Fryowa
Administrator
According to Dochterman and Heinrichs the other day, five big ten schools are projected to be at the $8-9 million in NIL salary next year not including rev-share. Iowa (according to Heinrichs, not me) is looking at about $2 million form rev share plus what they have from the Swarm which is about $2 million as it stands. So about $4 million tops.
It. Does. Not. Matter. Who. Iowa. Hires.
They do not have the money to pay a winnable team to come here and unfortunately this is the beginning of the end of Iowa basketball as we've known it since the 80s. I suggest people watch Rob and Dochterman's most recent pod. I linked it in a post yesterday. What I'm saying isn't hyperbole, those two are as close to the workings of the program and the Big Ten as anyone not employed by it and they say the same thing. You thought the Lick years were bad, hold on to your butts. in 2025 this game is 100% about money and we ain't got any. The only team projected to have as little as we do is Minnesota, and they are also looking for a coach without any luck. The first thing any of these guys are asking isn't "How much money are you going to pay me," or "What capital improvements are you making," or "How would my contract be structured," it's "How much NIL do I have to work with?" If you can't answer that then it's, "Thanks for your time; I'll see myself out..."
It doesn't matter if the guy was born in Iowa, or if he's a good developmental coach, no one with real potential is going to go anywhere if they can't be even remotely sure they can get the players they want.
Why the hell would McCollum come here over Drake? He's winning ballgames there, and if he came to Iowa he'd immediately be put in a situation he can't succeed in. Because he grew up in Storm Lake? Gimme a break...He'd come to Iowa and have a full arena for about a month before the novelty wore off and then he's coaching and losing in front of 3,000 fans and getting blown up about how he sucks and should be fired, and then where's he at in his career? He's way smarter to either stay at Drake for a bit and win until he gets an offer from a real program that will give him something to work with, or if he gets a good offer now to take that one. And he knows it. Especially the longer this thing drags on because Iowa's NIL shortfall is becoming more a national news tidbit than a local one.
Even if we did get a coach who somehow energized fans and started filling Carver, what does that gain you? Rev-share is capped at $20.5 million per school which Iowa is already dividing up between football, WBB, and wrestling. You can't give that additional ticket revenue to players.
Fran definitely shares some blame for not drumming up money while he was here. But do we think realistically he'd be able to quadruple donations somehow? Because that's what would need to happen.
Donors you can't really blame because it's their money to do with what they want. We can't bitch about other people not spending money that doesn't belong to us.
The fact is this program doesn't have the donor interest to compete in basketball. We have to choose one sport over the other and that's the way it is.
It. Does. Not. Matter. Who. Iowa. Hires.
They do not have the money to pay a winnable team to come here and unfortunately this is the beginning of the end of Iowa basketball as we've known it since the 80s. I suggest people watch Rob and Dochterman's most recent pod. I linked it in a post yesterday. What I'm saying isn't hyperbole, those two are as close to the workings of the program and the Big Ten as anyone not employed by it and they say the same thing. You thought the Lick years were bad, hold on to your butts. in 2025 this game is 100% about money and we ain't got any. The only team projected to have as little as we do is Minnesota, and they are also looking for a coach without any luck. The first thing any of these guys are asking isn't "How much money are you going to pay me," or "What capital improvements are you making," or "How would my contract be structured," it's "How much NIL do I have to work with?" If you can't answer that then it's, "Thanks for your time; I'll see myself out..."
It doesn't matter if the guy was born in Iowa, or if he's a good developmental coach, no one with real potential is going to go anywhere if they can't be even remotely sure they can get the players they want.
Why the hell would McCollum come here over Drake? He's winning ballgames there, and if he came to Iowa he'd immediately be put in a situation he can't succeed in. Because he grew up in Storm Lake? Gimme a break...He'd come to Iowa and have a full arena for about a month before the novelty wore off and then he's coaching and losing in front of 3,000 fans and getting blown up about how he sucks and should be fired, and then where's he at in his career? He's way smarter to either stay at Drake for a bit and win until he gets an offer from a real program that will give him something to work with, or if he gets a good offer now to take that one. And he knows it. Especially the longer this thing drags on because Iowa's NIL shortfall is becoming more a national news tidbit than a local one.
Even if we did get a coach who somehow energized fans and started filling Carver, what does that gain you? Rev-share is capped at $20.5 million per school which Iowa is already dividing up between football, WBB, and wrestling. You can't give that additional ticket revenue to players.
Fran definitely shares some blame for not drumming up money while he was here. But do we think realistically he'd be able to quadruple donations somehow? Because that's what would need to happen.
Donors you can't really blame because it's their money to do with what they want. We can't bitch about other people not spending money that doesn't belong to us.
The fact is this program doesn't have the donor interest to compete in basketball. We have to choose one sport over the other and that's the way it is.