The good news is with Lucy, this offseason, and current 26' 27' recruiting relationships BG is going to make an informed decision when allocating these funds in terms of actual roster impact. She won't be completely guessing with that revenue share. How is that going to alter, if at all, the current IWBB model that appears to be more unique in its "more equal" payout? Have we heard any news with that yet?
Yes, if I'm understanding your question right.
There are a minimum of 3 main bags/arms players can extract funds in ~a month from now.
Using the IA/Swarm as an example:
1) Base/Charity Arm - might be $4k/mo - $20k/mo - Different players could have different "bucket" amounts of more or less than another player
based on a contribution projection of All-American, 1st Team B1G, a starter, a sub, a bench cheerleader, etc etc. The reason is non-Rev Share funds can not have performance incentives tied to them. Hence, projected status vs performance bonus(es). Examples: All-Am ($20k/mo), 1st Team B1G ($15k/mo), starter ($10k/mo), sub ($7k mo) and bench cheerleader ($4k/mo).
2) Corp Inc Arm - unlimited to what you can negotiate with an
unlimited # of corp bags like CC did.
3) Athletics/Rev Sharing Arm - $100k/yr
base + performance bonus(es) (ie over 750 points gets you another $25k, etc, etc).
#3 above is what is unknown to the recruits right now. Suspect there are some or many players waiting for this to take root 1st. The settlement ruling could happen as early as April 7th.
#1 and #2 above can be found out now if they wanted and these arms can not have performance bonuses tied to them.
Now Iowa's Rev Share 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 settlement ruling(s) come out soon.
Brad also brought up discussions between these 3 arms on what arm can pay what? What can Atheletics/Rev Share arm pay? What can Swarm pay 1st? (eg Collectively: What can Base/Charity pay? What can Corp Inc pay?) My thought on this was so they could leave a portion of Rev Share for incentive bonuses to make it a better deal if a player performs at certain levels (total points, assists, rebounds, etc, etc). Here's even a potential example. Kylie gets $250 for each charge she takes or for every 5 charges she gets another $1,000. Incentives could even be tied to how many years you stay with program to retain your development endeavors as long as possible with a player.
Depending on the players 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 possibly 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 recruits 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.
This is why you want culture based players who want to have fun playing on a winning program with sellouts crowds as much as possible to keep these payments from spinning out of control by buying a team every year. Whether that can truly be done over time is another question.
For more info on this:
HawkCast - BRAD HEINRICHS: CEO of SWARM Talks Transfer Portal, Changing NIL Landscape
