The Miami Hurricanes are learning of some troubling news just before the start of the 2025 NFL season. The University is suddenly facing some major allegations at the hand of one Big Ten school.
Miami Suddenly Facing “First-Of-Its-Kind” Lawsuit From Big Ten School (Breaking)
Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports’ senior college football reporter, reports Wisconsin’s NIL collective has filed a complaint against Miami for poaching a college football player:
The lawsuit alleges that Miami poached former defensive back Xavier Lucas by communicating with him while he was already under contract with Wisconsin and inducing him to come to Miami.
“The University of Wisconsin and its NIL collective filed a complaint in state circuit court on Friday against the University of Miami over alleged tortious interference, according to documents obtained by Yahoo Sports,” Dellenger wrote.
“In a first-of-its-kind and, perhaps, a precedent-setting move, Wisconsin is seeking unspecified financial damages and a declaratory judgement deeming UM’s actions as wrongful for interfering with a binding revenue-share contract between UW and Xavier Lucas, a former defensive back who left the program in January to compete at Miami. It was a groundbreaking decision in which Lucas transferred without entering the portal (it had already closed) and after signing the contract with the Badgers.”
But Wisconsin isn’t standing on their own in this suit. The entire Big Ten Conference has come out in support of the Badgers football program, releasing this statement:
“We stand by our position that respecting and enforcing contractual obligations is essential to maintaining a level playing field,” the B1G statement said. “In addition to our legal action, we will continue to be proactive to protect the interests of our student-athletes, our program and the broader collegiate athletics community.”
This landmark lawsuit could very well set the precedent for how schools enforce tampering between each other now that the NCAA has effectively lost the ability to do so through the House settlement’s revenue-sharing agreement.
If you thought the changes to the rules were wild when NIL was first introduced, we could be seeing an almost monthly change to the rules now that the courts are getting involved.
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