Former Florida head coach Dan Mullen was adamant that the NCAA decided not to listen to their warnings on what was coming with NIL and the transfer portal.
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Mullen Says Florida Decided To Wait On Everyone Else, Even Though Law Was Passed
When it came to the University of Florida implementing their own NIL strategy, they were already ahead of everyone else, at least that's what Dan Mullen figured. When the State of Florida passed its own NIL legislation that would help the football program get a head start on the competition when it came to recruiting, Mullen thought this would be a massive benefit to his program.
Unfortunately for him, and the football team, the school decided that they would wait on other states to catch up before starting to head down the road of using NIL to their benefit. This move by the school would end up frustrating Mullen, who knew he lost out on an opportunity to potentially jump other schools.
"When I was at the University of Florida, we were the first one to pass a law. So I remember meeting and saying, ‘Hey, we have a year's jump to potentially get this good, we should be able to sign players one through 25. Because we can pay them and nobody else can. This is going to be fantastic. But we need to get lawyers and everything in place, do it. And then it came, ’Oh, we're gonna wait and do it when everybody else does'.
"So well, that's not real smart. But that was out of my hands, it was administrative. And so, all the sudden you start falling behind a little bit."
