Will Compton and Taylor Lewan’s Bussin’ With the Boys podcast has a new home — FanDuel. According to Front Office Sports, the former longtime Barstool podcast agreed to a sponsorship deal with FanDuel and, while no official figures have been released, FOS reports that the deal was “lavish” by all accounts.
Whatever the dollar amount was, it was enough to pry Compton and Lewan from Barstool, a home where the guys wanted to stay but couldn’t turn down the money. The guys indicated during Bussin’ that they would’ve taken a 10 or 20 percent “hometown discount,” but that the offer Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy could realistically make wasn’t even within 40 percent of FanDuel’s number. It’s all love from the Bussin’ guys, though, as Lewan said, “We feel very lucky, and I feel very humbled to be a part of an experience at a company like Barstool for as long as we have been.”
Portnoy echoed these sentiments on last week’s The Unnamed Show, where he was happy for his departing stars and didn’t blame them for leaving. “I actually think it speaks to when we try to get new people, the people here are doing great, but look at the people who have left — they got monster deals,” Portnoy said. “The Barstool Effect works, it’s what we tell people when they come in, there’s no way I could ever begrudge them. I would take their deal too if I was in their shoes.”
According to FOS, Bussin’ will keep its IP and feed, meaning they won’t have to start over from scratch, a major win for the show. There’s been no official word as to when the FanDuel sponsorship will begin.
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