Ryen Russillo will begin his Barstool Sports era in October. Barstool founder Dave Portnoy confirmed that the Ringer podcaster had officially signed a deal with the company during Thursday's episode of The Unnamed Show with Kirk Minihane and Ryan Whitney.
According to Portnoy, the Ryen Russillo Podcast will be coming to the Barstool network and Portnoy will partner with Russillo on other projects outside of Barstool. The ability to do other things sounds like what was most appealing to Russillo and Portnoy didn't think it was about money, but said that money was the "primary driver." Minihane and Whitney tried to steer Portnoy towards talking about Russillo's relationship with Bill Simmons, but he didn't seem like he knew any details and didn't want to put words in his new employee's mouth.
