The complainers are basically guys who never do anything themselves, but sit on the sideline criticizing.
South Dakota St QB Mark Gronowski visiting Iowa today, Jan 3. He won TWO Nattys, went 49-6 & threw for 10,330 yds & 93 TDs
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I don’t think he’s that big.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a small person, but he is a mouthy little bitch, so making fun of his size is warranted.
Well, since we were aware of his interest in Iowa, that should put you around an 80% confidence level.
I will reiterate. All we know is that he visited Iowa recently. All the anxiety has been manifested by us.
Yes. He’s not the only one.
Allegedly a lot of these numbers get floated by the kid’s agents.
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Something interesting I saw on X was a Swarm Collective Tax filing that listed 2.5 million in revenue, not sure if that was FY last year or exact date but an interesting data point...then we talk about OSU and $20 million which is insane.
Looks like a good chunk of fans answered the bell last night and donated based on comments...although, the Swarm only has 3,000 paying members which is truthfully very pitiful given you have 70k in Kinnick every Sat + just the normal fans nationwide. We don't like any of this but it's table stakes now.
Looks like a good chunk of fans answered the bell last night and donated based on comments...although, the Swarm only has 3,000 paying members which is truthfully very pitiful given you have 70k in Kinnick every Sat + just the normal fans nationwide. We don't like any of this but it's table stakes now.
You make huge gains in fundraising when You get the 1 time small donations by a large number of People , People bitch and moan but if You just go over and 1 time donate $100 once or twice a Year and mark it for the sport of choice( Football) that is when a collective really stayed juiced. Donate to football instead of 1 trip to the pub for 2 People once or twice a Year is all it takes
Iowa needs to do the Salvation army type fundraising at games where People can just slip a 20 into the collection at various points around the Stadium that is earmarked for the Football NIL , Same in Carver ect . NIL funds would explode
Apparently they're supposed to ask in Kinnick if you want to round up for the Swarm. I haven't been to the Kinnick concession stands this year but the couple times I've been to Carver, they just asked for a tip, not to round up
I’ve long thought this is the way. Particularly at football game with 20k fans having libations in them. An average donation of $10 per inebriated fan would be $200k per game or $1.4M a year. That might be a conservative number as well.
And/or just add to the ticket fee, like a swipe fee or transaction fee we see in many other areas of society today!
Yep. Iowa has roughly 50k season ticket holders. If every single one of those holders added a hundred bucks for SWARM to the already large amount they’re giving to the U of I’s athletics department, five million is raised. Just like that. It’s simply not happened. At all.
This. Let’s keep padding the school’s already deep pockets by purchasing insanely expensive beer in Kinnick though. SWARM? What’s that again?
And for many reasons, including awareness, understanding, logistics, not wanting to donate more or have a say in the players and/or performance etc.
I wonder if he will ever get NFL players to donate. So far, players like Kittle, who never got NIL, refuse to participate.
The University will need the money for revenue sharing
Not all fans are interested in giving to the SWARM, some use a cost benefit analysis.
And why should they? I don't blame anyone for not "donating" to something as trivial as sports.
If Brad took $0 from Swarm Collective then who was earning the $257,000 in salary paid per your link?Yep it's on the 501c3 website where you can search every 501c3 charity nation wide.
Brad took $0 from about $2.5 mil in donations
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Blum took a $130k salary from $1.6 mil in donations
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Not 100% sure but I thought there was other support staff, admin, etc.
What about the current players? Do any of them contribute to the Swarm? I mean, many (most?) of them will soon be earning more money than many fans. Who has a greater stake in the team's success than the guys already there?
Is that an insane suggestion? Maybe, maybe not. (Is it even allowed?)
But I can tell you that I used to work for a non-profit that relied heavily on fundraising. We used to ask employees to chip in a portion of their paycheck, usually something like $10 or $20 monthly... not much. About 25% of employees participated. We raised a little over $10K annually with this program. Not necessarily enough to move the needle, but it helped, and it was a great pitch to use when attracting other donors.
So I don't think it's insane for current players to consider supporting the Swarm.
(Either way, it would be a great PR move for the team for the players to pool some of their NIL money to support a cause of some kind, whether its the Swarm, the Children's Hospital, or something else.)
the old days of bags of cash were a lot less expensive, too. you could get a QB for 6 figures, for crying out loud!
Brad's tweet last night made it seem like the deal was about done
That's my feeling too, it's locked in now we need to confirm that amount or restock the cupboard for others (Phillps, etc.)
so why should others expect a program to pay them to then make them rich…..no one is forcing them to play.
I don't see the current NIL setup in that light. Plenty of them do contribute with workouts/sessions with players and represent the University any chance they get. Just my opinion on how dumb publicly buying players is.
@kwik44 , what you got bro? @hawkisoaker, any new hammers dropping soon?
they must be working on the signing bonus, performance bonuses, etc....
Heck if KF gets a bonus for 8 wins, MG should get a bonus too!
Well at least it's more of a legit source than Iowa burner account, etc, thanks for posting! As we have been suggesting, terms and deal being finalized plus who knows, maybe insurance policy, etc for staying in school...
In the WBB forum, there's a Caitlin megathread that was started in late May with over 815,000 views
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