$200,000 is the starting point for an Elite Point Guard. Player not yet in Portal asking for $1,500,000
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Its unfortunately probably more "political" than anything in the sense that the athletic departments don't want to give up their control over the money. If people start donating to the Swarm instead of the U of I Foundation, then the athletic director loses power and control over that money. I'm guessing that the athletic department and coaches could be doing more for Swarm, but they don't want to because it undermines their political base. I'm thinking about buying football tickets this year and upgrading with a required $2,300 donation to the foundation. That's BS. But the Foundation doesn't need the money, the Swarm does.
BirdistheWord
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Problem is it’s largely in the shadows, kind anti block chain. I like the suggestion though, I fear “shadow” money would not go away. It’s a friggin mess. It’s like the Nuggets vs the Iowa Wolves.
BirdistheWord
HR Heisman
It’s the equivalent to two divisions of a company competing against one another and neither wants to relinquish any of their budget. In this case one is large and very fat, it’s more survival.
Washpun was openly lobbying for an Iowa offer for a long time, like years. He was teammates with Oglesby.
Washpun was the better player in highschool, although JO was ranked higher, but Fran didn't want to offer because he wasn't a shooter.
Fran finally offered him after he was out of other options at the last minute. He briefly verbaled but then ended up I think at Missouri and ultimately uni.
Washpun went on to be a significantly better player than Oglesby.
Just the fact that Fran wasn't interested in an elite athlete in his back yard while trying to rebuild a program wasn't a good sign of things to come.
plenty of TV revenue for AD's to spend on athletics and more.
The point of making college athletes employees is so that you can have binding contracts to avoid the Proctor fiasco - or at least require the school receiving the transfer athlete (e.g., Alabama) to buy-out the departing school (Iowa). Make all payments / contracts above the table.
NIL is a joke today because, by rule, you cannot use NIL as an inducement for an athlete to attend a school. Everyone knows that is a farce.
Ignoring economic realities (i.e., the high value of college athletes) is what what has led to this mess. Time to make them employees.
He went to Tennessee and then transferred to UNI. No doubt he was a miss, but a lot of teams missed on him, hence the higher rating for Ogelsby. We were all pretty happy to get Oglesby at the time, he was a top 100 recruit. I think there were also grade/character issues involved as well, although my memory is fuzzy.
You could buy $2300 worth of Swarm Beer and maybe end up feeling better.
Yeah, I don't think the Athletic Director is too keen to lose the Revenue from donations linked to I-club/better seats and funnel it to Swarm. So we're probably going to be non-competitive.
I know you guys are probably allergic to CycloneFanatic but Williams and Blum just did a pretty interesting pod. Blum runs Iowa State’s NIL fund.
Long story short, Cal to Arkansas has thrown the market off again and many players will be commanding at least 500k.
Long story short, Cal to Arkansas has thrown the market off again and many players will be commanding at least 500k.
It's truly amazing the times we live in. Seems to me the "market" has been off for awhile
So serious question. It says online Fran's salary is 3 to 3.2 million dollars. Would it be illegal for Fran to donate 1 million dollars of his salary to the swarm designated for basketball? Once again serious question.
not even sure what the rules are any more when it comes to NIL and donating to collectives. I would imagine there is a rule against coaches donating but I bet a coach could sue the NCAA and win
The NCAA has lost a not in the courts lately
Someone said somewhere that after the last Supreme Court decision regarding Tennessee and another school, that there are no rules and anything goes.
Yes, that would be against NCAA regulations. Believe it or not, there are still a few rules in the Wild West and one of those are that schools/school administrators can’t directly be involved in paying their players.
I’m sure there are ways around it, not sure how legal, and I’m sure some coach, somewhere, has tried it.
The New Era Of College Sports: AJ Storr Reportedly Asked Kansas For A $1 Million To Transfer There, Ended Up Refusing A $750k Offer
I'm using reportedly for a reason here. Obviously these numbers could be anything - agent driven, coach driven, made up. But this is the new era of college sports. It's not even an AJ Storr thing, thi...
The New Era Of College Sports: AJ Storr Reportedly Asked Kansas For A $1 Million To Transfer There, Ended Up Refusing A $750k Offer
I'm using reportedly for a reason here. Obviously these numbers could be anything - agent driven, coach driven, made up. But this is the new era of college sports. It's not even an AJ Storr thing, thi...www.barstoolsports.com
AJ Storrs turned down $750,000. Wanted $1 million. Amazing.
Hate to say it, but I think a lot of fans are gonna say "f this" and move on to something else
BirdistheWord
HR Heisman
$500k? Wow
(That’s roughly what an NBA 2 way player earns)
Here is the Gazette's story on Tony looking for his $500,000 pay day.
The SWARM INC arm was not going to pay him that.
Remember when pay to play was highly against the rules?
The SWARM INC arm was not going to pay him that.
Remember when pay to play was highly against the rules?
I’m already there in mens basketball. I don’t care. Iowa fan base as a whole doesn’t care and Fran coaches like he doesn’t care.
screw mens college basketball. maybe ill just watch womens basketball- until big money also ruins it
I agree. If I want to watch pro sports, I will watch pro sports. Then "College" sports can be free to move to pay per view and go the way of boxing and fade away for most fans.
Women's players are also getting paid. Not the numbers of the men yet, but I assure you it's happening and some of the biggest players and biggest programs have plenty of cash to entice WBB players.
Also, without some sort of cap system, I only see these numbers continuing to escalate.
Just wait until the first player starts making more than his coach.
