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Hopefully not the UCLA dude going on his 5th school in 5 years
All 5 big ten schools no less
Dudes gunna have an insane resume when he applies at JP Morgan
His familiarity with the conference allows him to hit the ground running and produce anywhere from one to two sacks.
Roy Jones = Anthony Jones? Idk
I’m very curious how he’s able to graduate from any place. Usually you have to do a certain number of credits at one school
My guess is that Roy Jones = Roy Manning, and this is saying Manning has picked up a major Edge recruit
If you're gonna get one of those dudes, get them on their last year. At least we don't have to worry about trying to retain him.
I’ll take him.
Exactly
Ok. But maybe we can at least get a ticktock of how we were able to dislodge this guy from another school. The behind the scenes efforts to convince this guy to transfer must have been fascinating.
Surely it will click at school six. He’s a good and probably cheap depth piece which we need.
Long story but I know a few key players and take a lot of pleasure in rooting against ISU's success
He's cheap and essentially told Campbell off
Pollard moneyballed Campbell like crazy and they weren't fundraising like they should have. Campbell was asking for more resources and Pollard told him no with the rationale being a lack of progress - which is an insane premise at ISU. Cockeye State has had an insane amount of personnel turnover since the Fiesta Bowl, mostly outside of Campbell's control and still outperformed what should have been regression. I.e. the starting qb immediately following Purdy getting banned from the NCAA for life and having the best regular season in program history immediately following. Meanwhile the program has been one of the most injured in the country over the past three years. Fans have put Campbell in statue territory over the past two seasons due to a)newfound success against the hawks and b) the first ten win season in program history. Moreso the first
Secondly he's one of the only ADs in the country making NIL decisions when it comes to player's rev share numbers (which is both insane and has changed since Rodgers took over). Campbell wanted this to change so they could be flexible in the portal both from an acquistion and retention standpoint and Pollard refused, stating that it opened them up to Title IX and employment law liability - to which most schools, especially in the Big 12, have said fuck it
Similar circumstances when Cael Sanderson left
Similar circumstances when Hoiberg left
He's done the same to Otzelberger but Otz has been fundraising himself with 2-3 select hoops donors, primarily dennis albaugh
The backdrop to all this being:
1. Massive revenue cliff coming and the athletic department facing significant financial hardship in the near future. ISU is one of the least insulated schools and is having active discussions about dropping a tier in the event the state refuses to bail them out
2. Cytown - Significant real estate project with the aim of funding athletics is not going as well as it was intended to - this is Pollard's project
3. The athletic program itself being mostly tapped on means to increase revenue and Pollard being against selling alcohol. (Famously calling drinking fans "slobs")
This backdrop is important because Pollard was maintaining a 'first right of refusal' for the whale donors checks because Cytown has been such an insane lift and required lots of financial and political capital.
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