Sluka Rips Barry Odom But That Anger Is Better Directed Elsewhere

Credit: Craven WhitlowCollege sports aren’t dead. College sports aren’t dying. Our collective lust of overreaction and constant need to live in the zeitgeist may have you thinking otherwise in the last 24 hours.

Change, though? The end (of what has long been) is nigh.

Former UNLV quarterback Matt Sluka chose to redshirt the rest of the season after starting for the UNLV football program the first three games and leading it to a Top-25 ranking. He isn’t hurt. Instead, he says the school and/or its associated NIL collective middleman, not a literal man, have not consummated promised compensation. Or, in layman’s terms: Sluka says UNLV owes him money and/or benefits.

UNLV is doing what…