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It was only a matter of time.
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He said he was promised $13.8 million to play for Florida before they backed out of the deal. Guessing he wants some money, even though he signed with Arizona St. and now Georgia.
NIL has these HS stars seeing $$$
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Rusty Hardin is his attorney.
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13 million? Ridiculous. What had he done to get anywhere near that figure?
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That’s because it was dangled in front of him. If you were offered that to choose a job and it wasn’t provided, you’d sue too. Even if the amount of the deal was absolutely ridiculous.
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Nothing but he wasn’t the one looking for $13 million. Florida themselves put that offer on the table.
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If someone promises me 13 million, wastes my time and renege on the deal, I’d sue them too.
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GOOD!
The fist wave of the Wild West NIL deals (i.e. the Texas A&M types) are going to viewed as informal compared to the LEGAL CONTRACTS that will legally require BOTH the athlete and the Collective to honor the stipulations in THEIR CONTRACT.
We should start seeing clauses that possibly would require the Athlete top PAY BACK the collection…i.e transferring before the # of years of the contract are up.
I will say this AGAIN…If the University of Houston wants to be PREMIERE ACADEMICALLY, The UH LAw School needs to start offering degrees in a NIL LAW… YESTERDAY!
There will be BILLIONS of dollars in the Legalities behind these NIL deals.
UH LAW need to start that degree program immediately and be the #1 school in that type of Law.
Heck, Bauer should also start a NIL course.
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I was under the impression the school was not allowed to have any part of the nil deals. Seems like the HC would fall under that category.
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Uhhhhh…come on now.
At the most that might be one new course.
There’s already a Sports Law course as an elective.
And I would think that it’ll take awhile for the case law on this subject to the develop to the point where there would be a course worthy casebook available on it.
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Yea I would assume (as a layperson) it would fall under contracts really. Then maybe some sort of survey course or have it part of sports law.
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NIL is as much a matter of intellectual property law and privacy law as it is contracts.
That said…I’m not sure that the body of case law on college sports NIL is very well developed at this point…especially at the appellate level, which is what you really need for a law school course.
What was that line again from Henry VI
UT has an NIL focused law course that’s oversubscribed.
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Pretty informative. Now I can see why Landon did things the way he did with the “run it back” campaign.
My pops had a good idea, he thought that nil should be divided to every member of the team.
Like some wait staff do at restaurants
A top draw player would get the whole team payed and would be a draw for players to come play there
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Is it NIL generally, or is it college sports specific?
I can’t imagine that the case law on college sports NIL is very well developed, given that it’s only been a thing for a few years now.
My only exposure to NIL came in a short segment of a Privacy Law course that covered many other topics as well.
Yes I forgot about that part.
Thank you for that insight, hadn’t thought about the appellate level cases really being key.