When the Detroit Lions hired Dan Campbell to be the team’s next head coach, he opened up his introductory press conference with a joke about him telling his agent, Rick Smith, to tell employers to think he was Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell.
Turns out the old adage of there being a grain of truth in every joke holds true.
According to Dennis Dodd, national college football writer for CBS Sports, Matt Campbell turned down an eight-year, $68.5 million contract to become the next head coach of the Detroit Lions.
“In the offseason, he turned an eight-year, $68.