Matt Campbell Explains Why He Keeps Refusing To Leave Iowa State

Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell continues to amaze the blue checkmark media members who figured the 41-year-old Ohio native would've jumped at the first offer to come along that would spring him from living in Ames. The checkmarks just can't understand why a guy who is seven games over .500 after six seasons with the Cyclones wouldn't take an offer like the reported five-year, $68.5 million deal floated by the Detroit Lions.

"For me, I think very simply put, I didn't get in this profession to be somebody," Campbell said during his Big 12 Media Day obligations. "I got in this profession to do something.

"For me, I've always said, and I tell this to I think our, society, you're either trying to be somebody else or you're trying to do something. I think from my end, what I love about football is to teach. What I love about football is to coach. And what I love about creating a culture where young people feel confident and safe to show up every day and work to become the best version of themselves, where coaches get to show up every day and work to become the best version of themselves, that's what I love."