{"id":8134,"date":"2016-11-27T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2016-11-25T01:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T07:55:16","slug":"espns-what-might-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/espns-what-might-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s what might have been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncf\/news\/story?id=2676952 \">Ten years ago today, Ivan Maisel was spectacularly wrong.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, Iowa State is expected to announce the hiring of Central Michigan head coach Brian Kelly on Monday night to replace fired coach Dan McCarney, two sources told Maisel. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;\">Iowa State, which finished 4-8 this season, has expressed interest in at least three candidates: Kelly, Nebraska offensive coordinator Jay Norvell and San Diego head coach Jim Harbaugh. Jack Bechta, Harbaugh&#8217;s agent, told the San Diego Union-Tribune on Wednesday that Harbaugh was no longer a candidate.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Instead of Kelly, ISU got a handful of <del>plug nickels<\/del> Chizik coins. Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/22\/503036252\/notre-dame-must-vacate-2012-2013-football-wins-over-academic-violations\">Kelly saw his BCS-title-game-finalist season\u00a0get thrown down the memory hole<\/a>,\u00a0and Harbaugh is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/18100659\/jim-harbaugh-urban-meyer-born-michigan-ohio-state-rivalry\">coach the &#8220;Make The Big Ten Great Again&#8221; cheerleaders need<\/a>\u00a0(oh look, Maisel still has a sports job) but not the coach Michigan deserves (I read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Three-Out-Rodriguez-Michigan-Wolverines\/dp\/B0085RZPY6\"><em>Three and Out<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, Ivan Maisel was spectacularly wrong. Meanwhile, Iowa State is expected to announce the hiring of Central Michigan head coach Brian Kelly on Monday night to replace fired coach Dan McCarney, two sources told Maisel. &#8230; \u00a0Iowa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/espns-what-might-have-been\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}