McKenna leaving Indiana St.....

[Ashockalypse]

Fever, I would make that deal tomorrow.

[Zardoz]

How poorly is Indiana State paying their coaches? If they are leaving to accept asst. coaching jobs at Oregon you might want to review where you program is and where it is headed. Is it that your not even paying Barry Hinson wages or Oregon is paying KSU asst. wages?

[Downtown Shocker Brown]

I believe McKenna made just over $150k last year.

[Ta town]

How poorly is Indiana State paying their coaches? If they are leaving to accept asst. coaching jobs at Oregon you might want to review where you program is and where it is headed. Is it that your not even paying Barry Hinson wages or Oregon is paying KSU asst. wages?

A blue beaker on valleytalk said it was because indy st was cutting back on basetball funding. Mckenna got pissed and left.

INDY ST SUCKS!


This pipe dream of adding SLU/Butler is just that. Bulter or SLU wants nothing to do with the valley outside of SLU's fat coach.

The valley isn't going to just kick out Evansville and Indy St.

[shockar25]

Though it's nearly impossible, I think it would be cool to form a new conference with schools that have more of an emphasis on basketball. Butler, us and even some of the current Valley schools that want to come along would be ok.

Sadly, we're in that situation of 'all dressed up with nowhere to go'.

[Shocker85]

But is the big shake-up making basketball somewhat irrelevant?

The "haves" that wind up in huge, powerful football conferences will have so much money to throw around that, yes, they can pay their assistant basketball coaches more than many Division mid-majors can afford to pay their head coaches.

God forbid if one of those football powers wants your mid-major head coach. They will be able to throw around money no coach will be able to resist and that no mid-major or even upper major non-football program can match.

College sports is headed in the direction of MLB. The college sport landscape will be ruled by money-hungry prima donna programs who think it is their God-given right to make $30 million. All the rest be damned. ALL non-football programs' basketball and other sports will become second tier.

--'85.

[SHOCKvalue]

College sports is headed in the direction of MLB. The college sport landscape will be ruled by money-hungry prima donna programs who think it is their God-given right to make $30 million. All the rest be damned. ALL non-football programs' basketball and other sports will become second tier.

--'85.

Completely agree. Said as much in a post a couple of days ago.

[shocky]

I hate to agree, but I do. :cry:

[1972Shocker]

ALL non-football programs' basketball and other sports will become second tier.
--'85.

I would amend this slightly to say "all non-megaconference, BCS type football programs" could become secone tier.

This would include Conference USA type of schools with or without football programs.