Love the people who say they’ll donate more aren’t even spending the $11 a month to support CycloneFanatic.
Tyrese Hunter Entering the Transfer Portal - NIL Speculation
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I'll watch them in the short term, but eventually (a few years from now?) ,if they become nothing more than a farm team for Kansas, North Carolina etc., I will watch them probably the same way I watch the iCubs. With a lot of apathy. Maybe they can serve beer in Hilton and Trice.
And if you had someone from another school offer you $500k+ to play football at another school you would have said no thank you and stayed at ISU because you already had enough, that's called principles, people.
My point is that this paying $XXXX in college athletics shouldn't even be a thing. If you want to get paid go pro. My stance is pretty simple.
Yeah and the last five years have absolutely sucked. I used to know all the players, knew who was coming in, and everything. I couldn’t really tell you who was on the team before the start of the season last year. Last years team started to rebuild that love for the team again.
If it’s going to basically be free agency though I don’t have the mental capacity to put what I used to into it. It’s not healthy for people to commit to a team like they historically have and have absolutely zero commitment on the other side.
Maybe you haven’t cared or invested in it as much as others so you don’t have that aspect. That’s fine but then my support is going to be more like that where I watch but don’t compromise the rest of my life for the schools. I will have a transactional relationship with Iowa State instead of investing in the school. I won’t buy NIL items for free agents. If they leave I won’t care how they do.
That reality is worth a hell of a lot less than what you have now.
I'm fine with this if we go back to treating it like student athletes playing for their schools rather than everyone but the players getting to treat it like a multi-billion dollar business like we did over the last couple decades.
I’m aware of how housing money works.
Reality is you didn’t feel you were being robbed because you didn’t have options.
Dude I respect what you did. I think you’re a great cyclone.
But if someone would have offered you even $50K, you wouldn’t have taken it?
Yes, but there were transfer restrictions. It’s not sustainable for the sport of CBB to just have an endless unregulated free agency period.
I think that's just being a fair weather fan, there's already lots of those.
In reality none of this was probably sustainable in the long term, no chance you could have the massive growth of major college athletics and not eventually have the players realize they're not being valued properly getting paid in experience and room/board.
It absolutely is for CBS/WarnerMedia and the NCAA. If they can more or less ensure that the Elite 8 and Final 4 are super blue bloody, it makes the value of that TV deal continue to go up and the NCAA continues to get billions despite their complete ineptness.
St Peter's worked out for them this year because they were an east coast team. Trade them out with, say, Purdue Fort Wayne (same place in a similarly ranked league) and the coverage would have been night and day different.
So...is the solution here the complete downfall of ESPN? That's something I think we can all get behind.
Pretty breezy out there today and the fart that was Tyrese Hunter has long since blown away.
Next man in.
Next man in.
Nobody should be surprised by this IMO. Tyrese basically told us all when he came to ISU that his plan was to be a one and done player here and then he was going to go pro and get his money. The only change in his plan was that he realized that his game is not quite ready yet to go pro, but he's still going to try to be a "one and done" at ISU and still go get his money however he has to do it.
And I don't blame him one bit. Tyrese has been through more in his life than 99.9% of could even comprehend. Who are we to say he shouldn't do what his best for him, and if he can go get enough money to help his family situation out he should go for it IMO. He's playing by the new rules.... and if you don't like the new rules, that's not Tyrese's fault.
I think greed is the #1 problem in the world, and if all of this greed (at all levels) going on in college athletics ends up destroying it..... so be it. Life's lessons are tough.
And I don't blame him one bit. Tyrese has been through more in his life than 99.9% of could even comprehend. Who are we to say he shouldn't do what his best for him, and if he can go get enough money to help his family situation out he should go for it IMO. He's playing by the new rules.... and if you don't like the new rules, that's not Tyrese's fault.
I think greed is the #1 problem in the world, and if all of this greed (at all levels) going on in college athletics ends up destroying it..... so be it. Life's lessons are tough.
Plus all the transfers is great for off-season content. No one wants to read about how players are developing at their current schools, big names changing teams gets the page views.
Why not? Even with a pretty damn hardy fanbase TV viewership and attendance for ISU goes down when the team is bad for long stretches. If ISU stops being competitive because of NIL, or relegated to a lower league then you absolutely should take those people seriously, because that's exactly what happens.
It’s much less of that than it used to be with bag men. NIL is out in the open.
How many on here have been asked to donate to an NIL? Guessing not many. We’re not organized properly.
