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wow....kick in the nuts for west virginia for sure.

but great hire by them!
 






I don’t know what the IU job pays, but is it that much better a gig than West Virginia? It really hasn’t been a perennial top 10 program in 30 years, but you can’t tell their fans that. It’s pretty much a first-weekend-of-the-tournament team lately, which is just enough to infuriate their base.
 

FritoPendejo said:
I don’t know what the IU job pays, but is it that much better a gig than West Virginia? It really hasn’t been a perennial top 10 program in 30 years, but you can’t tell their fans that. It’s pretty much a first-weekend-of-the-tournament team lately, which is just enough to infuriate their base.
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Come on now...basketball is to Indiana what hockey is to Minnesota. Indiana is in the Big Ten.
Indiana has much more basketball money than WV. Their historical tradition in basketball is one the kingpins of the sport. And he is getting paid more money.
 

GopherGod said:
Sounds like McCollum could end up at West Virginia as their AD was a former AD for McCollum at previous job and West Virginia has more NIL than Iowa
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Iowa is pretty much at the bottom of the conference in NIL for basketball. They likely won't have enough to get anyone of note.
 





60's Guy said:
Come on now...basketball is to Indiana what hockey is to Minnesota. Indiana is in the Big Ten.
Indiana has much more basketball money than WV. Their historical tradition in basketball is one the kingpins of the sport. And he is getting paid more money.
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Indiana is now a football school.
 







Ope3 said:
Indiana is now a football school.
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I have a feeling they may have already shot their wad. Time will tell which direction Indiana football is trending. It may not nose dive but I don't believe it is ascending either.
 



FritoPendejo said:
I don’t know what the IU job pays, but is it that much better a gig than West Virginia? It really hasn’t been a perennial top 10 program in 30 years, but you can’t tell their fans that. It’s pretty much a first-weekend-of-the-tournament team lately, which is just enough to infuriate their base.
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If Indiana starts winning again, NIL money will come pouring in.
 



kg21 said:
On the Iowa boards, they are saying there is little commitment to Iowa hoops with NIL, making getting one of these coaches very hard.

This makes me happy.
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I wonder why that is. Are all the hoops boosters in that state fans of the Cyclones?
 

Gophs24 said:
wow....kick in the nuts for west virginia for sure.

but great hire by them!
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First Dawn was one and done for women's program and now one and done for men's program as well.

Iowa and MN going to realize how much money talks. It's fine to have local connections, but if you are going to pay 1/2 to 2/3 of what another school is going to pay and not have solid NIL, it's an uphill battle.

Unless Iowa or MN show the support, Medved and McCollum could pass on MN and Iowa for something bigger.
 

disco said:
I wonder why that is. Are all the hoops boosters in that state fans of the Cyclones?
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Football, Womens Basketball and Wrestling? Maybe MBB is fourth in support.

IOWA CITY — Iowa men’s basketball’s issues with attracting fans reached another level in 2024-25.
Only 4 men’s basketball games were more than half-full versus 13 of 14 women’s basketball games

Fran McCaffery’s program averaged 5,045 tickets scanned in its 18 regular-season games and one exhibition game in 2024-25, according to data obtained by The Gazette via an open records request.
That makes up only 33.6 percent of Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s 14,998-seat capacity.

Those figures are down 12.1 percent from 2023-24, when Iowa men’s basketball averaged 5,742 tickets scanned per game, which equated to 38.3 percent of the arena’s capacity.
Only four 2024-25 men’s basketball games had more than 7,000 tickets scanned — Dec. 12 against Iowa State (10,696), Feb. 8 against Wisconsin (8,929), Jan. 11 against Indiana (7,905) and Feb. 22 against Washington (7,683).

Iowa had fewer than 4,000 fans in the seats for every game in October and November. Those games were against especially feeble foes — Division II-level Minnesota-Duluth and five Division I teams that currently rank 229th or worse in college basketball analytics site KenPom’s rankings.
 

disco said:
I wonder why that is. Are all the hoops boosters in that state fans of the Cyclones?
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A few choice quotes from The Athletic post mortem on Fran McCaffery:

“Big Ten basketball is about more than wins and losses. It’s big business, and that’s where McCaffery failed. McCaffery had the backing of Iowa’s die-hard basketball community of longtime supporters, but there was little connection for the average fan. McCaffery’s explosive sideline demeanor and gruff personality rubbed some fans the wrong way. They tolerated it until they no longer believed he could lead the team to a Big Ten title or the Sweet 16. Then, they tuned him out.

McCaffery’s ouster is yet another gust of wind on the erosion of Iowa men’s basketball over the past quarter-century. It’s not just on him; the foundation is cracked, and the entire operation needs razing. A department can’t do that without a leadership change.

No matter who coached or supervised Iowa men’s basketball, the overall marketing philosophy has consisted of listing the schedule on the school’s website and guilting people into buying tickets. For some fans, buying tickets and attending games is akin to others attending church and sneaking out of services as soon as they receive communion. In other words, Iowa basketball became an obligation, not a celebration.”

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“…McCaffery took away opportunities for fan interaction and never replaced it with equal value. McCaffery ended The Prime Time League, which consisted of biweekly games in the summer with fans in attendance. The “Shirts and Skins” scrimmages before home football games vanished. The Black-and-Gold Blowout faded off the calendar. McCaffery ended the round-robin among the state’s four Division I programs for a singular event in Des Moines (2012-18) before shelving it altogether when the Big Ten expanded its schedule to 20 games.

Instead of replacing those interactive events, Iowa men’s basketball — and the department supervising it — chose nothing. Everything revolved around the product on the floor, which was good but never great. Attendance dropped, and rather than unhappily tithing at the Church of the Hawkeyes, men’s basketball fans stayed away or switched to women’s basketball.”

www.nytimes.com

Why is Fran McCaffery out? Iowa men’s basketball hasn’t given fans enough reasons to care

It's going to take a new approach for Iowa to bring men's basketball fans back after faltering under McCaffery, who was fired Friday.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 

kg21 said:
On the Iowa boards, they are saying there is little commitment to Iowa hoops with NIL, making getting one of these coaches very hard.

This makes me happy.
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Iowa is a place that commitment to Women's basketball makes sense. Say that the revenue sha1*re for MBB is 15-18% , I can see a place like Iowa being at 15% and giving a boost to Women's basketball. AD's will be making some big decisions. It will be done annually as programs evolve and adapt.
 



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