With how dominant pitching is in fast pitch, could it be the easiest sport to “buy” a championship? I was shocked to hear over a million for the Tech pitcher.
It’s a pretty routine practice at big time football schools, Robert Smith quit the Ohio State football team and took a track scholarship over a dispute with Cooper over classes Robert wanted to take. He did eventually come back though
Just thinking of D1 offensive players, maybe Kapsner (QB) Foreman (RB) McFadden (RB), different classes but shared the same backfield at EP. Pretty sure they all had offers from the U? Someone else may have a better memory
I don’t know if anyone knows the exact numbers, so take it for what it’s worth. Ruesse mentioned on Michael Rand’s podcast today the Gophers were at 1.2 this year with Garcia receiving 500k.
I mean I don’t think he intended to die on any hill, he was doing his old curmudgeonly man bit, and without any added context it looked horrible. Now that we know the context it’s a big nothing burger