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Per Pet Thamel of ESPN, Sluka said that a UNLV assistant coach made a verbal agreement promising he'd get a minimum of $100,000 in NIL money if he transferred there and all he's been given a $3,000 moving stipend. After he tried to get them to honor the agreement they countered by only offering him $12,000.
If that's true I can't blame him for leaving while he could still redshirt.
It seems weird to me that anyone -- athlete or collective -- would do a deal verbally, but this is just a $100,000 deal. Neither side is playing in the big leagues here.
While people are asking what school is going to trust him, I think a question just as pertinent is what athletes will trust UNLV? If you can't uphold that deal for a quarterback you're not worth talking to in the NIL era.
So redshirting is the code name for quitting in this situation? I obviously don’t know how this stuff works, but isn’t it the teams decision as to who they choose to redshirt?
I can bet before any sort of overhaul of the NIL system takes place, this loophole will be closed. More than likely, the NCAA will restrict how and when a player can "take" a redshirt year.
That being said, if the UNLV NIL Collectives really did fleece the kid, then this whole story is on their incompetence. What else do you want to bet that they couldn't find enough donors to fulfill the promises they were handing out?
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