This contract was ultimately voided by the Gaytors collective, yet I still can’t believe HS players are getting paid this kind of money.
Of course, UF backpedaled from this and I doubt ASU paid out anywhere near this but wow. For guys that will never sniff the league, it’s a great opportunity to make a ton of money.
That’s nuts. I wonder if that’s the reason some pretty decent players have opted to stay in college? Used to be anyone who could make a traveling squad went to the nfl. Now you can be big man on campus for years 4-5 and maybe make a million between the two years. Even if you’re not pro material.
lottle hard to read this and I feel something should be done.
amazingly there’s a very good college level qb out there. Too 20 qb in the nation. Still unsigned. Florida has him but he said the n word signing a rap song so they’d rather pay $5 million and be embarrassed by this guy. Ok
Sounds like Josh Pate called it right...this all fell on the guys at the top and not the coaches, not the kid but rather the guys that reneged after he signed his LOI in good faith. The kid did nothing wrong but fall for a shell game by the so called Collective...and IMHO the attempted coverup where they tried to blame the kid for being greedy and trying to get more out of the deal which was BS
Cheezus.
Think of the money he could have gotten if he'd agreed to do TWO branded tweets and IGs per month and 12 fan-engagement events per year.