I understand that ticket sales do matter. My point was ( at least my understanding was) Iowa is allocating more rev share $$ to women's basketball then many of their peers. No doubt, trying to continue trying to push that ball up the hill from the CC22 years, and not let it roll back down. As for available $ I believe MW will be taking up pretty much all of what Deal was getting. The numbers being thrown around here were 8-900,000 I believe. I'd also imagine that Ava will be getting a significant bump, or at least you'd not be surprised to see that happen as well.
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UCLA may be willing to pay $100k for Deal.
MW math is not baked into Deals. Those were all separate deals.
Come on. By your Logic we never would have paid the Price to break the Law and steal everything in sight.
Wow. Wish she would have stayed but did not think that was even in the cards. Wow!
If they can hold on to their young core and pick up a quality piece or 2, Michigan looks to be very strong next year.
I was saying of the allotment for next season. So your saying besides the money saved from Deal, Erod etc.. there's still basically a million for MW and then a few million to go after OTHER portal players? And as I mentioned, I'd imagine whatever compensation Ava was getting has to be reworked, NO?
Where are you seeing that? Just googled it, and there's no mention of that. Says her most logical five are UCLA, USC, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Nebraska based on needs of their rosters and her being a Cali girl, but USC makes no Sense. Was something said about USC, as in Univ os Southern California, and you tool that as University of South Carolina?
It was posted by Hawkeye Heaven then deleted.
Yes I do think some deals are being worked- chit chat and Ava. Even still I think they have a player budget per a year in the 5 million range and growing.
Losing to Minnesota at home to break whatever streak it was. Lulled the rest of the league into a false sense of hope.
If Addie goes to a big school, getting big minutes and big money, good for her. I don’t see it.
11 of the top 25 ranked freshmen from the 2025 class are in the portal this year and only one of them (Crump from Texas) is considered a high level transfer target. I think that's a function of teams overpaying for freshmen players based on potential. It's a recipe for failure on both sides given the time required for most recruits to acclimate to the college game making it almost impossible to justify the dollars they are paid and are now expecting.
I think what you're going to see is teams shifting more and more dollars away from highly ranked high school recruits and more towards players with proven college production. Development isn't something that programs are going to want to spend a lot of money on that could otherwise be used to attract high level transfers.
I think what you're going to see is teams shifting more and more dollars away from highly ranked high school recruits and more towards players with proven college production. Development isn't something that programs are going to want to spend a lot of money on that could otherwise be used to attract high level transfers.
Where did you pull those mumbers from? Carnegie probably will get a good package with her SEC numbers of 18 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3 assists. She's a proven commodity. Speiser may get that from TCU but doubtful Iowa does that. One never knows but the well eventually runs dry. I know Ava should be at the top and Chit Chat a nice increase. Stremlow, Houston and Hays a bump up.
Question: does any semblance of Culture go out the window then if you’re not developing your own players!?
I'm sure some yes but what do you do...you can only start 5 and a good chunk of players are not staying for years to get developed...play me or I'm leaving seems to be the standard these days due to the financial part of it.
To a certain extent the two are one and the same. If you're not good enough to start you're not really earning the money that was committed. Every organization in every walk of life has limited financial resources and it's incumbent upon the staff to allocate those resources in as efficient a manner as possible in order to achieve the best outcome.
Not necessarily, but it's not going to get instilled over 4 years with the vast majority of players.
IMO team culture is already losing due to the $'s culture.
I work at a job. We get paid. Still have a work culture. Sorry if where you work is do bad you think everywhere else is that bad.
Can you break it down to how many minutes each played with Ava? Or even chit chat and Hannah.
Fact.
There is no I in Team, but there is in I'm gonna get mine.
Culture is a sports buzzword that doesn't mean much anymore, as it relates to College Sports for certain. Much like "student athlete". Throw that term in the dustbin of history.
(Ferentz does as good a job with the culture as any I think, but lot larger roster to deal with and departures are few - I think he's good at identifying the bag chaser's and prima-donnas and just says no thanks).
I don't think money automatically destroys culture, but disparities in compensation relative to contributions can definitely impact a team in a negative way. If I'm contributing at a high level but I know I am being compensated less than someone who's not performing near that level, then I probabiy don't feel very good about that player or my situation with the team. It used to just be about playing time. Now that money is also involved it's an obvious recipe for morale problems between team members.
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The athletes never set the culture. They were there for four years in the past. Most are still around four years, done less. Either way people in a place for only four years are not the ones that create the culture.
Tell that to Dani Carnegie.
I’m glad you have walked away from the ledge since this post. MW was never leaving.
Well then you forgot about Lucy Olsen too. Doesn't appear to be a 1 off mistake.
This. I've said this before, but I don't see how you can sell the "circle" or "family culture" that Iowa was known for in the current situation with 5-8 players leaving teams any given year. Does the mantra "EVERY player is valued" REALLY hold water when one player is making 500K+ and the girl who comes in for her (say Journey Houston) who played better then some starters, get 20% of that? Hard to believe....