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NIL - Name, Image, Likeness

5-star football recruit Jaden Rashada is one of the top 2023 high school quarterback recruits in the country. He originally was committed to Miami, but committed and signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Florida, after being lured by the promise of a $13 million, 4-year NIL deal offered by Gator Collective, a Florida Gator fan-run NIL group.
He was scheduled to complete his high school work early and enroll last week for the 2nd semester this year. But last month, he was notified by Gator Collective that they were terminating the NIL deal. As a result, Rashada has not enrolled at Florida and is requesting to be released from his Letter of Intent.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-f...through-report

He and his family are reported to be looking at their options as they await the decision by Florida regarding his release. Clearly, this monetary NIL deal was used as a recruiting tool to get him to sign at Florida, and now he's had the rug pulled out from under him for unknown reasons. Could there be legal action?
 
Da Coach said:
5-star football recruit Jaden Rashada is one of the top 2023 high school quarterback recruits in the country. He originally was committed to Miami, but committed and signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Florida, after being lured by the promise of a $13 million, 4-year NIL deal offered by Gator Collective, a Florida Gator fan-run NIL group.
He was scheduled to complete his high school work early and enroll last week for the 2nd semester this year. But last month, he was notified by Gator Collective that they were terminating the NIL deal. As a result, Rashada has not enrolled at Florida and is requesting to be released from his Letter of Intent.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/top-f...through-report

He and his family are reported to be looking at their options as they await the decision by Florida regarding his release. Clearly, this monetary NIL deal was used as a recruiting tool to get him to sign at Florida, and now he's had the rug pulled out from under him for unknown reasons. Could there be legal action?
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That's messed up. He must not have signed a legal agreement for the NIL. This should be a warning to anyone planning on going to Florida for the money in the future.
 
The Missouri state legislature just passed an NIL law and it is awaiting a signature by the governor. The new law allows for high schoolers to get paid for NIL deals if they sign a letter of intent to an in-state school.-
https://www.kmbc.com/article/new-mis...state%20school.

The new law also includes changes that will allow high school coaches and other school officials to be directly involved in negotiating NIL deals for athletes.
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...630df774d.html

Does this mean the coaches and "other school officials" can get a piece of the deal as agents?

And could this type of law actually end up hurting the kids in Missouri high schools? Will out-of-state colleges be less likely to bother recruiting athletes in Missouri, knowing the in-state schools have this built-in NIL advantage arranged by the state law?

And will this lead to other states passing similar laws to benefit their own in-state colleges? One of the restrictions the NCAA initially put on NIL was that it wasn't supposed to be used as a recruiting tool. Now it has become maybe the most powerful recruiting tool colleges have.
 
The images in this tweet show average NIL money that athletes are getting. These numbers seem pretty consistent with everything else I've heard and read.-
https://twitter.com/JasonBelzer/stat...49979941466113

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The Bradley players are doing better than what the above lists for "mid major". They are more in line with the Group of 5, A-10, WCC.
 
Old Coach said:
The Bradley players are doing better than what the above lists for "mid major". They are more in line with the Group of 5, A-10, WCC.
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Yes, good to hear!

I was referring to the kind of money shown in the 2nd image that Bradley transfer portal players like Rienk Mast and Terry Roberts were offered at the Power 5 programs they went to. Both of those guys fell somewhere between the bottom of the 2nd category (Top 25 transfers) and the top to middle of the 3rd category (Top 50 transfers).

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Finnish column detailing how Ville's student visa prohibited him from earning hardly anything from NIL-
may explain why he wasn't too excited to stay for his extra 5th year
https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000009655003.html?utm

so, if 3 of our best players left with NIL issues on their minds, can someone tell me again how NIL is helping to keep our players here?
 
yoda said:
Finnish column detailing how Ville's student visa prohibited him from earning hardly anything from NIL-
may explain why he wasn't too excited to stay for his extra 5th year
https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000009655003.html?utm

so, if 3 of our best players left with NIL issues on their minds, can someone tell me again how NIL is helping to keep our players here?
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I don't see how claiming 3 players left due to NIL deal issues is a clear statement of what happened this post season. Both Ville and Mast were graduates, it is unlikely they would have stayed either way. That only leaves Montgomery, and even the best programs had a kid or two leave for seemingly greener pastures this year.
 
yoda said:
Finnish column detailing how Ville's student visa prohibited him from earning hardly anything from NIL-
may explain why he wasn't too excited to stay for his extra 5th year
https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000009655003.html?utm

so, if 3 of our best players left with NIL issues on their minds, can someone tell me again how NIL is helping to keep our players here?
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If true, I don't understand how this didn't effect Mast in the same way. Maybe a difference between Finland versus Netherlands student visa rules? And I agree with Stryker that both Mast and Ville were pretty much expected to leave since they did their part and graduated. We also significantly upgraded Montgomery's position, in my opinion, so good riddance. If he didn't want to be here then show him the door. HOTB is working for us more times than not.
 
Read the stories on Kentucky’s Oscar Tsheibwe - the big schools with big money donors find a way- he got a $2 mil package on the same visa
 
yoda said:
Read the stories on Kentucky’s Oscar Tsheibwe - the big schools with big money donors find a way- he got a $2 mil package on the same visa
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The Oscar Tsheibwe story is much different. Calipari arranged for the team to take a preseason trip to the Bahamas, and while there he did ads, signed cards and merchandise, and other endorsements and made $500,000 in NIL money for the 1 week the team was there. It was all legal, because his restrictive US visa did not apply in the Bahamas.
The articles point out he could not have been paid for NIL deals while in the US-
“He can’t do this stuff in the States,” said Calipari.
According to Tucker in the week the team will be in the Bahamas, Oscar is looking to make $500,000.
https://www.aseaofblue.com/2022/8/10...ws-uk-wildcats
https://www.si.com/college/2022/08/1...amas-nil-deals
 
yoda said:
Finnish column detailing how Ville's student visa prohibited him from earning hardly anything from NIL-
may explain why he wasn't too excited to stay for his extra 5th year
https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000009655003.html?utm

so, if 3 of our best players left with NIL issues on their minds, can someone tell me again how NIL is helping to keep our players here?
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The article doesn’t say that at all. It directly quotes Ville as saying he was ready to give his all to a professional career in basketball along with playing for the national team year round.

All the foreign guys at Bradley have been able to earn NIL dollars. Home of the Brave has some of the best immigration attorneys in the country.
 
I disagree - the entire point of the article was to CONTRAST how one NCAA athlete earned $183,000 (and some earned millions)
while specifically naming Ville as missing out on most of those opportunities...and now that he is playing pro he does have those chances.

"Ville.... was not directly upset by the ban on sponsorship contracts due to his student visa.
Tahvanainen's sports scholarship covered all study, sports, and living expenses, which was enough
for a player who dreams of becoming a professional basketball player.
Bradley University is also not part of the five biggest conferences in college sports, where there is much more money moving around.
"We are not talking about such big money, but I can believe that there are really big differences in bigger schools. Some players get a lot of money and others get almost nothing," says Tahvanainen in an interview at Urhea Hall in Helsinki.

It also says he is now free to make money on sponsorships, where he wasn't before...
He was happy to have the scholarship because the ban on sponsorships obviously hurt his chances at NIL money
"(Ville) is also interested in sponsor collaborations, if a suitable company can be found.
In European professional fields, (Ville) is no longer restricted by US visa rules ... collaborations such as NIL agreements are possible.

some college athletes are speaking out, they think it's unfair-
https://www.nildealnow.com/uconns-adama-sanogo-ineligible-for-nil-deals-its-really-unfair/
https://reason.com/2023/04/03/forei...g-out-on-endorsement-money-due-to-visa-rules/
 
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