This! If a player signs a NIL deal then require at least 2-year contract.
Better yet, make it a three month deal, with an “up-front” payment of X amount of dollars. Then ad that the buyer pays an additional $175.00, or $25.00 per quarter for a two year quarterly option that it may exercise (or may not exercise) in it’s sole discretion. Each Q. thereafter, should the buyer excercise it’s option, it will pay X amount of money on the first day of the quarter. Should the buyer decide not to exercise it’s option, the contract has been fully fulfilled.
Hence, every three months, the “buyer” can walk for any reason it chooses, and does not have to specify a reason or reasons it might walk in the initial contract.
Think a player would not sign? If the amounts of money we are hearing are correct, the first payment and the quarterly payments, thereafter could be as high as 250K to 500K. Paying up-front for a defined option for future payments is pretty common, and is binding upon the parties.
So the player gets homesick, gets injured, gets arrested, tranfers, or quits. The “buyer” is under no obligation beyond the first quarterly payment.
Contracts are not rocket science.