Rashada to Miami

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www.gatorsports.com/story/football/2022/06/27/florida-gators-football-recruiting-reports-nil-jaden-rashada-social-media-inducement-accusations/7746637001/

What a mess. Somebody pointed out the main reason for the "controversy," basically we have 2 NIL entities:

The Gator Collective- For average fans to contribute what they can.

Gator Guard- Bull Gators who are trying to hit the 20 mil threshold that Napier set for a war chest.

6park.news/oregon/big-money-gator-guard-collective-hopes-to-meet-billy-napiers-doable-number.html


What could become an issue is if there's confusion between the two (as appears to have been the case for Rashada) and the Gator Collective really is run by less experienced people with access to the press. Obviously NIL is a fustercluck and has caused a lot of public fighting, but you know what nobody with any experience has done? Gone after player representatives. That is really stupid. This guy already has 25-30 blue chip kids including 2 of the top 5 QBs in the country. If he's getting kids 8 figure offers he's probably going to get more in the years to come. He's sure to be one of many, this is probably already a profile thing "I'm so good I got an agent in 10th grade." Is that great for college sports? Hell no, but it is reality, and the schools that accept it and structure accordingly are already getting results even more quickly than most anticipated.

What's especially dumb is the timing. Nobody has signed letters of intent. Guys can go elsewhere. You've got plenty of uncommitted kids. At the time of all this we were at 38 in the country, a couple commitments later we're still at 31. We need a lot between now and NSD. Napier knows it. He's asked for help and 20mil not in that order. Stop cutting him off at the knees because you got butthurt about a quote from a lawyer.

Guess who was in Miami when all this went down? Cormani McClain, the #3 prospect in the country, our number 1 target, the only 5 star (and kid in the top 75) that has any crystal ball projections to UF. I'm gonna go way out on a limb and say he's looking for an NIL deal and probably a bigger deal than the kid at 45 just got. He at least has an advisor if not a representative. To have a top 10 class he's a must get at this point. Yet in the ultimate relationship game we're out there burning bridges.

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For anyone who did not see that NIL was going to be a disaster for college sports needs to have their eyes checked!

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Exactly why former Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that the NCAA would be better off in litigation (which they apparently wanted to avoid at all cost, even if it meant total chaos) than to have no rules about NIL.

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Jun 30, 2022 23:13:37 GMT -5 Mojave Gator said:

Exactly why former Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that the NCAA would be better off in litigation (which they apparently wanted to avoid at all cost, even if it meant total chaos) than to have no rules about NIL.

Much easier said than done. I don't think litigation would look the way he wants people to believe it would look. There's very little chance that any court would issue an injunction that allowed the NCAA to temporarily regulate the very same public market that the Courts have said they don't have authority over. Even less chance that they say "STOP" everything until we sort this out.

I think he also has an agenda in that the Big 12 is going to die a not particularly slow death now that the majority of their cash cows are gone to the SEC. If things get tied up in litigation (which the NCAA is likely to lose based on really bad precedent) then maybe things slow down, but without an injunction more likely things continue as is or even accellerate. Also, the NCAA could get hit with private attorneys fees in a class action on behalf of every college athlete. It's a lot easier to spend other people's money, I wonder if the Big 12 would consider putting rules in place governing their institutions and NIL? Much easier to regulate a conference these days than the entire NCAA.

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I can't see conferences getting involved in it either. If one conference institutes more restrictive rules than another, it could inadvertently have an adverse effect on recruiting for member institutions.

Perhaps one good thing that may come out of it is the demise of the NCAA. Their rules enforcement has been a joke (some schools have been hammered for less severe violations than what others have gotten insignificant sanctions for), and some schools seem to be under continual scrutiny while others are left alone. The academic cheating scandal at North Carolina, for example, should have resulted in significant penalties. From the NCAA? Crickets, mainly because (IMO) Tarheel basketball is a cash cow for the NCAA. You can't read the book Under the Tarnished Dome without thinking about multiple significant violations at Notre Dame, yet as far as I know they have never been investigated.

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For certain, the NCAA thought they were untouchable. They were wrong. Their selective rules enforcement and self-serving decisions came back to bite them. Good riddance.