This is my biggest concern of the article, since other parts of the story have been refuted and disproven, this gets ignored. JP mislead the fanbase about this, he should get questioned on it.
REFUTED: Travis Hines: A look into the ISU BBall program and the Athletic Dept
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This is my biggest concern of the article, since other parts of the story have been refuted and disproven, this gets ignored. JP mislead the fanbase about this, he should get questioned on it.
Maybe it's time we gave Jamie Pollard one of those "Top 10 public university salaries" for ADs, and make big announcements about it everywhere.
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They may have been led to believe that Fred couldn't stand JP and therefore Fred doing that never crossed their mind. Fred basically shat all over their story. However, according to JP, Fred warned Travis that he would refute it.
Isn't this supposed to be written to the Ames Tribune and not on an ISU message board?
Gogagig, I don't disagree with your suggestion to pay Fred more, but please answer one question. Where would you get the money from? Would you cut other coaches' salaries? Would you reduce travel expenses? Would you cut the marketing budget? Would you cut the recruiting budget? Would you raise revenues, and if so, how would you do that - exactly?
I agree that if we want to be a big time basketball program, we have 2 choices. Bring in less experienced coaches and pay them commensurate with their (limited) qualifications, or figure out a way to pay top 10 salaries. Both have their merits and both have their drawbacks. Plus, paying big bucks does not guarantee we will have a great coach. And we do not know if more money would have kept Fred here and Cael here.
And I am still butt hurt about losing Fred and Cael.
Anyone that thinks money would have kept Fred here is living with their head in the sand. Cael, on the other hand, I do think JP screwed up with. I think Cael just wanted to be shown a commitment to win and be the best. JP wouldn't give that to him and PSU would.
I don't necessarily have a problem with what Fred was being paid. But I have a problem with the 2 things I noted earlier:
(i) ISU/JP lied that Fred was getting a top 10 public university salary. This is an egregious error, if it can even be considered an error. It is a gross distortion of the truth, and not simply some sneaky accounting. JP should get much more heat than he has been getting for such dishonesty and deception. There may have been significant holes in Hines' story but there is this massive hole in JP's story too.
(ii) I can buy that we couldn't pay Fred a lot. But despite all the accounting tricks JP used -- 10 year contracts, average salaries, etc. -- it is disgraceful that Fred was paid only 100k more than Rhoads for 2014. If you had 3.5 million from which you had to allocate salaries to Fred and Rhoads, how would you do it? JP decided 1.8m to Fred and 1.7 to Rhoads.
Cael wanted to win. He felt it was a better path at Penn State. Plain and simple. That is more about Cael then it was about what ISU.
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Had you been at the Thursday Cyclone lunch where Pollard decapitated every accusation in the newspaper article, you would know it was a hatchet job on Pollard and Hoiberg. Ames tribune is guilty from the newspaper Editor down to the scrub reporter Hines, who cherrypicked his facts, which he got wrong and wrote an article totally offbase. I have seen this type of thinking before where salespeople, who weren't aware of the facts behind a decision, went off half cocked with assumptions, which finally confronted with the true facts were like Hines, totally wrong. He got info from some idiots making assumptions about decisions that they were never involved with but had their wrong assumptions to keep them warm and fuzzy. Pollard explained the facts and reasons, which were easily accepted as true by the crowd, especially since Fred had already contacted Pollard and told Pollard to let him, Fred tell KXNO that the whole Hubbub was totally wrong and that he had no problem with Pollard.
Hines needs to report only on cooking shows for the tribune, where only recipes can be be screwed up. Jamie was most distressed by the black eye ISU has been given by the national press picking up and printing the totally incorrect facts in the story. WHEN DID THE AMES TRIBUNE BECOME A CHECKOUT LANE GARBAGE TABLOID?
Hines needs to report only on cooking shows for the tribune, where only recipes can be be screwed up. Jamie was most distressed by the black eye ISU has been given by the national press picking up and printing the totally incorrect facts in the story. WHEN DID THE AMES TRIBUNE BECOME A CHECKOUT LANE GARBAGE TABLOID?
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If we could fit CPR with a belt holder for his headset, we wouldn't have to pay a specialist to be his shadow and hold the receiver. Perhaps make it a project for the engineering college to design something for the coaches. Profit.
I hope you didn't sent that...and if you did, you signed it wcoyote and not your real name.
I believe Fred and Jamie before believing that obvious crap that the Tribune was putting out. Just free-thinking here. What if Travis was pulling a "Baghdad Bob" type of performance? Say that he was ordered to write the story and so decided to do such a terrible job of it that everyone would know that it was not true and was a joke? Nnaaa... that's really reaching for it.
