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Jaxbuck said:
even if you are successful as UW…what keeps him from saying he’s hurt or worse yet being a locker room cancer and on field liability?

I get sending the tampering message to other leagues but practically you’ve got limited upside here. None really.
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My first thought too. What's to stop the kid from intentionally throwing a pick or fumbling every time he touches the ball? Or as you said, turn himself into a locker room cancer. So now a school is keeping a kid on the bench that they are paying big bucks for. If the guy doesn't want to be let him go and sue for breach of contract.
 
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gmen6981 said:
My first thought too. What's to stop the kid from intentionally throwing a pick or fumbling every time he touches the ball? Or as you said, turn himself into a locker room cancer. So now a school is keeping a kid on the bench that they are paying big bucks for. If the guy doesn't want to be let him go and sue for breach of contract.
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Exactly.

I just don't see this as being materially different than a civil suit over a contract breach. Maybe you could stretch it and claim fraud? I think there is a pretty high bar for that though (not a lawyer).
 
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TampaBuckeyes said:
I think it’s more of you signed a 1 year contract so you can play for us or you can play for no one.
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dragurd said:
Yep it's essentially enforcing a contract and someone has to see if they are enforceable or not. It maybe they can't keep or nor would want to but they want to know if there is at least a financial penalty for breaking contract or is full on wild west.
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IF that's what the contract actually said.

But who's going to put that kind of strict language in an NIL contract when no one else is doing it? You are the first mover on that particular effort and you won't get anyone to sign (that has options).
 
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Jaxbuck said:
IF that's what the contract actually said.

But who's going to put that kind of strict language in an NIL contract when no one else is doing it? You are the first mover on that particular effort and you won't get anyone to sign (that has options).
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Well if they aren't releasing him to the transfer portal they think their is something in the contract that says something enforceable. Besides they aren't first movers didn't Wisoconsin already do this with someone?
 
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dragurd said:
Well if they aren't releasing him to the transfer portal they think their is something in the contract that says something enforceable. Besides they aren't first movers didn't Wisoconsin already do this with someone?
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Wisconsin went after someone for tampering I think (Miami?).

I'm talking about anyone who wants to be a player on the NIL recruitment stage. You have a choice as the school, you can say

we pay market rate and give market optionality to you (not restricted)
or
we pay above market rate because we restrict your optionality

Good fucking luck on trying to sell market rate with restricted optionality

so unless the market starts restricting optionality across the board, you are going to be at a disadvantage if you do it first (or even early)


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and by the way if UW doesn't have specific language in the NIL deal linking portal entry to financial penalty or some kind of a "good standing " clause they don't have much firm legal ground to stand on.

If they do have a clawback clause, he should just need to pay it and then they have to let him enter the portal.

I don't think any school wants to be the test case for limiting a players freedom via a portal denial.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Wisconsin went after someone for tampering I think (Miami?).

I'm talking about anyone who wants to be a player on the NIL recruitment stage. You have a choice as the school, you can say

we pay market rate and give market optionality to you (not restricted)
or
we pay above market rate because we restrict your optionality

Good fucking luck on trying to sell market rate with restricted optionality

so unless the market starts restricting optionality across the board, you are going to be at a disadvantage if you do it first (or even early)


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and by the way if UW doesn't have specific language in the NIL deal linking portal entry to financial penalty or some kind of a "good standing " clause they don't have much firm legal ground to stand on.

If they do have a clawback clause, he should just need to pay it and then they have to let him enter the portal.

I don't think any school wants to be the test case for limiting a players freedom via a portal denial.
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Nah Wisconsin refused to put him in the portal. So if I remember right he just transferred on his own? It some weird shit.
 
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pnuts34 said:
Aaron Rodger has been a pouty bitch his entire life, his NFL career will take him to the HOF. If you’re good enough, teams won’t care
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This kid ain't Aaron Rodgers. Does he wanna bank on becoming Aaron Rodgers just so he can act like a pouty bitch? Or should he just....in this hypothetical where he's magically forced to play for Washington next year for millionS of dollars......not be a pouty bitch and play?
 
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