UNLV QB is leaving the program immediately due to the school not withholding NIL commitments
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If that's the case, the kid is the a$$hole here. If UNLV came up short on what they promised him, they're the a$$hole.
Basically, whichever side didn't honor their word deserves the flak IMO.
Of course it's true given the circumstances. Odom would have had any broken promises taken care of.
Hopefully, the kid gets blackballed.
Are you sure that's what happened? This isn't a situation where I'm buying what this kid is selling. If this were a power 4 school, I could buy that you got promised money to play and it didn't happen for whatever reason. A mountain west school? not so much.
This reeks of covering his ass so fans don't kill him on social media. Notice how he doesn't give any details and is extremely vague.
Until they can figure out a way for collective bargaining to exist for college athletes the pro model can't happen at the college level. Perhaps Congress can step in and do something but they are having trouble keeping the government running right now so I don't have much hope for that angle.
Would you keep going to work if they didn't pay you what you'd agreed to or took away benefits that you were promised?
I followed up. It was originally couched as UNLV not following through.
If he's just pulling the plug for more money next year, he's in the wrong. I assumed the initial story was accurate.
My judgment here is simple: if one party is going back on their word, they're in the wrong. Regardless of which party it is.
well because sports are inherently about competitiveness. I think the burger analogy is short sided. The quality of my burger doesn't change because of some dude in the back getting $10/hr vs $8/hr. But to your point the lack of competitive balance, this is why I don't bother to watch the Olympics anymore and without some sort of CBA in college sports that is what it's going to become, just a joke and a charade.
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I do. The kid was at partial scholarship Holy Cross last year, put up massive numbers and had all sorts of suitors in the offseason. I'm guessing UNLV gave him a giant offer because that's the only way a kid with his skills ends up there instead of the P4 and they couldn't back up the payments.
If I'm wrong I'll eat crow but this feels like a UNLV problem.
Most of these kids are not getting degrees, the student/athlete has been a joke for years. Most of them are majoring in eligiblity, taking enough classes so they can play sports. Talking about the football and MBB teams here, less than half will get a degree, we celebrate those that do, and never talk about the ones that don't.
It's a weird situation because the guy is in literally the last year of his life that he will ever be able to make money from playing football. He clearly found a team that wants to pay him more, but he can't finish the season due to eligibility, or maybe fear of injury.
I don't think him leaving is the story, the fact that some other team clearly talked to this kid's agent during the season and convinced him to quit playing seems like something that should not happen.
I don't think him leaving is the story, the fact that some other team clearly talked to this kid's agent during the season and convinced him to quit playing seems like something that should not happen.
It doesn't make sense to me to compare college sports to regular jobs. College sports isn't employment. They aren't employees. They aren't hired by the school. They are not legal laborers of these schools. They have absolutely no connection whatsoever to how the working world operates. Professional athletes do not operate within that sphere like normal people.
Sports leagues need compared to other sports leagues, which do have controlled pay structures, competitive balance rules, fair forms of representation, ... But, college is completely unserious as a competitive league and doesn't remotely try to act like one, so here we are. We're in no-mans-land of compensating players.
I'm going to guess it may be a combination of both. I wonder if they promised him some up front money and paid him, and maybe said they'd be willing to revisit things based on how he was playing. Probably not a promise, but maybe he had in his head that he'd have the opportunity to get more if he played well.
I'd like to think that once you get past your redshirt quota this wouldn't happen, but I bet this will become common. Guys that aren't wanting to risk injury, etc. unless they are being paid. Let's say Colorado drops a few more-- if you're Travis Hunter I'd 100% go in and say I need 5 million dollars to play another down or I'm shutting it down and going to the NFL.
All this to say, you couldn't pay me enough to be a college coach right now. I have no idea how you'd even begin to manage everything, especially at a bigger school.
This statement couldn't be more true.
