Having gone to both
ISU & IU - I would consider the schools pretty equal. Sure IU has an outstanding basketball tradition- but we all know that
FB is the key to building an athletic dept that is strong across the board & IU's
FB program is in worse shape than the Clones. It's been a couple years since I saw IU's budget- but at that time it was $33M and that was equal to
ISU.
If
JP wants to take over an athletic department that was in the same condition as
ISU 4 years ago - then IU is the perfect job. I would think he would want a different type of challenge in his next AD job.
