ORLANDO, Fla. — Jaden Rashada, one of the top high school recruits in the country, deserves absolutely none of the blame for this embarrassing mistake and fractured relationship with the University of Florida.
Football coach Billy Napier and athletic director Scott Stricklin certainly deserve some of the blame for what appears to be a Name, Image and Likeness program at UF that has committed the biggest PR blunder of college football’s new pay-for-play era.
But if you’re looking for something or somebody to heap most of the blame upon for this Gator gaffe, blame this insane new system that puts fans and boosters in charge of paying players under the guise of NIL.
