Schools Matt Campbell has Turned Down So Far: Washington, $7M/yr

[Hwk-I-St8]

On whether the Big XII will get a spot in an expanded playoff.

If we're being honest, it isn't the kind of thing that lends itself to a bet. At this point, it looks like the conference might have 13 or 14 teams for a couple of years.

Hmmm....I said:

"Come on LC...you can be pretty reasonable some times, then you go all cyclone irrational and post this kinda crap. You know full well that the alliance was an alliance against the SEC. Of course they're not in it, but not because they're not a power conference. As an alliance of power conferences, any other conference left out is left out because they're not part of the equation.

But you knew all this...you were just pulling the cyclone crap poster obtuse response card that is so old and tire. You're better than that."

Where in there did I say the new B12 would get a spot in an expanded playoff?????

 

[grhawk]

Washington would be his ceiling and he should have probably taken it if he was actually offered the job. Not a lot of other schools would be interested after his disastrous coaching performance this year. Next year he will be very lucky to even get his team bowl eligible.

 

[DodgerHawki]

Washington would be his ceiling and he should have probably taken it if he was actually offered the job. Not a lot of other schools would be interested after his disastrous coaching performance this year. Next year he will be very lucky to even get his team bowl eligible.

I'm not a real Campbell fan (his third-person schtick is tiresome) but he can coach. His resume is good enough that if he really wanted another job and had his representative advocating for it, he could likely get it, whether it was UW or one of the other not-Notre Dame or Oklahoma jobs. For whatever reason, he seems to like being at ISU. People will call him an idiot for doing so, much like people called KF an idiot for not taking a NFL job or higher profile college job when he could have in the 2000's.

The bar for getting bowl eligible is pretty low, 6 wins. If he gets 2 auto wins in non-con, then just needs to win 4 of 10 against the Big 12 and Iowa. Possible they only win 5 games, but that would be a surprise. If other schools think he's a disastrous coach based on this year, that wouldn't be a prudent decision. The margin between winning and losing is always slim at places like Iowa and ISU. Having 5 straight winning seasons at Iowa State shows some consistency in the building of a program. I don't know the details of ISU history, nor will I research it, but I can't imagine that ISU had had too many 5-year periods with winning records.