Just shows the importance of parents needing to educate their kids. All money ain't good money. Couldn't imagine sending my child to Clemson when the coach called a player ni**er and the head coach defending it.
i think they know they will lose, they probably will get a fine and slap on the wrist, but they are willing to pay the money in order to **** over miami who they probably believe tampered and lucas, who backed out and tried to leave
But the only getting ****ed over is Lucas. At some point he will be in the portal as there is no outcome here where he returns to Wisconsin. While I'm sure Miami would like him to be able to participate in spring practice it is not something that is crippling to his chances of being ready for week 1.
Pretty sure he just trying to put pressure on UW and the NCAA to follow their own rules which state the kid needs to be entered in the portal within 48 hours which passed 3 weeks ago almost. Having to go to court will likely take longer to get it resolved unless he can get an expediated judgement which could prevent him from enrolling for the Spring. I'm not a lawyer but not sure this would be the type of case where there would be discovery anyways as it really is just a matter of a NCAA rule existing that UW is refusing to follow. Also if by some chance there is some smoking gun of a text proving tampering that still doesn't overule the fact the NCAA rule requires he be entered into the portal. If UW feels tampering occurred they can file a compliant with the NCAA and if it was found to have happened they will handle it. It isn't up to UW to police tampering. Tampering is the lowest of violations and the penalty is a slap on the wrist. Edwards our recent hire was found guilty of tampering in texts to a player. The penalty he received was he couldn't text players for 2 weeks. If UW is holding Lucas up because they feel he owes them or their collective damages they are welcome to pursue it as a civil matter but again by rule they have to enter him in the portal.
Yes. And, they would be on home turf, with hometown lawyers, presumably going up against a lightweight litigator from South Florida.
My maybe not-so-hot take is that Lucas was prepared to play for Wisconsin again next season, Miami tampered and offered him a lot more money.
You may be right that Wisconsin is willing to litigate, but I’d be surprised if they would get text messages. This thing would effectively be resolved at a preliminary injunction hearing. The attorney would file a motion for a preliminary injunction with the complaint and a hearing would happen pretty quickly. While a judge is likely to allow some expedited discovery prior to the hearing, the scope of discovery would likely be fairly limited and I don’t know how the text messages would be relevant to the relief sought.
or maybe its just the fact that lawsuits take money and time and if they can get the NCAA involved through public pressure it may take less money and time
100%. Wisconsin not really losing the PR battle yet.
This was awesome to read and appreciated.
Yeah, **** them. No mercy. If miami makes sense for the big they’ll get admitted there regardless of Lucas.
