I’d like to personally thank Tennessee and the Iamalavea family for bringing to light on a very national stage how stupid the NIL/Portal era has become. From flaking out of spring practice to having your brother flip flop from one payout to another, this has reached a fever pitch earlier than I had anticipated.
While the idea of trying to recoup finances lost when a player jumps out of the recently renegotiated NIL contract is nothing new (recall that it was rumored Kirby requested the same after Damon Wilson bolted for Mizzou), now the Iamaleavya family has compelled a school to go public with their pursuit of recouping lost funds.
In case you’re wondering if this is just off-season speculation, no, it came directly from the AD himself.
As the old Pit Boss would say himself…”yyyesss sir!”. All I ask is they keep the rest of this very public…and very ugly.
It is way past time when these NIL payouts should see the light of day.
Maybe the IRS will enter the fray
And here come the lawyers
When you want to run athletics like a business, you have to be prepared for contractual obligations…many folks saw this coming…pop the popcorn
it is why under the table payments that funded high profile college athletes since the beginning of the sport worked so much better…
REC members in T town & their little war tigle brothers down on the plains nod in approval.
This reminds me of the Soprano’s episode where Artie get’s his ass kicked by the french guy. In the closing scene Furio is at the door…
Dadgum Albanian hostesses
Mizzou had to reimburse UGA for the money that Wilson received already on his UGA deal. That was why he didn’t end up at Ohio State. They decided he wasn’t worth the extra cost. Mizzou decided he was. There was a point where Georgia thought Wilson would end up staying because they didn’t think either of the schools would want to pay the extra amount. Apparently, Wilson messed up by accepting a payment he shouldn’t have during the winter if he was planning on transferring.
Take that for what it is worth. That was told to me by someone who works at the collective, but I realize it is a “my friend’s, cousin’s, boyfriend says,” type of post.