• Donations
  • Advertise With Us

Free Hawkeye Sports Coverage

HawkFanatic Iowa Hawkeyes sports header logo
  • Football
    • Football
  • Football Recruiting
    • Football Recruiting
  • Basketball
    • Men’s Basketball
    • Women’s Basketball
    • Basketball Recruiting
  • Wrestling
    • Wrestling
    • Women’s Wrestling
    • Women’s Wrestling Recruiting
  • Sports+
    • Sports+
    • Baseball
    • Field Hockey
  • About
  • HF Podcast

Breaking News

Iowa soccer defeats Rutgers 1-0 at home
Top-ranked Iowa field hockey defeats Michigan State 3-1 at Grant Field
Cooper DeJean adds to his growing legend in dramatic win over Michigan State
2024 Illinois point guard Aaliyah Guyton commits to Iowa
Iowa offense fails to deliver yet again on big stage
gary-barta
Gary Barta addresses the media. Photo by Hawk Fanatic.

Basketball/ Breaking News/ Football

Iowa AD Gary Barta addresses NIL controversy with open letter to Hawkeye fans

Pat HartyFollow @PatHarty brad heinrichs, gary-barta, Iowa Swarm Collective December 27, 2022

Tweet

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta broke his silence about the University of Iowa’s controversial decision to not help the Iowa Swarm Collective with contacting potential donors.

Barta released an open letter to Hawkeye fans that was posted on Twitter Tuesday morning.

His letter comes three days after Hawk Fanatic published an article in which Brad Heinrichs, who is the CEO for the Iowa Swarm Collective, voiced his frustration with Iowa’s refusal to help him contact potential donors in an attempt to raise money from name, image and likeness.

Heinrichs, a 1997 UI graduate and a former Iowa golfer who now lives in Florida, said to Hawk Fanatic last Saturday that he has been told that his alma mater wouldn’t help him contact donors, or give him the lists of ticket holders for football and basketball unless the money raised by the Swarm Collective is distributed equally between all the sports teams at Iowa to meet Title IX requirements.

The Iowa Swarm Collective was created to raise NIL money for football and men’s and women’s basketball, and Heinrichs doesn’t want to deviate from that plan.

 

An open letter from Gary Barta: #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/9xChmFQw24

— The Iowa Hawkeyes (@TheIowaHawkeyes) December 27, 2022

Related Posts

tadjo commits

Basketball /

2024 Montreal forward Chris Tadjo commits to Iowa

soccer beats rutgers

Breaking News /

Iowa soccer defeats Rutgers 1-0 at home

Rapid Reaction

Football /

Rapid Reaction Podcast – Michigan State
Jovon Johnson, Jordan Canzeri Analysis

‹ Reaction swift and one-sided to news about Iowa’s NIL breakdown› HF Mailbag Podcast 12-27-22

HawkFanatic Podcast

  • Rapid ReactionRapid Reaction Podcast – Michigan State
    Jovon Johnson, Jordan Canzeri Analysis

  • Hotspot LogoHawkeye Hotspot Podcast 9-28-23
    Scott Dochterman, Rob Howe Talk Iowa Athletics

  • Mailbag LogoHF Mailbag Podcast 9-26-23
    Answering Your Hawkeye Questions

What are we worth to you?
To help us continue supplying FREE content, please consider donating here

Back to Top

 
HawkFanatic Iowa Hawkeyes logo
 
  • Home
  • Football
  • Football Recruiting
  • Basketball
  • Wrestling
  • Sports+
  • About
  • HF Podcast
  • Donations
  • Advertise With Us
© 2023 HawkFanatic | Website Design and Development by Vortex Business Solutions - All Rights Reserved | Contact Webmaster