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<blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1057253" data-attributes="member: 17953"><p>That's pretty much what I see too. I think the reason the U isn't saying much except breach of contract has to do with the perceptions that people might have before the truth is exposed in a court room. I believe that Lucas has decided to leave the Badgers for Miami and sit out a year of eligibility believing that the NCAA will end up having to give him back that year when he wins in court. In the meantime, since there's nothing that could stop them, the people handing out the NIL money have more than likely guaranteed him the money for the remainder of years he would have left to play college football. In other words, he'll get paid the full amount and they'll absorb the costs of his scholarship and living expenses because they can still use him under the NIL as it exists. </p><p></p><p>For those who are calling the Badgers out on this, they need to realize that the vast majority of schools cannot compete in a world where money flows like water in the schools who have the most money to hand out. Notice I said "schools," because no matter how you slice it, the schools decide how much they want the player and know exactly how much money is out there to pay.</p><p></p><p>Since day one, I have been telling people about what I know personally about how it's gone at the University of Texas, and Texas A&M, and I was told I didn't know what I was talking about. It was only going to amount to a pizza here and there and maybe a pair of shoes at best. I knew better. I know people within the sphere of both the University of Texas and Texas A&M, who told me about where it was going. One friend told me that as soon as it was available, Texas sponsors put a guarantee on the table for every offensive lineman who earned a scholarship from the school, there was $50,000 in NIL money for the first year. That was just for one area of the team. Look how much Ewers and Manning got to be there. At the same time, I saw A&M people going into the field telling potential recruits there was a lot of money out there, but they wouldn't discuss how much. First the kid had to sign a letter of intent and get into the program. Of course, when they left the kid's home, there was a piece of paper sitting on the table with a dollar figure on it. It didn't mean anything.... LOL! Just some scribbled notes of no value. But we all know better, don't we?</p><p></p><p>People get the misguided impression that this is all new and came out of nowhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. A lot of the top programs in the nation already had an underground network of supporters who were funneling perks into the hands of top athletes in large sums. Imagine a poor kid from Alabama, whose dad has to drive a 25 year old junker to get to work, and they live in a run-down house all of a sudden getting a job with a prestigious company for 3 to 4 times or more what he was making, and a sudden savings account so he can buy a new car and they can move into a decent home. It happened, repeatedly. In addition to all of that, the kid ends up driving an $85,000 car back around 2010, while in school, and can afford it, the insurance, and buy clothes and bling that was totally out of his price range. Yup! The network was there. All that happened for the most lucrative schools was to bring that network out in the open and expand on it.</p><p></p><p>The NCAA spent too much time burying their heads in the sand and bringing charges against some schools and putting the hammer down, while warning those who added large viewership to the TV markets. They're as dishonest in their actions as the average agent out there. And by the way, I know one guy who has been representing athletes for a long time, and when he gets a snoot full and nobody is around, he'll tell you just how corrupt the whole thing has always been.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voyageur, post: 1057253, member: 17953"] That's pretty much what I see too. I think the reason the U isn't saying much except breach of contract has to do with the perceptions that people might have before the truth is exposed in a court room. I believe that Lucas has decided to leave the Badgers for Miami and sit out a year of eligibility believing that the NCAA will end up having to give him back that year when he wins in court. In the meantime, since there's nothing that could stop them, the people handing out the NIL money have more than likely guaranteed him the money for the remainder of years he would have left to play college football. In other words, he'll get paid the full amount and they'll absorb the costs of his scholarship and living expenses because they can still use him under the NIL as it exists. For those who are calling the Badgers out on this, they need to realize that the vast majority of schools cannot compete in a world where money flows like water in the schools who have the most money to hand out. Notice I said "schools," because no matter how you slice it, the schools decide how much they want the player and know exactly how much money is out there to pay. Since day one, I have been telling people about what I know personally about how it's gone at the University of Texas, and Texas A&M, and I was told I didn't know what I was talking about. It was only going to amount to a pizza here and there and maybe a pair of shoes at best. I knew better. I know people within the sphere of both the University of Texas and Texas A&M, who told me about where it was going. One friend told me that as soon as it was available, Texas sponsors put a guarantee on the table for every offensive lineman who earned a scholarship from the school, there was $50,000 in NIL money for the first year. That was just for one area of the team. Look how much Ewers and Manning got to be there. At the same time, I saw A&M people going into the field telling potential recruits there was a lot of money out there, but they wouldn't discuss how much. First the kid had to sign a letter of intent and get into the program. Of course, when they left the kid's home, there was a piece of paper sitting on the table with a dollar figure on it. It didn't mean anything.... LOL! Just some scribbled notes of no value. But we all know better, don't we? People get the misguided impression that this is all new and came out of nowhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. A lot of the top programs in the nation already had an underground network of supporters who were funneling perks into the hands of top athletes in large sums. Imagine a poor kid from Alabama, whose dad has to drive a 25 year old junker to get to work, and they live in a run-down house all of a sudden getting a job with a prestigious company for 3 to 4 times or more what he was making, and a sudden savings account so he can buy a new car and they can move into a decent home. It happened, repeatedly. In addition to all of that, the kid ends up driving an $85,000 car back around 2010, while in school, and can afford it, the insurance, and buy clothes and bling that was totally out of his price range. Yup! The network was there. All that happened for the most lucrative schools was to bring that network out in the open and expand on it. The NCAA spent too much time burying their heads in the sand and bringing charges against some schools and putting the hammer down, while warning those who added large viewership to the TV markets. They're as dishonest in their actions as the average agent out there. And by the way, I know one guy who has been representing athletes for a long time, and when he gets a snoot full and nobody is around, he'll tell you just how corrupt the whole thing has always been. [/QUOTE]
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