Then refute it with your fan glasses off.
It’s more take home cash than he’d have if he had picked ND. It’s a nice insurance policy in case something out of his control happens and ends his football career, or if he just never materializes into the sure fire NFL talent he’s projected as.
Kyle Hamilton, in the first year of NIL, while injured, (he missed over half of the season), made over a million take home.
He outlined it on the podcast he did.
He did it all legally, above the table, paid taxes on it, & still brought home over a million in 4 months, despite being injured for 2 of them.
Keeley’s mom always knew his monetary value & it was discussed by the mom’s of the recruits and her, who all famously hung out and took pictures & put them all over social media. Many of the moms had convinced her Keon would be better off at ND in the long run. But then after other recruits in other programs started throwing out fake, bloated numbers, she and the uncle started looking for those numbers.
And the NIL money is not guaranteed Keeley will get from Bama. The Texas A&M players who got all the NIL deals exposed how it works when they all left. Most the money is in incentives & over long period of time & can be taken away at any time. So most of those players got like 20-30k in total. Being told a million is before taxes, over 4 years, and if you meet all the incentives (which no one will).
Kyle Hamilton signed actual contracts with corporations, and people like Colin Cowherd, so it was legally binding. So all his money was guaranteed. So he actually made more than originally offered because he was re-signed.
I had this exact same conversation on this very board two years ago when A&M signed the 8 DL. I said it’s not real & the majority will leave. And of course that’s what happened.
And the amount of money he would receive is not a “nice little insurance policy if he can’t play football.” It’s nothing. It’s peanuts. So if he doesn’t make the NFL, you think he can live off of 100k the rest of his life at 20? LOL
Now, if he graduates from ND at 21 and couldn’t play football again, he is set, and any NIL money would just be a bonus.
I am teammates with guys who signed a second contract in the NFL, (which is huge because after the rookie contract it’s where they make the real money), & they played 8-9 seasons in the NFL, retired at 29, no degree, and were broke by 35. (Thus the reason they got into professional combat sports).
Alabama players who didn’t pan out & are broke by 30 are a dime a dozen.
How many ND graduates do you know who are broke by 30? Let alone very well off?
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