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University of Tulsa football players and their families are claiming their coaches made verbal promises of NIL (name, image, and likeness) payments, but they haven’t received anything.
“They were using this money as leverage, and then it just kept getting pushed back, pushed back, pushed back, and now the season’s over and no one ever got anything,” quarterback Cooper Legas, who is speaking out alongside linebacker Myles Jackson, told the local news station KTUL. Legas said he came to Tulsa “expecting” to get “a decent amount of extra money,” but he has had to live off his wife’s salary as a receptionist.
The players and their families say the problem has been compounded by the Nov. 24 firing of head coach Kevin Wilson, who they say is one of the staff members who promised tens of thousands of dollars in NIL money. “He chose this school over others. And part of the reason was the promise of the NIL money,” Jennifer Legas, Cooper’s mother, told another local news station, KOTV.
Curiously, Wilson had been extremely up front—in the media at least—about Tulsa’s lack of NIL resources. “Typical first question says, ‘What’ll you get?’ I go, ‘You’ll get nothing and like it,’” Wilson said, quoting Caddyshack, in a February press conference.
The school does have a nonprofit NIL collective, but it’s new. The official athletic department account posted that Hurricane Impact is the school’s official NIL partner on Oct. 1, in the middle of football season. That’s the same day the account made its very first post, and it has not sent out another to its dozens of followers since Oct. 5.
“Hurricane Impact has had no contact with any TU football student-athlete, coach Wilson, or any members of his staff regarding partnering with our organization. We will have no further comment,” the collective said in a statement to KTUL. Hurricane Impact did not respond to questions.
Though the collective is nascent, not communicating with football players or coaches would be out of line with industry standards. Nationwide, football is by far the biggest recipient of NIL dollars, particularly from collectives. The team went 3–9 this season, and although it still needs a new head coach, December is a peak time for luring in new players, and a functioning collective plays a big role in today’s transfer market.
University of Tulsa football players and their families are claiming their coaches made verbal promises of NIL (name, image, and likeness) payments, but they haven’t received anything.
“They were using this money as leverage, and then it just kept getting pushed back, pushed back, pushed back, and now the season’s over and no one ever got anything,” quarterback Cooper Legas, who is speaking out alongside linebacker Myles Jackson, told the local news station KTUL. Legas said he came to Tulsa “expecting” to get “a decent amount of extra money,” but he has had to live off his wife’s salary as a receptionist.
The players and their families say the problem has been compounded by the Nov. 24 firing of head coach Kevin Wilson, who they say is one of the staff members who promised tens of thousands of dollars in NIL money. “He chose this school over others. And part of the reason was the promise of the NIL money,” Jennifer Legas, Cooper’s mother, told another local news station, KOTV.
Curiously, Wilson had been extremely up front—in the media at least—about Tulsa’s lack of NIL resources. “Typical first question says, ‘What’ll you get?’ I go, ‘You’ll get nothing and like it,’” Wilson said, quoting Caddyshack, in a February press conference.
The school does have a nonprofit NIL collective, but it’s new. The official athletic department account posted that Hurricane Impact is the school’s official NIL partner on Oct. 1, in the middle of football season. That’s the same day the account made its very first post, and it has not sent out another to its dozens of followers since Oct. 5.
“Hurricane Impact has had no contact with any TU football student-athlete, coach Wilson, or any members of his staff regarding partnering with our organization. We will have no further comment,” the collective said in a statement to KTUL. Hurricane Impact did not respond to questions.
Though the collective is nascent, not communicating with football players or coaches would be out of line with industry standards. Nationwide, football is by far the biggest recipient of NIL dollars, particularly from collectives. The team went 3–9 this season, and although it still needs a new head coach, December is a peak time for luring in new players, and a functioning collective plays a big role in today’s transfer market.
