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

Dude, just root for a pro team. Apparently the only thing you care about is the football team and the "kids" who play on it. Do you care at all about the overall institution and its reputation? So just screw Nicole Haislett, Dana Torres and all our female Olympians?

 

Therein lies the problem.

The NFL doesn't want to build an expensive dev league. The NCAA doesn't want them to do it because then the quality of football in college goes way down. The two organizations have worked for decades to avoid this. To solidify free development leagues for the NFL so they can both be viable billion dollar products.

 

For anyone using this to lament how NIL is changing things from "the way they used to be", the fact that we are even in on a QB from Northern California was not the way things used to be. Under the old system, Rashada would be going to the closest best regional school, so Cal if he has the grades or next Oregon or UCLA. We would have never been in the mix.

We would have been recruiting the top Florida QB's like Marcus Stokes, Emory Williams, or Dylan Rizk, or else the 2nd or 3rd best GA QB like Malachi Singleton but it appears we're not even interested in them.

 

Dozens (or more) of them. The USWNT would be a classic case study in the success of Title IX. It's why we're the Brazil/France of women's soccer. I saw this growth in girls sports firsthand as a sports writer in the 90s and 2000s.

 

That last part is baloney and is proven by baseball. Plenty of great players eschewed immediate money for the college experience. They (NCAA) may think that, but they're wrong. It's all relative to the competition. If the average CB in college runs a 4.5 in the new system, then the 4.4 becomes the new 4.3. College fans root for the jersey, not the 40 time.

I've seen too many good and entertaining players who didn't become NFL stars to buy this line of thinking. In fact, we just watched one win a National Championship on Monday.

 

Yeah, if you think Bucs games are better than Gator games, you'll "love" this new era. Crazy me. I always thought the "experience" was 90% about the energy coming from the fans. If I wanted to be cozy and comfortable, I'd watch on TV. Probably explains why EPL is rapidly replacing college football (as a whole) as my favorite sport. Real fans. Real passion. No fake hype.

 

So how do you resolve NIL as it relates to the player?

Easy. Performance metrics. Just like I have at my job, I get reviews and merit based pay increases. Maybe a bonus if I exceed expectations. And out here in the real world if I don’t meet up, I am told to move in. I’m guessing a lot of us here have the same, unless you own the company. A QB (picking on that position for example)has to have certain % completions, yards, interceptions, fumbles all graded. Yes, it won’t help if receivers drop balls but that’s a team issue, just like I reform at work with my team. Hit your metrics and the money is there. if not….

Why do we allow ourselves to be held hostage by a kid in high school that at best holds promise, but has not played a down at the college level? These kids are handed the world and now NIL, handed money and have not proven a damn thing.

for the school, we get a kid that wants to hit those metrics, and -art of the deal is a place to live, the best food a great education (grades, horrors lol) and the kid has to play in a bowl game. It’s money back to the school.

So yeah NIL sucks, but we don’t have to just sit back and take it.

 

More capital is correct...but it will eventually be passed down to the next generation. At least what the Gov't doesn't take.

 

If we ever end up facing Stokes, it will be the first and only time I will root against the Gators. This BS just brings into light how wrong we did him. I hope he becomes another Bennett. Literally the douchiest thing I've ever seen UF do.

 

Schools surrender specific authority to the conference they join. The conference then could, by agreement (remaining in the conference) regulate within the conference and, as a matter of policy, not allow conference teams to play against teams in unregulated NIL conferences. No SEC team can play a Big-12 or Big Whatever team. Those games are canceled. I'm brainstorming. Yes, there would be forfeit $$ involved but it would be insignificant. Does anyone think ESPN wouldn't sit up and take notice and get REAL interested really quick? The $$$$$ getting interested enough to become involved is the only way this wild west unregulated garbage can be reigned-in. NCAA is impotent and irrelevant.

 

But couldn't the players just challenge it based on the USSC ruling? Whether the NCAA or the Conference, they're still inhibiting their ability to earn money.

 

NIL is not a "job", NIL is a Personal Services Contract. The schools cannot regulate (by law) what the contract contains. If any 3rd party "collective" tried that, I doubt may recruits would even consider them.

 

That sounds good . . . until the LegHumpers come along and say, "Heck, we'll flat-out give you $1,000,000 just to sign with us. No metrics involved." Then you have a weaker offer just like if you only offered $500K and the LegHumper boosters ponied-up their $1MM.

This is not real world. This is pay-to-play. Same as drafting a completely unproven QB in the first round. Not based in rational cost-benefit analysis thoughts but on imagined, potential value down the road.

 

this is not a recruiting issue this is a money issue

 

You are conflating two things. Housing, food, education... That is the scholarship not NIL.
They are not tied to each other.

The schools want a player for their football team, they offer a scholarship.
Fans/boosters/business want to support or capitalize off of a player's status, that is NIL.

 

I don't know the first thing about who he is or what we did to him.

But to me "the way things used to be" was you got 50% of the best players within 250 miles and 25% of the best from 500 miles and whoever had the biggest spike in the gene pool around them won the national championship.

Losing Rashada isn't an indictment of the NIL era. Even being involved with him in the first place is the indictment.

 

For many kids it is a job, a stepping stone to attempt to get to the next level. Education is meh, the majority don’t care. These kids work at it 365 maybe not sanctioned ll the time but they have to treat it like a job.

Again, MIL sucks and is setting up to fail first the schools then the kids. Shame.

 

Yeah I agree they are not tied but as we’re seeing played out in real time is one is being played against the other NIL vs money. We just became 3rd place, and that sucks..

 

Put yourself in Rashada's shoes. You made a deal with an temp company for compensation and now that company wants you to work for another company (UF) for free. Would you show up?

 

No is the short answer. Do we really know what happened? We just don’t know all the details. Any actually. Still if Rashads was committed to UF, and he really is all that, other NIL deals are waiting in the wings