Jaden Rashada reportedly drawing interest from Pac-12 schools
Jaden Rashada has officially cut ties with Florida, and the highly-touted quarterback has reportedly drawn interest from a pair of Pac-12 schools.
Rashada will visit Arizona State this weekend, and is rumored to also have a Colorado visit in the works.
Rashada will spend the weekend at Arizona State on an unofficial visit, 247Sports reported. His father, Harlen, played for the Sun Devils in the late 1990s, and they were one of Rashada’s childhood favorites.
Rashada, who is from Pittsburg (California), is the No. 7 quarterback and No. 59 overall recruit in the class of 2022 on the 247Sports Composite. Rashada signed with Florida during December’s Early Signing Period but did not enroll for spring classes at UF as he had planned.
Rashada was released from a National Letter of Intent after multiple reports suggested that an NIL deal for Rashada with a Florida collective worth $13 million fell apart.
Since he was released from his letter of intent at Florida, Rashada can sign anywhere and play in the 2023 season and not count as a transfer. National Signing Day is set for Feb. 1.
BREAKING: 5-star 2023 QB Jaden Rashada (@jadenrashada) will be in Tempe starting today for an unofficial visit with ASU, where his father played in the 1990s, per @BrandonHuffman. https://t.co/BRCaVrtQUc pic.twitter.com/b40agOIJAc
— SunDevilSource.com (@SunDevilSource) January 20, 2023
Have not confirmed yet but hearing a rumor that four-star QB Jaden Rashada will visit Colorado as soon as today.
— Adam Gorney (@adamgorney) January 20, 2023
Well, we know he is not going to Colorado. Deion has his son as the starter for the next couple of years and this kid is too arrogant to sit behind anyone for 2 years. I doubt he would stand for one.
I blame the parents, not the kid. Agree on Colorado not being a viable option though.
Pretty telling his options went from Miami and UF to ASU. I’m assuming a large number of major powers want nothing to do with this drama. His parents may have ruined his career before it even began. ASU is a dumpster fire desperate for relevance. I’m a Scottsdale resident.
How many games did it take before local sun devil fans were calling for EJ5 to be benched?
I couldn’t tell you, but I do know they had their worst home attendance in 60 years! I think the state of the program and the fact that the PAC12 is standing on its last leg is turning their entire fan base off to football. It’s a fair weather fan base at best.
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It IS pretty telling it went from UF and the U to AS.
Rashada has likely shot himself in the foot. A couple of good years in the spotlight doing well at UF would set him up for a productive pro career. Greed doesn’t always work out.
No matter what, he is stigmatized going forward. Hopefully, no matter where he lands, he will put his head down & put in the effort needed to gain his teammates respect & a successful pro career.
They say something about the greeness of grass over yonder.
Kid’s dad also threw Cal in the mix today, which is home turf. None of the three are NIL-rich, so we’ll see. UF dodged a bullet here, I’m thinking.
Yep, the Gators dodged quite a bullet. Rashada overestimated his value to UF after AR headed for the NFL. When someone pushes for all or nothing, most of the time he gets nothing.
I’m thinking this as well. It’s been a mess and not knowing what happened leads to so much speculation on both sides. I hope he commits and signs soon so it can be put behind us, hopefully moving on to better things.
Good luck to him, wherever he ends up.
That opens up another possibility that I hadn’t thought of, being focused on the secular aspects of this case. To avoid moderation, I’ll just say that when one door closes it’s not unheard of for another to open.
I see him going to ASU because his dad went there and they have Oregon’s OC now as a head coach. Problem is the Pac-12 is as solid now as it’s been since Pete Carroll was coaching. ASU needs to rebuild and there may be no time for guidance for him? If I was him I’d go to Utah and wait a year.
Watch what ASU does about their OL over the next two years. He can be protected by red shirting next season, but after that, he’s at the mercy of his blockers. No great QB ever succeeded while running for his life.
What happened at UF? Does anyone know? I’m sure the U offered him some type of NIL deal. How did he figure he was going to extort 13 million from UF. I thought Napier didn’t do NIL deals. I thought he was for giving the collective money to the guys on the team who had been on the team and bought in to his plan to make UF a contender again however many years it takes him to get the team back to relevance.
By /he way, does anyone know what ASU has in their collective? Is this kid signing a NIL deal with ASU? To me it looks like this kids parents are looking for a get rich quick scheme and they are really blowing it for there son. This is so sad. Looks like if that what good e dad is doing it sure blew up in his face. That’s karma for you Rashada’s dad.
Pac12 is balling, just askTulane and Penn St!
They just need super QB’s, like Rashada, to change their fortunes.
He has already done all the work needed to become a devil. Signing with ASU would just make it official.
Which reminds me of the late Michael Jackson’s comment that some critic was, “Very, very, very devilish”. Inasmuch as he’s from Kalifornia and looks like a younger Jackson, before he decided to look like Elizabeth Taylor, maybe he’s sticking close to home if a biopic of Michael is ever made. You’ll know that’s true, of course, the first time you see him moonwalk to the huddle.
LMAO! Brother, remind me not to ever get on your bad side. That was just the perfect combination of funny and mean.
Nice in a not nice way!
Read somewhere a reasonable explanation about the 13 million.
UM collective signed Rashada for 6 mill over 4 years.
UF collective offered 7 mill & flipped him but later found out that the contract had a clause stating they would be on the hook for UM’s 6 mill as well if Ruiz sued for breach of contract, thus the 13 mill
I did read somewhere that Ruiz was interviewed and stated, on the record, that the UF collective reimbursed him for payments he’d already made to Rashada. Maybe, that was part of an agreement to keep him from suing Rashada for breach of contract.
If the contract had such a clause and paying Ruiz off was how they chose to avoid his full tab, then I can understand how the media misunderstood the Gator collective’s true liability. It certainly suited the Rashada camp to let the media run with that misunderstanding.
Knights without honor in a savage land, their guns for hire to the highest bidder.
Let’s face the act that paying $7 Million to land a QB who is rated…well let’s say not in the top 10; is insanity at it’s highest. NIL is out-of-control and must have rules & regulations.
The market will eventually find its place AFan. Nasty epics, like the one just concluded ar UF, will help get it there.
The only thing the NCAA can and should do now is come out from under their bed and use rules to force legitimate individuals and collectives to sign up as NIL agents for the various NCAA universities and require them to publish details of the agreements they sign with ALL college athletes, same as pro teams publish details of contracts signed with pro players.
Sunshine will disinfect that NIL sewer quicker that any federal or state legislation ever might.
at UF
Good for Florida
His current NLI evaluation is 495k, sounds like a big shot in the foot!
So am I getting this right,Rashida got to keep the 6 million from the U. I’m asking because another poster on this article said UF’s collective had to payback Ruiz at miami 6 million back what he gave to Rashada Uf offered Rashada 7 million to flip. So I take it Rashada’s dad thought he should get 13million even though UF’S collective was on the hook for 6million that the u gave rashada.