finally got a chance to completely read drew's article and these comments by gary might have been linked before so i apologize:
"Patterson didn’t mention the player by name, but said there are multiple SEC schools still calling one of his highly touted freshmen on the roster.
“There’s five SEC schools calling him and telling him, ‘Here’s what we’ll give you if you come here and not stay at TCU,’” Patterson said. “At the end of the day, that’s just real life. If we don’t do anything about it, within a year we lose him.
“The rules have changed. There is no wrong anymore.”
Patterson went on to say that he’s more concerned about what he described as the “98%” rather than the “2%” that are signing seven-figure deals. The majority of college athletes are not going to reach the pro level, but earning as much as possible during their college years has become a priority now.
“Five-thousand dollars to someone who has dirt on their floors is a lot of money,” he said."
as mentioned before, more than a few of us questioned the lack of action back in the summer and there is nothing worse in sales than being the second person to have to promise something you should have been doing all along