A top-ranked 2027 class football recruit reclassified to 2026, an eight-figure recruiting class suddenly counting him in, and a Power Four revenue-share offer that hit the table with a same-day signing demand. We held the line on terms without losing the deal.
Shawn was projected as a 2027 national recruit. The family and his advisors had decided to reclassify him to the 2026 class to accelerate his college timeline. Power Four programs that had been tracking him as a junior now had ten months to sign him. One of those programs came in hard.
The offer was substantial. The structure was complicated. Category exclusivity was carved out aggressively, with an apparel-adjacent block tied to the program's existing brand partner that would have frozen out any shoe or apparel deal for the life of the contract. The program's transaction team wanted the agreement signed before the end of the day, citing a clearinghouse-review timeline that, on close reading, did not apply to agreements finalized before a specific date.
The family had a decision. Sign on the school's clock, or hold the line and risk the offer dropping.
We moved the same day. We confirmed the clearinghouse timeline posture with the school's outside counsel, isolated the exclusivity carve-out to a single brand vertical rather than a category-wide block, and secured a written carve-out for future professional endorsements that was not in the original draft. We locked the economic terms the family had already agreed to in principle and pulled the signing deadline out two business days to let the family read the final version before committing.
We coordinated with Shawn's family business-manager relationship so payments would route to a properly formed Athlete LLC rather than a personal account, and we built a short companion memo flagging the three provisions the family needed to understand before signing. The agreement signed clean. The carve-outs held. The family knew what they had signed.
"They wanted it signed yesterday. Brandon got it signed right."
— Family Advisor
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