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The advent of the name, image and resemblance (Nile) has considerably modified the university sports landscape. High -level university athletes often consider zero projected figures before committing or transferring to another school.
The sellers of the Southern Carolina football star, Lanorris, received tempting offers designed to attract her to enter the transfer portal. “We offered him all kinds of crazy figures,” the father of the sellers, Norris, told The Athletic.
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The quarter-Arrière de Caroline du Sud Lanorris Sellers (16) rushes against the Missouri Tigers in the second period in Williams-Brice Stadium on November 16, 2024 in Columbia, in South Carolina. (Images Jeff Blake / Imagn)
The southern Caroline quarterrier finally refused the offers in favor of staying with the Gamecocks, according to her father. At least one of the lucrative proposals “he heard concerned $ 8 million for two years,” said the father of the sellers.
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He also suggested that his son never intended to play university football to simply “earn money” and that another university “offering more” was not sufficient to motivate the quarter to transfer.
The quarter of the Gamecocks of Caroline du Sud Lanorris Sellers (16) before the game against Illinois Fighting Illini in the fourth quarter at the World Stadium campsite on December 31, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. (Jeremy reper / Imagn images)
“I told him he could say,” I’m going to stay or I’m going to go. “” [But] My two hundred: it was to enter the university on a scholarship, playing the ball, obtaining our diploma and continuing our activities, “said Norris Sellers.” This harmful agreement came later. We didn’t come here to make money. We came here to get our education, play ball and with schools that call, we will not make a ship because they offer more than what we get. If it is not broken, do not repair it. “”
The quarter-Arrière de Caroline du Sud Lanorris Sellers (16) takes place for a hit against Louisiana State University in the second quarter at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, in South Carolina, September 14, 2024. (Ken Ruinard / USA Today via Imagn Images)
The sellers, who will be classified in the second year of Redsirt this fall, finished the 2024 season with 2,534 yards by the pass and 18 affected. He will be eligible for the NFL draft after the 2025 college season.
South sellers and Carolina should open the regular season on August 31 against Virginia Tech in Atlanta.
University athletes began to receive compensation for their names, images and similarities in 2021. At the time, many sports boosters formed groups called collective. The collective actually exploited Nile funds as de facto wages for their respective teams. Eminent players have received millions of dollars in collectives.
However, the recent decision of a federal judge on a regulation of $ 2.8 billion paved the way for university and university sports services to directly reduce checks to athletes. Judge Claudia Wilken approved the colony of several billion billions of people against NCAA. Wilken’s decision took place a few weeks before July 1, the date on which many schools planned to start issuing payments directly to athletes.
