Money (That's What I Want)

Here are two stories from the same day, but with different results.

ISU men's basketball: Cyclones paying departed assistant $175K

Nick Nurse agreed verbally to become an assistant coach for Greg McDermott on April 22 , at a salary of $130,000 per year for two years.

Nurse was to begin his duties on May 10.

On April 26 McDermott agreed to become the coach at Creighton.

For not working one day, Nurse makes off with $175,000, plus he got his old job back.

Call me "Coach" King of SNARK and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Then there's this -- KCCI TV8 meteorologist Bryan Karrick resigned last week without a job.

"I had a job offer in the Twin Cities that didn't pan out at the last second, so I'm continuing my leap of faith, with hopes of finding something...".

Hey Bryan, Iowa State's hiring.

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WHO DT's top story at 5 was about Greg McDermott leaving Iowa State to coach Creighton basketball.

The Liter's good friend Chris Hassel was live outside ISU's Sukup (pronounced Sue-cup) Basketball Complex.

Hassle continually referred to it as Suckup, guaranteeing it a complex if it already didn't have one and the scientific community is united in that fact.

That wasn't the worst part of the live shot however, as Hassel did a live interview with an ISU player, I believe Charles Boozer (who sounded on the sauce).

Channel 13's Hassel asked how he found out that Coach McDermott was leaving and was told by watching Channel 5 (WOI).

Almost

This Iowa State football billboard caught my eye yesterday.

With all the conference realignments, I bet they had no idea how prophetic that nearly was and the scientific community is united in that fact.

During the guessing game of where would Iowa State land when the Big 12 broke up, Chris made me laugh over a Children & Families of Iowa (CFI) commercial that features Iowa State coaches (even the departed Greg McDermott) going door to door selling Applebees coupons to benefit CFI.

They go to a house flying Iowa Hawkeye flags and I said "we're taking our programs door" then Chris chimed in with "can we join your conference"?

It should be noted that Chris graduated with honors from the University of Iowa.