No ****. Let's see what's more valuable, over a million dollars now, or... maybe another Fareway commercial after graduating?
Like, WTF are we even talking about here. Nonsense.
Audi Crooks to Transfer
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Like, WTF are we even talking about here. Nonsense.
Why would that make us lucky? As a fan, I want that game in Hilton to boo the ever-loving crap out of her. There's very little in sports fandom that gets more entertaining than cheering against a turncoat! Bring it on.
I am going to choose to remain silent at her introduction.
Iowa State would be perfectly willing to go around it if they could financially.
I think it's starting to be like owners in pro sports where it's mostly a hobby for the very-rich to blow their discretionary income on. Like most of the owners of pro sports teams, even if the team is profitable (unlike most NCAA teams, I think most NFL/NBA/MLB teams are profitable), it's not usually the owner's main business, e.g. Steve Ballmer's wealth isn't from owning/operating the Clippers. According to Google, the Clippers lost about $114m last year (one of two NBA teams who were not profitable), that's ~0.08% of Ballmer's ~$140b net worth.
Or even Jerry Jones for example, yes the Cowboys are worth many billions but he made his fortune in oil and gas.
I guess my question is WHY? OSU doesn't have SEC or B10 revenue. Their FB and MBB teams have struggled lately. T Boone's money has pretty much been spent. Why if you had that kind of donor money would you spend it on WBB? That's a sport that doesn't make money and most people don't care about.
I hope Audi does well. They must have a plan to help her get to the WNBA, it wasn't happening here. I thought that the brand of ball that Fennelly coached with Audi here was kind of gross. If I were a WBB fan, I'd be excited to see a little more defense and ball movement.
The best one EVER was the Steve Stipanovich cap gun game. I wish there was footage and I cannot believe so many people got them in
And the gap between OSU and the top 6-8 teams will still be huge. Women's basketball is a sham.
Is it possible that some fans aren't necessarily turning on her, and instead have hated watching this style of play the whole time but couldn't/didn't say anything because she was in an ISU uniform?
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I wonder which prison he got those done at?IN A HEARTBEAT
How is this style of play different than the “Get the ball to Ashley” style we ran for 5 years prior?
This is the biggest sign yet of how broken college athletics have become.
To spent $5M + on the HOPE of winning a NC in WBB, a sport that almost no one cares about is insanity.
It won’t make that money back for the U in enrollment or PR, it sure AF won’t make a fraction of it back to the donors of the NIL…
I don’t care how they spend their money, except it’ll unfortunately drag more money in & out pressure on other AD’s to follow suit.
*And you can say that people care…BUT the only measure of caring is the money. WNBA has never made a dime, WBB has never made a dime, same is true for wrestling or gymnastics. The last thing ISU and others can afford is to blow NIL money on these sports…and that’s gonna be the new demand.
I expect the same attendance we’ve always had. It’s that way year in and year out…even during down seasons (of which there have been few).
I wonder if these brands will tire of the constant roster turnover and start to shift their dollars away from college athletes at some point. If you're Fareway, you just invested god only knows how much building brand equity in Audi Crooks and just a few months later, that's gone. Even setting aside the direct payments to her, there is still countless hours of staff time for production that you got like 6-8 months of use from. I'd really think twice about going that route again.
