cheeseman

Nobody is saying he wants a P5 job ultimately. All I said was that staying at ISU and passing up the big payday here didn't make any sense to me. Yes he is not a job hopper as some say but he did hop to SLU for whatever his reasons were. I am sure he will ultimately make the decision that is best for him just as he did when deciding to come to SLU. Would he have come for 250K more which would have been 1.5 million over 6 years maybe not but for 7.5 million now that is a horse of a different color.

Well we saw what happened when Ford thought he had his teams - Perkins injury and underperformances. A gamble is just that a gamble. If it was called a sure thing then nobody would ever lose.

Not me - take the money and run - nobody has a crystal ball. Injuries and simply bad luck could have sunk that plan.

So he expects us to believe that he would have turned down 2 million for 6 years to stay where they were stretching to give him 750K - not buying it. Also there was no assurances that they would have stayed once the offers started coming in.

Actually if he had said no he would have been seen as ducking Slaten. He did now and does not have to go back again and Slaten didn't have any ammo against him yet. I thought it was a wise decision.

I think everyone's point was just that - teams, coaches and players all will step up to a bigger/better situation not down. None one was saying the A10 is equal to a P 5 or 6 school.

We all saw what you did there

Football will never have enough money - it is like a multi billionaire - what is it they want another billion

I believe the hosts were saying that the 85% is not happening now but will so how things are this moment is not indicative of what it will be once this happens. So, trying to equate what just happened to what they are saying is irrelevant.

I see what you did there - funny

Well, this is not what the talk hosts said had existed. The number of scholarships is not what they were talking about. They were specifically referring to the money coming in from donors, TV money and other revenue sources. Stadium improvements, salaries and NIL money being spent. These people did not see what you are saying would happen regarding how the pie would be cut up.

I heard some sports talk show hosts talking about how 85% of all the money raised at MO will go to football and the remaining 15% will get divided between all the other sports including men's basketball. They were suggesting that Gates should be looking to move on. It got me thinking that if this is the trend at all big-time football schools then I could see that Men's BB coaches may not want to be at a big football school because eventually their sport will be starved. So, what is their alternative - go to a non-big football school and those are basically the Big East or mid majors who spend on basketball. A school like SLU could end up being an attractive place to be because ultimately, the big salaries coaches are getting now will have to be decreased. I am not saying this will happen next year but systemic changes usually take a bit of time to kick in but kick in they do.

They are paying for his hotel stays - his point was that he won't get the points since he is not traveling. School pays but he gets the points.

Tatum

They have one from Orlando to Miami that seems to run fine - I know people who say they use it.