Addie Deal in portal
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Good player….but overrated out of HS. Not athletic enough to be a high level D1 player.
Could be a solid role player in the right program though.
In the opportunities she had this year she looked lost and slow. Overrated out of HS.
No coincidence our worst three game stretch of the year is when she started. Not a big loss.
No coincidence our worst three game stretch of the year is when she started. Not a big loss.
Talk about not having a clue what one is talking about. Thanks for showing you are clueless about bball
Hope we take that NIL and put it into the Men's program.
Two programs going in opposite directions
It's sad that several fans are celebrating this.
Evidently Deal talked with Jan and want a guarantee that she would start and get the majority of playing time and Jan said that she couldn't guarantee that. So she entered the portal.
If so ^^, and I have no way of knowing, then JJ absolutely did the right thing. It's one thing to be a player's coach and truly take the players feelings and wishes into account when making coaching decisions...it's a whole nuther thing to let the inmates run the asylum.
No idea if this happened or not, but if it did, Jan was 100% in the right. Addie wasn't good enough to start today and although we were all hoping for significant improvement into her sophomore year, there were no guarantees that she would be good enough next year. She's well behind CCW and Stremlow in terms of productivity today, so that left one starting guard spot available to fill. She needs to work hard to make sure she starts somewhere, not look for guaranteed minutes that she hasn't earned. If Iowa can go out and get a high quality transfer at the same level or higher as they have the last 2 years, theres a good chance that Addie would have still been coming off the bench.
I realize women's basketball isn't the big money item, but this (and the exoduses happening all over the country) is exactly why I don't donate. I want to support Iowa athletics, and I’d love to donate, but it’s hard to justify right now. Fans are being asked to give money, while players can leave whenever they want with no real commitment in return. That just feels like a one-way street. If things ever shift to where there’s some accountability on both sides (contracts, transfer waiting periods, etc.), I’d gladly write a check. Until then, I’m just not interested in putting money into a system like this.
Correct. ^^ At least on the men's side, these kids are raking in high 6 figure incomes, some even 7 figures...per year...to play basketball. And on top of that their expenses are paid and they are receiving free schooling, etc. I would rather donate to a kid that is working hard and trying pay for, or defray, their actual college expenses.
Yes, I am a sports fan too and love to see the home team do well, etc, but good grief, why do we as a society shovel HUGE buckets of cash to the people playing games for our entertainment and not for the kid down the block that is striving to be a future engineer, nurse, teacher, etc, etc? We are kind of whack IMO and I will not donate, beyond ticket prices and such, to this noise.
The players now are more like coaches...leave whenever you want regardless of any commitments you've made even if just verbal.
Too bad, she will be a very good player. She was a freshman, things move a little quicker than in high school
Pointing out the obvious is not celebrating.
Didn't know that there was one, never been. But have helped at least one young person financially that is on the path to earning her nursing degree.
Seriously? I hope when you're sick you get a nurse that can't help you. Because the great student athletes of today who only attend classes online and go to 4 different schools along with 3 different high schools over 6 years while getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to not really care about the jersey they are wearing ( this season) while fun to watch are not going to get any money from me.
So is her leaving a big Deal or no big Deal?
would not surprise me given todays supposed college BBall culture
I don’t see anyone celebrating. I actually think most are disappointed that a 5 star wasn’t unfortunately a 5 star and created demands. We actually needed her to be what she was advertised. She was unfortunately not.
She had an opportunity to start on the west coast trip and the first game back home against Minnesota: 0, 3 and 6 points in those games. Jan inserted Stremlow back in the lineup and we went on an 8 game win streak beating several top ten teams. Pretty obvious she wasn't ready and isn't that good. Not sure how this is a clueless take?
Let's analyze this: Johnson and Levin are both bench players at best, Addie provided some good minutes but needed a lot of work in the off season to become a starter. Emely has been rumored to leave, she hasn't played all season. Mallegni has had health issues for two years, hasn't been a major contrbutor.
Major contributors Heiden, Wright, Stremlow, Houston and Hays return. A first team and 3rd team all big ten players. Woliczko is looking solid tonight. Nice stat sheet, just daw her make a greag pass from the top of the key that the West player did nothing with.
Add at least one wing and two guards from the portal and we should be good.
It's because you don't understand my point. It's okay. You can sit down.
“She wasn’t ready and isn't that good”
I mean it’s not like players ever improve from their freshman to sophomore to junior year….
I know it’s customary to crap over majority of people who leave Iowa but Deal was 1 of 8 players to make Big 10 freshman team. She was no slouch and high chance of being a starter next year. Let’s not act she was a career bench warmer like Gyamfi leaving the program.
great example is Lauren Jensen. Sure no one blinked an eye when she left after freshman year here. Avg just over a pt a game and handful of minutes. Goes to creighton puts up double digits every year and she led the way when they upset Iowa Clark’s soph year in 2nd rd.
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Just wow - you leave a laughing emoji on the last 10 comments I made. You had to literally dig back about a week for them because I dared to leave one for you. You understand they have no real meaning other than demonstrating your insecurity? You are the poster boy for being an internet puss. Grow the F up and get a life outside of a message board. More like Comic Book guy, right?
Missing the point. People improve all the time. She was a Freshman. Stick around, earn your playing time and keep getting better physically and mentally. While not guaranteed (which she shouldn’t be) she would have probably been in line for Feurbach’s position, but guessing Jan is doing her due diligence on the roster and if a better portal is out there she’s looking. Deal decided to take her ball and leave. Which is her perogative.
I don’t disagree with argument should should have stuck around. I was talking about people now with her in the portal saying she wasn’t that good anyway, or no loss. Yes she was a good player and scratching the surface on potential. Just inconsistent which happens to majority of frosh just as we saw same with Sage for men’s team. I do think she would have been front runner for the 3 spot. As for comments of her allegedly asking for guarantee minutes or starting spot I take with a grain of salt. Hearsay and easy to state unsubstantiated unflattering rumors on player leaving especially from fans that feel betrayed or upset that they are leaving and make it easier to justify in their own minds why they left. Sure more to it and not just 1 thing which we may never know.
but I agree once you enter portal Jan needs to look to replace her. I don’t care if she told her she may want to come back you got to act like they aren’t. Like Kirk getting 2 safeties after Entringer entered.
Coaches have to buy out the years on their contract if they want to leave for another school before they become a true free agent. Whether it is them or the other school, someone pays for it. Or it is negotiated one way or another. It's not an apples to apples comparison.
If players are going to be paid, they should not also get free tuition, books, food, housing, etc. They should have to pay for those themselves. They can have a choice: get $$ or a free education…not both.
At the very least, there should be a dollar-figure value assigned to those benefits (along with the other benefits athletes receive, including tutoring, meals, weight training, travel, team swag, etc.), and that value should be reported every time athlete compensation is discussed.