Thamel: Financial concerns may hamper Iowa coaching search
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This was sent out by Chad L on Saturday:
I am going to tweet something, too, but if you see a quote from Pete Thamel saying Iowa is not willing to pay a big buyout to another coach, I can assure you from an incredibly well-placed source that is absolutely not true.
Iowa is prepared to do what it takes to get the best men's basketball coach on board.
I am going to tweet something, too, but if you see a quote from Pete Thamel saying Iowa is not willing to pay a big buyout to another coach, I can assure you from an incredibly well-placed source that is absolutely not true.
Iowa is prepared to do what it takes to get the best men's basketball coach on board.
“There are some interesting headwinds facing Iowa, Rece, which dismissed Fran McCaffery this week,” Thamel said. “Iowa’s not in great financial shape and they do not have a strong appetite to pay a big buyout
Iowa is not in "great financial shape"?
Iowa is not in "great financial shape"?
There is a narrative that we have seen woven into some of the “thank-you Fran” posts since Friday about how Fran “did more with less” during his time at Iowa. While there is probably some truth to that, it seems overblown. I mean, we know our NIL is weak, but that’s only been a thing for the past 4-5 years. Other than that, Iowa’s support for basketball has been quite strong, including the construction of a new practice facility.
All this to say, I think there might be people in the Fran camp pushing the “did more with less” narrative, to canonize Fran and jab at the University of Iowa. This narrative that Iowa is “not in great financial shape” seems to go along with it.
Fran was slow to adopt the portal which hurt the prohram. He was quoted several years ago stating he wasn't going to pay new players more than existing players on the team. Hard to bring in better talent to fill gaps and get better.
Indiana, Villanova, Virginia, Minnesota, and NC State are just a few of the other p4 schools looking for new head basketball coaches.
Minnesota likely has there's already in Medved.
Indiana, Virginia, and Villanova are all better jobs than Iowa. McCollum is on rumored short lists for all those schools. Devries has not been rumored to be on the short list for any of them.
I think we're either getting Devries or some yet to be named up and commer.
What about Mack or Van. Solid coaches without a $6M price tag. Beth seems to be a better business person than that.
Not true--seen Indiana and UVA. Villanova just opened up
Chad L. has already shot this down, but aside from that--I find it very hard to believe Beth would can Fran without having her ducks in a row on every turn.
True:
Villanova basketball coaching candidates: Chris Collins, Richard Pitino among options to replace Kyle Neptune
Villanova's vacancy is expected to garner serious interest in the coaching carousel.
www.cbssports.com
It sounds like Fran has already started a counterintelligence disinformation movement. 😊
Pete Thamel is a hack. Iowa is one of the Top 15 revenue producing programs in the country. The only "financial issue" we have is a poor NIL program for the basketball program that is a direct result of Fran's refusal to interact with fans in order to drum up support for it. He thought all he needed to do was coach basketball and it was everyone else's responsibility to fundraise. Which is asinine because Kirk did fundraising for the north end zone, Brands did fundraising to get the $30M wrestling facility, etc. Honestly, I couldn't be happier Fran and his heckling wife are out.
This. Goetz is not Barta in more ways than one. First, she has the courage to make moves that need to be made. Second, she's smart enough to make sure that the resources are in place to do better before making the move.
Top 25 anyway. Lol
But that really means absolutely nothing when it comes to the basketball program. What is so hard for people to understand about this?
Is the basketball program not part of the athletic department anymore? When did it become a club sport? 😀
?True:
Villanova basketball coaching candidates: Chris Collins, Richard Pitino among options to replace Kyle Neptune
Villanova's vacancy is expected to garner serious interest in the coaching carousel.
Attendance has sucked and Iowa's NIL is a fraction of most major-college programs, so I doubt that Iowa is in great financial shape. Women's BB shows that Iowa fans want to support their teams (there are limited teams to cheer for in Iowa), but you have to give them a product that delivers more than occasional exciting games. I know nothing about Iowa's finances or the coaching search, but they need to make a great selection or this could be Lick2.0. Even then, the cards will be stacked against that coach, unless financial support changes.
