re: Jaden Rashada sues Billy Napier, Florida booster over NIL deal

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That's his claim, correct.

Unfortunately he has no evidence of it happening. It's not a winning case, even if it did happen. His team knows this. They have no intention of taking it to court, they want a "go away" mediation + settlement.

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The reality is that everyone is going to believe it did happen as described. There's no reason why he would have acted the way he did unless he was being told some sort of story to convince him to sign with UF.

I don't think you even believe that he wasn't being told by someone connected to UF (either as a booster or in a more official capacity) that he was going to be getting the money he'd been promised. Because nobody else can come up with an alternative reason other than "he was lied to" to explain why he signed with UF after his deal was cancelled... but then left after signing day when no money came.

Hathcock, Napier and/or Castro-Walker lied to Rashada to get him to decommit from Miami (where he had apparently signed a deal worth 9.5 million by promising him a deal worth 13.5 million.

That was a lie as shown by the fact the 13.5 million dollar deal was cancelled.

Then they lied to him by telling him that Hathcock would make sure he still got the money if he signed with UF They promised him a million dollars once he signed as a "bonus".

That was a lie as shown by the fact that after he signed with UF, he didn't get the promised million dollar bonus.

In the end he signed with ASU with no NIL money promised ahead of time. The fact he didn't have a 9.5 million deal from Miami or a 13.5 million dollar deal was that UF representatives and boosters lied to him.

So while you might be right in that those 3 who were affiliated with UF might get away without penalty, nobody is going to believe that they weren't fricking Rashada over to keep him from signing with Miami once they decided not to pay him. And that is scummy as hell on their part.