Taylor Lewan, Will Compton, Dave Portnoy. Getty Photographs(3)
Contract negotiations are a scorching matter, particularly when Barstool Sports activities personalities are concerned.
“Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan confirmed on Tuesday, January 21, that they’re formally parting methods with Barstool after 5 years.
“What pulled us away from Barstool was that we had a large supply,” Compton advised listeners. “Finally, a proposal that we couldn’t say no to.”
Rumors about Compton and Lewan’s future with Barstool began swirling earlier this month when it was revealed that the duo had been in the course of negotiating a brand new cope with Barstool. It was urged that this might need harm their probabilities on Surviving Barstool season 4, which was finally gained by Ria Ciuffo.
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“Proper now, the ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ crew is in a negotiation for a bag on the subsequent contract,” Compton shared throughout his Surviving Barstool confessional on January 7. “You gotta assume, when you’re Dave [Portnoy] and Dan [“Big Cat” Katz], you’ll be able to’t have the ‘Bussin With the Boys’ guys operating wild, profitable $250K.”
The previous soccer participant, who gained season 3 in 2024, was voted off the present shortly after his cohost, Lewan.
“Successful 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 {dollars} after which probably throwing the deuces to us on the finish of the 12 months,” Compton continued. “So, my hat goes off. Tip of the cap. Dave, Large Cat, nice sport boys.”
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Who Are the ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ Hosts?
Compton, a former NFL linebacker, signed with the Washington Commanders as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He joined the Tennessee Titans in 2018 for one 12 months earlier than signing with the New Orleans Saints in 2019 and later the Las Vegas Raiders. He went again to the Titans for a second stint in 2020 earlier than returning to the Raiders in late 2021. By September 2023, Compton introduced his retirement from skilled soccer.
Lewan, in the meantime, was drafted as a deal with for the Titans in 2014 and remained with the group at some stage in his profession, which got here to an finish in 2023 after being out for the 2022 season with a knee harm.
When Did ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ Be a part of Barstool?
Compton and Lewan launched the podcast in 2019, and joined the Barstool Sports activities community shortly thereafter.
Is ‘Bussin’ With The Boys’ Renewing Their Barstool Sports activities Contract?
The duo confirmed through the January 21 episode of “Bussin’ With the Boys” that they’re going unbiased.
“Now we have a contract to meet with Barstool till [the] Tremendous Bowl and that’s one factor we plan to do is bust our ass all over the Tremendous Bowl for Barstool,” Compton mentioned. “It’s not honest to our sponsors to speak about what we’re doing or what our subsequent steps are and who it’s with. On the finish of the day, we’re going unbiased. We’ll be unique with sponsors however not unique to a community. Finally, we’re unbiased. We are able to collab with whoever we wish to and we now have artistic freedom [and] artistic management, which is strictly the place ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ needed to be from the very starting.”
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Compton first expressed on Surviving Barstool that the “Bussin’ With the Boys” cohosts had been in the course of contract negotiations earlier than Large Cat confirmed the previous NFL star’s hypothesis.
“Dave and I didn’t need Taylor or Will to win $250,000 money on Barstool’s networks after which be, like, ‘Oh, by the best way we’re leaving for a competitor,’ two seconds later,” Large Cat mentioned throughout a January 2025 episode of the competitors collection.
Portnoy spoke additional about this throughout an episode of “The Unnamed Podcast” that very same month.
“Throughout the time of filming [Surviving Barstool] I believed we had been going to resign them, however entering into, I knew that they had been evaluating,” the Barstool Sports activities founder famous. “They’d a proposal. They had been like, ‘We’re going to take a look at the world, see what it’s.’”
Portnoy “didn’t need” at hand considered one of them $250,000 from the sport win and have them depart the corporate. When requested throughout the identical podcast episode if Compton and Lewan had been leaving the corporate, Portnoy performed coy. “I’m gonna allow them to deal with it how they wish to deal with it,” he mentioned.
Throughout the Surviving Barstool finale in January 2025, the query remained unanswered.
“Once we performed that sport, I believed they had been coming again to Barstool,” Portnoy mentioned. (Surviving Barstool was filmed in September 2024. The contestants returned for a stay finale and reunion in January 2025.)
Compton hinted that “there’s negotiating nonetheless taking place” with the present.
“The ‘Bussin’ future with us has nothing to do with this present,” Portnoy clarified. As of now, “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast episodes are nonetheless being launched underneath the Barstool identify.
How A lot Cash Do the ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ Podcast Hosts Make?
Compton spoke concerning the offers he and Lewan made with Barstool throughout an April 2024 episode of the “Subsequent Up With Adam” podcast.
“Initially, [Barstool said] we’ll go 50/50, you guys get the IP. We mentioned no, however we’ll go 60/40 and the minute we eclipse $1 million it goes as much as 70/30 [in] our favor,” the previous athlete defined. “They had been on board with it, then I used to be like, ‘F—, I believe we f—ing performed ourselves.’”
Their “second deal” with the corporate was thought-about a “aggressive supply,” which means they couldn’t store their present round. Compton mentioned he and Lewan have since made a “useful” partnership with Barstool.
“Me, personally, I needed to resign with Barstool. I believe they’re the most effective model for us at this time limit,” Compton mentioned. “We find yourself selecting a $3 million m.g. per 12 months. Now we have the upside with that, each greenback made after $3 million.”
