Taulia Tagovailoa was tampered with by SEC team
Maryland football quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa says he was tampered with by an SEC team this offseason and offered $1.5 million if he would transfer.
There are two news items this week that show how ridiculous and ineffective the NCAA has become at its job.
The first is the ongoing saga with Jim Harbaugh. The Michigan football head coach is facing a four-game suspension for what is being called, “Burgergate.”
Michigan committed a few minor infractions. There has been no debate about that. However, the infractions were reportedly watching a recruit workout over Zoom, texting during an impermissible time, and also contact with recruits during a dead period.
Harbaugh says he doesn’t recall taking recruits out to lunch. Whether he does or doesn’t, should he really face a four-game suspension, especially with all the other clear cheating going on?
Case in point, the tampering by an SEC school of Maryland football quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa. During Big Ten Media Days on Thursday, Tagovailoa the younger brother of NFL quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, said that an SEC school offered him $1.5 million to enter the transfer portal.
Taulia Tagovailoa chose Maryland football over SEC
You can take a number of guesses about which school it was (Alabama). There were rumors about Alabama doing something similar with Drake Maye of North Carolina.
It’s not a big secret that Alabama was after a quarterback and the Maryland football quarterback makes a lot of sense, considering the connection to Tua. Taulia is viewed as one of the top returning quarterbacks in the country and Alabama isn’t exactly confident in its signal caller.
I’m not saying there aren’t other teams in the SEC that would offer a player that much to leave via the transfer portal. Alabama just makes sense due to its depth chart.
What’s wild though is that the pursuit of Maryland football’s starting quarterback or North Carolina’s, via tampering, according to what these players have said during interviews, will go unpunished by the NCAA, despite its memo warning about using NIL as an enticement.
Talking to players on another roster is totally against the rules, and using NIL to entice a player to transfer to your school is a major violation. Will it matter? No.
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The NCAA is an absolute joke and it should free Jim Harbaugh.