Lot of assumptions, most reasonable, but no certainties thus far. Without any regulations, this type of situation was unfortunately foreseeable. Double bad for us because it‘s happening to us. No way to know yet whether it is a third party interference or whether one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing from an institutional standpoint. If the money people have either over promised or not dealt squarely, then this situation will leave a scar. And where is Billy and the staff in all these proceedings? The longer it drags on, the less likely it would seem that there will be a favorable outcome for UF regarding Rashada and potential future damage regarding the high profile recruits, the game changers, that we will be vying for.
I guess the best way to describe this whole NIL situation is that it’s like a high stakes, no limit poker game and the appearance where UF is concerned has us being represented by a couple of teenagers in their first time at the casino using money they pilfered from Dad’s sock drawer. It may well be more detailed and thought out than that, but the optics are not so aligned.
I love college football, or at least what it has been previously, but here lately and into the foreseeable future, it will be more like the NFL as many others have opined. At this point, the academic requirements are far down the list of concerns and allegiance to a school‘s colors are mostly supplanted by allegiance to the green, the silver, and the gold. This isn’t good for the traditionalists.