The question is who is the real idiot in the case of Deion Smith.
Smith was the top wide receiver coming out of the junior college ranks this year. Ole Miss signed him to much aplomb. Dude even showed up in a Lambo, paid for with NIL money, of course.
However, Smith will not be coming to Ole Miss after all. 24/7 Sports reported:
The news is not good on wide receiver Deion Smith. After an exhausting eight-month wait on the nation's No. 1 junior college wide receiver in the 2024 class to join the Rebels, it appears correspondence course work completed by Smith at Mid American Christian University has been denied by the Ole Miss compliance department and the NCAA. Multiple sources, including Lane Kiffin, have told this to Inside the Rebels on Wednesday morning. Kiffin just confirmed Smith's ineligibility on his weekly SEC teleconference call. Rest of article.
So what happens to the Lambo?
26 comments:
Lambo is now a RepoLambo
Surely he paid cash in full for the car, or at least paid a hefty down payment and negotiated for a low interest rate. And no doubt with the steady stream of NIL he was paying extra each month to further lower the principal, right? He should have no problem selling the car with minimal loss, right?
Just like 99% of the nice cars driven by Rebel fans and alumni, the car was just a lease.
Lambo should be available soon at the title loan place!
Should have stayed at LSwho.
That was a very long test drive.
Lambo was a rent by the day/week.
Rental
College football is on the fast path to having all the credibility of professional rasslin’.
This was clearly a rental.
When this kid rolled up in the Lamborghini, if the coaching staff didn't realize there were some big problems that needed addressing they don't deserve to be a coaching staff. That includes Kiffin. And if he didn't know about the car and planned arrival in it, he wasn't doing his job. It is the staff's job to make sure there is Gatorade in the coolers and the jockstraps are washed, but it is the HC's job to know about things like that. This wasn't some would-be intern swinging by hoping to catch an assistant tapewinder and see if there were any openings.
Ain't NObaddy can beat Lane in 'cruitin'...NOOoooooBaddy! This 'cruit gone be wearin' rags now...Rebul Rags.
Without his Lambo how is he going to get some lovin'?
another college football soap opera for the beautiful people of the SEC to obsess over, while the kids dont get raised and the mortgage goes unpaid.
Smith never got NIL because he was never enrolled at Ole Miss. Car likely rented and provided by an agent.
That fine Jackson Academy education continues to deliver for him . . .
Let’s reflect on what 6:28 has said. I have a cousin who has three children at JA and they are not there for sports. They are there for the education. How did this moron get in there???
Exactly what I was pondering
Credit to Ole Miss for determining he was ineligible and dismissing him. Same cannot be said for State who retains a criminal on their team who almost killed a 150 pound kid with a sucker punch.
show-off!
One does not RENT a Lamborghini without excellent credit, a well-paying job and a significant pay-up-front reality. A high school graduate-jock hoping to play college ball, does not qualify. If it was a rental, you can bet your pink jock-strap it wasn't in his name and he probably was not authorized on the agreement to drive it.
Questions: Why was the additional coursework necessary? Did the Ole Miss coaching staff provide any guidance to this athlete about the educational requirements (what courses to take and where to take them) in order to get enrolled? How was the athlete able to graduate from Jackson Academy with their high academic standards? Who paid for the Lamborghini? Should the NCAA investigate this matter?
2:19, you don’t get it; none of those questions matter - he’s a five star wide receiver, so ethics, morals, and legalities can be overlooked.
All this new money in college sports directed to the athletes by many different outside parties with money and interests provides so many opportunities for so many opportunities to win in new ways.
Gonna make SMU and the Sooners in the 1980s look like a bunch of celibate priests and nuns!
Seriously, guys, he’ll be academically rehabilitated in no time. A tutor here, a big money donor there, and some good old-fashioned sleight of hand will have the young man catching passes next season at the latest. The interesting part will be who gets assigned the role of sticking his neck of the furthest to ensure this is all neat and tidy. My money would be on H. Freezus who knows a thing or two about plausible deniability.
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