How much NIL money will Iowa have to pay players next year? A rough idea of it?
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Iowa loses a lot. I could see some DL, RB, WR, and a few others get inquiries. I don't think it'll be like this past off-season though. This may be the off-season of who and how much will it be to bring in ten guys.
Iowa's success will largely come from their recruiting at the high school level. The level of talent we can leverage in the NIL portal battles isn't going to move the needle, we'll get crowded out in that marketplace because we are and always will be a small fish swimming in a shark tank.
We need to get Drew Campbell and Epenesa here ASAP! That will be a badass DL.
It seems iowa is thinking it will be able to “revenue share” next year.
The current thinking is this will level the playing field some (except the power conferences will obviously have an advantage) and still allow star players to leverage their “brand” on their own (if they can )thus avoiding legal issues.
Lots of questions remain but the general framework is getting close to agreement I was told.
DeBoer better get it righted in Bama quick with the money they spend. Riley at USC. Pressure on big time because of the money spent.
Riley might already be done by years end as it is.
Drew is a true freshman DE for the Hawkeyes.
I have no idea on an answer to your question, however there is no end in sight on the dollars being thrown around and where it comes from.
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Yes and no.
Iowa is in a unique position that it has a GREAT history of getting kids to the league. Some of Iowa's focus should shift to guys that were 4/5 star guys that maybe aren't getting the playing time or development they want at a UGA, BAMA, LSU etc.
Still long odds to make NFL. Maybe 2% go to NFL from Iowa roster every year?
Take the money while you can. It’s not like their odds go to zero at other schools.
I would take the money and if you are not playing after a couple years it’s likely the money will dry up, then look at transferring for playing time.
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Who would be the players that would be susceptible to leaving for a better NIL deal? I honestly don't see anyone on offense. Maybe Jaz? but he will be in the driver's seat to be the focus next year. Sully if he gets beat out in the spring but it is his job to lose. Nobody on the oline and none of the tight ends. Defense, I don't see Graves leaving unless he goes NFL, he was the kid that committed when he was like 14. Maybe Brian Allen, I could see teams seeing his potential and there is still Hurkett and Llewellen. Nobody would want any of our corners. I doubt Nwankpa too.
The only one that would on the market from my eyes would be KJ because if he wasn't going pro there would be a lot of teams wanting to back up the Brinks truck for him. And maybe he takes it because he could make more money in college than a rookie NFL contract depending on where he is drafted, but either way he ain't here next year.
The only one that would on the market from my eyes would be KJ because if he wasn't going pro there would be a lot of teams wanting to back up the Brinks truck for him. And maybe he takes it because he could make more money in college than a rookie NFL contract depending on where he is drafted, but either way he ain't here next year.
I heard we're around middle of the B1G for NIL budget for football, possibly slightly in the top half. I'd say to keep that standing we'll be looking at the $5M per year neighborhood.
Brad and Tyler Barnes did a zoom deal with Swarm members. I did not join. Was a day or two ago I believe. I should have joined just to see what they talked about.
Maybe but he will be over 80 million dollars richer.
Iowa could focus on those very good players not getting playing time at other big time schools that have loaded rosters but I dont think Iowa can contact those players , be first to open up talks with a player. That still seems agaisnst the rules which is why kirk and the budmyar were suspended for a game
I suppose if a player has a NIL agent or company maybe a team can contact them.
What if they just do the friend of a friend of a friend in contacting people.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
I mean what if you tell a kid you might give him say 500k if he paints you a nice painting? Could that be construed as an offer to come play ball? Or they "hey you dropped this stack of 100s, here you go".
See, this mentality always irks me. While it may be true to some extent in the "old days", it's not with schools being able to pay players directly. In that regard, we're going to be one of the top 20 richest programs in the country. Hell, we already are according to Forbes and we're already one of only six athletic departments, I believe, in the country that can self sustain off of our football program alone. Not many can say that.
When there is only 40-64 teams left in the country to get talent, believe it or not, we're one of the richest schools athletically speaking. NIL where we require a mega donor isn't going to be as problematic in the next couple of years as it seems to be currently. We're actually, probably in better shape than a school like Alabama in terms of school funding. This is to say, we'll be fine. The question is, will our coaches be able to get the right players at the right time? That's more of my concern.
So I say to those believing the "poor ol Iowa football" stigma, stop believing we're less than we are. Most schools would kill to be in the B1G, have the funding we will require from our media deal via the B1G, have our athletic department valuation, have our history and pipeline to the league, with our following of about 1.6-2 million worldwide that will probably get bigger once ISU dies off to boot. We're good, we'll be fine lol. We're one of the sharks. Not the biggest but we're going to be competitive in this new landscape that actually benefits us.
All of these changes that are upcoming are benefitting teams like us. We'll still struggle with the elite like we do now but it's laughable to think we're a little nothing program when, outside of about 15-20 other programs in reality, the rest would love to be where we are.
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The problem is revenue sharing will just be stacked on top of the NIL money that we lack. So we will still be behind many of our peers in that regard.
We’ll still be a top 25 ish program and will likely make the playoffs now and again but that NC title isn’t walking through that door anytime soon.
While I do contribute to swarm, which teams this year have really benefited from it on the field?
Ohio St No
Indiana not from NIL
UNL No
Wisky No
Penn St Not sure
Oregon maybe but was top talent already
Washington No
UCLA No
Michigan No
MSU No
Rutgers No
Illinois No
Nothwestern No
Iowa not so far
Purdue No
USC No
Seems to me that NIL $ amount by school is a bit overrated.
MBB would benefit the most from a healthy NIL program. The very best are one and done though.
But if we share equally with all other members of the B1G we're still richer than 75-80% of them in a money driven sport. Our peers are closer to OSU, PSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Oregon than we are to the lesser half of the conference. There's only a few programs in the B1G that are obviously richer than us and the B1G is scheduled to make a lot, lot, lot more than the SEC teams as well. It would take very large NIL contributions from most of them just to match our revenue sharing amount. In essence, financially, Iowa will be just under a top level funded program that only has a small handful of programs that make more. NIL will be a minute source for most teams in comparison and only a small number of programs will have a sizeable enough amount from NIL to worry about, such as Texas A&M. Most don't have that kind of clout to utilize. OSU only boasts 20 million at this point and time and that'll be trumped in two years time by the 200-300 million we all make. Iowa will probably be top 5-8 in the conference in my estimation.
But no, I agree with you, even with this, we aren't winning a title again. The divide between us and the next level/tier will be just as evident as it currently is despite how rich we will be. But that's already how it has been, no?
Look at The Top 10 and it paints a very different picture about the importance of NIL.
Oregon
Georgia
Penn St
Ohio St
Miami
Texas
Tennessee
Notre Dame
BYU
Texas A&M
From what's been reported at least 7 of these schools have exremely well funded NIL collectives and give out fat deals to players.
It's not a guarantee but NIL is clearly a key ingredient when it comes to putting together a championship level roster.
Iowa being a liberal institution, I would think there will be blowback about using Athletic department money towards paying Men's sport athletes in Football and Basketball and not directing same amount of money towards women's NIL. Look at how the Swarm had to dissociate itself from the university because the university wanted the Swarm to comply with Title 9.
On top of that, our NIL seems middle of the pack at best because we lack Uber wealthy billionaire sponsor. I don't see Iowa being a top 25k program in total compensation for players without stronger NIL program.
The idea that Iowa can just concentrate on High School players won't work either. Good high school players will want money. The overlooked H.S. players that have good first seasons will be able to go into portal and move on to higher payday. So idea that you can concentrate on H.S. players and ignore Portal seems unlikely to be successful.
College football is now Pro-Football NFL development league. Schools with wealthy Alumni network will do the best. The Iowa Athleteics Donation program that now goes to the Athletic General fund---that is money that it seems like it SHOULD be directed towards NIL if the Donor prefers. So perks like special parking, better seats, etc need to be tied towards NIL, but that isn't allowed at this point. I think if it were allowed, there would be pressure to keep the split 50/50 mens/women's sports on revenue split.
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