Football Mikai Gbayor enters the transfer portal
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Guess Spring in Missouri didn't work out. Watson-Trent kinda took his spot here.
This is a very silly post with the NIL and transfer portal as we know in April 2025. Just because a player comes here (attends classes?) and stayed out of trouble for a year or two with some contributions on the football field no longer resonates a bond of "Once A Husker" as it once did.
But did he already get the Mizzou nil? So he could potentially bag that money plus more from another school?
Sounds like a LB there got another year of eligibility and a couple younger guys ticked up a little.
He’s honestly just average if we are being honest. Hopefully we upgraded.
I would have been fine with him staying at Nebraska. Worst case he's good depth.
Exactly. It didn’t hurt me to see him go, wouldn’t have hurt if he stayed. With how they seem to like to rotate LBs, he was at least a solid veteran that could rack up 35+ tackles as a rotational guy.
"Once a Husker" has always been use sarcastically as far as I know.
Or an example of how the coaches used it to nudge them out. I can’t prove this as coaching staffs rarely discuss transfer reasons but I’m guessing a large portion of our transfers are either mutual decisions or coach initiated. The transfer portal is a coaches dream for coaches that need to turn their roster.
No, he wanted even more money and is heading to go play for Bill Belichek, allegedly.
Typically was good for 2-3 notable plays per game but then got lost in the shuffle. Literally.
To be fair, outside of “V9’s” flashes late last year no one has jumped off the page at LB in this system.
Whether he can keep any NIL money simply depends on the terms of the contract.
Mainly due to having weakish talent at that position. When your main inside guy is a converted walk on safety, you have a problem.
Selfishly, I miss the 4-3 because I know what good LB play looks like in that system. No idea wtf is going on in the 3-3-5/4-2-5/2-8-1.
Nobody is clawing back NIL money that's already been paid. Zero chance.
That said no school is dumb enough to pay NIL as a lump sum. I'm sure Gbayor got paid for his three month but thats about it.
Totally agree. Same with DL as it was easier to conceptually understand who your DTs were and who your Strong/Weakside DLs were. I'm pretty lost with a lot of guys on what they really are. Like what is exactly is the Nwaneri? Is VanPoppel replacing Ty or Nash. Does it matter?
I'm fine with running this D but as a fan its confusing.
Don’t believe Proctor made that much in his brief stint at Iowa. Iowa still basically paid some money for nothing but doubt Proctor himself came out much different than if he just stayed at Bama
But we should of course still laugh at them.
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Exactly, but you're just saying the same thing a different way. This goes on all the time, relocation packages with a 2-year minimum requirement are just one example.
Goes on all the time where? It certainly goes on in the real world with employment contracts. Not the looney world of NIL though. Those contracts don't work for NIL so don't think we are saying the same thing. There is no "it depends on the contract" as the contracts you are describing are illegal for NIL.
I think we’ll get a taste of what it looks like this fall. Players >>> system.
It’s also confusing to the other team’s offense, which is my favorite part of it.
For sure. I don’t think Husker06 and I were trying to say its a bad type of D. Just its more confusing as fan on who fits where.
As you noted, confusion is part of the point.
For starters its not easy because players have the ultimate leverage. Nobody will agree to that when 7 other schools are desperate for your services and not requiring it. It's like people arguing we should negotiate contracts with our coaches that are more outcomes based instead of straight salary/buyouts to put more skin in the game. I suppose its conceptually possible but a good luck ever getting a coach to agree to it.
You will structure an NIL agreement to terminate if a player is no longer with the program as they can't be in position to fulfil whatever was going to be asked of them to leverage the Name, Image and Likeness.
I'm saying you can't claw back money that was already paid though because you are inherently writing contracts that give the appearance the players are (1) Employees and (2) That its Pay For Play. You can't do that as you are basically admitting they weren't paid for NIL in the first place. Hence my not legal comment.
Until everyone acknowledges the fact they are employees and it is pay for play, you'll never see contracts with clawback provisions, buyouts, etc.
Final thing I'd say is putting legality aside, clawbacks even when clearly defined in contracts are really freaking hard actually pursue against once someone has the money in their pocket (v. having an future payment owed you can garnish from). It often times end up costing more $/time to litigate so most aren't pursued. Even if deserved, no school is going to be chasing a kid around for $50-100k as the public optics won't be good and it will be used against them in negative recruiting.
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I disagree because the other 7 schools are writing the same terms into their agreement. Secondly, the optics won’t be bad. Public sentiment towards NIL when a player leaves is definitely not favoring the departing player.
