Audi Crooks to Transfer
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Jezuz, I don't feel like calling you unintelligent, but I will. NOTHING I have typed as my opinion talks about how "relevant" she was, but seeing you're asking....I would think that all of us could agree (IF you know the definition of the word) that she was very relevant for Iowa State for sure. She brought alot of positive attention to our program which makes it even worse that she left, it's a bad look for us.
No. Just need to enter the portal during the 2 weeks it's open (feels like forever, but players still have 5 more days to enter).
There are some realities to coaches not waiting, running out of spots/money, etc.
My brother in christ, you need help. There's a reason so many people "dumb" all your posts. Once again - you should go outside today, maybe jump in some puddles, take a walk around the block, get some fresh air.
please quit following me, it's getting weird.
You are really stuck on one game.
instead of worrying about shooting how about grabbing a couple of rebounds, a couple less turnovers make some free throws. All the phases of the game are important.
That falls into unsubstantiated Rumor category #3 - "Bags" being thrown at all our players. Is the money really what the rumors say?
I have no knowledge of these things, nor do I subscribe to the Skim Milkey web page. I did read an article recently yesterday which cited Audi's NIL value at $400,000 - $450,000 and she's the #1 Ranked target in the portal. That's still tall cash but it's a far cry from the $2.5M you're citing.
Next, if Kevin Dresser is able to fund raise for the wrestling program to attract and retain talent, why can't highly-compensated 31 year veteran CBF get out there and beat the bushes? CBF should know 10X as many people as Kevin Dresser.
Apologies to the board - This is an Audi Crooks thread and I'll get off the CBF tangent. Audi is young and I don't expect perfect logic from her - I just hate to see a kid getting kicked around when the adult who enabled her gets a free pass.
I would not say it's Unprecedented at all. Not in this era. Ten years ago it would have been. Tennessee was better than us this year, ranked all year long and they lost every single player and every single recruit on their team. It wasn't a coaching turnover either. It was every single player. We actually kept more of our players I believe. I don't think this is all on Bill. yeah he should go and he just isn't that good of a coach any longer. However, NIL deals are huge now. If someone is offereing 1 million and we offer 250k. They would be dumb not to try and get that 1 million. Just like all of us at our current job. That is not my bosses fault as he don't set the pay scale. i am sure he would want to keep me, he just don't have the funds to do it. I do agree bill is past his prime and he should probably move on though.
I think most of these people are trashing both of them. I don't see a "Bill Side" vs "Audi Side." This is people who have no idea what they are talking about making comments like they do.
Well him and his staff are pretty much a bunch of long termers. they could have donated to the NIL if they really wanted to keep them. I've never cleared $800,000/yr but yet everybody expects the common fan to donate to the "common good"
Blum estimated Audi’s NIL at twice the number of your unnamed article. Keep in mind that CBF would have zero dollars for any of the other transfers if he could magically get the Big3 to sign for $1M. Far cry? I’ll just agree with your ‘no knowledge’ self assessment.
Your primitive name-calling aside, if our 2nd team all-American had teammates who could create shots on their own, dribble under pressure, and quit throwing up bricks in the biggest games, maybe her team would have “relevant” also.
I've been a big Bill supporter over the years but this offseason he's lost me. I am thankful for what he's done over a long career here but the honorable thing to do with all the players leaving like this and the light at the end of the tunnel of his career shining pretty bright right now would have been to announce his retirement now and let a new coach start the rebuild. I really hope for his sake he pulls some magic out of his hat and assembles a team that can make the tournament next year, but what we have right now has me really concerned that we are in for a rough season and that would be a shame for him to go out like that but it's also the situation he has created too.
However, the quotes in that Audi article are also pretty damning of what kind of teammate she is and she deserves some of the blame and criticism too. You were the face of the program here the last 3 seasons and to throw your teammates under the bus like that when they easily could have done the same with her for being a big negative on defense and a black hole at times on offense is fair game for fans to be critical of. Especially with how much she is likely to get paid as well, when you are a high-profile athlete and make comments like that she is not immune from taking heat from frustrated fans either.
As for the criticism about how much NIL we have to go around, would you rather dump a bunch of money at this problem with the WBB team or spend it somewhere that gets results like the MBB team? If you want to spend more on WBB it has to come from somewhere like FB and MBB and people already wish we could spend more there too than we do so would you trade off taking some out of the FB and MBB pots just to keep players the players we had last year that couldn't win when it mattered? I'd much rather pool our resources towards MBB as TJ has the best track record than any coach we have right now of being successful with the resources he has. Money is not going to fix our issues with WBB unless you go all-in like the bluebloods do and pay for an expensive high-profile coach that has a large NIL budget. That's just the reality of the situation.
No amount of NIL was going to keep this WBB team together. It is 100% completely irrelevant.
It's an entertainment business.
Professional (in any field) get criticized when they make choices.
