2024 Offseason

[BCPanther]

He was doing PR for the university 3 days ago. Somebody came with a check.

It is what it is.

It's time for Jake to either realize he's coaching in 2024 or get out of the way so that we can play the game the way it has to be played. Deciding you're going to develop 18 year olds for 2 or 3 years for them to leave anyway isn't going to get it done.

[UNIpanther99]

Ouch. Just sucks to be a fan these days.

[UNIAlum95]

Born in portal. What a disaster of an off-season so far

Yeah the backside of this had better be a lot better. Painful after just renewing football, basketball and PSC membership for the year. Sure as heck hope we see a bigger signing than a D2 guard.

[DownGoesKansas]

He was doing PR for the university 3 days ago. Somebody came with a check.

It is what it is.

It's time for Jake to either realize he's coaching in 2024 or get out of the way so that we can play the game the way it has to be played. Deciding you're going to develop 18 year olds for 2 or 3 years for them to leave anyway isn't going to get it done.

I mean seems very unlikely that happens... but idk

[Panther Fan]

He was doing PR for the university 3 days ago. Somebody came with a check.

It is what it is.

It's time for Jake to either realize he's coaching in 2024 or get out of the way so that we can play the game the way it has to be played. Deciding you're going to develop 18 year olds for 2 or 3 years for them to leave anyway isn't going to get it done.

What tells us he's not trying, but just getting "out bid"? Do we have any idea of how much $ the Panther Collective has as compared to other Valley/mid-major schools. Because it's starting to seem like that's all that matters.

[BCPanther]

Mom just liked a whole bunch of Iowa social media stuff and Fran can't recruit and has tons of minutes available so I think we know where this is going.

Getting real hard to stay in love with college sports. If I'm watching pros, I'm going to watch better ones and watch leagues where there are actual rules regarding rosters and money.

[BCPanther]

What tells us he's not trying, but just getting "out bid"? Do we have any idea of how much $ the Panther Collective has as compared to other Valley/mid-major schools. Because it's starting to seem like that's all that matters.

He's outwardly said he doesn't like the portal and wants to build with HS kids.

[DownGoesKansas]

College sports are basically over

[UNIAlum95]

Mom just liked a whole bunch of Iowa social media stuff and Fran can't recruit and has tons of minutes available so I think we know where this is going.

Getting real hard to stay in love with college sports. If I'm watching pros, I'm going to watch better ones and watch leagues where there are actual rules regarding rosters and money.

[Wxcpanther]

He's outwardly said he doesn't like the portal and wants to build with HS kids.

I mean, he doesn't have much of a choice at this point, right? We've got 5 guys returning that played last year, 2 freshmen, and 1 other guy on scholarship. We've barely got a rotation at the moment, even by Jake's standards.

[unipanther2154]

Someone said it a little while ago about caring less about the players and just cheering for the name on the front of the jersey. College sports were screwed a while ago but NIL has ruined sports for a university of our level. We are a low budget state school who has no chance in the current state of college athletics. You will be miserable if you go into any season with real expectations of the season and future of a team. Our level is now a year by year experiment. I for one have started to watch far less college sports and have increased my pro sports watching dramatically over the past 3-4 years. College athletics and some universities are going to have some tough decisions in the next 10 years. It was a fun run but college athletics are dead for most. Pretty sad this is what college sports have come to but time to pick a power 5 school to follow if you don’t have one you already do.

[MVCBeat]

A lot of folks on this board talking about how Jake’s culture would prevail and this wouldn’t impact us a year ago.

Culture can only go so far in the face of huge piles of money.

[MVCBeat]

I’m honestly starting to lose interest. It is like rooting for a AAA baseball team.

[havok58]

He's outwardly said he doesn't like the portal and wants to build with HS kids.

Then he needs to move on, or the new AD helps him move on. Why build with HS kids, only to see them leave after a year or two. Do you want to coach a competitive team that can make a tournament run? Or do you want to coach a team that won’t go anywhere, and eventually the only fans that will show up are their parents / families. I mean, he is already heading that direction with the number of CF players he gets. If they (as a team) weren’t good enough to win state championships yearly, why do you think they would be good to win at the college level? Maybe more empty seats will help someone make a decision.

[MVCBeat]

From a fan's perspective how much does it really matter? If you have to build an entirely new roster from the ground up every year who cares? At our level everyone is just basically trying to catch lightning in a bottle every year. It is impossible to build anything sustainable in this environment.