It was called that, but wasn't actually a lifetime contract -- it was a 12-year contract signed in 2007 and expiring in 2019. A couple of three-year extensions have been signed since then (in 2017 and 2019), so it currently expires in 2025 until this new extension is announced.
Meet Megan Meyer: 'Level-headed' recruit, already part of Hawkeye family
There’s a concrete basketball court in the Meyer family’s Mason City backyard. It’s where two lifelong Hawkeyes hatched the crazy idea of playing for Lisa Bluder one day.www.hawkcentral.com
Meyer, who plays for Ames-based All Iowa Attack, Iowa's premier club team, picked Iowa over Iowa State and South Dakota State. She's the Hawkeyes' first commit for the class of 2019.
Bluder has one of the ESPN darlings in Clark. If she is ever going to take her team to the next level taking advantage of an elite player's status, the time is now.
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UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma says transfer portal ‘a mess,’ shows something is wrong with the culture of the sport
One month into the NCAA’s approval of a one-time transfer exemption, the transfer portal is already “a mess,” says UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma. “It wa…
Good read.
"A lot of these kids are delusional,” Auriemma said. “They have so many voices in their ear."
There’s something wrong with the recruiting system. There’s something wrong with the culture of college basketball today. There’s something wrong with the entitlement that happens to exist today, and there’s something wrong with this idea of student-athlete welfare, that everything should be done to accommodate the student-athlete with no regard whatsoever to the coaches who work their ass off to recruit these kids in the first place, work with them, help them get better, make them the player that they are, and then they up and leave with no consequences whatsoever.
“Tell me it’s every school’s fault, tell me that it’s every school’s responsibility to make every kid happy,” he continued. “Here’s the flip side of that: If we as coaches just call a kid in and say, ‘Look, I thought you’d be a lot better than this, so I’m taking away your scholarship,’ we would get crucified. Yet a kid can just up and leave for no reason whatsoever. Other than ‘I just don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t like it here anymore.’”
He later added that there must be something wrong “on both ends, on the kids and then the coaches” for so many kids to want to leave. He said when he’s looking at transfers, he asks the player, “‘What’s wrong with you?... You’re at a great place, you’re starting, you’re playing a lot of minutes. You seem to be really successful, so there’s got to be something wrong with you [if you want to transfer].’ And then when they answer me, if I like their answer, then I go forward. If I don’t like their answer, then I say I’m not interested.”
UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma says transfer portal ‘a mess,’ shows something is wrong with the culture of the sport
One month into the NCAA’s approval of a one-time transfer exemption, the transfer portal is already “a mess,” says UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma. “It wa…
Good read.
"A lot of these kids are delusional,” Auriemma said. “They have so many voices in their ear."
There’s something wrong with the recruiting system. There’s something wrong with the culture of college basketball today. There’s something wrong with the entitlement that happens to exist today, and there’s something wrong with this idea of student-athlete welfare, that everything should be done to accommodate the student-athlete with no regard whatsoever to the coaches who work their ass off to recruit these kids in the first place, work with them, help them get better, make them the player that they are, and then they up and leave with no consequences whatsoever.
“Tell me it’s every school’s fault, tell me that it’s every school’s responsibility to make every kid happy,” he continued. “Here’s the flip side of that: If we as coaches just call a kid in and say, ‘Look, I thought you’d be a lot better than this, so I’m taking away your scholarship,’ we would get crucified. Yet a kid can just up and leave for no reason whatsoever. Other than ‘I just don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t like it here anymore.’”
He later added that there must be something wrong “on both ends, on the kids and then the coaches” for so many kids to want to leave. He said when he’s looking at transfers, he asks the player, “‘What’s wrong with you?... You’re at a great place, you’re starting, you’re playing a lot of minutes. You seem to be really successful, so there’s got to be something wrong with you [if you want to transfer].’ And then when they answer me, if I like their answer, then I go forward. If I don’t like their answer, then I say I’m not interested.”
