Collins to Villanova rumors
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I think I'd just wait until the smoke clears.
Explain to the head coach that you will negotiate after that and how you will address any concerns.
If that requires a hard reset, at least you know what the rules are.
If Collins decides to leave right away then you know you made the right decision (because he was leaving no matter what).
Taking him out to 5 years is pretty reasonable but it likely needs a provision to get it back to 5 years after a successful (Dance?) season so that he can feel secure and not have to revisit this each time. If we had had that in place current contract he would currently been at 4 years and the need for redoing it would not be so immediate
Could take him out longer to 6 or 7 years but when it gets out that far it can get dicey
You need the contract to run through the duration of the current recruiting class. So 4-5 years. It’s even more important for a school like NU where most will acknowledge the HC is the reason most choose the school. We ding have a history of success and players have to trust the head man. If things don’t work out and you pay a buy out, so be it. Just be careful it isn’t ridiculously cost prohibitive. We got very lucky there was a significant buy out on CCC’s last contact or dopey Gragg would have bounced him out. Buy outs aren’t always a bad thing.
If you were Collins and putting yourself in the best position for yourself or your family, what would you do?
Until the smoke clears? The portal is open now, man!
The best case scenario for an NU fan, an NU player with eligibility in demand, and Collins himself is to do what he did. Nail down some certainty for the program and get ready for next year.
If he fails to deliver in 3-4 years he can always be canned. Northwestern has a ton of resources to buy him out if needed.
You are living in the old days. This is the NILPortal Era. Players don’t need their coach to stay. THEY don’t need to stay. I will bet that in the quieter moments Collins sells recruits on how he got a guy into Duke almost as much as how he developed Martinelli to go from nowhere to conference leading scorer.
Been blocked from posting on Other Sports Board about Wrestling. Hope this board does not go AWOL.
Of course they don’t, but they aren’t going to a place like NU if they think their Coach will be gone as soon as he can. We aren’t UCLA, Duke, or UConn. The old days are the people that still think Players choose NU for the academics.
Huh? Anytime you can have the leverage to get your assistants more $, improve NIL, and work the admissions criteria, you absolutely do it.
I can assure you that you have not been blocked from posting on the other sports board.
Push him out to 5 years remaining, giving him auto 1 year extensions with a raise for each year that he wins an NCAAT game (or makes the field - either one would be reasonable). Seems like a win for both sides
Like, I don't even think Rivals' codebase is modern enough to allow me to do that.
Just like the athletic Director has to do what is the best interest in Northwestern and not Collins. Therefore the trick to the negotiation is for each side to give up something to reach in middle point for an agreement can be done. It should not be that either side expects to get what is best for their particular interest.
Except in this case, a bunch of their interests are aligned. AD also gets to use this negotiation as a leverage point as well to admin, boosters, etc.
Hopefully that’s a lot of it, Collins and Jackson working together to get some facility funders to actually kick into the damn NIL
The smoke that surrounds college sports right now.
As far as I know, there are no rules, just rumors.
Rosters expanding or contracting?
Players may be paid, they may have to be paid by NIL, there may be rules, there may not be rules.
How is revenue shared? Can NU compete in the new framework, whatever it may be?
Until that smoke clears and things are settled, everybody is guessing.
And this is a business decision.
There are always a lot of interests aligned. Or they would not be working to get the deal done. Biggest one is he wants to stay and it would seem that Jackson is of that mindset as well
Didn't realize Willard had never reached the Sweet 16 until yesterday. I thought he got seriously outcoached by Medved (Maryland's size advantage was a non-factor most of the game), but he got very lucky in the end. Can't see Maryland going any farther and for those critics of Collins' use of his bench, Maryland's has been non-existant all season (and yesterday-2 points).
Willard has used 5 starters and 2 subs for awhile.
He has reduced the minutes for 2 other subs.
Maryland is 14-3 since losing in Evanston in mid-January.
It looks like Willard is using his roster effectively.