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Miami EDGE Hayden Lowe Named Under-the-Radar for 2026 Season After Missing Spring Ball

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Calinative said:
If you donate to nil is it important to know this dude is missing meeting or breaking team rules?

He can do what he wants with his money ultimately. If he’s choosing to spend it stupidly, that’s his moronic choice. Even if he’s going out and partying, I’d think it’s dumb but it may not be a big deal… if he’s missing practice? If he’s sleeping through meetings? If he’s just not being in shape…

You can’t pay a guy and then just go completely top secret about why your likely highest paid player in your recruiting class is just completely MIA… the nfl doesn’t do stuff like that and in the nfl those guys are actually team employees. College athletes are essentially Paid by fans at this point lol. You could actually argue there is a larger expectation to pass info related character stuff due to how nil is paid for. It’s like why who was it Aikman or whatever was talking about how he stopped donating to nil cause the Qb he paid for never thanked him and then just transfered after…

Again imo WHAT he did is NOT the important thing if it wasn’t a legal issue. HOW it is impacting him being a member of this team IS AND SHOULD be reported on. Has he been missing practice? Has he been sleeping through meetings? he just been low effort and not developing? Has he been not maintaining his weight? Stuff like that are perfectly reasonable things to answer - what is actually happening ON THE FIELD he needs to address.
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Donating to NIL gives you zero rights to know this kind of information. It’s weird to be so obsessive about it.
 
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Calinative said:
If you donate to nil is it important to know this dude is missing meeting or breaking team rules?

He can do what he wants with his money ultimately. If he’s choosing to spend it stupidly, that’s his moronic choice. Even if he’s going out and partying, I’d think it’s dumb but it may not be a big deal… if he’s missing practice? If he’s sleeping through meetings? If he’s just not being in shape…

You can’t pay a guy and then just go completely top secret about why your likely highest paid player in your recruiting class is just completely MIA… the nfl doesn’t do stuff like that and in the nfl those guys are actually team employees. College athletes are essentially Paid by fans at this point lol. You could actually argue there is a larger expectation to pass info related character stuff due to how nil is paid for. It’s like why who was it Aikman or whatever was talking about how he stopped donating to nil cause the Qb he paid for never thanked him and then just transfered after…

Again imo WHAT he did is NOT the important thing if it wasn’t a legal issue. HOW it is impacting him being a member of this team IS AND SHOULD be reported on. Has he been missing practice? Has he been sleeping through meetings? he just been low effort and not developing? Has he been not maintaining his weight? Stuff like that are perfectly reasonable things to answer - what is actually happening ON THE FIELD he needs to address.
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Ultimately, it’s not anybody’s business what happens inside the walls of Hecht other than those directly involved. The premise that fans are ENTITLED to know because they may have donated to the NIL program is ludicrous. Donations are made voluntarily without any preconceived access to personal information.
 
423Hurricane said:
No doubt NIL has changed the landscape but no matter how much money they’re making, they’re still kids dealing with a lot of stuff. If Lowe’s issue is criminal, it would probably be open for public consumption. If it’s personal, I believe it’s between him and those close to him including coaches.

For me personally, it’s just not important to know the intimate details.
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That's also fair. Like I alluded to, there's often good reason to keep some of this stuff private (whether it's technically legal to share it or otherwise). For better or worse, I just think it's inevitable more and more of this stuff gets out as the business of college football expands.
 
MikeyCanez said:
If the team wants to keep it private, I have no problem with that. But that doesn't change the level of curiosity I have for why our No. 1 recruit from last season is nowhere to be found.

I'm not judging the kid for making mistakes, we all do. But I am still going to be curious what the issue is, I am not sure I see the issue with that.
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Yeah for reasons you said above it’s only natural. And it’s even more so in this day and age when you’re asking us to donate money to help fund him being there.

I don’t mind necessarily the coaches not speaking on it. But I think it’s weird how some fans here act so offended as if they’re being personally aggrieved
 
I have no interest in knowing what happened, hope he figures it out and fulfills all his promise but my question is regarding NIL contracts, do they have an ethics clause requiring financial renumeration to the institution if that clause is violated?
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Donating to NIL gives you zero rights to know this kind of information. It’s weird to be so obsessive about it.
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Its obsessive to want to know if our top rated recruit is practicing? Lmao y'all the ones actually trippin. Zero rights to know.... And if the media actually reported it would you consider that a violation? I'd consider it good reporting ...
 
423Hurricane said:
Ultimately, it’s not anybody’s business what happens inside the walls of Hecht other than those directly involved. The premise that fans are ENTITLED to know because they may have donated to the NIL program is ludicrous. Donations are made voluntarily without any preconceived access to personal information.
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Lmao....right that's why people who donate get special access and others don't, right?

What is the role of the media again?
 
6th Ring is Near said:
I'm definitely not trying to be an insider (I don't need the abuse from here LOL), but I do know some of the players on the team and a lot of different high school athletic personal and coaches around the state, so I hear a lot of stuff.
I think most of the website and YouTube insiders that are media credentialed either know what off limits is or have been informed not to speak about the details or maybe lose their access.
I think the staff are not trying to shame the kid publicly and run him off as he is uber talented, so that's mainly why there hasn't been much talked about.
I wish I could tell you he will or will not have a significant role this season as a lot of that will be on him. Others that have been in the "doghouse" and then given redemptive opportunities didn't always rise to the occasion last two seasons, and they slowly were phased out.
He is a nice kid and great athlete, so I hope he fights for his spot.
This is definitely not directed at you, but I just wish everyone would let it rest for a little while on social media and YouTube comment sections so Hayden can figure things out and not feel like everyone here is ready to freak out on him. The players do see and hear what everyone is saying/posting and that is impactful to this generation.
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Calinative said:
Its obsessive to want to know if our top rated recruit is practicing? Lmao y'all the ones actually trippin. Zero rights to know.... And if the media actually reported it would you consider that a violation? I'd consider it good reporting ...
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You’re putting words in my mouth. Don’t do that.

You know **** well what I meant is whatever issues, personal or otherwise, that he’s dealing with. That’s what we don’t have a right to know, we can be curious, we can ask, but we have no right to that information.

Wanting to know whether he’s practicing or not is reasonable, but that’s not what people on here are whining about.

If these “personal issues” are revealed at some point, so be it, but this is what my post was about. Like anyone else I hope he gets to practice soon, and I hope he contributes. I could care less what his personal issues are, other than wishing him the best in that regard.

Setting up a straw man is a weak and dishonest rebuttal.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
You’re putting words in my mouth. Don’t do that.

You know **** well what I meant is whatever issues, personal or otherwise, that he’s dealing with. That’s what we don’t have a right to know, we can be curious, we can ask, but we have no right to that information.

Wanting to know whether he’s practicing or not is reasonable, but that’s not what people on here are whining about.

If these “personal issues” are revealed at some point, so be it, but this is what my post was about. Like anyone else I hope he gets to practice soon, and I hope he contributes. I could care less what his personal issues are, other than wishing him the best in that regard.

Setting up a straw man is a weak and dishonest rebuttal.
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Bro, you literally just responded to me when I LITERALLY said I dont particularly care for the info regarding what he did - as long as it wasn't illegal - BUT that the information specifically regarding his on-field and lockerroom FOOTBALL performance is being impacted. I literally said multiple times in the post YOU chose to respond to that the things I think Absolutely SHOULD be answered are things like is he practicing, is/was he missing meetings, is he just not giving effort, is he just not maintaining his diet cause he doesn't give a ****... **** like that that is 100% about football. All those things were stated in my post. So no, there absolutely is no strawman or dishonest rebuttal lmao.
 
JHallCanes said:
It’s you
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Sully said:
I have no interest in knowing what happened, hope he figures it out and fulfills all his promise but my question is regarding NIL contracts, do they have an ethics clause requiring financial renumeration to the institution if that clause is violated?
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Yes, very similar to any employment contract (I know the NC2A says players aren’t employees). At least UM’s NIL contract does. I can’t speak to any other university as I have only been asked to read a UM NIL contract.
 
I’m not taking a position in this “right to know” vs “keep it private” argument, however,

As a friend of mine who used to be a judge loved to say from the bench, “counselor, let me change the facts a bit and tell me if this changes your argument”.

If Lowe was in the NFL, would you feel you have a ‘right to know’? The usual refrain to that question has been, well there is a difference between a pro and college athlete. But NIL has not just blurred that line but has obliterated that line. Many college players make more money than their pro counterparts.

I am at a point wherein my position on any such pro v college issue is that I have a right to know as much as I want for any paid athlete, whether pro, college, Olympic, etc…Once you are paid you are not an amateur and I won’t treat you like a “kid”. Now I really don’t care about Lowe’s personal life anymore than I care about pro athletes personal lives. But the college v pro distinction is completely gone at least for me.
 
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