NIL Follies

Three games into an undefeated season, the quarterback for the UNLV Rebels has decided to withdraw from the team, use his red-shirt year, and enter the transfer portal. He came to UNLV via the portal from the Holy Cross Crusaders, where he played four seasons including the covid shortened 2020. (Note: the College of Holy Cross is a Jesuit school in MA, not affiliated with the UP Holy Cross order.)

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2024/9/25/24253964/matthew-sluka-transfer-news-nil-holdout-unlv-quarterback-undefeated-backup-hajj-malik-williams

The QB, Matthew Sluka, is making this move because he says he was offered $100,000 in NIL money by an assistant coach to transfer to UNLV, and the money was never delivered. Now I just saw a note that a UNLV RB is doing the same thing.

College sports keeps getting stranger and stranger.

CBS Sports article about NIL issues in college basketball.
 

Bad collective directors are the most dangerous thing to a success of a program. Imagine you're a head coach at a high-major school, you've worked so hard to build relationships with agents, AAU coaches, players and build a reputation, and there's some guy who you didn't hire and has a big ego and he's trying to battle agents over details that don't matter.

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