What else are these prospects looking for? If that didn't convince you to come to IOWA, you are not Hawkeye material.
No commitments after CC Retirement??
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It's interesting that we've heard virtually nothing about the recruits on hand that day. If they didn't find what they were looking for, I think the question becomes, "What ARE they looking for?"
#1 UCLA vs. #6 USC last night drew 10,200 fans. Iowa leads the nation with about 40 consecutive sellouts of 15,000. Iowa was good enough for the best player in women's basketball history, but hey, maybe those recruits are looking for better beaches, bigger paychecks, or who knows what. I'll keep cheering for those people who do become Hawkeyes, and I think whoever those players are will turn out just fine. As for those who choose to go elsewhere, good luck to them.
Relax. They still have a year and a half before college. Let them figure things out on their own terms with so much on the line and not on us as fans since we're not the ones impacted by their decisions.
This the creme de la creme were are talking about here. Not the customary three star from Ankeny.
They will decide after turning over every stone, as they should.
They will decide after turning over every stone, as they should.
If you were to do a cursory look at the top 100 recruits in the 2026 class you might find a mere handful that have made a verbal commitment this early in the process. Some haven't even taken official visits anywhere yet. Nevermind recruits for 2027 and beyond.
Major life choices, sometimes requiring a move away from friends and family, and lots of moving pieces and considerations these days. It takes some time. Consider it a gd recruiting triumph that some of these girls have even been on campus.
Let's let the process play out.
I was exceptionally rational and knew exactly what I wanted when I was 16 years old….then I turned 17.
IMO refraining from an impulse judgment, withholding a major life decision until sufficient information is collected and considered, taking guidance, and weighing the options is the more rational …and dare I say…. mature course.
IMO refraining from an impulse judgment, withholding a major life decision until sufficient information is collected and considered, taking guidance, and weighing the options is the more rational …and dare I say…. mature course.
I'm just going to throw this out there. This 2026 class will be different than all the others because of the added Rev Sharing component added to the mix. Think this could still happen to a couple of players in the class of 2025 as well. However, the others that committed already can't shop their 1st year around to find out how the program's Rev Sharing plan works.
Aaliyah Chavez is the #1 recruit of 2025 and hasn't committed yet. If she plays her cards right, she might be able to wait until programs divvy up their Rev Share amts to each of the women's basketball players. Then shop around for the highest NIL bag. She already is trying to get $1 mil to $1.3 out of her Top 5 or 6 list and that's without the extra Rev Sharing coming down the pike. Have no idea if that $1 mill figure is for 1 year or all 4 years.
The one problem that could hamper Chavez is when do the programs know the Rev Sharing amt they will give out to players. The latest a college women's basketball recruit can sign for the 2025-2026 season is May 21, 2025, which is the final day of the regular signing period. If the program's $ amt is not known by this date, she'll have to take the best estimate a school can give her at that point. However, the class of 2026 commits will know this Rev Share amt if they wait until it comes out. They can then shop it around to find the best NIL package for them.
Now if you're a smart athlete with a high ranking you could parlay that into enough income over 4 to 5 years of college to never have to find a 9 to 5 job or even be drafted by the WBA. Meaning if you don't care about entertaining sellouts crowds and want the easy life after college, you're going to wait until you find out how much you can get out of the programs ~3 bags/arms here.
Using the IA/Swarm as an example. There are 3 arms they can extract funds from:
1) Base/Charity Arm - might be $15k/mo - different players could have different bucket amounts of more or less than another player based on a projection of All-American, 1st Team B1G, a starter, a reserve, etc etc.
2) Corp Inc Arm - unlimited to what you can negotiate with an unlimited # of corps like CC did.
3) Athletics/Rev Sharing Arm - $100k/yr + performance bonuses (eg over 750 points gets you another $25k, etc, etc).
#3 is what is unknown to the recruits right now. I suspect there are some or many waiting for this to take root 1st.
#1 and #2 can be found out now if they wanted and these arms can not have performance bonuses tied to them.
Now Iowa might designate $100k/yr to each player in women's basketball. However, other programs could offer more or less than $100k/yr. Some schools may give out $200k/yr to each player on the women's team + performance bonuses. These numbers are unknown right now until the rulings come out in the next several months.
Again, depending on your motives and opportunities, this Rev Sharing could put a hold on some commits making decisions now. If they're smart and they want to take the easy way and retire early, they're going to shop for the best financial package with built-in incentives. That will take some time even after all the rulings come out to figure this out because there could be a lot more negotiations involved at every program they have offers from.
As Brad has stated, these girls all have agents now to do this for them. They can just sit back and wait for the final numbers to come back and then make a decision on what's best for them.
The reason we run into this problem now is because most of the recruits we go after now are going to be these higher NIL players because of their higher rankings. The good thing is Brad also stated he believes the women's war chest is one of the best in the nation.
For more info on this:
HawkCast - BRAD HEINRICHS: CEO of SWARM Talks Transfer Portal, Changing NIL Landscape
Aaliyah Chavez is the #1 recruit of 2025 and hasn't committed yet. If she plays her cards right, she might be able to wait until programs divvy up their Rev Share amts to each of the women's basketball players. Then shop around for the highest NIL bag. She already is trying to get $1 mil to $1.3 out of her Top 5 or 6 list and that's without the extra Rev Sharing coming down the pike. Have no idea if that $1 mill figure is for 1 year or all 4 years.
The one problem that could hamper Chavez is when do the programs know the Rev Sharing amt they will give out to players. The latest a college women's basketball recruit can sign for the 2025-2026 season is May 21, 2025, which is the final day of the regular signing period. If the program's $ amt is not known by this date, she'll have to take the best estimate a school can give her at that point. However, the class of 2026 commits will know this Rev Share amt if they wait until it comes out. They can then shop it around to find the best NIL package for them.
Now if you're a smart athlete with a high ranking you could parlay that into enough income over 4 to 5 years of college to never have to find a 9 to 5 job or even be drafted by the WBA. Meaning if you don't care about entertaining sellouts crowds and want the easy life after college, you're going to wait until you find out how much you can get out of the programs ~3 bags/arms here.
Using the IA/Swarm as an example. There are 3 arms they can extract funds from:
1) Base/Charity Arm - might be $15k/mo - different players could have different bucket amounts of more or less than another player based on a projection of All-American, 1st Team B1G, a starter, a reserve, etc etc.
2) Corp Inc Arm - unlimited to what you can negotiate with an unlimited # of corps like CC did.
3) Athletics/Rev Sharing Arm - $100k/yr + performance bonuses (eg over 750 points gets you another $25k, etc, etc).
#3 is what is unknown to the recruits right now. I suspect there are some or many waiting for this to take root 1st.
#1 and #2 can be found out now if they wanted and these arms can not have performance bonuses tied to them.
Now Iowa might designate $100k/yr to each player in women's basketball. However, other programs could offer more or less than $100k/yr. Some schools may give out $200k/yr to each player on the women's team + performance bonuses. These numbers are unknown right now until the rulings come out in the next several months.
Again, depending on your motives and opportunities, this Rev Sharing could put a hold on some commits making decisions now. If they're smart and they want to take the easy way and retire early, they're going to shop for the best financial package with built-in incentives. That will take some time even after all the rulings come out to figure this out because there could be a lot more negotiations involved at every program they have offers from.
As Brad has stated, these girls all have agents now to do this for them. They can just sit back and wait for the final numbers to come back and then make a decision on what's best for them.
The reason we run into this problem now is because most of the recruits we go after now are going to be these higher NIL players because of their higher rankings. The good thing is Brad also stated he believes the women's war chest is one of the best in the nation.
For more info on this:
HawkCast - BRAD HEINRICHS: CEO of SWARM Talks Transfer Portal, Changing NIL Landscape
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With Deal as a salesperson and Carver as the special venue, considering the typical small crowds we see on TV at other arenas, it makes you wonder if money is involved. Chavez demanding 1 million that Texas said no to is an example. I hope programs don't become hostage to these high-profile recruits.
The NCAA needs to set limits or even blanket amounts programs can authorize.
The NCAA needs to set limits or even blanket amounts programs can authorize.
On her “call-in” show this week, Jan said no recruits have asked about academics in the last six months.
I wished I read your (this) post before I posted mine below. I was swinging in the dark, hypothesizing when formulas exist. The example I mentioned where Chavez was demanding, I believe 1 million, and rejected was ludicrous and
a (test of integrity on the part of the rejecting program,
or b (refusal based on greed - refusal to pay the amount of money.
It's safe to say schools will not be lining up to recruit Chavez. This is a character issue, and her unreasonable demand is a scarlet letter.
It will be really interesting to see how Iowa splits the pie in revenue sharing, Some of the rumored early models from SEC/Big are 74% football, 17/18% Men’s BB and 2% WBB with the rest going to other sports.
2% seems absurdly low for WBB but then you have to remember that the vast majority of Universities and fans don’t give a shit about WBB. I like to think Beth knows Iowa’s WBB has a chance to stay very competitive on the National level and a chance to continue to be a net positive in regard to producing revenue. (Most WBB programs are a huge drain on athletic budgets).
Think you're going to be in for a big, big surprise. Will give this to you now to chew on while I look for other references. Can't rem where the 1.4 mil reference came from now. However, 1 mil is been around for a while and according to this article written just over a month ago it still is. Also, according to this article, suspect this # will only go up from here if others want her bad enough.
Why No. 1 recruit Aaliyah Chavez could end up choosing Oklahoma Sooners over Texas Longhorns and Texas Tech
"As for the money, Aaliyah Chavez is said to have an asking price of $1 million in NIL deals. This is the reason why Kim Mulkey and LSU dropped out of the race for the star point guard. However, the Sooners are expected to meet this price."
"As for the other schools, South Carolina is considered the least likely to land Aaliyah Chavez, though the school has deep enough pockets to compete for her on the NIL front and allow her to grow her brand. The same can be said for UCLA, which, despite being far from Lubbock, is still one of the favorites. Texas has both the financial resources and the women's basketball program to attract Aaliyah Chavez. It is also one of the nearest schools to her hometown."
Why No. 1 recruit Aaliyah Chavez could end up choosing Oklahoma Sooners over Texas Longhorns and Texas Tech
Monterey Lady Plainsmen star Aaliyah Chavez is the most sought-after women's basketball recruit right now, and only five schools remain in contention for her: UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, Texas Tech a
www.sportskeeda.com
Why No. 1 recruit Aaliyah Chavez could commit to Texas Tech over elite programs like South Carolina and UCLA
"As for her reported $1 million NIL asking price, Texas Tech has not dropped out of the race yet because of it, which means that the school is more than willing to pay the price."
Why No. 1 recruit Aaliyah Chavez could commit to Texas Tech over elite programs like South Carolina and UCLA
Aaliyah Chavez is the most prized recruit from the Class of 2025, with schools from all over the country vying for her commitment. She is now down to five choices after LSU took itself out of the race.
www.sportskeeda.com
I couldn't find the 1.4 mil reference, but I found something close to it.
"What LSU people have stated is that Chavez and her father were asking $1.3 million from LSU NIL, but Coach Mulkey wasn't going to have any of that, Chavez is only a HS senior. Mulkey pulled the scholarship, not interested any longer. She just pulled the #1 recruiting class for 2025."
Now the reference I thought I remembered revolved around an Oklahoma softball pitcher for something over a million. So the comment was made that for sure Chavez would get $1.4 mil. That's what I somewhat recall.
What I found it looks like it was a softball pitcher transfer to Texas Tech instead of OK for $1.2 mil. Guess this would probably get someone to say that Chavez should be worth $1.4 mil then.
"One source believes Texas is now a strong front runner to land Aaliyah Chavez, but noted that Texas Tech could make a late push.
The combination of being in Chavez’s hometown and the fact that The Matador Club NIL collective just paid softball transfer NiJaree Canady $1.2 million had one industry source saying that they wouldn’t be surprised if the Red Raiders were right there in the end."
2025 Recruiting - WBB
I bit the bullet and paid for the subscription. The suspense was killing me so I’ll share it with everyone… “Back in July, LSU and Texas emerged as front runners to ultimately land Aaliyah Chavez. However, LSU has taken itself out of the running as, according to sources, her camp has asked...
"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.
This is why some think Chavez will likely get more than $1.2 mil in the end because this softball pitcher is getting $1.2 mil. This kind of money thrown at these kids is total nutwaggery to me. NIL is the new steroids for them if you have the talent.
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