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re: 5-star OT Felix Ojo commits to Texas Tech; lands a fully guaranteed 3 year, $5.1m contract
Posted on 7/7/25 at 9:45 am to SPEEDY
Posted on 7/7/25 at 9:45 am to SPEEDY
quote:Largest in history for something that’s only been legal for a week
The deal is believed to be one of the largest fully guaranteed revenue-share agreements in college football history
How do these deals work if a player becomes academically ineligible? Is it like NFL contracts where players aren’t paid for games missed due to suspension? Inb4 “academics lol”
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Posted on 7/7/25 at 10:01 am to Tiger Prawn
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How do these deals work if a player becomes academically ineligible?
The grade books will be cooked to make sure a "student" athlete of this stature will never find him or herself academically ineligible.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 10:13 am to JimTiger72
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I’m not getting in an “lol” argument with a dumb arse. Yes, that’s what “fully guaranteed” means.
Milwaukee Bucks just cut Damian Lillard & he still gets all of his “guaranteed $”
Are you saying that a player who willingly transfers to another school should still be entitled to all of his guaranteed money? Because Damian Lillard got cut and still gets all his money. Apples to oranges situation
You don't get to voluntarily quit the team and still get paid the remainder of your deal. In some cases, pro teams have even attempted to recoup a portion of signing bonuses if a player signed a long term contract and quit early on.
I'm not sure how transfer portal eligibility is going to work with these new deals, but I can promise that if he does transfer to another school after 1 year, Texas Tech will not owe him a dime of "guaranteed money" for those final 2 years of his contract. Most likely, the school he transfers to will have to pay Texas Tech to buyout his contract. That's how it works with coaches who are still under contract leaving for other jobs....the new school has to pay the old school to buyout the remainder of the coach's contract.
This post was edited on 7/7/25 at 10:14 am
Posted on 7/7/25 at 10:15 am to SPEEDY
LOL at TT. This won't make them less mediocre
Posted on 7/7/25 at 10:40 am to ChatGPT of LA
Everyone surprised at the money being thrown around in Texas wasn't around in the 80s.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 1:42 pm to GeauxHouston
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This “idiot booster” is a billionaire who has sold multiple iterations of Double Eagle Energy
And?
What does this have to do with his decision to give a HS senior a $5 million guarantee? What is his possible
ROI other than thumping his chest about TT possibly being relevant in CFB?
I get it if he has some type of deal to get a piece of his future NFL earnings.Other than that,it's not much of an investment.
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and will be fine
I'm sure he will.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 1:45 pm to RD Dawg
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What does this have to do with his decision to give a HS senior a $5 million guarantee? What is his possible
ROI other than thumping his chest about TT possibly being relevant in CFB?
The same guy have a million dollar NIL deal to a softball pitcher (though she was proven at the D1 level) and re-upped her after this past season.
He's got plenty of money to burn.
What ROI is Get Gordon receiving for buying players for LSU?
Posted on 7/7/25 at 7:07 pm to ragincajun03
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The grade books will be cooked to make sure a "student" athlete of this stature will never find him or herself academically ineligible.
Think we're passed the point of grade cooking. As employees of the football team and Associates, etc. (separate from the school now basically) I'm sure the professionally and privately paid players just have to show up to practice and games to avoid violating their contract.
Posted on 7/7/25 at 9:10 pm to ragincajun03
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What ROI is Get Gordon receiving for buying players for LSU?
When did he spend a guaranteed $5 million on a LSU recruit?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:56 am to RD Dawg
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Idiot booster
lol he’s done a ton for their NiL and it paid off with the softball pitcher. You were playing for the freaking title this year.
Tech has the best roster on paper in the B12. I really like McGuire but he has to win this year
They also just opened a 250m football facility. Tech has some money. They got some Billy Bob land mans
Also, you do realize what that guy has spent on NIL is probably what he makes in a month in interest
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:24 am to FreshMeat10
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will follow his college career and can't wait for him to be overrated and laugh at whomever wasted all that money
Wish casting the downfall of a young man because he was able to use his leverage to secure a hefty payday is a weird flex and supreme level of jealousy.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:30 am to 504Voodoo
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Wish casting the downfall of a young man because he was able to use his leverage to secure a hefty payday is a weird flex and supreme level of jealousy.
I don’t have any ill will towards any individual player but the system as a whole now is so tainted. College football is simply loads less enjoyable now. Not because of the specific issue of players being paid, but all the side effects that have come with it. Again, good for them.
But I feel like I watched a sport I love basically demolished to the foundations to make this happen.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:02 am to TheWalrus
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5 million for an offensive lineman is insane.
It's insane for any player to be paid that much.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:04 am to TheWalrus
quote:just wait until it leaks how much either LSU or A&M is giving Lamar Brown
5 million for an offensive lineman is insane
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:09 am to WestCoastAg
LSU is ofering him state pride and a chance at becoming a true legend! He shows up.and shows out he will never have to buy a meal or drink in Louisana for as long as he lives. Cant put a price tag on that! Hoping this Louisianamal is mentaly tough enough to walk in the footsteps of those Bayou Legends that came before him!
Posted on 7/8/25 at 11:44 am to TheWalrus
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5 million for an offensive lineman is insane. It’s very hard to project how an 18 year old will pan out
hell, it typically takes a year or two to tell if linemen are even good enough to play. I understand that it takes cash to put a football team together nowadays, but that is just foolish.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:04 pm to Spankum
More hilarity by many posters on this board. So the sport wasn’t broken when UGA bought Herschel and won an immediate Natty? That was in 1980. Auburn did the same in 2010. Ohio State bought Pryor, USC bought Bush, UGA bought an entire defense let alone the Rodney Hapmtons, Gaarrison Hearst, Knowshon types.
Some of you are just to brainwashed to see it’s been happening for decades and you loved it when it was your team doing the buying and winning. Now that other schools and fanbases are buying players and tampering via the portal the sport is suddenly no fun and dying. It’s just so awesome to see the tears. My how the tables have turned within a 4 year period. Who would have thought just 2-3 years ago that Notre Dame would walk into the Sugar Bowl and completely overwhelm a SEC Champ. Times are a changing,
Some of you are just to brainwashed to see it’s been happening for decades and you loved it when it was your team doing the buying and winning. Now that other schools and fanbases are buying players and tampering via the portal the sport is suddenly no fun and dying. It’s just so awesome to see the tears. My how the tables have turned within a 4 year period. Who would have thought just 2-3 years ago that Notre Dame would walk into the Sugar Bowl and completely overwhelm a SEC Champ. Times are a changing,
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:22 pm to SPEEDY
Well Tech had Mahomes for free and LSU still pushed their s*** in
Posted on 7/9/25 at 1:17 pm to oldtrucker
True. But now Tech will have the other 21 positions as well. That’s what many if you don’t understand yet. The SEC became dominant because they had the skilled positions covered AND the trenches and coaches Now, everyone else is buying trench players and it won’t be long until coaches start getting poached. The entire landscape of high end players is changing. It will take another 6-8 years for the data to be valid, but with each year that a Bama, UGA, and LSU types lose 2-3 games the shine for todays 8th and 9th graders will be gone. Ohio State is in a position to totally own the next 5 years because Day has turned the current version of OSU into what Saban had at Bama. And the playoffs give everyone a mulligan so even though Day finds a way to lose a dumb game it won’t keep him from the playoffs. And I hate Ohio State, but they have the money and recruiting pipeline going full steam.
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