It's the disorganized, unregulated way that this new reality has come about which creates absurd messes like this. While you do get the rare pro player hold out over a contract dispute, the circumstances around that are usually established during the off-season resulting in the player making it clear from the beginning of the season that they won't participate. In this crazy case, this kid is now walking out on his team and fanbase after they've started an exciting season. How demoralizing is that.
this is what happens when multiple governing bodies (NCAA, state legislatures, etc.) create rules they cannot reasonably police and enforce.
If the guy is healthy and the coach tells him to play and he says no, then kick him off the team. Don't put up with this crap.
He self-kicked. He’ll try again somewhere else. Maybe he’d be a good fit for NU. What a world!
Since college ball is basically junior-league pro ball now, can we sign him on waivers midseason?
Do you get to keep your year if you're kicked off the team for refusing to play? Medical redshirts should require a medical diagnosis and other redshirts should be at the coach's discretion. Until last year with UTEP, I had never heard of a player redshirting himself.
What happened is that you don't make NIL deals with the school. If the school makes NIL payments, that's a big no-no.
Even if the school isn’t making the NIL payments, everyone is talking to the coach. I thought Gundy put things well in his characteristically blunt way the other week.
"“There’s no negotiating now. The portal’s over. All the negotiation’s history. Now we’re playing football."Even if the school isn’t making the NIL payments, everyone is talking to the coach. I thought Gundy put things well in his characteristically blunt way the other week.
“Tell your agent to quit calling us and asking for more money. It’s non-negotiable now. It’ll start again in December.”
Why Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy told players' agents to stop 'asking for more money'
Mike Gundy discussed his take on NIL deals and how he plans to handle them during the season: 'There's no negotiating now'www.oklahoman.com
Based on the QB’s story, UNLV boosters aren’t living up to their end of things. So he’s quitting now, will preserve eligibility, and will go somewhere that will live up to its verbal agreement next year.
His agreement with the school is to play and in exchange he gets a scholarship. The school should kick him off the team for breaking their agreement.
From what I've seen stupidity/culpability on the part of the Sluka campt too. Their claim is that the UNLV OC "verbally promised" him "at least $100,000" if he came to UNLV. Sluka, his family, and his agent's next act was to... enroll at UNLV and start (after finishing his degree at Holy Cross, missing spring practice). He didn't say okay, set up a meeting with the collective, he didn't ask to talk to the donors, he didn't even talk to the head coach.
I'm confused about how all this works. Do the college players actually sign contracts?
NIL deals would be typically contractually backed, yes. Your structure to maintain intern vs employee rules has very little bearing on a contract structured around selling of likeness and endorsement. I agree it makes zero sense Sluka didn't investigate this with the collective far in advance. It makes his agent look idiotic, although it isn't clear to me when exactly the agent was hired.
There are (and already were) stipends in place for Big Ten athletes beyond their scholarships. These NIL payments are something else that come from third parties, not from the school.
I hate it because it means the sport is being destroyed before our eyes.
There’s zero chance those payouts will be equal. Football will take about 85% of that money (as it should).
Yes. So we’ve technically got 2 years left and then college sports is toast. If it doesn’t break before then!
100%. I don’t think people outside hardcore college sports fans realize what this is going to do to the casual following of CFB and probably CBB.
Looks like this isn’t true at all. All the reporting now is the UNLV OC tolld Aluka he could have 100k, and aluka was an idiot and took that as gospel. The collective never came up with the money and told him they couldn’t and the HC disavowed, so now here we are. Sluka was dumb and naive and the school was sloppy and probably full of it.
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Read The Upswing by Robert Putnam. We are riding the I-We-I curve down to its depths. NIL is a great example of what is down there.
