If this stuff is true, “Universities should be able to lie to kids” is a funny line to take.

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Sep 25, 2024
9:12:46am

shimmy In play, run(s)

If this stuff is true, “Universities should be able to lie to kids” is a funny line to take.

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shimmy

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So Sluka quit on the team because a supposed verbal promise of an extra $100,000

Goliath

9:03am

He doesn't quit unless he and his agent got a better offer.

johnnybyu

9:04am

If this stuff is true, “Universities should be able to lie to kids” is a funny line to take.

shimmy

9:12am

It’s a big boy world with big boy money.…maybe get it in writing

Iman23

9:14am

They're 18, 19, 20 year old kids.

OrsoNero

9:18am

Not kids. They are adults.

Jdoc

9:33am

Kid or adult, they are unsophisticated parties. If the unsophisticated party took the other party at their word and the

shimmy

9:40am

I agree that if the kid did not receive

Jdoc

9:53am

Did they get a promise from him to stay the whole year in writing?

shimmy

9:18am

Isn't that impossible since the payments are supposed to be for NIL?

9:21am

I dunno. The whole argument that he should have to abide by an agreement but the other side should not because it wasn’t

shimmy

9:24am

A funnier line is that supposed financial and compensatory agreements

Goliath

9:15am

So your argument is that because a contract wouldn’t be admissible in court that an obligation on an oral contract

shimmy

9:22am

You evidence about the same understanding and honesty that you have on all the

Goliath

9:27am

Here is an easy question for you. What obligation is Sluka under to not leave the school to look for a better deal?

shimmy

9:33am

If my employer promised me a 100k bonus or raise, and then didn't come through,

byubyu

9:13am

You mean you wouldn't stay just because it wasn't in writing?…

ochobeeguy

9:14am

They are not employees and the money and agreements aren't even made with the

Goliath

9:31am

They essentially are.

byubyu

9:33am

But he has every right to leave if a verbal promise wasn't kept.

ochobeeguy

9:13am

He wasn’t going to get it, he can redshirt and try again next year. I don’t know

cougaman

9:17am

CFB is a transactional world now. Crazy.

cougfanz

9:18am

According to his agent, once he enrolled, the collective countered with an offer

Everyman

9:23am

That it was a verbal promise only really matters in a legal sense. But doesn't

bluesloth

9:25am

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