Tennessee Under Potential NCAA Investigation for NIL Violations in Multiple Sports

[Bama_N_Va]

It is absolutely amazing what the REC can do when they throw a little cash around!!!!

 

[Highway59]

Considering entering the transfer portal….

 

[cbi1972]

Tennessee chancellor roasts NCAA over NIL

It is intellectually dishonest for the NCAA staff to issue guidelines that say a third-party collective/business may meet with prospective student-athletes, discuss NIL, even enter into a contract with prospective student-athletes, but at the same time say that the collective may not engage in conversations that would be of a recruiting nature. Any discussion about NIL might factor into a prospective student-athlete's decision to attend an institution. This creates an inherently unworkable situation, and everyone knows it.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

My goodness, what do you have to do to get cited in the era of NIL?
That is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500.

Good Apocalypse Now reference, TW.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

What he fails to say is that the rule specifically says

“NIL compensation cannot be made contingent upon an athlete's enrollment at a particular school”

So yeah, they can meet and offer but that offer cannot be tied to going to a particular school.

 

[Ledsteplin]

This belongs in the Good News Thread.

 

[CajunCrimson]

NIL = Nico in Leventh

 

[RammerJammer14]

Poor Smokey is the only innocent one in this mess.

“Smokey just came out of the tunnel, and he's about 100 yards away from me now, and if I had my deer rifle I believe I could drop him.”

 

[RTR2u]

 

[bamaga]

One of the reporters on Slimebaum brought up Ohio St, saying they have been behind the eight ball in NIL recruiting and came out swinging this year. The year the NCAA may finally get aggressive with enforcement.

I find it funny that no one mentioned the barn and their sudden meteoric rise up the recruiting rankings.

I also find it strange that schools such as Florida St and Tennessee have gone scorched earth in rebuttals, put out statements as if the NC2A is a third party entity. Lest they forget as a member institution they are the NCAA.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

One of the reporters on Slimebaum brought up Ohio St, saying they have been behind the eight ball in NIL recruiting and came out swinging this year. The year the NCAA may finally get aggressive with enforcement.

I find it funny that no one mentioned the barn and their sudden meteoric rise up the recruiting rankings.

I also find it strange that schools such as Florida St and Tennessee have gone scorched earth in rebuttals, put out statements as if the NC2A is a third party entity. Less they forget as a member institution they are the NCAA.

True! How do you get a receiver class like that without a decent QB to get them the ball...

 

[JDCrimson]

An admission of guilt laced with enforce it innuendo...

Tennessee chancellor roasts NCAA over NIL

 

[Bama9001]

Can you imagine the panic in Vol land with their 8 million dollar man, the QB they've bet their future on, possibly being declared ineligible. Honestly, that's probably a big key to getting the NIL thing under control. If a few guys lose a season that might start to bring some sanity to the process. The schools have gone all in on cheating...heck, it worked for Michigan.

 

[BamaMoon]

The NCAA is like one of those tuxedo-clad bathroom attendants at fancy places back in the day...they stand around ignoring the stink so they can get a few bucks from the ones making all the stink.

POTD!!!!

So accurate and the best analogy in the history of TideFans!

 

[Tidelines]

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Can you imagine the panic in Vol land with their 8 million dollar man, the QB they've bet their future on, possibly being declared ineligible. Honestly, that's probably a big key to getting the NIL thing under control. If a few guys lose a season that might start to bring some sanity to the process. The schools have gone all in on cheating...heck, it worked for Michigan.

Good point. If the players have a price to pay, as well as the universities. Maybe it would help put a lid on the NIL demands. Players violate the rules then they sit out a year and or become ineligible to play for that particular school. As it stands the players have nothing to lose.

 

[B1GTide]

Tennessee chancellor roasts NCAA over NIL

He is not wrong. It is intellectually dishonest to believe that this was going to go well without guardrails. Saying that you could now pay players, then adding an unenforceable set of vague rules and then walking away? Malpractice

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm not sure how I feel about this until I see more details.

Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. And ultimately, the NCAA is the enemy of anyone who loves CFB.

 

[lowend]

I'm not sure how I feel about this until I see more details.

Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. And ultimately, the NCAA is the enemy of anyone who loves CFB.

I'm not even sure I care anymore. Everybody's buying players. It's all slimy. The cat's not going back in the back, so I just want a mechanism so that everyone can be equally slimy.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm not even sure I care anymore. Everybody's buying players. It's all slimy. The cat's not going back in the back, so I just want a mechanism so that everyone can be equally slimy.

Yeah, I've posted it here several times recently but my love of CFB has been waning for several years now, this garbage has only accelerated it.

 

[GP for Bama]

What exactly are the accusations against Tennessee?