Coach Jake interview on 1700

[Blue42]

Re: Coach Jake interview on 1700

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.

Maybe somebody but up the dough to hire a new OC for the football team.

Now that I'd believe.

[Blue42]

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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.

You're right. Maybe we should decline the invitation to avoid the potential embarrassment!

[ubuntuCAT]

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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.

I think the talk of Jake leaving has more to do with us having a top ten team and pay a bottom 3rd salary along with generally poor attendance.

[run&blade]

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Attendance being down seems to be a growing problem across the country. Oklahoma state had thousands of empty seats last week when they played Iowa state.

The financial crunch on the middle class, television, and increasing ticket prices are all factors.

[jegbomb52]

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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.

Or he could say what every other coach in the world says and wrap it up as a "im not even thinking about next season right now," "with the amazing season were having right now im just focused on getting through March successfully." Mix in a chuckle, and everyone is happy...

[Newsbreaker]

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The guy said that unless something changed at UNI that would preclude us from competing for NCAA bids or conference titles, he's happy where he's at. If that's not enough for you, then nothing would be.

[jegbomb52]

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That is enough for me. Like I said, I believe him.

[otter]

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A spring time announcement sure makes it feel like it would be mens basketball. Wait for after the season and salary negotiations and make the announcement at the same time.....hopefully. I don't know what UNIs avg. rate of returns are but an endowment to cover Ben's current salary would likely be in the $7-8M range.

[Codytwo]

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A spring time announcement sure makes it feel like it would be mens basketball. Wait for after the season and salary negotiations and make the announcement at the same time.....hopefully. I don't know what UNIs avg. rate of returns are but an endowment to cover Ben's current salary would likely be in the $7-8M range.

I think Jake makes around $705k. That would mean a return of about 9%. There's no way our endowment gets that sort of annual return.

In regard to your timing concept, spring would be perfect for wrestling as well.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I think Jake makes around $705k. That would mean a return of about 9%. There's no way our endowment gets that sort of annual return.

In regard to your timing concept, spring would be perfect for wrestling as well.

Jake is at like $575k this year.

[otter]

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Isn't Ben currently at $525K? New contract in 2013 for $500K with annual $25K increases correct?

[TH1974]

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Marty couldn't believe Jake would consider turning down $2million/year because that money to Marty would kind-of-almost-sort-of-begin to start to cover the money he owes various people.

[Panther'73]

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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.

3 of 7 on current roster are from U.S. They currently have a 17 home match winning streak.

[TravelingPanther]

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Marty couldn't believe Jake would consider turning down $2million/year because that money to Marty would kind-of-almost-sort-of-begin to start to cover the money he owes various people.

I don't know the guy, but this made me laugh out loud.

[UNIpanther99]

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Some strange-ish comments by our AD in this interview. I'm guessing he was just trying to say something without really saying anything, but whatever.