Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 5410346, member: 430"] Kind of going with my gut here, but the more I’ve analyzed this situation and pieced together data points from third parties that would know, I feel like the scenario was Pena getting outside advice from third parties that his NFL potential draft stock would drop without McCord here due to a lack of targets and that Syracuse needed to pay him more NIL to mitigate that risk or he should go to a higher profile program elsewhere, even if for the same NIL. Just the way this has all hastily and sloppily played out makes me feel like that’s the likely scenario. I sincerely don’t believe he had a standing offer out there for crazy money like this $2mm being referenced. Could be wrong here for sure but the gist of this makes sense considering what transpired. [/QUOTE]