Owen Freeman to Clones?
- Thread starter Cyburbbalz
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Yes, I will gladly bet he will not command $2,000,000. That is utterly ridiculous. He is a good, not great, college basketball player. There is only 1 college basketball player who pulled in more than $2M this year in NIL and that is Cooper Flagg a generational talent who will be the #1 pick in the NBA draft.
Very few of the very best quarterbacks in college football are making upwards of $2M, college football is king $$$, much less an above average power forward in basketball.
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I don’t agree with this. He’s not a lock down guy, but he has length and can move his feet. No idea if we’re really interested though.
I have to imagine Iowa loses everyone except for probably Pryce Sandfort. I imagine he sticks around if Iowa gets either of their top two choices
Freeman and Dix are likely the only two who will get a lot of suitors right? Seems like Pryce would probably stick around and anyone else would be taking a similar or bigger role at a lower level.
Iowa needs sandfart to stay need at least one player on the floor with rosy red cheeks
Colleges will overpay. SEC schools are flush with cash.
Coaches are talking 10 million needed
There are multiple 2 million guys this year.
Where do you get 1? Ballo at IU was 2. Hawkins at KSU was 2. Osober at Washington was 2. Go look up this guys stats and tell me if he was worth 2 million
A start center at a P4/5 with the numbers he was putting up is gonna get an over priced offer
The phenom coming into BYU nearly double Flaggs deal, for what 7 or 8 million?
When Nil started what 4 years ago 500 K was considered high.
New high is what 6 or 7 times as NIL' grow.
It's cheaper to build a basketball power vs a football power in terms of total $$ spent. It's not even close
Reason coaches are chirping a lot more these days about NIL. They see it first hand what kind of offers players agents are getting.
In terms of QB's Duke just paid 4 million per year for a guy. Duke! Is dude worth it absolutely not. But they paid it.
People try to rationalize it like there is a salary cap or controlled markets. Many examples of players getting overpaid. I absolutely think Freeman can get 2 million or very close. Does not mean I think he deserves it
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Understandable. Now, every school can pay their players. Hard to get used to. it is so weird talking about money to players besides at KU.
I don't understand why getting the best players in the country isn't a priority for this staff.
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Cooper Flag wants to be a Hawkeye...just ask Downs.
Dix would be great addition, but given his best attributes are the most expensive to acquire, I doubt we can afford him
Money ball is buying things like defense, rebounding, passing etc
Or grabbing guys before they score 14.4 points/gm and shoot 42% on 3Ps at high major level
I think they have quite a few players that would have suitors if they went into the portal. But, not really many who are sure P5 starters. I’d take Harding or Thelwell as a backup guard, but they aren’t starting here. Dix might, though.
I just bought 2 We Will Pizzas so we should be able to afford anyone we want.
Great Osobor got $2m from Washington last year and he wasn't even a proven high-major low-post scorer. Freeman will be well out of our budget.
