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

I agree with this.
My thought is enroll and play. Hire a lawyer and sue the 3rd party for breech of contract. If it's all in writing it would be a slam dunk.

 

Fox guarding the henhouse and a bunch of idiots supporting it.

 

I have said for awhile that we could be a 9-10 win type program with the occasional special year without compromising who we are as a university. I think that’s the legitimate target state right now. But we are never going to be Bama, who literally got UAB shut down because it was draining resources from them, who put monitors on the students to see who left early, who had boosters pay off Saban’s house, etc etc. it’s not a race we will ever win, because they care more than anyone else does (it’s literally the number one priority in the state of Alabama). Whatever we match they will find a way to one up again.
Even LSU literally had floors rotting in their school library and found 25 million for new football locker rooms instead. They kept Will Wade even after they knew what he was and risked sanctions because he was a decent coach. they kept EO after his transgressions until he wasn't the same value prop…
That stuff won’t happen at UF, nor should it. But we can find a middle ground.

 

If money is all that mattered, I would have just stayed with UM.

 

Which is a unicorn....in other words there is no inherent NIL value until he or she signs with team X. Any money earned prior to that is nothing more than pay for play.

 

In that case, it would seem to save a lot of headache and uncertainty to just withdraw and get the NIL from someone else. Its not much consolation to win a lawsuit if the other party is bankrupt.

 

I overall agree and thought that was why we hired Mullen. Spurrier rarely had better rosters than FSU, Tennessee, and sometimes UGA but he made up the difference with scheme. Mullen is similarly an elite X's and O's coach. There's nothing that says Napier is like that.

 

I don't think so. The ability to play elsewhere would hurt their efforts. Also, the conference isn't inhibiting a person's ability to earn money . . . just requiring strict reporting (regulation) in exchange for the PRIVILEGE of playing for a school in that conference. Playing college football is not anyone's right. Like I said though, just brainstorming.

 

Problem is, it's all about recruiting now. Back then, it was probably about 65-70% of the equation. Now it's north of 90%.

 

Yeah, I think Napier was hired as much to overhaul our internal structure (especially our recruiting approach) and modernize it as to win games. I think after Mullen we saw how lacking it was. Which is why he will have a long leash. It’s basically rebuilding the football operation from scratch. Problem is that it came at the same time NIL made a lot of that worthless, but we should still maximize what we can.

 

If he was only coming because of the NIL then screw him.Back in the day there were a number of "can't miss" QB's whose fathers ran the show and not one of them ever amounted to anything. If all a player wants is NIL money then go somewhere else because he'll leave anyway if he fails to succeed.

 

So who's fault is it if this wasn't anticipated if even a blind man could see this coming down the road like a Mack truck?

 

Don’t know if blame is the right word, we are limited by state law and booster willingness to pay and to push the legal boundaries in doing so.

 

Understood but it is kind of hard to see what the payoff is. So we recruit to 80% of the level of the top win-at-all-costs schools but then we are also really average schematically, too? At least with Mullen you could fantasize about finding an elite QB every 6-7 years who could level the playing field.

 

And perhaps why we still comple suck at mens soccer

 

I do agree finding the middle ground is the thing to do. As a fan, I’d sell my soul to hand out bags and win titles. As a human being, I find it difficult to spend 50mil on football while you have people suffering, kids can’t get an education, wealth disparity etc
I don’t think you win titles unless you sell your soul though. Michigan is providing the model really for what we could look like. They’ve made the decision to NOT be Ohio state. They don’t compromise integrity or academics and they win 10 a year. In the SEC that’s probably 8 a year. 10-12 every 4 years if you have older players. Will the fan base be ok with that though? There’s a pretty big swath of the fan base that will wanna fire CBN if that’s the route we take. I can’t promise I wouldn’t be one of them. Emotionally, having to watch Georgia win titles while we fight to keep 4 stars and win 8…. That’s tough.

 

I don’t think football is the same as when Spurrier was winning. You can’t out scheme anymore. We out talented under Urban. Saban and Kirby are doing it now.

 

The payoff is modernizing who we are and maximizing what we have. We were way behind the last few years.
SS would never say this publicly, but if Napier did that, even if he fails on the field and is replaced, he will be a success to the admin because he would set up the next coach and the program for success (at least our version of it).

 

I agree that some of it is quite ridiculous, but on the list of "things that are screwed up with the world", it's pretty low IMO That's not excusing how ridiculous it is, at face value, but it is morally bad?

 

Here’s the bombshell piece that basically pulls the curtain back and exposes it all for everyone to see. It answers several questions I had too.

This has probably already been posted here, I just read it.

What's the timeline, who are the central figures of the Jaden Rashada-Florida saga?

Why did he surprise many and commit to Miami? He got a best to date offer from Ruiz and took it.
Why did he then turn around and flip his commit to UF in Nov and sign with UF in Dec? He got a MUCH better late offer from UF aligned entities.
Why was he very late in sending in his LOI on ESD? Because the deal had already fallen apart and renegotiations were on going.
Is the $13mil figure accurate? Yes, it likely is…and that’s outrageous!
Both “collectives” are tangled up in this mess.