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Iowa WBB 2025 Recruiting Thread

@letsgosports We'll have to go about this a another way then.

This podcast was ~one month ago with Brad H. See if this sounds different to you on WBB NIL and this was before Rev Share...
@53:00 - 56:50 WBB donations & Lucy (took it as the Charity/Base NIL took care of her because the question was donation based and he's talking about Collective $ and not Corp $). Plus, we are at the very top of WBB NIL. At first he says top of B1G and then later says only 3 or 4 teams were in on Lucy. I take it these were not all B1G teams which gave me the impression we're near the top in the nation.



Beth on WBB...
"And then at Iowa (and not at Penn State, for example), there’s a top-shelf women’s basketball program that needs to be funded. That will remain a peak priority at Iowa, too. Goetz said as much in a late-December sit-down with the Des Moines Register, that she knows Iowa is competing for top-20 national recruits and can’t afford to lose the momentum created by the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Women’s basketball ticket sales exceeded the men's for the first time ever in FY2024, and every seat was sold in Carver-Hawkeye for 2024-25. Goetz would be irresponsible to risk throwing that momentum away by short-changing Jan Jensen’s women’s program."


For Rev share Iowa receives the highest level of payout at $20.5MM...


Georgia...
"Football players would get at least 75 percent of the revenue after scholarships, men’s basketball players 15 percent and women’s basketball players 5 percent.

Those percentages are based out of a model in the preliminary House settlement."

"Football players are expected to get at least $13.5 million, men’s basketball players about $2.7 million and women’s basketball players about $900,000. Other sport athletes like baseball, track and gymnastics could get a percentage of the remaining pie.


Here's Texas Tech's expected payout of Rev Share to WBB...



From what I can tell, most schools will allot from ~1.7% to 5% of Rev Share to WBB. My hope is Beth allots 5% for WBB like Georgia does to take advantage of CCs momentum. Can't really prove it, but the intent is to be at the top to keep the WBB program moving forward with top recruits and not backsliding into pre-CC days.
 
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My worry is that higher percentages were promised to McCollum, and thus reducing WBB back to average numbers. Not a great time to be hiring a new coach. (I'm still hoping it is a top percentage for WBB.)

I'm not worried about Ben getting any more than the 4.5MM ($2.5MM Rev Share + $2MM Swarm) promised to MBB. I watched Ben's press conference. You can tell by the type of people he pulls into his program that someone wanting a big bag at the expense of the team is not his kind of guy he wants. Service to the team means sacrifice. If you're not willing sacrifice for the rest, then I don't think Ben wants that kind of attitude around his locker room. He's a guy who has proved you can do more with less with his teams. Suspect he can do the same with NIL + Rev Share.
 
@letsgosports We'll have to go about this a another way then.

This podcast was ~one month ago with Brad H. See if this sounds different to you on WBB NIL and this was before Rev Share...
@53:00 - 56:50 WBB donations & Lucy (took it as the Charity/Base NIL took care of her because the question was donation based and he's talking about Collective $ and not Corp $). Plus, we are at the very top of WBB NIL. At first he says top of B1G and then later says only 3 or 4 teams were in on Lucy. I take it these were not all B1G teams which gave me the impression we're near the top in the nation.



Beth on WBB...
"And then at Iowa (and not at Penn State, for example), there’s a top-shelf women’s basketball program that needs to be funded. That will remain a peak priority at Iowa, too. Goetz said as much in a late-December sit-down with the Des Moines Register, that she knows Iowa is competing for top-20 national recruits and can’t afford to lose the momentum created by the Caitlin Clark phenomenon. Women’s basketball ticket sales exceeded the men's for the first time ever in FY2024, and every seat was sold in Carver-Hawkeye for 2024-25. Goetz would be irresponsible to risk throwing that momentum away by short-changing Jan Jensen’s women’s program."


For Rev share Iowa receives the highest level of payout at $20.5MM...


Georgia...
"Football players would get at least 75 percent of the revenue after scholarships, men’s basketball players 15 percent and women’s basketball players 5 percent.

Those percentages are based out of a model in the preliminary House settlement."

"Football players are expected to get at least $13.5 million, men’s basketball players about $2.7 million and women’s basketball players about $900,000. Other sport athletes like baseball, track and gymnastics could get a percentage of the remaining pie.


Here's Texas Tech's expected payout of Rev Share to WBB...



From what I can tell, most schools will allot from ~1.7% to 5% of Rev Share to WBB. My hope is Beth allots 5% for WBB like Georgia does to take advantage of CCs momentum. Can't really prove it, but the intent is to be at the top to keep the WBB program moving forward with top recruits and not backsliding into pre-CC days.

I saw those videos and articles, and I am aware of what has been said. I don’t doubt that we are doing better NIL-wise than most programs, but we need to compare where we are money-wise for WBB compared to the top WBB schools.

Georgia and Texas Tech are not the most relevant comparisons. They will not compete with the teams we will compete with for the caliber of players we will be going after. We will likely need more money than them with rev share and NIL to compete with SC (both), LSU, and the UCONNs of the world. I’d be more curious to see the numbers for the teams currently in the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 this year or the teams that have made the Final Four multiple times over the last 5-10 years. Those are the numbers that should mean something to us— I wish that information was easy to find and public knowledge.

Side Note: Brad used Lucy as an example of a success story, which is good. It was a huge win! Thank God—she was a great Hawk. It was a huge benefit that we were coming off of back-to-back finals appearances, her first/only visit, and Iowa was clearly the best fit for her to showcase herself and raise her draft stock. I also remember there were last-minute requests for donations, and people stepped up for Lucy during the last portal season.

The point is that money will matter more and more with top talent in the women’s game, and if we are not prepared, then it will be very disappointing and unfortunate. I trust and respect Beth as an AD and hope her and WBB are on top of it.
 
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I heard it from a very good source that The University of Nebraska had Beth planted as our AD so she could burn down all sports at Iowa with emphasis on WBB, MBB, Football and, just for spite, coed rugby.
 
One thing to consider in deciding where to contribute is where your money will have the greatest impact. I believe that’s WBB. $500 when you are going after a $100,000 women’s player means more than if you are seeking a$500,000 men’s player. Assuming your level of interest in any two sports is equal to you- impact should be a key consideration!
 
The 30 point blow out is where we are as a program against elite competition. I know that’s hard for you to admit. These elite recruits want to win and go deep into the tournament.
A few years back, Ohio State got thumped by Iowa in the B1G tournament ... but then still made it to the elite 8 afterwards anyhow.

I don't know how much you can tell from a single-blowout game through a season ... particularly, when Iowa was competitive in pretty much every game they played throughout the season previously.
 
A few years back, Ohio State got thumped by Iowa in the B1G tournament ... but then still made it to the elite 8 afterwards anyhow.

I don't know how much you can tell from a single-blowout game through a season ... particularly, when Iowa was competitive in pretty much every game they played throughout the season previously.
Not to mention when Maryland crushed us by ~30pts then we didn’t lose the rest of the season until the National Championship game (2023).
 
Since this is the 2025 commitment thread, I'm glad Kylie is coming back and thought she has upped her 3 shooting lately. She was 41% in the 5 post (post not completed so I completed it) She was a bad 1-6 against MSU, but 4-6 against Oklahoma otherwise a 1-3 twice and 2-4 and 4-6 in her last two games.
 
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Back to the Class of 2025: Does anyone know if Addie Deal is still playing with Mater Dei in the Throne National Championship?

They play today at 12:20 PM CST on NBA TV.
 
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I wonder how UCONN does their rev shares. Not being in the SEC or Big10 means the school gets less total, right? Also, their football program is pretty much nothing. Could most of their rev shares be going to their mens and womens basketball programs?
 
Thanks for reminding us. I quickly set it up to record.
I just downloaded the NBA app and flipped on the current HS game in the Throne National Championship. Almost no time left, 67-65. Something medical happened off screen and now they cut to a splash screen with music.

So the app works for a good free stream.

EDIT: Official had medical event. 15 minute delay. Now game 1.4 seconds left. Time out. Quakers up by 1.

EDIT 2: Quakers win 68-67 over Cavaliers
 
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I wonder how UCONN does their rev shares. Not being in the SEC or Big10 means the school gets less total, right? Also, their football program is pretty much nothing. Could most of their rev shares be going to their mens and womens basketball programs?

UConn should get ~$6.5MM from Rev Share this coming season.

The numbers will be lower than this article states because they get ~$6.5MM, not $10MM.
"Even if UConn only shares $10 million with its athletes of its roughly $100 million annual revenue (or roughly half of the proposed $20.5 million cap), and if UConn’s revenue sharing distribution follows its athletic programs’ recent revenue attribution, the Huskies’ men’s basketball players would hypothetically receive roughly $5 million and women’s basketball players would receive $1.1 million."

It looks like they just take the % of Attributable Revenue times the House Rev Share Amt to get the Sports allotted amt.
WBB: ~$6.5MM * 11.2% = $728k
MBB: ~$6.5MM * 50.3% = $3.27MM
FB: ~$6.5MM * 18.7% = $1.22MM

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I wonder how UCONN does their rev shares. Not being in the SEC or Big10 means the school gets less total, right? Also, their football program is pretty much nothing. Could most of their rev shares be going to their mens and womens basketball programs?
Good question. They are right in the middle of the financial/insurance capital of the world. All it would take is a few donors.

Also, it certainly doesn't help our revenue that we have 2 D1 schools in our small population of a state that divides us. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, along with many other states have one main state school.
 
Good question. They are right in the middle of the financial/insurance capital of the world. All it would take is a few donors.

Also, it certainly doesn't help our revenue that we have 2 D1 schools in our small population of a state that divides us. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, along with many other states have one main state school.
What you're describing has more impact on the NIL side than the rev-share side.

I think there's a decent chance UConn will be behind Iowa on the rev-share side. UConn only gets a small fraction of the media rights money that a Big 10 or SEC school gets. Its football team isn't much of a draw.

That said, I would guess UConn is ahead of Iowa on the NIL side, and that gap could be decently big given UConn's WBB history and not having a football team or wrestling team competing for those dollars.
 
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OT at this point, but wow watching Aaliyah Chavez play reminds me of Lonzo Ball. That is one awful looking shot, but i'll be damned if it doesn't work for them.
 
Addie Deal isn’t playing in the Throne National Championship today. They didn’t say why.

That's odd. They have a pre-game video on the Matre Dei website with Deal in it. Doesn't say Deal won't be playing.

I'd totally pissed if I went there thinking Deal was playing. They used her photo in a promo for these Throne games.

Anyways, The only way I could get the highlights to play was to click on description box under the image below.
Then [click > middle button] for the 2nd image at it has some Addie Deal highlights in it.

 
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Still haven't found out why Deal did not play in The Throne games. The Throne Championship Tournament is March 27-29, 2025 while McDonald's All American Game is April 1, 2025 so no overlap.

I would automatically chalk it up to practice for McDAAG that kept Deal out it. However, Nyla Brooks is a McDonald's All-American and she played against Deal's Mater Dei team in their Throne 1st round game. The other McDonald's All-Americans that played in the 1st Round of The Throne were Mia Pauldo and Jaida Civil. So obviously it wasn't practice for the McDAAG either. Reporting is horseshit anymore.

Every article I've found on this states Deal did not play but not one article ever stated why she did not play.


Article Title: Pauldo twins, Addie Deal, Olivia Vukosa highlight the top girls basketball players to watch at The Throne 2025



Article Title: The Throne national girls basketball tournament: Quarterfinals results and stats, semifinals preview

"Wynn made a surprise return and played well given the circumstances (14 points and five rebounds), but Mater Dei was without McDonald's All-American and 5-star Iowa commit Addie Deal."

"Speaking of McDonald's All-Americans, Nyla Brooks (North Carolina) had 20 points, four assists, four steals, and two blocks playing all 32 minutes."




Here's the girls McDonald's All-American's rosters to compare against The Throne 1st Round box scores in the article.
 
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Still haven't found out why Deal did not play in The Throne games. The Throne Championship Tournament is March 27-29, 2025 while McDonald's All American Game is April 1, 2025 so no overlap.

I would automatically chalk it up to practice for McDAAG that kept Deal out it. However, Nyla Brooks is a McDonald's All-American and she played against Deal's Mater Dei team in their Throne 1st round game. The other McDonald's All-Americans that played in the 1st Round of The Throne were Mia Pauldo and Jaida Civil. So obviously it wasn't practice for the McDAAG either. Reporting is horseshit anymore.

Every article I've found on this states Deal did not play but not one article ever stated why she did not play.


Article Title: Pauldo twins, Addie Deal, Olivia Vukosa highlight the top girls basketball players to watch at The Throne 2025



Article Title: The Throne national girls basketball tournament: Quarterfinals results and stats, semifinals preview

"Wynn made a surprise return and played well given the circumstances (14 points and five rebounds), but Mater Dei was without McDonald's All-American and 5-star Iowa commit Addie Deal."

"Speaking of McDonald's All-Americans, Nyla Brooks (North Carolina) had 20 points, four assists, four steals, and two blocks playing all 32 minutes."




Here's the girls McDonald's All-American's rosters to compare against The Throne 1st Round box scores in the article.


I am assuming that she decided not to bec of McDAAG. She is at practice right now. I don’t think she would have been able to play the full tournament anyway if they advanced.
 


I am assuming that she decided not to bec of McDAAG. She is at practice right now. I don’t think she would have been able to play the full tournament anyway if they advanced.

Cool beans! That was my 1st thought why she didn't play in Throne because of practice. So then I looked to see if any other McDonald's All-Americans were playing in Throne and there were at least 3 of them playing in the 1st round just like Deal would have. Deal was put in promo material for that Throne event and even the MSN article thought she was going to play in it as well. I'd be pissed if I went to Throne thinking she was playing and then to find out she's not in it.

It's weird then that Nyla Brooks, Mia Pauldo and Jaida Civil who are also McDonald's All-Americans still played in Throne. Nyla Brooks's team beat Deal's Matre Dei team so they would have played again yesterday. If Brooks's team won yesterday, then they play in the Finals Championship game today which is the last day of Throne. So obviously they would run into the same problem as Deal if they keep on winning.

Maybe it's a matter of starters vs reserve McDonald's All-Americans. Meaning the starters needed to be at McDAAG practice earlier than reserves. Seems odd to me to do it this way if that's what happened or even odd that all McDonald's All-Americans didn't need to start practice on the same day.

Whatever the case, it looks McDonald's All-Americans could either play in Throne or instead bypass it by choosing McDAAG practice instead. Terrible timing between these two events.

The other problem that crossed my mind was she was sick or even worse injured to the point she misses the McDAAG also. Might be another reason she didn't play in Throne because playing in McDAAG is one of her dreams. She wanted to make sure she was playing in that coveted McDAAG and not taking a risk on a lesser event that doesn't mean as much.

Anyways, excellent find to know she is doing perfectly alright.
 
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Back to next years team. Glad for Kylie coming back. With Deal and Ava and Hannah that is a damn good start on a line-up. If Jan can wiggle out another stout 4 somewhere that would be awesome.
Deal needs to start day one and we need to be patient in year one with her but she is special.
 
Back to next years team. Glad for Kylie coming back. With Deal and Ava and Hannah that is a damn good start on a line-up. If Jan can wiggle out another stout 4 somewhere that would be awesome.
Deal needs to start day one and we need to be patient in year one with her but she is special.
I like that Kylie is staying as much for helping Deal get better as for helping the team. It will help Deal develop and prepare for play against elite teams being guarded by Kylie in practice.
 
I watched the scrimmage between the McDonald’s All American teams today and Deal played PG. She handles the ball well and is pretty fast. I did not see her shoot and she did have two turnovers after driving into traffic.

The player we’re going to wish picked Iowa is Jordan Speiser. That girl can shoot the three. Caitlinesque.
 
I watched the scrimmage between the McDonald’s All American teams today and Deal played PG. She handles the ball well and is pretty fast. I did not see her shoot and she did have two turnovers after driving into traffic.

The player we’re going to wish picked Iowa is Jordan Speiser. That girl can shoot the three. Caitlinesque.
I saw the scrimmage, too. Speiser and Skinner were two huge stand outs to me. Huge bummer we missed on them.

It’s on ESPN+ if anyone wants to check it out.
 
I like that Kylie is staying as much for helping Deal get better as for helping the team. It will help Deal develop and prepare for play against elite teams being guarded by Kylie in practice.
I don’t agree. In my opinion Deal is already far better than Feuerbach . In fact, if Jan gets a really good point guard , Addie will put either Kylie or McCabe on the bench which will really strengthen the team. Addie is really good. Other good players will want to play with her.
 
I don’t agree. In my opinion Deal is already far better than Feuerbach . In fact, if Jan gets a really good point guard , Addie will put either Kylie or McCabe on the bench which will really strengthen the team. Addie is really good. Other good players will want to play with her.
You don't agree that an elite collegiate defender will help a freshman develop in practice?
Maybe you should rethink how that works.
 
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