Georgia QB's reported purchase makes NCAA's investigation into Nico Iamaleava's NIL deal seem even more absurd
Most college football fans are aware by now that the NCAA is investigating the Tennessee Vols due to quarterback Nico Iamaleava's NIL deal that was signed way back in early 2022. The smoking gun in the NCAA's investigation appears to be a flight on a private jet to Knoxville that was provided by a collective. […]
Most college football fans are aware by now that the NCAA is investigating the Tennessee Vols due to quarterback Nico Iamaleava's NIL deal that was signed way back in early 2022.
The smoking gun in the NCAA's investigation appears to be a flight on a private jet to Knoxville that was provided by a collective.
Tennessee athletic director Danny White released a statement last week that stated that the NCAA was unable to find any violations in UT's NIL dealings and as a result, they're going after the Vols for that private jet ride that took place before collectives were considered boosters.
"After reviewing thousands of Tennessee coach and personnel phone records, NCAA investigators didn't find a single NIL violation, so they moved the goalpost to fit a predetermined outcome," wrote White. "They are stating that the nebulous, contradictory NIL guidelines (written by the NCAA not the membership) don't matter and applying the old booster bylaws to collectives. If that's the case, then 100% of the major programs in college athletics have significant violations."
While the NCAA's witch hunt in Knoxville continues, Georgia quarterback Carson Beck, who reportedly wanted $4 million to return to Athens for the 2024 season (isn't that called pay for play?), reportedly recently bought a $300k Lamborghini.
I mean, what are we doing here NCAA?
Look, I don't think the NCAA needs to go after Georgia for this. Just like I think it's absurd they're going after Tennessee. The NCAA's entire approach to NIL is just completely backward. Instead of helping the sport move forward, they're trying to retroactively punish programs for breaking rules that did not exist.
(To be clear, and I know some reporters in the national media are having a really hard time comprehending and understanding all of this information, the rule that didn't exist is the one that says collectives are boosters. No one is saying that pay for play under the guise of NIL deals was ever legal.)
The NCAA zeroing on this frivolous violation by Tennessee that wasn't really a violation while ignoring the rest of the lavish spending on players that's happening in college football makes this whole thing laughable. The end of the NCAA is near. And it's no one's fault but their own.
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