His Iowa program is a lot like Mullen’s program at Mississippi State was. You have to wonder how well player development will work in this free transfer age. But so far he’s making it work.
Yes it is. Most all 5* are at least good P4 players. But a lot of 4* are Mario Nashes. And some 3* turn out to be superstars. But the odds for a 4* are much better than the odds for a 3*.
Nobody’s melting that he’s leaving. This is a nothing. But it is an example that recruiting HS 4* transfers who could get snaps for a bad ACC team might not be a winning strategy.
So what examples do you have of agreements that stood even though they were less than the 1/3 (or 1/10 in certain cases) legal limit as provided by the statute.
You definitely can have a fixed price FILOT. But as you say it’s not a good deal for you. Because it can only be for more than the minimum. A much better deal is to just negotiate a percent of the tax (ideally 33.3% or big much above that).
There literally is a law that says it has to be 1/3 minimum. If they set a flat fee & it comes back less than 1/3 of the tax, the agreement isn’t legal and they have to either amend it to meet the legal minimum or abandon the project.