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J'Vonne Hadley (Curtis Jones' cousin) to have zoom meetings with Iowa State & MSU this week
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Sweeeeeet Delta9....bom bom bom......Packaged in Cardinal and Gold. Make it happen.
My standard would always be that I wouldn't pay anyone coming in more than I am paying my key players right now. That just seems like a way to kill the locker room.
I don't blame any player for doing it, particularly guys that don't project well to the NBA.
If I thought the fit was fine at a school offering me $500k vs. $100k, and I knew I wasn't an NBA guy, I would absolutely take it. The difference in going to the workforce or heading overseas to play with an extra few hundred thousands of dollars. It would be a big deal in being set up in the future.
And with football, the NFL careers are so short that even if you make it, if you get to the second deal you are pretty fortunate.
It has sounded like We Will has been more focused on retention, which I think is a great move for the reason you state, but also it's just more cost-effective. Not always, but most of the time I would say you'll pay less to retain a similar level player than trying to get one that's out in the portal.
I thought when it was first set up Blum said it was only for retention, but I think that's had to shift a bit as it seems every transfer is getting something now, and WW has grown enough to enable it.
I think We Will has done a great job, and the two staffs have as well, just looking at the retention in FB and MBB. In the current age, particularly in FB, to retain guys as well as they have is pretty remarkable.
That's assuming they have someone to advise them on money management (and not greedy hangers-on & family).
Kirk Cousins would hate you as he's made a killing fooling the system into making him one of the wealthiest players ever in terms of career earnings.
I thought Jorbo was out of eligibility . . . he is that delusional.
Remember when coaches nearly lost their jobs for buying a hamburger for a recruit?
Or when Juri Hubalek was suspended for multiple games for driving a 15 year old junker of a car that was loaned to him by a Hawkeye alum?
To be fair, he almost lost his job by recruiting during a dead period in the midst of COVID lockdowns, not for buying a hamburger.
There's a blast from the past name drop there! Bravo! (& I completely forgot about that incident!)
That dude played alongside Wes Johnson, DG, and Craig Brackins. All three of those dudes played in the NBA and McDermott couldn’t even go .500 with that roster…
It’s been discussed 1000x I know, but it’s no different than any of us shopping around for better job offers while still being employed.
Honestly if they just stopped using the term NIL and say “x player is getting offers of payment of y” or whatever there would be far less outcry.
Good for that player. Maybe he will get it maybe he won’t but good for him for trying.
I agree. The goal of college is to be able to make money. Well why would you not go to college where you are going to make the most money.
He'd start at the 4 day one pending additional additions.
