***Official portal tracker thread***

[BigLame]

Ok you gotta admit this is kinda funny

CB | Keyon Washington – Bowling Green cornerback Keyon Washington gets an Iowa State offer. As a redshirt freshman in 2025, Washington had 37 tackles, two TFL, a sack, and three pass breakups. He also has an offer from USF and Central Florida.

LB | Monteze Smith – Iowa State offers Austin Peay linebacker Montreze Smith. As a redshirt freshman in 2025, Smith had 74 tackles, 8.5 TFL, four sacks and three interceptions. With a redshirt year at Duke in 2024, he has three years of eligibility remaining.

Both dudes just completed their RS-fr years, too. Awesome

 

[lynn_phoenix]

What makes me the maddest is all the players from Iowa leaving and its like most wouldve never have played at P4 team if it wasn’t for Iowa St giving them a scholarship.

You wouldn't hesitate in taking hundreds of thousands to go to another school. Stop being butt hurt about players doing what's best for them. This is life changing money for people who won't make it to the NFL.

 

[rochclone]

So you think all these guys should be blindly committing to ISU, sight unseen, without any conversations with coaches or on offers?

By rule these guys cant visit or discuss with outside coaches until the portal actually open, yes some do break that rule, most will only have a slight idea through second hand info and agents.

So thinking these guys are all going to visit all their perspective schools as well as meeting the coaches and working out any NIL deals in a day or two is ridiculous, and thinking any of them are going to commit sight unseen and without meeting anyone or discussing any deals is even more Ridiculous.

The process will accelerate as the days pass, but these guys just have to enter the portal in the 2 weeks timeframe, they dont have to commit during that time, they have a lot longer to commit, because well if you want to visit 10 different schools and meet people etc its going to take a lot longer than 2 weeks. Sure some will only visit a couple places etc but that still takes more than a day or two into the portal.

I’m less concerned about kids from schools other than Washington State. My understanding is that many of those WSU kids were on campus on Friday and Saturday and obviously a selling point has been the WSU defense from last year. It’s not panic, but being a bit concerned Isn’t uncalled for.

 

[CycloneVet]

CB | Keyon Washington – Bowling Green cornerback Keyon Washington gets an Iowa State offer. As a redshirt freshman in 2025, Washington had 37 tackles, two TFL, a sack, and three pass breakups. He also has an offer from USF and Central Florida.

LB | Monteze Smith – Iowa State offers Austin Peay linebacker Montreze Smith. As a redshirt freshman in 2025, Smith had 74 tackles, 8.5 TFL, four sacks and three interceptions. With a redshirt year at Duke in 2024, he has three years of eligibility remaining.

Both dudes just completed their RS-fr years, too. Awesome

Regarding Smith. That’s a lot of tackles for a freshman. Amount of tackles, picks and sacks suggest speed

 

[cyclone1209]

I’ll say the same thing with these ones. “Home” hahahah

These kids man!

Fairly soon there will be better rules put in the system. Hopefully.

I don't think programs, coaches, and most important fans can do this many more seasons.

 

[BigJCy]

 

[Cy4Lifer]

Blum mentioned tonight's podcast we'll be hearing about Wazzu guys soon.

Soon???

 

[cyfan50438]

To go along with all the transfers. I propose this as Penn State Football’s new logo. Isn’t AI great. I need to trademark this. T-shirts baby.

 

[Cy Hard]

Ok you gotta admit this is kinda funny

Nah man, Smith squatted on my couch for a summer! He from here.

 

[inCyteful]

 

[3TrueFans]

This is one of the few that I actually would be interested enough to want to know how big the bag was.

 

[CycloneVet]

The sky is in fact blue

 

[qwerty]

And you know who made them look the slowest?

Jaylen F*cking Raynor.

I suggest some fans go watch his performance in ISU @ Ark St. vs our LBs & D. ISU was lucky to have won that game.

JFR 2?

 

[kirk89gt]

The ROI benefits the school and the school alone. Not the people footing the bill. That’s not how ROI should work.

And that is why, IMHO, the school should look at this as a way to market the school, and the state of Iowa (i.e regents) should allow a little (or a lot more) latitude for schools to do this - which will probably require legislative intervention. There is value to the university having solid athletic teams and they need to figure out what that looks like and what investment yields the best returns. This would require them to shift their paradigm and think more in terms of plans, profit, and loss and not in terms of budgets and expenses.

 

[CycloneVet]

I think another way of making money is to commit to buying powerball tickets as a fan base when it gets over a billion. Imagine 100k cyclone fans each buying 10 tickets. We might get lucky. Then make a huge yearly donation

 

[BCClone]

I think another of making money is to commit to buying powerball tickets as a fan base when it gets over a billion. Imagine 100k cyclone fans each buying 10 tickets. We might get lucky. Then make a huge yearly donation

We would all end up with the same 10 numbers somehow.

 

[twincyties]

And that is why, IMHO, the school should look at this as a way to market the school, and the state of Iowa (i.e regents) should allow a little (or a lot more) latitude for schools to do this - which will probably require legislative intervention. There is value to the university having solid athletic teams and they need to figure out what that looks like and what investment yields the best returns. This would require them to shift their paradigm and think more in terms of plans, profit, and loss and not in terms of budgets and expenses.

This is also why the state needs to start supporting both Iowa and ISU athletics. There is legitimate economic impact to the state when one of Iowa’s size has two major college athletic programs selling out basketball arenas 20 times a year and football stadiums 7-8 times.

 

[CycloneVet]

How much more in taxes would it cost to raise an additional 10 million for each of the state universities per tax paying person.

 

[BCClone]

How much more in taxes would it cost to raise an additional 10 million for each of the state universities per tax paying person.

I say double the sports betting tax, that would pull about 20MM more. Split it 40/40/20 ISU/iowa/uni. So 8/8/4. It would go a decent ways of helping out.

 

[twincyties]

How much more in taxes would it cost to raise an additional 10 million for each of the state universities per tax paying person.

Very little.

30 million is literally about 75 cents per month per resident of the state and that’s not counting any taxes collected from visitors.

FFS, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids airports could add 5 dollars per passenger each year and raise this kind of money.