He does have the biggest rolodex in sports maybe the answer to Drake basketball is in there.
Drake Coach to CO State
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He does have the biggest rolodex in sports maybe the answer to Drake basketball is in there.
Missouri Valley Salaries FWIW-From MVCFans.com
Ben Jacobson-UNI-$975,000 (plus $25k annual raise)
Brian Wardle-Bradley-$700,000 (plus $10k annual raise)
Dan Muller-Illinois State-$660,000
Porter Moser-Loyola-$600,000
Matt Lottich-Valpo-$500,000
Niko Medved-Drake-$425,000
*Walter McCarty-Evansville-$400,000
Barry Hinson-Southern Illinois-$325,000
*Dana Ford-Missouri State-$305,000
Greg Lansing-Indiana State-$295,000
*=New coaches for 2018-2019
If I'm Drake, I hire Bryan Mullins.
Played at Southern Illinois, current top assistant at Loyola, outstanding defensive coach perfect for a defensive minded league. Dad runs the Illinois Wolves AAU program that has produced a ton of MVC level talent.
Played at Southern Illinois, current top assistant at Loyola, outstanding defensive coach perfect for a defensive minded league. Dad runs the Illinois Wolves AAU program that has produced a ton of MVC level talent.
2 things... Porter Moser about to move up that list (unless he moves off that list) and Bradley is paying its coach 700K a season?!?!?!?
Jacobson makes almost $1M?! In Cedar Falls, IA? No wonder he is staying there! Mark Farley makes a little over 1/3 of that.
For a league of a bunch of average teams now with Creighton and WSU, that is a very large discrepancy in salaries between Jacobson and Lansing.
For a league of a bunch of average teams now with Creighton and WSU, that is a very large discrepancy in salaries between Jacobson and Lansing.
This is an accurate correction. I was actually talking to a friend about this the other day. I love college basketball. It's easily my favorite of all sports-- professional or collegiate. I will sit down and watch just about any random *** CBB game on TV. But I've never once had the thought pop up "hey, I should go check out that Drake game today." Affordable tickets, live basketball, could take the kids. But nope. There is just no excitement, no buzz. Other than Timmer I don't think I could have named anyone on the team from Emmenecker until now.
Also, they don't seem to pull much local talent. I see some kids from small towns across the state, but they never seem to pull any talent from the Des Moines/CIML area.
It's just a bad, bad brand. Bad gym, bad basketball, bad all around.
As long as Jake and Fran are coaching in the state and getting their picks of mid-major talent, any Drake has a tall task ahead of them.
I'm an ISU grad and longtime season ticket holder for football and also a longtime season ticket holder for Drake basketball. Niko finally brought some excitement to the program and actually had some decent recruits coming in. I hope they can find someone to keep what ever momentum going. There's no reason Drake can't be successful.
I was thinking Becky Hammon had a very legitimate chance of ending up there. It looks like she decided not to pursue the opening at her alma mater. I wonder how much interest was there from CSU's end.
Sucks for Drake.
Curious what will happen with the incoming recruits, including THT's teammate Messiah Jones. Jones was not highly ranked by any of the services, and had virtually no offers other than Drake, but he was considered a pretty good player in Chicago and probably the 2nd or 3rd best player on Simeon this year.
Curious what will happen with the incoming recruits, including THT's teammate Messiah Jones. Jones was not highly ranked by any of the services, and had virtually no offers other than Drake, but he was considered a pretty good player in Chicago and probably the 2nd or 3rd best player on Simeon this year.