Transfer Portal

[JamesTheJeweler]

Mr. Jeweler, everyone knows is whom a school is interested, which athletes have visited, and which athletes have been offered a scholly. I don't need to have any contact with the school to know that and offer an NIL to a pursued athlete contingent on the athlete attending that school. I could even offer to pay tuition and expenses, which frees up a scholarship for the school.

Im talking about kids already under scholarship, like Torrence and Garner.

[JayWalker]

How many times over the years has a coach changed jobs and a player decides he wants to continue to play for that coach?

Add immediate eligibility and whatever NIL might be involved and this doesn't surprise me one bit.

I have no problem with Billy if they wound up at Florida. Welcome to the new world of college sports. If you have one that's really good, someone will give him advice he needs to go to a bigger school (see: Cedric Russell). It works for football as well.

[cajuns80]

How many times over the years has a coach changed jobs and a player decides he wants to continue to play for that coach?

Add immediate eligibility and whatever NIL might be involved and this doesn't surprise me one bit.

I have no problem with Billy if they wound up at Florida. Welcome to the new world of college sports. If you have one that's really good, someone will give him advice he needs to go to a bigger school (see: Cedric Russell). It works for football as well.

And Cedric has said it was a mistake.

[ManAboutTown]

How would Napier be unaware of it? Some business doesnt just randomly offer a kid an NIL deal on the off chance he may end up there. These businesses offering NIL deals would need to know what players are wanted. Napier has to want those players, and let them know they have a place. Regardless if its about NIL or just a scholarship offer, those kids had to be contacted and let them know they have a place there. Unless you believe Garner and Torrence just didnt want to be here and entered the portal together, with no place in mind. It ALL starts with Napier. Am I upset because I didnt think this would happen? Absolutely not. I said this would happen. Its upsetting because if Napier gave Des the recommendation to "continue" what we had going, then systematically pillages the compound of our best coaches, staff, and players....thats sh__y. Its like, "hey buddy, Im handing you the keys to the kingdom!" "Oh, by the way, Im taking the kingdom with me.....but you can have these keys." Whats most damaging is that you did that to a coach with zero ties and contacts outside this university. I feel bad for Des. Do I get it? Yes. Its just the way it is now? Yes. Its still sh__ty to do to someone you were were supposedly trying to help. If this is "just business" and thats what he was gonna do, dont recommend Des. Recommend a guy like himself that had the experience, the tools and the contacts to be able to do what he did here.

BOOM

[CajunVic]

Im talking about kids already under scholarship, like Torrence and Garner.

Once they enter the portal that does not matter . . .

[SlickRick]

How would Napier be unaware of it? Some business doesnt just randomly offer a kid an NIL deal on the off chance he may end up there. These businesses offering NIL deals would need to know what players are wanted. Napier has to want those players, and let them know they have a place. Regardless if its about NIL or just a scholarship offer, those kids had to be contacted and let them know they have a place there. Unless you believe Garner and Torrence just didnt want to be here and entered the portal together, with no place in mind. It ALL starts with Napier. Am I upset because I didnt think this would happen? Absolutely not. I said this would happen. Its upsetting because if Napier gave Des the recommendation to "continue" what we had going, then systematically pillages the compound of our best coaches, staff, and players....thats sh__y. Its like, "hey buddy, Im handing you the keys to the kingdom!" "Oh, by the way, Im taking the kingdom with me.....but you can have these keys." Whats most damaging is that you did that to a coach with zero ties and contacts outside this university. I feel bad for Des. Do I get it? Yes. Its just the way it is now? Yes. Its still sh__ty to do to someone you were were supposedly trying to help. If this is "just business" and thats what he was gonna do, dont recommend Des. Recommend a guy like himself that had the experience, the tools and the contacts to be able to do what he did here.

This.

[JamesTheJeweler]

And another thing. Some of you want it both ways. Many of you here were telling people that hiring a coach like Des, wasnt going to be a problem. It didnt matter that he had no experience or contacts outside of the university, because "Napier was gonna help him out with that". "No way was Napier gonna recommend him for the job, then not help him be succesful". Remember? Telling people to stop bringing up these concerns?

[AirBill]

Top P5 programs are getting their corporate sponsors, law firms and other business entities to offer deals to any athletes that sign with the program. It lures athletes to come play for your program with larger NIL opportunities, in addition to playing for a higher profile program if you are an NFL prospect.

The University of Texas recently offered any HS linemen that sign with the program a guaranteed NIL deal worth $50K. This is apparently allowed under the NCAA Guidelines, but some P5 programs are pushing the envelope.

Shocking...

[CajunT]

How would Napier be unaware of it? Some business doesnt just randomly offer a kid an NIL deal on the off chance he may end up there. These businesses offering NIL deals would need to know what players are wanted. Napier has to want those players, and let them know they have a place. Regardless if its about NIL or just a scholarship offer, those kids had to be contacted and let them know they have a place there. Unless you believe Garner and Torrence just didnt want to be here and entered the portal together, with no place in mind. It ALL starts with Napier. Am I upset because I didnt think this would happen? Absolutely not. I said this would happen. Its upsetting because if Napier gave Des the recommendation to "continue" what we had going, then systematically pillages the compound of our best coaches, staff, and players....thats sh__y. Its like, "hey buddy, Im handing you the keys to the kingdom!" "Oh, by the way, Im taking the kingdom with me.....but you can have these keys." Whats most damaging is that you did that to a coach with zero ties and contacts outside this university. I feel bad for Des. Do I get it? Yes. Its just the way it is now? Yes. Its still sh__ty to do to someone you were were supposedly trying to help. If this is "just business" and thats what he was gonna do, dont recommend Des. Recommend a guy like himself that had the experience, the tools and the contacts to be able to do what he did here.

Billy doesn't have to be entirely aware of it, since it's all handled by compliance and the business entity. Now it's highly questionable to assume Billy Napier, or any head coach is not aware after the deal is done that one of his top athletes has a NIL agreement in place. If a coach like Lincoln Riley and his staff at USC, and Steve Sarkisian at Texas are openly selling NIL opportunities to athletes to come play in there programs, Billy Napier is not going to use it at the University of Florida?

Billy Napier and his staff are going to use the NIL as a recruiting tool, they have no choice if he is going to compete for the top athletes against Alabama, Georgia and Auburn. I highly doubt Billy Napier is unaware of any discussions with his former players mentioned in this thread. What is hard to prove is if these players has every intention on leaving and playing for him after he was hired at Florida, or they continued conversations by the use of third parties.

[Cajun Monkee]

Got a question that probably only T can answer.

We went into this recruiting period on having (I think) 15 scholarhships available.

Why was this?

I think I've heard it was the Covid issue. Could very well be wrong, but why do we only have 15?

[CajunT]

Got a question that probably only T can answer.

We went into this recruiting period on having (I think) 15 scholarhships available.

Why was this?

I think I've heard it was the Covid issue. Could very well be wrong, but why do we only have 15?

That was based upon the number of returning athletes at each position and the NCAA mandate that each program return to the 85 scholarship limit.

[Balanced_view]

Illegal claims are soap box excuses that don't gain traction or sympathy. Every SEC school slogan is if your not cheating then your not trying. No one should be surprised. Just hurt. Best not to even use the it's illegal claim true or not , proof or not. Lets Lick out emotional wounds and bounce back. But everyone needs to keep their heads high. I know we haven't suffered many losses the last 3 yeara but let's Act like we can recover from loss.