So, sitting here bored out of my mind. Read the PJ Fleck article and then questions started to pop up in my mind. But the big one was this. Can a coach on the rise take a college with them any longer in the emerging power 5 conference scheme?
We saw it happen at Boise State to some degree, and a few colleges in Texas. But in the current rise of the Power 5, I'm not sure it's realistic any longer. What could a WMU do, if anything to keep a coach like Fleck? Even if some ultra-wealthy grad offered the money to give him a $3mil/year contract...would he take it with any seriousness? Or would it just keep him there a little longer till a power 5 called?
A lot of the colleges that were made big due to a rising coach have made the jump a power 5. But how much bigger can they get and still carry any quality. It'd seem smarter for a PJ Fleck to jump from a lower level conference "Big Dog" into a power 5 "little dog" and build it up. Due now to all the paying the players thing that's happening and the bigger money in the recruiting coffer and all, I think we are seeing the end of the rising coaches rising their college along with them. I think it'll be rising colleges moving to the power 5 and trying their game there.
We saw it happen at Boise State to some degree, and a few colleges in Texas. But in the current rise of the Power 5, I'm not sure it's realistic any longer. What could a WMU do, if anything to keep a coach like Fleck? Even if some ultra-wealthy grad offered the money to give him a $3mil/year contract...would he take it with any seriousness? Or would it just keep him there a little longer till a power 5 called?
A lot of the colleges that were made big due to a rising coach have made the jump a power 5. But how much bigger can they get and still carry any quality. It'd seem smarter for a PJ Fleck to jump from a lower level conference "Big Dog" into a power 5 "little dog" and build it up. Due now to all the paying the players thing that's happening and the bigger money in the recruiting coffer and all, I think we are seeing the end of the rising coaches rising their college along with them. I think it'll be rising colleges moving to the power 5 and trying their game there.
