Pat Narduzzi Accuses Utah of Flipping Pitt Commit Daidren Zipperer using NIL Promises

PITTSBURGH — Pat Narduzzi has not been afraid to go on document and name out coaches and packages he believes are tampering to recruit Pitt Panthers gamers away from this system. 

He did it final spring when he claimed USC head coach Lincoln Riley used guarantees of profitable title, picture and likeness offers to persuade the Panthers’ main receiver and the reigning Biletnikoff award winner, Jordan Addison to switch and change into a Trojan. Simply this week, he alluded to but extra tampering in faculty soccer – this time saying star UNC quarterback Drake Maye was promised $5 million to switch from Carolina. 

Narduzzi claims but extra tampering and pay-for-play offers have hit Pitt the place it hurts once more throughout this recruiting cycle. He stated throughout a Signing Day press convention that Utah used NIL within the recruitment of one-time Panthers broad receiver commit Daidren Zipperer, who flipped his verbal pledge to the Utes this previous October. 

“Shoot, I’ll simply say it,” Narduzzi stated. “We misplaced one to Utah that was a great receiver for us and I believe [NIL] had one thing to do with it.”

Narduzzi added that he fears coaches and packages are mendacity about the advantages they will have the ability to present to an athlete throughout the recruiting course of. And since there aren’t any shared information of who’s giving what to who and when, there is no method to confirm the wild rumors that fly across the sport. 

I don’t know in the event that they’re signing contracts that say don’t say a phrase as a result of it’s hush-hush,” Narduzzi stated. “You hear rumors and highschool coaches will let you know stuff however loads of its hush-hush and also you don’t hear. … You simply don’t know typically what to consider. I can let you know this, with all of the stuff happening on this recruiting, and it’s unhappy that we’re on this house even, however there’s no monitoring something on the market.”

Narduzzi stated he has heard immediately from the NIL representatives that assist dealer offers for athletes that coaches are over-promising and under-delivering. He believes that NIL record-keeping would maintain everybody accountable and do a greater job of stopping the tampering Narduzzi is so afraid of. 

“I believe by way of the years we’re going to seek out out that youngsters are being instructed ‘You’re getting this a lot’ they usually’re not getting it,” Narduzzi stated. “I’ve been instructed by sufficient brokers, sufficient NIL brokers, … that what they’re being instructed just isn’t true after which they get there they usually discover out, get type of disillusioned.”

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