NIL's impact on high school eligibility; recruiting sleeping giants & CFB villains
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Your inquisitive minds were the perfect setup for a 'Dear Andy & Ari' podcast, as a host of fantastic questions landed in the guys' mailbags this week. In the case of the $8M recruit, how does NIL affect his high school football eligibility? The guys examine which states prohibit and permit high school student-athletes to monetize their name, image, and likeness. Which collegiate programs are recruiting sleeping giants? The pair determine which universities are more motivated, now more than ever, to land big-named prospects. Are there any villains in today's college football? If so, who is it, or who are they? Lastly, The Andy Staples Show Realty Associates are here to help P5 programs land their dream homes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:12.4 | It is a Dear Andy slash Dear Ari edition of the show. |
| 0:16.8 | We have lots of great questions from you guys. |
| 0:19.2 | And we're kicking off with dear Ari questions, |
| 0:23.4 | because to be honest, all you guys want to ask about is this NIL deal that Stuart Mandel wrote |
| 0:28.9 | about last week. And I don't blame you. It's pretty crazy. And it's one of those things that |
| 0:35.3 | we didn't exactly know how any of this was going to work |
| 0:39.2 | and now we're sort of getting an idea of how things work. And it just really often brings up |
| 0:46.3 | more questions. So I will start with a question about that from Daniel. Ari, well, the five-star |
| 0:52.9 | recruits Stuart Mandel wrote about receiving a huge deal from a collective be eligible for a senior season of high school this fall? |
| 0:59.3 | If not, how will that affect his recruitment? |
| 1:03.6 | I'm looking at a map right now because some states, yeah, he's eligible. |
| 1:09.8 | He's eligible. And look, listen, |
| 1:13.0 | we are, Stewart wouldn't reveal who it is. We have an educated guess. I don't know that, |
| 1:19.1 | you know, that we're going to say, but I think, let's put it this way. My, if you want to see what my educated guess is go to the comments |
| 1:30.2 | under stewart's story and the sleuths there i feel like came up with the same educated |
| 1:36.4 | guests very quickly yeah yeah i here's the thing i don't know if we have to talk about the specific person. |
| 1:46.8 | It doesn't matter. The thing that doesn't matter. The thing is, is that in half the states, not half, most of the states, you would be ineligible. |
| 1:54.9 | And there are some forward thinking states where it makes no difference. And I wrote a lot about this. And we spoke about it when Quinn Ewers made his decision to leave high school early. |
| 2:04.3 | Because Texas is one of the states that idiotically doesn't permit it. |
| 2:08.7 | There are only two really good high school football states. |
| 2:11.9 | No, no, there's three. |
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