Florida QB commit Jaden Rashada files for release from his commitment after $13 Million NIL deal falls through

[jayboogieman]

Since it seems the players are now employees or contractors, will guys that wanted to transfer instead of going into the draft try to back out and go into the draft or to another school if a NIL deal falls through?

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Controversy is swirling over a $13 million NIL deal that was offered to — and later apparently reneged upon — a Florida quarterback recruit.

G. Allan Taylor, who covers the Gators for The Athletic, published a wild story on Friday about how an NIL collective at Florida offered a contract to Jaden Rashada, a four-star recruit from California, worth an eye-popping $13 million.

On Nov. 10, Rashada signed that deal with the Gator Collective, an NIL booster group run by former Florida baseball player Eddie Rojas.

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[ladypanther]

Well, a contract is a contract....right?

[Tbe]

13 mill for 4 years is late 1st round money.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

It's just going to get crazier and crazier, and dirtier and dirtier every year.

[Tbe]

I can’t wait until some ‘3rd tier’ school somewhere saves booster money for 10 years and then cashes it all in at once for all the top recruits.

 

[OldhamA]

8 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

It's just going to get crazier and crazier, and dirtier and dirtier every year.

Nah, the bubble will burst eventually.

The 'Gator Collective' is literally a subscription service - people donating $10s of dollars a month to buy players. That's illegal per NIL. 

The rich boosters with more money than they know what to do with will still continue to buy all the best players, but the price will decrease once the non-blue bloods stop trying to compete again - and once they realise it's madness spending millions of dollars on teenagers that might never pan out.

[OldhamA]

Just now, Tbe said:

I can’t wait until some ‘3rd tier’ school somewhere saves booster money for 10 years and then cashes it all in at once for all the top recruits.

 

Ole Miss is that you?

[jayboogieman]

20 minutes ago, ladypanther said:

Well, a contract is a contract....right?

Yep. If there is a signed contract, lawyers will get involved and Rashada probably walks away with whatever settlement money he can get along with another NIL deal from some other school.

[OldhamA]

6 minutes ago, jayboogieman said:

Yep. If there is a signed contract, lawyers will get involved and Rashada probably walks away with whatever settlement money he can get along with another NIL deal from some other school.

Word is his representative called Miami before Early Signing Day asking if our original offer still stood (he was committed to the U before flipping for a bigger, evidently non-existent, NIL deal). He was told to kick rocks.

He'll probably end up somewhere like Arizona St or Colorado - it's the kind of flashy signing Sanders loves to make.

[jayboogieman]

17 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Word is his representative called Miami before Early Signing Day asking if our original offer still stood (he was committed to the U before flipping for a bigger, evidently non-existent, NIL deal). He was told to kick rocks.

He'll probably end up somewhere like Arizona St or Colorado - it's the kind of flashy signing Sanders loves to make.

Interesting. Doesn't Sanders' son play QB? I can't see Sanders playing Rashada over his own kid nor can I see Rashada wanting to sit.

[4Corners]

Some players are for sale. Always been like that. They don’t care where they play as long as they get a bag. GG Jackson is another recent example. 

[LinvilleGorge]

The NCAA is gonna have to figure out some type of framework for this stuff. I'm all for the players getting compensated but it can't be a wild west situation.

 

[4Corners]

33 minutes ago, OldhamA said:

Word is his representative called Miami before Early Signing Day asking if our original offer still stood (he was committed to the U before flipping for a bigger, evidently non-existent, NIL deal). He was told to kick rocks.

He'll probably end up somewhere like Arizona St or Colorado - it's the kind of flashy signing Sanders loves to make.

Miami got money. They got a ton of that private school booster NIL money laying around. 
 

They were throwing around so much money to basketball transfers this past offseason that their best player Isiah Wong said he was hitting the portal if he didn’t get a bag. 
 

I guess Wong didn’t like to see Miami buy Nigel Pack from Kansas State for $800K and wanted to make sure he got his taste. 
 

poor form from this kid and whoever is guiding him but this is college sports now. 

[4Corners]

5 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The NCAA is gonna have to figure out some type of framework for this stuff. I'm all for the players getting compensated but it can't be a wild west situation.

 

Well just in the past week they’ve already changed the transferring rule to try and circumvent kids transferring year after year but of course they left some grey area about mental health. 
 

one thing that would help is to 

make all NIL deals public information. Transparency is needed. No NDAs for student athletes. 
 

also, the tampering must be punished and punished severely. USC def tampered with Jordan Addison last year, and Mack alluded to UGA and another SEC school tampering with Josh Downs last off season and of course the rumors about Maye. poo is garbage. Killing the sport.