No significant change to Hawkeye Swarm membership count
By Pat Harty
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Six weeks have passed since Brad Heinrichs expressed his concern and frustration with the Iowa Swarm Collective only having about 2,900 members.
Heinrichs, CEO of the Iowa Swarm Collective, was interviewed by Hawk Fanatic for an article that was published on May 1.
“It’s far too low,” Heinrichs said. “If we’re going to be competitive, we need to have over 10,000 Swarm members for sure.”
Heinrichs was also interviewed by the Des Moines Register shortly thereafter, expressing the same concerns about the low membership total.
The topic was then discussed on multiple podcasts and radio shows, so if Heinrichs was hoping to get the word out, he succeeded.
But it has had little impact.
“No significant changes to membership count,” Heinrichs said Wednesday in a text message.
Iowa athletics has struggled to compete in the race to raise money for name, image and likeness and that is partly due to the low membership count from donors that contribute to the Swarm on a monthly basis.
Heinrichs said in May that only about 400 of the Swarm members are season tickets holders for football.
“That’s embarrassingly low,” he said.