re: NCAA Can't Legally Punish Schools For NIL Deals During Recruiting Process

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What booster flew a recruit to Knoxville?

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Some guy named SPYRE. He owns a dairy farm outside of Straw Plains. He's got a beer belly the size of the keg the beer was delivered in, and says GOOO GOLDARNED VAWLS every night before bed in lieu of a prayer.



And yes, there was a group of uneducated numskulls on here last night who did, in fact, think that UT's NIL collective was some guy.

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I have to honestly ask, if this NCAA/UT fiasco isn't a vendetta against UT, then what is it and why aren't more schools getting punished for doing the very same thing?

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Because other schools weren’t complete fricking idiots like Tennessee. Because other collectives weren’t complete fricking idiots like Spyre, who bragged in a published article that they were going to use NIL funds to recruit players, which was and still is a recruiting violation. Because the two guys that started and run Spyre are Tennessee boosters. Because they, two boosters, paid for a recruit to make an unofficial visit before he had 1) signed an NIL agreement and 2) signed with Tennessee. Because those same boosters, by their own admission; were recruiting for Tennessee, which is against the rules, has been forever, and has nothing to do with NIL. That is why.

Tennessee fans should be mad at Hunter Baddour for running his mouth and publicly admitting that they were purposely flaunting recruiting rules. It reminds me of people that get on social media and brag about committing crimes and then act outraged when the police show up.

You would think that Tennessee would have been overly cautious after the Pruitt fiasco. But obviously they decided to take a different strategy and say “frick you NCAA, we will do whatever we want.”

It will be interesting to see how that works out for them.