I think he would need to go to class, maintain his grades, but can’t be officially paid unless Duke lets him out of his contract. Not sure if sitting out the year serves his interests.
6 credits in a semester and 24 in a calendar year to be eligible. If Duke fails him for every course he could potentially be eligible by 2028-29 season if he enrolled at Miami and took classes all of 27-28 while not being a member of the football team.
All of the above...and he cannot enroll in any other school not named Duke (Dook for our ACC friends). Obviously that does not factor in the NCAA's ineptitude which, for the right Miami pu$ua$ian may not involve actual oversight.
I would think he just goes to the NFL supplemental draft instead of this as he can still not enroll in Miami per the court.
I wouldn’t I would want 15 mil. If Miami gonna be dumb then perfect. Cough it all up plus extra for stupidity.
that's why i think it works. Buyout, Portal Fee, etc whatever you want to call it. Teams develop players and can recoup some $$$ for it. The whole system stinks but it's better than losing these guys for nothing.
Why not drag it out past spring practices and then settle?
They could also include a bonus buyout if a kid leaves in the last three days of the portal period.
Are you thinking that some schools do the heavy recruiting in High School, develop the players, with the cream moving on to the higher levels? Are you think a two-, three-, or four tiered system? Develop the idea, this may actually work.
No no no no no. How could you let a star player walk, then go back to the team, to all the others who have worked so hard, perhaps even some who transferred in to play with that star player, and say, sorry guys, John Q is gone but we did get a hundred million dollars, which none of you are going to see any of, and oh by the way we can't back-fill that star player's position at all?
Much like European soccer, there are many clubs that are better at finding and developing "diamond in the rough" players. Those players do well and often get sold to mega clubs for large fees. The money is then re-invested into scouting and buying players from levels below them.
U make good points no doubt. My only thought was why not use that money on a new qb next year and some other players that would put them over the top.
We are all super salty about this. Agreed, force the issue and watch the kid sit out, have to pay back anything he has received because he refused to play and failed to enroll in school. Watch his stock drop and face the reality of the cold, cruel world that he tried to play on the team he is breaching.
Does this create a permanent upper curst which can rarely if ever be achieved by the masses? If so, I prefer the MLB system and force the major NFL and NBA teams to develop minor leagues fully or align with X number of universities, limiting each team to no more than one within each conference.
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