one option when asked about jumping ship.

Jake has been here for 10 years and taken our MBB program to unprecedented success. He could have made the jump 5 years ago and chose to forgo several million to stay at UNI and continue turning our program into one of the best mid major's in the country. If he chooses to leave at some point in the next few years, I won't blame him one bit. In the real world when somebody has a chance to get a promotion and pay raise, they jump at the opportunity 99% of the time. But when coaches does it, they are suddenly disloyal or labeled a traitor. IMO this reaction screams unrealistic butt hurt fan.