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Who’s really the victim here — a marquee high school recruit and his opportunistic NIL agents and attorneys or football coach Billy Napier, the University of Florida and its stumbling, bumbling boosters who got duped like an I-Drive tourist buying an “authentic” Rolex from the street vendor in the parking lot of the outlet mall?
Rashada, the much-travelled California quarterback, and his representatives filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Napier, heavy-hitting Gator booster Hugh Hathcock and others in the now-defunct Gator Collective, claiming they defrauded him out of millions of dollars by backing out on a promised $13.85 million NIL agreement.
“Sadly, unethical and illegal tactics like this are more and more commonplace in the Wild West that is today’s college football landscape,” Rashada’s famous ambulance-chasing attorney Rusty Hardin (see Deshaun Watson) states in the lawsuit. “As the first scholar-athlete to take a stand against such egregious behavior by adults who should know better, Jaden seeks to hold Defendants accountable for their actions and to expose the unchecked abuse of power that they shamelessly wielded.”
In other words, Hardin is now portraying Rashada as some sort of noble freedom fighter who is going to battle to protect other “scholar-athletes” battling the evil college football establishment. Rashada is suddenly the poor, exploited high school kid who got taken advantage of by Napier, a multi-millionaire Gator booster and the big, bad SEC football industrial complex.
Excuse my skepticism, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for Rashada, who is suing the Gators because they backed out on a $13.85 million deal only after Rashada himself backed out on a $9.5 million deal with Miami. That’s right, Rashada is blaming the Gators for reneging on a deal after he reneged on a…
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Author : Orlando Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-05-21 23:30:00
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