Well you might not like it , and it truly does suck, but we should all be happy to be a power 4-5 school. Would you rather be Drake who just got shafted at their best year in 50 years and got a coach for 1 year and is losing his whole team plus the player of the year?
*****Bennett Stirtz & Isaia Howard will follow Ben McCollum to Iowa City. Who else will be? 9 of 15 Roster spots filled*****
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No.. back in the day..about 1970 that changed… and seldom did you ever see a black point guard….Texas Western and Johnny Orr at Michigan changed that, though…but not until the mid-late 60’s..
Iowa is one of many schools who have contacted him.
Those in contact: South Carolina, Florida State, Butler, Richmond, Kansas State, Loyola-Chicago, Mississippi State, Illinois, St. Louis, Kansas, Boise State, DePaul, George Washington, USC, Iowa, Cincinnati, Ohio State, Baylor, Oklahoma, Dayton.
Those in contact: South Carolina, Florida State, Butler, Richmond, Kansas State, Loyola-Chicago, Mississippi State, Illinois, St. Louis, Kansas, Boise State, DePaul, George Washington, USC, Iowa, Cincinnati, Ohio State, Baylor, Oklahoma, Dayton.
Cooper would have benefited from a red shirt year to get stronger and fully healed from summer injury. The skills are there. Now hopefully the coach is in place to improve him.
Sure. And as we know, highly recruited players always become stars.
Like I said: Maybe Koch will be an All-American. Maybe he'll be another dud. Nobody knows. So I don't care if he returns or not. But I'm pleased to know that, as I predicted, Drake's D-II PG who had exactly ZERO D-1 offers is coming to Iowa. Where were the Illinois, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana, Wake Forest, and his home team K-State offers when Stirtz was coming out of high school? None of the 364 D-1 schools offered him. Not . . . one.
So that pretty much wraps up my opinion of recruiting in most cases, certainly including Mr. Koch.
BTW: This may not be especially germane, but I can't help but mention it here: When Hayden Fry recruited Chuck Long, who would go on to set all kinds of passing records and be a first team All-American and a narrow runner-up to Bo Jackson for the Heisman Trophy, he had ONE other D-1 offer . . . from Northern Illinois. Long's high school team emphasized the running game, but Fry saw Long's potential as a passer and as a leader. Again, just thought I'd mention it.
Brock, Owen, and Dix are gone. Only chance with Dix would be a huge NIL offer from Iowa and that isn’t happening.
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It could be worse yes, but having teams spending +$15-20MM more year in and year out - and that chasm could get bigger- also will suck. There needs to be some sort of cap.
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Would have been funnier if you said “Moran!”🤷🏻♂️
If they truly have $4.5M they can pay Stirtz and Dix the $3M and Sandford $400k with a base rate of $65K for the rest as they have no starting time and/or minutes to pay more.
First they need to cap coach's salaries. DeVries and his zero career NCAA Tournament wins was handed $30M and no one bats an eye.
The #1 player in the country gets $4M and there are endless pools of digital ink spilled to whine that it is ruining college basketball.
Drake beat Wichita State in the 2021 tourney. But yes they kind of choked vs Miami (2023) & Washington State (2024).
I’m not too worried about it. From everything he’s saying in interviews, he seems intent on playing for BMac at Iowa next year.
Due diligence to test the NBA waters. Gives him a chance to see what he needs to work on to possibly become a first-round pick.
they should have at least $5M.
$1.5M was paid in NIL last season (should go up)
$3.5M in revenue sharing is the norm for high major schools
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$5.0M total
I hope your right. It would be just our luck to get the #1 guard in the portal, and then have him never play a game.....
Interesting, he grew up and played high school ball in Joplin, MO, so maybe McCollum has previously recruited him?
Like me I ignore all the Trumpers.
The new staff has gotten right to work.
I thought he was going to petition, and likely be granted, a medical redshirt last year due to his medical condition allowed him to only play in 10 games. I guess I haven't heard if that is the case for sure though.
The SWARM CEO, always with the sales pitch!
That’s absolutely ridiculous.
He was 3rd team this year. Only mid major player on a team which if you look at what he did for Drake he probably should have been higher.
It would be nice to land him. Fran wanted him bad but am not sure what Ben thinks.
What Dix agent leaks is not necessarily true.
I think the ex-Iowa player's rankings are inflated because Fran's all O and no D philosophy makes them look better on paper than they actually are.
No kidding. I can't imagine that the 3rd best player on a 15th-place B1G team is someone who is going to turn around the fortunes of a competitive team and take them over the top. I would think that is what that amount of $ would be used for. Crazy talk.
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