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Can't say Canes without Ruiz...

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Alaskan Cane said:
With Miami's success in the tournament the national press is required to remind people we bought our way there. Evidently no other team in the tournament has transfers or players getting NIL money. A couple of days ago there was a Ruiz story in the Wall Street Journal and today's story of UM in the final four on ESPN has this,

"As Larranaga basked in it all Sunday, John Ruiz -- the billionaire Miami booster and CEO of LifeWallet -- mingled with Hurricanes supporters, players and coaches after Miami became the fourth team since 1979 to defeat a 1-seed, 2-seed and 4-seed en route to the Final Four. They all knew the man who sported an Adidas track suit and a pair of bright New Balance shoes. Ruiz has not been shy about his effort to fund a new era of Miami athletics, as he has made a push to build a new football stadium and has opened his wallet for both the men's and women's basketball programs.

Ruiz's company gave Nijel Pack a two-year, $800,000 name, image and likeness deal last summer; Isaiah Wong, Norchad Omier and Miller all have deals with him, too. LifeWallet also has NIL deals with Haley and Hanna Cavinder, who play for the Miami women's team that just reached the Elite Eight for the first time in program history."
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Not sure how good their reporting is if they say Omier has a deal lmao. International player can’t have NIL
 
423Hurricane said:
It’s the same negative narrative the media has been spewing for years now and no matter what we accomplish, it won’t change any time soon.

So be it.
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Why is it negative? I see it as a positive, a major positive. I think you guys get so obsessed with this us against the world mentality you miss the bigger picture. Money is very important. If Im a kid, and all Im reading is about Miami paying players, and paying them legally, that makes me want to go to Miami. Now their intentions maybe negative, I dont know and I dont care, the result is positive. I want the media to make it seem like we are the only ones that are paying...
 
bobbydigius said:
Why is it negative? I see it as a positive, a major positive. I think you guys get so obsessed with this us against the world mentality you miss the bigger picture. Money is very important. If Im a kid, and all Im reading is about Miami paying players, and paying them legally, that makes me want to go to Miami. Now their intentions maybe negative, I dont know and I dont care, the result is positive. I want the media to make it seem like we are the only ones that are paying...
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The media narrative is negatively skewed. That being said, that narrative could very well have a positive affect with recruits.
 
yawn ...anyone that's been a fan for awhile has seen this all before..
it used to be "thugs"...now its "NIL"....
Miami news always sells...bottom line.
 
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Cane44 said:
I know, was being sarcastic.. these fake journalist are being lazy as ****... there's NO story with Ruiz NIL, because he reports it himself.. they are just repeating everything the man says himself.. why don't they act like real journalist and dig into all the other teams NIL's, and do a piece on the total impact of NIL and CBB?? and how it might of evened out the playing field for many schools. How the impact is allowing other schools to finally break into the historically handful dominated tourney???? but naw f*k it.. Miami = evil....
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Indeed. All those years we were paying players scores...even hundreds of dollars.

While certain cornerbacks and wide receivers were getting $60K - $300K bags, pre NIL.

While certain SEC players were posting pictures of themselves holding wads of cash greater than what Nevin Shapiro had invested in his entirety

While a prominent coach leases cars to his own players

While this article comes out. https://www.bannersociety.com/2014/4/10/20703758/bag-man-paying-college-football-players

None of these are discussed. No one cares. Because Miami provides the foil - the evil Miami who buys players and buys championships. Right.
 
AtlAtty said:
I tihnk it was an attemopt to be negative, which we know is a actually a positive. John Calipari wishes he had “negative” news about UK paying more than anyone else for players. He would make sure everyone heard it.
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If they wanted to make it negative, they could have. Reality is NIL is legit and legal. How would it be negative news if an article came out that UK is paying more than anyone else when paying players is now legal? By all objective metrics, that sounds positive af.
 
The hatred of Miami is all in the documentaries by billy corbin …the U….was all racial…end of story
 
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bobbydigius said:
If they wanted to make it negative, they could have. Reality is NIL is legit and legal. How would it be negative news if an article came out that UK is paying more than anyone else when paying players is now legal? By all objective metrics, that sounds positive af.
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It is not negative to you, me and most people who can see the direction the sport has moved. But to some people in the media it is negative because they think it somehow diminishes the value of what UM accomplished. So as I wrote, I believe our posters that the writer of that comment intended it to be negative not understanding that his view of college sports differs from that of the people playing, coaching, and wanting to be recruited to play the sport.

But we will take it, as would Cal and Bill Self and Mick Cronin and every coach who understands that NIL publicity helps to attract players.
 
Cryptical Envelopment said:
That's not true. You just have to jump through some hoops. I would assume he has a deal but I don't know that for sure.

www.on3.com

Inside LifeWallet's international NIL deal with Miami's Lou Hedley

LifeWallet's Alexis Fernandez detailed the countless steps that had to be taken to execute Miami punter Lou Hedley's NIL deal.
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I remember during an interview, he was asked abt NIL. If I remember correctly he doesn’t have one in the states, but does back in Nicaragua
 
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