Wisconsin sues UMiami for contract interference in player transfer kerfuffle.

[BamaNation]

Wisconsin sues Miami for tampering with transfer

The University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday claiming Miami's football team broke the law by tampering with a Badgers player.

www.espn.com

Here’s hoping the Badgers win and it begins to put some enforceable sanity back into this thing.

hope they win and player is declared ineligible for this season.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Excellent move by the Badgers. I hadn't considered this angle. It might mean that going forward, all pay-for-play contracts will be for four years. I'm also guessing that schools will start including buyout clauses in the case of transfer and enforcing them.

Or, as the cynic in the back of my mind is telling me, it might just mean they get better at covering up tampering.

 

[AlexanderFan]

Excellent move by the Badgers. I hadn't considered this angle. It might mean that going forward, all pay-for-play contracts will be for four years. I'm also guessing that schools will start including buyout clauses in the case of transfer and enforcing them.

Or, as the cynic in the back of my mind is telling me, it might just mean they get better at covering up tampering.

However, according to several contracts between Big Ten schools and their players that ESPN has previously reviewed, these deals explicitly state that athletes are not being paid to play football for the university. Since the school is technically paying only to use the player's NIL rights, it's not clear if a judge will consider it fair to enforce a part of the contract that dictates where the player attends school.

Here’s the loophole

 

[Bazza]

Welcome to the big leagues!

 

[Joefus]

However, according to several contracts between Big Ten schools and their players that ESPN has previously reviewed, these deals explicitly state that athletes are not being paid to play football for the university. Since the school is technically paying only to use the player's NIL rights, it's not clear if a judge will consider it fair to enforce a part of the contract that dictates where the player attends school.

Here’s the loophole

Could they sue for all monies paid to his NIL this year? If they had to forfeit that it would be pretty discouraging to people wanting to transfer