LSU QB Myles Brennan quits football
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Won’t be the last time some of these big nil donors get some buyers remorse.
Those are some decent sized companies (Canes and Smoothie King) who just front loaded a deal. I'd be curious if there were any stipulations in his contract to do commercials and stuff. If so, I'd be curious as to what kind of lawsuits would potentially come out of this.
I love it. This kind of thing will lead to some quick self regulation of NIL.
If nothing more, these contracts will just stipulate that the money is contingent on the player playing football and if they quit, there will be penalties that need to be paid.
My guess is they had options for commercials that the company could exercise. Probably wouldn’t do it until he actually played anyway. So they probably just don’t exercise those options.
projected starter
signs NIL deals
loses starting battle
quits football
takes money and run
perfect plan if you ask me
signs NIL deals
loses starting battle
quits football
takes money and run
perfect plan if you ask me
Got enough coin he doesn't need the FB schollie anymore? Be a hell of a pick up on your IM flag FB team. LOL.
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If commercials are stipulated, he could always just say he's willing to do them, and I don't know that there's anything they could do legally. Also, how much money did he really get? I believe this is his 6th year with the team, and isn't exactly a Heisman candidate. He wasn't expected to start this year, anyway. I'm not sure his NIL deals are worth all that much to begin with.
Yeah, this kind of thing was inevitable, and why I've thought that NIL would stabilize in some way. It's easy to spend a ton of money on top prospects before there are cases of it not working out. But with cases like this and Quinn Ewers, plus ones where the athlete just doesn't develop and play, there are going to be a lot of situations where there is no "rate of return" to the spender (whether financial through advertising or just football production).
I agree with this. Eventually these big spenders will see their large investment isn't paying off and the market will cool off, especially for the "Pay for Play" ones. Places with a good culture will come out stronger on the other side of this.
