Timothy Washington

Ex-Google | Ex-Meta | Founder, Washington Solutions | The Plug Newsletter | Former D1 football (Syracuse, UMass)

[Timothy Washington @TimWashington_]

Parents, your kids don't need more exposure. They need a process.

Exposure without a plan is just more people watching your kid not get recruited.

A process is the work: the right schools, the right coaches, real film, and real follow up, every week.

That is what we build at Washington Solutions.

#CollegeRecruiting #StudentAthlete

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@FOS $13 million owed back to the team is not a contract dispute. That is trust gone. When money gets clawed back, the relationship is already over. The only question left is who writes the check first.

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@SBJ @Fanatics Fanatics is not staying in its lane. Merch was the entry point. Now it is production, content and the live event itself. That is how you go from selling the jersey to owning the stage around the game.

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@FOS If ticket platforms cannot make the math work with the World Cup and football season on the calendar, the problem is not demand. Fans are there. The fees and the model are what people are pushing back on.

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@FOS Last push in a lame duck session tells you how fragile this bill is. College sports wants federal cover for its money rules but Congress keeps moving the deadline. If it restarts, the fight starts over too.

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@SBJ $7 million a year for a college stadium name tells you where the money hunt has gone. Schools are selling everything that is not nailed down. The budget gap is real and naming rights just became part of recruiting math.

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SIGNED.

Ty Hawkins, junior 1B/OF at Landstown High School (VA), Class of 2028. Wow Factor National. 86 exit velo, 7.0 sixty.

Washington Solutions runs his recruiting: profiles, film, and coach outreach.

Welcome to the family, @tytheguyhawkins

#Baseball #ClassOf2028 #WashingtonSolutions

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@TheAthletic The Monday Night Football booth is not just a TV job. It is one of the biggest stages in sports media and the money and influence follow it. Brees knows that chair can build a second career as big as the first one.

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@kbadenhausen Otro exploring a sale tells you how fast F1 money moved. A stake bought in 2023 with RedBird and Ryan Reynolds involved is worth a different conversation now. Celebrity money was the headline. Appreciation was the play.

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@FOS The PIF was never just writing checks. That $495 million came as a secured loan, which means they hold the leverage if LIV folds. When the money owns the debt, the money owns the ending too.

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@On3NIL @PeteNakos $7.5 million for a college quarterback tells you everything about where the power is now. The portal made the market and the market keeps resetting itself. Schools are not recruiting anymore. They are bidding.

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@RossDellenger @YahooSports A cap with fines that big is not really a cap. It is a price tag for winning. The richest schools will do the math, pay the fine, and keep spending. Everyone else gets told to compete anyway.

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Final line for Reyez Ortiz, Hillcrest RB, Class of 2027:

2,137 rushing yards, 28 rushing TDs, 194.3 a game. Career: 3,966 and 52. No. 1 in the Sunbelt League, No. 3 in the Southern Section.

@thereyezortiz
https://t.co/FR1S3T21NE

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@krobertson8438 Appreciate you bro!

[Timothy Washington @TimWashington_]

Parents, your kids don't need more exposure. They need a process.

Exposure without a plan is just more people watching your kid not get recruited.

A process is the work: the right schools, the right coaches, real film, and real follow up, every week.

That is what we build at Washington Solutions.

#CollegeRecruiting #StudentAthlete

[Timothy Washington @TimWashington_]

@FOS StubHub and Vivid Seats posted bad earnings even with the World Cup and football starting. If you cannot win in that calendar, the problem is not demand. The ticketing business itself is getting squeezed.

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@FOS The Knicks run was culture and the SEC filing proves Timberland knows it. A title run moved boots. That is what brands are really buying in sports, moments that show up far outside the arena.

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@TheAthletic @ralphDrussoATH @ChrisVannini Staying at 12 was untenable because the money would not let it stay at 12. Expanding to 24 teams is not just a format change. It is more inventory, more television, and more schools fighting for a piece of it.

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@On3NIL A jersey patch used to belong to the pros. Now Iowa basketball is selling that space too. Every program is hunting new revenue and the uniform became inventory. That is the era we are in.

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@RossDellenger Tennessee players negotiating a term sheet with salary caps and guaranteed pay is not a side story. That is college sports growing up in real time. Once athletes sit at the table, you cannot put that back in the box.

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@FOS Brady walking away from Birmingham City is the other side of athlete ownership nobody posts about. A minority stake and an advisory title only work while both sides believe. When the belief goes, so does the celebrity owner.

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@Sportico @MuhammadAli @AuthenticBrands Ali has been gone a decade and his name still does deals. That is what protecting your IP actually looks like. The fights made him famous. The partnerships and the ownership of his story are what keep the legacy funded.