Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons blasted the state of faculty soccer amid scrutiny over Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Nico Iamaleava on Friday.
Iamaleava was reportedly a holdout at observe this week as he sought to renegotiate his title, picture and likeness deal from $2.4 million to $4 million per yr. He had 2,616 passing yards and 19 landing passes because the Vols completed 10-3 throughout the 2024 season.
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Dec. 29, 2024; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) towards the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Monetary Subject. (Eric Hartline-Imagn Photos)
Because the discourse entered social media, the previous Penn State star was sad with what faculty soccer has develop into.
“Faculty soccer a joke now! Yall minds properly simply make faculty right into a semi professional league! Truly maintain gamers accountable to the contracts they signal!” he wrote on X.
He then responded to a different individual on X who claimed that faculty soccer had all the time been a semi-pro league and that gamers have been getting paid simply illegally.
“Nah faculty was by no means about cash! Faculty is bout constructing character!” Parsons wrote again. “I’m the person I’m at this time due to the brotherhood and the superb coaches I’ve had throughout my time at Penn State!
Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava (8) walks off the sphere after the win over Kentucky after an NCAA faculty soccer sport on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024, in Knoxville, Tenn. (Saul Younger/Information Sentinel / USA At present Community by way of Imagn Photos)
“We’re failing youngsters now as a result of life isn’t simple and we’re permitting them to stop!”
Iamaleava is simply the tip of the iceberg of what might occur in faculty athletics before later.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Huge 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and Huge Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti have been on Capitol Hill final week to foyer Congress on getting assist legislating NIL in faculty athletics.
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Yormark advised Bret Baier on “Particular Report” on Thursday that “we want assist from Congress.”
“From the place I sit at this time, federal pre-emption, having a standardized platform that oversees and governs NIL is critically essential,” Yormark mentioned. “At present, 34 states see it very otherwise, and it’s comparatively unruly.”
Dec 15, 2024; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) walks onto the sphere throughout the first quarter towards the Carolina Panthers at Financial institution of America Stadium. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Photos)
“The amount of legal guidelines which are being handed on a state stage are making it actually troublesome for us to control and compete nationally,” added Huge Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. Each single time somebody doesn’t like a ruling, or one thing comes from the NCAA, we find yourself in litigation. These guidelines then get aggregated, and we’re again to the beginning.
“We’re hopeful that the mixture of what we’ve accomplished within the settlement will give us a possibility, with some assist from Congress, to actually put a system in a spot that has some stability.
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“We’ve crossed the bridge of being keen to supply income … however we have to have some construction. We are able to’t have a system that has full unregulated motion.”
Fox Information’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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