Iowa is a top-5 attendance school for women’s hoops. There have been 6 1000+ point women’s NCAA players, and two have played at Iowa the past 5 years.
I’ve heard she was on a $125K NIL deal for this season, mostly from Hy-Vee.
Caitlin has 2 years of eligibility left. She has to be 22 to go pro, and also renounce her remaining eligibility. But even as a #1 pick, she can only make $75K on a rookie deal.
She’s also started some basketball camps this year, and they sold out in the first hour.
Nike has announced they’re going to start selling CC shirts and jerseys, and she’ll be a huge draw the next 2 seasons. Iowa may not have a ton of people, but they’re predominantly Iowa fans. There’s no pro football, basketball, baseball, or hockey that pulls their money away from UofI.
I’d imagine she gets a huge bump in her NIL after this season. And there’s a lot of money in Iowa — especially in Des Moines where she’s from. Why not pursue your masters and get paid like $200K+ to do it?
Media market is more important than fan base size. Bay Area alone is almost 8M people, and you shore that up with Stanford. Youd probably get some northern CA media markets as well. Academically, they’re a huge plus.
Completely legitimate. Most inexperienced, but definitely not *youngest*.
I can see how most inexperienced can be seen as a negative that can be overcome. I don't, however, see it as something that necessarily translates into a positive next season -- at least not moreso than another team who returns as many (or more) starters.
Unsurprisingly, both Iowa and MSU are near the end of that list, too.
I think a stat like that makes the most impact when looking at the Utah teams, who all have players who graduate at 26 years old. BYU is 106 of 129, whereas their age is 6th oldest out of 234 schools.
It would be great for CFB to have an age-per-play, and eligibility-per-play metric. That would seem to be a better indicator of returning value to a given school.
"Youngest team in the country playing it's 3rd string QB and still finishing 10-2?"
Where does this youth claim come from? Last I checked, Iowa, Penn St., and Michigan State were all younger, or equally young to Michigan. There are at least 52 other D1 schools that make that very same claim.
Iowa and MSU are, on average, more than 9 months younger than Michigan, which at this point in the season is basically a year of eligibility. Iowa has at least 10 non-redshirt freshmen making contributions not related to special teams. MSU is somewhere in the 14 freshmen contributing major non-ST minutes. Penn State, however, does not seem to be relying on their youth as much as the other two aforementioned, with only a handful getting any kind of meaningful playing time. I'd imagine that this PSU discrepancy is related to their scholarship issues.
Even if we compare depth-charts by class, which would correct any early-enrollee age-to-eligibility issues by showing what teams actually play on the field, Michigan is still older than Iowaor MSU on Offense, even taking into consideration that Peters is now starting. Michigan is also older on Defense compared to MSU, but Iowa's starting defense is older than Michigan's.
If we look at PSU'sdepth chart, They are playing a good deal of Juniors and Seniors, and stand to lose a lot of talent next year.
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Iowa is a top-5 attendance school for women’s hoops. There have been 6 1000+ point women’s NCAA players, and two have played at Iowa the past 5 years.
I’ve heard she was on a $125K NIL deal for this season, mostly from Hy-Vee.
Caitlin has 2 years of eligibility left. She has to be 22 to go pro, and also renounce her remaining eligibility. But even as a #1 pick, she can only make $75K on a rookie deal.
She’s also started some basketball camps this year, and they sold out in the first hour.
Nike has announced they’re going to start selling CC shirts and jerseys, and she’ll be a huge draw the next 2 seasons. Iowa may not have a ton of people, but they’re predominantly Iowa fans. There’s no pro football, basketball, baseball, or hockey that pulls their money away from UofI.
I’d imagine she gets a huge bump in her NIL after this season. And there’s a lot of money in Iowa — especially in Des Moines where she’s from. Why not pursue your masters and get paid like $200K+ to do it?
Media market is more important than fan base size. Bay Area alone is almost 8M people, and you shore that up with Stanford. Youd probably get some northern CA media markets as well. Academically, they’re a huge plus.
Completely legitimate. Most inexperienced, but definitely not *youngest*.
I can see how most inexperienced can be seen as a negative that can be overcome. I don't, however, see it as something that necessarily translates into a positive next season -- at least not moreso than another team who returns as many (or more) starters.
Unsurprisingly, both Iowa and MSU are near the end of that list, too.
I think a stat like that makes the most impact when looking at the Utah teams, who all have players who graduate at 26 years old. BYU is 106 of 129, whereas their age is 6th oldest out of 234 schools.
It would be great for CFB to have an age-per-play, and eligibility-per-play metric. That would seem to be a better indicator of returning value to a given school.
"Youngest team in the country playing it's 3rd string QB and still finishing 10-2?"
Where does this youth claim come from? Last I checked, Iowa, Penn St., and Michigan State were all younger, or equally young to Michigan. There are at least 52 other D1 schools that make that very same claim.
Iowa and MSU are, on average, more than 9 months younger than Michigan, which at this point in the season is basically a year of eligibility. Iowa has at least 10 non-redshirt freshmen making contributions not related to special teams. MSU is somewhere in the 14 freshmen contributing major non-ST minutes. Penn State, however, does not seem to be relying on their youth as much as the other two aforementioned, with only a handful getting any kind of meaningful playing time. I'd imagine that this PSU discrepancy is related to their scholarship issues.
Teams by Age
Even if we compare depth-charts by class, which would correct any early-enrollee age-to-eligibility issues by showing what teams actually play on the field, Michigan is still older than Iowa or MSU on Offense, even taking into consideration that Peters is now starting. Michigan is also older on Defense compared to MSU, but Iowa's starting defense is older than Michigan's.
If we look at PSU's depth chart, They are playing a good deal of Juniors and Seniors, and stand to lose a lot of talent next year.