CFB Transfer Portal Chaos: UNLV Loses QB Over Empty Promise

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00:00What a wild day it was yesterday in college football, exposing all the pitfalls of this

00:09new era where name, image, and likeness in the transfer portal are all here.

00:15Listen, I am all for player agency, but we need to put systems in place to make it not

00:22the Wild West, to make it not even resemble free agency in professional sports leagues.

00:28Because Donnie, those operate with contracts and legal agreements that have consequences

00:35to violating or unfulfilling the terms of those sheets.

00:41Now I wasn't here yesterday, right?

00:43I had the day off.

00:44But when I woke up and saw the news about Matthew Sluka, UNLV's quarterback, transferring

00:49after only three games as the Red and Rebs were in prime position to contend for a conference

00:55crown in the Mountain West to maybe earn one of the automatic bids to a college football

01:01playoff, one of those G5 spots, if they are available, I was stunned.

01:06And then we learned more and more information as the day went through.

01:11Listen, my overall take is this, DRS.

01:14This is not UNLV's fault.

01:16This is not the UNLV collective's fault.

01:18It's a little bit on the agent that represents Matthew Sluka.

01:22At the end of the day, it is the ecosystem of which we operate, and that is the issue.

01:28Zero.

01:29Zero.

01:30Restrictions were put into place or guidelines for how this should operate.

01:35There are no standardized contracts.

01:37There is no transparency and honesty when it comes to meeting the terms of these agreements

01:43that poof, vanish into thin air when it is convenient.

01:47There are fingers to be pointed, Donnie, but nobody is ever going to admit fault or

01:53take blame.

01:54Go ahead.

01:55No.

01:56And here's what we're looking at, too, because I understand where you can get on both sides

02:00and make a pretty good argument at this point, but it really comes down to this.

02:03You're a quarterback that's looking for an institution.

02:05You had a pretty good run at Holy Cross.

02:07A Division One team comes calling, and maybe there's two or three teams that would like

02:10to have you.

02:11Are you telling me that you had a meeting probably at like a Whataburger and you just

02:16sat on the side and said, you know what?

02:18I probably can get you a hundred grand.

02:19Oh, great.

02:20Signed, sealed, delivered.

02:21I'll be there.

02:22Pay me my hundred grand with nothing written in stone and you have representation.

02:25You know what?

02:26This sounds like Matthew Sluka should have done today.

02:27Should have filed a lawsuit against his agent for lying to him and say, no, I'm going to

02:31play with this institution with my guys.

02:33I'll get that hundred grand later here.

02:35But you know what?

02:36Also, you can buy into it because I love to go down the rabbit hole.

02:38Who's to say his own his, you know, representation didn't come to him and say, look, that important

02:43game is coming up.

02:44We can preserve this here.

02:45We've shown that you can play football at the division one level.

02:48If you sit this out, I guarantee you in the offseason, I can get you more money.

02:53And you can make up a story saying, oh, just hearsay.

02:55This assistant coach on a phone call said, I'm going to get a hundred grand when you

02:58want to be.

02:59Basically, I was like, no, we gave him three thousand dollars to move.

03:02And when we heard this, we figured we probably could get him like three grand a month, which

03:05would turn out to be like fifteen thousand dollars for the season.

03:08That's big time from fifteen thousand to one hundred thousand dollars.

03:11But also, of course, it's time for the institutions to sort of enact guardrails as well.

03:15Ben, correct me if I'm wrong.

03:17You sign up for an athletic scholarship, which is year to year renewable.

03:21So, OK, you do that with the school and your Matthews Luca, the school has the right to

03:25release you or they could just burn that scholarship and say, just like in the NFL, you don't want

03:29to play for me.

03:30OK, you're not playing for anybody else unless we let you out of this.

03:34So guardrails start that to get put in.

03:36But this is such a bad sign.

03:37And we can go down a long list of what could happen in the future.

03:41But let's put it this way.

03:42You worked hard with these players.

03:44You are three.

03:45You know, the biggest games of your season are coming up now and you dipped out on your

03:49team.

03:50I don't care if it was about money or not.

03:51That's your representation's problem.

03:53I can only put myself in the same shoes and say these are my guys.

03:56I'm leaving them high and dry because I'm going to pull back because I had a promise

04:00that wasn't signed.

04:01That's my fault here.

04:02I should own up and ride this thing out.

04:04But hey, maybe he ends up at Boise State next year.

04:07And I hope if he does, Boise State goes, we'll get you 200 grand, then stiffs him again.

04:11How about that?

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