They have no excuse for settling on coaches. As I said, they have the same cut of Big 10 money as OSU or Michigan, but they act like a "small market team". Why? BTW, Purdue and Minnesota are equally guilty of this Hiring Lovie Smith was a small market move? It was a high risk/high reward move but given his salary, it was not a small market move. It was the wrong move but not a cheap one.