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It kills me that Gilbert rather than Ames gets the property tax benefits of having these high priced Ames employees living just outside our city.
If Rhoads has shown interest I would say the "All In" campaign is over.
Especially when it hits me in the checkbook. Seeing all that property tax money, along with all from Bloomington Heights, going to Gilbert does frustrate me, especially when they benefit so much from the resources of the City of Ames.
According to two people close to Rhoads, he is now open to at least listening to what Pitt has to say now and likely will talk with the administration about the position Graham vacated Wednesday.
Maybe if Ames is worried about it they should work with a developer to start an higher end development.
I don't think Rhoads would leave but check out today's article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Iowa State's Rhoads might be No. 1 candidate
Especially when it hits me in the checkbook. Seeing all that property tax money, along with all from Bloomington Heights, going to Gilbert does frustrate me, especially when they benefit so much from the resources of the City of Ames.
If he left a few years from now for a powerhouse, I wouldn't harbor ill will.
If he leaves for freaking Pitt, a school that plays in a crap conference, in an NFL stadium in front of 25,000 fairweather fans, I will hate him more than I ever could have hated Chizik. I'll feel lied to, betrayed, and left out for dry. It would be the biggest nut shot this fanbase has ever taken.
That's why I can't see him doing it. Pitt is not a step up from ISU. If he leaves now, for this particular job, he's just another slick-talking weasel, and I want to believe (as I'm sure most of you do) that Paul Rhoads is of a higher moral caliber than that.
I thought Albert Pujols was "different". Boy was I wrong there. Can't help but feel a little snake bit on this Pitt situation. I know now what I want for Christmas.......... a signed contract extension.I agree 100%.
For the bolded, everything that comes out of Rhoads' mouth confirms this but the coaching profession is known for saying a lot of untrue things (firmly entrenched, etc.). I just hope Rhoads is one of the few who is different.
Pitt is not a step up from ISU.
That is a blatant lie. Is it a monumental step up like a USC/Oklahoma/OSU/FLA/Texas? Absolutely not. Is it a better job? Absolutely.
If you asked college football fans across the country: "Which is a better football job? ISU or Pittsburgh" 10 out of 10 would say Pitt.
Pitt offers a much better recruiting base (especially now with the whole PSU debacle), a stable conference (where Pitt can be a conference title contender on a regular basis), a much stronger program tradition (they've won a national title) & a much larger base of donors. Those are all monumental advantages that Pitt has over ISU.
That said, I do agree that Rhoads wouldn't leave ISU for Pitt. I think it would take a blue chip job to get Rhoads away from ISU. Those "I'm so proud to be your coach" speeches would look awfully stupid if he were to leave for Pitt.