Instead of just hitting the tavern after a long day at work, Iowa State's men's basketball head coach Larry Eustachy instead gives it the old college try. He works all week, preparing his team for battle that weekend.
Once the game is over, however, Eustachy heads to the local house or frat party and gets completely wasted, while hanging off of the drunkest, youngest girl he can get his 47-year-old hands on.
Eustachy was shown in the pages of the Des Moines Register yesterday with a beer in hand at a college party on the University of Missouri campus. He is the highest paid state employee in the state of Iowa, making a little over a cool million a year. He's under contract with the university until 2011. Part of the contract stipulates that Eustachy has to show \positive representation of the university and the university's athletic programs in private and public.""
Along with the story in the Des Moines Register are the 12 exclusive pictures of him at this party on January 23. With a Natty Light in hand, Coach Eustachy is shown with arms around college women giving them kisses on the cheek and just chilling at a party, shortly after losing to the Missouri Tigers 64-59.
This isn't the only party he has hit in the Big 12 either. A year earlier, it was reported that Eustachy was at a frat party on the Kansas State campus.
According to a report, Eustachy wound end up being confronted by a disgruntled frat brother, after the coach had embraced the 19-year-old sister of the frat member.
Is it normal for college coaches to party with their students, or is it just a corn-state thing? There is just something weird with seeing this. There is nothing inherently wrong with it. However, I don't expect to see UW's own Bo Ryan at a frat party anytime soon (unless there's something I don't know about our buddy Bo, in which case, please let me know when and where.)
Maybe the coach was out on a recruiting mission for the Cyclones. Incidents like this make for a great way to get students to come on over; create some controversy and say, ""Hey, you can come to ISU and cover news like this.""
ISU now has a tough decision on their hands. Eustachy has brought success with him to the Cyclone program, having won the Big 12 twice in his five years there, and has a .631 winning percentage in Ames. However, in the past two seasons, the team has failed to win more than five games in conference and has posted double-digit losses in both of the seasons.
As much success as he has brought to the program, there's little doubt that he won't be fired. However, Eustachy has brought about himself a whirlwind of controversy that may take a while to calm in Cyclone country.
