I totally get your point, just thought it was funny you chose Clemson as your example. They’d be the last school I’d be worried about stealing transfers.
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Maybe he was about to reach more NIL incentives and he heard UNLV planned to cut him.
Yeah I figured someone would get me on that one. should've used Hurricane Chevrolet.
Holstein paid to not play, haha. Sounds like something that would happen in a Disney movie. Then, at halftime, he comes back to the team, apologizes, says his head was in the wrong place and he doesn't need that stinking money after all, and suits up/leads the team to a comeback win.
Your usual complete nonsense. Many teams will shun him because players like him destroy a team's culture. Narduzzi wouldn't give him a second glance even if he were far more talented.
It's possible he passed on written offers, but they surely were a heck of a lot lower than UNLV's verbal offer.
If you become a script writer, you have a solid idea there 😆
Matthew Sluka’s agent, Marcus Cromartie of Equity Sports, first introduced himself via email to UNLV collective officials in late August, Sine says.
Cromartie wrote to officials that he was seeking more NIL opportunities thru the collective for his client. However, Sine said Cromartie is not a registered agent in the state of Nevada. Because of this, he advised Cromartie/Sluka to discuss the situation directly with the coaching staff until Cromartie registers in the state.
Sine says he has email exchanges with Cromartie.
It was only a matter of time until someone would decide that they are more important then the rest of the team that they play for. I would have thought that when the "playoffs" neared that this would have happened, but to see it so early in the season, it is a little surprising. Then again, all you need is one super douche bag to make it an issue and well, UNLV Matthew Sluka is yours.
If any of you think that this will be the only one this year, you would be wrong. What happens if a 12-0 Top 5 team qualifies for the "playoffs" and then their starting QB decides I want more money. He says he will hold out and prepare for the NFL unless he is given an additional $5 million dollars to play. I am willing to bet that just about every school will pay.
I used to love college football, much better in my opinion to the NFL, but not any more. The GREED of the entire sport disgusts me. The schools (ALL OF THEM,) their conferences, their media partners, the players, the agents, all of them suck for ruining college sports for all of us.
Back to Mr. Sluka. I have no idea of what you asked for or what you were promised to go to UNLV, it really doesn't matter. You SUCK and I hope that every other college football program sees what you have done to UNLV and your former teammates. You should never be offered a spot on any college football team ever again. You have shown that you were and always will be a self-centered jagoff and had no real interest on being a member of the UNLV football team. It was all about YOU and that is wrong.
While I agree greed has ruined it for the most part, the fans continue to watch and spend the money, so the beast keeps getting fed.
I refuse to watch the big or sec. I only really watch Pitt. I donate because that is the system we have. But when a few million watch these super matchups, it shows we support this.
That would be so awesome if it happens to someone other than Pitt. I so hope somebody does this.
pittdan77
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This sounds like the plausible answer given what's being written.
Agent: QB left UNLV over unfulfilled $100K offer
Matthew Sluka's agent says the QB left UNLV because the school did not fulfill a $100,000 verbal offer from an assistant coach.
Father claims that Sluka was offered $400-500,000 from P5 schools including B1G and SEC schools but went to UNLV at an 80% discount.
My money is still on the unregistered (in Nevada) sports agent making promises he couldn't keep, spinning a wild tale of his connections, deals he can make, and offers he received. With all claims now being "verbal" the only real way to find out what happened now is if the President of the UNLV collective releases the emails he claims to have.
Edit: Agent is now saying that Sluka can return to UNLV if Barry Odom pays up more than the $3,000/month that the collective offered.
Fingers pointing at Marion to no one's surprise.Agent: QB left UNLV over unfulfilled $100K offer
Matthew Sluka's agent says the QB left UNLV because the school did not fulfill a $100,000 verbal offer from an assistant coach.www.espn.com
Father claims that Sluka was offered $400-500,000 from P5 schools including B1G and SEC schools but went to UNLV at an 80% discount.
My money is still on the unregistered (in Nevada) sports agent making promises he couldn't keep, spinning a wild tale of his connections, deals he can make, and offers he received. With all claims now being "verbal" the only real way to find out what happened now is if the President of the UNLV collective releases the emails he claims to have.
Edit: Agent is now saying that Sluka can return to UNLV if Barry Odom pays up more than the $3,000/month that the collective offered.
I don't see how they bring him back now. It's bad precedent to give in to an in-season power play.
They need to find out who, if anyone, made bullshit promises to Sluka and deal with that. QB should just be next man up going forward.
I literally laughed out loud when I read that. UNLV is taking a stance and saying that pay for play is against NCAA rules. Dudes, the NCAA doesn't care! Pay the man!
pittdan77
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UNLV never violated any laws or rules before. Totally clean.
Yup Regardless of whether promises were broken or not it would be an awful precedent for a team to allow a kid to hold out like this in mid season, Hes not even that good to even justify doing so, Kid is either getting horrible advice or has an over inflated ego and is a moron Im going with both.
Ill ask again who hires and pays an agent for small time deals like this?
pittdan77
Athletic Director
When arena one was still around, those guys had agents. It's not really shocking other than you don't get an elite agent who is working on a percentage on guys who are only going to make small deals.
Fingers pointing at Marion to no one's surprise.Agent: QB left UNLV over unfulfilled $100K offer
Matthew Sluka's agent says the QB left UNLV because the school did not fulfill a $100,000 verbal offer from an assistant coach.
Father claims that Sluka was offered $400-500,000 from P5 schools including B1G and SEC schools but went to UNLV at an 80% discount.
My money is still on the unregistered (in Nevada) sports agent making promises he couldn't keep, spinning a wild tale of his connections, deals he can make, and offers he received. With all claims now being "verbal" the only real way to find out what happened now is if the President of the UNLV collective releases the emails he claims to have.
Edit: Agent is now saying that Sluka can return to UNLV if Barry Odom pays up more than the $3,000/month that the collective offered.
An FCS QB that was rated a 3* in the portal, was offered 400k to 500k, and he took an 80% discount to go to some nobody school?
There’s no way anybody can believe this.
I agree with this. I no longer have faith in the game's "integrity".
We will see more of this. We may also see NFL prospects from weak, going nowhere teams simply quit by week 6.
pittdan77
Athletic Director
Some crazy crap has been promised by coaches in the past so it's not implausible.
Uh-oh.
www.on3.com
UNLV RB Michael Allen announces plan to redshirt, enter transfer portal
Michael Allen announced he plans to take a redshirt and enter the transfer portal after three games with UNLV this season.
I get the feeling this is about to become an annual thing elsewhere now. God I hope this is the thing that finally get this all sorted out with collective bargaining.Uh-oh.
UNLV RB Michael Allen announces plan to redshirt, enter transfer portal
Michael Allen announced he plans to take a redshirt and enter the transfer portal after three games with UNLV this season.
edit: Allen clarified that his transfer is in no way related to NIL, but to being the 3rd string RB and he wants that extra year of eligibility.
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Marcus Cromartie, Sluka's agent, is doing an interview right now on XM 84. He called out the UNLV OC as the person that made the promises. The promises were made without consent of HC Odom or the collective.
Well if you can't trust the word of an unlicensed sports agent that never contacted the athletic department, NIL collective, or head coach and claimed the FCS QB had half-million dollar SEC offers, then tries to renegotiate after his client publicly withdraws from his school, then whose word can you trust?
Even though Addison ended up at USC, not Texas, there is no doubt that Marion encouraged him to get out of Pitt and get the biggest bag he could get. That may well have actually been sound advice, but Marion also was being petty and looking to harm Pitt anyway he could on the way out the door & also to build his own rep by at least getting a TX visit from Addison. I don’t think Marion has many people around here that will give him the benefit of the doubt.
Yea. I hear he will get his show-cause right after Sean Miller gets one. If anything, Marion deserves a promotion for landing this kid. The NCAA created this. Not Marion.
Also, what's the deal with Western PA guys and NCAA stuff: Miller, Cal, Sonny Vaccaro, that South Side, Marty Blazer, now Marion? We are over-represented.
Actually, Cromartie contacted the NIL collective. And he wasn't the person that made the claims about offers from SEC schools.
Whether he's licensed in the state of Nevada or not doesn't really have anything to do with the credibility of his story.
Obviously, there were text or email exchanges in this situation, so there's going to be receipts.
He contacted them in late August 2024, about a deal that was supposedly struck in December 2023. And I think an agent illegally performing his duties despite there being an easy path to legitimacy just further speaks to laziness or shadiness on his part.
And so it begins.....
This is actually going to be entertaining.
No. He quit because he got benched for his play during the Notre Dame game and cited Covid and preparing for the draft as the reason.
I agree. College football is a complete mess now. It's becoming unwatchable. I went to the Pitt-YSU game last Saturday and I'm just not that interested in Pitt or college football that much any longer, all because of NIL and the overpaid primadonnas and entitled brats playing. All major programs are at fault, including Pitt. And these kids are greedy and don't care about the program or school at all. I can't support that because it's just another version of the corrupt NFL. If and when they ever get back to playing real college football again, I'll reconsider.
