Included in the fallout of UNLV quarterback Matthew Sluka quitting the team after a 3-0 start over alleged unfulfilled NIL promises is a seemingly minor detail that is emblematic of the larger chaos in the NIL landscape: The Nevada Secretary of State office has no record of Sluka’s agent, Marcus Cromartie, as a registered sports agent in the state, a spokeswoman for the state’s SOS office told CBS Sports.
Blueprint Sports CEO Rob Sine initially told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday morning that Cromartie is not a registered sports agent and confirmed that fact with CBS Sports, sharing “we were introduced to the agent less than a month ago for the first time … we informed (the agent) that he was not registered with the state or with the school and that he needed to be.”
Cromartie told ESPN earlier Wednesday that Sluka left UNLV after an unfulfilled NIL promise of $100,000.
Cromartie is with the agency Equity Sports, which represents numerous NFL players, most notably Patrick Mahomes. The 33-year-old is a former Wisconsin football player and cousin of former NFL stars Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Antonio Cromartie.
Cromartie’s status as an unregistered agent in the state of Nevada is yet another wrinkle to the story that rocked college football on Wednesday, a war of words and leaks between each side that could threaten to get ugly. In a statement Wednesday, a spokesperson for the UNLV athletics department said UNLV does not engage in demands it interprets as violations of NCAA pay-for-play rules, “nor does it respond to implied threats.”
Blueprint operates the Friends of UNLV NIL Collective in addition to multiple others, including the University of Nevada’s. Nevada’s Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar previously co-founded…
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Author : Richard Johnson
Publish date : 2024-09-26 01:34:49
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