Givony is a professional journalist, has an excellent reputation and is with the world's largest sports media outlet. He's not going to make up quotes and get himself fired and never be hireable again. SYR fans need to get their head out of the sand and realize how badly this situation was handled. Don’t blame the messenger. Jesse is only giving his opinion, to think he did not say it is complete denial.
Why are our fans blindly buying one side of the Weitsman and Edwards stories?
If 400K isn't showing that you can make NIL money, then close up shop because 99.99% of people in this country and globally will never see that money in a calendar year especially in a few months like a college athlete. Jesse isn't that dude and never has been. He was third team All ACC not a first teamer.
Michigan didn’t make NCAA tourney either
The best player on a team that wasn’t close to the tourney.
Some definitely are but I think most just want to see us being a player in this new era. All the publicity lately surrounding NIL has been bad and it keeps piling on. Obviously the school can't defend their position but landing a big time player would really help right now. Zoom calls are great but it's not enough. People need a little patience to see how this plays out but if we don't land someone big it will continue to snowball.
Probably because our athletic department screws up everything. They couldn’t announce JB’s retirement without screwing up. They have a $billion dollar fan they can’t even take the time to sit down and have a conversation. If they don’t need his money, why should I have to make a $800 donation for each of my basketball season tickets? Our AD has gone into hibernation without saying anything, while our program gets blasted all over the country by social media. It sounds like we’re ten years behind the times.
He wasn’t getting paid $800,000.
Why say it’s not about NIL and then proceed to immediately talk about NIL lol.
The situation was handled fine. Jesse is lying. People know he’s lying. This was 100% about him getting more money. Jesse sucks.
Because people know the story. He’s lying. He’s an adult and should be called out for lying.
People say stupid stuff all the time. Maybe from Jesse's perspective, he felt let down by a program that he's been with for 4 years now and felt the offer could've been better? Idk...I think 800k is crazy and I don't blame the staff for going another route but I can see how Jesse might feel a certain way. Is what it is and time to move on!
Yup. His Dad is a weasel and his adult son left a place he liked because of Daddy.
The university messed up because they (a) had to distance themselves from a walking rules violation, and (b) didn’t allow themselves to be used by a money grubbing Dad?
