You need some hobbies. One guy and you go into depression? Pretty sad man. In today's world you can remake an entire team year to year. He'll be a fart in the wind if he opts to leave. If he comes back then great, but if not we will most certainly survive.
Tyrese Hunter Entering the Transfer Portal - NIL Speculation
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Those complaining just need to get out the checkbook and write out checks. But why spend $750k on Hunter when a guy like Bacot was only $1.2 million. Bacot is a steal in comparison.
Can we just stop with the narrative that the money for the bridge should have been spent somewhere else? It was a private donation that is funding the bridge. It’s not like the AD can say “thanks for the money that you want us to spend on a bridge, but we’re going to use it on NIL instead”.
They could make the entire stretch from 30 to JTS flow in one direction before/after games. They partially do this on a daily basis on Dodge St in Omaha every day.
From his social media, he's been in WI since the season ended. I'm assuming he's taken clases remotely. Pretty normal for bball players spring semester.
I'd be happy to donate to NIL, but people aren't going to just start throwing around checks without some verification/organization/guidelines. I don't think frustration, concern or puzzlement has to be considered complaining.
It isn't just one guy. It's what the whole thing has become. I have hobbies, but if ISU is relegated to being a feeder program, I'll embrace my hobbies and walk away from ISU sports. I have zero interest in watching Iowa State attempt to compete in a semi-professional arena. Watching UNC get away with absolutely blatant academic fraud was bad enough, I'm not sticking around to watch them poach players via money.
So, do we really know if NIL is the real reason, or does he not want to be here for reasons we don't know?
It would more difficult for the anti JP people to blame something the ad can’t legally do, on said ad
Search diligently and find it. Perhaps someone can direct you here. Lots of potential NIL Donors here. Just need to make out the check.
Maybe JP needs to just tack on a $10 booster program charge to every ticket sold at Hilton.
14,000 capacity x 20 games a year x $10 = $2.8M = National Title
Cool. Most on this board campaigned for NIL when it was clear it would ultimately push ISU into the exact status you mention above. Doesn't matter....kids deserve to get paid people said. Free college isn't enough they said.
Getting what's deserved IMO. We simply can't compete at that level monetarily.....ever. It's what it is. Accept it and move on. I know I have.
It would be even more impressive to combine bridge and the ceiling is the roof into the entire thing.
The Presidents and ADs at mid tier institutions really mismanaged the NIL development. They should have promoted a “liveable wage” solution that we could have competed in.
With AD revenues soon $150 million to $200 million a year, paying players a considerable amount was always going to happen Imo.
They are the product and there is just too much to be made from paying to get them.
ISU NIL will suffer the tragedy of the commons if left to that website you think was a good response.
It is not that fans are cheap. They are not wasteful. They want their money to make a difference, or at least they want to think it does. That is a tough sell here, because the donating small amounts won't yield that emotion, and we do have less donors that can singularly feel their money is impactful.
But paying players 200k? The impact threshold amount MUCH lower. NIL won't always be just 200k, but it is now and we should be ready to exploit that.
Yes, I've been holding some back for a time to make an impact and NIL expedites that. 100k/year or whatever the number doesn't do **** in the hands of most ADs, arms race, non-revenue sports, etc, but over time we as fans can convert it into an impactful amount. JP meets and controls the fan attitude on spending more than anyone. He is the steward of the donating commons. It is fundamentally the department's job to promote this NIL opportunity- via "compliance". The ethos promoted are the ones of JP- which has been more similar to his old transfer soapbox than savvy preparation.
That AD has been there most of my donating life with little revenue growth attributed to him. NIL bypasses him and the waste, which is a big part why he hasn’t embraced it. I’ll stop buying tickets, which is already in essence donations, and go all NIL if JP doesn’t figure this out. He reeks like a last century AD the past decade.
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The whole thing started because he was supposedly going to UNC for $. All the UNC fan is saying, which is true, is that UNC has better guards on their roster already so it doesn't make sense for him to go to UNC.
All of this. I actually don’t think Tyrese would start at UNC. Not a good enough scorer yet
