This couldn't happen to a more deserving university!!!!




EXCEPT, that as far as I know, NOBODY receives NIL up front at UGA, as a recruiting tool! The players are left to their own devices to GETRDONE through outside NIL agents. It makes for a double incentive to perform at a high level. Pay from outside sources for performance, and the incentive to hone their skills for the next level, is what they sign up for. But HERE'S the catch, it takes a special type of player to fit this mold. Many prospective recruits are instant gratification types. UGA doesn't target this type of player, knowingly. They look for the ones who will embrace DEFERRED gratification, for that day when those honed skills give them the opportunity to dress out on a Sunday afternoon. And at this writing, it has potentially worked 28 times in Athens, in the past two seasons and counting.
OH, I almost forgot the punchline. If you have heard of our TE, Brock Bowers. You may have guessed that he has received a rather lucrative NIL deal through those outside sources, during his freshman and sophomore seasons. Yesterday, he announced to Coach Smart, that whatever the substantial sum he has received, will be going to his 84 teammates. I guess that he realizes that he'll get HIS next season, when he goes in the first round of the draft.