uniguy wrote:That is (good) news to me about Jake's salary. I was always under the impression that the money we got from outside sources to pay his salary was for him only, and if he were to leave a new coach would make significantly less (closer to what Jake's original salary was). I'm happy to hear that isn't the case.
Jakes first salary was $175,000. That was in 2006 and UNI was still very heavily a football school. Coming off of a national title game appearance, and the NCAA appearnces under McDermott were setting the foundation for the program but it could have easily slid the other way, REAL QUICK, if Jake hadn't done what he did. The football team was ranked #1 in the country for pretty much all of 2007 and 2008 and entered 2009 #1 but then fell apart.
Meanwhile Jake set the record for most wins in first two seasons as a coach in UNI history in 06/07 and 07/08. while they didn't get to an NCAA they did keep fans engaged enough. Then in 08/09 the next NCAA appearance came on the back of a horrifying end to the 2008 football season that "broke" many football fans at UNI.
09/10 was the S16 season, and at the start of the season Jake was only at like 300K or so. The 2009 football season was a giant disaster. To follow that up with a second straight NCAA appearance, and have it be a season ranked in the top 25, beat the #1 team in the nation, S16, etc... and the school instaflipped to a basketball school with a football program. Yes, football draws more people and blah blah blah. It's a basketball schoool at this point.
Jake gets whatever he wants for himself, and his assistants. The next coach - hopefully a decade plus down the road, will also get that treatment to continue the path.
Falling back to 500K or less in pay won't happen unless a real failure of an AD comes in.