This is a major cluster…
I hope in the end, however it ends up, everybody is happy with what commercial television wants
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Somehow all of this is the fault of BYU.
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This situation with the UNLV QB is wild.
UNLV starts 3-0 with wins over two Big XII teams (it’s Kansas and Houston, but still…). Their QB announces yesterday that he is leaving the team because “I committed to UNLV based on certain representations that were made to me, which were not upheld after I enrolled”. Basically that they promised him $$ and didn’t follow through with it.
UNLV says that his family hired an agent after they started 3-0, then asked for a truckload more NIL money because his “market value had increased” (rumors are that he wanted another $300K). When they told him no, he simply bailed.
The only people I feel bad for in this situation are the rest of the UNLV team. It has to suck to get off to a great start, then have your starting QB just quit because reasons.
I get that NIL is a part of the sport now, but this wild, wild west approach is ridiculous.
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Stories like these and the Reggie Bush lawsuit, tell me CFB and College Athletics as a whole are likely going away.
Another sign…the Boo Birds coming out in stadiums for the home teams are becoming more prevalent.
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Great teammate !
I wouldn’t let that Fu#%stick anywhere near my program.
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He transferred in from an FCS school and has played a grand total of three games. Slow your roll dude, you’re at UNLV and you ain’t Johnny Football.
That said, it’s also a family said/team said situation. The dad swears that they didn’t ask for a dollar more and that UNLV just didn’t pay what they originally promised.
If only there were contracts in place to avoid just such a situation! Alas…
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Well, if you’re getting paid, you get the good with the bad.
To help us mourn the past and get ready for the future:
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They need to stop calling them NIL deals. What it appears to be is boosters funneling money through the schools to pay players.
It appears the schools determine who gets the money and the amount of the available pie. If it was truly NIL, there would be contracts in place spelling out payment details and what specifically is being provided by the player.
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The UNLV NIL Collective says the QB is full of it.
I’m leaning towards believing the school at this point, tbh.
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What I have heard about the situation is that the deal was offered by an assistant coach before he transferred. Very possible the collective would not have known. Hard to know who to believe at this point.
Edit
Interesting in rereading the collective’s press release they use the term “formal” offer.
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Schools do not have clean hands in all of this. We don’t know for sure what was or was not offered. These kids are being paid large sums of money to play. It needs to be treated like a business transaction and 20 yr old kids are ill equipped for that responsibility.
What we do know is that athletic departments and administrators and media companies have enriched themselves beyond any compensation received by players for a very long time…and they are now needing to pay the piper.
Somewhat along these lines, any guesses/rumors about Wilson’s NIL deal? He will probably get a really nice one next season.
If Cam keeps needlessly taking on tacklers, my guess is $1M.
I believe next year the players may start getting TV revenue sharing, which might drop that amount a little, should definitely help stem any intra-team grumbling, especially from those who previously would have been walkons.
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Let cfb implode. Haha
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UNLV QB1 was a 2x finalist for Walter Payton award and was a top FCS talent. Dual threat. But does lead to wonder why he couldn’t get a better school/deal, even at a P4 school.
Seems it was an informal $100k offer/deal from an asst coach and he has only seen $3k for relocation. So, some lies, deception, and hypocrisy and players are starting to call it out. Of course the school uses ‘formal’ and other language to CYA, but this situation was bound to come up.
RB2 now is redshirting as well, also stating NIL as the reason.
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Those two are giving new meaning to “Runnin Rebels”
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Back when the wealthy UNLV boosters were paying for all the Jerry Tark basketball recruits, UNLV would have been swimming in NIL money.
That was 30 years ago and those boosters have probably all died off by now. I doubt the wealthy Vegas residents care much about UNLV sports so the NIL accounts are probably pretty low.
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University of Spoiled Children strikes again.
Let’s not sugar-coat it…he simply quit.
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In light of the mess that is CFB, we can always rely on one thing - The Bottom 10
USU cracked into it this week with their loss to Temple.
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