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Dan wetzel
Last week, a few days after the college’s athletic programs, they were able to share revenue with their athletes, Manansfield, Texas’s five -star aggressive lineman Felix Ojo announced his college decision. He proposed about Ohio State, Texas, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia and all others.
He chose Texas Tech.
One of the reasons for this was a rich revenue-share deal with Reders that a Texas Tech source stated that there is a price of at least $ 2.3 million in three years, but Ojo’s agent says they would guarantee them at least $ 5.1 million.
This college was a cannon shooting in the world of football recruitment.
People like Ojo, who are 6 -Foot -7, 285 pounds and can move, signed with select programs. Texas Tech is traditionally not one of them, although now with money on the table to offset some underlying obstacles (Lubock’s remote West Texas location and a national title tradition), with money on the table, Red Redors is clearly to play here.
This is a good thing.
Not only for technical fans, but for fans of many teams like them, not to mention college football as a whole, which welcomes the recent trend of a flat game field to continue.
The best part, at least thus, is that reders are not alone as an upstart program that attracts top level talent out of the 2026 orbit.
A edge from Sion Ellie, Baltimore, which is the country’s number 2 overall recruitment in the 247Sports overall rankings, is living at home in Maryland.
Ksen is committed to Hyndaron, Spring, Texas and number 3, at the national level, Houston.
Kelvin Russell, a wideout from Miami, which is ranked 21st, is mortgaged for sirrakuse.
Rider Lyon is also, a QB ranks 13th, which is leading to Byu, although his Mormon Vishwas was an important factor.
This is a continuity of uncontrolled zero era that saw that talent begins to spread, at least, away from the same handful of teams that dominated the game. Alabama once signed the number 1 square out of 10 out of 13 sessions.
“We definitely saw [talent dispersion] Improvement since 2021. It spread, “Andy Schwarz said, an economist with a characteristic in college athletics and a partner in OSKR.” I do not think we will see a big change in this world from that world. In short term, we will see athletes attracting more than Texas Tech. I think we will see improvement in the spread of this year’s recruitment class. ,
Certainly there are cavets. Recruitment is an unwavering science. Rosters are rapidly manufactured through the transfer portal. Oh, and Alabama and Ohio states will still get most of the best players.
Schwarz does not want to oversel it. The principles of economics show that the effect will be limited and traditional schools will learn to allocate their money properly. In fact, in the context of winning the game, after all, it is better to spend a lot of good players than just one or two great people.
However, in the past, almost all the great all went to the same teams. Now, under the House Basti, schools can somehow allocate their athletes up to $ 20.5 million that they see fit. (They could technically give all this to a player.)
This allows coaches to prioritize a specific recruitment and to exclude competition. Money is rarely the only factor in recruitment, but it certainly does not hurt.
In the past, schools spent a passive dollar on facilities, employees and other bells and things such as CT. Now this is an active dollar – directly into the player’s pocket. This makes a waterfall in the locker room, or an old hesitation trophy in a performance case, less matters.
“It makes sense to try to make a splash for an up-end-comer,” Schwarz said. “This is a chance for now, at least temporarily, for notes for profit on Havs.”
Any improvement is an improvement. This may not allow 50 schools to hit shots in winning the championship, but it can mean 10 in a year.
This also does not mean that Texas Tech is one of those 10. Every elite player who goes to Lubock, however, or elsewhere other than Alabama and Georgia, is a low player who is stocking those rosters.
Consider that from 2018 to 2025, Tide and Dawgs originally excluded themselves from the recruitment of three-star players. Bama signed only 2.9 per year on an average. UGA was at 3.5. This year, Georgia already has seven three-stars, and Alabama six. They will still rank in the top five classes at the national level at the national level, but the gap is small as they take a deep dip in the high school rankings.
The NCAA spent millions in the legal fees while fighting, claiming “competitive balance”, will be destroyed by shouting about the destruction of the game. Whatever is playing is something different, if the prophecies are not completely opposite.
Texas Tech launched just one five star aggressive lineman. You do not have to be a red reders fan to cheer for him.
