Who will we lose to the portal?

[Hendy hawk]

Even if Cade gets another year granted, I'm pretty sure he has no option but to leave. Kirk gave him the grace not to walk on senior night, but I really doubt he'd let him wear the uniform again after that.

Cade has made it clear he's not wearing the Iowa uniform again IMO.

 

[Doodads and Hoohah]

This is correct. It will decimate the Olympic sports for many reasons. Roster limits are now on sports like track and field (45) and cross country (17).

The BYU men's track team for example, has 70 athletes on it. Some of those are walkons. Have to get to 45 next year. Colorado just cut a senior XC runner that scored team points at the NCAA championships last year. SEC decided rather than 17/45, they were going for 10/35. 35 athletes on the track team means each event has an average of 1.7 athletes. Hope no one gets injured.

It's impact will be even bigger on men's sports when Title IX is considered. Many people used to dump 40 women on the XC team to offset some of the spots in men's sports. With a cap of 17, that means men from somewhere are going to get cut.

This is truly devastating for college sports not named football and basketball. Sucks for my son who is a D1 level runner but likely to go unrecruited or drop to DIII because there are estimated to be about 3K DI track people in the transfer portal before all is said and done. Is a coach going to take a risk on a good freshmen or pick a known entity from another roster.

Yep the unintended consequences from all of this is going to be tough to stomach. College sports as I knew and loved is over. But hey players needed to be paid! Careful what we wish for.

 

[iahawkeyes17]

Serious question: KF and Co. seem to do a piss-poor job of developing quarterbacks and wide receivers. Why would any decent ones in the portal decide to come to Iowa? It’s not for the money; the Swarm doesn’t have the cash to buy a “million-dollar” QB.

Iowa won’t get a top 10 Qb who demand a lot of $. However Iowa has more $ than non P4 schools and we aren’t paying for cade or kaleb brown anymore so there’s more $ to spend…. Combine that with chance to play in Big 10 is how they can get a proven mid major or a guy from P4 who hasn’t played yet. How they got Cade who I’m sure would’ve had other suitors from other major conferences. I think of Altmyer at ILL or Card at Purdue. Came from ole Miss and Tx sure what they got not drastically different than McNamara 2 years ago. Just got to get them on campus and hopefully in process someone find someone who clicks with Lester could go a long ways.

 

[Rambler Hawk]

We will pick up better players from the portal than we lose. One man's trash is another man's treasure!
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I think that is Purdue’s mantra as well…😉

 

[Rambler Hawk]

Lainez in or will be shortly per Cory.

Good call…👍

 

[danny14]

Heading towards 105 quickly!

 

[Bow.to.the.Narrative]

How they got Cade who I’m sure would’ve had other suitors from other major conferences.

He didn't.

 

[iahawkeyes17]

He didn't.

No because he was first one to commit before portal opened thanks to Kirk and budmyr breaking the rules. Cade was a bust but he’d have had interest from other big schools if we didn’t offer.