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'stache

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  1. Only of the check clears.
  2. Sounds like the OC might have been out there making a bunch of bs promises. He could be the one fucked in all of this.
  3. Let's say as a technical matter the deal was "If you come play QB at UNLV, that position comes with a high profile, and we have commitments that you'll get paid $100,000 to appear in a series of television commercials for local and national businesses." He wins the job, has success, and when asked about the promise is told "sorry, those businesses are no longer interested in paying you to appear in their commercials." If the facts are similar to that, I think he's more than justified in saying fuck this, I can quit now and find another QB job next year with a higher profile and with better access to advertising dollars. At that point we're just splitting hairs over what "paid to play" means. I think it's unfair to say "he wanted to get paid to play and he's a dumbass because that's not how NIL works." To get super technical it wasn't pay to play but pay to choose UNLV over a competitor.
  4. The IRS cares about people who don't pay taxes regardless of the reason. They aren't going to take a stance against NIL deals because some of them will fail or refuse to report. They'll be treated the same as any other tax cheat. There are literally millions of them out there and this might constitute a fraction of a percent of the people they're pursuing for unpaid taxes.
  5. If it was a coach making an unsanctioned promise the school and collective might be able to save some face by scapegoating the coach. They'd need to be sure not to smear the kid though.
  6. The bold is where NIL in college is different in practice. The money being exchanged (most of it at least) is not legitimately to advance the payor's business interests but to entice the best players to sign with said business owners' alma mater. Imma is correct that on paper it's an arms length business deal to promote a company, brand, etc., but everyone knows it's really about enticing players to sign with your favorite school.
  7. They have to coordinate with coaches to know who they're recruiting and their priorities. The collectives can't just offer a 5 star player a deal and force him into the program if the coach wanted someone else or had a different priority.
  8. The ones who actually care will vote Harris even if secretly. The ones virtue signaling their progressive bona fides are going to stay home, and probably were anyway, because they are essentially "both side"-ers.
  9. If a coach went rogue and made a bs promise the school is fucked perceptionwise going forward. If true the kid has every right to bail and preserve his redshirt and make some money in his final season next year. Just a mess all around.
  10. I remember when I was young (Regan era) my dad said he didn't like republicans because they only cared about businesses and not people. I think the perception has been and remains that republicans are good at business and therefore economy. They aren't looking at the graphs or listening to Bill Clinton's correct mention of job creation under republicans vs. democrats. Throw in the trump name whose celebrity was built on being a businessman and they just default to republicans are good at economy.
  11. I think part of the big settlement is that direct payments for playing will be legal and things will look different going forward. It will get regulated eventually one way or another. Not sure what the IRS cares, if you make money, you report it as income and pay taxes, if you don't, you're in some doo doo.
  12. The hypothetical was that selling lemonade is illegal so you sell the cup with the expectation that lemonade will accompany the cup. Imma is correct that the rules still preclude payments for playing so they are written as "brand ambassador" contracts and they get $100K to do a 20 second recording for a local car dealership commercial. We all know it's pay for play, but if the player decides to leave, the dealership can't sue him for their money back, because the contract was for the radio ad. That's the only real difference, the way these are papered up is a complete pretext.
  13. You couldn't sue for the lemonade because it would be an illegal contract and all you were legally entitled to was the cup. Like I said, it's why this QB isn't suing UNLV but instead is just up and leaving. Imma is speaking in technicalities and is correct on that level. In practice though, if he was promised something and they renegged, he's in the right. I think most of us think he just had a few good wins and asked for more money midseason and fuck him. No telling if the truth can be established.
  14. I agree it's losing charm, but I can't think of a logical or economic justification that the people who risk their health to create a product that generates billions of dollars in revenue should do so for free because of charm and history. It used to be an amateur sport when they were kids playing a game and covering their costs through ticket sales and concessions. TV revenues have changed everything.
  15. If he was paid everything he was promised and came in after two "big" wins and asked for another $100K what did UNLV do wrong? I'd say no too and tell him to fuck off. As to your first point, it's why he's just leaving and not suing, it's still pay for play however it's labeled.
  16. Old enough to get their knees blown out and brains turned to mush for the entertainment of others while generating billions of dollars in profit. They deserve to be compensated for that value. Doing it through NIL pretexts is the problem.
  17. I think this is most likely and if so fuck him. Like someone said above, one side is lying. I assume most NIL is paid up front. Seems unlikely that he was promised a payment after week 3 which was reneged.
  18. Seriously, lol. The problem with NIL is that it’s a bullshit pretext to pay players. Everyone knows it and operates accordingly. The OL at Ole Miss isn’t getting paid $300k because that’s the value they bring cutting a ribbon at the local Jiffy Lube.
  19. I would bet good money that the "poaching penalty" is unenforceable. These clauses are a form of liquidated damages and every jurisdiction literally has in their laws that liquidated damages clauses must be a logical estimation of actual damages and cannot be a "penalty." The law used that word, "cannot be a penalty."
  20. Kirk Cousins has gotten like three massive contracts to go 1-4 in the playoffs, but yeah, lets just blame Dak and let Jerry and his clown ass off the fucking hook.
  21. I was a grill jockey, those were for the carhops, the cute ones especially. Downside was it's sort of awkward flirting when you smell like a deepfryer.
  22. Sonic alum here, tator tots 4 life.
  23. As of this morning 5 Harris-Walz signs on my street. According to trumps logic, he's gonna lose Oklahoma bigly, lol.
  24. Stop quoting the troll, he adds nothing to the conversation. The Cowboys have been “out of reach” within the first quarter and a half of games because of putrid defense and shitty opening play calling without any adjustments when they don’t work. That affects qb play in case you hadn’t noticed. The point is that after Mahomes nobody on that list is clearly better than others accomplishment-wise. Stafford caught a great coach at a great time with good surroundings. Everyone else on that list has had some big seasons and also been accused of disappearing in big games (see multiple MVP Lamar Jackson, regressed Jalen Hurts, etc). There are some on that list I’d prefer to Dak, but that’s not the choice (and half that list is laughable). It’s pay Dak or draft a rookie and play him immediately. That just isn’t a realistic choice unless you’re in full tank mode which Jerry clearly doesn’t want to do. The problem isn’t that he’s (for now) the highest paid player, they can still build a roster like everyone else, it’s that they are paying players and putting them in a system with useless retread coaches. Nobody young and innovative will put up with Jerrys bullshit. So ultimately it doesn’t matter, pay, don’t pay, the franchise isn’t going anywhere. Every qb on that list would fail in Dallas under current management. Even Mahomes would probably have a ceiling under these clowns. Maybe he could get these losers to the conference title game on his own, but no fucking super bowls. Fuck Jerry Jones. He’s the problem, not the qb, not the contracts, it’s him and his toxic aura that infects everything and everyone around him.
  25. The “state teams tied together” has always turned out to be bullshit when the final decision is made. It’s just so stupid and messy.
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