@BullSheetAlumni Even for an April fools joke, that crosses a line 😂
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McKay Murphy
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McKay Murphy
@Bigmacmurph
If your looking at this it likely means you are down bad in an argument. If not, you are here for my Utah State takes. #AggiesAllTheWay
Logan, UT Beigetreten Kasım 2013
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I’ve decided to switch my fandom. I can’t deny it anymore. Sorry everyone.
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BREAKING:
The University of Utah is exploring the option of REJOINING the PAC-12 in 2030, per @ESPNCFB
Utah is famously known as the last PAC-12 school to jump ship to the Big 12 back in 2023.
HUGE news for the rebuilt conference.
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@GraeschMatt @greggers1868 @jwalker_sports It is, I wasn’t meaning to disparage the population, more meaning the cost of living probably wasn’t high.
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@Bigmacmurph @greggers1868 @jwalker_sports Agree in principle, but to be fair, I think Cedar Falls metro is bigger than Logan?
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I just received contract details for Utah State's new head coach Ben Jacobson. His annual salary will start at $1.2 million, increasing by $50k until it reaches $1.4 million by the final year of his contract.
The buyout is 75% of the cumulative remaining salary with each year's term ending on March 31.
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@greggers1868 @jwalker_sports Jacobson has been a coach for a while making a nice salary in small town Iowa, I don’t think he much cares about the money and would rather have more funds available for Roster/Assistants.
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@jwalker_sports These seem like stunningly low numbers compared to what we were paying Calhoun, what we are paying Bronco, and what I believe to be the pay scale for bball coaches in the new PAC
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To rephrase since the other tweet hit cap limitations, he chose to leave UNI and take the job at USU.
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I think Ben Jacobson intended to be a UNI lifer, but after winning that MVC tournament it gave him life again and he decided it was time to go demon mode in college basketball and go on a tourney run, so he chose USU.
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@BigTicket2330 Correct. USU has been historically atrocious in the tournament.
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@Bigmacmurph All the best to Jake at USU. Worth pointing out for historical accuracy, UNI has 4 NCAA tourney wins since 2010 and I believe Utah State has 2. 3 since 1971.
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I respect Ben Jacobson for not pointing out the obvious difference in available resources between USU and UNI. Even when the question begged for itHe did not say 1 thing to discredit Northern Iowa. Speaks a lot about his character and the difficulty of the decision to leave.
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Rather than spending the presser going over his impressive resume, bringing up past tournament successes, or publicly validating his decision by small timing his former school, Jacobson spent his time showing his character and what kind of person he is. I’m sold.
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@freezehtx_24 You could tell his main reasoning behind a lot of things was due to the lack of resources available at UNI but he avoided saying anything bad about them. Made for some awkward “Let’s get it” answers, but still very respectable.
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@Bigmacmurph Yeah ngl this is a bit rough— but I just need him to be able to coach 🤣
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Coach Jacobson definitely hasn’t given an introductory press conference in a while 😂 But the man is pure ball coach.
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Absolutely baller move to blame the slowness of game tempo on how great his defenses are.
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Jacobson isn’t as publicly charismatic as Odom, Sprinkle, Calhoun. I like that.
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@utesby5 He made the NCAA tournament last year, and was like the winningest coach in the MVC, how was he about to get fired?
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Some perspective for Utah State fans from a UNI fan on the message board:
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Utah State fans, if you want to know more about Ben Jacobson, give this thread a read.
hawkize@stillnothawkize
when I was a struggling student journalist in 2009, I asked a really stupid question at a press conference after Iowa dismantled UNI. These were Lickliter Iowa guys, too. It wasn’t good. He wasn’t happy. He destroyed me and basically laughed at how stupid it was that I asked…
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