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QB Quinn Ewers (transfer to Texas)

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Texas’ NIL law prohibited HS students from getting NIL, not college students.
Ewers had a big $ NIL opportunity, which prompted him to reclassify a year early. He could have received the NIL deal at Texas as well as OSU.
IMO, two things contributed to the Ewers transfer:
Texas had just changed to Sarkisian at the point he committed to OSU.
Ewers saw Stroud in action and knew he was going to sit for another year at least.
 
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RB07OSU said:
That is a very valid point. But it also leads me back to thinking how we cocked up the deal and got played. Kid graduates early for a money grab based on Texas law knowing he will just transfer to Texas the first chance he gets.

I get it from Ewers to exploit that advantage, but Ewers is Exhibit A to never letting that happen again for our program. Put all the strings to NIL that we can (outside sponsors can do what they want obviously). I'm thrilled to having ended up with Howard as our QB, but we did a crash course NIL lesson here and it seems obvious that NIL donors took note. It's really not about Ewers personally, but adapting to the NIL approach so we don't get robbed.

As to Ewers personally, he handled himself well in the game and after defeat. I can let shit go quick if a guy mans up, he did and I had to see it to first though. I hope he does well moving forward.
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It seems like our way now is to pay to keep guys from declaring after you know what you got, and hit the portal for what's not good enough. So maybe they did learn a lesson.
 
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RB07OSU said:
That is a very valid point. But it also leads me back to thinking how we cocked up the deal and got played. Kid graduates early for a money grab based on Texas law knowing he will just transfer to Texas the first chance he gets.

I get it from Ewers to exploit that advantage, but Ewers is Exhibit A to never letting that happen again for our program. Put all the strings to NIL that we can (outside sponsors can do what they want obviously). I'm thrilled to having ended up with Howard as our QB, but we did a crash course NIL lesson here and it seems obvious that NIL donors took note. It's really not about Ewers personally, but adapting to the NIL approach so we don't get robbed.

As to Ewers personally, he handled himself well in the game and after defeat. I can let shit go quick if a guy mans up, he did and I had to see it to first though. I hope he does well moving forward.
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Ohio State was the guinea pig for how NIL was going to be with the biggest 5* QB coming out of HS in some time. We learned valuable lessons quickly with Quinn. I think we applied those lessons REALLY well towards last year's transfer class with Howard, Downs, McLaughlin, & company
 
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ochre said:
I also think it's slightly disingenuous to say OSU didn't get anything out of Ewers commitment and attendance. Recruiting rankings matter(ed) still, and it was a pretty solid PR boost having Ewers in that class at that time.
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Plus, I learned what kombucha was.
 
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Here's an article from 2021, before he reclassified and joined OSU. I don't see how folks can claim that he took NIL money from OSU and then ran out of town - he already was offered these deals, with at least some of them from Texas businesses. He and his family took care of themselves financially, and with the amount he was looking to get, it's hard to blame him/them. It was a two-way street - if OSU was so concerned, they always could have told him, no, we don't want you at this time. They must have known the risk of him not staying for long.

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Will America's No. 1 QB recruit Quinn Ewers give up 7-figure NIL offers for one more season of Texas high school football?

Ewers has emerged as such a precocious and recognizable star that he has the potential to earn nearly a million dollars in the next year by profiting off his Name Image and Likeness.
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Ewers has emerged as such a precocious and recognizable star that he has the potential to earn nearly a million dollars in the next year by profiting off his Name Image and Likeness. A local company called Holy Kombucha is among those offering a deal to Ewers, and it includes cash and equity in the company. There are several other offers, including national brands.
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Ewers and his family are facing an imminent decision of whether to play his senior year without the deals or enroll at Ohio State a year early and cash in on endorsements. Ewers is expected to decide this week.

“I don’t really know, I don’t have a final decision made quite yet,” Ewers said in a phone interview on Wednesday. “I’m leaning toward leaving and going up to Ohio, just so I don’t have to deal with UIL stuff and can get comfortable with Ohio and Columbus and start to learn.”
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woofermazing said:
It seems like our way now is to pay to keep guys from declaring after you know what you got, and hit the portal for what's not good enough. So maybe they did learn a lesson.
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I think you're right, we've adjusted quite well since Ewers imo. And we were on the first frontier of NIL.

We're doing great obviously and it worked out, I was mostly annoyed that the media and player comments made it seem like some kind of homecoming. Then Jack did Jack things and disposed of that notion.
 
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