Maybe It Wasn't Just A Bono Thing

[Wrestleknownothing]

He gets a lot of stick over the Burwikk transfer, but The Athletic has a story about Wisconsin refusing to put a football players' name in the transfer portal even though he requested, and the rules say they have too. So he just withdrew from Wisconsin and enrolled at Miami.

Wisconsin has not commented, but the player's lawyer, an adjunct professor of NIL at Miami's law school, has some fun quotes:

"I still to this day don’t quite understand what Wisconsin believes or understands its position to be,” Heitner said. “I gathered in the process that it didn’t even seem like they were fully aware of what they were relying upon to not put the player in the portal. I don’t know what the connect or disconnect is between the school and the collective.

“It seemed like there was a lot of misinformation and I’m not confident that the school and or the Big Ten appreciates the myriad holes in the agreement that was executed, which we don’t believe is valid or binding.”

Heitner said Lucas signed a memorandum of understanding with Wisconsin contingent on approval of the House vs. NCAA settlement, which has yet to receive final approval, as well as him attending classes there no later than spring 2025. He also noted Wisconsin had not paid Lucas any money so Lucas did not owe the school any reimbursement."

And:

“I would have never expected Wisconsin to maintain its completely irresponsible position throughout,” Heitner said. “So in a normal circumstance I would say I’m convinced that they understand the worst possible thing that they could do for their reputation would be to try to escalate this. But they haven’t used logic from the start, so I don’t know what they will do.”

Edited January 18 by Wrestleknownothing

[Idaho]

From ESPN:

The NCAA issued a statement Friday saying that "NCAA rules do not prevent a student-athlete from unenrolling from an institution, enrolling at a new institution and competing immediately."

If a player can negotiate an NIL at another school, unenroll from school,  then enroll at the new  school providing NIL, why do we have the portal? Why do we have certain dates athletes have to be in the portal?  Other than add/drop dates for classes and being eligible (which can up to a month after the semester begins), sounds like the portal is more of "guidelines" than actual "rules' 

Edited January 18 by Idaho