Given the timing of the tweet, it probably doesn’t include Hausen
It’s the opposite of arbitrary. It’s from a particular methodology. We can believe that estimation is poor in terms of accurately predicting future production, but we lack data on such judgement
It’s just one data point, but one of the more valid ones in normalizing the collective hauls.
Okay, so in this case that number is likely another million more, putting Iowa at 7.6 million dollars, which is astronomical.
Placing a value on someone based off of past production when that value is actually unknown makes the entire thing incredibly fluky. Especially when you consider some schools are paying more for some guys that have produced little.
It also doesn’t change the fact that having more transfers is obviously going to drive that number up. So without knowing how much “X” school paid in total for their transfer classes, these numbers are meaningless. They’re even meaningless after the season because you have nothing to go off of outside of someone who put together data to quantify an NIL number.