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Post by cardinalblacktrojan on Dec 29, 2023 10:55:02 GMT -6
A Troy player that's not in the portal revealed why our starters are going into the portal. He said simply, they're not getting paid.
It's not all because we lost Sumrall. Could be another reason Sumrall went to Tulane. They have a wealthy NIL collective that can "buy" top G5 players.
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Post by jonesoxygen on Dec 29, 2023 11:10:35 GMT -6
Yeah, I saw his post as well. Of the players we lost, I suspect 3 of them will get money that a G5 will never have. Could be one or two who get something, but not much. Does our collecetive need to grow, absolutely. Will it grow, absolutely. Is the IRS hindering our growth, yep. We are 130 days old, launched earlier than we planned because we knew waiting on the IRS letter could mean another 6 months or a year so we "openend for business" earlier than planned. Our second semester payments to student athletes are much better than our 1st semester was. I doubt Troy will ever be a school that pays everybody something, but we will make sure we help as many as we can. Those who are in the collective are very appreciative and go out of their way to thank us for what we are doing. I say all that to say, his tweet makes it appear the ONLY reason is money. That's false. Very false.
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