Tennessee NIL Infractions?

They are completely tone-deaf aren't they?

 

I agree. But as I have said many times, NIL was put in place to pay athletes for the ACTUAL USE of their NIL. I didn't like it, but from a legal standpoint, how could you disagree with that ruling?

But.. schools (ok "collectives") went balls out throwing money at players to recruit them, with no NIL deals in the works.

This is, honestly, a major recruiting violation. The problem is that the NCAA didn't take a stand and lay down rules straightaway. Now they want to say that the recruiting rules never changed, and if you used NIL to recruit, you are in violation. And they are right.

But they should have said that immediately. When they didn't say that, no one knew what the rules were.

This is a big problem for them.

 

And that's part of the problem. Florida being one of the first, ultimately saw the folly and reversed course. Seems asinine to me for states to have different rules.

 

It is a real mess for sure, but FL didn't reverse course, they repealed and replaced with a even more lenient law to allow Florida schools to compete better. Missouri has a law that allow HS players to get NIL, but only if they go to a University or College in Missouri.

 

Florida should hire the Board of Burisma Holding to administer the NIL

 

Vols started the whole thing back in 84

 

What a weird name

 

I don’t know who I hate more — UT or the NCAA. I hope they both lose

 

Can’t you smell that smell?

 

"Skynrd references for 500, Alex."

 

Skynyrd

just saying…..,

 

They're certainly taking a stand:

 

A scorched earth stand. Translated: "The NCAA should leave us alone and let us cheat like others do."

I used to hear this defense in traffic court . . . "Hey, there were others that were speeding and some even more than me! He was picking on me. It's not fair."

Too bad. The traffic officers can't stop them all. This is about YOU and what YOU did . . . UcheaT.

I just believe there are some major, major things coming for UcheaT to go this nuclear this fast.

 

They didn't start the probation thing, but they did start the process to strip UF of the SEC title after the fact...an unprecedented action in SEC history. The whole thing was begun by Bob Woodruff, the UT AD at the time who was still salty from UF letting him go after the 1959 season.

 

LSU ended up the beneficiary

 

On the other hand, I think I might just have a tad more respect for UT than the hypocrites at the NCAA

 

This will probably end badly for the NCAA. I won't be mad.

 

I’d like to see Tennessee kick the NCAA’s ass. Glad it’s them leading the charge

 

And that's part of the problem. Florida being one of the first and ultimately saw the folly and reversed course. Seems asinine to me for states to have different rules.

Sounds like your quibbling over semantics. The state repealed the law, which seems like reversing course to me. That was my point.
Again, college sports wont work if every state has different rules.

 

They repealed one law regarding NIL and passed a new one regarding NIL to take its place. They made the rules more lenient for the Colleges and Universities. To me reversing course would be to either get rid of the law altogether, or make the existing law more strict. They did neither.