Jaden Rashada’s unprecedented recruitment: How a 4-star QB went from $13.85 million to no NIL deal
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by Andy Staples to discuss an unbelievable story born in the NIL collective era. How did this happen? Who is responsible? Why did the deal fall through? Could it happen again? The sport of college football is changing rapidly and the dirty details about NIL recruiting are almost unfathomable.
Plus, mailbag questions on Virginia Tech, Jim Harbaugh & Purdue.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:23.6 | And we have a very, very special guest today, are another colleague from The Athletic. |
| 0:28.8 | The great Andy Staples is joining us. |
| 0:31.3 | Special podcast today. |
| 0:33.8 | First, Andy, thanks for joining us. |
| 0:35.8 | I get very, very special. |
| 0:39.1 | Next time you two are on my show, I'm going to have to introduce you in a much more grandiose way than i have been so |
| 0:42.6 | duly noted yeah i'm going to have to make sure i i add a barrier extremely to the intro okay a few |
| 0:49.7 | hours uh before we started taping this uh the athletic dropped a massive story on the recruiting slash |
| 0:58.4 | NIL slash college football front about Jaden Rashada, the four-star quarterback out of Northern |
| 1:04.1 | California. And his recruitment has been much talked about offline in different and different conversations. |
| 1:13.7 | What his deal was. |
| 1:15.5 | There's a lot of wild speculation about it in our story. |
| 1:20.9 | And nod to Andy on this big part of it was able to obtain the contract that Florida's collective had put together. |
| 1:31.7 | And for people who haven't read this story yet, what are you waiting for? |
| 1:35.1 | And second of all, Andy, when you first started looking at this, what were the biggest things that |
| 1:40.7 | jumped out at you? |
| 1:42.9 | How little he would have had to do to get these incredible |
| 1:46.5 | monthly amounts i mean it it's one thing because i think we're desensitized to the amounts of |
| 1:53.0 | these deals because we see them in the NBA in the NFL and it's just the numbers sort of go over |
| 1:59.3 | our heads like when we hear about a quarterback in the NFL who's making $48 million a year |
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