Audi Crooks to Transfer

I'm with you as it definitely sucks but I don't blame the players here. The system is broken and colleges/ADs have been making billions on the backs of players for decades. It's difficult to point the finger at the athletes for wanting a piece of the pie they help bring in. So if the NCAA, schools, and ADs aren't going to look out for them and return any loyalty, why should the player?

As always, the fan is the one who gets the worst of it.
100% agree…the system is broken. So, why not play it if you’re one of the few who can get some $$$?
 
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Still sucks- I want next season to be over and it hasn't even started yet. I don't want to watch any of our X players. Crooks is going to get booed and will probably go off for 60.

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I still feel like Bill doesn't realize his "Iowa State Fennelly Way" contributed to the departures.

Sure, NIL is a contributing factor, but his group thinks NIL/greed is the only reason the players are leaving.

I think that's what continues to stick with me here. I'm sure NIL played a part in it, and even if we had the best culture in WBB there's a possibility these girls leave for financial reasons anyway. But there's no denying this program is broken. Horrible retention over the last 5 years and a lack of results relative to talent level. This isn't an NIL problem, as much as Bill wants to blame it on that.
 
Still sucks- I want next season to be over and it hasn't even started yet. I don't want to watch any of our X players. Crooks is going to get booed and will probably go off for 60.

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,,, and lose some weight and play some defense.

TLDR - Did they mention if the coaches did anything to mitigate the issues or did they just blame the system?
 
I still feel like Bill doesn't realize his "Iowa State Fennelly Way" contributed to the departures.

Sure, NIL is a contributing factor, but his group thinks NIL/greed is the only reason the players are leaving.
You mean "have no money Iowa State way?" Bill has his weaknesses but seeing Audi making more 1.5x more than him is insane. Thanks to agents. Thanks to whatever you call this money-grubbing culture. Thanks to money over love of school. Audi is great but pretty much a tarnished used-to-be-Cyclone. If Fennelly gets blame there is plenty to shovel all around.
 
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Audi making 1.5x Bill's salary is rightfully ridiculous. The girl that's averaging 26 a game should be making like 10x what the angry old man without a plan makes.

Just think about that for a second-- being aghast that the top scorer in the national who is on the court making the plays is outearning the coach, who, as best I can tell, does nothing more than scowl and randomly point at players on the bench to check in.

Audi should out earn Bill and should out earn him by a lot.
 
There was a locker room problem in recent years caused by a player. If you want some public evidence of that, as others have pointed out, none of her former teammates reposted or congratulated her when she announced where she was going (unlike what happened with everyone else). A less public piece of evidence, after the Maryland visit Brenda called Bill and was essentially dumbfounded, not in a good way.

Bill is ultimately responsible for handling personalities and egos, but that job couldn’t have been harder recently.
 
A less public piece of evidence, after the Maryland visit Brenda called Bill and was essentially dumbfounded, not in a good way.
I must have missed this discussion entirely. Who shared this and what was reported? Did Audi misbehave on a Maryland visit? Skim or another reliable source? Or one of the local CBF apologists?
 
There was a locker room problem in recent years caused by a player. If you want some public evidence of that, as others have pointed out, none of her former teammates reposted or congratulated her when she announced where she was going (unlike what happened with everyone else). A less public piece of evidence, after the Maryland visit Brenda called Bill and was essentially dumbfounded, not in a good way.

Bill is ultimately responsible for handling personalities and egos, but that job couldn’t have been harder recently.
I don't know if they reposted it, but many of her teammates are in the comments of both her leaving announcement and OSU announcement post with words of encouragement.
 
Fennelly has been on multiple pods lately / it appears he new a year ago their were team issues.
 
I think that's what continues to stick with me here. I'm sure NIL played a part in it, and even if we had the best culture in WBB there's a possibility these girls leave for financial reasons anyway. But there's no denying this program is broken. Horrible retention over the last 5 years and a lack of results relative to talent level. This isn't an NIL problem, as much as Bill wants to blame it on that.
Retention changed with NIL. The retention of the Iowa State program prior to this year was not bad at all. And the reasons are well discussed.
 
Playing favorites on any team is a sure fire way to create locker room issues especially if your team is underachieving.

Even after the whole team was leaving CBF made a play to keep his favorite.
 
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