Yeah but careful what you wish for. You know the very next question will be, "Have any other schools made similar offers similar to UF?" You don't think dad Rashada will be like "Yeah we originally agreed to UM's offer, but then UF came back with a better one"?
Which is why he has all the leverage.
Our NIL offers are legit. Lifewallet is a real company. I can guarantee you Ruiz is smart enough to not have his offers tied to "pay for play" in any way.
No disagreement here. But if they go on record saying they agreed to a deal with Lifewallet to enroll at UM, it will open up questions about did UM put them in touch with Ruiz, did we know or encourage an offer, in any way hint at a deal for money in exchange for a commitment? It's the NCAA. Even the smallest crack and they will come after us, legit or not.
I'm not sure why all that would come up in a legal case between Rashada and UF so he can get out of his LOI.
Because prosecutors like making a name for themselves. It's a slippery slope. Starts with why they want out of NIL. "Because they didn't pay us what they promised." What'd they promise? "$1billion!" What were the terms? "To enroll at UF." Was this the only school to make that type of offer? "No, so did Miami, Oregon, Ole Miss, etc." All of a sudden there's clear nationwide fraud in college football and YOU uncovered it. Talk shows, books, promotion, pay raise, clout.
How the NCAA is not involved or at least inquiring on WTF is going on, is beyond me. There seem to recruiting rules being broken here.
Look, I'm not disagreeing AT ALL with anyone on this and how it is different.
I get what you’re saying, that they’d love to make us the poster child, but based on the way it’s supposed to be done, there’s no way they can skip over UiF and a bunch of schools and just go after us. They’d get destroyed by the courts and lose even more power.
I'm not mixing anything up. I know they are different governing bodies. Just like in my last post, even if the NCAA has zero teeth, if there is any reason (including statements from another governing body) they can put a cloud over us, they will. That in itself could hurt us, even if there's nothing to it. They tried doing this with the Shapiro thing. Where they got in trouble wasn't that they were trying to use statements from the court (which would have been totally legit), it was that they were paying an attorney to ask unrelated questions to try to get the dirt on us.Let me see if I can clarify.
Anyone can say anything they want. But there also has to be EVIDENCE. And I have clearly pointed out that the unfavorable EVIDENCE that goes against Florida involves the overlapping issues of the Gaytor Collective, the LOI non-release, and the ongoing multi-party (including UF employees) meetings.
Also, you are mixing and matching investigative bodies. You mention the NCAA, which has no subpoena power. But that is different from what I am talking about with a lawsuit filed by the Rashadas on the basis of a failure to grant an LOI release. THAT is where there would be allegations that the release/non-release from the LOI was linked to the NIL deal.
And if any lawyer wants to ask a question about MIAMI in that regard, the proper response would be "Objection, relevance". Because Jaden never signed an LOI with Miami.
Reminds me of when Jesse Jackson hosted Saturday Night Live...
Since when has the NCAA not showed favoritism and looked the other way on obvious major violations? Just look at Bama. They get away with everything while other schools get hit for much less.