On “The Oklahoma Breakdown Podcast” with Gabe Ikard and Teddy Lehman, Ikard, who played at OU, is a member of the gameday radio crew and is frequently around the program, characterized Green’s decision as a blindside hit.
Ikard, however, revealed some unseemly details during his podcast.
Ikard said Green and his family met with OU’s NIL collective “and they had some demands … and the collective was willing to meet those demands.”
Ikard said after meeting with head coach Brent Venables, Green went back to the collective and said, “I’m not signing for less than X (undisclosed amount) … and the collective went, ‘OK,’ and discussed it, and they got to the dollar amount he asked for.”
But in the podcast that published on Wednesday, Ikard said while the team was practicing Tuesday afternoon, Green was seen by a team support staffer pushing a cart with his belongings out of Headington Hall – while his teammates were across the street practicing for the Alamo Bowl. Ikard said when the staffer asked Green what was going on, he replied, “You’ll have to talk to my dad.”
“This is how everything was relayed to me (from) people there were heavily involved in these conversations,” Ikard said.
On his podcast, Ikard emphasized the family part of it.
“There are other people more responsible for this than Cayden,” Ikard said.
“I promised I would not say the number, so I ain’t saying it. But what OU’s collective offered him, the number he asked for that they got to, the contract with that number on it they sent him, I believe it would quite possibly make him the highest-paid offensive guard in college football next year.”
“It’s a ton of money for one season for an offensive guard,” Ikard said. “Clearly there’s some other things going on here.”
He gonna hate on miami every chance he get til eternity.
easy. With no fight.
. His First year almost beat them.
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