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Is Rashada coming to Gainesville or not?

85 Guys are getting a full ride college scholarship, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars at UF in tuition, medical, housing, meals, top quality physical development, etc, and eventually a college degree.
If they claim that's not being PAID, then they are completely out of touch with reality.

Only a very small percentage will ever make it to the big contracts NFL.
Only a small percentage in college will ever get any of the NIL money.
But is seems to me that the small percentage might be fudging it up for the vast majority eventually.

Those that get the big NIL bucks, should have to pay their own way to college, minus all of those previously supplied freebee's...
While the vast majority that are not getting the NIL can still get their ship privilege freebees.

And if you're getting the big NIL money, then you don't qualify for the xfer with 'no 1 year sit-out' privileges. You could still xfer, but you'd have to sit-out.

For all of the Socialist-U's athletics programs,,,, Get WOKE ---> Go BROKE
 
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bradleygator said:
Posted this in the other thread. Complete dumpster fire. This article says the gators may be looking at NCAA enforcement action for trying to save the deal.

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What's the timeline, who are the central figures of the Jaden Rashada-Florida saga?

Is the Rashada situation a one-off misstep, or have the Gators completely flubbed their first swing at NIL?
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Not paying for the article but are they just reporting nonsense that is based on stuff elsewhere. Not sure what it says but any article acting like the UAA or Stricklin had anything to do with an NIL deal is crazy.

Can you give a brief explanation of what it's claiming or saying?
 
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This is what it comes to when you have 'Championship Tunnel Vision.'

Win At Any Cost is a human loser system imo....

And there can be no PRIDE in the collective, when you're buying your wins....
 
instaGATOR said:
This is what it comes to when you have 'Championship Tunnel Vision.'

Win At Any Cost is a human loser system imo....

And there can be no PRIDE in the collective, when you're buying your wins....
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Yep I will tell Georgia fans they can have no pride in their championships and beating us lately because they are one of the big booster large NIL teams.
 
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Gator Fever said:
Not paying for the article but are they just reporting nonsense that is based on stuff elsewhere. Not sure what it says but any article acting like the UAA or Stricklin had anything to do with an NIL deal is crazy.

Can you give a brief explanation of what it's claiming or saying?
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The article is a timeline. It says the collective signed a $13m deal with Rashada in November and Rashada flipped from Miami after signing.

It says that the collective knew it didn’t have the money but was counting on help from big boosters from the other collective, I forget the name but they mention the specific guy.

It says Rojas (the collective’s head I think) sent a letter terminating the deal when it became clear they didn’t have the money (I’m not sure if it was before signing day).

It says this led to conversations between Stricklin and others in the UA with the collective, trying to save the deal.

It quotes a source in the UA on Jan 11 saying that Rashada is gone and everyone in the UA was panicking.

Says Rashada is talking about suing to enforce the original contract and the collective was offering him a “7 figure settlement” that would keep him at UF.

Says Rashada has been contacted by the NCAA regarding his “NIL experience.”
 
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The termination was Dec. 7, before signing day. Obviously Rashada’s LOI was the last one received on Dec 23.
 
Says Stricklin and Castro Walker (I don’t know who that is) from the UA were talking to donors, trying to save the deal after the termination letter was sent.
 
Says the collective was looking for funding from “Hathcock and other gator guard donors.” But I guess they didn’t get it.
 
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Anyway the whole process is a joke and this sad saga unfortunately demonstrates how dumb and destructive it is for everyone involved.

If the NCAA tries to double down on this nonsense by enforcing the ludicrous “no pay for play” provisions, I hope entire conferences walk.
 
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bradleygator said:
The article is a timeline. It says the collective signed a $13m deal with Rashada in November and Rashada flipped from Miami after signing.

It says that the collective knew it didn’t have the money but was counting on help from big boosters from the other collective, I forget the name but they mention the specific guy.

It says Rojas (the collective’s head I think) sent a letter terminating the deal when it became clear they didn’t have the money (I’m not sure if it was before signing day).

It says this led to conversations between Stricklin and others in the UA with the collective, trying to save the deal.

It quotes a source in the UA on Jan 11 saying that Rashada is gone and everyone in the UA was panicking.

Says Rashada is talking about suing to enforce the original contract and the collective was offering him a “7 figure settlement” that would keep him at UF.

Says Rashada has been contacted by the NCAA regarding his “NIL experience.”
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What makes that a total joke if there was any truth to it is that the collective has what like 500k in its name? It's the Gator Guard setup that has the big booster funding behind it.

If any real contract was done it was just that Rojas guy being drunk or something promising crap.

I am more inclined to belive part of the problem here is this kid signed something with Ruiz he wants to dump on us now with how smug Ruiz says he isn't able to comment on Rashada's situation.
 
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fsu939913 said:
Josh pate basically confirmed this isn't a Rashada issue, it's a UF NIL issue. Apparently UF didn't give him the money they promised.
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This whole story doesn't make sense. They claim there was some contract done up and then on Dec 7th he was notified it was terminated. If true why would he even sign with UF on early signing day a week or more later when he could wait and get stuff worked out? If you had a truly enforceable contract there is no reason to do that if they are trying to back out of something that is legally enforceable. I hope one day someone gives the true story on this. Whatever happened that A hole Ruiz seems to have been clued in on it by some idiot connected to our NIL stuff.
 
fsu939913 said:
Josh pate basically confirmed this isn't a Rashada issue, it's a UF NIL issue. Apparently UF didn't give him the money they promised.
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Here's the link to Pate's discussion of this. It's already on another thread but worth sharing here.
 
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Gator Fever said:
This whole story doesn't make sense. They claim there was some contract done up and then on Dec 7th he was notified it was terminated. If true why would he even sign with UF on early signing day a week or more later when he could wait and get stuff worked out? If you had a truly enforceable contract there is no reason to do that if they are trying to back out of something that is legally enforceable. I hope one day someone gives the true story on this. Whatever happened that A hole Ruiz seems to have been clued in on it by some idiot connected to our NIL stuff.
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I heard they told him he would get 1 mill when he signed but they never gave it to him. I'd fire every single person on that collective. They may have just cost Billy his job.
 
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fsu939913 said:
I heard they told him he would get 1 mill when he signed but they never gave it to him. I'd fire every single person on that collective. They may have just cost Billy his job.
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The one guy is already being forced out for being drunk and talking mess on Discord I heard but the Collective doesn't even have money like that. If he made promises he couldn't keep he must have thought the big boosters would give it to him later to do it. My guess is there is nothing in writing where the big boosters agreed to that.
 
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If he doesn't make UF's deadline that means, I think, that he can't play spring ball anywhere and can't roll until summer B, wherever he goes. Is that right?
 
ocalaman said:
If he doesn't make UF's deadline that means, I think, that he can't play spring ball anywhere and can't roll until summer B, wherever he goes. Is that right?
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I would think so unless he was able to sign somewhere the beginning of next week or so. Hopefully this kid is the beginning of some pushback on this nonsense. Let him out of his letter and good riddance.
 
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Gator Fever said:
This whole story doesn't make sense. They claim there was some contract done up and then on Dec 7th he was notified it was terminated. If true why would he even sign with UF on early signing day a week or more later when he could wait and get stuff worked out? If you had a truly enforceable contract there is no reason to do that if they are trying to back out of something that is legally enforceable. I hope one day someone gives the true story on this. Whatever happened that A hole Ruiz seems to have been clued in on it by some idiot connected to our NIL stuff.
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I think it was pretty clever. That NLI is an albatross for the Gator Collective.

He’s going to get money out of the GC. It’s just a question of how much.

I imagine his ideal outcome is to get a fat check from the GC and out of his NLI, all in time to catch the January 25th enrollment deadline for Miami, when he’ll magically get a new deal from Ruiz.
 
mnole03 said:
I think it was pretty clever. That NLI is an albatross for the Gator Collective.

He’s going to get money out of the GC. It’s just a question of how much.

I imagine his ideal outcome is to get a fat check from the GC and out of his NLI, all in time to catch the January 25th enrollment deadline for Miami, when he’ll magically get a new deal from Ruiz.
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Now why would GC give him money and we let him out of his NIL? What makes the most sense is he is trying to salvage his big fat NIL deal and Florida trying to keep him in the fold...if it doesn't get done then he can move on.
 
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mnole03 said:
I think it was pretty clever. That NLI is an albatross for the Gator Collective.

He’s going to get money out of the GC. It’s just a question of how much.

I imagine his ideal outcome is to get a fat check from the GC and out of his NLI, all in time to catch the January 25th enrollment deadline for Miami, when he’ll magically get a new deal from Ruiz.
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I doubt it myself unless I see that contract signed by the parties showing the numbers which could be shown without affecting the case legally in any court proceedings.
 
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Countygator1 said:
Now why would GC give him money and we let him out of his NIL? What makes the most sense is he is trying to salvage his big fat NIL deal and Florida trying to keep him in the fold...if it doesn't get done then he can move on.
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I’m sure he wanted the original deal, but GC doesn’t appear to have the money. And why would anyone else take on that boondoggle of an offer with a better prospect in the pipeline?

The GC will pay him because that’s how contract law works. It’s just a question of how much and whether they survive.
 
mnole03 said:
Sure, but GC doesn’t have the money. Honestly, why would anyone else take on that boondoggle of an offer with a better prospect in the pipeline?

The GC will pay him because that’s how contract law works. It’s just a question of how much and whether they survive.
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I think you might be wrong about him having an enforceable contract he could win a court case over. We will probably find out the real deal pretty soon. A lot of spin out there right now.
 
Gator Fever said:
I think you might be wrong about him having an enforceable contract he could win a court case over. We will probably find out the real deal pretty soon. A lot of spin out there right now.
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If these things end up not being enforceable in Florida, we’re all screwed.
 
mnole03 said:
I think it was pretty clever. That NLI is an albatross for the Gator Collective.

He’s going to get money out of the GC. It’s just a question of how much.

I imagine his ideal outcome is to get a fat check from the GC and out of his NLI, all in time to catch the January 25th enrollment deadline for Miami, when he’ll magically get a new deal from Ruiz.
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Yes, it's as if Ruiz scripted this a while back and has been coaching Rashada through it all.
 
bradleygator said:
The article is a timeline. It says the collective signed a $13m deal with Rashada in November and Rashada flipped from Miami after signing.

It says that the collective knew it didn’t have the money but was counting on help from big boosters from the other collective, I forget the name but they mention the specific guy.

It says Rojas (the collective’s head I think) sent a letter terminating the deal when it became clear they didn’t have the money (I’m not sure if it was before signing day).

It says this led to conversations between Stricklin and others in the UA with the collective, trying to save the deal.

It quotes a source in the UA on Jan 11 saying that Rashada is gone and everyone in the UA was panicking.

Says Rashada is talking about suing to enforce the original contract and the collective was offering him a “7 figure settlement” that would keep him at UF.

Says Rashada has been contacted by the NCAA regarding his “NIL experience.”
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If that story is true…it is unfvckin’ real how bad this entire saga has been managed…it is so outrageous that sadgator cannot genuinely believe it…
 
ocalaman said:
He ain't comin' - Get over it
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I'm "only" 40 but I can sing all the Eagles songs, and most classic and southern rock, in my sleep after listening to my mom's drinking music throughout my childhood. 😎

Fun fact: I did my junior year of high school in Tombstone, AZ and while playing basketball for them we actually played Winslow, AZ in the State playoffs. Everytime that song comes on I think about that, haha.
 
I'm still withholding judgment on Billy being successful here but I'll say this so far: his NIL game has been behind the curve and sucks so far.

Regardless of program rehab, facilities, development, etc - if you can't get this kid's type of talent on campus consistently, he won't make it. And NIL is a huge part of any top 50 kid's equation.

You can recruit at the 2nd tier level and win championships however you HAVE to get this type of QB to make that work. Otherwise, we'll be stuck in a top-end win total of about 9-10/year and continue to lose the top 2 games every year - that's assuming we get back to that level lol.
 
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