(03-23-2017 10:42 AM)techdawg28 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 10:33 AM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 09:45 AM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 09:21 AM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(03-22-2017 06:34 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  Wichita is paying Marshall $3.3 million per year. If and when he leaves, the school should be able to hire another top coach.

No doubt Wichita State can afford a top coach, but can they get one? Most $3.3 million coaches are not going to the MVC because they have already reached a level where they have better options. Marshall makes $3.3 million because that is what they have had to do to keep him there. When he arrived at the Shockers he was a low minor (?) coach at Winthrop (Big South conference) and WSU was a nice step up.

At a time when all of the non-P5 conferences are starting to see the writing on the wall that the TV money is crumbling along with ESPN, most schools are asking if conference consolidation would make more sense. WSU is pretty late to the party if they are trying to figure out if travelling 1300 miles to play volleyball makes sense.

If and when Marshall leaves Wichita, I don't think the school has any intention of paying anyone a top ten starting salary which is what they pay now. What the money means is that they can easily offer a new coach substantially more than the vast majority of non-P6 schools, well into 7 figures. And they would have an easier time recruiting that coach to the AAC rather than to the MVC or, for that matter, keeping Marshall.

It's up to Wichita if its interests are better served by consolidating conferences or traveling 1300 miles to play volleyball in a new conference. Its main concern seems to be basketball seeding.

I said P5, and you said P6. I like that you believe that.

Well, there's the Big East. That would make 6. I'm assuming that's not what he meant, but...