boisebengal said:
I wonder if Coach Phenicie will just be given a one-year contract at first to see what he can do, with a chance at having a multi-year contract later if he shows he can win games. In any event it's nice to have most of the staff together from last season to provide some continuity going into this season.
This is just my thoughts on the contract for Coach Phenice = No way in hell would I think it would be fair to give a guy who had a current job at another D1 school (Northern Iowa) a one year contract to be the head coach at ISU for the 2017 season and see what he can do. I think there is no way in hell Phenice would have returned under that type of "verbal commitment" as (AD Tingey stated).
You have to give him a 4 year contract, there is no way a guy would accept a head coach position for less than a 4 year contract I would think cuz he has to have time to have a recruiting class under him develop for a few years. If not than AD Tingey should have announced Coach Phenice as "Interim Head Coach" last Thursday. Since he announced Coach Phenice as "Head Coach" I have to think there is a multi year contract that was vebally discussed between Coach Phenice and AD Tingey, if not I would find it real hard to believe Coach Phenice would have gotten back on that airplane to return to Pocatello. AD Tingey mentioned a reason for naming Coach Phenice the head coach was the fact he worked at University of Montana and Tingey said "we want to create that type of thing here at ISU". Well Phenice needs more time than one season to create that type of situation that montana has if that is truly what Tingey is hoping to emulate. I could be WAY WAY wrong on this but its just my thoughts