More reason to hate Miami

There was a great story from a Washington Redskin player decades ago.
A diehard fan told him he didn't care if the 'Skins' lost 13 games...as long as they beat Dallas twice.

I feel (almost) the same way, we must beat Miami and FSU or the season is lost.

 

Northwest Florida hasn’t really been competitive in the last 20 years anyway. Pensacola Catholic is competitive in baseball only because they are private and they funnel kids there from T-ball all the way up. Public schools don’t have a chance.

 

I saw this earlier too and almost fainted when they said HS kids can get NIL. This is going to be the death of not only college sports, but pro as well. Also how tf are minors going to be allowed to sign legally binding contracts??? What a mother of a future nightmare...

 

Probably happening already but this is where the georgias of the world will just get the jump on the highest rated "must gets" and feed them an NIL deal by a friend of the program.

 

Without a doubt, without 1 single doubt. And the ncaa is already warming up their "iNvEsTiGaTiOnS" against FL high schools.

 

In the state of Florida, children have been given contracts for decades. Just not for athletes. Modeling and acting are well entrenched in several states. Obviously, legal guardians will be involved where the law requires.

 

I didn't even think of that, I guess just the sheer insanity gave me tunnel vision.

 

When I read this I wonder far more about the payers than the payees: what kind of idiot adult takes their money and pays high school players? Is their life really that small?

 

Yeah no doubt, and what business would want to tie money into a HS student that possibly has very little to offer in return? Especially small towns. Or, like was mentioned what's going to stop ug, Bama, osu, Texas Oregon, etc from routing money??

 

Top 300 hs kids are probably already collecting bags.

 

Ugh.

 

One of the local HS teams in my area just won the state title, they were runner up last year. While kids can transfer and get exemptions they aren’t paying kids to go there. The “richer” schools are losing players to this school because the team has done well at getting players to go D1

 

How do you know? I don't think they would be announcing it to the general public if they were.

 

It's probably not healthy for me to have more reason to hate Miami.

 

One well known school in Jax was known for handing out scholarship to targeted athletes——

 

Secrets are hard to keep, I actually know the parents of one of the kids who xfer from one of the HS to the State champion team, he did it for more exposure plus the HBC was hatted by most of the O so a bunch of kids left 2 years ago.
UF actually got one of their DL and almost got a safety from them this year. My son grew up playing with quite a few of them.

May happen in the future but the local SB still controls where a kid can go unless they are going private. Now the private schools may start doing it.

 

Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t that perfectly normal and acceptable?

 

Thanks RealGator, I watched as well, very informative, especially about Ruiz. NIL is now changing the landscape of High School football as well.

I agree with you about your Mountain Brook comparison.

If left unchecked HS and College success will be defined by the highest bidders, biggest financial contributors.

Just lovely.

 

Not that I needed any more reasons to hate Miami, but thank you for the info RealGatorFan.