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acoustimac

acoustimac

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Let me just say that I’m glad that I’m a deep rooted fan of the sisters. After the news that hit MBB today it just made me angry and sick to my stomach.

With our program, we are slightly protected because there isn’t a huge career in pro WBB. The blue bloods already get the best players So there isn’t as much (but we are seeing the transfer portal exploding here too) impact of money leading to transfers.

The biggest aspect of our program is how a community, give back, be involved, do things the right way environment is fostered. I bet if you asked graduates of the WBB program they would attribute some of their personal success in life to this very thing. This is also why fans of the sisters attend games better than 90% of the rest of the country. These are our “girls.” We truly do care about them.

So, today especially I’m glad that my heart and time investment is with the women's program.
 
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acoustimac said:
Let me just say that I’m glad that I’m a deep rooted fan of the sisters. After the news that hit MBB today it just made me angry and sick to my stomach.

With our program, we are slightly protected because there isn’t a huge career in pro WBB. The blue bloods already get the best players So there isn’t as much (but we are seeing the transfer portal exploding here too) impact of money leading to transfers.

The biggest aspect of our program is how a community, give back, be involved, do things the right way environment is fostered. I bet if you asked graduates of the WBB program they would attribute some of their personal success in life to this very thing. This is also why fans of the sisters attend games better than 90% of the rest of the country. These are our “girls.” We truly do care about them.

So, today especially I’m glad that my heart and time investment is with the women's program.
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WBB may actually instill in fans the belief that there remains some purity of sport, love of the game, and sheer joy of passionately competing. At Iowa State that may be even more true.

Monied interests seem to have gotten their way in controlling how college players are paid. They wanted college sports more lucrative, and more addicting "high inducing" fan experience, for those whose team can pay. And now it appears top players are tossing their names into the portal (for the Blue Bloods) for the big NIL.

In my life, I have come to look for that purity akin to that found in our WBB. My opposition to NIL is as an antithesis OF what I see as the good in college sports.

The NCAA was sniped at for years for not allowing ideas like NIL into college sports. Now it has become increasingly open to ideas that kept a type of control over college sports that looks now to become the wild, wild, west.

The list below is varied and some of the worst, changes I have seen causing long-term, far-ranging, negative impacts:

-Citizens United Supreme Court Decision in 2010
-Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
-Delisting the Wolf off Endangered Species Protection
-1976, in the Buckley v. Valeo case.

To this list, I now add NIL.

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I’d add Nixon taking us off the gold standard and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
 
acoustimac said:
Let me just say that I’m glad that I’m a deep rooted fan of the sisters. After the news that hit MBB today it just made me angry and sick to my stomach.

With our program, we are slightly protected because there isn’t a huge career in pro WBB. The blue bloods already get the best players So there isn’t as much (but we are seeing the transfer portal exploding here too) impact of money leading to transfers.

The biggest aspect of our program is how a community, give back, be involved, do things the right way environment is fostered. I bet if you asked graduates of the WBB program they would attribute some of their personal success in life to this very thing. This is also why fans of the sisters attend games better than 90% of the rest of the country. These are our “girls.” We truly do care about them.

So, today especially I’m glad that my heart and time investment is with the women's program.
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Agree
But I am sure you saw TT is giving every WBB player $25K. The $ will be smaller, but NIL will poison womens sports to some degree eventually.
It will be interesting to see if schools with big donors can buy their way to success.
I will continue to watch and attend FB, MBB and WBB games at ISU - and contribute what I can. But, I have little interest in watching anybody else - as college sports has been ruined for me. Especially SEC and B10 - I will not watch any of their games. I know - that will really show them!
 
I don’t believe this was posted yet. Apologies if I missed yet. Nice gig if you can get it. I assume these are all Illinois natives as I was initially surprised they didn’t choose more athletes from colleges in Illinois. Kylie Feuerbach was selected.

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