ESPN Article - This is getting fun

[Lebanese4Life]

pardon my ignorance, i do not know much about Jankovic, but what makes people so confident he will be successful as head coach at SMU. glancing at his records over his 5 years at illinois state looks pretty average.. actually looks like he was on a decline and fans probably wanted him out.

[Rebel10]

Good article. Taylor is giving SMU some good ESPN pub.

[smubrooks]

with absolutely no facts to back it up, I believe the next highest paid asst is at Duke for like $400-500k/yr

[SMU Section F]

with absolutely no facts to back it up, I believe the next highest paid asst is at Duke for like $400-500k/yr

My very cursory Google search couldn't find anything regarding assistant coaches, but based on the salaries for the head coaches from last year's tournament Jankovich is making solidly more than a good number of head coaches. (And these are just the teams good enough to make the tournament...)

[CalallenStang]

pardon my ignorance, i do not know much about Jankovic, but what makes people so confident he will be successful as head coach at SMU. glancing at his records over his 5 years at illinois state looks pretty average.. actually looks like he was on a decline and fans probably wanted him out.

You are wrong on the last part. He was very well-liked in Normal and even was a guest on a radio show there after taking the SMU HCIW job to explain why he left. He was considered an up-and-coming coach at ISU

[Charleston Pony]

Jank was building a program at Illinois State; had that team in the tourney and had a good group coming back (including Nic Moore at the point). I think we doubled his salary and with the opportunity to work with Larry Brown and be in line to take over a program that he and Brown undoubtedly expected to build into a national power...that's tough to say no to. I hope he stays around and takes over when Coach Brown is ready to call it quits. He will still be plenty young enough to have a nice career of his own as SMU's head coach

[bubba pony]

And isn't he making like 800k as an assist coach. Thats probably better than a lot of HC's elsewhere.

I recall he is making $800k and was the highest paid assistant coach in the NCAA. that might have changed, but it was what helped to lure him from his head coaching job at Illinois State.