Another Site Claims Rashada requests NLI release from Florida (Denied By His Father)

So is college football just stuck in this moment in time. Unfortunate for us if true.

I thought NIL (name in likeness) was for like video games and stuff or selling cars with a poster. You make the money based on your face getting out there’s, which frankly doesn’t seem as fair to QBs as Right Guards.


What is the deal? NIL was supposed to keep the schools themselves from paying them any money as a form of payment.

What am I missing and I know I’m missing a lot. This was skinny info.

Also, you would think anyone would want to be at Florida. Florida gets more media hype than any team in the state, in any sport, pro or not.

“Literally, it means "name, image, and likeness," and refers to college athletes' ability to profit off themselves. NIL gives players the right to publicity that ordinary citizens already have, but that the NCAA previously didn't allow.”

So how does this pertain to this conversation exactly?

Seems like every player would get some money off of NCAA 2023 alone (not to mention other sports).

This is what you get when you get Senators money, they screw things up. They can’t even run our country and we think they can run our GATORS?!?

 

No, this wasn't the intent. It was to stop schools from preventing players from making money off of their own Name, Image or Likeness. Prior to that anybody but the players themselves could.

But because it's such a fuzzy concept, it can be abused by boosters to funnel money to top recruits. And that's what happened.

If schools stopped trying to prevent players from making money for all that time, realized the archaic concept of mandated amateurism had been abandoned by everyone by the 1980s and treat this more like the business it is, we wouldn't be in this situation.

 

Because the way it is set up, there is no way to prove one way or the other that the NAME IMAGE or LIKENESS money a student athlete got was not indeed a pay for play. If they wanted to make the laws better, they would limit NIL deals to sophomores or higher. Just like the NFL regulates the rookie contracts, make it so incoming Freshmen don't get any money for NIL until their second year. Maybe that would stop the buying of recruits or at least make it go back to the bags of cash in a burger king sack.

 

But they have no ability to limit anything. That's the issue. And loopholes would emerge there the other way, too. EA would bring out their new NCAA game with freshman only or some nonsense. Schools would sell freshman jerseys, etc.

The difference between the NFL and schools is the NFL has actual contracts. If schools want something that's legally binding then they need to sign players to contracts with terms that are agreed to.

This is where it's all going, but the NCAA is still dragging its feet, kicking and screaming.

 

Well then the kid needs to enroll...like he said he was.

 

I think this kid is going to be an INT machine, Emory Jones 2.0, with the slow wind-up, anyway.

I'm just really worried about how this puts UF in a bad light and other recruits may feel we are dysfunctional and sabotage their NIL opportunities

 

Oh shut the hell up

 

NIL is just the cherry on top. NIL only became law in 2021. The transfer portal became official in 2018.

The real problem started 10-15 years ago when for the first time in 20-30 years, all the top players in Florida "suddenly" found reasons to stop playing for the Big 3 Florida schools. Think about someone like Amari Cooper from Miami Northwestern. At any other time since Gerald Ford was president, he most likely would have been a Hurricane with us or FSU having slim shots after that. Never in a million years would he have gone to Alabama.

NIL is just the NCAA finding a way to give an air of legitimacy to when all the most ruthless school decided they DGAF and are going for it because they knew the NCAA wouldn't stop them.

 

True. The NCAA was pushing the student athlete/amateurism farce for decades when they should’ve been implementing NIL as the game of college football started raking in a ton of money. Had they settled it then, we’d be long past the transitional period and past the snafus. I blame the NCAA for this entire NIL mess, those dummies ruin everything.

 

I don’t think the supreme court had intent on helping players but to just uphold the law for any American citizen. I don’t think the Supreme Court gives a shit about football rules, it’s just like the right to work for any citizen. They didn’t have intended or unintended consequences, just whats fair for anyone

 

When US C provided a house for Reggie Bush his mom and nothing happened, the floodgates opened.

 

LOL, UF was seriously going to pay this kid 13 mil?

 

Well, considering the nfl pays qb’s 50 mil a year for top 10 qb’s, it’s not exactly over the top money considering UF may generate somewhere near 50% of what an nfl team does. So 3 mil a year? Not bad really when you sell 90k tickets

 

Florida Football Recruiting: 2023 QB Jaden Rashada recruiting timeline

 

I don't believe the $13M figure, but NFLs pay top QBs $50M a year. Guys who have shown they are worth it. Patrick Mahomes was a 1st rounder with sub $1M in base after proving he could compete in college for three years.

This ... is a very different world. It doesn't make much sense and I don't think it will work like this for very long.

 

SCOTUS didn't care whether it was football or parcheesi, but it absolutely had unintended consequences. We're looking at them.

 

This could certainly be part of the equation.

 

Sadly UF seems to be the poster child for not adapting to the "new rules".

About what I expected with the new semi pro league that has become college football.

What I didn't expect was UF being a sheep ready to be fleeced.

 

We didn’t lose him yet. You’re jumping the gun a bit like on3

 

You can win with a solid quarterback if you have top three recruiting every single year