if you think flipping the bird is bad, can you imagine going into the stands to attempt to fight a teammates family?
AJ going to be a Hawk?
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Of coarse. But most of them know much more about women’s hoops than I do. One big gripe is she was a good assistant coach specializing in coaching the big girls, but is not good with guards, X’s and O’s In general, interesting combos of personnel on the floor, and game time adjustments. Basically was a good assistant coach, but not cut out to be a head coach. I mainly checked in on their board after watching them blow the second round game as a 2 seed at home.
Hard to read much into that, he's wanted to be at Iowa for three years now. We were even on his video of finalists with PSU last year and I don't think there was ever more than a cursory conversation nor was there for PSU. I don't even think he'd require much money because he wants to be here so badly. CSB couldn't have had a whole lot of cash lying around to give him. Now they did get prize money for qualifying for the National Duals invite last year based largely on AJ finishing third, so they got a good return on their investment but it couldn't have been a big bag. Nebraska probably paid him decent because they wanted to maintain a top 3 finish and he had to be a heavyweight.
Donors had no say as to the allocation of Rev Share, to my knowledge
I would imagine that in order to get Ben to take over BB, a certain amount of Rev Share was agreed to. Then too, how much Swarm would provide as NIL to round out that package to players
Basketball (men’s) has a massive upside that if achieved (or even comes close) benefits all sports.
The job of the Iowa AD is to keep fans showing up for football and men’s basketball. The rest is gravy, or in the margins.
Never take what AJ posts on social media seriously
Agree 100% on the Golden Goose. Men's BB, maybe. To provide way more to WBB than wrestling is wrong.
With her record overall and within the B10 it is tough to say she can’t coach. They had a generationally awful shooting game in round 2 which lead to their downfall.
The issue is that if you can raise that kind of NIL dough for those sports, you can make them even stronger by keeping rev share high. As the cash cows of the athletic department, one could argue that’s the best bang for the buck overall.
Not sure how you can say maybe for men’s hoops. Huge upside potential for Iowa to have a strong program. The Elite 8 is going to be big for next year’s revenue.
As much as I hate to say it, attendance at home events the past several years says otherwise when it comes to WBB.
But I get it. We are wrestling fans here.
You are missing the point. The
Football loses out on money in this situation. It is a way to use the wrestling donations.
WBB had many in attendance due to the CC effect. The problem is they are paying peanuts to get in. WBB remains the sport losing the most amount of money.
I have not looked at what MBB has lost in years. Yes, I do agree there should be solid upside here. I just don't know how much. I was responsible for them losing. I had not watched the first 3.5 games. Tuned in at half in game four and they blew it. Sorry All for that
Wrestling donations can always be utilized.
Re: women’s hoops, no disagreement here. The revenue side is still higher than wrestling because of the number of events. BTW, I believe average attendance the year prior to CC starting news around or as greater as wrestling this past season.
MBB never loses money due to television contracts. But there was and is huge upside—in Fran’s last year they only sold 9K tickets and only 4K seats were filled. Sales were up 25% this past season and filled seats grew by close to 2x. And there’s still upside there.
I have a novel idea. Why don’t we work with our top 15 recruit 97, and actually help him get better at wrestling?
Sooooo I’m reading this as it’s a done deal, bet your house, make shirts with dbl birds on them for everyone
Or he just likes the attention and fan engagement
To provide “way more money” to WBB than wrestling is simply a product of a sold out Carver for double the number of home dates as compared to wrestling. Ticket and concession revenue matters.
Name 12 times AJ has done something for the attention!
It didn't take a rocket scientist to come up with those decisions. Give me something just a bit more meat on the bone.
That's the most logical thing I've read on this entire thread
Do you actually have a scenario where you truly think that isn't happening?
Probably a 98% chance it never happens. If by some miracle, Harvey has to develop in the room and weight room for a year behind AJ, I doubt if he takes his ball and goes home. Seems like he’s all in on Iowa, and knows the Ferrari’s. Working with AJ for a year wouldn’t hurt. Say what you want, but he has a great work ethic, could rub off on other guys.
This situation with wBB will be declining rapidly back to the norm, and with more support for wrestling the same will happen in the other direction.
If this is true, I’m really hoping it’s. And not three, respectfully.
Poor Fredo never gets any respect.
Bob - I dont know if you've mentioned it before or not. But I was wondering about your connection to Iowa and to wrestling, as opposed to say basketball or football and/or other schools. Would love to learn more if you care to share. Appreciate what you do for the program
He's smaaht....not like everybody thinks....Poor Fredo never gets any respect.
Ok, clearly something I don't understand about rev share. I thought it was simply money a school received, which they were then allowed to funnel to specific programs as they see fit. Why does a U have to raise any money for this? Do they have to pay with existing funds first, after which rev share reimburses that?
The revenue sharing formula comes from the average revenue earned by the P4 schools. It was capped at 22 percent, which averaged out at 20.5 million. So for some school 22 percent might actually be 25 million, but they can still only distribute 20.5 of that. Other schools 22 percent may come to 18 million. But if they get enough elsewhere they can still share up to 20.5, which sounds like ISU did. Not every school is going to spend 20.5 million if they don't actually have it though. and some schools opted out altogether.
Yep, and you're most certainly one of them.
Correct. Ben made the Elite Eight which is great, but if isn't consistent then who gives a damn? We shall see.
Ok, I think where I got lost was in thinking $20.5M was being given to each school through some larger revenue stream from the NCAA/conferences, like larger conference/NCAA tv contracts. Not $ from local revenue generated from ticket sales, concessions, marketing, etc. that they were just given permission to now distribute to athletes.
The NCAA has far less revenue stream than the big schools have (we are one of them)
a story came out last week that despite S. Carolina WBB being on a a incredible run, they lost 6.5m last year.
Man thats alot of money for a program consistently playing for titles makes you wonder what some of the other schools are loosing