You think he wasn't gonna get offers regardless who it comes from?
On Iowa Everywhere today they talked about how the Creighton job could come open, and that would be an option for DeVries.
They were gonna need to fight to keep him after year 1 no matter what.
It was kind of a quip with some basis in fact.
I don't think Iowa should go after DeVries if they have to pay some buyout fee to WVU + pay him more money. Pot is only so big. More money to NIL, less to coaches.
McCollum is the right move imho---and Iowa needs to sign him before Minny, Indiana offer
Creighton was only paying McDermott 2.93 million---unless they have a billionaire, they don't have the TV money Iowa gets. They
do have better attendance. I wouldn't bet they are in the Devries race.
The article said he had two schools pursuing Devries. and Iowa is one of them. So that is 50% ofThe interest as of right now. Hence my quip is somewhat based on fact if he's not really serious about his interest in Iowa job. These coaches agent greed is obscene.
Depends on athletic budget of the schools competing vs Iowa for Devries services, Iowa likely is one of the richer schools.
Iowa was a Top 20 revenue athletic department, so there are only 19 above us with more resoures from revenue and most of them aren't searching for coaches. There are the odd schools with Billionaire benefactors and most of them already have higher paid coaches and don't need Devries.
Iowa's main competition for finding a coach is Minnesota and Indiana. The Big10 conference has high coaching salaries relative to lesser revenue conferences and with revenue NIL sharing kicking in, B1G is a destination conference. Unfortunately, Iowa within B1G is a bottom feeder in NIL.
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