Who Wants To Be The Biggest Millionaire Loser?

ISU football coach Dan McCarney, perhaps:

But if buzzards were merely circling Mangino, they’ve landed squarely atop Iowa State coach Dan McCarney, whose Cyclones visit Colorado on Saturday (1 p.m., no TV). McCarney is feeling the heat, especially after Saturday’s effort against Kansas, which prompted fans to flee Jack Trice Stadium by the thousands after halftime.

McCarney returned 10 starters on offense entering 2006, and after blowing the Big 12 North title on the last weekend each of the past two seasons, the Cyclones were expected to contend this year. Instead, they’re 0-6 in league play and have been outscored, 213-83, by Big 12 foes.

McCarney and his team might find solutions this weekend against CU, like Kansas did, but that might not be enough to placate restless fans. McCarney said on Monday’s Big 12 coaches teleconference the heat is not a surprise.

“It’s not something I’d wish on anyone,” he said. “I don’t like it. It’s disappointing and frustrating, but it’s the shoes we walk in.

“It’s a different world now with the Internet and radio talk shows and everything. Expectations are high, as they should be, and then when you do have a frustrating and difficult loss, it accentuates everything more.”

McCarney is 55-84 since his hire in 1995. He’s 26-67 in conference games.

His contract, which pays him $1.1 million a year, expires in June 2010. The Des Moines Register reported that if he is fired, the school’s buyout would be $675,000, or $225,000 per season left on his deal.

Over a million dollars a year for a losing season and being dead last in the Big 12?

ISU must be burning paper money to heat their buildings, especially considering they hired that cunt Elizabeth Hoffman as provost for the ridiculous sum of $275,000 a year.

Kirk Ferentz, the Iowa Hawkeyes football coach (2-4 in the Big Ten), is Iowa's highest paid public employee at $2.7 million a year, and he will continue to earn that salary until 2012 no matter how poor his team's performance.


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