BleedGopher
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If CFB does not get this under control, they are going to destroy their product. Have universities pay the athletes directly, implement a salary cap, and be done with it already. Draft high school players.
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ExactlyThis is starting to look more like pro sports than college. Why even have the enrollment rules and scholarships and call them student athletes if all it is going to be is Salary's and pay disputes. This guy basically quit after 4 games.
Sadly it's worse than pro sports because it's less organized. If this happened in pro sports it would be tampering followed by fines loss of draft picks and probably some lawsuits.This is starting to look more like pro sports than college. Why even have the enrollment rules and scholarships and call them student athletes if all it is going to be is Salary's and pay disputes. This guy basically quit after 4 games.
Pro sports has structure, contracts, rules. What is happening in college athletics is just chaos.This is starting to look more like pro sports than college. Why even have the enrollment rules and scholarships and call them student athletes if all it is going to be is Salary's and pay disputes. This guy basically quit after 4 games.
Absolutely - Get a salary cap, come down hard and punish 'illegal money' - essentially NIL.If CFB does not get this under control, they are going to destroy their product. Have universities pay the athletes directly, implement a salary cap, and be done with it already. Draft high school players.
Right on.Puss boy.
This is what I've been thinking, too. Professional sports have contracts, while this is just the Wild West. If things keep going in this direction there will need to be some binding contracts because this is getting out of hand.Sadly it's worse than pro sports because it's less organized. If this happened in pro sports it would be tampering followed by fines loss of draft picks and probably some lawsuits.
Not sure if this is true but obviously changes things if it is.
Don't jump to conclusions or anythingPuss boy.
So the tweets GWG posted claimed he was promised 3K for moving expenses and didn't get it and didn't ask for more money.The Coach JB Show (SoCal based with area connections) just broke that the player demanded $300,000 and UNLV (via the collective?) declined. End of story.
So the tweets GWG posted claimed he was promised 3K for moving expenses and didn't get it and didn't ask for more money.
This one says he hired an agent and demanded 300K.
Pretty different stories but I know which one I am inclined to believe in this current culture. And it isn't the one where the school wouldn't come up with a relatively small sum like 3K.
So the tweets GWG posted claimed he was promised 3K for moving expenses and didn't get it and didn't ask for more money.
This one says he hired an agent and demanded 300K.
Pretty different stories but I know which one I am inclined to believe in this current culture. And it isn't the one where the school wouldn't come up with a relatively small sum like 3K.
The Coach JB Show (SoCal based with area connections) just broke that the player demanded $300,000 and UNLV (via the collective?) declined. End of story.
You'd be a puss to keep playing for a school that lied to you about $100,000.Puss boy.
UNLV also lied to him to get him to move across the country and play football for them. The assistant coach who made the promise likely thought that he would have no recourse (out of eligibility).Come Row the Boat. We have a favorable 2025 schedule and lots of TV exposure.
This is reality now, whether folks like it or not. If I was a QB from Holy Cross/UNLV I would be out to get whatever bag I can get while I still can, because he's highly likely to sit in that middle ground between very useful P4 QB and NFL QB.
If he can get $1M from a school like Minnesota to be the QB1 next year not only is it a chance to try his skills a the highest level but also to bank some money at a young age for the rest of his life.
If I was his father I would support it.
Verbal contracts are binding, they are just harder to prove. If you believe his side of the story, the obligations were not met.Technically correct, since there wasn’t a contract or apparently even a text or numbers written on a napkin. All obligations were met, which were zero.
Get everything in writing, hire a professional to review. Not necessarily former NFL players or Uncle Bobby.
After agent and/or attorney fees, taxes that 100K isn’t going to look like much anyway. UNLV offering $12K to their starting QB is definitely news….
Come Row the Boat. We have a favorable 2025 schedule and lots of TV exposure.
This is reality now, whether folks like it or not. If I was a QB from Holy Cross/UNLV I would be out to get whatever bag I can get while I still can, because he's highly likely to sit in that middle ground between very useful P4 QB and NFL QB.
If he can get $1M from a school like Minnesota to be the QB1 next year not only is it a chance to try his skills at the highest level but also to bank some money at a young age for the rest of his life.
If I was his father I would support it.