Brand New Transfer Season NIL talk

[CuseJacket]

If you have access to The Athletic, an interesting article on NIL and recruiting high school players.

Favorite line in the article:

• I left some money on the table, about $50,000. But I signed with my dream school.

Forgot the link.

Recruiting confidential: High school football stars dish on NIL deals, arrogant coaches and more — The Athletic

We talked to more than 20 of the top players in the nation at the Under Armour All-America Game to tackle a variety of recruiting topics.

apple.news

Some additional color commentary from one of the Athletic reporters (Navarro) in the first 10 min here:

 

[awbuzz]

All of this NIL $$$ flying around and kids selling out is kind of feel like finding out Santa isn't real...

 

[CEB]

All of this NIL $$$ flying around and kids selling out is kind of feel like finding out Santa isn't real...

 

[Jim Prather]

All of this NIL $$$ flying around and kids selling out is kind of feel like finding out Santa isn't real...

Wait, what...

 

[Techster]

 

[Oldgoldandwhite]

Payback?

 

[awbuzz]

Ha! Love it

 

[CEB]

Payback?

If this all goes as bad as it could for FSU…. Could you imagine? The build up and excitement of an undefeated season only to be left out of the playoff, lose your coach and end up with “unprecedented” penalties for violations?
Yikes.

Powers that be may want to keep them “stuck” in the ACC.

 

[Enuratique]

If this all goes as bad as it could for FSU…. Could you imagine? The build up and excitement of an undefeated season only to be left out of the playoff, lose your coach and end up with “unprecedented” penalties for violations?
Yikes.

Powers that be may want to keep them “stuck” in the ACC.

They lost Norvell?

 

[Lil G]

How is any school being penalized at this point… I thought giving kids money to play football became legal? Doesn’t every school have a fan base collective that is pretty much going straight to kids pockets? For example, us?

 

[CEB]

They lost Norvell?

No… lots of speculation he is in talks with Bama or others though…

 

[forensicbuzz]

I'd hire a pack of UNC lawyers and go right at the NCAA. There is no way that 100 other schools haven't done as much, or worse, than this. As much as I hate FSU, this is ridiculous unless it is just the first of a whole bunch of sanctions coming down the pike.

 

[ibeattetris]

How is any school being penalized at this point… I thought giving kids money to play football became legal? Doesn’t every school have a fan base collective that is pretty much going straight to kids pockets? For example, us?

This one is incredibly stupid as well. A coach drove a recruit to an NIL meeting. That's it.

 

[RamblinRed]

NCAA imposes significant sanctions on Florida State for NIL-related recruiting violations

It is one of the first NIL-related punishments to be handed down by the NCAA

www.cbssports.com

According to the article this was a negotiated settlement - meaning no appeal.

• Two years of probation for Florida State.
• A two-year show cause, a suspension from the next three regular season games, a two-week restriction on recruiting communication and a restriction from off-campus recruiting during fall 2023 for Atkins .
• A three-year disassociation from the booster.
• A one-year disassociation from the collective.
• A $5,000 fine plus 1% of the football budget.
• A 5% reduction in football scholarships over the two-year probationary period.
• A reduction in recruiting official visits in the 2023-24 academic year.
• A reduction in football recruiting communications for a total of six weeks during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years.

My take on this is for FSU to take a negotiated settlement then the NCAA must of had some great evidence and it could have been much worse.
My sense is that the big issue is the OC took the potential transfer kid to the booster and collective directly. That is one of the few no-nos in this process.

 

[Oldgoldandwhite]

Coincidence?
There‘s schools doing lots worse.

 

[Lil G]

If true, those NIL restrictions are INSANE. No money for the players?? In a time like this?? The players might seriously mass exodus! Along with the recruiting time restrictions… somebody explain to me how this doesn’t wipe FSU off the map with transfers in the next portal window.
Even if FSU does find a way to get some money to their players, it feels like this is the NCAA killing off FSU (they started a couple weeks ago) and ultimately the ACC.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I'd hire a pack of UNC lawyers and go right at the NCAA. There is no way that 100 other schools haven't done as much, or worse, than this. As much as I hate FSU, this is ridiculous unless it is just the first of a whole bunch of sanctions coming down the pike.

Thinking the same. Like since when does the NCAA care about regulating NIL? This is the kind of selective enforcement that forfeited a season for Tech over a t-shirt while factory schools were giving kids cars, buying homes for their parents and paying them under the table.

 

[BuzzStone]

My sense is that the big issue is the OC took the potential transfer kid to the booster and collective directly. That is one of the few no-nos in this process.

Yet places like Ole Miss can offer our kids money before they even enter the transfer portal.....seems legit.

 

[GTHomer]

NCAA imposes significant sanctions on Florida State for NIL-related recruiting violations

It is one of the first NIL-related punishments to be handed down by the NCAA

www.cbssports.com

According to the article this was a negotiated settlement - meaning no appeal.

• Two years of probation for Florida State.
• A two-year show cause, a suspension from the next three regular season games, a two-week restriction on recruiting communication and a restriction from off-campus recruiting during fall 2023 for Atkins .
• A three-year disassociation from the booster.
• A one-year disassociation from the collective.
• A $5,000 fine plus 1% of the football budget.
• A 5% reduction in football scholarships over the two-year probationary period.
• A reduction in recruiting official visits in the 2023-24 academic year.
• A reduction in football recruiting communications for a total of six weeks during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years.

My take on this is for FSU to take a negotiated settlement then the NCAA must of had some great evidence and it could have been much worse.
My sense is that the big issue is the OC took the potential transfer kid to the booster and collective directly. That is one of the few no-nos in this process.

It seems that a former player from the Ag school to our East was involved,

NCAA: FSU booster offered former Georgia lineman Amarius Mims $15,000-a-month deal

A Florida State assistant coach has been suspended for the first three games of the 2024 season for violating recruiting rules by connecting a potential transfer with a representative from an NIL collective during an official visit, the NCAA announced on Thursday.

www.ajc.com

 

[RamblinRed]

The fact that both FSU and Akins agreed to this settlement tells me one of two things.

Either NCAA had evidence to hit them much harder than this if they wanted to, or FSU just wanted this over so NCAA didn't go poking around under the hood.

I mean Akins accepted a 2 year show cause and then a 3 game suspension once the show cause is up.