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TheOriginalCane said:
I've covered this on a separate thread.

THIS IS NOT AN NIL ARRANGMENT, and it is highly unlikely that UiF ever reviewed this contract. Dexter was not required to provide any NIL services to the "Big League Advance Fund".

Instead, this is an illegal/illicit advancement of funds against future ATHLETIC (not NIL) earnings. It is the functional equivalent of a player signing with an agent and the agent beginning to advance him funds against his eventual professional contract.

This advancement of funds was provided in Spring 2022, which means Dexter became ineligible to play college football at that point. So it is very possible that Slingblade Billy and the Gaytors will have to forfeit their 6 wins from last year.
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Agreed… by filing the lawsuit he may have to put the football program in jeopardy by proving the shady dealing. Like you pointed out… not true NIL earnings. I’m guessing some boosters will have to pony up some funds to satisfy both sides.

Considering how the NCAA came after Harbaugh and Michigan. This situation has “lack of institutional control” all over it.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I've covered this on a separate thread.

THIS IS NOT AN NIL ARRANGMENT, and it is highly unlikely that UiF ever reviewed this contract. Dexter was not required to provide any NIL services to the "Big League Advance Fund".

Instead, this is an illegal/illicit advancement of funds against future ATHLETIC (not NIL) earnings. It is the functional equivalent of a player signing with an agent and the agent beginning to advance him funds against his eventual professional contract.

This advancement of funds was provided in Spring 2022, which means Dexter became ineligible to play college football at that point. So it is very possible that Slingblade Billy and the Gaytors will have to forfeit their 6 wins from last year.
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Not a lawyer like you. But that's exactly what I was thinking when I read the Tweet. Reminds me of Reggie Bush and Maurice Clarrett.
 
Ucrazy said:
Use that **** for negative recruiting! Every other school & their mother has no problem doing it to us!
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I would absolutely use this against the Gators in recruiting.

From my perspective, negative recruiting is when you manipulate the truth like "Miami is such a violent city" even though the college is in Coral Gables, or Mario runs a Bro offense that no WR is going to get drafted out of even though he just hired an Air Raid OC.

In this case, you just state the truth. People affiliated with the UF program steered this kid into a predatory and illegal contract. I don't see how that's negative recruiting.
 
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So…. He broke the nil rules, he was ineligible, they’re gonna forfeit games, and he might still have to stick to that contract?
Whoever he signed the contract with has him by the gonads, if it ends up being ruled legally binding.
Maybe the lawyers can chime in after they stop laughing at my post and ignorance of the law.
I wonder if anyone who wrote that contract is a lawyer.
Because 25 years seems like an awful long time and there’s no way anyone has a 25 year nfl career. There might be some fine print that says that everything he does for the next 25 years may actually be because of his NFL status. So that includes endorsements, TV, commercials and depending on what state he’s in, maybe even a pension?
 
grover said:
I would absolutely use this against the Gators in recruiting.

From my perspective, negative recruiting is when you manipulate the truth like "Miami is such a violent city" even though the college is in Coral Gables, or Mario runs a Bro offense that no WR is going to get drafted out of even though he just hired an Air Raid OC.

In this case, you just state the truth. People affiliated with the UF program steered this kid into a predatory and illegal contract. I don't see how that's negative recruiting.
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I think it’s more simple than that… negative recruiting just as it implies, saying anything negative about another program true or otherwise to sway a recruit against said school.

True, slightly true, bent truth or flat out lie.
 
A gator signed a bad contract?
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grover said:
I would absolutely use this against the Gators in recruiting.

From my perspective, negative recruiting is when you manipulate the truth like "Miami is such a violent city" even though the college is in Coral Gables, or Mario runs a Bro offense that no WR is going to get drafted out of even though he just hired an Air Raid OC.

In this case, you just state the truth. People affiliated with the UF program steered this kid into a predatory and illegal contract. I don't see how that's negative recruiting.
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Absolutely. We ALL need to start talking, loudly and publicly, and explain that the Gaytors are about to lose scholarships and go on probation for this.

It's egregious. A kid blows into his junior year with an extra half-million in his pocket (NON-NIL) and nobody notices?

Give me a ******* break.

Let's dirty-recruit the **** out of the Gaytors with this.
 
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FuriousStyles said:
Agreed… by filing the lawsuit he may have to put the football program in jeopardy by proving the shady dealing. Like you pointed out… not true NIL earnings. I’m guessing some boosters will have to pony up some funds to satisfy both sides.

Considering how the NCAA came after Harbaugh and Michigan. This situation has “lack of institutional control” all over it.
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The Florida Gators program:



The Florida Gators punishment for lack of institutional control:

 
TheOriginalCane said:
I've covered this on a separate thread.

THIS IS NOT AN NIL ARRANGMENT, and it is highly unlikely that UiF ever reviewed this contract. Dexter was not required to provide any NIL services to the "Big League Advance Fund".

Instead, this is an illegal/illicit advancement of funds against future ATHLETIC (not NIL) earnings. It is the functional equivalent of a player signing with an agent and the agent beginning to advance him funds against his eventual professional contract.

This advancement of funds was provided in Spring 2022, which means Dexter became ineligible to play college football at that point. So it is very possible that Slingblade Billy and the Gaytors will have to forfeit their 6 wins from last year.
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Excellent point.
 
AlexCane said:
For those of you saying he should have hired an attorney, I’d wager most of these kids don’t have the money to do so (which is why they’re signing these deals to begin with).
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The attorney would have collected from any deal he signed, even if he recommended he not sign this one. I think players should get paid but not like this, handing millions to dumb 18 year olds in this wild west market is gunna lead to a lot of **** like this.
 
AlexCane said:
For those of you saying he should have hired an attorney, I’d wager most of these kids don’t have the money to do so (which is why they’re signing these deals to begin with).
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If you're being offered a contract for over $400,000, you hire an attorney by any means necessary. The contract is morally repugnant, but failing to hire an attorney when that kind of money is on the line is absolutely not an excuse.
 
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