I wouldn’t say all of that. There hasn’t been an issue with our NIL since it’s inception as far as compensation with other players on the team or incoming recruits. This seems more of an isolated situation than a sign of things to come. Time will tell though
I disagree, and this is why.
UiF (and a few other schools) created a lot of negative recruiting for Miami targets by telling them that our NIL program was "sketchy", and that we were too reliant on John Ruiz, and that his business struggles would mean he would bounce NIL checks.
Meanwhile, none of that actually happened. LifeWallet hasn't missed a single payment to a single player.
But "undertainty" and "rumors" can take a toll, and all that dirty recruiting cost us a few players during this past cycle (and not always in the way that you might think).
On the other hand, we have PROOF (OK, at least reported media stories, not just whispered rumors) of two things with the Gaytor NIL scheme. First, that a CRAZY number could be offered, and then withdrawn within weeks. Second, that the promised money (at whatever level) is not literally sitting in a bank somewhere, it is always subject to the whims of a guy like HathNoCock actually funding the promises.
So if you think that the rest of the schools in the SEC are not going to MAKE SOME SERIOUS MOTHER****ING HAY out of this, you are fooling yourself.
And you (not you personally, but "y'all Gaytors") can pat yourselves on the back and tell yourselves how you've paid 90% of your NIL obligations, but nobody is going to care.
The University of Florida is the "picture in the dictionary" next to the definition of "reneging on an NIL deal". That's just established fact at this point. All the "but Sonny's Barbecue paid Desmond Fatson his NIL deal" examples in the world will not erase "but Jaden Rashada".
Sorry.
