CB Xavier Lucas is transferring to Miami

DMoney

Friday at 5:40 PM 2 min read

Miami has completed the overhaul of its secondary by landing of one of the best young DBs in America, Xavier Lucas.

The 6'2, 200-pound Broward County native was the second-highest graded player on the Wisconsin defense as a true freshman. According to PFF, Lucas posted a 77.5 overall rating, a 75.2 coverage grade and a 76.8 tackling grade. He made 18 total tackles with 2 pass deflections and an INT.

Lucas instantly becomes one of the fastest corners in the ACC. In the spring of 2024, Lucas posted a personal best 10.49 in the 100M.

Lucas reunites with his former Deerfield Beach teammate, Freshman All-American OJ Frederique. Miami has added four additional blue-chip transfers in the secondary with Charles Brantley (Michigan State), Ethan O'Connor (Wazzu), Zechariah Poyser (Jacksonville St.) and Emmanuel Karnley (Arizona).

Lucas attempted to enter the Transfer Portal several weeks ago. Wisconsin refused to enter his name in the Portal within the time required by rule. Wisconsin claims Lucas signed a revenue-sharing agreement pursuant to the House antitrust settlement. However, the settlement has yet to be approved, and the NCAA has been unable to legally restrict player movement after a series of court defeats. Lucas's attorney Darren Heitner said Lucas has yet to receive a payment from Wisconsin.

When Wisconsin failed to comply with standard protocol, Lucas withdrew from Wisconsin and enrolled in Miami. The NCAA will seek no further action.

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Bender

Yesterday at 6:56 PM

407cane said:
which is why I seriously doubt they'll escalate any of this out of fear of the specifics coming to light (especially before spring portal window)

Oh the template is out. There was an article published with the template sourced from a different Big Ten team. Apparently the language is very similar.

Wisconsin kept exposing themselves by publicly stating they signed a NIL deal with a player. They can't do that, that's not legal. And that's not a tricky bylaw, it's basic knowledge.

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bacane

Yesterday at 7:02 PM

mirvin88 said:
Essentially the meat and potatoes of this, is that UW would own his NIL, give him a share (figure provided in the contract) but they’re able to sell those rights to a third party and the player doesn’t see any of that money? Am I reading that right? Also at their discretion, they can raise or lower the original amount (somehow the player is not an employee)? What a round about way of saying it’s performance based…

Sounds like the BIG is planning to royally ***** these kids and probably profit themselves off their NIL.

Not a good luck. SEC is sleazy, but can’t imagine they’d attempt to ***** players like this.

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Odin

Yesterday at 7:08 PM

scane said:
Question for the CIS lawyers: Since Wisconsin and the Big Ten don't want the template out, and assuming Lucas has a copy, is there anything legally stopping Lucas and Heitner from publishing it on Twitter?

Someone can post it anonymously and Lucas can claim he left it in his car and someone took a picture through the window.

jd716

Yesterday at 7:11 PM

I'm waiting for this "credible" evidence of tampering to drop. Sounds like grasping at straws.

flips

Yesterday at 7:18 PM

jd716 said:
I'm waiting for this "credible" evidence of tampering to drop. Sounds like grasping at straws.

The tampering accusation is a MacGuffin

TheOriginalCane

Yesterday at 7:26 PM

Bender said:
They're gonna claim Miami tampered because Lucas never officially went into the transfer portal.

That would be the icing on the cake.

Well, they have a two-tiered tampering claim.

First, they are claiming Miami tampered BEFORE Xavier Lucas notified Wisconsin that he was going to enter the Portal. For some reason, they believe there is NO OTHER POSSIBLE REASON for Xavier Lucas wanting to come to Miami, but for the tampering.

Second, they are saying we continued to communicate. This is the part they rendered problematic by unreasonably withholding his Portal entry.

TheOriginalCane

Yesterday at 7:27 PM

scane said:
Question for the CIS lawyers: Since Wisconsin and the Big Ten don't want the template out, and assuming Lucas has a copy, is there anything legally stopping Lucas and Heitner from publishing it on Twitter?

Nope. Although they would likely do so in a redacted format, which I'm fine with.

Allabouttheu95

Yesterday at 7:40 PM

Has there been any noise from agents about this matter? If my non legal brain is reading that template correctly why would any young man go play in the big10 if none of the other p4 conferences have instituted such bs.

This seems like they (big10) may have to go PR control on this template

Gi0logy

Yesterday at 7:42 PM

jd716 said:
I'm waiting for this "credible" evidence of tampering to drop. Sounds like grasping at strawleys.

FIFY

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mirvin88

Yesterday at 8:31 PM

Bender said:
Exactly. Treat him like a private contractor but want to own him like an employee...

Using Ward as an example. He would’ve received only his initial ~~2 mil but his (cologne, shoe?) deals Miami would’ve received 100% of? Sounds predatory.

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