**2024/2025 Iowa Football Offseason & Transfer Portal Thread**

[KitKatApples]

Better invest in escalators

 

[The Full Monte]

FTMFB

 

[thrawn]

Better invest in escalators

Did Otis commit elsewhere?

 

[L. Wade Childress]

lol at anyone who believes that NIL deal

 

[KitKatApples]

Anderson?

 

[Hawk24]

 

[Stomper15]

Portal guy shared this today. Wooooooooof.

I'm good at some things, and suck at others. One of the things I apparently suck at is marketing and fundraising. I'm doing my best to improve on those things....and I'm certainly not even close to the worst, but I want Iowa athletics to be the best. It's just a heavy lift. I work for free and have another job as well. I go 12-15 hours a day almost every day.

We are in the middle of the transfer portal season. We need DUDES. I need another million dollars to get the DUDES we want. If you know anybody with the ability to give something, anything, it would be helpful.

Thanks. Go Hawks!

 

[maxinquaye]

fuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[douglasbader]

I hate all this shit, but reality is that right now this is how it is and why the fuck do they have this idiot running the NIL.

He's a fucking moron.

 

[Brad Wesley]

Has he tried asking Kirk for half his salary?

 

[Dr. Zaius]

They should start harassing everybody at tailgates like the Dance Marathon people and boy scouts

 

[Pedro]

Portal guy shared this today. Wooooooooof.

I work for free and have another job as well. I go 12-15 hours a day almost every day.

 

[Pedro]

Also this guy should not be doing this. Imagine you’re a patient and you hear the doctor say, “I’m not very good at this job, but I’m going to do it anyway”.

 

[CamelTones]

He’s said something similar at the same exact point the last 2 years. They always seem to find the money.

Unfortunately, the Proctor/McNamara/Kaleb Brown triumvirate showed how dumb it is to fork over money to a collective. Last year they spent a lot of their money to bring players back and Jermari Harris showed you can get paid while simultaneously just deciding you’re not going to play at some point in the year.

 

[CurdMan]

Brad shouldn’t be making comments like this, but it’s nothing new. He’s been very self deprecating as long as he’s been in this position. Again, I laugh at anyone who says he shouldn’t be doing this. Who should be doing it? Who in their right mind is taking this job? Brad is over qualified and while he’s getting the perks of the job, he’s doing it without pay.

The reality is that Iowa is fighting up a weight class for portal guys. Their main competition for their two biggest potential additions are Ohio State and Mizzou, two programs loaded with NIL money. Most Iowans are a little more reasonable than throwing more than a couple hundred bucks a year at kids they don’t know

 

[AZmessDAWG]

We’ve already come up with our NIL strategy. Poach NDSU. Hell Cam Miller would start day 1 if he was at Iowa.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Brad is doing it because no one else started a collective.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

He’s a fucking actuary for christsakes.

 

[cloudhawk]

My bad

 

[AZmessDAWG]

You ok?

 

[StinkyMcFadden]

Brad is doing it because no one else started a collective.

At some point, soon, he will realize how dumb it all is and quit.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Also, just the people on the swarm board should be able to pay for a decent team- Rastetter, Moons, DC, Ron Kirchoff.

 

[Hawkstrat]

At some point, soon, he will realize how dumb it all is and quit.

I think he likes pretending he is Kirk's friend.

 

[The Full Monte]

Also, just the people on the swarm board should be able to pay for a decent team- Rastetter, Moons, DC, Ron Kirchoff.

The thing is...Brad LOVES the attention and minor celebrity doing the job affords him.

Now if Kirk left/retired, I could see him stepping away, but as long as Kirk is there, I think Brad will be.

 

[Fair and Balanced]

Also, just the people on the swarm board should be able to pay for a decent team- Rastetter, Moons, DC, Ron Kirchoff.

Good guys.

 

[Silky Johnson]

If Iowa is into having actuaries with their anti-social tendencies do this public facing work, why can’t we just get Loog to run it? Or at least Watson?

 

[Pinehawk]

Having an unpaid volunteer in such a critical role doesn't seem like a blueprint for long term success.
Can Iowa create an NIL Program Manager position and fund it properly? Or, do they need to remain separate entities for some reason?

 

[thrawn]

Having an unpaid volunteer in such a critical role doesn't seem like a blueprint for long term success.
Can Iowa create an NIL Program Manager position and fund it properly? Or, do they need to remain separate entities for some reason?

the problem is trying to find someone who is really good at getting people to give him/her money for a cause but not good at getting people to give him/her money for salary

 

[BVHawk95]

It's almost as if asking the fans to bankroll a team's recruiting process is a stupid fucking idea that destroys any semblance of parity. I wonder who could have seen this coming.

 

[Pinehawk]

You need to get a well known former Hawkeye. Ideally one that doesn't even need the money. Have them show up at events and shake the hands and slap the backs of the all rich guys who wanted to pretend like they were friends with a former Hawk/NFL guy.

 

[AZmessDAWG]

@ivan_drago come on down!!!

 

[Thomas Wolsey]

You need to get a well known former Hawkeye. Ideally one that doesn't even need the money. Have them show up at events and shake the hands and slap the backs of the all rich guys who wanted to pretend like they were friends with a former Hawk/NFL guy.

Does Pat Angerer have any friends?

 

[ivan_drago]

@ivan_drago come on down!!!

Fuck you. Go suck Caleb Williams cock.

 

[ivan_drago]

Does Pat Angerer have any friends?

Just “Daz.”

 

[L. Wade Childress]

It’s time for all the coaches to cut their salaries by 2/3 if you want to win. They are the ones who came out way ahead over the last several decades.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Now introducing, The Moon family non-shitty quarterback!!

 

[Hawk&Balls]

They'll get right on that

 

[L. Wade Childress]

Good guys.

yes, known “good guys” Bruce Rastetter and Dallas Clark.

 

[Pinehawk]

Dallas Clark, Tim Dwight, Bob Sanders, Chuck Long, Marv Cook, Aaron Kampman, Nate Kaeding, or George Kittle when he retires.
Somebody like that.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

Dallas Clark, Tim Dwight, Bob Sanders, Chuck Long, Marv Cook, Aaron Kampman, Nate Kaeding, or George Kittle when he retires.
Somebody like that.

Definitely not Chuck Long.

 

[Pinehawk]

Definitely not Chuck Long.

The list was for illustrative purposes only.

 

[Pinehawk]

It's either, 'Hi, we need a million dollars for the football team, I'm Brad, you've never heard of me and I do this in my spare time.'
Or, 'Hi, we need a million dollars for the football team, I'm Brad Banks, oh, you'd like a picture? Absolutely.'

Norfolk St. isn't hiring Michael Vick as their next head coach, because he's really great with the x's and o's.

 

[Truant]

@ivan_drago come on down!!!

He created this mess…

 

[cloudhawk]

George Kittle or Chad Greenway

 

[Hawk&Balls]

George Kittle or Chad Greenway

he can't even get his own kid to iowa

 

[Truant]

George Kittle or Chad Greenway

Chad should donate a bunch that Gray Duck fortune he has made. He could also be involved in putting a bunch of money in his daughter’s bank account.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

George Kittle or Chad Greenway

You will get Matt Vandeberg and you will like it

 

[Mr. Hawk]

Has he tried asking Kirk for half his salary?

Seems that if these DUDES are going to be helping Kurt achieve his personal goal of >.60 plus passing Hayes, this makes sense.

 

[L. Wade Childress]

I would prefer someone whose main goal is not to continue to be lazy and live off their long-ago Hawkeye fame.

Find someone young and engaging that is currently showing promise in medical sales or coaching.

 

[HerkyHopeful]

I would prefer someone whose main goal is not to continue to be lazy and live off their long-ago Hawkeye fame.

Find someone young and engaging that is currently showing promise in medical sales or coaching.

How do you think they become successful in medical sales fella?