{"id":7020,"date":"2024-08-23T02:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/ex-cu-buffs-football-coach-sought-nil-money-from-saudi-arabia-according-to-report\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:43:58","slug":"ex-cu-buffs-football-coach-sought-nil-money-from-saudi-arabia-according-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/ex-cu-buffs-football-coach-sought-nil-money-from-saudi-arabia-according-to-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CU Buffs football coach sought NIL money from Saudi Arabia, according to report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A former CU Buffs football coach approached Saudi Arabian officials to secure money for the school\u2019s 5430 NIL collective, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/colorado\/football\/colorado-sought-nil-funding-from-saudi-arabia-pif-in-unpreceded-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a Sports Illustrated report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Reilly, who resigned as special teams coordinator on Aug. 1, told SI that he traveled to the Middle East over the holidays as a CU football representative to lobby the country\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF) for Name, Image, and Likeness funding. According to the SI report, the gambit was ultimately unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>CU athletics released a statement Thursday afternoon addressing the report that read,\u00a0\u201cAccording to Trevor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/08\/22\/cu-football-nil-money-saudi-arabia-pif\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former CU Buffs football coach approached Saudi Arabian officials to secure money for the school\u2019s 5430 NIL collective, according to a Sports Illustrated report. Trevor Reilly, who resigned as special teams coordinator on Aug. 1, told SI that he traveled to the Middle East over the holidays as a CU football representative to lobby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-sports-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}