Some of this I think is a lot of guesswork though. Be realistic, it's 100% in players' advantage to claim more and bigger offers, and doubtful ISU or any team trying to compete or retain is going to call somebody out and ask to see anything in writing. Not to mention, I would say while things are still in the recruitment/retention stage these are verbal discussions to agree in principle before things are in writing.Not sure what CNM meant but this wasn't what I meant. My comment was more towards an overall goal, i.e. "We need to raise $3 million for Iowa State basketball under We Will to accomplish our goals to make ISU basketball a top destination".
Right now its "give us money so we can compete" and then all we hear outside of Blum is "our collective sucks and we can't compete". That might be true but tell us what it needs to be so its competitive and we don't have to continually hear how little money we give...
Always an option. Venmo is @wewillclubI had seen references to sending money via Venmo, but not for quite some time. Is that not really an option? Just seems like it would save the credit card fees.
Always happy to have phone or zoom calls for folks that want more details of our budget and process. I would prefer not putting all the details on a public forum but certainly want to be transparent for this purpose. Also for those who want more detail our 2022 tax return is on guidestar and other non profit websites as it’s required by the IRS. Thanks!I would definitely donate more if I could see a budget sheet for the collective, for sure.
Not that I don’t trust Blum but it is giving money to an organization in an industry that was just created in the last few years and has 0 regulation.
This a good response to the ‘bottom of the league’ claims. Thanks, Brent.FYI to jump in here. Our budget for We Will for all sports this year was a little under $2 million (money spent July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024).…. Where that puts us relative to our peers is hard to know…..
Always happy to have phone or zoom calls for folks that want more details of our budget and process. I would prefer not putting all the details on a public forum but certainly want to be transparent for this purpose. Also for those who want more detail our 2022 tax return is on guidestar and other non profit websites as it’s required by the IRS. Thanks!
this is a great idea! We will do this for sure.Might be nice to offer a free webinar to WWC Club and premium members of CF to go over these sorts of things with some patina of secrecy to it given the audience sometime this summer.
You know, when you and CW finally get an offseason.
Seems counterproductive to limit who can participate.Might be nice to offer a free webinar to WWC Club and premium members of CF to go over these sorts of things with some patina of secrecy to it given the audience sometime this summer.
You know, when you and CW finally get an offseason.
Will open it to everyone just want to be cognizant of sensitive info. Stay tuned.Seems counterproductive to limit who can part.
Is there public knowledge of who our corporate NIL funders are?
I read ClaimDoc from Des Moines is a corporate sponsor of Audi as well.Well Northwest Banks and Kemna Auto are working with Audi. You could get a CD interest bump based on how many points Audi scored the game previous. Kemna was more a go to schools and interact with kids things if I remember correctly. Those are both northern Iowa based businesses.
I read ClaimDoc from Des Moines is a corporate sponsor of Audi as well.
Nice write up.
ISU should be Top 10 preseason next year, regardless what happens, which is huge for the program’s perception. We should also have a much tougher non conf schedule next year.
I know absolutely nothing, but I think everyone should be prepared for surprises in the portal season - that’s just the reality of this era.
But TJ has proven that he’s able to bring in guys that just fit - even if they didn’t play that way before. Like Keshon, he never played defense like that at UNLV, but he bought in.
Someone like Hadley from Colorado would be a perfect fit - if we need him. So no matter what surprises come down, I fully expect us to be a Top 10 team again next year.