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

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He had an offer contingent on signing with UF that only he signed. That offer was subsequently revoked. We don't know why, but we know it was legal to do this and the contract was never executed.

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We do know what he tells us he was told.

According to him:

1 - Hathcock was originally going to pay him the money through his company. Castro-Walker was involved in the process of setting this up.

2 - Hathcock then said he was selling his company, so it would instead be in part paid directly from Hathcock and in part from the "Gator Collective". Castro-Walker was involved in the process of setting this up. This offer was signed by both him and the Gator Collective, but had a clause that allowed for termination up until some point before signing day which the Gator collective invoked. (the belief is this happened because Hathcock wouldn't give them the part of the money he promised.

3 - The Gator Collective cancelled the deal, but Hathcock claimed that he and his collective, the "Gator Guard" would pay the 13.5 million, starting with a 1 million dollar bonus after signing day. Castro-Walker AND Napier both worked to convince Rashada to believe Hathcock.


The big liar here is Hatchcock. He kept telling Rashada from when he was committed to Miami, through when he eventually left UF that he was going to make him a millionare and he was lying out his arse.

Castro-Walker was backing Hathcock up the whole time, making him seem legitimate when he should have been distancing UF from Hathcock.

Napier only came in at the end, telling Rashada to trust Hathcock to pay in order to get Rashada to sign. He's the "smallest liar". He may have been hoodwinked by Hathcock as well so he is the least likely to be held liable.

Everyone who's not a UF fan is going to believe Rashada on this. They may say "serves him right" or "he should have known better", but the reality is that a UF booster who runs one of their collectives (Hathcock), UF's then Director of Player Engagement and NIL (Castro-Walker) and UF's head coach (Napier) all kept telling him to believe in them that they'd get him millions, and they lied.

Yes, most rational adults know that Florida lies and cheats. But Rashada trusted them and they fricked him over.