Iowa State will be “competitive” with its available salary as it looks to replace Paul Rhoads as its football coach, athletic director Jamie Pollard said on Monday.
The Cyclones’ search figures to be a complex and a potentially costly one with 13 current FBS openings and group of five programs like Houston and Memphis reportedly willing to offer in the neighborhood of $3 million per year to keep its hot commodity coaches.
“Salary is fluid because you deal with what the marketplace deals you,” Pollard said in his first public comments since Rhoads’ firing Sunday. “We’re certainly going to be competitive for what we need to get done.