The NCAA seemed to create some problems when it simultaneously allowed college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness and transfer once while maintaining immediate eligibility. Accusations have flown about surrounding tampering, where schools will try to induce players with offers of money to enter the portal and transfer.
But according to 247Sports’ Carl Reed, there is an unintended effect to the new NIL environment: some entities are not following through on their end by refusing to pay.
“Guys aren’t getting paid,” Reed said on a recent episode of The Block. “They’re not getting the money that they’ve been promised, and in a lot of cases they don’t have adequate representation so they’re not able to defend themselves. But a lot of these guys are going into rooms with head coaches and coaching staffs, they’re being told by these collectives that they’re going to get a certain amount of money and then that doesn’t happen. And then they don’t have any recourse. Because the big thing about it is, once they transfer, they can’t transfer again. So now you’re stuck and you’ve got a major decision that you have to make on how you’re going to handle that.
“Me personally, if you promised me $50,000, $100,000, and then you reneged and you didn’t pay on it, I wouldn’t play until you resolve the issue. I would hold out like they do in the pros because you’re using this money to entice it. There were kids who passed up on football situations and academic situations that were better than them because they were promised money. Money that they have not received.”
USC wide receiver Jordan Addison is one of those players that has had some controversy surrounding his decision to transfer. Even before he entered the portal while at Pittsburgh, reports emerged that he would potentially transfer to the Trojans.
