Looks like we have what may be the first NIL holdout? UNLV’s QB sitting out due to unfulfilled promises.
UNLV QB
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I love this. Remember, these arent pay for play deals, right? Whoever agreed to pay this QB to do a commercial or appear on a billboard to help their business should have little relation to how many games or how well this player played. The deal is supposed to be: "We think you are a recognizable name in the Las Vegas community, we want to pay you $20,000 to do a commercial for our casino." Not, "if you transfer here from Holy Cross, we will pay you $200,000." No idea what was promised to him. Just threw that number out.
I always say either make them employees and pay them real salaries or enforce these pay for play NIL deals and make everyone ineligible because pay for play is still against the rules
You know this was Marion’s fault. Anyone who’s arrogant enough to tell recruits he’s going to be the OC while he’s WR coach still has it in him
How broke are the UNLV bagmen? It’s not like this kid was some elite transfer. Most of us probably have in our account what it would have taken to land him.
I don't think their broke, they just felt they could get away with stiffing the kid on whatever was promised.
Who? Who is going to do this? The NCAA can't because their 2,700 lawyers are too busy fighting the dozen lawsuits regarding NIL to handle the absolute deluge of lawsuits that this would result in.
You think schools or conferences are going to police themselves knowing that the other conferences will pounce on their weakness? The second they do they would also get slapped with a lawsuit.
The only way college football survives is if the NCAA allows schools to allow students as employees, then one-by-one each school adopts that stance. But at that point I can't imagine the B1G and SEC not just breaking away because what good is the NCAA to them at that point? The only way I can imagine college football surviving as college football is with Congress stepping in to give a collective bargaining without full employee rights type of situation.
A few sources saying that kid's agent was approached with a $300k offer to transfer and UNLV wouldn't match it. Not sure how legit it is since he only has a season left after this and takes a major integrity hit (unless he can frame himself as the victim of unpaid promises).
pittdan77
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Oh yeah, like that even matters anymore. Once you opened the turnstiles and made these kids perpetual free agents, all of that rah-rah nonsense went out the window.
pittdan77
Athletic Director
This notion probably isn't too far off base. For all we know Marion is already planning his another jump and promising this kid he has a starting spot at the next stop.
