AND. Iowa just played in the title game back to back years, and the poster was saying that their "brand" s bigger then Iowa's and your talking about 15 years ago.
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I'm saying OU's brand is pretty big. And apparently they have money.
I suppose that depends our definitions of "top". I remember a little of the Stringer years and Iowa was pretty darn good, but not at the top. In her 12 years, Iowa went to the final 4 once and elite 8 twice. To me that's not "top". 3 years of Elite 8 or above does not equate to "history of" being at the "top" during Stringer years.
Well, certainly not the top 2 or 3, but I'd say Iowa was consistently a top 10 team in those years.
OU Women’s basketball will be a powerhouse in 2 years. They just landed the top recruit. Their coach is who we should have hired if we were smart. She is a former Iowa player.
Not worth arguing. When Lauren Betts was asked last month which BT arena she wanted to play in most she said CHA. I hear commentators often call it " the epicenter of women's college basketball". And it often lives up to that billing. If you were to watch NCAAW games you would know there isn't really a lot like it throughout the season. It's a difficult place to play. USC knows this.
When a reporter asked Finley Chastain for an interview following her recent visit. She wanted to make sure it didn't conflict with her watching... the Iowa game on television. That's a Texas h.s. recruit saying she wants to watch Iowa.
Not sure what you want to hear, but Iowa's "brand" is doing pretty good these days. Lucy Olsen really says all that needs to be said here:
When a reporter asked Finley Chastain for an interview following her recent visit. She wanted to make sure it didn't conflict with her watching... the Iowa game on television. That's a Texas h.s. recruit saying she wants to watch Iowa.
Not sure what you want to hear, but Iowa's "brand" is doing pretty good these days. Lucy Olsen really says all that needs to be said here:
Now we apparently learn where your comments come from. You wanted Jennie, not Jan. With Jan we are not a top brand. Apparently with Jennie we would be. Am I close here?
My guess is the NIL budgets might be a tad different. Over $1 million for Chavez. Not sure the Hawks can or would do that.
Most?
Top 100 recruits
2025
Iowa 3
USC 1
UCLA 1
2024
USC 5
Iowa 3
UCLA 2
2023
Iowa 1
USC 1
UCLA 1
2022
UCLA 4/5
Iowa 3
USC 1
Etc
Dont think that is close to most
We just landed Addie Deal
So will we. We will be even better and we're a lot younger.
I know. The grass is always greener right? Maybe we should wait and see what Jan does after 3 or 4 years before making that judgement, huh?
We don’t know for sure that is what she is going to get. Supposedly she was asking for that amount, but based on how long it took for her to select a team, I don’t think the offer she was looking for materialized.
Yes that’s why they lost by 41 to South Carolina
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The recency bias and lack of perspective just slays me…I know I can be a redundant jackass about some things but stupidity and just close minded ignorance is very difficult for me to ignore on an extended basis. When you add in the fact that people are incapable of remembering things like say Oklahoma losing three of four games in the middle of the year one by 41 points to South Carolina, meaning I/e: all teams struggle and have poor moments… it’s literally like kryptonite to me.
Dumb dumb dumb & dumb
Look we lost, it sucked, we have to do better but it WILL happen again and How, do I know this…..it happens EVERYWHERE!!!!
It’s called perspective, most people don’t have any 🤷♂️
Oklahoma lost in the 2nd round of the Tournament in JB's first 3 years including a massive blowout by ND in her first year. I think I'll see how Jan does for a few seasons.
While I really like our team ( and Jan) I don’t see any true difference makers in our top 100 recruits except possibly Heiden. And I’m not down on Jan, I think she did as good a job as could be done with what she had this year replacing CC, Martin and Marshall. We have a top 20 recruit in Deal which is a big deal. Hopefully Heiden can continue to develop into the player we all think she can be. But we need size and athleticism at the 3-4 in the future to stay competitive with the elite teams.
Umm...the link you posted has TN with 3 five stars players and LSU with 4. You are referring to the 2025 recruiting class?Which one? I'd say McKenna Woliczko is an even money bet to come to Iowa. Please review the facts on the 2025 WBB recruiting class rankings. There isn't a single school that signed more than ONE 5 star player, and Iowa is one of the very few teams with a 5 star with Addie Deal. Many of the "Blue Bloods" don't have a single one. Iowa is right there with the nation's best.
2025 Recruit Women's Basketball Team Rankings
In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.247sports.com
NIL for one thing it’s hard for Iowa to compete with that oil and gas money. The On3 article I saw had it at 1.5 million for the #1 kid in the 26 class that just committed to Oklahoma That’s not happening at Iowa. I have no idea if that is true nor do I have any idea what the wbb program has for NIL but I just don’t see us competing on that level
Demographics Oklahoma City metro population 1.4 million of which 13% African Americans or roughly 182,000. Iowa City metro area 174000 and 5.8% African American roughly 10,000. So there are more African Americans in the Oklahoma City metro area then people in Iowa City. People like to be around other people of similar backgrounds, We were not able to recruit the Williams kid that was on the Oklahoma roster and she was from Waterloo. The 28 point guard is going to Stanford. 2 or 3 kids from the Quad Cities that left for SEC schools and I believe Tom Paris said one of the kids turned down a scholarship and didn’t go to college because Iowa was too white. Iowa is a tough sell to a lot of people
SEC is by far the best conference for women’s basketball and I don’t think the Big10 is close at all.
Ask someone that has never been to Iowa what the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the name Iowa and I bet their answer is corn. When you land in Cedar Rapids what are you surrounded by corn fields. Hayden Fry talked about this the hardest thing they had to overcome was getting a kid to visit the campus. If they could get them here they felt they had a good chance to get them to commit.
This is my opinion hell I could be wrong about all of that. I just feel that recruiting kids to Iowa is a tough sell
So the takeaway from your post is that we have good chance with all the top guns that have been visiting over the last year ?
I'm 100% with chasing the highest rated recruits possible.
Just for a reality check, here's where Lucy Olsen was rated coming out of high school:
That's right, a 3 star.
Just for a reality check, here's where Lucy Olsen was rated coming out of high school:
To say 2 total in the history of the program is certainly inaccurate. Only 2 years into Lisa Bluder's tenue at Iowa, the 2002 freshmen class had two McDonald's All-Americans, Johanna Solverson and Lindsay Richards. Sam Logic was a McDonald's All-American too. That's five under Coach Bluder. Not to count all the great players Coach C. Vivian Stringer signed.
Certainly some will say what's the difference between 2 and 5 and 10? It has to be three 5-stars every year to make it count, right?
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South Carolina wasn’t pulling in a roster of 5 stars until all of a sudden they were. Something happens to make it possible..
Clark building Iowa’s reputation to the highest it’s ever been could be our something.
That’s why we’re waiting for those 2026 recruits to roll in. To see if Iowa can hit on a higher rate.
Yepper, I did a post on this back in January...
Wasting all the CC momentum
That’s why you have the portal. Iowa is a top 20 NIL school. Where is the money going Beth? It ain’t going to the recruiting that’s for sure. Jan had to have known these girls were not good without a Caitlin. No excuse for not bringing in more talent. Not taking one side or the other on that...
iowa.forums.rivals.com
Just another reminder of what it says...
"I think South Carolina and A’ja Wilson would like to stake a claim to that.
That actually just happened recently. It also brought in Aliyah Boston after that and they're still at the top.
‘She’s ours’: What A’ja Wilson means to women’s basketball, South Carolina is undeniable
https://www.thestate.com/sports/col...a/usc-womens-basketball/article288390870.html
This is what Iowans were and are still hoping to replicate with CC. This year is a rebuilding year. However, Addie Deal coming in next year may become our Aliyah Boston to keep it going. Time will tell."
SC won the title then with Wilson still there only made it to the Elite 8.. then Wilson was gone and they just got to the Sweet 16.. that was with the “freshies” already committed.
Iowa didn’t win it all like SC.. but Clark’s senior year went deeper than Wilson’s.
Iowa hit on Deal.. now we wait to see if they can hit on 2-3 of Harpring, Woliczko, Bjorn, Lewis, and Kussow..
Those are the recruits the coach staff has engaged with on social media most recently.
Iowa didn’t win it all like SC.. but Clark’s senior year went deeper than Wilson’s.
Iowa hit on Deal.. now we wait to see if they can hit on 2-3 of Harpring, Woliczko, Bjorn, Lewis, and Kussow..
Those are the recruits the coach staff has engaged with on social media most recently.
Sure its a tough sell. But we made nice inroads the last two Cycles landing Deal. Heiden and Hays all from west coast states we've never landed players from before. I also don't know that B1G will be that far behind with the addition of UCLA and USC, this is only going to help with recruiting for the B1G....
Same “brand problem” that has landed a roster full of top-100 players? Clueless.
I was wrong. It's 1.5 million
Aaliyah Chavez demanding huge NIL deal as frontrunners emerge for 5-star recruit
The nation's No. 1 overall prospect has yet to commit to a college basketball program, but according to reports, she is on the verge of securing a lucrative NIL agreementwww.irishstar.com
Agree! It doesn't take rocket scientist to realize that if this softball pitcher got $1.2MM, Chavez is going to command more.
"NIL Whispers: Texas Tech softball transfer pitcher NiJaree Canady is set to receive roughly $1.2M from collective 'The Matador Club,' @PeteNakos_ confirms"
Texas Tech NIL collective to pay NiJaree Canady upwards of $1 million
Stanford transfer pitcher NiJaree Canady has committed to Texas Tech, she announced Wednesday on social media.
www.on3.com
TX Tech, TX and OK were most likely in a bidding war for her til the very end. Yes, the very same TX Tech that paid $1.2MM for the softball pitcher.
It's my understanding these states/programs have a couple of oil well billionaires that can offer up some NIL gushers as needed. Not to mention the wealthy oil executive alums that can work collectively and/or individually. This sounds very reasonable given the location and their resources.
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🤣 IOWA women’s BB were the fricking Rolling Stones for 2 straight years, sold out every home game in Iowa City n most on the road in 24/25… a rebuilding year. There’s not a brand problem at all. Do better.
Enough with the useless dribble. Thread is about Kate Harpring post on IG. Stay on point please.
Can we get back to Kate and leave everyone's expert opinion until next season?
