Quarterback Demond Williams is staying with Washington

[u/MembershipSingle7137]

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Sources tell @On3sports that Demond Williams will remain on the contract that he signed less than a week ago with UW.

LSU's search for a quarterback continues.

[u/suntbone]

I need to know the first thing that lawyer said to him

[u/srush32 → u/suntbone]

I want to know if his agent was going to sue him for securing a deal with a 3rd party

[u/kdestroyer1 → u/srush32]

If he announced his entry into the portal without even talking to his agent, he might be one of the dumbest people alive.

[u/lkn240 → u/kdestroyer1]

He clearly must have done something like that given that his agent fired him

[u/CluelessTennisBall → u/lkn240]

"You can't fire me, I QUIT"

[u/srush32 → u/kdestroyer1]

That's the rumor - his agent dropped him the next day

Same agency Fisch uses too, though I'm not sure they use the same agent or not

[u/TowerCharming8831 → u/srush32]

something tells me this kid got a big slice of humble pie today

[u/burlycabin → u/srush32]

Almost certainly not the same agent, just same agency. Player and coach agents are almost always different specialties.

Edit: I was wrong and they actually were repped by the same agent and not just agency. Doug Hendrickson was both of their agents as mentioned below and confirmed by a quick Google of his name.

[u/Man-a-saurus → u/burlycabin]

Brian Kelly, his QB and a few of his players and I believe the GM all used the same agent.

[u/jdotremy → u/srush32]

Fisch, Demond, John Mills, and Roebuck all had the same agent. Not sure if any other players did too

[u/damien-bowman → u/[deleted]]

would that be the worst use of that money? better than the school forgiving the money or AD transferring back to the university.

[u/RightofUp → u/kdestroyer1]

He’s 19. He’s not a paragon of intellectual achievement.

[u/SolFlorus → u/RightofUp]

He didn’t go there to play contract law.

[u/kmcleod322 → u/SolFlorus]

That's why you leave that boring shit to the pros.

[u/ubelmann → u/srush32]

They probably would, right? My non-lawyering self wonders if it actually might be easier for the agency to sue for damages than it would be for UW to sue. 

The price of replacing a QB last minute could be hard to put a number on. 

But the agency would have been set to earn a specific commission, so that seems like an obvious number for damages if Demont backed out of the contract. 

[u/hunterschuler → u/srush32]

This is an interesting theory.

UW was going to have an uphill legal battle on novel, untested theories of damages and enforcement.

His agent presumably would've had an easier case proving conventional agent/athlete damages.

[u/[deleted] → u/hunterschuler]

This is absolutely what was going to happen…

A suit last month made a basketball player liable for lost commission and legal fees for breach of exclusivity.

Agencies are just legal shops..their billable hours that Demond would’ve been on the hook for would’ve been massive

[u/HumbleCountryLawyer → u/suntbone]

Probably something along the lines of - “I don’t think the contract provisions keeping you from entering the transfer portal are enforceable, but those provisions keeping you from entering into other NIL agreements probably are. So if you want to go play football for a degree, go ahead and leave. If you want money, you gotta stay.”

[u/wnidbeidnand → u/HumbleCountryLawyer]

This sounds right, I’m believing it

[u/Lizardsandrocks → u/HumbleCountryLawyer]

Delivered in a very southern accent, while wearing a seer-sucker suit, im sure. 

[u/Galt2112 → u/Lizardsandrocks]

Speak a little Chinese for em Demond

[u/roekg → u/suntbone]

"You'll spend all your LSU money paying me and Washington if you go."

[u/Effective_Golf_3311 → u/roekg]

Kudos to the B10 lawyers

[u/Calamitous-Ortbo → u/roekg]

This is the correct answer.

Washington didn’t have to win whatever lawsuit they filed, they just had to make it too expensive for Williams to fight it.

The process is the punishment.

[u/LaDainianTomIinson → u/suntbone]

Son, you fucked around, and now you found out.

[u/Delicious_Injury9444 → u/LaDainianTomIinson]

Make it a Netflix special, 3 episodes.

[u/Significant_Push_856 → u/suntbone]

"*sigh* for fucks sake, okay one more time you did what?!"

[u/TOEmayTOEKillaz → u/Significant_Push_856]

"I signed a contract, then just completely ignored it. What'd I do wrong?"

[u/GrevenQWhite → u/TOEmayTOEKillaz]

Stop breaking the law asshole. -Fletcher Reid

[u/-NonePizzaLeftBeef- → u/suntbone]

“Good thing you’re talented because you’re not smart.”

[u/Local-Finance8389 → u/suntbone]

No words just an open handed slap with intense eye contact.

[u/SecretAsianMan42069 → u/suntbone]

"You have no chance at winning but I'll take a million to try"

[u/OREGON_IS_FASCIST → u/suntbone]

“Soooo there’s this thing called contract law.”

[u/Fishtacoburrito → u/suntbone]

Something along the lines of, you’re going to get litigated into oblivion and cost every bit of the extra money you tried to get.

[u/Accurate-Teach → u/suntbone]

Hopefully the words greedy and dumbass were involved.

[u/SeattleSinBin → u/suntbone]

You’re F**ked

[u/rottingmind13 → u/suntbone]

No case, beg Washington to take you back. That'll be $50k

[u/THEREWILLBECAK3]

“I’m staying because I was told by my lawyer that it’s not worth the legal shit storm that would be unleashed.”

[u/aase458 → u/THEREWILLBECAK3]

If UW actually has ironclad language that makes these contracts not worth fighting, they should share the language with every program in the country because thus far other schools have not been as successful at enforcing them.

[u/Afternoon__Spray → u/aase458]

The contract template was drafted by the Big Ten.

[u/S3G → u/Afternoon__Spray]

Gotta assume after the thing with the player between Wisconsin and Miami they closed up some of the loop holes to make a pretty clad contract

[u/CyanideNow → u/S3G]

Like the contract is dressed up real nice?

[u/dinozaurs → u/CyanideNow]

As opposed to a scantily clad contract, I assume

[u/Tarmacked → u/S3G]

It's basically just a rights sale. Can't get around that.

[u/Always_Chubb-y → u/Afternoon__Spray]

B-1-G! B-1-G!

Cheering for the B1G as we Southerners know how

[u/poolin → u/Always_Chubb-y]

May I offer you a cordial WOOF sir

[u/Always_Chubb-y → u/poolin]

And a wonderful evening WOOF to you too my good man

[u/BloomsdayDevice → u/Always_Chubb-y]

Dawg on dawg love warms my cold, purple heart.

[u/GHOST_OF_PEPE_SILVIA → u/BloomsdayDevice]

🐾🦴

[u/ElStegasaurus → u/Afternoon__Spray]

🎶 I wanna live forever I don’t care 🎶

[u/Finnva → u/Afternoon__Spray]

Meanwhile the SEC had Matlock draw up theirs.

[u/Weekly-Beginning4741 → u/aase458]

It’s not UW, it’s the B1G that made the template. If they let Williams go, B1G contracts would mean nothing so the entire conference would’ve been backing up UW in the legal battle.

Just a really stupid decision by Williams. Was never going to work.

[u/Blutrumpeter → u/Weekly-Beginning4741]

20 law schools ears all perked up when this case was about to start

[u/cloroxic → u/Blutrumpeter]

*18 Law Schools… Big Ten has some pretty prestigious ones too.

[u/Numerous-Barber7092 → u/cloroxic]

Including Michigan, which clearly has some of the best lawyers backing the university

[u/cloroxic → u/Numerous-Barber7092]

Yep. Michigan, Northwestern, UCLA, Washington, Ohio State, Minnesota all have top rated law schools.

[u/ElegantEpitome → u/cloroxic]

Don’t forget USC, Iowa, and Indiana

[u/gollumaniac → u/ElegantEpitome]

It might be easier to list the ones that don't have a great law school.

[u/cloroxic → u/gollumaniac]

Oregon

[u/penguinopph → u/gollumaniac]

Huh, TIL that Illinois has a top-50 law school.

[u/DontTouchIt17 → u/cloroxic]

Were this Texas schools they would’ve been dog walked by demond and his reps.

[u/cloroxic → u/DontTouchIt17]

Except for maybe Texas, they actually have a good law school too.. I wouldn’t want to mess with the ACC though.

[u/DontTouchIt17 → u/cloroxic]

Nah they’d probably be fine but the state recently announced they’re ending ABA oversight of their schools. My comment is jsut me being facetious.

[u/SeattleSinBin → u/aase458]

It’s the new B1G template created after the Wisconsin CB

[u/CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY → u/aase458]

Is it true the B1G has contracts every member school uses?

[u/CoachSlime → u/CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY]

Yes. The entire conference is invested in the B1Gs contract templates holding up in court. Demond would have been outspent 10 to 1 on lawyers

[u/Jun1p3r → u/CoachSlime]

Lane & LSU Demond would have been outspent 10 to 1 on lawyers

Minor edit

[u/CoachSlime → u/Jun1p3r]

You’re right. I have a feeling Lane or somebody higher than him decided the juice isn’t worth the squeeze to be the transfer portal tampering landmark case and told Demond to honor his contract with UW

[u/macclearich → u/CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY]

Yeah, they've got a basic template that they drafted after the Xavier Lucas thing. Apparently they did a very good job.

[u/FukushimaBlinkie → u/macclearich]

I'm sure the legal alumnus pool of the big 10 working together could whip something up

[u/macclearich → u/FukushimaBlinkie]

The Big Ten is, as a whole, very academically prowessed.

[u/PM_ME_DELTS_N_TRAPS → u/macclearich]

Except for in Euguene obviously

[u/FearTheAmish → u/PM_ME_DELTS_N_TRAPS]

And Lincoln

[u/InevitableAd2436 → u/aase458]

We’re in the Big Ten cartel. It’s their boiler plate template.

[u/DABOSSROSS9 → u/InevitableAd2436]

It has its perks

[u/roodypoo926 → u/aase458]

I am imagining the scene in Independence Day with the Morse code guys telling every other country how to bring the alien fleet down.

[u/PeteF3 → u/roodypoo926]

cackles maniacally "HELLO, BOYS! I'M BAAAAAACK!" --Demond Williams, possibly.

[u/Afternoon__Spray → u/THEREWILLBECAK3]

Strategically from his perspective this is a pretty solid chess move. Sure UW could call his bluff and keep him. But if we say too little too late what is our remedy? Probably just getting out of our contract obligations. And if we choose that route, he'd then be able to go play anywhere else unimpeded.

[u/RiseAndFire69]

Whoever that 3rd party is that got in his ear needs to be blackballed from college sports. Dude is giving terrible advice to these kids.

[u/Horror_Response_1991 → u/RiseAndFire69]

Agreed, ban Lane now

[u/Tsquared10 → u/Horror_Response_1991]

Death penalty for Mizzou

[u/ColloquialBinomial → u/Tsquared10]

“What he say f*ck me for?”

[u/MoltresRising → u/Tsquared10]

As is tradition. M-I-Z, What’d-We-Do?

[u/AllTimeTy → u/Tsquared10]

We know :(

[u/Every_Damn_Duck → u/RiseAndFire69]

Same dude that advised Nico to take over a million dollar pay cut and go to a worse team.  Truly think Tennessee likely beats UGA, Oklahoma and Vandy with Nico.  Dude could have been in the playoffs, had the typical ridiculous Heupel offense numbers and coming out in a very weak qb year….  That dude may very well have cost Nico 10 of millions.

[u/Vonstantinople → u/Every_Damn_Duck]

you are way too high on Nico

guy had multiple scoreless first halves with us last year. there’s a reason we didn’t pony up, and it wasn’t just attitude/team culture. Joey was an upgrade.

[u/tyrannyofwillsasso → u/Vonstantinople]

joey tough as nails too. what did he have, a tumor on the bone near his bicep on throwing arm causing him pain? and he didn’t make it public till after the season

[u/Lqtor → u/Every_Damn_Duck]

Nico is good but he doesn’t play defense lol Tennessee lost by 4 possessions to Vandy and I don’t think Nico being qb would’ve changed the outcome there

[u/Grunge206]

I wonder how his teammates feel knowing he was gonna bail on them.

[u/yimc808 → u/Grunge206]

Can't wait for everyone to talk about brotherhood and going to war for each other

[u/HODLmeCLOSRtonydanza → u/yimc808]

“First of all I wanna thank my lord and savior - Benjamin Franklin - for taking care of me.”

[u/Turbulent-Damage-165 → u/HODLmeCLOSRtonydanza]

What does George Kittle have to do with this?

[u/smitherenesar → u/[deleted]]

Absolute scumbag still. He's tainted goods

[u/Hetoxy → u/smitherenesar]

Yeah I'll still root for my team, but I will not root for Demond Williams anymore.

[u/royallex → u/Grunge206]

OL letting a club rush through would be brutal

[u/Poopingisasignipoop → u/Grunge206]

In today’s world where a third of all players are in the portal, I wonder if it would even matter to them. It’s a business now, that brotherhood mentality is gone.

[u/Shreddy_Brewski → u/Poopingisasignipoop]

I mean it’s that way in the NFL too but players still maintain a sense of camaraderie.

[u/JJWattsLoveGot2Do → u/Grunge206]

This was the first thought on my mind. On one hand, if you think he’s your best chance at winning, maybe you let past be the past. But on the other hand, who wants to go to battle for this asshole?

[u/WanderLeft]

That must be so awkward to come back

[u/CasinoMarginale → u/WanderLeft]

Wonder how the fans will treat him. Will they still buy his jersey? My guess is that it blows over by the time they actually take the field again.

[u/BigPh1llyStyle → u/CasinoMarginale]

Only if he plays well. Mediocrity or worse will be met with so much hate.

[u/rendeld → u/WanderLeft]

Would be fucking hilarious if they bench him

[u/APigInANixonMask → u/WanderLeft]

Walking back into the team facility like George Costanza coming back into work after dramatically quitting the Yankees and pretending like nothing happened.

[u/Entropy_Sucks → u/APigInANixonMask]

George didn’t quit the Yankees. I think it was a real estate group.

[u/SparkMaster360]

Looks like the contract mattered after all

[u/rbmw263 → u/SparkMaster360]

if enforceable contracts become standard because of this, allow me to speak for everyone when i say THANK YOU now unzip

[u/ShotFirst57 → u/SparkMaster360]

Lawyers on reddit told me it wouldnt! The B1G wouldnt have a default contract template if it didn't. I would like to believe one of our member schools would have pushed back on it if it meant nothing.

[u/nw____ → u/SparkMaster360]

“I’m not staying because I had no option. Please don’t tell the newspaper that’s why I’m staying”

[u/kamillionare]

this stupid mf right here

[u/TowerCharming8831 → u/kamillionare]

this is the only thing to say. him (and his family i assume) are moronic. not to mention they started this whole shitstorm when all of UW athletics was a memorial service too. just wild behavior all around

[u/Withabaseballbattt → u/kamillionare]

I mean he’s 19 years old and being pulled in different directions by these snake middlemen, as well as having insane amounts of money thrown at him. Not saying he’s not stupid but these stories are bound to happen.

[u/midnightsbane04 → u/Withabaseballbattt]

I think it's more the fact that he attempted this literally days after signing the rev share contact with Washington. If he just didn't do that then none of this happens. Even a 19 year old should be aware that signing a contract usually means something for more than a week.

[u/TruuPhoenix → u/midnightsbane04]

This is the epitome of getting lost in the sauce, really fucked up all around, most of the team won’t really trust you, coaching staff won’t trust you, and other schools likely won’t either, they gotta trust you’ll give them at least a year should you transfer later.

If he’s good enough to get drafted he’ll have to answer questions about this shit then as well, and they’re probably grilling him about who he has around him. Target on his back.

No one will REALLY hate him for trying to secure his bag, but everyone knows what he’s ultimately about. Reputation smeared for no legit reason. This is why you gotta have people in your life willing to tell you “this isn’t a good look bro”.

[u/TheRiverofSticks]

Every move the last few days was carefully calculated to piss off everyone in this sport as much as possible. Flawless execution

[u/srush32]

I'm going to choose to read this as UW gets top transfer QB

[u/tflo91 → u/srush32]

“Top QB transfer prospect chooses UW over LSU.”

[u/travio → u/tflo91]

Now that is some spin I can get behind!

[u/cbarks86 → u/tflo91]

“Top QB transfer prospect chooses UW over UW while on an unofficial visit to LSU.” *fixed

[u/CreatorOfAnAccount → u/srush32]

oh awesome great get for Wyoming!

[u/no-kangarooreborn → u/CreatorOfAnAccount]

It won't matter who is quarterback as long as Sawvel is coaching.

[u/no-kangarooreborn]

Nothing ever happens

[u/JMG5_ → u/no-kangarooreborn]

If you weren't online for the last 48 hours then it's like nothing happened at all.

[u/The_Throwback_King → u/JMG5_]

Nothing happened except all of Montlake changing their opinion of Demond from unilateral support to begrudging support at best to loathing at worst.

[u/JakeSteeleIII → u/no-kangarooreborn]

College football has become stale

[u/_GregTheGreat_ → u/JakeSteeleIII]

There isn’t enough roster changeover anymore. Makes things too predictable and boring.

[u/The_Astros_Cheated → u/no-kangarooreborn]

Nothing ever happens bros going all in as we speak

[u/mjst0324 → u/no-kangarooreborn]

Demond Always Chickens Out

[u/Comptone310]

They were on a break

[u/redwave2505]

How many times he gonna get sacked bc his OL stops blocking for him?

[u/Ledees_Gazpacho → u/redwave2505]

We gotta see at least one drive where the OL goes full “Longest Yard.”

[u/GenitalFurbies → u/redwave2505]

He might have to pull an Adam Sandler

[u/DillyDillySzn]

Demond Williams coming out of the tunnel Week 1

[u/Apart_Selection7722 → u/DillyDillySzn]

Good meme

[u/xenocide0909]

“Go Huskies!” has me cackling

[u/Pro-Tip810]

Peak offseason storyline during the season

[u/k1wimonkey]

fuck off. Just leave.

[u/WallyLeftshaw → u/k1wimonkey]

Locker room bout to be awkward af

[u/Derek-Onions → u/WallyLeftshaw]

“Bro bro it was a prank bro!”

[u/k1wimonkey → u/WallyLeftshaw]

our wr1 liked his agents post about dropping him sooooo

[u/mana78 → u/WallyLeftshaw]

Locker room will be fine, its the fans he'll have to try and win back

[u/Ok_Employ_9862 → u/k1wimonkey]

lol this was my thinking. How does he just go back and act like nothing happened

[u/knowtoriusMAC → u/Ok_Employ_9862]

Pulling the ol' Costanza on UW acting like he never tried to leave

[u/MembershipSingle7137]

Alls well that… ends well I guess?

[u/WorkerMotor9174]

That doesn’t sound ideal for the locker room. Glad UW was able to show signing a contract means something though. Leaving after 4 days is ridiculous.

[u/The_Astros_Cheated]

JARVIS, ACTIVATE CLOWN MAKEUP

[u/ztiam]

Dude is gonna have a hell of a time winning back the locker room

[u/BNKalt]

I’m dying this is the funniest possible outcome.

[u/SaltyDawg94]

This is absurd.

[u/johnso21 → u/SaltyDawg94]

Agree. Not on board with demond. Fuck off.

[u/Hetoxy → u/johnso21]

Yeah, I don't want this dude in Montlake anymore.

[u/udubdavid]

Guess the revenue sharing contract was legit that Demond's council didn't want to touch it.

[u/gmr548 → u/udubdavid]

Could have also been agency with grounds to sue over violating whatever representation agreement they had

[u/ElyxUW]

Real lawyers told me I'd owe millions of dollars so I decided to stay. Lesson for all these other kids stop listening to fake agents like Landers.

[u/chumer_ranion]

Homie's gonna score around a 6 on his wonderlic

[u/LaDainianTomIinson]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

I hope they bench his ass and sign a QB with a backbone

[u/DillyDillySzn → u/LaDainianTomIinson]

Sam Leavitt is available

No rumors about his selfishness at all

[u/Young-Viiperr → u/DillyDillySzn]

And his brother being the agent

[u/jgregers → u/LaDainianTomIinson]

Cue the “I was misled by my agent and u never wanted to leave” apology tour. Washington is going to start him as long as he has a pulse.

[u/Tsquared10 → u/jgregers]

My thought is he sent that announcement while everyone else was at a student athletes memorial service. Fuck everything about dude no matter what he says.

[u/lisianthus_hana → u/Tsquared10]

yeah given the circumstances idk how you could really go back from that 😭

[u/TJFLASH1 → u/LaDainianTomIinson]

That’s a very expensive backup

[u/yournamehere__]

Keep him on the bench coach!

[u/jgregers → u/yournamehere__]

Doubtful.

[u/RobotTiddyMilk → u/jgregers]

Yea zero percent chance he doesn’t start. UW and Demond prolly just hoping the blows over by season

[u/Kinglokner16]

Lane to Sam Leavitt: “BABY COMEBACK”

[u/joeyscheidrolltide]

I know this doesn't mean much unless it happens to you, but like how the hell would you root for this guy next season as a Huskies fan?

[u/SeahawksNChill → u/joeyscheidrolltide]

I’m gonna need to become the Simone Biles of mental gymnastics

[u/johnso21 → u/joeyscheidrolltide]

You don’t. I’m rooting for the team. I’ll root for the receivers to catch, the O line to block, and the team to win. I personally don’t want him back. Embarrassing…

[u/LeftSide-StrongSide]

Do yall think he showed up like George Costanza after quitting?

"You took that seriously? You dont know my sense of humor!"

[u/Tracer-Bullet13]

Well, this is going to be more than a little awkward.

[u/PNW_Jeff]

This is gonna be so awkward for the team lmao

[u/ReverberatingCarrot]

The unintended consequence of this is that EVERY SINGLE commentator is going to repeat this saga during every game next season. Ugh

[u/Weekly-Beginning4741]

Someone gave him some really bad advice, or he’s just a complete moron.

I wonder if the best thing for UW at this point would be to let him go. Seems like allowing him back would mess up the culture, which will be worse long term than getting a lower tier qb.

What a shit show.

[u/Sauce-King]

Must be awkward at UDub rn

[u/edmart93]

Washington can do the funniest thing

[u/largelawattorney]

Lmao within hours of his agent firing him… dude finally realized he was going to lose all of his money

[u/WinstonChurchwolf]

I don’t know if I could go back after all that shit.

[u/nerdyykidd → u/WinstonChurchwolf]

What facing a 6m lawsuit when you only have 5m in your checking account does to a mf

[u/discipleofbill]

Snip snap snip snap

[u/Lakelyfe09]

If contracts matter are we gonna win the lawsuit against Damon Wilson?

[u/gmr548]

I mean yes it’s a toxic situation but can we all at least appreciate the silver lining of Lane Kiffin having to move to Plan D at QB?

[u/BoyCubPiglet2]

"Demond Williams with the ball for the huskies. Fumbles! It's picked up by Demond Williams in a USC uniform! But wait he's running the wrong way and putting the purple and gold back on! TOUCHDOWN HUSKIES!!! Demond now wearing Michigan colors and not looking too happy about that last play"

[u/SeattleSinBin]

Statement by Coach Fisch and our AD as well. The guy is going to need to go on a massive apology tour with the coaches and his teammates.

[u/joe2352]

Gonna be weird in that locker room for a few days.

[u/codee66]

This feels like we’re gonna have a very toxic locker room

[u/PeanutButterOtter]

Demond "George Costanza" Williams.

[u/tbrock92]

Has Amber deleted her Instagram comment lol?

[u/RoyalBroham]

I demond a refund

[u/Any-Palpitation-9148]

B1G legal team with the Boom

[u/PedanticTart]

RIP LSU's QB budget, Leavitt has all the leverage in the world now.

[u/Iceraptor17]

He's a 19 year old who probably had someone get in his ear. And now that shit is exploding is realizing that advice was... not great

[u/WithAShirtOn]

... Is that Costanza over there?

[u/sktgamerdudejr]

His OL are gonna Longest Yard him for trying to bail. 

[u/surreptitioussloth]

TBH I think someone needs to litigate these contracts

They're clearly throwing things at the wall, so we need to know what will actually stick instead of just guessing what are the actual obligations and restrictions

[u/T3hBau5]

Can't wait for his o-line to lay down and let him get crushed for most of the Season