If he's smart he bolt after the first whiff of success there. Returns some good guys on offense with Lazard and warren. I'm sure if Rhoads and Danny Mac could do it over would have left for better schools.
Matt Campbell is ISU's next coach
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Would you want to take a job at Mizzou right now? With your team boycotting, the community walking on eggshells, and a new president whose previous career was in activism? In any case, there's no indication Mizzou offered Campbell the job.
I wouldn't want to go anywhere near mizzou right now with everything that transpired there this year. Plus, I think it would be easier to compete and earn bowl invites playing in the Big12 versus the SEC. Not saying ISU is a great job or ignoring the fact it's a risky move by both the coach and university, but odds of doing enough to be considered a success are greater at ISU versus mizzou
Matt Campbell was offered an increase in salary to $800,000
per year at Toledo for next season.. He declined and took the
big bucks he will get at Iowa State. Campbell likes to run a
spread offense and will need a good quarterback to be successful.
per year at Toledo for next season.. He declined and took the
big bucks he will get at Iowa State. Campbell likes to run a
spread offense and will need a good quarterback to be successful.
I wonder when Pollard first contacted him? Fire Rhoads with one week left in the season and announce a new coach the very next day after Rhoads last game.
To transfer in to ISU, you just have to have a 2.0 GPA and have at least 24 credits to transfer in. Let's say you went to a JUCO for 2 years and took the minimum of 12 credits, that's 48 credits. You can choose 24 (or more) of those to transfer in to make your 2.0 GPA.
Not that you asked, but for in state HS students, you have to have an RAI (based on class rank, ACT/SAT, GPA and core classes) of 245 to get into Iowa or ISU. Out of state students must have a 255 to get into Iowa ora 245 to get into Iowa State. If you fail to achieve the minimum RAI, ISU "may also be offered admission, but their applications will be reviewed on an individual basis." If you fail to achieve a 245/255, you can't get into Iowa...period.
The big thing about Lauterbur was he couldn't recruit. I remember watching his teams play and couldn't believe how much smaller his players looked compared to the opponents players. If Iowa has to play ISU it would be nice to play someone who is at least halfway good. I hope Campbell is the answer.
Sigh. We have this conversation every couple of months. What you wrote is simply wrong. Iowa takes plenty of applicants who fail to achieve the RAI standard. In fact, the Regents have told Iowa to revise its procedures so it can provide a more accurate picture of the process.
In fact, if an athlete can get a scholarship at ISU, he/she can get one at Iowa. The reverse is not the case, however, because the Big XII bans partial or non-qualifiers and the BiG does not.
This doesn't mean that Iowa would take every applicant that ISU would take. It means Iowa could do so.
I'm guessing he's been working on it all week. Pretty smart move on Pollard to get ahead of the pack because it appears he got the guy he wanted
I think this is a pretty good hire for ISU. They return some talent, and this guy has proven to be a winner before. Who else would they get there? Another D-Coord? Good hire, we'll see if it pays off.
Absolutely not true. This is something I deal with every day at my job and I know the rules inside and out. Iowa does not make exceptions, unless there is no class rank available or if the student is home-schooled. Face it, it's tougher to get into Iowa for out of state students and student-athletes. A 255 is not that difficult for an average student to achieve, but for lower achieving students, it can be.
In addition, everything I wrote came straight from the colleges' websites.
umm... if you hadn't noticed they have been beating the hawks on a regular basis already
Young, players coach, offensive mind, successful, was a head coach, able recruiter (although it will probably be tougher in Ames)
Don't think Pollard could have done any better really. But I agree with the initial premise that he'll either flop after 4-5 years or be around 6 wins a year during that span and bolt.
Don't think Pollard could have done any better really. But I agree with the initial premise that he'll either flop after 4-5 years or be around 6 wins a year during that span and bolt.
The last three head coaches at ISU have been defensive coaches - Rhoads, Chizek and McCarney. ISU has never had good defenses
For the young pups on this board, he is referring to Francis X. Lauterbur, the last Iowa coach to have a perfect season, 0-11 in 1973.
LC won't be able to prove you wrong. It is the journalist inside him that is impervious to facts contrary to his argument. He simply will ignore it. Like all good clone fans would.
That's the problem. Iowa looses to ISU it's a terrible loss. If Iowa beats ISU it's Iowa beating a dumpster fire and is considered a bad win. Does nothing for strength of schedule.
Sure, Iowa is still losing to a terrible team. Sometimes it's hard to get up for a team that stinks. That's why ISU would be the 1st team I would kick off Iowa's schedule. Replace them with a Kansas State, West Virginia, or Utah. A team that Iowa could get up for and would not be embarrass to lose to.
I would love to see the replay of the presser when they announced the hiring of PR. They all sound perfect until the losses start.
From your keyboard to heaven's eyes. ISU can't suck enough for me. Should dissolve the university and make it an Iowa extension campus.
My thought is that ISU hired a MAC coach so they are better prepared for the switch to the MAC when ever that occurs. Just a thought.
You would think not wanting to get embarrassed would be a good enough reason to "get up" for a game but if you don't think the Iowa players and staff don't care about the game I probably won't change your mind
Well, all I can tell you is that you should share your inside knowledge with the people who officially represent the U of I before the Regents and answer questions from journalists, because they agree with me. The website explains what their guidelines are; it doesn't go into the question of exceptions, or definitions of exceptional cases.
Are you aware that the Regents have directed UI to come up with a rationale for dealing with applicants who come from high schools that don't rank their graduates -- which is about half of them in Iowa now, IIRC? ISU and UNI have a formula based on test scores that they use to estimate class ranking, which gives them a number that lets them use the RAI. Unless UI has already complied with the Regents order, that doesn't happen at Iowa City. They just make case-by-case decisions on applicants who lack a class standing, which means there's no way to know exactly how many sub-RAI students they accept. Could be none, could be all.
Even beyond that, however, they make exceptions for some students who do have a class ranking. Not as many as ISU and not nearly as many as UNI, but the UI is trending higher and ISU trending lower in this regard.
This is coming straight from the UI, by the way; I'm not basing it on some personal impression. If I based it on personal impressions, I'd refer to when I transferred from ISU to UI -- my credits were multiplied because they were worth more at ISU. Basically, what they did at UI was transfer hours earned on the quarter system at ISU to hours earned on the semester system at ISU. So one year of, say, chemistry at ISU was counted as 3 semesters at Iowa. But since that was a long, long time ago, and ISU is no longer on quarters, it's irrelevant, so I only mention it to point out that my information isn't just a personal hunch.
All this stuff is available to Google, or if you care that much you can dig back through the threads here and find links. Lots of news stories about it in the past 12-18 months.
I honestly think this is a pretty good hire for ISU IF he is able to recruit to Ames. Toledo may be a craphole but it is in an area surrounded by outstanding prep football whereas Ames is not and Iowa tends to get most of what little talent there is in Iowa.
Btw, I remember agreeing with Lone Clone about 7 years ago that CPR was a very good hire so that shows how much I know about the situation.
Btw, I remember agreeing with Lone Clone about 7 years ago that CPR was a very good hire so that shows how much I know about the situation.
Become a good football program and I'll eat my words. Iowa plays better MAC teams. Do I think the coaches and players want to win, yes. But I bet they put in a little extra time and work when they have to play Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Nebraska.
They almost always look like good hires at the time; that's why they get hired, after all.
I can only think of one hire in a major sport that I thought at the time was a mistake: Hoiberg.
Which shows that I know about as much about it as you do
It's Iowa's Super Bowl. When they lose it, they want to fire the coach and eliminate the series (again). Look at this year: They went undefeated, and they're still yammering about the ISU game.
Didn't Iowa lose to all those teams last year and got blown out by Minnesota?
Either way I think it's pretty stupid to emphasis one game over another and if you do that it probably leads to losses that shouldn't happen.
