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QB Jared Curtis reportedly received a movie role as part of his Vandy NIL deal
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:37 am
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:37 am
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Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:41 am to Hback
Idk if I've ever looked more forward to playing vandy than I am this year in athens.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 8:45 am to Hback
Well there are ROLES and roles. Is he gonna be nameless bar patron that starts a fight or leading man?
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:02 am to Hback
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:05 am to Hback
TBH, that sounds like what NIL is intended for
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:06 am to Hback
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:14 am to lsufball19
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TBH, that sounds like what NIL is intended for
Agreed. Pretty cool for the lad.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:24 am to Saskwatch
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Agreed. Pretty cool for the lad.
To put a recent highschool graduate with no acting experience in a movie? I was thinking it was more of a endorsing a car dealership kind of thing.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:30 am to lsufball19
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TBH, that sounds like what NIL is intended for
not really.
"name, image, and likeness" is MEANT (in a fairtale utopian world) to be an arrangement where a player does some work or advertising or whatever for a company. The player gets paid for the use if their n/i/l and the company gets a local celebrity to hopefully boost their sales or products or whatever. Gunner Stockton doing a commercial for the local car dealership for example would be a textbook example.
Paying a high schooler who hasnt' played a down of CFB to have a small bit part in a movie isn't any of that. Jared Curtis has no name cache yet and how many people are going to go see this movie, that previously weren't already, simply because he's in it?
This is jsut a new creative way to pay recruits to come to yoru school, which isn't the spirit of NIL at all.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not compalinign about it. THat's CFB these days. And UGA specifically has had miami and texas triple our offers to kids for years now so losing on recruits is nothing new to the point we're numb to it. I'm just pointing out that this most certainly isn't what "NIL" is meant for.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:36 am to Hback
Southern Cal should talk to all their directors and agents that support them and make deals with high school athletes...why not play to your advantage.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:48 am to WG_Dawg
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not really.
Yes really.
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The player gets paid for the use if their n/i/l and the company gets a local celebrity to hopefully boost their sales or products or whatever.
yes, that's also another example of NIL
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Paying a high schooler who hasnt' played a down of CFB to have a small bit part in a movie isn't any of that.
sure it is. It's called a cameo. Pro athletes do these all the time in movies. They get paid for their cameo. Nate Bargatze is a big Vandy guy and wants the Vandy QB to make a cameo in his movie and is paying him for it. Just like a local business may want him in a commercial for the same purpose. That's, quite literally, NIL
This post was edited on 5/15/26 at 10:10 am
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:53 am to Hback
Like if you sign with ucla you could be the next maverick in top gun4
Posted on 5/15/26 at 9:58 am to lsufball19
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TBH, that sounds like what NIL is intended for
It absolutely is. Not some collective pay to play.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:22 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
That’s damn funny 
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:28 am to WG_Dawg
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Paying a high schooler who hasnt' played a down of CFB to have a small bit part in a movie isn't any of that. Jared Curtis has no name cache yet and how many people are going to go see this movie, that previously weren't already, simply because he's in it?
He is getting the part because he is going to be the QB at Vanderbilt. He is using his name, image and likeness to get in a movie. That is exactly what this is supposed to be.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:32 am to lsufball19
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It's called a cameo. Pro athletes do these all the time in movies.
pro athletes are widely recognized since, ya know...they're pros at the highest level of the sport in the world. A teenager that hasn't played any CFB yet and was given this deal as an enticement to sign with a school is obviously not in the same ballpark.
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Nate Bargatze is a big Vandy guy and wants the Vandy QB to make a cameo in his movie and is paying him for it
yes, he's a vandy fan and paid a guy to come to vandy and used this as an incentive to do so.
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Just like a local business may want him in a commercial for the same purpose.
a local business hiring an already established player that people know and recognize to say "hey come on down to joe's restaurant they're awesome" to get locals to say "wow, the starting QB goes to joes, I wanna go there too and try it out" isn't in the same stratosphere as a guy wiht zero stats playing a bit part in a movie that hardly anyone is going ot watch anyway.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:36 am to TigerLunatik
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He is getting the part because he is going to be the QB at Vanderbilt.
going to be, as in, not yet. He was paid to go to vandy. That is the exact opposite of NIL and is simply pay for play. They aren't the same thing.
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He is using his name, image and likeness to get in a movie.
With NIL the buyer is supposed to get somethign in return. What exactly is the spender getting in return for this cameo, other than the LOI signature from a recruit he wanted?
The whole concept of NIL to begin with was becuase kids were pissed that they couldn't profit from their "N/I/L" in the NCAA video games. They said hey that's me on the screen that thousands of people are playing with on Playstation, I shoudl make money off it. That isn't anything at all like this situation. One case is literally profiting from your likeness, the other is simply paying a dude to be in your movie if he'll come to your school.
Posted on 5/15/26 at 10:38 am to WG_Dawg
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What exactly is the spender getting in return for this cameo, other than the LOI signature from a recruit he wanted?
If it were me, I would argue that college football fans and Vandy fans would want to go see it. But, I do see your point and it is a good one.
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