This article compares the journeys of two quarterbacks, Mayfield and Mateer, highlighting the dramatic changes in college football over the past decade, particularly the rise of NIL deals and the transfer portal.
There are stark differences, of course. Mayfield was a walk-on at Texas Tech and Oklahoma who played intramural softball at OU before introducing himself to and sitting out a year. Mateer reportedly commands a seven-figure NIL package and was the No. 1-ranked prospect in the NCAA Transfer Portal when he committed to play for the Sooners on Wednesday. Mayfield never had NIL , and he never had the portal.
In fact, the Big 12 Conference had to create the hardship waiver to allow him an additional year of eligibility when he transferred from Tech to OU — as a walk-on, paying his own way.College football has changed drastically in the nearly 12 years since Mayfield went from spunky but scrawny QB at Lake Travis High School to walk-on nobody in Lubbock, an afterthought in the 2013 recruiting class.As a prospect at Little Elm High School — deep in the heart of the urban sprawl north of Dallas — Mateer wasn’t coveted as a prospect. He had offers from Incarnate Word, Houston Christian, Columbia and Central Arkansas, then finally landed the big one — Washington State. When he was an unheralded prospect at Lake Travis in Austin, Mayfield had offers from Florida Atlantic, New Mexico and Rice before finally landing the big one — Washington State. That’s right. Just like Mateer, Mayfield was wandering in the recruiting wilderness before Washington State called. Texas Tech, who quickly gave Mayfield an offer to walk on at Tech. Lubbock was a lot closer to home than Pullman, so he took it. Mateer took the opposite path: Washington State and the Pac-12 (and the Pac-2 and the Mountain West and whoever else the Cougars could play this season) were his proving ground, and now he’s coming to Oklahoma to send his career into the stratosphere. Their Lone Star outposts — Canadian for Arbuckle, Muleshoe for Riley — are just 200 flat, dusty miles apart on U.S. 60. Riley was a Leach QB disciple, backing up Kingsbury for one year at Texas Tech before going into coaching under Leac
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