{"id":641628,"date":"2025-12-31T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/641628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:16:11","slug":"dante-moore-responds-to-troy-aikmans-nil-donation-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/641628\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Moore responds to Troy Aikman’s NIL donation comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Dante Moore<\/a> wanted to clear things up regarding Troy Aikman\u2019s remarks about an NIL donation the pro football Hall of Famer made a player at UCLA.<\/p>\n

During an interview on the Sports Media podcast with Richard Deitsch earlier this month, Aikman said he is \u201cdone with NIL\u201d after not receiving any gratitude for a \u201csizable check\u201d he donated to UCLA for a player who later transferred.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave money to a kid, I won\u2019t mention who,\u201d Aikman told Deitsch<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve done it one time at UCLA, never met the young man. He was there a year, he left after the year. I wrote a sizable check, and he went to another school. I didn\u2019t even get so much as a thank you note. So, it\u2019s one of those deals, to where I\u2019m done with NIL. I want to see UCLA be successful, but I\u2019m done with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Aikman did not name Moore, many assumed it was the former five-star recruit, who transferred from UCLA to Oregon after his freshman year.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times reported<\/a> UCLA\u2019s collective, Men of Westwood, did not disclose donor information to players receiving NIL deals and that Aikman was thanked by then-coach Chip Kelly and athletic director Martin Jarmond.<\/p>\n

Moore said he has never spoken to Aikman, but expressed gratitude to the former UCLA and Dallas Cowboys legend if he was who Aikman was referring to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he sent it to me, I didn\u2019t know it was him,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI didn\u2019t see it. When it comes to people thinking it\u2019s me, of course, everybody\u2019s going to think it\u2019s me. It\u2019s quarterback-to-quarterback. I don\u2019t want that false narrative being put out there that I didn\u2019t say thank you. I didn\u2019t hear nothing from him. I didn\u2019t see nothing from him. So, if he sent it, thank you, but I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

No. 4 Texas Tech (12-1) vs. No. 5 Oregon (12-1)<\/p>\n

When:\u00a0Thursday, January 1Time:\u00a09 a.m. PTWhere:\u00a0Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.TV: ESPN and ABCStream: You can watch this game on DIRECTV<\/a> (free trial) or with Sling<\/a> (a Sling day pass to watch this game and more is just $4.99). Streaming broadcasts for this game will be available on these streaming services locally in Oregon and Washington, but may not be available outside of the Pacific Northwest, depending on your location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Dante Moore wanted to clear things up regarding Troy Aikman\u2019s remarks about an NIL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,49,48,6094,14388,666],"class_list":{"0":"post-641628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-oregon-state-beavers","13":"tag-pac-12-football","14":"tag-ucla-bruins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115811305844362239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}