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MIAMI NEW YORK PHOENIX SAN FRANCISCO

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High pressure will promote

dry, mild conditions across

the Northeast today. A weak

storm system will bring spotty

showers and thunderstorms

to portions of Virginia and the

Carolinas. Outside of stray

showers in Texas and Florida ,

most areas across the South

will be dry and warm.

Mild air is forecast to

surge northward across the

Plains , with a few showers

likely dampening the upper

Mississippi Valley.

A potent storm will bring

the risk of flash flooding to

Southern California , while rain

and snow showers persist over

the Great Basin.

Akron, Ohio 63/50pc 65/56t

Albany, N.Y. 62/42s 63/43pc

Albuquerque 73/45s 73/47s

Allentown, Pa. 69/47s 67/49pc

Amarillo, Texas 80/47c 83/49pc

Anaheim, Calif. 61/50r 62/49t

Anchorage, Alaska 31/17pc 35/20pc

Aspen, Colo. 56/33pc 55/30s

Atlantic City, N.J. 58/46s 57/51pc

Augusta, Ga. 84/60f 84/61pc

Austin, Texas 76/65f 84/67t

62/46sh 60/48sh

Baton Rouge, La. 84/66c 82/71c

Billings, Mont. 61/38c 66/29w

Birmingham, Ala. 83/63pc 80/65r

Bismarck, N.D. 53/32pc 62/32s

Boise, Idaho 60/40c 64/40pc

Buffalo, N.Y. 56/40pc 59/46pc

Burlington, Vt. 54/36pc 53/33pc

Cedar Rapids, Iowa 60/53sh 75/45pc

Charleston, S.C. 81/61pc 83/63pc

Charleston, W.Va. 69/53pc 75/61t

Cheyenne, Wyo. 66/38pc 64/39s

Beijing 76/48h 65/40pc

Buenos Aires 67/50s 65/53s

Cancun, Mexico 87/76s 87/75s

Dubai, UAE 86/69s 89/74pc

Frankfurt 72/43pc 72/48pc

Hong Kong 67/62t 70/66sh

Istanbul 50/45w 52/44w

Jerusalem 66/50s 64/47pc

Johannesburg 76/55h 76/53h

London 64/41pc 67/44pc

Mexico City 80/56pc 78/56pc

Montreal 52/32s 51/30s

Moscow 40/24c 50/41pc

Mumbai, India 90/79h 90/78h

Paris 62/48sh 71/50pc

Rio de Janeiro 85/75s 83/72t

Rome 66/45s 66/45s

Seoul 60/37c 62/37h

Singapore 88/78r 89/79t

Sydney 73/62s 68/61pc

Toronto 57/38pc 54/40pc

Tokyo 62/49s 62/50pc

Cincinnati 68/56c 75/61c

Cleveland 60/45pc 63/53c

Colorado Springs 69/40s 70/41s

Columbia, S.C. 83/62pc 82/63c

Columbus, Ohio 65/53pc 71/59t

Corpus Christi, Texas 82/72c 87/70t

Dayton, Ohio 65/56pc 72/59c

Daytona Beach, Fla. 78/62pc 82/64t

Des Moines, Iowa 65/55sh 77/50pc

Duluth, Minn. 42/36c 53/34r

Durham, N.C. 77/54pc 78/58pc

El Paso, Texas 79/56c 80/59pc

Fairbanks, Alaska 20/11sf 26/4c

Flagstaff, Ariz. 54/30w 48/31s

Fargo, N.D. 54/40pc 56/35c

Fort Myers, Fla. 86/70pc 90/70t

Fort Smith, Ark. 75/60c 79/59c

Fort Wayne, Ind. 61/52pc 69/52t

Fresno, Calif. 60/44sh 63/48sh

Grand Rapids, Mich. 59/46pc 64/48c

Green Bay, Wis. 54/41sh 59/42sh

Greensboro, N.C. 78/56t 78/59pc

Greenville, S.C. 81/59pc 79/60t

Harrisburg, Pa. 67/47s 66/56c

Hartford, Conn. 64/41s 63/42pc

Indianapolis 66/57pc 73/58r

Islip, N.Y. 62/43s 59/47pc

Jackson, Miss. 82/64pc 79/69r

Jacksonville, Fla. 82/60pc 85/64pc

Jefferson City, Mo. 73/59c 79/56pc

Kansas City 70/59c 79/53pc

Key West, Fla. 84/74pc 84/75pc

Knoxville, Tenn. 78/58pc 77/61t

Laredo, Texas 81/69c 89/71pc

Lexington, Ky. 69/55pc 76/61t

Lincoln, Neb. 73/52c 80/50s

Little Rock, Ark. 77/61c 80/65t

Long Beach, Calif. 60/52r 62/51t

Louisville, Ky. 73/60c 81/65r

Lubbock, Texas 79/51c 85/53pc

Madison, Wis. 55/47sh 70/43sh

Manchester, N.H. 61/39s 62/39pc

Memphis, Tenn. 78/63c 79/67t

Milwaukee 53/43sh 64/43t

Mobile, Ala. 82/60pc 80/67r

Modesto, Calif. 58/41sh 65/45pc

Montgomery, Ala. 85/63pc 82/68c

Myrtle Beach, S.C. 75/62pc 78/64c

Nags Head, N.C. 63/52pc 68/59c

Nashville, Tenn. 78/61pc 79/65t

Newark, N.J. 66/46s 63/51pc

New Haven, Conn. 62/43s 59/46pc

Norfolk, Va. 66/52pc 75/61c

Oakland, Calif. 59/46sh 63/49pc

Oklahoma City 71/58sh 81/56pc

Omaha, Neb. 69/54c 77/51pc

Palm Springs, Calif. 67/53c 67/51r

Pensacola, Fla. 81/66pc 81/69c

Pierre, S.D. 72/40pc 68/36s

Pittsburgh 63/48pc 66/57t

Portland, Maine 58/36s 55/35pc

Portland, Ore. 62/41pc 60/38pc

Providence, R.I. 63/42s 61/42pc

Raleigh, N.C. 78/55pc 78/59pc

Rapid City, S.D. 71/38pc 68/32s

Reno, Nev. 49/31c 57/35sf

Richmond, Va. 70/51pc 77/61c

Rochester, N.Y. 57/38pc 57/43pc

Sacramento, Calif. 59/42sh 67/44pc

San Antonio 74/66f 84/68t

San Jose, Calif. 58/42sh 64/45pc

Santa Fe, N.M. 69/38s 69/39s

Sarasota, Fla. 84/66pc 85/70pc

Savannah, Ga. 83/63f 85/64pc

Scottsdale, Ariz. 80/55s 80/55s

Shreveport, La. 78/61c 81/67r

Sioux Falls, S.D. 69/48pc 71/43pc

South Bend, Ind. 62/52pc 70/48t

Spokane, Wash. 55/36pc 58/36s

72/58c 77/57pc

68/57c 76/53r

St. Louis 74/59c 81/59pc

St. Petersburg, Fla. 84/68pc 86/71pc

Syracuse, N.Y. 57/37pc 60/42pc

Tallahassee, Fla. 85/61pc 84/65pc

Tampa, Fla. 83/67pc 86/70pc

Toledo, Ohio 61/49pc 69/54c

Topeka, Kan. 73/59c 81/52pc

Tucson, Ariz. 82/50s 81/52s

Tupelo, Miss. 82/65pc 81/67r

Tulsa, Okla. 74/61c 84/58pc

Virginia Beach, Va. 62/49pc 70/60c

Wichita, Kan. 74/57c 81/53pc

Wilmington, Del. 67/47s 65/55pc

Winston-Salem, N.C. 78/56t 79/59pc

Worcester, Mass. 58/40s 59/38pc

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TUE Mostly sunny

70/

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86/

WED Mostly sunny

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MON Mostly sunny

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TUE Partly sunny

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81/

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57/

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62/

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MON Partly sunny

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TUE Partly sunny

56/

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60/

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MON Mostly sunny

58/

TUE Partly sunny

59/

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MON Fog70/

TUE Warmer83/

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86/

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MON Shower81/

TUE Showers80/

WED Shower82/

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MON Rain61/

TUE T-s torm59/50s

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84/

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84/

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88/

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TUE Partly sunny

65/

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72/

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78/

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Cheyenne

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Casper

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JacksonHole

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Milwaukee

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Olympia 61 59 Spokane

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Brownsville
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Lubbock
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San Antonio
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Nashville
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Memphis
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Knoxville
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Rapid City
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Sioux Falls
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Charleston
81
Columbia
83
Harrisburg
67
Philadelphia
66
Pittsburgh
63
Burns
57
Bend
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61
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Tulsa
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68
Cleveland
60
Columbus
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Fargo
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Bismarck
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Charlotte^78
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New York
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Albuquerque
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Santa Fe
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Reno
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Elko
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66
Omaha
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Helena
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Kansas City
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St. Louis
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Jackson
82
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Detroit
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Marquette
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Bangor
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Augusta
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84
Shreveport
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Topeka
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65
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53
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83
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Iowa State’s Jamie Pollard is not one
of the biggest names in college sports,
nor does he lead an athletic program
that generates a lot of national atten-
tion. But when Pollard speaks, his col-
leagues across the country generally lis-
ten because of his pragmatism, his track
record of sound coaching hires and his
fiscal savvy.
And on Thursday, Pollard spoke in a
way that should reverberate all across a
business that is starting to come to grips
with what the coronavirus disruption
could mean to its future. In discussing
why Iowa State became the first major
conference school to install pay cuts to
athletic department officials – including
the highly paid, high-profile coaches in
football and basketball – it seems both
inevitable and appropriate that others
will follow.
“We have a $27 million payroll, and
out of 200 employees, 50 of them make
up 75% of that payroll,” Pollard said. “So
approaching this by saying well, we
won’t fill open positions or we’ll lay off
people who are unessential, that isn’t
going to work for the athletics depart-
ment, because the only way to do that is
to drop four or five sports or eliminate
every administrative person in the de-
partment, including units that support
our coaches.
“And if we did that, they’d go on un-
employment and that would add to the
state’s problems, so all I’d be doing is
passing the burden on to taxpayers. We
felt like we needed a different solution.”
In other words, by getting his coaches
to agree to roughly a 10% pay cut this
year and a suspension of their potential
bonus money, Pollard is going to imme-
diately address a $5 million shortfall in
Iowa State’s budget that was created by
the cancellation of the Big 12 and NCAA
basketball tournaments.
For football coach Matt Campbell,
that means potentially making closer to
$3.15 million than $3.5 million. For bas-
ketball coach Steve Prohm, it’s a couple
hundred thousand less than the
$2.375 million in his contract.
There might be more financial hard-
ships and painful decisions down the
road Pollard might have to address, but
for now his actions constitute bold lead-
ership in an industry that has done
nothing over the last decade to help curb
the exponential growth of coaching sal-
aries.
Now that runaway train is likely
headed back to the station.
There’s a lot we don’t know about
what the world is going to look like when
we get to the other side of the pandemic,
but a couple of things seem pretty clear.
One, higher education is going to be in
pretty significant trouble. Two, a coun-
try where few people are going to be do-
ing better economically than they were
before isn’t exactly going to be in the
mood to cheerlead for college football
coaches like Jimbo Fisher getting a
$75 million guarantee.
Not to pick on Fisher, as he’s merely
one of dozens in his field who used their
leverage to make insane amounts of
money. But his 10-year contract with
Texas A&M can in many ways be held up
as the embodiment of a broken system,
where schools simultaneously argued
that sharing the wealth with amateur
athletes would bankrupt them while
doling out blatantly irresponsible con-
tracts to coaches.
Fans, of course, didn’t really care as
long as the revenue rolled in and the
athletic director had a few rich donors in
his back pocket willing to bankroll a
buyout after a couple of 7-5 seasons. As
long as the money spigot flowed, the es-
calation of salaries didn’t seem to mat-
ter at all.
Financial losses likely to be steep
But the outlook for college athletics
has changed a lot in three weeks. The
lost revenue from the NCAA is one
thing, but now the conversations have
turned to preserving the football season
in some way, some form. Even in the
best-case scenario for this fall, though,
athletic directors know that a lot of fans
they’ve counted on over the years will be
unable to afford tickets or flat-out won’t
be interested in being part of large
crowds inside a football stadium.
For most athletic departments, the fi-
nancial losses are likely to be steep. And
in this climate, expecting that money to
be made up with some type of govern-
ment bailout or increased student fee
would be naive beyond belief.
“I’d hope overall athletic directors
and presidents would say, ‘We can oper-
ate more on a have-to instead of want-to
basis,’ ” said David Ridpath, an asso-
ciate professor of sports management at
Ohio University. “They’ve never as an
industry really had to face the scrutiny
that a college of business does or a col-
lege of fine arts does, but that may
change.”
It will have to, if for no other reason
than it would be both illogical and mor-
ally bankrupt for a university to be cut-
ting everywhere except within the
somewhat artificial market for coaching
salaries that was created mostly by their
lack of collective backbone.
After years of agents running up the
score on athletic directors in coaching
contract negotiations, it might be time
for some uncomfortable conversations.
Nobody likes to give or ask for money
back, and for schools that have robust
reserves, it might be too early to sound
that alarm.
But in conversations with several
athletic directors this past week, the
consensus is that cutting salaries or
asking coaches to perhaps defer some of
their pay to future years would be pref-
erable to cutting sports. That’s the right
ordering of priorities.
On the other hand, contracts with
high-profile coaches are complicated
and structured so that most of their pay
comes from a private foundation at-
tached to the athletic department.
Agents are also involved, and allowing
clients to give back money is a preced-
ent they won’t be eager to set. It would
take a total change in what the mental-
ity of the business has been – more,
more, more for coaches – to suddenly
ask them to sacrifice anything for the
greater good.
Don’t want to be the coach who
doesn’t help
But strictly from a public relations
standpoint, it would be the smart thing
to do. As Pollard explained Thursday,
the pay reduction will allow Iowa State
to make decisions that are consistent
with its normal budget and not have to
suffer death by 1,000 tiny cuts.
“Some of our coaches have said, ‘Let
me do more,’ ” Pollard said. “I just said,
let’s keep some of the powder dry be-
cause we don’t know what else is
around the corner for us.”
Pollard was careful to note that he
didn’t want to sound preachy or judge
what other programs are doing, but he
knows his colleagues across the country
are worried about what the future looks
like and what unknown factors might
complicate things even further.
It’s unclear how many schools will
follow Iowa State and ask their coaches
to give up money to help finance the de-
partment, but others will follow.
“If this catches fire,” Ridpath said,
“you wouldn’t want to be the coach who
doesn’t do something.”
Dan Wolken
Columnist
USA TODAY
Matt Campbell potentially might make
closer to $3.15M due to Iowa State’s
pay cut. KIM KLEMENT/USA TODAY SPORTS
Cutting pay during crisis is right call