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Back on August 19, Colorado assistant football coach Trevor Reilly resigned. It’s unusual for a high-level staffer to resign right before the start of the season, but that news alone would have probably made it a one-day news story. But the reported why behind that resignation was particularly interesting.

First reported by the Colorado Buffaloes affiliate for Sports Illustrated, Reilly mentioned multiple frustrations with the program’s NIL policies as part of the reason for his resignation. Via the letter, first reported by SI:

Extra Points has also obtained a copy of the legislation letter via an Open Records Request, and can confirm the accuracy of the quoted passage.

Per the SI story, Reilly stated that he acted “on his own accord”, and not at the behest of the university or coach Deion Sanders.

When I read Reilly say “…I have email receipts to prove it”…I got curious. So I filed additional open records requests to see if there was specific communication from Reilly to agents of Saudi Arabia, or documentation specific to his plan to fundraise there.

And lo and behold, on Christmas Day of 2023, Reilly sent the following email:

According to a radio interview that Reilly did with ESPN 700 in Salt Lake City, Reilly would have sent that email from Amman, Jordan. Via CBS:

How the Kingdom responded, along with details about the pitch, after the jump:

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