Yep I 100% agree. It's a combo of protecting what is already Iowa's and it's also a CYA from a legal standpoint.
Iowa/Swarm Split?
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Yep I 100% agree. It's a combo of protecting what is already Iowa's and it's also a CYA from a legal standpoint.
I think the NIL needs the athletic department support to fully reach its full potential as other universities are doing. I also think that Brad needs to take a breath sometimes. He is a fast paced guy and kind of lets his emotions control him and he needs to take a step back and reanalyze everything before blasting anyone. I appreciate Brad's insider info on the HR pay forum though.
I wonder when Iowa will drop this pretentious “right way” mantra. Saying it doesn’t mean you’re actually right. I don’t know that they even know what the right way looks like.
I think the idea that Barta isn't "cooperating" is being overplayed. I do think it's probably within most universities best interest to maintain some separation between the athletic departments and the collectives. I feel like Brad painted a picture that isn't very accurate and leave it to Iowa fans to bring out the pitchforks an torches.
I think Brad is frustrated in that he had an agreement to make some promotional SWARM videos with the Iowa coaches, but he got the rug pulled out from under him at the last minute. He had the support he wanted and then they did a 180 after the videos were made.
It depends on how much the athletic department is helping you. In some instances using email lists etc it is a thin veil to pierce.
He sounds like a tool and a moron. Enjoy all those lawsuits from female athletes when the universities start working with collectives to divert donations for pay for play in a transparent move to try to get around Title IX.
This is what even dim witted Barta can see as the obvious risk. It will be interesting when coaches go do their donor meet and greets and start plugging NIL collectives. Donations are finite. So you’d have to ask why might a university employee plug a non-university avenue for donations?
We do ours under the guise of “charity”, which I don’t love either.
Exactly. I highly doubt there is an extra $10 million in untapped dollars just floating around the Iowa fan base. Barta sees this more as a threat to his kingdom than a help.
What could go wrong with university employees promoting a diversion of donations from their employer to an “independent” organization that launders money in an incredibly transparent way that everyone understands to bypass federal law?
The lawyers are simply giving the ADs enough rope and the max amount of money diverted to collectives before springing the class action lawsuits on the universities.
Would you prefer they just pay them? Obviously it isn't pure charity but I'm sure the people that are having athletes come out to help appreciate it. Blum has also posted that guys are putting in extra time and going back on their own. I guess between the two choices that seems preferable to me. Even if it doesn't pass a purity test
100%. Just pay them. At least the NCAA could step in an develop actual rules and caps.
All these collectives do is give big time boosters a great way to launder money and a new avenue for tax breaks because the IRS was starting to crack down on 'donations' to athletic departments. College sports is going to better off when these collectives are dead and buried.
Oh I agree that I'd rather NCAA step in and setup rules and we just pay them but I guess I don't understand at this point in time disliking that our guys do some paid charity work.
These types of things happen all of the time in the business world. People put hours and effort into various ideas only for the legal corporate team to come in and put an ax to it. It happens.
Just my opinion but we are in unchartered waters in regards to the world of NIL. Things are going to be changing and changing fast so guys like Brad may want to pump the breaks a little instead of trying to make Barta look like the bad guy. Imagine if Iowa fans would have been this upset with Kirk running a racist program?
Where does that money come from? Annually? At what point do people start making the choice between donating to the collective, or buying tickets/parking passes? And when will Congress finally decide to tax the **** out of these athletic departments?
No, it's not their fault. But it's still a fact. That would be like me demanding that my employer(my profession doesn't exist to make money) pay me the same as my brother in law (his profession makes a ton of money) because I work just as hard as he does.
That's not how the world works.
I'm all for non revenue sports having booster clubs or NIL clubs or whatever. If people want to donate to that, that's great.
