Clawson comments in The Athletic confirms it....

[DownEastDeac]

NIL is pay for play, and not about paying guys to use their marketable images to promote themselves or a product. Nothing new here, but a little surprising in his frankness.

“If you think about it, every quarterback we’ve had here has really played professionally,” Clawson said. “John Wolford is still with the (Los Angeles) Rams. I really believe that if Jamie Newman had stayed here one more year … he would have been probably at least a Day 2 draft pick. And Sam Hartman is getting paid to play football.

 

[warak]

but WFU is not paying...yet

that is what i read

 

[Deaconblue]

but WFU is not paying...yet

that is what i read

I would read it a little differently. More along the lines that the Wake coaching staff is keeping knowledge of NIL$ activities at arms length, the way the "rules" say it is supposed to be.

 

[TheAbster]

I know Clawson went on record in December stating there should be no rules because no one follows them. I know it pisses him off but I don't know that we have many options other than to join the rule breaking or at least make NIL work in our favor.

 

[BeachBumDeac]

Clawson was making a point hyping up his program, that every QB he's coached has succeeded. He probably had practiced that pitch to reporters and recruits and then had to modify his wording a little bit since Sam didn't go to the NFL this year.

 

[PhDeac]

Great article aside from the Kendall Hinton erasure.

 

[Harpua]

Clawson was making a point hyping up his program, that every QB he's coached has succeeded. He probably had practiced that pitch to reporters and recruits and then had to modify his wording a little bit since Sam didn't go to the NFL this year.

I read it this way as well. Basically he’s developed every QB into a productive player with the tools to play professionally.

 

[IamThunderbolt]

Great article aside from the Kendall Hinton erasure.

Hinton also was paid to play QB in the NFL

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I made a post recently about the great majority of receivers Higgins has had in the stable had either had a cup of coffee in the NFL, or a few cups.

Hard to believe every QB1 we've had has played NFL ball and Hartman will get that chance too.

Just elite talent evaluation and development on offense.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Had Jamie Newman hung around, who knows what his situation would've been. Like Clawson said, he thought he'd get drafted had he bot transferred