re: UNLV QB quits immediately over NIL

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As someone else pointed out, he has a completion percentage of under 50%.

If I hire a contractor who just shows up when he wants and does shitty, substandard work you can bet your arse I am not paying him the originally agreed upon amount until he makes it right.

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If his contract was contingent on performance, fine. But that is currently not allowed. So odds are his contract was just to be on the team.

FYI, the team is undefeated, the PAC 10 is begging them to join, and most UNLV fans are ecstatic with his and the team's and the overall athletic department's performance right now. Spirits and donations could not be higher. This comes from family UNLV fans on the ground in Vegas.

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They are not employees.

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Maybe, Maybe not, says U.S. Appeals court. Test would be needed for determination. If not now, soon to be employees.
ESPN article on appealss court decision

Let's assume the player is a Contractor for arguments sake. What would be the contract?
Contract would be to sell shirts, or a roof promotion, or endorses "Mamma's Tacos" or face on a charity, etc. In other words Name, Image, or Likeness. Contract is not to throw TD passes or run for 1,000 yards or anything football performance related. I would assume this "Contractor" had a contract in writing to talk at hospitals, or endorse a service, give weekly interviews, or something like that with a payment schedule of amounts and dates. Reading between the lines, I suspect the player was promised the world but didn't have it in writing. The people that made all the big promises are now crawfishing on the payments. Easy to believe now that nothing was written up and all talk of big money.
If this is the case, the player should have told them to put it in writing before entering the first game. I bet he played the first few games in good faith naively expecting and anticipating the check coming as he's been doing well for the team. Check hasn't come, so the only thing he has to sell, himself and on field performance has to be withheld. OTOH, if he's been giving the interviews and selling the soap, he should be compensated. This is why I think no contract in writing is in place.

Until more information comes out, I'm in the QBs corner on this one, with the exception of not getting it in writing, knucklehead move. Seems like UNLV and other teams have loose cannon boosters promising on what they can't deliver.
These players need Agents or Lawyers reviewing their "Contracts" on NIL.

You would think that after the Quinshon Judkins fiasco where he just kept coming back to Ole Miss trying to extort them for more money, that an Ole Miss fan of all people would realize there are usually two sides to every story.

But you would be wrong.

I saw some of the Kansas game and his receivers dropped a lot of passes.

It’s all good until only 6-10 teams are actually competitive for anything. Then the goose’s eggs will become significantly less golden.

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A) Yes I hate modern CFB. It’s minor league NFL without contracts
B) The feds have shot down every single attempt to reign in the NIL situation. They’re going to force them to be university employees with collective bargaining power (aka unionized).

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A) Yet you still watch it and argue with strangers on the internet about it

B) What attempts to reign it in have "the feds" shot down? No one has sued to "reign it in", just the opposite. NCAA has fought tooth and nail to not involve "the feds".

And why should they? Why should "the feds" limit how much anyone can make in exchange for their work?

They are employees in every practical sense. It is absurd to deny them the option to unionize and collectively bargain, if that is what they choose.

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If your school stopped paying your players would do the same

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There is a reason Rashada isn't at UF

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If they don’t make money, they should shut down the program.

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Should all college sports programs that don’t generate a profit be shut down?

Who is Winning in the High Stakes Game of College Athletics?

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Even as commercial revenue streams have grown for top-billing football and men's basketball, athletic expenditures exceed revenues at the vast majority of schools. In 2019, only 25 of 130 schools in the high-grossing Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) whose members are large, mostly public universities (with some exceptions such as Notre Dame, Northwestern, and Stanford) reported positive net revenues (see here). In fact, the median athletic program in FBS in 2019 (the last pre-pandemic year) had an operating deficit of $18.8 million. The same was true in the other two Division I subdivisions: among the 125 schools of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) the median program ran a deficit of $14.3 million, and in DI without football (94 schools) it was of $14.4 million. Large and persistent athletic department deficits lead schools to increase student athletic fees (many exceed $1000 per student yearly) and contribute to increases in tuition. As the cost of attending college rises, so does student debt which reached a record of over $1.6 trillion in the United States in 2021.

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Depending on the source, only 12-18% of all college athletic programs turn a profit. The rest lose money. Should all of those programs be shut dowm?

It's not like his decision impacts all the other players or anything