This is why the portal is crazy. Found this reported by a Gator account on X

this is exactly what is ruining college football. no player wants to work for anything anymore

Yeah and ATM was tampering with him. Is what it is.

The money is one thing, but if I’m a coach and those playing time/starter demands there, I’m tellingmy NIL money changers they better not saddle me with this guy.

This is BS. NIL agreements are written a very specific way to insure they cannot be used as "pay for play" or a pseudo employment contract. They are pay packages put together with off the field obligations in order to qualify for payment. They are month to month so the NIL is not on the hook if the kid transfers or is processed out. Playing time and all that crap is never included.

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Only a few people would actually know the $$$ figure and details imo.
1) The Agent
2) The Player
3) The Coaches

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It's classic messageboard retard wanna be recruiting reporter syndrome.

People that make things up are usually very specific, as it projects confidene in the lie.

The user who posted it on X has also posted some Breaking News in the past that turned out to be fake...

The public assumption on how NIL works is insanely different to how it really works. That story is 100% false. It's written for people who don't understand NIL.

Agents would pray to their personal God that Florida screwed up and wrote this deal. It's a pay for play contract (more snaps, 3rd down snaps etc) which would make the player an employee which would open the doors to unions and revenue sharing.

This is why NIL AGREEMENTS not contracts are written very specifically. They are packages requiring the player to for example visit the car dealership, shoot a commercial, allow his image on an advertisement, make social media posts about a product etc. If he doesn't fulfill his obligation, that portion of the package isn't paid.

For example Luther Burden gets X amount for his image on potato chips. He has to post on social media, eat the chips in public and allow his image in commercials and store posters. It has nothing to do with on field performance.

NIL was not supposed to be part of an offer to sign a LOI. If a player is popular, then they should get portion of the sales for merchandise with their names like jerseys, video games, and more. This I support just like a person going viral on social media, but not pay for play.

School revenues earned based on having the best and most popular students would distribute based on value, not just popularity.

1. Freshmen should be exempt from NIL until they have played a season.
2. Transfers should have to sit a year unless there a coaching change or justifiable family emergency
3. I wish there was some type of points system that gave players value to their popularity and there was a standard amount paid for those values.

This thread is about a supposed NIL agreement not an under the table verbal. No NIL agent negotiates playing time or game performance into a NIL agreement. All NILs have a very specific structure and wording that No One varies from. That way no NIL collective accidently writes a quasi employment agreement which dismantles everything.

And no NIL agent is risking suspension from the SEC for violating NIL rules because that triggers a suspension from all the conferences.