Iowa State Raises Ante in Football Contracts: Offers Coach Combine Usage

Ames, IA--

Iowa State University amended Head Football Coach Paul Rhodes' contract to allow for 40 hours of personal use of a 2009 John Deere T670 Combine tractor. This change seems to be in response to the contract extension signed by The University of Iowa Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz which included 35 hours of personal use of a university plane.

Jamie Pollard, ISU Athletics Director, said, "We have great faith in Coach Rhodes and think that our program is every bit as good and important as the program at Iowa. Just because we have appeared in only nine bowls in our history does not mean we can't compete with the Hawkeyes. We've won two of those games! Why, just four years ago we played in the prestigious EV1.net Houston Bowl. So while some may think we don't have the caliber of program today that can offer plane use, one of our alumni had generously offered the use of his relatively new combine.

"It's a sweet ride!" he continued, "Of course, Coach can't use it during harvest, but that's during the season anyway and the combine is something you'd want to roll out to impress the recruits."