Jesse Edwards in portal and transfers to WVU

[dasher]

Executive Team – Elite-NIL

elite-nil.com

Read his bio...That's why.

I actually knew that. LOL It still doesn't answer my question. If you know what I mean.

 

[orange79]

Surprisingly. I got a warning once and played nice after that.

Apparently, different posters make different choices.

 

[kingtidge]

“And those people quickly learned that paying Edwards NIL money would require weeks of labor. They spoke with lawyers and accountants and ran ideas past SU’s compliance department. They raised money.”

“likely could not match the NIL price Edwards could get elsewhere, Bristol said.”

“Bristol said SU’s collectives were prepared to find deals for Edwards in the low six-figures.”

 

[rrlbees]

We did. He had an offer he accepted.

 

[Cuse181]

We offered him money. It was reported in multiple places. You ever think it didn't originate from the 315 collective?

It was also IN the article that he got offered low 6 figures from cuse.

 

[Madbiker]

Quotes from Bristol:
While athletes might appreciate the nice new weight room, they also know how much money their peers are making at other schools. Given the choice of a new practice facility or $100,000 in NIL money, Bristol said, “10 out of 10 kids are going to want that $100,000.”

“If any kid comes in and says, ‘I’ve got an agent and they say my market value is this and we believe we can get this someplace else,’ we are reactionary,” Bristol said. “We would somehow have to try to get the money together. That’s why these collectives need to be funded. I can’t express that any more – boosters and donors and everybody that loves SU sports has to donate to the collectives.”

SO why didn't they convince AW to contribute to their collective instead of driving him away totally?

 

[Frozen]

We did. He had an offer he accepted.

 

[Jake]

Bristol has been around forever and a day. He used to have a very cringeworthyhigh school sports show on WSYR 10 to 15 years ago. He has also worked four years with the Boeheims, I believe as a fundraiser for the Boeheim foundation. I could be wrong on that.

He’s never been somebody who has impressed me, to be honest. I’m not surprised that he screwed the pooch in that interview.

 

[NYCCuse826]

Quotes from Bristol:
While athletes might appreciate the nice new weight room, they also know how much money their peers are making at other schools. Given the choice of a new practice facility or $100,000 in NIL money, Bristol said, “10 out of 10 kids are going to want that $100,000.”

“If any kid comes in and says, ‘I’ve got an agent and they say my market value is this and we believe we can get this someplace else,’ we are reactionary,” Bristol said. “We would somehow have to try to get the money together. That’s why these collectives need to be funded. I can’t express that any more – boosters and donors and everybody that loves SU sports has to donate to the collectives.”

SO why didn't they convince AW to contribute to their collective instead of driving him away totally?

There are those in the know here who said the school wanted him to donate to the collectives. He opted not to.

 

[OrangeDW]

It would be nice if some of our players receiving NIL even just tweeted something simple to refute all this.

“SU NIL came through for me”.

“SU NIL came through for me, but not for you….because you suck and nobody likes you, you big gangly dork.”

 

[Newhouser]

Haven't heard good things about him. Why he is in the position he is in is beyond me.

Who put him in that position? If he isn't good, who removes him?

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Quotes from Bristol:

“If any kid comes in and says, ‘I’ve got an agent and they say my market value is this and we believe we can get this someplace else,’ we are reactionary,” Bristol said. “We would somehow have to try to get the money together. That’s why these collectives need to be funded. I can’t express that any more – boosters and donors and everybody that loves SU sports has to donate to the collectives.”

This mindset is completely off.

I don't want to be part of this conversation, but this sounds like what happens to a junior salesperson that gets caught in a race to the bottom on price.

 

[Cusefan0307]

It was also IN the article that he got offered low 6 figures.

So you think the article is telling the entire Syracuse side of the story?

 

[NYCCuse826]

So you think the article is telling the entire Syracuse side of the story?

We'll never know. At this point, I believe it behooves the athletic department to set the record straight on the topic of NIL even if it's through a "source".

 

[kingtidge]

We did. He had an offer he accepted.

Really now??

“We were not set up in that way. We don’t have a collective that works for an international athlete. So, we were kind of dead in the water,” said Bristol, whose 315 Foundation coordinates deals primarily for SU basketball players.​

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“Once we could not find a way to do it and/or the timing of it, they decided they’re going to put his name in the portal and that was that.”​

 

[dasher]

Who put him in that position? If he isn't good, who removes him?

I don't know on the second. I have a really good guess on the first.

 

[NKR1978]

“SU NIL came through for me, but not for you….because you suck and nobody likes you, you big gangly dork.”

Enjoy the sistergeorgetowners and their couch burning cousins.

 

[rrlbees]

Really now??

“We were not set up in that way. We don’t have a collective that works for an international athlete. So, we were kind of dead in the water,” said Bristol, whose 315 Foundation coordinates deals primarily for SU basketball players.​

​

“Once we could not find a way to do it and/or the timing of it, they decided they’re going to put his name in the portal and that was that.”​

“And those people quickly learned that paying Edwards NIL money would require weeks of labor. They spoke with lawyers and accountants and ran ideas past SU’s compliance department. They raised money.”

“likely could not match the NIL price Edwards could get elsewhere, Bristol said.”

“Bristol said SU’s collectives were prepared to find deals for Edwards in the low six-figures.”

 

[kingtidge]

“And those people quickly learned that paying Edwards NIL money would require weeks of labor. They spoke with lawyers and accountants and ran ideas past SU’s compliance department. They raised money.”

“likely could not match the NIL price Edwards could get elsewhere, Bristol said.”

“Bristol said SU’s collectives were prepared to find deals for Edwards in the low six-figures.”

Prepared how?

He said they couldn't structure a deal legally in the timeframe needed and that the collectives are simply not set-up to handle NIL for foreign students.

None of what you bolded matters if they can't do step one and put it in a contract that meets legal compliance.

 

[Cuse181]

Quotes from Bristol:
While athletes might appreciate the nice new weight room, they also know how much money their peers are making at other schools. Given the choice of a new practice facility or $100,000 in NIL money, Bristol said, “10 out of 10 kids are going to want that $100,000.”

“If any kid comes in and says, ‘I’ve got an agent and they say my market value is this and we believe we can get this someplace else,’ we are reactionary,” Bristol said. “We would somehow have to try to get the money together. That’s why these collectives need to be funded. I can’t express that any more – boosters and donors and everybody that loves SU sports has to donate to the collectives.”

SO why didn't they convince AW to contribute to their collective instead of driving him away totally?

You really don’t think that was discussed? Are you serious?

 

[Cuse181]

So you think the article is telling the entire Syracuse side of the story?

I doubt it, I’m just saying that the idea that the collective didn’t produce anything for him (as was stated in the post your responded to) was clearly false because the article states that he did in fact receive an offer. I was agreeing with you

 

[BomberOrange]

Executive Team – Elite-NIL

elite-nil.com

Read his bio...That's why.

Mike is a good guy. Clowns can say that they heard bad things but he isn’t lying.

 

[BomberOrange]

Besides Coleman, who’s in the back row?

Coach Q second from left?

 

[Cusefan69]

This thread is bananas...don't even care about what did or didn't happen with this guy any more.

 

[rrlbees]

Prepared how?

He said they couldn't structure a deal legally in the timeframe needed and that the collectives are simply not set-up to handle NIL for foreign students.

None of what you bolded matters if they can't do step one and put it in a contract that meets legal compliance.

“Bristol said SU’s collectives were prepared to find deals for Edwards in the low six-figures.”

Since you seem to want to ignore some words and take other written words as gospel, then how do you reconcile Bristol’s counterpart at WVU who said the following in the same article. How is that different that what Bristol is saying?

Stephen Ford, the general manager and COO of Country Roads Trust, said he heard rumors about high six-figure money West Virginia was proposing for Edwards. Those figures, he said, did not originate from the Country Roads Trust.

“I did see what was thrown out there, but none came from our camp, none that we’re aware of,” Ford said. “Once Jesse does the things he needs to do to finish up at Syracuse and becomes an official student here at West Virginia University, that’s when we’re able to talk numbers and get a contract with him.”