Dat is a troo statment. I does feel rich. Da money I saves on meat alone wil blow yo mine. Inniehow, bout deez QBs. We got one in Nahunta name a Bobby Lee Pusser. He’s only in 8th grade but boy gone be gud.
His granddaddy Buford had quite a story.
Yeah dat boy at BC. Ain’t dat da skool dat nocked DJ Dallas da **** out win dey played?
But wait…The Gator Collective vehemently denied the $11M Rashada said they offered him in the summer! So now they have been caught red handed!
This is really a case of one rich guy ... Hathcock ... with a big ego being ****ed that Miami (and Ruiz) had beaten them repeatedly for recruits in 2022. He basically said ***** it, we're joining the big guys, and he had some uneducated, inexperienced dude (Jackson Zager?) negotiate the deal which he, initially, agreed to fund, probably with some $$ input from his booster cronies. Once he calmed down, and discussed the number with his buddies $13.85 million, Manning money, they bailed. Tails between their legs. Why they bumped the "deal" from the $6 million dollar range to almost $14 million is the unanswered question. Will be interesting to see what new entity they create to replace The Gator Collective as that has reportedly been shut down as a result of this fiasco.
Its ridiculous but in regards to the last line, that would be a big no no on UF's side.
Come on ... you really believe that ANY NIL deal is given to a recruit without the advance knowledge of the head coach and AD? NIL resources are a limited commodity and every program has multiple needs. There needs to be (and there is) a coordinated effort on these programs. You really believe that Napier had no idea that Rashada was flipping from Miami ... and that it was 100% due to a NIL deal that had been structured at the behest of Hathcock?
Lord if you only Knew!
You are probably right but they are not supposed to. I do wonder how much they know, especially early on as this is still very nascent. Most coaches didnt know the exact details of bags, only that they would be there if needed. I believe it was one of the posters who is a handler on here, that stated that the one school that knew everything inside out was Taint, everywhere else it was dont ask dont tell type stuff.
The numbers are crazy ... but Manning reportedly has a $14 million dollar deal, Nico is very close to that, and the big ego UF Booster Hathcock was in a "lets get one pulled on Miami & Ruiz" and decided to join that overpriced fraternity. Gator Collective DID execute a NIL agreement for that amount, then "terminated" the agreement when the booster reneged. Result is that the Gator Collective ... which they were promoting as the hallmark of NIL collectives back in the Spring of 2022 ... has now been DISBANDED due to this colossal ***** up. UF is the poster child for NIL gone wrong and will be working to structure a new collective, under a different name with different people involved, to try and rebuild their reputation in the NIL arena. Big egos, no coordination, lot of BS, but the number put to paper was that number.
