I guess I interpreted it differently. I assumed you were correlating being #2 in returning production with being good. Otherwise, why did you correlate Iowa being last with us having a chance to beat them, if you weren't talking about "quality".
Maybe you just don't like the criticism of your post.
I'm curious what specific changes you're calling for when it comes to the football program. My main gripe with the decision makers is the lack of funds for assistant coaches. But a lot of the other things now falls on donors and fans (NIL).
In my humble opinion -Institutional and financial support, which I agree with you includes big money for assistant coaches. University wide support and fundraising for NIL opportunities as well.
Sorry, my spidey-sense wasn't on so I wasn't aware you didn't like me. You can always choose to "not waste time" as well.
Yeah, I don't think admin support is as significant as it used to be. Prior to NIL, things like facilities were used as recruiting tools, but now concepts like that pale to NIL money.
That's kinda where I'm at. Now we could say that if admin support was better in the past, the overall support would probably be better now (and likely result in more NIL dollars). But think making the next step is much more related to NIL money than anything else.
PJ is ranked 10 of 18 in pay within the conference. If he wanted to, he could pay his assistants 10 out of 18 don’t you think? If not, then him accepting being 10 without demanding his assistants pool match IMO is on him.
I'm not sure how the assistant pay pool is figured out to be honest. Or who decides how much is allocated to what.
Fair, none of us do. PJ is the most powerful person in our athletic dept my guess if he demanded an asst pay pool to match his rank, he gets it.
I've been highly critical of Coyle for his lack of fundraising and visibility, but I'm not sure I'm following what "demonstrated institutional support" means or looks like. Would like to hear you elaborate further on your 2 points. What do those look like in practicality?
Official ads, marketing campaigns, and the message from the university that Athletics are vital to the success of the university and encouraging people to support them.
It’s weird how I’ve gotten about 10 emails from Gopher Sports in the past week, and it appears you are unaware.
I’m talking about direct marketing for NIL or fundraising, not game tickets.
The football team can be its own best marketing apparatus by going to way better bowl games than we have been.
We’ve been doing solid for ourselves in that department post-2019, IMO. We have pulled off upsets and had enough interesting moments to stay relevant, at least for a mid-tier P4 team. PJ Fleck being an eccentric personality definitely helps. I definitely agree that a lot of our season-to-season performances outside of isolated instances would definitely have much more visibility if we hung around in the top 25 more than twice a decade though.