There's an ocean of money between whatever pittance UNLV gave him to leave Holy Cross and a top of the market NIL deal.
if Riley Leonard can get a milli from Notre Dame I’m sure Sluka can get north of 250k from someone desperate to win
Do we even know what UNLV offered him? And do you truly think a team has offered him at this point in order to redshirt and transfer? He likely didn’t get what was promised, and that’s what this is all about. And if he can get more from another school next season, then more power to him. He deserves to maximize his money-making window in CFB.
“Unnamed assistant coach offering 100k” is a bit sus too tho imo. I’m blaming the NIL agent here as much as anyone else
It’s too soon for me to take sides, though Thamel’s reporting does give credence to Sluka’s story. For arguments sake, other programs wouldn’t necessarily have to be willing to drop the bag on the player- an agent just has to convince Sluka that they might. I cannot imagine there are many people more slimy than NIL agents with essentially no oversight from any actual authority. I’m sure that a lot of agents are just looking to sign as many clients as possible and hope to work their sales skills after that. Sure, they may fuck over some players but they need to pump their client inventory high to find their payday.
Lots of Arkansas basketball players are upset the 100s of thousands of dollars that were promised are being paid in razorback shaped nuggets
Didn’t see his 100k from UNLV till after I posted all that. But yeah, shitty completion percentage or not, he’s done enough in his career to get over 100k from a team.
So they verbally offered him $100k and then it was just honor system about whether they would pay it with no contract or anything? What were his agents doing, exactly?
Pretty incredible that no matter who's lying, the same root cause of an unregulated and poorly designed system is to blame
I mean if you believe them, the garbage can CSU QB was offered 600k to transfer and he's not even good.
What a come up NIL was for street agents. Added overnight legitimacy to them. I wouldn’t trust some of these guys to wash my car.
also, same for some of the collectives. Do you have a moderately successful long running podcast? Sounds good. Please run our football program.
Sucks shit bag agents have gotten involved in this but I guess it's inevitable. Definitely don't blame the kid for leaving. Makes you wonder how sustainable NIL will be in the long run. The boosters are going to get tired of kicking in at some point if the numbers continue to rise.
Not the exact same situation but Xzavier McLeod wanted to take a redshirt after a couple of games last year because he said he was promised South Carolina would be good and they weren’t. He refused to travel to Mizzou so they kicked him off the team and he transferred to UGA and is playing for us
Lmao carl Reed deleted his tweet saying all commitments were met (actually it may have just been edited and reposted). But why in the world is an analyst a contact person for a coach?
There will be a move to formalize binding contracts along with revenue sharing. It’s the only way this can work
I don’t think that a “relocation stipend” is legal. I know that it’s illegal to pay anything until they are enrolled. Everyone does it to some extent — buying out/setting up leases, etc. — but that’s where the bag men come in.
Even if they’re telling the truth it definitely sounds like his agent/handler is just as at fault as the school is
Odom makes like $1.75 million. This season could be his golden ticket. I would have just paid the difference out of pocket.
He missed a lot of throws against Kansas. But then it would be 3-9, and he would scramble for a first down. Over and over. I don't know how well it will translate against P2 teams who have much better LBs than Kansas and Houston. Just hate that now after the 4 game mark, every fan has to be nervous we have to see if your plays will go out and play their 5th game. Before NIL, Khalil Herbert did that at Kansas to leave for VaTech after a big game against Boston College after a Friday night ESPN win.
This guy is the Sean Lewis of this year Got screwed while his stock was highest. Now he'll make probably 3-5 times as much next year at Maryland or some shit
Man, if a Holy Cross transfer is getting $100k at UNLV, the going rate is a lot higher than I even thought. What a crazy and stupid system we've ended up with just to keep from calling these kids employees.
I know what happened, the dumbass agents never got it in writing. He should probably fire them. Looks like this hard-hitting insight was already covered in the thread..
True. Perhaps better worded, if that is even a plausible going rate for a Patriot League transfer to the Mountain West.
I thought NIL would bring UNLV up in the world. They were a pioneer in the space. I guess Vegas is a pro sports town now.
I didn't know who to support in this story until i saw the entire Clemson Rivals board start shitting on the kid and now my decision could not be easier.