Your Dad would not have let you make your own choices when you were in your 20's?
My dad would have offered me advice and given me his thoughts and then told me that I would need to make the choice that I felt was best for me.
NIL Strikes Again
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My dad would have offered me advice and given me his thoughts and then told me that I would need to make the choice that I felt was best for me.
I would have absolutely asked his advice, and after listening to him, and I know what he'd say...I know what I would do.
...this kid deserves a wife who leaves him after 10 years for a richer husband. hahaha. kidding, sort of.
I mean, if he is REALLY lucky, she will leave him and he will be free and happy! Haha
As we have seen politically speaking. If you have the money you can keep fighting and fighting. The bottom line is they caved and basically allowed an "anything goes
I don't blame the kids and you are right about getting paid what you can while you can. But the adults in the room dropped the ball on this BS.
To be publicly shamed, hopefully boycotted, forced to close or at the very least the University tells them to never come around again and to have future athletes steer clear.
Good for the kid. Sounds like he was a victim of fraud. Someone has to the be adult in the room.
As someone suggested, the fine print is probably at fault here. We would have to see the agreement to call this correctly. Did the university screw him or was it some one loosely tied to the university in no official capacity, such as a car dealer who didn’t deliver on an Escalade via handshake agreement?
His choices are to passively aggressively redshirt or try the legal system. Guess which one is going to get faster results and make a bigger mark?
Bottom line, the whole thing is stupid and needs to be fixed.
Yeah, I totally get that. What we are seeing now is how CFB and CBB has always worked but two things have changed.
1. Now paying players is out in the open and not hidden in the dark like it was forever.
2. Now the PLAYERS have all/more power, because they have freedom of movement.
30 years ago, this kids deal was done behind closed doors, with a bag of cash. And if they said they would give him 200K now and 200K later...well, once he signed, he was gonna be ****ed and his only recourse would be to blab about getting paid which would only really hurt him and his chances to ever play again.
This is where I struggle from an integrity standpoint. If he agrees to accept a job from company A based on the financial package being higher than company B,C,D and after 8 months on the job (where he is likely meeting or exceeding expectations) they decide to not pay him the financial package promised.
He states trying to work with them to make it happen to ensure their promise is fulfilled - hit roadblocks which showed it wasn’t going to happen. As a result his leaving is not an integrity issue in my eyes.
If he was smart... Which he clearly isn't. He should have got the deal cleared before he started playing.
Now the idiot wants compensation.
Now the idiot wants compensation.
My guess, and that is all this is, a guess. If that he was told/signed something saying he would be getting paid weekly or each game, something like that. Or that, just like most of us get a paycheck, we sort of just assume we will get it.
I agree with you though, looking back on it, he should have tried to get it all at once.
It all levels out when you put it in real-world perspectives and step away from the romanticizing of collegiate sports of yester-year.
It’s a business - it has all changed.
I'd want to know that first before I could answer...do we know? Do we know if he quit because somebody offered more elsewhere, as is also being reported?
I can't imagine this taking place if it was just a private business.
I suspect the UNLV NIL collective is at fault here.
could be wrong.
I agree with all of that. At some point the coaches, AD's and admins will have had enough of it, and it will be rectified. Until then we are going to have this mess. No kid playing a game should be getting paid millions of dollars and effectively given the power to hold a university hostage if he/she doesn't get their way. What the hell are we trying to teach our younger generation? That greed and "getting yours" is the only way to be successful in America?
It's lunacy!
With that said I don't blame them for taking advantage of it. I blame the adults in the room.
....if a player gets hurt and cannot contribute the way everyone had hoped, where do you sit on cancelling his NIL deal?
Reason I ask is, I just saw a second Xpost claiming this had something to do with his NIL value increasing, so he wanted more $$$. I have NO idea if true, just wondering where everyone sits on this because those of you who are Ok with him quitting, would you be OK with NIL quitting on players if they don't play for whatever reason?
I would not be...just wondering what the temperature in the room is on that
43% completion percentage and 200 yds/game over 3 games.
I hope the school that tampered to help him with his decision goes in a different direction at QB and leaves him hanging.
I hope the school that tampered to help him with his decision goes in a different direction at QB and leaves him hanging.
I use that word a lot about college sports, we do romanticize it. Just look at the comments we see
"I would have DIED to play for NU" and "I would have been thrilled to walk-on and pay my own way just for a chance to get on the field" and so on, which is great, it is what makes us great fans.
But for players it is different and now that they can make "legal" money, it is very different.
Think how many players were clearly hating their situation for all those years and basically did not transfer because you really couldn't without facing a strict penalty.
If he signed something that said "Hey, if you get hurt, we are not paying you" then so be it.
Dude is gambling on himself at that point and I respect that.
Just like my job now...if I can't keep doing it, they are not going to keep me around.
this is basically what happens in the NFL to the vast majority of guys who don't have guarantees in their contracts
get hurt, get cut, no more $
I don't like it, but it should be up to a players' union to collectively bargain with the CFP or whatever entity represents college football
Then the player is getting ****ed, which is why this QB is going to try and get more for himself.
Clearly it is pay for play, but like you said, it can't be written that way, but everyone knows what it is.
This is not VB where a hot girl that doesn't play can still make millions, or college gymnastics. Where the girl from LSU and the even hotter one from UGA can basically just making thousands of dollars by posting a picture of themselves that old men gawk at (I guess, I don't know for sure, I don't even know who those girls are)
Neither do I (But I could literally tell you their SS#'s)
This is how you disagree with people...no mud slinging, nobody calling anyone a fvcktard, no over the top dramatics what-so-ever, just civil and subtle jobs where you insinuate the person you disagree with is an idiot, but don't actually say it 
I believe they refer to this as the "Honeymoon Stage" of marriage.This is how you disagree with people...no mud slinging, nobody calling anyone a fvcktard, no over the top dramatics what-so-ever, just civil and subtle jobs where you insinuate the person you disagree with is an idiot, but don't actually say it
Little does the guy know that the woman is making notes of EVERYTHING and contacting lawyers.
You can’t transfer anywhere in the middle of the season. He didn’t quit the team McMurphys tweet said he will redshirt.
He should just stick it out...3k is pretty close to 100k.
Awkward position for the kid. Feel bad for my UNLV friends, finally have a football team worth a damn then their original starter gets poached by USC. Now the new starter gets failed by empty promises and has to make a choice of play or sit out to get paid some of the money owed. Sucky situation all around.
I don't blame Sluka for bouncing. If I was promised $100k (I'd get it in writing first before committing but that's beside the point), I can't say I blame him for leaving and trying to cash in. He's unlikely to make the NFL so this may be his only shot at cashing in on NIL. Just sucks.
I don't blame Sluka for bouncing. If I was promised $100k (I'd get it in writing first before committing but that's beside the point), I can't say I blame him for leaving and trying to cash in. He's unlikely to make the NFL so this may be his only shot at cashing in on NIL. Just sucks.
My guess is that he quit now to preserve his redshirt, having not played in 4 games.
I back this kid if that is what happened. I don’t know what promises were made but it is more likely than not that they said X dollars and didn’t come through.
A guy like this needs to make this money in CFB, he will never make the NFL so why miss out?
I see grown ass men in here like, aw…. Dudes a quitter etc but they would do the same thing.
Plus , it’s UNLV so who really cares there?
But the moral is, get the money first before making the move.
A guy like this needs to make this money in CFB, he will never make the NFL so why miss out?
I see grown ass men in here like, aw…. Dudes a quitter etc but they would do the same thing.
Plus , it’s UNLV so who really cares there?
But the moral is, get the money first before making the move.
I just don't get the stance that what this man (not a kid) is doing is sleazy or lacking in integrity. Does your Dad believe in making an agreement and standing behind it? If UNLV lied to this man, they don't deserve his work. Stop thinking of college football as a fun game for kids. It's not.
