mannnnn some of the allegations in there are going to be hard for gator fans to cope or spin.... remember the "he took less money to play for the gator" narrative?
Couple of highlights from the lawsuit:
Lawsuit says Ruiz/NIL from Miami was around 9.5 million. Gator and their booster Hugh and a director of player personnel upped it to 13.85 million. Rashada only signed his NLI after Napier promised his father a payment of 1 million that day as a partial payment and he never received the cash.
UF staffer was constantly blowing up Jaden via text and they have the texts about him negotiating the NIL on behalf of Gator Guard and Hugh. Hathcock approached Rashada when he vistied and promised him whatever he needed and pops a job. It was also going to be 5.35 million from Hathcock and 500k from his business velocity automotive.
On Nov 10th, Hathcock objected to his company being involved since he was trying to sell the company, they helped work out the details and later that evening was when Rashada flipped from us.
Contract was signed and he was supposed to get a 500k downpayment and 250k per month as a freshman and that would increase soph and junior years.
On Dec 6th, Gator collective sent him a letter terminating his contract (his NIL deal said it could be terminated for cause but no cause was listed)
After Napier and the UF Staffer said they would make good on the promise (so Napier was DIRECTLY involved in the funds/$$) and that the staffer said Hugh would personally guarantee the deal. Three days later Hugh did transfer 150k to Rashada so he could pay back Ruiz and avoid a lawsuit because he already took Ruiz money.
This was the ONLY money he ever received. So Hugh just paid Ruiz essentially. By Dec 19th, Rashada had no new NIL deal and the amounts they were throwing at him were around 1/2 of the original 13.85 million offered.
Rashada did not have a signed NIL, his reps told him not to sign his national letter of intent with florida and that is when Napier called Rashada and offered the 1 million payment, Rashada then signed later that night and the cash never came.
Rashada is also represented by Rusty Hardin. He is a good attorney and has done plenty of high profile cases, this is def not a newbie attorney trying to make a name for himself. If Rashada did sign here no way he have Cam Ward and while we likely would have made good on our promise to pay can only imagine the headache his pops could have caused the program and we could be a defendant in a lawsuit.
