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2026 MS S Bralan Womack (Verbal Offer)

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Looks like OSU is going to miss out on another top prospect due to being outbid again. Seems like UF and Auburn have significantly increased their offers, and the Womack family is looking for OSU to match, and it doesn't seem likely...

Not sure when or if OSU is going to change their recruiting/bidding strategy like it seemed just a few weeks ago. The focus will still be roster retention and focusing larger NIL towards specific HS players
 
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pnuts34 said:
Looks like OSU is going to miss out on another top prospect due to being outbid again. Seems like UF and Auburn have significantly increased their offers, and the Womack family is looking for OSU to match, and it doesn't seem likely...

Not sure when or if OSU is going to change their recruiting/bidding strategy like it seemed just a few weeks ago. The focus will still be roster retention and focusing larger NIL towards specific HS players
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Gonna be honest, I've been waiting on a post like this in the thread for a month now.
 
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Do believe the graduated level of compensation is the way to go. Maybe $200k as frosh, $300k as soph, $500k as junior, and $600,000 as senior. Assuming that player hits/does what is expected. Maybe in two-deep as soph, maybe spot starter as junior, and starter as senior. Just throwing stuff out there. $1,000,000 for an untried 18 year old is completely absurd from the jump. This is kinda SWAG (scientific wild ass guess), and not to be confused with reality. However on my planet, this is the way to go.
 
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calibuck said:
Do believe the graduated level of compensation is the way to go. Maybe $200k as frosh, $300k as soph, $500k as junior, and $600,000 as senior. Assuming that player hits/does what is expected. Maybe in two-deep as soph, maybe spot starter as junior, and starter as senior. Just throwing stuff out there. $1,000,000 for an untried 18 year old is completely absurd from the jump. This is kinda SWAG (scientific wild ass guess), and not to be confused with reality. However on my planet, this is the way to go.
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That sounds great in a perfect world. Problem is, Idk of a kid on earth that would turn down 7 figures as a freshman. Idc what school says they'll offer it, it shoots to the top of your list. Even if that school is a program that will play in the CFP yearly like OSU, if an Auburn or Texas Tech come up with an offer of $1,000,000 or even more, sorry but my kid is suddenly favored to go to that school
 
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calibuck said:
Do believe the graduated level of compensation is the way to go. Maybe $200k as frosh, $300k as soph, $500k as junior, and $600,000 as senior. Assuming that player hits/does what is expected. Maybe in two-deep as soph, maybe spot starter as junior, and starter as senior. Just throwing stuff out there. $1,000,000 for an untried 18 year old is completely absurd from the jump. This is kinda SWAG (scientific wild ass guess), and not to be confused with reality. However on my planet, this is the way to go.
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By definition every kid is an untried rookie who’s never played a minute of whatever professional sport they move up into.

MLB just gave out a lot more than 1MM to over a dozen teenagers who have never seen a pitch of college or pro ball.

Not sure what the mental block is for people to accept these are pro athletes now. They get paid on projection as much as anything else. Just like every other sport on earth.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
By definition every kid is an untried rookie who’s never played a minute of whatever professional sport they move up into.

MLB just gave out a lot more than 1MM to over a dozen teenagers who have never seen a pitch of college or pro ball.

Not sure what the mental block is for people to accept these are pro athletes now. They get paid on projection as much as anything else. Just like every other sport on earth.
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But in all of those other sports the players are actually under contract. The ability for the player to move at damn near any time is the problem and opportunity.
 
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zbuck said:
But in all of those other sports the players are actually under contract. The ability for the player to move at damn near any time is the problem and opportunity.
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An NIL deal is a contract. Players having freedom to move should be built into those contracts (you don’t stay-we don’t pay) and like you said, it cuts both ways.

They need a CBA to look and feel like other pro sports but there are a couple of major dominoes that have to fall before that can happen.
 
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