re: Tennessee AD Danny White releases statement, goes HAM on NCAA

It’s so weird that UT hasn’t been involved with any of the events Nico has been at the last year. Why are they holding these off campus at local businesses since UT is paying him?

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Florida had a 13,000,000 check bounce before a QB set foot on campus. 2 million a year for 4 years for a guy to do commercials and events isn’t a payment from a school.

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The big difference there is UF didn't actually pay him. The check bounced.

UT did. If the NCAA can enforce regulation that don't allow players to be paid to attend school (which IS against the rules of NIL), it's a good thing. If this goes well, the ones who get busted will be those who's pay for play was most obvious/over the top. Apparently that might be Tennessee.

If Nico can transfer to Kentucky and keep his NIL deal, then there's no issue. But it sounds like his deal is pretty obviously dependent upon him living in Knoxville/attending UT. And that's the sort of thing that needs to be eliminated from NIL.

The NcAA needs to go after schools paying transfers or high school players to come play for their school. That is expressly forbidden by the NIL rules. Tennessee's excuse is "The rules have loop holes we're using and everyone else is doing it too."

They aren't denying they paid him to play for their school. And since NIL is not supposed to allow that, I hope they get penalized for it so that it no longer happens in NIL. That will fix the NIL mess we're in now.