Do we need to worry about Rhoads leaving anytime soon?
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Hey, you know who's probably not all that concerned about Paul Rhoads leaving any time soon? Paul effin' Rhoads. Sit back and enjoy the ride, everyone. It's gonna be a fun season!
Thats awesome we will have a 3 halfs of a head coach!! Thats 1/2 more than anyone esle in the country. National championship here we come!!!
CycloneErik
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Of course, at that point, it might make it more attractive for him to stay too if he's built the program up into one that can contend in this league.
I guess I really don't see this.... And I'm not sure why everyone is bringing it up.
He has no connection to Texas at all.
He probably wouldn't want to leave for a place where he would play back in Ames everyother year.
Texas fans respect him, but they would seriously think he was "under" them.
I can't see Arkansas if it's within the next 5 years. After that period perhaps.
SEC schools probably are the ones I would worry the most about.
Even if he does leave, which I doubt he will for a couple years, it's not like this will be a Chizik situation in which he left the program in worse shape than when he got it. The program will be in great shape whenever he does decide to leave and the next coach will not have the cupboard bare like CPR did when he got here.
Just being an annual bowl squad capable of a 9-10 win season several times/decade would make it a MASSIVE upgrade from where he found it.
May have already been covered in the thread but I am lazy. Sue me.
In the next few years I don't see CPR leaving of his own volition. As others have noted, his statement that he doesn't see himself retiring here was more toward the point that coaches get fired so often, not that he would get the urge to one up us.
I think the only reason that CPR would leave of his own accord in the future is if he has aspirations of winning a National Title. That would be a pretty tall task here at ISU but if he were offered a job where that is a very realistic scenario, and he wants that, he might go. That would be after several more years of improvement at ISU. I don't think tOSU or LSU will come calling any time soon and if they do it will be because we had a breakout season, not just steady improvement from year to year.
CPR is the perfect man for the job at ISU. He knows this and I think he will stick around longer than expected because of this. He would not have been as successfull at another position because he would not have had the buy-in from the players, AD, or fanbase. At pretty much any other school there would have been one of the three that did not buy in 100%. Take a look at the Pitt job that he was likely a candidate for. If he goes there and struggles for any reason, do you think the fanbase would stay loyal? He's not a PA native. He doesn't have really deep roots in the program. His pride in this ISU team is genuine, but if he used the same strategy with another team right away it might seem fake and players might not buy it. I'm not sure of the Pitt AD status but if they expected CPR to come in and win 8 games a season right away, they might be pretty dissapointed and cut him off before he could get the ball rolling. CPR knows this and if he leaves it will be a for a BIG job. That is a ways off in my opinion.
It's been a near "perfect storm" at ISU. Not that it has been easy, but to get to where we are now, from where we started, has been quite impressive.
In the next few years I don't see CPR leaving of his own volition. As others have noted, his statement that he doesn't see himself retiring here was more toward the point that coaches get fired so often, not that he would get the urge to one up us.
I think the only reason that CPR would leave of his own accord in the future is if he has aspirations of winning a National Title. That would be a pretty tall task here at ISU but if he were offered a job where that is a very realistic scenario, and he wants that, he might go. That would be after several more years of improvement at ISU. I don't think tOSU or LSU will come calling any time soon and if they do it will be because we had a breakout season, not just steady improvement from year to year.
CPR is the perfect man for the job at ISU. He knows this and I think he will stick around longer than expected because of this. He would not have been as successfull at another position because he would not have had the buy-in from the players, AD, or fanbase. At pretty much any other school there would have been one of the three that did not buy in 100%. Take a look at the Pitt job that he was likely a candidate for. If he goes there and struggles for any reason, do you think the fanbase would stay loyal? He's not a PA native. He doesn't have really deep roots in the program. His pride in this ISU team is genuine, but if he used the same strategy with another team right away it might seem fake and players might not buy it. I'm not sure of the Pitt AD status but if they expected CPR to come in and win 8 games a season right away, they might be pretty dissapointed and cut him off before he could get the ball rolling. CPR knows this and if he leaves it will be a for a BIG job. That is a ways off in my opinion.
It's been a near "perfect storm" at ISU. Not that it has been easy, but to get to where we are now, from where we started, has been quite impressive.
All I can think of reading through this is the guy in high school who gets a once in a lifetime oppurtunity to date the hottest girl in school but ruins it because all he does is ask her "are you mad?" or "is everything ok?"
I agree with you. I think Rhoads is super in love with building Iowa State's program. And while I think we'll see Iowa State football at heights not yet seen under him, I'm still of the belief that we may have a ceiling. There are haves and have nots in CFB. We are a long way from a have. Please don't jump me about this comment. It's true. I could see a scenario where Rhoads feels like he's got us to that ceiling and takes a job that has a higher ceiling. I could also see him stay 20 years, giving us a solid program that wins more than it loses. Will that be enough for fans? Maybe. The bottom line is, and I think his comments reflected it, coaching at this level is a grind and you'd be foolish to think you're cemented in anywhere. I think Ferentz is a terrific fb coach. I also think he won't be there in 3 years. The candle only burns so bright in the paying fans eyes for so long.
If he goes- thank you Paul and best of luck.
If he stays - thank you Paul, let's kick some a** and make something special happen in Ames!
Not going to let it bother me.
If he stays - thank you Paul, let's kick some a** and make something special happen in Ames!
Not going to let it bother me.
Excuse me, but this is the place for false outrage & overreaction. Didn't you read the title? Paul is leaving tomorrow. Time for all of us to burn our ISU gear.
The hawk fans told me CRP is going to leave so.......... bases on the number of times they have won that national chapionship they always talk about it think the odds are pretty good he stick around for a while.
Here is the scoop . . . . now that PBR is a threat to Iowa dominance . . . they (pro Iowa media types and their insane fandom) cannot stand the idea of ISU RETAINING this winning coach.
They hate it . . they must work even more diligently to end his tenure. One sure way is to start rumors about the NECESSITY for his departure . . . ISU is too small, no tradition, "so hard to recruit to ISU," Ames is a dump for big time athletes, PBR's connection to Auburn/Arkansas & the SEC . . . ISU will also be a basketball school . . facilities . . . more money elsewhere, etc..
Ken Miller is a rumor monger and KXNO is a crying group of Iowa groupies who JUST CAN'T stand ISU being the dominant program in the state.
Screw KXNO . . not to mention the idiots blowing air in the early morning show. Hawk shills.
Pollard should throw as much money at PBR as necessary to retain him . . and write a rock solid contract to ensure the same.
I am sorry... Let me try again....
'holy sh... What are we going to do!?! CPR is leaving tomorrow and they're going to make is go to the MAC or FCS! I don't think the sun is going to come up tomorrow cyclone fans...what of we can't find a coach..... And the worst part is that when they took Paul Rhoads, they took my birthday away too!!!!!!,,,,,,,,........'
....better?.....
