Toledo offers to make Campbell highest paid coach in MAC

The 36-year-old Campbell is 35-15 in five seasons with the Rockets, including 9-2 this season.

Jaylon Tate’s layup gave the Illini a 58-57 lead before Iowa State (5-0) went on an 18-4 run to take control. The Cyclones have been anything but a power. Bowl-eligible West Virginia finishes at Kansas State next Saturday.

That’s how the deck is stacked. Only 16 days after his promotion from offensive coordinator to head coach, Campbell led the Rockets to a 42-41 win over Air Force in the Military Bowl.

Fuente was announced Sunday as the new coach at Virginia Tech, replacing Frank Beamer. The Toledo Rockets wanted to keep Campbell as their coach and offered him to be the highest-paid coach in the Mid-American Conference, but the offer made by Iowa State was too good to turn down. After earning All-American honors at Division III Mount Union as a player, Campbell entered coaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green in 2003. The buyout on his contract is $200,000. Yes, that Iowa State.

Campbell, 35, led Toledo to a share of the MAC West title but won’t play in the MAC Championship Game after losing to Western Michigan on Friday. Interestingly, Campbell coached the bowl game from his accustomed spot in the press box to avoid a game-day distraction. Campbell would succeed Paul Rhoads as Iowa State’s coach. “Once we got our transition going there was really no stopping us from there”. It is adjacent to the 55,000-seat Jack Trice Stadium that underwent a renovation just before the 2015 season. He’ll still have to recruit like insane to survive.

Both Fuente and Campbell had been mentioned by pundits as possible candidates at Missouri and SC.

“He brought the team together, especially their offensive line was highly ranked, did a great job with them”, said another UT supporter, Al Horton. Niang was actually the only Iowa State player to shoot below 50 percent of the field in the contest, but he could easily find his magic against IL. “He is going to be a good coach no matter what”.

“They were really locked in and flying around”.

Now he gets his reward.

“I couldn’t be prouder of our defense”, said West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen.

Iowa State football thrust itself into the coaching carousel and into a marketplace that has been particularly convoluted this season.

Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said in a statement that he met with Richt on Sunday morning “to discuss the status of our football program”. “Two years ago after we played the Cyclones in Ames, I called my wife (Erica) and said, ‘You simply would not believe this place”. Their fans, the game-day environment and facilities are all incredible. In seven seasons in Ames, Rhoads went 32-54, but the Cyclones have been a woeful 8-28 the past three seasons.