Just can't afford the bad publicity, even if you do it initially to try to prove a point, it will turn out badly for Iowa St.
Unless there's just obvious tampering.
Tyrese Hunter Entering the Transfer Portal - NIL Speculation
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Unless there's just obvious tampering.
Where are all the people that were cheering for KU to win the title on this site? Because conference pride or whatever. Are they happy now? Kansas basketball represents all that is wrong with the world and people here wanted them to win the title. Although, UNC wasn't a good option either.
If he goes to a Big 12 school I cannot wait for his return. What a clown
Why is it tampering with hunter? Only link was UNC and they are not even in the final 6 lol
The respect I had for this kid is all gone if he goes to Kansas or Texas.
There is no tampering anymore. there are no rules.
I think our next goal should be focusing on getting the students ready next season so he hates his life for 40 mins at and move on.
I think our next goal should be focusing on getting the students ready next season so he hates his life for 40 mins at and move on.
UNC isn't in the final 6 because everybody is returning except Manek, so they're full.
Conversations "recruiting" a current player from another school prior to entering the portal = tampering. With the way this has gone down, I think it would be pretty naieve to believe that people weren't in contact with him throwing numbers around before he made it official.
Yep. I'm very much on record as understanding him leaving. I get it, it's alot of money. But transferring to a conference rival is a step too far for me and there's no reason to continue to go all faux-happy-for-him. Disrespectful to your coach, teammates and the fanbase that cheered for you.
I'm prepared to just strike him from my memory of being an Iowa State player and pretend he never stepped foot here. Never was a Cyclone.
There's been a fair number of bad threads on this site but not sure there's ever been one where ISU fans have come off more embarrassing and petulant than this one.
He's a 19-year old kid who we all know had a very heartbreaking upbringing who is now attempting to profit off of his own skills (which he sees other players doing, is now legal, and is something every person in this thread would like to do with their own skillset), and people are acting as if he's now a "bad kid". It sucks that he's leaving, but dear god, have some perspective people. I expect our students to boo him next year if he's at KU but for grown adults to be so overly pouty about this particular transfer (when our program is largely built through transfers!) is so weird and hypocritical to me. Just remember, Tyrese will never have the same fandom for ISU that you do, and you should never expect any college athlete to be as invested in your team/school as you are.
He's a 19-year old kid who we all know had a very heartbreaking upbringing who is now attempting to profit off of his own skills (which he sees other players doing, is now legal, and is something every person in this thread would like to do with their own skillset), and people are acting as if he's now a "bad kid". It sucks that he's leaving, but dear god, have some perspective people. I expect our students to boo him next year if he's at KU but for grown adults to be so overly pouty about this particular transfer (when our program is largely built through transfers!) is so weird and hypocritical to me. Just remember, Tyrese will never have the same fandom for ISU that you do, and you should never expect any college athlete to be as invested in your team/school as you are.
Man, I don't know. It's not like it's been overwhelmingly nasty here. Going to a conference rival is a slap in the face. It just is. He has a breadth of knowledge about our team that he can now share with a conference rival, all the while trying to beat us on at least two different occasions.
There's been this odd narrative throughout this entire thing that people have to be happy for him. Like we should offer up our truck to help him move or something. There's definitely lines you could cross by wishing injury on him, tweeting him directly, etc. No one should be doing those things. But it's also acceptable to not like the choice he's making and choose not to root him on going forward. It's entirely possibly to both understand it and not like it.
I don’t think he’s a bad kid, but he obviously doesn’t know much about loyalty. If it’s about the money, it’s fairly selfish. Sorry. If it’s something else(maybe didn’t like TJ?) then we should know about that.
I'm hoping for Purdue but that seems like one of the outliers of the bunch. It sucks no matter who he chooses.
Nigel Puck was rumored there, guessing there are decent offers from them to be rumored for two of the best PGs available.
Waste of time list. Kansas it is.
My least favorite team. Period. Kansas men's basketball is the worst team.
My least favorite team. Period. Kansas men's basketball is the worst team.
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Seriously, I don't think anyone here begrudges him for looking to get paid. I also don't think everyone here expects him to have the same 'fandom" as most ISU fanatics do. However, I think the sentiment is that there are over 350 D1 MBB teams teams available and really only 2 (KU and Hoks) that would look like you are openly taking **** right on ISU by transferring too. Pretty sure if he signed the 800K deal that Pack did to play for Miami 90% on here would be fine and say go get your money bro. Courting Kansas is just not having any self awareness.
Uhh...I think you had most of us until the final sentence.
Attending a school, even for a year, is exactly where college fandom originates. College athletes are one of "us", if not moreso as they represent the university to a national audience.
Obviously not trying to get the cart in front of the horse as he hasn't committed anywhere, but if you choose to transfer out as the face of a successful team, merely announcing a Top 6 that includes 2 conference rivals is top level trolling. This holds you to a special alter of disrespect reserved for a very few.
PSA: I do not condone any DMs to or harassment of an individual, but gamedays shall be fun.
I'm not hating on on Tyrese. I just loathe KU more than any team, even Iowa. Those are the two schools I wish he wouldn't go to. Anyone else, even Nebraska, I could live with.
If he wants to go to ku he should be required to attend the rest of his classes this semester in person or else get flunked out. Just feels right.
I will never understand how anyone could conceive it's "selfish" for him to want to get paid for his services/skillset. College basketball is a business; it always has been except now it's legal.
This is a complete hypothetical as we don't know the exact NIL opportunities at ISU/Kansas for Hunter right now, but imagine if your business paid you $100K and a direct competitor offered you $500K. You're turning down 5x as much money if you only plan on being in that business for one more year? It's okay if you would; maybe you like your coworkers at your $100K job or you like the culture/atmosphere or maybe you're fine financially so that extra $400K doesn't make a difference. But to say someone is disloyal for taking more money when others (coaches, your AAU teammates, your peers) are already getting paid in that business, that's honestly a bit naive to me.
Once again, I don't see any harm in disliking that he's leaving ISU, but be honest and admit that it too is for entirely selfish reasons yourself. We are all ISU fans. If he was leaving Wake Forest for Duke, no one in this thread would care at all.
This is all coming at the exact same time when ISU fans are desperately hoping for AJ Green to transfer here from a "lesser" rival. Now we don't play UNI anymore in basketball, but the hypocrisy is pretty striking and I think what irks me most.
And I'm guessing most 18-22 year old kids do not care whatsoever about the "rivalry" between ISU and Kansas unless they grow up an ISU fan. I'm assuming it would not make the list of top 50 or 75 rivalries in college basketball in a poll of CBB fans. ISU fans dislike KU more than KU thinks about us; it sucks, but it's true. The Prohm down years had a real negative impact on the meaningfulness of those games. Hopefully TJ can bring it back to where it was from 2013-17.
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