Six players are suing Leonard Hamilton for non-payment of NIL from last season. Each are claiming they were owed $250,000 from Hamilton's "business partners".
Apparently there was a boycott of practice last February before the Duke game.
The boycott referenced above happened during a practice before a game against Duke on February 17th. The players walked out of the gym and out of Hamilton's practice over frustration of unpaid NIL compensation.
Hamilton assured the players they would be paid the following week, per the complaint. Florida State wound up losing to Duke 76-67. Players were worried over taxes, rent and car notes, per the complaint.
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The players are slaves, scholarships have no value, Hamilton draws a salary... yep nothing to see here folks, nothing to see. Normal people are still going to support college sports. yep. lolololololololololol
I always knew Hamilton was a snake oil salesman, but the "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" vibe is something I didn't expect from him
We'll see as more details emerge... assuming the players' claims are accurate (big assumption at this point), I have no sympathy for Hamilton/FSU. It's very simple; if you can't afford it, then don't promise it.
I'm shocked that a for-profit business withheld quarter million dollar payments to hoops players on an NIT team. That is the part that is really surprising, since businesses don't mind losing money.
How is it any different for guys who sit on the bench for football teams, even if the team goes to the playoffs or wins the championship. I don't know how many guys on a team get NIL money, but I have a hard time believing bench players are getting it.
Someone was saying that Texas has crazy money, so can pay tons of guys, essentially getting all the talent on their team. But at some point, guys want to play to showcase their abilities and try to make it to the NFL, where they'd be getting a lot more money, and for longer than 4-5 years.
Broke boys 🥱
FSU being a tire fire in more than one sport? Ya hate to see it, but more than that, ya love to see it.
RIP Turntle
Hmm, how could any of this go wrong?!
Thoughts:
1) $250k seems like an absurdly large amount of money to offer to all 6 players
2) Seems additionally odd that every player was offered the same $$ as 3/6 appear to have largely been Bench guys and 1 of them appeared to play very sparingly.
3) And the Overarching thought here......overwhelmingly tired of all of these "NIL mishap/disagreement" stories. If you create a system that is akin to the Wild Wild West, you're gonna end up with shootouts at the O.K. Corral. The real winners here are the Lawyers who are racking up the billable hours.
I assume $250k is the bench player amount with starters scaling up from there.