Pretty sure that's based on someone making it up. That said that that's about half of Iowa states whole team amount this year.
WBB: 2026 Transfer Portal
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Any reason out there why all these girls are leaving the program? Seems strange that starters are leaving off a team that should have been pretty decent next year.
Yes, Pollard should resign because our 30+ year tenured WBB coach wasn’t fired…
So dramatic and ridiculous.
Why stay? Three years in a row and Bill has never done anything different so why would year four be any different for these girls? And like this last three years, they'll be an absolutely mid-level team in a pretty bad conference. For someone like Jada, who won't go onto the WNBA because of her size, if she can get a decent check to start her life for a year, why wouldn't she take it? Sorry, but the cyclones with the team they had this year coming to act we're not competing for anything next year.
I agree. And honestly, the DM Register folks have to be a little careful too. It sounds like I was being critical of Chris and Brent, but I'd do the same thing in their shoes. My comments were to clarify what was said and what wan't on their podcast today.
If money was king Kentucky would be still in the tournament. But the truth is coaching still matters. An if you’d pull your lips off BF’s ass you’d see he’s not doing a good coaching job
I'm also a long time supporter of our WBB team and would argue this has little to do with the state of college athletics and our lack of NIL but is a complete failure by Bill F and staff. Bottom line is these women do not want to play for him and are showing it by walking.
FYI, I think I successfully reverse-engineered the buyout. As we already knew, there is a retention bonus of $700k if he's employed on June 30, 2027 or fired without cause. According to USA Today, his buyout on 4/1/2022 was $1,881,250 and his buyout on 4/1/2024 was $1,431,250. That difference is exactly $450k, or $18,750 per month. If you keep subtracting $18,750/month, his 7/1/2027 buyout is exactly $700k, his retention bonus.
So at $18,750/month, his current retention bonus is exactly $1M ($700k retention, plus $18750 * 16 months = $300k buyout of final season).
Sources:
Retention bonus (click the $850k salary on row 23): https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/womens-basketball/coach
Buyouts: https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/womens-basketball/coach/249
So at $18,750/month, his current retention bonus is exactly $1M ($700k retention, plus $18750 * 16 months = $300k buyout of final season).
Sources:
Retention bonus (click the $850k salary on row 23): https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/womens-basketball/coach
Buyouts: https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/womens-basketball/coach/249
We're paying the $700k regardless. The only "dead" money is the $300k.
Not sure if you have seen JPs comment about this from rev share meeting, but that’s way more than half of what he is giving WBB.
Many of them are petty the scheme is just give the ball to Audi, and if you're not giving the ball to Audi, just stand there and hope Audi kicks it to you without turning it over whilst getting triple teamed.
The others took winning over money last year and saw how far that got them.
So the break even point would be if JP thinks we’d lose over 1200 season tickets over this.
It's the NIL era, there will be no continuity on any teams except in rare cases with the most successful teams.
it's just reality and everyone needs to realign their expectations. Everyone is a one-year rental unless extremely special circumstances exist. We're just lucky we got Addy, Audi and AJ together for 3 years.
I also wouldn't be shocked if there are other athletic programs at Iowa State questioning why WBB gets all the $$$ and talent yet no results. If they aren't going to get the results, it's a bad look if JP is giving them an exorbitant amount more than the other programs.
We had as good of core as you could want. 3 top tier players and some more than adequate reserves. The coaching was subpar. The issue about $$ should be how much we paid the staff for that subpar effort.
Break even for what? it's not like replacing a coach doesn't have a ton of costs to go with it
Like who? In terms of the big sports at ISU, WBB is last in rev share $$. Football, MBB, wrestling all have higher share.
