Most Important Part of TJ's Contract Extension
- Thread starter Jer
- Start date
Give TJ all the $$ he wants for him and his assistant coaches. What they are doing for ISU basketball is amazing.
Can't give directly to the pool....but they'd find a workaround "I want endless supply of We Will beer." Lol
Lol, find a work around.
"Hall of famer Allison Lacey makes ANOTHER huge donation to the We Will collective...."
Money obviously matters. You obviously get to the point where there is diminishing utility on the extra money (like what is 5 million in Ankeny getting you that 4 isn’t) but it is - like it or not - a means of defining success and how much the university and cyclone community value him.
That said, TJ doesn’t strike me as the guy that’s waiting for the Kentucky or Michigan State job to open up so someone can throw a huge salary at him. I know know him personally, of course, but - like Campbell - it seems like he is in it for the challenge of building a sustainably successful program and competing for championships.
That said, TJ doesn’t strike me as the guy that’s waiting for the Kentucky or Michigan State job to open up so someone can throw a huge salary at him. I know know him personally, of course, but - like Campbell - it seems like he is in it for the challenge of building a sustainably successful program and competing for championships.
Once school ADs are able to contribute to NIL (which is coming soon), you will start seeing this contribution as part of the coaches contract. It will be part of the negotiation as much as asst coaches salaries.
His post game comments were right from the Campbell speaking points.
Honorary Mayor of Ames plaque and a nice Pepperage Farm meat and cheese gift basket.
If we win the Natty this year - we have to retire TJ's extra small polo and hang from the rafters.
I fall into the 1A & 1B mentality:
1A- Pay TJ so that he feels valued. Even though he might not need to be paid like a Self or Drew, unless he's a unique person he's going to want to feel the love and be paid in top 4-5 of Big12 coaches.
1B- ISU needs to be prepared to bump assistant salaries. A guy like Green might be happy to stay in Iowa as long as he's feeling some love ($). But other, younger assistants it might take our being able to match what big money P4 schools are offering. And that might not even get the job done, coaching can be a nomadic lifestyle to position oneself to be a head coach.
1A- Pay TJ so that he feels valued. Even though he might not need to be paid like a Self or Drew, unless he's a unique person he's going to want to feel the love and be paid in top 4-5 of Big12 coaches.
1B- ISU needs to be prepared to bump assistant salaries. A guy like Green might be happy to stay in Iowa as long as he's feeling some love ($). But other, younger assistants it might take our being able to match what big money P4 schools are offering. And that might not even get the job done, coaching can be a nomadic lifestyle to position oneself to be a head coach.
I don't know any of the "mechanical" details about how NIL works . . . but, I think from CW-Blum podcasts I picked up that coaches and the institution cannot be involved in NIL. Is this the fact, anyone here know?
(Edit: Oops, discussed above.)
Last edited:
I love that his shirt size is our biggest concern about TJ!
